## ## |||||SORP reference|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Summary||ofthe purposes|of||||| |the charity as set out in its|||||HACA objectives shall be to provide||| |governing||document|||opportunities||for education
and recreation, to| ||||||encourage|community
participation
and, in|| ||||||particular,|to manage
and improve the Hilldrop|| ||||||Community||Centre.| ||||||a)||To support
and
represent
existing| ||||||||and new community
groups
in the| ||||||||locality,
within
the
limits
of| ||||||||resources,
money
and
staff at its| ||||||||disposal.| ||||||b)||To provide a meeting
place for local| ||||||||people,
irrespective
of race,
sex,| ||||||||sexuality,
disability,
religion, age or| ||||||||class, to enjoy play and recreational| ||||||||activities
in
a safe
and
pleasant| ||||||||environment.| ||||||C)||To organise the management
ofthe| ||||||||Hilldrop
Community
Centre
and to| ||||||||ensure
its beneficial
use to
local| ||||||||community.| ||||||d)||In response
to changing
demands,| ||||||||and
in conjunction
with
any other| ||||||||interested
agencies
(statutory
or| ||||||||voluntary),
to
undertake
further| ||||||||work
in areas which are agreed
by| ||||||||the management
committee
to be| ||||||||local priorities.| ||||||e)||Toco-operate closely with all groups| ||||||||and in all aspects ofits work, to fight| ||||||||disadvantages,
for example
those| ||||||||stemming
from
class, race or sex,| ||||||||sexual
orientation,
disability,| ||||||||religion or age etc.| |Summary
activities|ofthe main
in relation to those|||Para 1.17and
1.19|We deliver
backgrounds|a|range ofservices, for all ages and
which include| |purposes|purposes|for the public|for the public|for the public|for the public|for the public||~|After School and Holiday
Play Schemes|After School and Holiday
Play Schemes|After School and Holiday
Play Schemes|After School and Holiday
Play Schemes| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |benefit,|in||particular,|||the|||(4-11years)|||| |activities,
services
accounts.||projects
identified|||or
in|the||~
~|Stay & Play and toy Library
(under Ss)
Tuesday Socials, Food Hub and warm
Room|||| |||||||||~|Summer
Fair (Jubilee event)|&|Open|| ||||||||||Days|||| |||||||||~|Thursday
Gardening
Group|||| |||||||||~|Family Saturdays|||| |||||||||~|Community
library
and book|swap||| |||||||||We also support
the following
groups|||and|host| |||||||||them at the centre:||||| |||||||||~|Kingsley Org Disability Group|||| |||||||||~|Bengali Women's
Group|||| |||||||||~|Olokoro Nigerian
Community|Group||| |||||||||~|Al-Anon
meetings|||| |||||||||~|Tenants and Resident meetings|||| |||||||||~|65+ Film Club —North London||Cares|| |||||||||~|Community
Plan for Holloway||meetings|| |||||||||~|Ward Partnership
and Safety|meetings||| |||||||||~|Private
hire for community|parties||and| ||||||||||events|||| |Statement||||confirming|||Para 1.18|AII Trustees have received the guidance||||| |whether|the trustees|||||have||documents
on Public Benefit.||||| |had regard||||to the guidance||||||||| |issued|by|the Charity||||||||||| |Commission||||on public||||||||| |benefit||||||||||||| |ddition|al||information|||(optional)||||||| |ou ma|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||||||||||||| |||||||||We have appreciated
the fantastic contribution||||| ||||||||Para 1.38|from volunteers
during this year, continuing||||to| |Contribution||||made|by|||work with our Local Mutual
Aid Group|||to|| |volunteers||||||||support those most in need and now||providing||| |||||||||an informative
network for us to work|||in|| |Other||||||||||||| ## ## |Achieve|ments
and Per|formance|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||SORP reference|||| ||||Emergency|food
provision
and
outreach|| ||||continued
during this year and was extended||to| ||||provide
all day warm room facilities.||| |Summary
ofthe main
achievements
ofthe charity,||Para 120|Our services|are back to pre-pandemic
levels|| |identifying
the difference the
charity's
work has made to
the circumstances
of its|||which means
hall hires are|income from Play Project fees
now maxlmlsed.|and| |beneficiaries
and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|||Grow
back
renovate
the|Greener
funds
were
used
to
old carpark and turn into an open|| ||||access wildlife|area.|| ||||We have been|successful
ln 2applications
to|the| ||||councils
Thriving
Nelghbourhoods
Project||and| ||||plan
to have|surrounding
street
and
paving|| ||||resurfaced,
and our Main hall renovated.||| ## |Achievements
against|Para 1.41| |---|---| |objectives set|| |Performance
offundraising|| |activities against objectives|Para 1.41| |set|| |Investment
performance|Para 1.41| |against objectives|| |Other|| ## |Financi|al
Review|al
Review|al
Review|al
Review|al
Review|al
Review|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Review|ofthe charity's||||||||Para 1.21|The charity made an operating
profit of|| |financial||position||at||the|end|||84888 and has equity/reserves
of|| |ofthe period||||||||||approximately
857633on its balance sheet|| |||||||||||for the current year.|| |||||||||||The rise in operating
profits has been due|| |||||||||||to return to pre-pandemic
levels of income|| |||||||||||for the Play Project and our community|hall| |||||||||||hires.|| |||||||||||In Q4 we also rescheduled
our fees for|| |||||||||||after school club to ensure that families|| |||||||||||earning
under 35k got a 50%reduced fee|| |||||||||||while those earning
over 35k now pay 20%|| |||||||||||more.
At the moment
this has driven|| |||||||||||income up, but we hope over the coming|| |||||||||||year new families
will Join at the lower fee.|| |||||||||||We were also successful
in several funding|| |||||||||||applications
to provide relevant services|| |||||||||||and opportunities
to members
and|| |||||||||||residents
usin
our or anlsation|| |Statement||explaining||||the|||Para 1.22|There is at present
no policy on holding|| |policy for||holding||reserves||||||reserves. Financial reserves are mainly|| |stating why|||they|are||held||||from operational
activities generated
in|the| |||||||||||profit and loss account that are carried over|| |||||||||||year on year. The charity is a non-profit|| |||||||||||organisation
that exists to serve the socio-|| |||||||||||cultural needs ofthe Hilldrop area|| |||||||||||community
and one ofour core funding|is| |||||||||||Restricted grants provided
by the Islington|| |||||||||||Council.|| |Amount|ofreserves|||||held|||Para 1.22|Reserves as at year end 31/03/2023 stands|| |||||||||||at a
rox. 657633 see Balance Sheet|| |Reasons||for holding||||zero|||Para 1.22||| |reserves|||||||||||| |Details offund materially||||||||in|Para 1.24|There are at present no funds materially|in| |deficit||||||||||deficit|| |Explanation|||ofany||||||Para 1.23|There are no concerns
about the charity|| |uncertainties|||about the|||||||continuing
as a going concern|| |charity continuing|||||as a going||||||| |concern|||||||||||| |Additional||information|||||(optional)||||| |You ma|choose to||||include|||further statements||where relevant about|| |||||||||||Our principal
sources offunding
are statutory|| |The charity's|||principal|||||||funds which support our core costs. We then|| |sources offunds
any fundraising)||||(including|||||Para 1.47|use small grants for activity-led
projects.
Other sources offunding come from our|| |||||||||||community
hires ofthe building
and fees for|| |||||||||||chlldcare
provided
in our Play Project|| |Investment|||policy and|||||||We have no Investment
policy as we do|not| |objectives including
any
social investment
policy|||||||||Para 1.46|hold or have any Investment
income as
defined
in the Charities Statement
of|| |adopted||||||||||Recommended
Practice (FRS 102SORP)
at
ara
ra hs4.37to4.38.|| |||||||||||We have overcome
the impacts ofCOVID|| |A description|||ofthe|||principal||||and this year returned
to pre pandemic|| |risks facin|||the charit||||||Para 1.46|levels of service.|| ||Cost of living impacts
led to a board|| |---|---|---| ||decision to provide a 3%increase to|| ||salaries not on LLW- no increases
had|| ||been given for a number ofyears - which|| ||was implemented
in April 2022. The Board|| ||also agreed to a 3%increase to salaries|| ||from April 2023.|| ||The LLW increase was 8.1%and we only|| ||budgeted
for a 3%rise, but still managed|to| ||meet the new LLWfrom Januaty
after|| ||announcement.|| |Other||| ## |Description
of chadtty's||n/a|| |---|---|---|---| |trusts:|||| |Type of governing
document
Iruni ri!'tlrt, ro:;il clt;ttinrj|Para 1.25|Constitution|| |How is the charity|Para 1.25|Incorporated|Association| |constituted?|||| |i(! tt tttltttctirli(if
lh't'I|||| |itssr)(;irt(lott,
CIOI|||| |Trustee selection methods|Para 1.25|Elected at AGM|| |including
details of any|||| |constitutional
provisions e.g.|||| |election to post or name of|||| |any person or body entitled|||| |to appoint one or more|||| |trustees|||| |Additional|information|information|(optional)|(optional)|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |You ma|choose to include|||further statements|where relevant about:||| ||||||A Trustee Handbook
includes
an induction||for| |Policies|and|procedures|||new trustees,
and this is delivered
by the|Chair.|| |adopted|for the induction||||||| |and training||oftrustees||Para 1.51|||| ||||||the organisation
is structured
via a board|of|| |The charity's||organisational|||trustees
and core staffing team of 2, along||with| |structure
network|and any wider
with which the|||Para 1.51|a team of p/t workers delivering
activities
services.|and|| |charity works|||||We are part of a support
network,
Octopus,||| ||||||comprising of12community
centres across||| ||||||Islington
who support each other with strategic||| ||||||and funding
opportunities||| ||||||We work closely with our local council who||| |Relationship||with any|||own the building
we are located
in and manage||| |related parties||||Para 1.51|the surrounding
areas, as well as sharing|and|| ||||||being driven by, similar local priorities||| |Other|||||||| ## ## |Chadit|name|name|||Hilldro|Area Communit|Area Communit|Area Communit|Association| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Othername||the chari||uses|n/a||||| |Re istered||charit|number||1164597||||| |Charity's|principal||address||Hilldrop|Community||Centre|| ||||||Community||Lane||| ||||||Islington||||| ||||||N7 OJE||||| ||||||Name ofperson (or| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Trustee name|Office (lfany)|Dates acted
whole year|if not for|body) entitled to
appoint trustee (If| ||||||an| ||BRIAN BENCH||||| ||SARAH MARTIN|Secretary|||| |3|ANJIT CHAUDHURI|Treasurer|Trustee and Treasurer
until October 2022||| |4|GERALDINE BRENNAN|Chair|||| |5|PETRONELLA CARTER||||| |6|CHARLENE BRAITHWAITE||||| |7|STEPHEN MOORBY||||| |8|MARISSA CAMPBELL||||| |9|VICTOR OLAYEBO||||| |10|CIII SATNAM
GILL|Co-opted Trustee|||| |11|Cllr TRICIA CLARKE|Co-opted Trustee|||| |12|Cllr GULCIN OZDEMIR|Co-opted Trustee|||| |3|GLYNN CLARK|Treasurer|Treasurer
from
October 2022||| |14|||||| |15|||||| |Co|orate trustees —names ofthe directors at the date the re ort was a|roved| |---|---|---| |Director name||| |N/A||| |ame o|ftrustees
holdi|ng
title to prope|rty
b|elongi|ng|to the|ch| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Trustee|name|Dates|acted|Ifnot|for|whole|ear| |NIA|||||||| |Funds held as custodian|Funds held as custodian|trustees|on behalf of others| |---|---|---|---| |Description
ofthe assets||n/a|| |held
in this capacity|||| |Name and objects ofthe||n/a|| |charity on whose behalf|the||| |assets are held and how|this||| |falls within the custodian|||| |charity's
objects|||| |Details ofarrangements|for|n/a|| |safe custody and|||| |segregation
ofsuch assets|||| |from the charity's
own|||| |assets|||| ## ## ## ## ## ##