The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Charity number 1165879
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2023
| Contents | Page |
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| Trustees' report | 2 to 3 |
| Receipts and payments account | 4 |
| Statement of assets and liabilities | 5 |
| Notes to the accounts | 6 to 7 |
Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2023
Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position Dates
Martin Muers Chair Lynne Staveley Roger Potts Joint Treasurer Edward Lax Joint Treasurer David Whittaker Anne Muers 1165879
Charity number
Appointed 17 November 2022 Appointed 17 November 2022
Registered in England and Wales
Registered and principal address
Oakwood Lodge 6 Park Avenue Roundhay Leeds LS8 2JH
Bankers
Santander HSBC 2 Triton Square PO Box 105 Regents Place 33 Park Row London Leeds NW1 3AN LS1 1LD
Accountants West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
Structure, governance and management
The charity is a CIO formed on 4 March 2016 and is governed by a constitution.
Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2023
Objectives and activities
The charity's objects
The object of the Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church is for the benefit of the public to maintain, repair, restore, preserve, improve and enhance the fabric of the church of Roundhay St Johns, Leeds its monuments, fixtures, fittings, furniture, stained glass, ornaments, and other chattels and its churchyard.
Public benefit statement
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular members of the public have mentioned and complimented us on the state of the churchyard.
Achievements and performance
With help from several other volunteers we have maintained the North Graveyard in a presentable condition such that the regular and moderately frequent visitors can access their family graves easily. We have arranged and paid for the restoration of a number of dilapidated graves from the charity’s funds. We have both improved the security and damp proofing of the onsite storage shed which has been created utilising three adjacent walls which happen to be in close proximity towards the east end of the church and when roofed over with the provision of a door have created a storage facility. This enables satisfactory, safe and dry storage of the lawn mowers and strimmer's which in general give excellent and satisfactory service. At times because of the relatively heavy duty nature of the work asked of the machinery they do malfunction and two of us are involved in taking them to/from the lawnmower engineers for repair.
Financial review
The net payments for the year were £1,791, including net receipts of £2,030 on unrestricted funds and net payments of £3,821 on restricted funds, after transfers.
Reserves policy
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £9,224. There is no reserves policy at the moment.
Approved by the board of trustees on 04/12/2023
Roger Potts (Trustee)
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2023
| Notes 2023 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Donations (2) 2,500 Gift aid 375 Total receipts 2,875 Payments Maintenance 100 Equipment 128 Insurance - Accountancy 180 Bank Charges - Subscriptions 40 Total payments 448 Net receipts / (payments) 2,427 Transfers between funds (397) Net movement in funds 2,030 Fund balances brought forward 7,194 Fund balances carried forward (3) 9,224 |
2023 Restricted funds £ - - - 3,655 63 438 - 62 - 4,218 (4,218) 397 (3,821) 4,997 1,176 |
2023 Total funds £ 2,500 375 2,875 3,755 191 438 180 62 40 4,666 (1,791) - (1,791) 12,191 10,400 |
2022 Total funds £ 3,750 750 4,500 428 1,709 397 180 15 - 2,729 1,771 - 1,771 10,420 12,191 |
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church Statement of assets and liabilities
| as at 31 March 2023 2023 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 9,224 Total cash funds 9,224 |
2023 Restricted £ 1,176 1,176 |
2023 Total £ 10,400 10,400 |
2022 Total £ 12,191 12,191 |
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| Assets retained for the charity's own use Wheeled strimmer Strimmer x3 Lawnmower x2 Storage shed Liabilities Accounts preperation |
2023 £ 189 189 |
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The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 04/12/2023
Roger Potts (Trustee)
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2023
1 Accounting policies
Basis of accounting
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
Taxation
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Notes to the accounts continued
for the year ended 31 March 2023
| 2 Restricted funds North Churchyard Fund name North Churchyard |
Balance b/f Incoming Outgoing Transfers Balance c/f £ £ £ £ £ 4,997 - 4,218 397 1,176 4,997 - 4,218 397 1,176 Purpose of restriction Towards the upkeep, maintenance, repairs, restoration, preservation, and improvements of the North Churchyard. A transfer of £397 was made from unrestricted funds to the North churchyard. |
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3 Trustee expenses
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
4 Trustee remuneration and benefits
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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