Trustees Annual Report 2024
Fishburn Youth & Community Centre Butterwick Road, Fishburn, TS21 4ED Charity Number: 1165240
Trustees Chairman: Michael Parkin Secretary: Fay Irvine Treasurer: John Irvine Trustees: Ann Hewitt Michele Barker
Structure
The site consists of two fully accessible buildings, a Community Centre and Youth Centre, Trustees have responsibility over both the maintenance and development of the services provided.
The Community Centre building is owed by CISWO (formally NCB – Miners Welfare Hall), and held in trust by DCC for the benefit of the community. Whilst the Community Centre and Youth Centre are overseen by the Management Committee the day to day running, development and fundraising is carried out by the Centre Manager, this member of staff has just been awarded the BBC Radio Tees ‘Make a Difference’ Fundraiser of the Year for 2024. The Committee also employ a Cleaner, 2 Kitchen Staff, an Events Co-ordinator and a Delivery Driver In addition to this FYCC employs 5 x Youth Service staff
Activities and Objectives
The Centre boasts a variety of activities to include: Art Group, Youth Dance and Drama, Taekwondo, Clubbercise, Yogalates, Sew Creative, Lunch Club, Craft Club, Gentle Exercise, Latin in Line, Walking Football, Friendly Fixers, Yoga a Walking Group, Cardiac Rehab plus a number of social groups many of which are designed to address the issues around loneliness and isolation particularly in the elderly.
FYCC is also available for private hire for social events such as Christenings, Weddings and other Celebrations, the space can also be used as a consultation and training venue with bookings from organisations such as; NHS, Wellbeing for Life and Fishburn Parish Council.
The former mining village of Fishburn is generally an area of economic deprivation, the main objective of FYCC remains: To further or benefit the residents of Fishburn and the neighbourhood, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents
Achievements and Performance
The main objectives this year has been to continue to further enhance the opportunities available to the local community. With the cost of living crisis having such a dramatic affect we registered FYCC as a Welcome Space; the introduction of hot soup and a roll, hot drinks in a warm friendly environment proved so successful that we took the decision to continue the service. We have been fortunate enough to have been awarded a number of grants enabling us to meet the needs of our service users and continue many of our projects. Our designated youth service continues to operate three evenings per week for children aged 8-16 years. We are delighted to have been awarded a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund, safeguarding 4 staff roles for a 3 year period (taking us to April 2028). We are particularly delighted to announce that after much fundraising we were able to add an extension to the main building, this has allowed us to install a professional catering kitchen plus a new bar and cellar, each element providing the opportunity to increase revenue the aim being to help the organisation to become self-funding, ensuring the long term sustainability of the service for the benefit of the local community. Financial Information
FYCC operates a reserves policy to cover essential maintenance. The building in insured to hold £5000 in cash on site. Annual accounts are independently audited in line with charity guidelines.
Fishburn Youth & Community Centre
Financial Activities
January - December 2023
| TOTAL | |
|---|---|
| Income | |
| Bar Income | 7,751.66 |
| Food Income | 22,191.00 |
| Fundraising | 3,239.66 |
| Grants | 238,498.90 |
| Refund | 1,242.05 |
| Room Hire | 18,582.40 |
| Total Income | £291,505.67 |
| Cost of Sales | |
| Bar Stock | 3,843.49 |
| Lottery Soup Expenses | 109.09 |
| Lunch Club Expenses | 10,551.06 |
| Take Away Packaging | 1,340.13 |
| Total Cost of Sales | £15,843.77 |
| TOTAL | £275,661.90 |
| Expenditures | |
| Advertising/Promotional | 250.00 |
| Bank charges | 214.65 |
| Christmas Fayre | 343.36 |
| Cleaning | 838.60 |
| Community Christmas Dinner | 156.09 |
| Computer Costs | 728.26 |
| Craft Club Expenses | 1,207.87 |
| Electric | 15,639.47 |
| Employer Pension Liability | 1,004.90 |
| Events/Entertainment Expenses | 1,560.55 |
| Gas | 18,336.02 |
| Insurances | 2,080.50 |
| Ladies Club Expenses | 741.73 |
| Office/General Administrative Expenses | 521.07 |
| Other Professional Services | 1,883.19 |
| Phone Costs | 803.76 |
| Repair and maintenance | 69,110.39 |
| Subscriptions | 1,220.42 |
| Travel and Accommodation | 96.00 |
| Van Expenses | 1,312.61 |
| Van Fuel | 999.04 |
| Wages Expense | 70,480.40 |
| Water | 1,721.86 |
| Youth Club Expenses | 4,801.16 |
| Total Expenditures | £196,051.90 |
| NET OPERATING INCOME | £79,610.00 |
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Accrual Basis Friday 6 September 2024 11:47 am GMT+01:00
Fishburn Youth & Community Centre
Financial Activities
January - December 2023
| TOTAL | |
|---|---|
| Other Income | |
| Interest Earned | 1,539.39 |
| Total Other Income | £1,539.39 |
| NET OTHER INCOME | £1,539.39 |
| NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) | £81,149.39 |
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