## **Raynham Way Community Centre** ## **Annual Report – 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025** This was a year of both growth in income and less expenditure on maintenance and refurbishment resulting in an increase in profit for the charity. We had a significant rise in social bookings which probably made a greater number of Luton residents aware of the building, its facilities and avenues for events and hiring. We have maintained an approach of keeping our charges as competitive as possible whilst making the facilities available seven days a week with only a break for two weeks in August and at Christmas. Our regular hire has shown issues of some groups like carpet bowls and youth club attracting fewer attendees whilst new groups relating to family, men's wellbeing and dance becoming more popular. Overall, we continue to have regular groups on most days and nights during the week with only Tuesday afternoons and some Friday evenings still available to book. In January we maintained our charges at the same rates for our regular users whilst modestly raising those for one-off bookings. Some refurbishments of the foyer and office took place during the year along with the tiding up of the loft and storage areas. Overall, there was a smaller spend on maintenance with much being done in-house. We continued to apply for grants and with one we were able to purchase new plant boxes for the front and east side of the building and were successful in coming third in the annual Luton in Bloom competition. We ran another summer fete in August with the benefit of good weather and a substantial grant. Whilst the costs of the fete show an overspend this was recouped by events such as refreshments and raffle run by the center. We also continued with the free Wednesday cafe at lunchtime throughout the year with those attending making voluntary contributions to the center and donations to the East Anglia Air Ambulance charity. We also introduced a “baked potato with filling” day once a month for a charge of £1 which is very popular. We lost more trustees than we gained during the year and basically were down to four active trustees at the yearend – this was due mainly to ill health and moving home, however we have now managed to recruit one more trustee. The need for more trustees willing to give of their time and experience continues to be a matter that we continually seek to address. We are grateful for the support of local council area officers and ward councillors. The group leaders who run and manage the various activities week in, week out need our thanks as they directly provide support and guidance to the regular users. Overall the center provides many forms of recreation, sport, fitness, creative arts, religious worship and education that assist in bringing greater cohesion to our community. |**Charity Name**
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**funds**||**Total funds**|**Last year**|| ||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Grants|**678**||**7,500**||**-**||**8,178**|**7,879**|| |Regular Hall Hire|**35,506**||**-**||**-**||**35,506**|**30,440**|| |Social Hire|**22,781**||**-**||**-**||**22,781**|**10,773**|| |Events|**2,933**||**-**||**-**||**2,933**|**1,057**|| |D0nations|**1,151**||**-**||**-**||**1,151**|**1,181**|| |Refunds|**487**||**-**||**-**||**487**|**255**|| |Café|**589**||**-**||**-**||**589**|**-**|| |Misc|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_||||||||| |_AR)_|_AR)_**64,225**||**7,500**||**-**||**71,725**|**51,585**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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approval| |||**Lawrence Patterson**|24/11/2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 29/01/2026 2 members of 1-2 ~~bP~~ I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 31/03/2025 On accounts for the year ended As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act Set out on pages 2011 ("the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, { have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission Responsibilities under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. and basis of I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material maters have report come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect o accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection Independent with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable examiner's statement a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * Please delete the ~~words in the brackets if they do not apply.~~ 31/03/2025 Charity 1169566 no (if any) Signed ALAN MASON Name: Relevant professional TREASURER / TRUSTEE BUSHMEAD COMMUNITY CENTRE ## qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: HANCOCK DRIVE, LUTON, BEDFORDSHIRE, LU2 7SF October 2018 1 NER