2025-07-31-accounts

CHAIRWOMANS, REPORT 2025 Ladies & Genllemen. l am very pleased to Wel￿Me you all to our AGM this evening and to see so many of you here. Openlng Hours & Fooffall We are still opening in our usual shift pattem. Monday, Tuesday and Saturday mornings, Thursday and Friday aftemoons. We have had another challenging year. Over the last Christmas period we decided to close the library lo give us chance to re-organise the book shelving, we were dosed for a total of 8 days induding 2 bank holidays, which has impacted our footfall. Once again, our fooffall fell over the sumff£r period, in line with other libraries. Also, the Coffee Zone numbers have fallen. As we organise more events, we are exF)ecting to see those numbers increase again. We have still had to close the library or restrict the hours we are open but this has got better month on month and as more volurrteers come on board and are trained, we will hopefully get back to being able to fulfil our contracted hours. We are hoping to continue with our Lunchtime Talks on Wednesdays, looking forward, it 18 likely they will be on an ad-hoc basis. I have induded a graph in the report which gives you a visual of visitor numbers so that you can see how we are progressing. The graph is for the year Oct 24 to Sept 25. Library Visitor Numbers 350 300 250 200 150 loo 50 •￿bSer1e$l Grants & Fund Ralslng Eartier this year, to cover the coldest months, we were lucky enough to be awarded a government grant to become a 'Wann Space,, which was a great help in helping us pay some of our energy bills. The Parish Council has continued with their support in paying for the ground Maintenan￿ costs. I would like to acknowledge and thank the Parish Council for their continued support. This year we continued with the Blaby Lottery, and we now have a regular number of ticket3 sold every week where a per￿ntage of the money comes directly to the library, we are receiving on aye￿ge £15 per month as a source of income, unfortunately considerably less than last year.

We rent out the library Spa￿ to individuals for educational and well-being pur￿Ses, which brings us some welcome revenue. We still rent gazebos (which we have obtained through grants) and tsbles to individuals or groups within the village. We have restarted our Friends Membership Scheme (which has been on hold for a couple of yeaFS), we continue to sell donated books which has always proved very popular with our ustomers. so this continues to be a good revenue stream for us. We have continued to build on the fund-raising methods that we use, we usually sell vegetables donated from local allotment holders and this year we have had a lot of fruit donated by villagers. Any donated books that we cannot sell because of their condition we sell for a small fee to Wortd of Books, which this year has become an even smaller fee, we still continue to sell to a company (alled WeBuyBooks, which gives us a better price for some of the other books we receive. We continue to use some of our donated books for 'A Blind Date with a Book,, this is not an all-year project bLrt has proved to be very popular. All of these bring in small armunts but nevertheless they will help us to continue running the library. This year has seen the Christmas Wreath and Easter Wreath making evenings, the children's Easter event bring in some welcome revenue as does the Monday aftemoon Knitting Group. Unfortunately, our new Lego Club has lain dornant for a few months but we are hoping to restart this in the near future. Thanks to all of you that take part. Susan as our treasurer will confirm later what our current financial status is. Building This year we have been successful in getting LCC to pay and replace our front door and its surrounds, the new door style is to be a sliding dcx)r. The new front door should be fttted sometime in the new year. The style of our new front dwr may mean that we will have to change our other exit door in the kitchen, this door has no outside locks, which will need to be rectified. We will need to get quotes and may have to apply for a grant to enable us to do this. You will have noticed that yet again, the inside layout of the library has changed, our final phase of change took place over the Christmas dosure, as prev50usly stated. We have spent quite a lot of money on electrical checks and general upkeep of the library which have been necessary to comply with Heatth & Safety Regulations. Our 10-year lease wilh LCC is up for ￿neWa1 in July 2026. Marketing As you know we decided to discontinue the library website, which saved us money that we could spend on other things. We were hoping to be able to set-up a new website for free, we are sttll hoping to do so, watch this space! We slill advertise in the Shamford News, the Sapcote Star, the C(>op, local hair dressers, the library and on Facebook. Events Summer Reading Challenge- this yearfs numbers were slightly better than last year but still very low with 29 taking part but only 14 children completing the challenge (48Yo), last years was 40 % . It may be that it coinaded with other events taking place in the village, the Committee did plan on attending the school assembty to promote it. as other libraries do, we did manage to contact some nuTseries and hopefully next year we will get the chance to attend the school assembty to try and en(x)urage an increase in the number of children partiGipat'ng. Christmas Wreath and Easter Wreath making evenings, the children's Easter event were all well attended. The Valentines 'Date with a BOOK event which was ongoing through February.

VoluntserJ l am pleased that we have managed to recnjit 7 new volunteers this year and that we have some others in the pipeline. I would like to welcL)me them all to the team. Unfortunately, our 9th birthday celebration in July didn't tske pla￿ due to a communication problem, please make a note in your diary for next year. it should take place around 26 July. This year as last. we have been trying to get all votunteers up to date with their training needs. As the law changes and to m￿t the requirements of our Insuran￿ policy, all volunteers are required to do this. In this last year volunteers have now been required to complete online courses that they can do at home or at the library. Proof of completion is required. Help is on hand if needed. Our new library operations system came online in January, which meant everyone needed training, thank you to my fellow trainers, Carol and Pat for taking the time to do this. We also have one Duke of Edinburgh student volunteer who completed his bronze and silver award with us and has now moNed on to a bigger library to complete his gold award, we have another D of E student who has completed her bronze award and is continuing with us to complete her silver. Thank you, Carol for your efforts to cover all shifts and recruiting new volunteers, and for bringing in new ideas. A couple of other special mentions, firstly to Carolyn Watson-senior, who covered empty shifts this year, some at very short notice. To Jean Kirkland who has taken on the role of Bookings Officer, to Michelle Jenkins who has taken on the role of Buildings and Maintenance Officer. The past year has seen many changes again, nett committee members and reorganisation of Ihe library, which is now completed. I would like to reassure you that these are not changes for changes sake. Our management committee is trying to make the library processes more Streamline and ensure that everyone is trained to a high level, hopefully this will make each one of you more comfortable with what we are asking you to do. Changes to the library layout have been made so that we can fully comply with the Disability Act and adhere to Health and Safety Regulations. I want to take some time to acknowledge all our volunteers who help in so many ways - whether that's behind the scenes, behind the counter, cleaning, sorting books, coffee morning, and events. As a committee we are so appreciative of what you all do. The continued success of this library is a great achievement and a real credit to you all and when we work well together, things can only get better. You should all take great personal pride and enjoyment in what we are achieving. So finally, for all of you whether you are volunteers andlor Friends of the Library we are very grateful for your continued support, and the comments and suggestions that encourage us to keep running the library Servi￿ and to continually keep reviewing and adding new activities and events. Marfene Chapman November 2025

Sapcote Community Library Registered Charity Number: 1167496 Church street, Sapcote. Leicestershire, LE9 4FG Tel: [phone] (opening hours only) [e-mail] Sapcot c￿lMUN Librar Financial Report for End of July 2025 This is the Finanaal Report for Sapcote Community Library for the period up to 31" July 2025 INCOME Blaby District Council Warm Spaces Grant £ 500.00 TOTAL GRAKfs FROM PUBLIC SECTOR £ 500.00 Blaby Lottery £ 296.50 World of Books £ 42.97 Revival Books £ 194.64 Donations £ 525.85 Knit & Nat £ 343.50 Talks £ 160.00 Sales Invoices £ 216.00 Misc 74.61 Raffle £ 54.(K) Bank Interest £ I￿70.61 TOTAL £ 4.27&68

DESK TAKINGS Reservations 53.60 Fines 60.34 Refreshments £ 405.75 Photo Copier 46.75 Book Sales 407.85 Veg/Plant Sales Donations 5.50 106.34 Heritage Group 17.90 Lego Club Talk/Wreath Making 6.00 725.00 Raffle/Easter 104.20 Printer Voucher 3.50 TOTAL £ 1,942.73 GRAND TOTAL £ 6.221.41

Sapcote Community Library Regstered (harity Number: 1167496 Church StreeL Sa￿Ote, Leicestershire, LE9 4FG Td- 0116 3053674 {opening hours only) wwwsapcotec([e-mail] Sapcot CgMMUN Libra Financial Report for End of July 2025 This is the Financial Report for Sapcote Community Library for the period up to 31" July 2025 EXPENDITURE Volunteer Expenses £ 828.34 Electricity £ 915.18 Gas £ 692.66 Water £ 462.43 Cleaning £ 188.80 Talks £ 510.00 Security £ 138.00 Misc: ASHWELLS £ 96.00 PROUDCSTLE £ 840.00 MIDLAND FIRE £ 650.00 WOODWARD £ 528.00 RIDDLE £ 500.00 TAYLOR ROOM RETURN £ 24.00 Cash Payments= Monthly Cleaning £ 52.49 Milk 1.45 GRAND TOTAL £ 6.427.97

Sapcote Community Library Registered Ch*ity I￿rnber: 1167496 thurch Street. SaI￿ote. Leicestershire, LE9 4FG Tel: [phone] lopening hours only) wwwsapc0￿Mun1tyllbrary@￿aIl.cOM Sapcot COWAUN Librar PAGE 3 SUMMARY INCOME £ 6,221.41 EXPENDITURE £(6,427.97) NET PROFIT £ (206.56) BANK BALANCE AS AT 31.07.24 (CURRNT AccouKrr) (SAVINGS ACCOUNT) ( FIXED TERM SAVINGS) DESK TAKINGS 654.93 10,043.51 £ 35.000.00 143.52 CHARITY BOX 24.82 TOTAL 2024 45,866.78 BANK BALANCE AS AT 31.07.25 1CURREKf ACCOUKn (SAVINGS AccouKn (FIXES TERM SAVINGS) £ 35.000.00 DESK TAKINGS 199.74 396.36 10.064. TOTA 2025 45,660.22

TOTAL SUMMARY YEAR END 202>Z024 £45.866.78 YEAR END 202*2025 £45,660.22 LOSS 2025 £ 1206.56)