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← Thirsk Community Library

2024-03-31-accounts

Thirsk Community Library Annual Report

2023-2024

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Introduction

This is the 7th annual report of Thirsk Community Library Charity. We continue to strive to live up to our vision of being an inclusive community hub where people can read, learn, use IT, socialise and have fun together. Above all else we prioritise being welcoming, friendly and helpful and being a great place to volunteer.

Leadership of the Charity

Trustees lead the charity and are responsible for its overall sustainability, setting priorities and direction, ensuring that we meet the requirements of the agreement with North Yorkshire Council and of the Charity Commission and overseeing financial and service governance. At March 31[st] 2024 the trustees were.

Sally Burton: Chair

Shirley Ward: Secretary

Bronwen Common: Treasurer

Anna Naughton: Trustee

Nigel Lewin: Trustee

Irene Marwood: Trustee

Volunteer Leadership

Day to day operations are overseen by volunteers. Some volunteers hold key responsibilities such as Three Rings Manager (rota management) Data Management and Coordinating activities such as Story Times, School Visits and Pop Up Libraries and looking after our Book Clubs.

Opportunities for Volunteers

We welcome volunteers with a wide range of background and experience. All are valued for the contributions they make. We have been able to provide work experience to young people and to adults who are seeking to build their confidence as well as those completing Duke of Edinburgh Awards.

Volunteers work as Library Assistants, undertake administrative roles, organise group sessions such as Knit and Natter and Lego Club, lead Story Times and help with events and activities. They also manage all rotas, communications, building management, events, cleaning and library finances.

We also have a team of volunteers who manage the Home Library Service for people who are not able to get to the library, selecting books and delivering them to people at home.

We now have 13 Digital Buddies who support people with a range of IT related needs.

We hold regular social events and ‘thank you’s’ for volunteers and many attend our regular fundraising quizzes.

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Around 90 adults and 40 young people have volunteered with the library since 2017.

Our Performance

We issued the following books:

Our Activities

We directly deliver or organise a wide range of activities including:

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 Speakers and Author Visits

Lego Drop-In session

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Knit and Natter Group

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Chris Geeson Creative Clubs Warhammer Games Club

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Partnerships

We work with a number of partners to support other groups to use our space and benefit from our facilities.

This includes:

Home Education Art Group

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Thirsk Repair Cafe

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North Yorkshire Council.

The Council continues to support the library, paying a large percentage of the lease cost, buying all the books, providing a range of online resources and providing all the computers and systems. The Council also funds a part time Community Library Support Officer who works with volunteers to train them, advise on new systems and support day to day delivery.

Housing 21 Meadowfields Supported Housing

We share a site with Meadowfields and we are very grateful for their support in maintaining the building and welcoming people. We are particularly grateful to be able to use the Bistro for our regular Quiz Nights.

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New developments in 2024

Northallerton Talking Newspapers for the Blind (NTN)

Last year we formed a partnership with NTN to support them in recording and distributing their Talking Newspaper. This partnership is now developing and we are working with Hambleton Community Action to secure the future of the service. We are planning that we will work together to extend the reach of the Talking Newspapers to cover Thirsk, Northallerton and all associated villages and to see how it may benefit our Home Library customers. We will also be using the recordings in the library for social groups to share.

Rural Arts

We are planning a new joint project for April 2025 with Rural Arts and White Rose Bookshop. This will involve arts, music, theatre and some outreach activities in local primary schools. We hope this partnership will bring many opportunities to extend what we can provide for local people.

Thirsk Digital Hub

We have launched Thirsk Digital Hub. Helped by some funding from the Shared Prosperity Fund we have been able to extend our digital services to include more dedicated Digital Buddies, extra slots in the week to support the public and a Saturday morning Digital Café. We are also researching the best way to help people with sight loss and looking at Coding and other activities for young people.

Financial Position

Our finances remain healthy but we are never complacent and continue to raise funds by holding Quizzes, raffles and events and applying for grants.

In the last financial year we received welcome grants from Broadacres Housing Association and Tesco’s which helped to pay for children’s activities and we are currently a Coop Community Fund charity.

Our income and expenditure on day to day running costs are broadly in balance and we have been able to invest some money in improving our communications, leaflets and website this year and to make some funds available to support our digital expansion.

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Charity Name

THIRSK COMMUNITY LIBRARY
 Charity Name

THIRSK COMMUNITY LIBRARY
 Charity Name

THIRSK COMMUNITY LIBRARY
 Charity Name

THIRSK COMMUNITY LIBRARY
 CC16a
For the
period from		 4/1/2023
Period start		 To
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricte
d funds
to the
nearest £		 Restricted
funds
to the
nearest £		 Endowment
funds
to the
nearest £		 Total funds
to the
nearest £		 Last year
to the
nearest £
LibraryServices 4,812
488
5,042
4,200
4,062
446
-
-
19,050
 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 - 4,812
488
5,042
4,200
4,062
446
-
-
19,050		 4,468
Fund Raising - 1,206
Grants and Donations - 11,095
Room Hire - 2,962
Activities and Events - 1,952
Bank & BuildingSocietyInterest - 170
- -
- -
Sub total(Gross income for AR) - 21,853
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).		 -
-
-
-
-
-		 - -
-
-
- -
Sub total - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments		 19,050
19,050 - - 21,853
Activities and Events 4,695
3,500
5,566
1,816
502
-
-
-
-
16,079		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 - 4,695
3,500
5,566
1,816
502
-
-
-
-
16,079		 3,415
Rent and Insurance - 4,001
Repairs, Renewals & Maintenance - 641
Administration - 1,765
Licences & Subscriptions - 299
Fund Raising - 243
Salaries - 4,617
- -
- -
Sub total - 14,981
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)		 1,768
1,848
-
3,616
Trolleys and Shelves -
-
-		 - 1,768
1,848
-
3,616
Display Stands (2)
Reception Desk, Cupboards etc
Sub total		 - 17,707
- 17,707
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
19,695 - - 19,695 32,688
- 645
-
-
- 645		 -
-
-
-		 - - 645
-
-
- 645		 - 10,835
- -
- -
- - 10,835
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
B5 Liabilities
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s
own use
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees		 Details
Barclays Bank
Cash
Details
Details
Details
DisplayStands
Trolleys & LibraryBoxes
FilingCabinets
Blinds
Camera
Gazebo Table & Chairs
Details
Signature
Nationwide Building
Total cash funds
receipts and payments
account(s))
Reception desk,cupboards,
shelving and story chair		 to nearest £
Unrestricte
d funds		 to nearest £
Restricted
funds		 Endowmen
t funds
to nearest
£
22,312 -
-
-
-		 -
25,758 -
313 -
48,383
~~Areement~~		 -
to nearest £
~~g~~
Error
Unrestricte
d funds		 OK
Endowmen
t funds
to nearest
- -
- -
- -
Fund to
which asset
belongs		 Current
value
(optional)
-
-
-
Fund to
which asset
belongs		 Current
value
(optional)
Unrestricted 1,848
Unrestricted 20,402
Unrestricted 1,976
Unrestricted 270
Unrestricted 140
Unrestricted 808
Unrestricted 23
-
Fund to
which
liability
relates		 When due
(optional)
Date of
approval