## 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**|
|---|---|
|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|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Assets retained for the charity's own use**
Wheeled strimmer
Strimmer x3
Lawnmower x2
Storage shed
**Liabilities**
Accounts preperation|2023
£
189
189|
|---|---|
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.|
|---|---|
## **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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