## **Carshalton Old Rectory Association Trustees’ Report for 2020-1**
Registration number 1165834.
## **Objectives and Activities**
The objects of CORA are:
1. To preserve the Old Rectory, a Grade II* listed historic building in the Carshalton Conservation area.
2. To open the building to the public and to promote the arts, heritage and conservation of the area for education and public enjoyment.
The COVID-19 virus has caused so many things to be put on hold that almost nothing has happened in the past year. The Council appear to have put the development of their plans for the building on hold.
The 2020 AGM had to be held by post as it was impossible to conduct a safe in person meeting. The trustees have met using Zoom.
Sue Horne, our secretary, has continued to send out regular newsletters.
CORA does not have any paid staff and is wholly reliant on the work of volunteers.
## **Achievements and Performance**
We have tried to keep in contact with the Council’s members and officers but the virus has meant that there have been no significant developments.
## **Financial Review**
The income for the year was £324 and expenditure was £151 leaving a surplus of £173. We sold some further copies of the history of the Old Rectory, so the value of the stock was reduced from £149 to £123. We have £1,082 cash in hand.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
CORA is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation governed by a constitution following the Association Model.
The initial trustees were drawn from other organisations which were active in the local area but they acted on a personal basis and not as representatives of those groups.
## **Plans for the future**
The lack of activity has meant that we are in more or less the same positions as last year. We hope that the COVID restrictions will end in the forthcoming year and we will resume our efforts to persuade the Council to recognise the importance of the Old Rectory, look at wider options for the future of the building and convince them to reconsider their exiting plans for conversion into flats.
If the Council submits a planning application, CORA will examine it in detail, consider its impact on the historic fabric and decide on the best course of action.
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Carshalton Old Rectory Association|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|CORA|
|Registered charity number|1165834|
|Charity’s principal address|Flat 5
31 Camden Road
Sutton
SM1 2SH|
|Secretary|Sue Horne|
## **Names of the charity trustees who managed the charity in 2019-20**
John Richard Phillips (Chairman) Susan Margaret Kelsall (Treasurer) Laurence Elliott Julia Heather Gertz Susan Keyte Jean Carole Knight John Shepley Thornton Derek Channon Yeo
All the trustees acted for the whole period except Susan Keyte who resigned in July for personal reasons.
There are no corporate trustees and there are no trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity.
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
CORA does not hold any funds on behalf of other people or organisations.
John Phillips on behalf of the Trustees 7 June 2021
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## _**Carshalton Old Rectory Association**_
## – Income and Expenditure 6 April 2020 5 April 2021
|**_Income:_**
Subscriptions and donations
Gift aid
Book sales
**Total**
**_Expenditure:_**
AGM refreshments
Website
Cost of books sold
**Total**
Surplus for the year|**2021**
**£**
250
46
28
**324**
-
125
26
**151**
**173**|**2020**
**£**
243
28
165|
|---|---|---|
|||**436**
7
95
176|
|||**278**|
|||**158**|
## Statement of financial position – 31[st] March 2021
|Quantity
**_Assets:_**
Opening stock
23
Cost of sales
(4)
Closing stock
19
Cash at bank
**Net current assets**
Creditors
**Net Assets**
**_Funds:_**
Opening funds
Surplus for the year
**Closing funds**|2021
£
149
(26)
123
1,082
**1,205**
-
**1,205**
1,032
173
**1,205**|2020
£
325
(176)|
|---|---|---|
|||149
883|
|||**1,032**
-|
|||**1,032**|
|||874
158|
|||**1,032**|