2025-10-31-accounts

Kimblesworth and Nettlesworth Community Task Force (registered charity 1163966)

Annual Trustees’ Report for the year 2024-2025 (presented at AGM, July 2026)

Current Trustees: John Barclay; Emlyn Lofthouse; Kelly Lofthouse; Robert KirtonDarling; Heather Liddle

1. The main activity of the Task Force has been the Monday Café and Bingo, which has continued very well, with freshly prepared meals each week cooked by Lillian Walker. There are regularly 12-18 each week, including two Ukrainian refugees and four/five Karbon Homes residents from Matfen Court, Chester-le-Street. The atmosphere is very friendly and everyone feels looked out for and supported. This is a very important activity in maintaining networks in our villages, in reducing isolation, and in mental and physical wellbeing. We are extremely grateful to Lillian and the other volunteers in maintaining this service, with such high standards. One guest celebrated her 99[th] birthday in October 2025, which was well celebrated at the Café; we are gearing up for her 100[th] .

We continue to be registered as a Warm Welcome location (one of 6300 nationwide) and (during the winter) as a County Durham Warm Spaces location.

1. The annual Bus Trip in July 2025 was to Bridlington, and the 50-seater coach was filled; we plan to run this again (to a different location) in the summer of 2026.

During the financial period November 2024- October 2025 we received grant money from:

• Point North (£8800; three distinct grants): for transport; food subsidy; cafe rent; bus trip

• Karbon Homes (£1500): for transport; food subsidy; Christmas lunch

We have enough in the bank to fund the bus trip in August 2026 (Scarborough). We now bring the Matfen Court folk in by taxi, which is considerably cheaper than the minibus we were hiring.

The bingo, the bus trip, and the Christmas lunch all remain very popular.

1. Little Stars: we restarted this briefly in the autumn of 2025, but the heating issues in the Community Centre hall necessitated its suspension. We hope to start this again in due course.

Our thanks again to the Treasurer, Emlyn Lofthouse, for preparing the annual accounts. John Barclay (Chair of Trustees)

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