2021-06-30-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date

Period end date

From 01 07 2020 To 30 06 2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

The Dusty Shed

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1168742

Charity's principal address 460 Cowbridge Road West

Cardiff

Postcode CF5 5BZ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole **year **	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Charles Wallace	Chairperson	Wholeyear	AGM or Trustee Committee
	Paul Perera	Treasurer	wholeyear	AGM or Trustee Committee
	Natasha Hayes	Trustee	wholeyear	AGM or Trustee Committee
	DougSmith	Trustee	wholeyear	AGM or Trustee Committee
	John Hallett	Trustee	01-07-20 to 11-05-21	AGM or Trustee Committee
	Peter Kearns	Trustee	11-05-21 to 30-06-21	AGM or Trustee Committee

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

The Shed executive is the Trustee Committee. All members are volunteers and participate in the communal management of the organisation.

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Formal Constitution

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

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How the charity is constituted Association (eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods All trustees are volunteers. They are either elected by the membership at (eg. appointed by, elected by) an AGM; or if a vacancy occurs between AGMs, a replacement is appointed by the other trustees at a formal Trustee Committee Meeting.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

• relationship with any related parties;

All new Trustees are provided with a copy of the Charity Commission Pack for new trustees, and are encouraged to attend the free trustee’s training provided by the Cardiff 3[rd] Sector Council.

All current and past trustees have had a close association with the Shed prior to volunteering to become a trustee; hence, when appointed they are already conversant with the policies and procedures and the wider network of interaction with other organisations.

• The majority of trustees are also Shed members and play an active role in the day-to-day running of the Shed.

• There is also a monthly meeting of Shed members. This meeting is chaired by a trustee and is a forum for shedders to let the Trustees’ Committee know of any issues that may require funding or other action.

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

To facilitate the coming together of lonely and socially isolated people, with emphasis on older men, in a physically and emotionally safe Summary of the objects of the environment where they can participate, with their peers, in woodworking, charity set out in its craft and social activities. governing document

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We were still operating under severe covid restrictions at the beginning of July 2020 and our active membership had dwindled to less than half of what it had been at before the lockdown. However, we had taken advantage of the lockdown period to undertake a development program that greatly expanded our ability to conduct outdoor activities in a newly roofed courtyard. Our plan for when we are able to return to more normal activities, is to have an opening event and start conducting weekly Summary of the main morning teas and presentations on topics of interest to try and rebuild our activities undertaken for the membership numbers. public benefit in relation to Many of our members are older and/or have underlying health issues; these objects (include within therefore, we continued to abide by the ‘guidance’ for preventing the this section the statutory spread of Covid during the entire reporting period. Consequently, the declaration that trustees have implementation of our plans for rebuilding our membership are on hold. had regard to the guidance The last Annual General Meeting of the Dusty Shed was held on 24[th] of issued by the Charity January 2019. In accordance with the Dusty Shed Constitution, the next Commission on public AGM was planned for mid-April 2020. As detailed in our 2019/20 annual benefit) report, by April 2020 we were still working under the Covid-19 social distancing restrictions and, because many of our members are uncomfortable using internet conferencing, the AGM had to be indefinitely postponed. The current proposal is to hold an AGM as soon as it is permissible under Covid-19 restrictions guidance.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

In early 2021 a review was undertaken by the Trustees of our Constitution, which had not been reviewed since the organisation was formed in 2016. The following problems were identified:

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

• it is poorly constructed with several different paragraph numbering systems being used, which makes cross-referencing difficult;

• • it addresses a number of topics that are not relevant to the way our Shed functions as an association of members; and

• it does not provide governance-guidance relevant to some things that have occurred since the Shed was formed, and may well occur again in the future.

Hence, the Constitution was rewritten to address the above problems, and to include a relevant title page and a 'Mission Statement'.

Our understanding of the guidance provided on the Charity Commission website, is that the only amendments to a constitution requiring Charity Commission approval are those relevant to the Objectives or to the appointment/remuneration of trustees. In our case, there has been minor amendment to the Objectives and no amendment to the appointment/remuneration of trustees.

We propose to seek member agreement to the amendments before making a submission to the Charity Commission to formalise the changes.

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Section D Achievements and performance

During the Covid restrictions we continued to support our membership Summary of the main through our WhatsApp group and personal telephone calls to members achievements of the charity who we knew were experiencing emotional problems due to their long during the year periods of isolation.

We also provided physical support where necessary in the form of assistance with shopping and transport.

We provided the following support for the work of the Dusty Forge, with which we have a very close association:

• Assistance with the renovation of a house for a disadvantaged family.

• Fit-out of racking and shelving in container for a new 'Library of Things’ project.

• Staffing a work station for their monthly Repair Café to undertake general repairs and provide back-up support for other repairers.

Section E Financial review

We hold no significant reserves.

Brief statement of the We have limited regular income from member subscriptions, and we bid charity’s policy on reserves annually for approximately £10,000 from the National Lottery to cover our overheads and to pay the Dusty Forge for one of their staff to maintain our documentation and website, promoted our organisation, and act as a secretariat for the Trustees Committee. We also periodically bid for funding from other grant providing organisations to procure and maintain equipment or undertake a more significant development project. Details of any funds materially Nil in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

• how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

• investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

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Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Position Date
	Charles Wallace	Paul Perera
	Chair Trustee Committee	Treasurer
	24 April 2022	24 April 2022

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