## Treasurer’s Report 2022 ## **Report of Independently Examined Financial Statements for the period 01/01/2022 to 31/12/2022** ## **TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS** **Trustees' Remuneration:** There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the period 01/01/2022 toChairperson’s Report 202231/12/2022. **Trustees' expenses:** There were no trustees' expenses paid for the period ended 31/12/2022. **I would like to thank the trustees and volunteers of Friends of Staff Costs:** There were no staff costs paid for the period ended 31/12/2022. **Riverside for their ongoing support and hard work and to welcome Graham Coates as a volunteer and then new trustee. Thanks also to** **Mr. Andrew Jack, our Wiltshire Council Area Board and of course to the residents of North Wiltshire for your fantastic and ongoing support. As usual, you have all gone above and beyond!** The Centre, post Covid restrictions has seen a positive upturn in usage. Our move to migrate to full charging after first allowing free use, followed by 50% charges, meant that many users could continue their activities during the period ‘of recovery’ and provide our community with activity and a means of social connection. We have continued to maintain the building and our operations from our - reserves and improvements have been made to the gardens by volunteers. Our ‘Saturday Friends’ monthly drop in, for older and vulnerable people, restarted on 2[nd] July 2022. This was very much welcomed, and we understand a first step back into community life for some, after the emergence of Covid. **Represented by** : We continue to have Riverside representatives on various local groups. This Restricted Grant: Nil Unrestricted Funds: especially applies to the local Malmesbury Health and Wellbeing Forum. We £42652.11 also have a representative on the LYN (Local Youth Network). Both of these _**Treasurer:**_ are community based forums, report to Wiltshire Council Malmesbury Area Board. Independently, all of our trustees continue to help to provide support **P.J. Gilchriest** to our community, through various other roles in local community groups and charities. _**P J Gilchriest Dated 9th April 2023**_ After another very successful year, our aims of course remain the same - to fulfil the objects of our charity, to promote community resilience, health and wellbeing, by providing affordable options for North Wiltshire residents to run or participate in community groups, and attend classes and meetings, in an As well as record keeping and sundry correspondence, please note the following: ## **Grants applied for and awarded:-** Wiltshire Community Foundation had awarded us £3,980 in 2019 to run Saturday Friends for the next 2 years. We had been unable to spend it all due to Covid restrictions, in particular those applying to the elderly and by the start of 2022 we still had nearly £2,000 left of the grant. They therefore kindly agreed to grant us an extension on the remaining grant until the end of 2022. Unfortunately we were still unable to run Saturday Friends during the first half of the year in what we considered to be a safe environment, mainly due to sporadic outbreaks of Covid at the local care homes but we were eventually able to restart in July 2022. By the end of the year, we still had £1,000 left of the grant. However, since we were back to running normal monthly sessions and had plans for 2023, the Foundation kindly agreed to grant us another extension until the end of 2023. We also received a grant from the Area Board via MVCAP for £211 to buy books for the Ukrainian students who had started ESOL classes taught at Riverside by Cirencester College. ## **Awards won:-** ## Our Riverside garden won 2[nd] place in the Malmesbury in Bloom event. ## **Saturday Friends** Due to the Pandemic, Saturday Friends did not take place until July 2022. However, Wiltshire Community Foundation very kindly allowed us to use some of the grant for other projects which would benefit our Saturday Secretary’s Report 2022 Friends participants and the local care homes:- In February we delivered plants to Beeches Care Service to give out to all their elderly customers who still live independently. We received much 2022 proved to be a busy year for Riverside after the quiet of the previous positive feedback for this initiative. 2 years. We continued to work on the ‘Get Connected’ project in the hope of Monthly meetings continued to take place, mostly via Zoom and connecting all the Care Homes to each other to enable them to join up for occasionally at Riverside itself. quizzes, entertainment, virtual Saturday Friends etc. Arranging the Zoom meetings plus the preparation and circulation of The telephone befriending service which started in 2020 continued into agendas and minutes continued. 2022, reaching out and supporting the elderly and vulnerable of the area with regular phone calls.During this year I also took on the new responsibility of taking the Room Bookings, liaising with customers and potential customers and sending out ## Health and Safety Report 2022 This report summarises the main health and safety issues for 2022 and incorporates all aspects of Health and Safety for the Riverside Community Centre. A health and safety inspection is carried out weekly and the reports are kept in the health and safety file in the office. Margaret Perrin conducts these inspections. All electrical equipment owned by Riverside Community Centre was PAT tested. All emergency lighting tests and outcomes are recorded in the H&S file in the office. ## **During 2022:** - Fire alarm was serviced. - Fire Extinguishers and Fire blankets have been serviced. - First aid boxes were checked (due to be replaced until March 2023). - Churchill conducted water Hygiene risk assessment. - Asbestos inspection was carried out. ## **Accident Book:** The HSE Accident Book can be located in the front foyer in a pocket on the wall, its purpose is to record minor incidents and accidents. Under the Data Protection Act 2004 accident books should not enable people to read personal information of others. To ensure that this does not occur individual records are removed and held separately in the health and Safety folder in the office. There were no recorded H&S incidents in 2022. ## **Training previous to 2022:** - First aid including training on the use of an Automated External Defibrillators - Chair evacuation. - Food hygiene – online certification is available to those who would like to take the qualifications. - Bomb evacuation - Fire safety Fire safety training and evacuation procedure has been now been carried out with the Ukrainian, Chinese and Romanian students using the building. I also carried out and recorded a risk assessment for the conference room which they are using. (Asbestos in ceiling was recorded on the risk assessment.) The centre still has available to the public. (Hand wash) PPE re government id li