## **Wollaton Park Community Association** (Registered charity, number 1168667) **Financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2025**
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# **Wollaton Park Community Association annual report for the year ended 30 September 2025**
**Full name** Wollaton Park Community Association
**Organisation type** Charitable incorporated organisation
## **Registered charity number** 1168667
## **Principal address**
Wollaton Park Community Centre, Harrow Road, Nottingham, NG8 1FG
## **Trustees**
Miriam Pearman, Treasurer David Atkins Barbara Kluk, Secretary Pamela Wheatcroft Cate Woodward Zahida Mahmood, from 07/07/25 Karen Roberts, until 07/02/25 Nancy Briggs, until 07/02/25 Derek Shaw, until 07/02/25 Joan Rosalyn Clarke, until 07/02/25 Jean Low, until 07/02/25 Sue Twyford, until 01/12/25
## **Independent examiner**
Eva Stevens, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL
## **Governance and management**
The charity is operated under the rules of its CIO Association Constitution, adopted 08/08/16.
We ask the various groups for volunteers or members of the area who are interested in the centre.
## **Objectives and activities**
- To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Wollaton Park area of Nottingham without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions, by associating together the said inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants;
- To establish, or secure the establishment of, a community centre and to maintain and manage the same (whether alone or in co-operation with any statutory authority or other person or body) in furtherance of the objects;
- To promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined.
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## **Wollaton Park Community Association**
## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit**
We hire out rooms to various groups for activities, for example Tia Chi, Pilates, Song Time, Badminton, ladies and m groups, children s groups, religious groups.
We also hire out the Centre for birthday parties, wedding celebrations and for other occasions.
We still continue to run a garden tidy on the first Friday of the month which is staffed surgery, and their staff who sit in it for their lunch break when the weather is fine. It is also used by parents when they collect their children from the school next door.
The Coffee Morning for local residents is very well attended each week. It is a place where people can meet their friends for a chat or come and meet others and make new friends. We have a local Councillor who attends once a month.
The centre is a well-run, well-used building for many local groups who would otherwise have nowhere else to meet, with good facilities in a pleasant and clean environment.
## **Public benefit statement**
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'.
## **Summary of the main achievements during the period**
As well as the usual groups who meet at the Centre we have had a busy year. We held our usual Xmas Fair which was very well attended and as usual we had a visit from Santa when the children were given a present.
The coffee morning attendance has grown again over the last year. We also have a craft table once a month which is run by one of our members and is of great interest to a lot of people who have a go at making things.
We continue to subsidise the Dementia Singing Group and the Yoga Group.
Towards the end of the period, the Committee began a review of the lease for the buildings. We should soon be signing a new 25-year lease which gives us greater security and the opportunity to raise capital grant funding if needed.
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## **Wollaton Park Community Association**
## **Financial review**
During the period, the Association has had to take over the cost of water rates and refuse collection which were previously covered by the Council and came with little warning.
At the end of the reporting period the association was in profit.
We are prudent and careful in what we spend as we no longer have any financial support from the City Council. We have a savings account with the Skipton Building Society which is set aside for our reserves should we need it.
We hold reserves for specific one-off expenditure that is not planned for and to cover any unforeseen loss of income. Our target level for general reserves is 3 6 months running costs, which we are currently maintaining. We also hold designated reserves for capital expenditure which we expect to become necessary within the next 5 years. The reserves policy and levels of reserves are reviewed regularly by the Trustees.
## **Financial risks**
Nottingham City Council are having to make all community centres cost neutral so we are now completely reliant on our own generated income, plus any small grants we can get to cover specific projects.
We need to be able to maintain income from room hire for meetings, groups, and parties as this is our main source of income.
The new lease will include the liability to maintain the building at its current standard, so we must also be able to cover these costs from our surplus and reserves in the future.
Signed _____________________________________________ Date __________26/02/2026 Miriam Pearman, Trustee
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## **Independent e** xaminer’s **report to the trustees of Wollaton Park Community Association for the year ended 30 September 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Wollaton Park Community Association (the charity) for the year ended 30 September 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). | report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed _________________________ Date ______________________26/02/2026 —— Eva Stevens BSc, CPFA Employee of Community Accounting Plus
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## **Wollaton Park Community Association Receipts & payments account for the year ended 30 September 2025**
|_2024_
Total
**Unrestricted**
Funds
**Funds**
£
**Note**
**£**
**Receipts**
2327
Activities income
2538
1072
Bank interest
981
5239
Community Café sales
7828
1428
Fundraising
2567
19480
Grants & donations
**2**
2160
36166
Room hire
48076
-
Sundry receipts
16
65712
**Total receipts**
**64166**|_2024_
Total
**Unrestricted**
Funds
**Funds**
£
**Note**
**£**
**Receipts**
2327
Activities income
2538
1072
Bank interest
981
5239
Community Café sales
7828
1428
Fundraising
2567
19480
Grants & donations
**2**
2160
36166
Room hire
48076
-
Sundry receipts
16
65712
**Total receipts**
**64166**|**_2025_**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
-
2538
-
981
-
7828
-
2567
-
2160
-
48076
-
16
**-**
**64166**
-
2038
-
-
-
3321
-
2035
-
323
-
679
-
599
-
2839
2855
2855
-
500
-
702
-
1239
-
689
-
5591
-
82
-
1185
-
5904
-
23176
-
-
**2855**
**53757**
(2855)
10409
21063
99002
(9009)
-
**9199**
**109411**|
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|**Payments**
2450
Activity classes
450
Bookkeeping
2036
Cleaning
1963
Community Café costs
40
Donations & gifts
1254
Equipment, repairs & renewals
427
Events & activities expenditure
2697
Freelance pay
3439
Garden
1000
Honorarium
636
Independent examination
1114
Insurance
671
Licences
19398
Premises maintenance & security
83
Sundry payments
1641
Telephone & postage
3977
Utilities & rent
22661
Wages, NI & pension
470
Badminton transfer
66407
**Total payments**
(695)
**Net receipts/(payments)**
99697
Cash funds at start of this period
-
Transfers between funds
99002
**Cash funds at end of this period**|2038
-
3321
2035
323
679
599
2839
-
500
702
1239
689
5591
82
1185
5904
23176
-
**50902**
13264
77939
9009
**100212**||
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## **Wollaton Park Community Association Statement of assets and liabilities at 30 September 2025**
These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:
26/02/2026 Signed ___________________________________ Dated ___________ Miriam Pearman, Trustee
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## **Wollaton Park Community Association Notes to the accounts for the year ended 30 September 2025**
## **1. Receipts & payments accounts**
Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.
## **2. Grants & donations**
## **3. Funds analysis**
The Community Café fund should never have been treated as restricted as the income is all from sales. The transfer from Community Café restricted fund to the Community Café designated fund shows the fund as it should be. At the end of each year, any profit from the Community Café will now be transferred into the General fund for core costs.
We still hold the Marjorie Kingsland fund which was a bequest made by a former Trustee of the Centre whose request was that it cover the Garden Costs and any other project the Trustees thought necessary which the Council would not provide for.
The Garden Fund was also money given specifically to maintain and improve the garden.
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## **Wollaton Park Community Association**
The Hall floor reserve is held as we have been informed that the hall floor will need replacing within the next ten years.
We maintain an Opportunity reserve to enable us to respond quickly to timelimited or strategic opportunities that further our charitable purposes, subject to trustee approval.
The transfers from the general fund to the designated funds, Hall floor reserve and Opportunity reserve, show a 5% inflationary increase for them both.
## **4. Prepayments**
## **5. Creditors**
## **6. Premises & staff**
The premises are provided by the local authority for a nominal rent of £10 per annum at present.
## **7. remuneration**
During the year, a total of £500 was paid to Jean Low, for administrative work done for the charity.
## **8. Related party transactions**
During the year, Jason Pearman, who is the husband of Trustee Miriam Pearman, was paid a total of £408 for completing premises maintenance work at the centre.
## **9. Glossary of terms**
**Creditors:** These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.
**Debtors:** These are amounts owed to the charity, but not received in the accounting period.
**Prepayments:** These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.
**Restricted funds:** These are funds given to the charity, subject to specific restrictions set by the donor, but still within the general objects of the charity.
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