## **Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO** (Registered charity, number 1171472) **Financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021**
|**Page**|**Contents**|
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|2 - 3|Trustees’ annual report|
|4|Independent examiner’s report|
|5|Receipts & payments account|
|6|Statement of assets & liabilities|
|7 - 8|Notes to the accounts|
# **Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2021**
**Full name** Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO
**Other names by which the charity is known** QWCA
**Organisation type** Charitable incorporated organisation
**Registered charity number** 1171472
## **Principal address**
Queens Walk, The Meadows, Nottingham, NG2 2DF
## **Trustees**
William Stewart, Chair Nisha Sandhu, Vice-Chair Carol Mellis, Secretary Martyn Neal, Treasurer Mary Daly
Jeremiah W. Joseph Karl White Karen Warner Wasim Amin
## **Independent examiner**
John O’Brien, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL
## **Governance and management**
The charity is operated under the rules of its CIO – Association constitution adopted 6[th] February 2017.
Overall management of the charity is the responsibility of the trustees who are usually appointed at our annual general meeting; alternatively, they can be co-opted at our monthly meetings.
## **Objectives and activities**
To further or benefit the residents of The Meadows area of Nottingham and the neighbourhood, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents. In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the Trustees shall have power: to establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects.
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## **Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO**
## **Public benefit statement**
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'.
## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit**
The centre was closed due to Covid-19, the only people we had in were the Meadows Advice Group and Nottingham Energy Partnership (NEP) and after a while the Nottingham College, ESOL and sewing classes returned. The coffee bar is not functioning presently. No fundraising events or public meetings took place this year, since Covid-19 began.
## **Summary of the main achievements during the period**
Very difficult because of Covid-19 but we managed to keep the centre open for essential services throughout including education, welfare advice and energy support.
Thanks for support from Marc Petrucci, Dawn Lynch, Vicky Richardson and all the workers during a very difficult year.
## **Financial review**
We have operated at a deficit this year because of Covid-19. We have done this in a planned way to avoid closing the centre completely.
The main risk for the future is of Sheriff Social Club not returning to pre-Covid-19 income levels and our other centre users not returning.
## **The charity’s policy on reserves**
We have no specific policy on reserves; however, we like to retain a minimum of £25,000.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
Signed _____________________________________________ Date __________ William Stewart, Trustee
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## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO for the year ended 31 March 2021**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO (the charity) for the year ended 31 March 2021.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed _________________________ Date ______________________ John O’Brien MSc, FCCA, FCIE Employee of Community Accounting Plus
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## **Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 March 2021**
|_2020_
Total
**Unrestricted**
Funds
**Funds**
£
**Note**
**£**
**Receipts**
10139
Grants & donations
**2**
100
350
Membership
-
149
Sales & fees
6
67766
Rents & services
26208
78404
**Total receipts**
**26314**
**Payments**
1600
Activities & trips
-
-
Bank charges
939
2365
Cleaning
884
6713
Equipment, repairs & renewals
3057
50
Fundraising & publicity
-
-
Grants/Donations paid
225
110
Hospitality/Refreshments
166
540
Independent examination
552
701
Insurance
738
706
IT
254
1521
Legal & professional
320
570
Payroll service
485
4285
Premises maintenance
172
705
Printing & stationery
147
34
Staff expenses
27
11
Sundry payments
24
1113
Telephone & postage
349
24528
Utilities
9034
165
Volunteer expenses
14
30284
Wages, NI & pension
30352
76001
**Total payments**
**47739**
2403
**Net receipts/(payments)**
(21425)
96556
Cash funds at start of this period
98959
98959
**Cash funds at end of this period**
**77534**|**_2021_**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
5992
6092
-
-
-
6
-
26208
**5992**
**32306**
-
-
-
939
-
884
-
3057
-
-
-
225
-
166
-
552
-
738
-
254
-
320
-
485
-
172
-
147
-
27
-
24
-
349
5992
15026
-
14
-
30352
**5992**
**53731**
-
(21425)
-
98959
**-**
**77534**|
|---|---|
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## **Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 March 2021**
|_2020_
£
**Cash assets**
**Note**
98820
Bank accounts
139
Cash in hand
98959
**Other monetary assets**
4376
Debtors & prepayments
**4**
4376
**Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
General equipment.
Office chair, purchased January 2021, cost £550.
Security cameras, purchased October 2019, cost £744.
CCTV system, purchased October 2018, cost £2,688.
Bicycle shelter, purchased July 2017, cost £2,201.
**Liabilities**
(4034)
Creditors
**5**
(4034)|**_2021_**
**£**
77440
94|
|---|---|
||**77534**|
||8074|
||**8074**|
||(1334)|
||**(1334)**|
These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:
Signed ___________________________________ Dated ___________ Mary Daly, Trustee
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## **Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **1. Receipts & payments accounts**
Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.
## **2. Grants & donations**
|Nottingham City Council
**Funds analysis**
**Restricted funds**
Block fund
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund|**Opening**
**balance**
**£**
-
**-**
98959
**98959**|**Unrestricted**
**£**
100
**100**
**Receipts (Payments)**
**£**
**£**
5992
(5992)
**5992**
**(5992)**
26314
(47739)
**26314**
**(47739)**|**Restricted**
**£**
5992
**5992**
**Closing**
**balance**
**£**
-
**-**
77534
**77534**|**Total**
**£**
6092|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**6092**|
||||||
## **3. Funds analysis**
The Block fund is funding received from Nottingham City Council and is restricted for the running costs of the building.
## **4. Debtors & prepayments**
|Rents & services
Insurance
Legal & professional|**£**
7613
330
131|
|---|---|
||**8074**|
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## **Queen’s Walk Community Association CIO**
## **5. Creditors**
|Payroll service
Telephone & postage
Wages, NI & pension
Utilities|**£**
133
70
70
1061|
|---|---|
||**1334**|
## **6. Premises & staff**
The premises are provided by the local authority.
## **7. Support in kind**
Nottingham City Council are paying the Independent Examination fee of £460 + VAT for year ended 31 March 2021.
## **8. Trustees’ remuneration**
Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period.
## **9. Related party transactions**
There were no related party transactions during the period.
## **10. Glossary of terms**
**Creditors:** These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.
**Debtors:** These are amounts owed to the charity, but not received in the accounting period.
**Prepayments:** These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.
**Restricted funds:** These are funds given to the charity, subject to specific restrictions set by the donor, but still within the general objects of the charity.
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