## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From:** January 1[st] 2024 **Period start date To:** December 31[st] 2024 **Period end date** **Charity name:** Otley Christian Resources Hub **Charity registration number:** 1169443 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The object of the CIO is the advancement
of the Christian religion for the public
benefit in the Diocese of Leeds by:
promoting and nurturing a vision for
children’s and young people’s ministry;
supporting, encouraging and enabling
volunteer leaders in their work with
children and young people; and facilitating
good practice by devising, supplying and
advising on relevant materials and
resources for such work, so as to be a
source of encouragement, inspiration and
creativity to churches in their ministry to
children andyoung people| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|OCRH undertakes a number of activities in
support of its aims. These include:
• Supporting member churches with
schools’ work through providing resources,
training, and ongoing support
• Providing suitable resources, training
and networking opportunities for those
involved in children’s ministry across a
variety of contexts.
• Remaining responsive to the particular
needs of our churches and seeking to
provide for these.
• Keeping up to date with current good
practice and new developments nationally.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|In planning and conducting activities at
OCRH for the year the Trustees have
considered the Charity Commission’s
guidance on public benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| ||SORP reference|| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Our project supports local churches with
their children and family ministry. As such
most of our service users are volunteers,
who access our resources and training to
add value to the work they are doing in
their own setngs. In 2024, approximately
120 volunteers used our resources,
accessed our training or atended a
networking event.
Staf and trustees want to acknowledge the
brilliant job they do.| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference||| |---|---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20||**Work with Schools**
Our work with schools centres around two
main projects, Open the Book and What’s
the Story?
Open the Book
In 2024 we supported 11 Open the Book
teams going into 19 schools. Teams deliver
assemblies on a weekly, fortnightly or
monthly basis, so every month we
contnued to reach around 3000 children .
In May we ran a training event to introduce
the new Open the Book programme. Forty
fve storytellers atended and feedback
from the event was really positve.
In September we transferred all the teams| on to the new programme to bring us in line with Open the Book / Bible Society’s requirements. Implementing the new programme has been a very big piece of work involving relabelling 30 existing sets of props stories, significantly altering another 30 and creating 30 new stories from scratch. During the year there were six meetings with makers producing prop and costumes for the project. This work will continue into next year with the full programme finished by December 2025. We are really grateful to our Open the book teams for working so flexibly with us during the transition. We would also like to thank The Bramall Trust for providing some funding to help with the cost and our small group of makers who have worked really hard to produce new costumes and props. **What’s The Story ?** What’s the Story is a seasonal project running at Easter and Christmas giving primary school children an opportunity to visit a church and hear the Biblical stories surrounding these festivals. At Easter, 9 organisations ran the project reaching 540 children and families. At Christmas 5 churches ran the project reaching 325 children. **Godly Play** The Hub continues to organise and support the Leeds and Bradford Godly Play network. The Network met 3 times during the year and two churches are regularly using Our Godly Play resources. In addition staff attended two network meetings with Godly Play UK. ## **Out of the Box** Staff continue to be involved with out of the box storytelling and organised a storytelling day in September with the intention of creating a network to meet three or four times a year. Due to illness only three people attended ( 6 had booked). It was a very positive day but given reduced staff hours it was decided that further events were not a viable use of staff time. **Children’s Ministry** We continue to support wider children and family ministry and are always happy to meet with children’s leaders to offer advice , recommend resources etc. We continue to offer a drop in without appointment slot once a week . Over the year 10 organisations borrowed other resources from the hub ranging from Giant Christingles to storybaskets and badge makers. . **Communication** The hub produces quarterly newsletters, has a Facebook page and a website. Staff and trustees would like to thank Paul Cayton for the continued maintenance of the website and other IT support. **Governance** The trustees and staff met 6 times in 2024 (five in person and once on Zoom). **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set.|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set.|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**|||| |---|---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|An overall defcit of £(3,385) was recognised in
2024 (2023: defcit £(4,473)). This represented
general (unrestricted) funds only. There were
no restricted fund transactons in 2024. (2023:
Nil). The charity had total reserves at the year-
end of £19,977 (2023: £23,862)|| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|It is the trustees’ policy to hold unrestricted
funds which equate to three months’
expenditure. These reserves are held to meet
the day-to-day running costs of Otley Christan
Resources Hub and to help fnance signifcant
projects as and when required.|| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Total available reserves are £19,977, of which
£3.8k approx. are held according to the
reserves policy (see paragraph above)|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|The trustees have considered the fnances of
Otley Christan Resources Hub and have no
reason to believe that the charity has any going
concern issues as at the 31 December 2023.|| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g. unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|The trustees are drawn from the churches
and organisations we work with. They are
identified through volunteering, advertising,
or recommendation**.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Otley Christian Resources Hub| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charity number|1169443| |Charity’s principal address|The Chestnuts
Burras Lane
Otley
LS21 3HS| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Peter Willox|Chair||| ||Anne Cayton|||| ||Lizzie Reynolds|||| ||Cayte Norman|||| ||John Holdsworth|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Peter Willox **Position (e.g. Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair **Date** 17/09/25 |**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Otley Christian Resources Hub CIO**
**1169443**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1 January2024
31 December 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~=a~~|| |---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|| |**Total funds**
**Last year**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**|| |**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**|| |Donations
**6,624**
**-**
**-**
**6,624**
**10,489**
Sale/hire of resources
**2,644**
**-**
**-**
**2,644**
**2,063**
Subscriptions
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**1,000**
**875**
Grants
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Training
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**320**
Other income
**868**
**-**
**-**
**868**
**769**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,136**
**-**
**-**
**11,136**
**14,516**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 11,136**
**-**
**-**
**11,136**
**14,516**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~======~~
~~=SSS==~~|| |**A3 Payments**|| |Costs ofgeneratingfunds
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**120**
Costs of charitable activities
**1,676**
**-**
**-**
**1,676**
**2,381**
Staff costs
**10,006**
**-**
**-**
**10,006**
**13,541**
Administration costs
**3,339**
**-**
**-**
**3,339**
**2,932**
Sundrycosts
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 15,021**
**-**
**-**
**15,021**
**18,989**
~~SB aaae~~|| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 15,021**
**-**
**-**
**15,021**
**18,989**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 3,885**
**-**
**-**
**- 3,885**
**- 4,473**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**23,862**
**-**
**-**
**23,862**
**28,335**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 19,977**
**-**
**-**
**19,977**
**23,862**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
~~SS~~
~~===~~|| ## **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**
Current account
Deposit account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**5,581**
**-**
**14,396**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,977**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Peter Willox
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK
**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due (optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| |||Peter Willox|17-Sep-25| |||||