## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From. 1.11.23 Period start date. To 31.10.24 Period end date**
**Charity name: Alford Focal Point**
## **Charity registration number: 1162899**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To establish and operate a community**
**library for Alford in conjunction with**
**Lincolnshire County Council and their**
**agents and Alford Town Council. To**
**create a community resource centre to**
**enhance the promotion of education and**
**social welfare within the community.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The operation of the community library**
**for at least 12 hours each week.**
**Free hire of the library area for**
**community groups, including**
**Alford Town Promotions, music**
**appreciation, bridge club, book club, war**
**games, mahjong, men’s group and ladies**
**group. The space is also used as a warm**
**spot for the elderly and vulnerable within**
**the community.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
|Para 1.18|**The trustees have read the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit and have paid due regard**
**to it in managing its activities**
**throughout the period of this report.**|
|~~benefit~~|||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment
Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Regular opening of the library in**
**partnership with GLL, Lincolnshire**
**County Council and Alford Town**
**Council.**
**Recruitment and training of volunteers**
**to run the library.**
**Increased usage of the library space by**
**community groups.**
**Activities for children, including story**
**times and craft groups.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
Other
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21||
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity will aim to have in reserve**
**such amount as is required to ensure**
**continued operation for up to 18 months.**
**This will ensure that in the event of**
**loosing our annual grant there will be**
**sufficient time to apply for other grants.**
**The refurbishment of the library will have**
**to be funded by our reserve fund.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£77,080.70**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
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Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO**
**Foundation Model Constitution as filed**
**with the Charity Commission.**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
|Para 1.25|**By existing trustees**|
|~~trustees~~|||
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Alford Focal Point|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1162899|
|Charity’s principal address|6 South Market Place
Alford Lincs.
LN13 9AF|
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|Elizabeth
Graham
|Chair and
volunteer co-
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||~~Ramm~~
Victoria Louise
Hynes|~~ordinator~~
Vice Chair|||
||Lucy
~~Iill~~|Secretary|||
||~~aquaneo~~
Kerry Culley|Treasurer|||
||Richard
~~Qtll~~||||
||~~uanre~~
Andy Taylor||||
||Alan Whitcomb||||
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
Trustee name
Dates acted rf not for whole year
**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional** ~~**information)**~~
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
**Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Elizabeth Graham Ramm
Elizabeth Graham Ramm
**Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 4/05/2025
## **Alford Focal Point - Statement of Account For the end of year to 31 October 24**
## **Financial Year 1 Nov 2023 - 31 Oct 2024**
|**Income**|||
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|Grants|£5,167.00||
|Monies from library services|£339.60||
|Transfer to expense account|£122.45||
|Bank Interest|£282.68||
|Book Club|£80.00||
|**Total Income**|**£5,991.73**||
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|**Expenditure**|||
|Business rates|£180.64||
|Insurances|£1,849.91||
|TV licence|£171.25||
|other licences|£154.80||
|Photocopier rental|£32.65||
|PrinKng and staKonery|£40.27||
|acKviKes|£169.38||
|Cleaning & sundries|£392.80||
|professional fees|£163.42||
|repairs and refurb|£107.98||
|**Total Expenditure**|**£3,263.10**||
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|**Opening Balance c/f from previous year**||**£74,352.07**|
|Plus income|£5,991.73||
|Minus Outgoings|£3,263.10||
|**Closing Balance 31 Oct 2024**||**£77,080.70**|
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|**Bank Balance as at 31 Oct 2024**||£77,058.68|
|Unity Trust Current Account|£9,776.00||
|**Unity Trust Savings Account**|£67,282.68||
|(minus unpresented chqs 199 & 200. £107.98|-£107.98||
||plus cash desposit paid in 08.11.24 £130
130
**£77,080.70**
These fgures include the following reserves:
replacement windows
£20,000
replacement heaKng
£10,000
Accounts to my knowledge are complete and correct;
Signed:
K Culley
Dated:
24.11.2024|
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