IFINAL Trustees. Annual Report for the period Period start date Llay I Period end date Moiitti 03 From Section A Reference and administration details Charity name Rothley Community Library Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1163508 Charity's principal address Mountsorrel Lane Rothley Leicestershire Postcode LE77PS Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole ear Trustee name Office (if any) Name of person (or body) entitled toa oint trustee ifan Steve Mitchell Sandra Webster Jill Williams Trustee Treasurer To April 2025 Secretary Trustee Sue Barnes Claire Cole Trustee Michelle Stephenson Grace Henry Sandra Newman Heidi Mascus Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole ear
Names and addresses of advisers (Optional infomiation) e of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional infomiation) Section B Structure, overnance and mana ement Description of the charity's trusts Constitution Type of governing document How the charity is constituted CIO Association Trustee selection methods Elected as per constitution and co-opted as appropriate when vacancies arise Additional governance issues (Optional infomiation) You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about: policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; the charity's organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity relationship with any related parties; trustees, consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. Section C Ob"ectives and activities The provision of a public library in Rothley and surrounding area. To advance education of the public in Rothley by operating and managing a lending library. To promote for the benefit of the residents of Rothley and the surrounding area the provision of a public library for recreation and / or other leisure time. Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
We are open as a lending library for 14 hours per week . In addition, we host a number of regular groups in the library . Yarn Craft 2 x per month, monthly Book Group, weekly Chess Group, rr support fortnightly and Lego club monthly. 'Mug and mingle, coffee morning ran weekly throughout the year During the school summer holidays we carried out 2 craft sessions per week which were very well attended. We also host outside groups: the Writers, Group monthly , and a bridge teachers group hired the library during the winter. We have a number of community book boxes eretted around the village . We are part of the 'warm spaces, initiative and now offer hot drinks to those who want them. Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit) We have placed 2 weekly work experience students from local colleges and hosted 4 Duke of Edinburgh students. All activities have been undertaken by the trustees with regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
We are open as a lending library for 14 hours per week . In addition, we host a number of regular groups in the library . Yarn Craft 2 x per month, monthly Book Group, weekly Chess Group, rr support fortnighdy and Lego club monthly. 'Mug and mingle, coffee morning ran weekly throughout the year During the school summer holidays we carried out 2 craft sessions per week which were very well attended. We also host outside groups: the Writers, Group monthly , and a bridge teachers group hired the library during the winter. We have a number of community book boxes erected around the village . We are part of the 'warm spaces, initiative and now offer hot drinks to those who want them. Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit) We have placed 2 weekly work experience students from local colleges and hosted 4 Duke of Edinburgh students. All activities have been undertaken by the trustees with regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional infomiation)
l.)PCtion D Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year Achievements and performance Visitor numbers from April 2025 to March 2026 were 10,117 visitors to the library (including events). We had an average of 190 monthly active borrowers, and an average of 840 monthly book issues. We have maintained our Trustee meetings by Zoom and in person. Communications with volunteers have been kept up via team newsletters and the 'Three Rings, volunteer management system. Communications with the public and library members have continued to be important to keep the library in people's minds, and let them know about our services .Our Facebook pages and Website have been kept up to date. In addition, newsletters have been written for the local Rothley Post and library events posters displayed around the village and on our own notice board. We have 30 active volunteers. 3 new volunteers have been trained this year. A further 9 volunteers work 'behind the scenes, offering support, Lego Club, art and craft activities, Health & Safety advice, gardening. We have 8 Trustees, who have been active throughout the year. 3 students have completed their bronze awards with the Duke of Edinburgh scheme. The Mug and Mingle coffee group met weekly .This has proved very successful with up to 20 local people attending This is part of our 'warm spaces, initiative. We also offer hot drinks , biscuits and squash to library visitors on a 'donation' basis. During the summer months we have introduced the sale of ice creams. We have received large numbers of donations of books from the public . These have been sold in the library and at regular library book sales, traded online and via specialist book shops. Any new suitable books have been added into stock . The Leicestershire Libraries Summer reading challenge ran during July and August 2025. 119 Children took part and 60 children completed the challenge. Individual trustees and a volunteer took tums to run a craft event each Saturday morning ( in keeping with the theme of the summer reading challenge). The Rothley village Scarecrow festival was again organised by the Library .This took pla over 2 days on a weekend in September 2025 There were 63 scarecrow entrants and the event proved to be very popular and was well reiVed -bringing many visitors to the library. This event raised over £2500 for the library. We celebrated our ioth birthday with a prosecco reception and afternoon tea for volunteers and those connerted with the library over the years. There were 60 attendees. In addition to mark our 10th year we held a licenced raffle , with prizes kindly donated from local businesses and volunteers. We held our first ever Christmas bazaar which raised £360. Thp. yarnc.raft ornijn has c.rp.atp.d snmp. fantastic. varn hnmhs nn tnn nf
*ection D Achievements and performance hits on social media. The group has also sold some of their creations to raise funds for the library. The library has participated in the Charnwood Borough Council lottery scheme as a way of raising some additional funds and supporting other good causes in Charnwood. It has also signed up to Easy Fundraising. Inside, the library is kept looking colourful and vibrant by a volunteer who has created regular displays show casing what the library is doing The outside of the library has been spruced up, with the guttering and drains checked and cleared. A volunteer maintains the flower boxes. The inside of the library had one major clean up this year. An additional volunteer from the local community joined us specifically to do this . Section E Financial review The charity does not have a formal Reserves policy. Brief statement of the charity's policy on reserves There was £22,159 of cash reserves at year end. Of this £10,682 was held in an interest paying deposit account. Restricted funds were £298 . Details of any funds materially in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)
You hiay choose to include aa'aitional information, where relevant about: the charity's principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. Rothley Community Library's principal sources of funds for this year were . Library takings ( fines, reservations, printing ,refreshments) £2609 Grant from Harry Hames Trust for printer £2880 Donations £2533 Events £2851 Book sales £252 Charnwood lottery £615 Library hire £1125 Bank Interest £168 Raffle £1298 Cash reserves have reduced by £179 since April 2025 to £22159 Leicestershire County Council has provided the lease of the building at a ercorn rent Section F Other optional information Section G Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees, report above. Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees Signature(s) Full name(s) sAD£A fj57Lr Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) /Rcft-So£LJ f< IcHeLE f EP(-L6ftsnJ Date
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Rothley Community Llbrary Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from To 01- r-25 31-IAar-26 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds Total funds Last year to the nearest to the nearest£ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest£ A1 Receipts Donations Grant Harry Hames Trust Gift AKI HMRC Book sales (of donated books ) Library takings Room hire Evenls Film takings Chamwood Lottery Printing Bank interest S106 Raffle (1 Oth birthday ) Sub total (Gross income for AR) 2,381 1,839 2,880 152 252 176 905 2,177 473 1,792 418 517 202 366 163 152 252 1.125 2.861 615 61S 160 168 1 ,298 11,460 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). Sub total 11,460 2,880 A3Pa ments Running costs Consumables Film costs Events Other Noticeboard IT costs Books printer 7,210 7,737 350 418 185 520 1,814 131 236 552 263 499 1,764 182 2,880 182 2,880 105 Sub total 3,325 A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) Sub total 11,184 3.326 14,509 Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end 266 446 179 3,020 21,594 21,861 743 25,357 1310412026 CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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