The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Charity number 1165879
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2025
The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
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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 2025
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 Martin Muers Chair Lynne Staveley Roger Potts Joint Treasurer David Whittaker Anne Muers Charity number 1165879 Registered in England and Wales Registered and principal address Milestone, 16A Breary Lane, Bramhope, Leeds. LS16 9AE. 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 2025
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
Ultimately the Ariens lawnmowers which we had used very successfully reached the end of their usable life and we took the advice of the lawnmower engineers and replaced them initially with one Chinese Weibang machine. While the Aiens machines had proved extremely robust in general it was rapidly realised that the new machine was indeed even better at coping with the very uneven terrain of the Churchyard and proved able to provide an excellent cutting finish overall. As a result of the success of the first Wibang machine we decided to use the donated funds to purchase a second although unfortunately the price had increased moderately over the months which had elapsed since we purchased the first. However as will be recorded in next years report we were to enjoy the use of them very briefly as following the year end our garden store was burgled despite all the security that we had in place, but details of this will be in the next year’s report.
During the year the several members of the small group managed to keep the north church graveyard in a presentable and attractive condition for visitors and others using the footpath through the graveyard as an access point to Roundhay Park. The Church alongside the graveyard remains abandoned by the owners, the Pentecostal City Mission with the exception that they have now surrounded it with security linked fencing carrying signs which imply that work on the Church is in hand and about to start, but we have seen no sign of any work commencing. This is a great pity as memorials in and outside the building relate to many of the people involved in the original development of Roundhay Park and the Mansion House as visitors see it today.
Financial review
The net payments for the year were £4,850, including net payments of £2,705 on unrestricted funds and net payments of £2,145 on restricted funds.
Reserves policy
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £7,014.
There is no reserves policy at the moment.
Approved by the board of trustees on 20/11/2025
Roger Karl Potts (Trustee)
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2025
| Notes 2025 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Donations (2) 3,381 Gift aid - Total receipts 3,381 Payments Maintenance 2,947 Equipment 1,234 Insurance 380 Accountancy 462 Bank charges - Subscriptions 652 Printing 411 Total payments 6,086 Net receipts / (payments) (2,705) Fund balances brought forward 9,359 Fund balances carried forward (3) 6,654 |
2025 Restricted funds £ - - - 1,965 127 - - 53 - - 2,145 (2,145) 2,505 360 |
2025 Total funds £ 3,381 - 3,381 4,912 1,361 380 462 53 652 411 8,231 (4,850) 11,864 7,014 |
2024 Total funds £ 4,285 526 4,811 1,764 763 449 189 62 120 - 3,347 1,464 10,400 11,864 |
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church Statement of assets and liabilities
| as at 31 March 2025 2025 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 7,014 Cash in hand - Total cash funds 7,014 (360) |
2025 Restricted £ - - - 360 |
2025 Total £ 7,014 - 7,014 |
2024 Total £ 11,864 - 11,864 |
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Assets retained for the charity's own use Wheeled strimmer Strimmer x3 Lawnmower x2 Storage shed
| Liabilities Accruals |
2025 £ 462 462 |
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The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 20/11/2025
Roger Karl Potts (Trustee)
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The Friends of Roundhay St. John's Church
Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
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 2025
| 2 Restricted funds North Churchyard Fund name North Churchyard |
Balance b/f Incoming Outgoing Transfers Balance c/f £ £ £ £ £ 2,505 - 2,145 - 360 2,505 - 2,145 - 360 Purpose of restriction Towards the upkeep, maintenance, repairs, restoration, preservation, and improvements of the North Churchyard. |
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Related party transactions
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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