## The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Charity number 1165879
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2024
The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024
|**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 2024
## **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**
**Position Dates** Martin Muers Chair Lynne Staveley Roger Potts Joint Treasurer Edward Lax Joint Treasurer Deceased on 23 October 2023 David Whittaker Anne Muers **Charity number** 1165879 Registered in England and Wales
## **Charity number**
**Registered and principal address** Milestone, 16A Breary Lane, Bramhope, Leeds. LS169AE.
## **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 2024
## **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**
The mowers used have been two Ariens mowers. Ariens is a North American make and they have coped with the relatively heavy duty work asked of them admirably, but for perhaps 18 months we have noticed that when they have malfunctioned and there has been a need to return the machines to the lawnmower engineers that obtaining the appropriate spare parts has been increasingly slow. Very recently one of the machines malfunctioned and the Engineers eventually reported to us that it was proving impossible to obtain the required spare part and that the machine was therefore unrepairable. Further enquiry has revealed that Ariens are no longer exporting lawnmowers to Europe. With advice from the Engineers we have replaced this machine with a Chinese machine which we are advised is as robust. We are retaining the now non functioning Ariens as a possible donor of parts for the other machine which continues to operate until that becomes unworkable. Looking back the decision to buy the Ariens, one of which was new and the other second-hand was a good decision and as the lawnmower engineers informed us “they owed us nothing”. The machines coped effectively with very rough cutting for a number of years. So far the new machine looks to be every bit as robust and capable.
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 receipts for the year were £1,464, including net receipts of £135 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £1,329 on restricted funds after transfers.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £9,359. There is no reserves policy at the moment.
Approved by the board of trustees on 19/11/24
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 2024
|Notes
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Donations
(2)
2,321
Gift aid
526
**Total receipts**
2,847
**Payments**
Maintenance
1,477
Equipment
488
Insurance
-
Accountancy
189
Bank charges
-
Subscriptions
120
**Total payments**
2,274
**Net receipts / (payments)**
573
**Transfers between funds**
(438)
**Net movement in funds**
135
**Fund balances brought forward**
9,224
**Fund balances carried forward**
(3)
9,359|2024
Restricted
funds
£
1,964
-
1,964
287
275
449
-
62
-
1,073
891
438
1,329
1,176
2,505|2024
Total
funds
£
4,285
526
4,811
1,764
763
449
189
62
120
3,347
1,464
-
1,464
10,400
11,864|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|
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## The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
## Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 March 2024
2024
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
9,359
**Total cash funds**
9,359|2024
Restricted
£
2,505
2,505|2024
2023
Total
Total
£
£
11,864
10,400
11,864
10,400|
|---|---|---|
**Assets retained for the charity's own use** Wheeled strimmer Strimmer x3 Lawnmower x2 Storage shed
|**Liabilities**
Accounts preperation|2024
£
462|
|---|---|
||462|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 19/11/24
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 2024
## **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 2024
|**2 Restricted funds**
North Churchyard
**Fund name**
North Churchyard|Balance b/f
Incoming
Outgoing
Transfers
Balance c/f
£
£
£
£
£
1,176
1,964
1,073
438
2,505
1,176
1,964
1,073
438
2,505
**Purpose of restriction**
Towards the upkeep, maintenance, repairs, restoration, preservation, and
improvements of the North Churchyard.|Balance c/f
£
2,505|
|---|---|---|
|||2,505|
## **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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