th April 2026.
Minutes of Poringland Mens Shed AGM held on the 30
Attendees:
Trustees – Jon Bruce, Tim Eyles, Ernie Green, Suzi Jarvis, John Mallott, Peter Stuart, Ryan Bedwell-Woods, and Peter Webb
Members – Sally Baits, Graham Buck, liz Evan, Carol Flugge, Jeff Hall, Gary Heathcoat, Jan Lloyd, Jenny Martin, Ross Maskell, Tim Mayhew, Susan McGregor, Billy Parker, Robert Parsons, Karen Radford, Tim Ridgley, Maureen Sissen, Tina, Wilson,
14 members submitted postal ballot papers
Guests – Marcus Howes, John Joyce, Danial Garwood. Ben Bethell, Vic Thomson
The agenda of the meeting was: Chairmans Report Treasurers Report Nominations of new trustees Proposed changes to the constitution Any Other Business / Questions ? Refreshment Break Results of Election
The Chairmans Report by John Mallott:
John started by reporting that there had been a lot of changes to the management committee since the last meeting. Ernie had resigned as Secretary, Peter Stuart resigned as Chairman and took over as Secretary, Henry resigned as a Trustee and he ( John Mallott ) had become Chairman.
He thanked all the members for their work in particular Tim Eyles who was resigning as Treasurer at today’s meeting and he welcomed Ryan Bedwell-Woods who had agreed to take on this role. He also thanked our other supporters including local suppliers and the Poringland Parish Council.
He noted the new outside seating area and the newly refurbished Shack kitchen and the hard work of our catering team of Alan and Graham.
On the projects side he thanked Tim Eyles for his work organising Geo Cache boxes for Broadland District Council and Billy Parker for organising our work producing Bird Boxes, Owl Boxes and Refurbishment of Notice Boards and public benches and of course all the efforts of our members who worked on these projects.
Our training and social activities were reviewed including our Xmas lunch attended by over 50 members and friends and our spring plant sale at which we earned over £1,000 towards our new building fund.
Talking about the Ladies section John pointed out that Amy had resigned as a trustee in order to focus on caring for her new baby and Amanda had resigned for personal reasons. He welcomed Suzi Jarvis as a newly co-opted trustee as head of the ladies section.
Minutes of AGM held on 30[th] April 2026 Page 1 of 3
John said that spreading awareness of our activities was helped by our participation in local events including the Norwich Forum for Local Charities, Stalls at the local Children’s hospice (EACH) and meetings with other local organisations. He also mentioned our excellent new website developed for us by a local teenager (Tommy) and our new mailing system and newsletters produced and managed by Peter Stuart.
He summarised by thanking everyone for their support and looked forward to another successful year.
Treasurers Report by Tim Eyles
Tim Eyles reported that our accounts for 2025 had been fully audited and approved by Lisa Roll a Finance Officer at Norfolk County Council. Our total income in 2025 was £34,642.51 with the detail shown below. He particularly praised the work of Jill Wragg and her efforts in raising so much of the Grant funds during 2025.
Our expenditure was a total of £17,870. Which meant we had a surplus of income over expenditure of over £16,000. The result being we had a total fund of £36,355.43 at the end of 2025. He noted that Ryan Bedwell-Woods as our newly co-opted replacement treasurer had been working with him for the past three months and would publishing the next set of accounts.
Election of trustees and proposed changes to our constitution by Peter Stuart
Peter explained that we needed to get confirmation of the roles of our two co-opted trustees Suzi Jarvis and Ryan Bedwell-Woods and that we had three more candidates for election as a Trustee ( Alan Steward, Billy Parker and Terry Driscoll. )
He explained the proposed change to the constitution to make it more inclusive by changing Men to Persons in the opening paragraph ( Change A ) and the addition of an option to force resignation of a trustee if approved by the majority of at least two thirds of all the other trustees. ( Change B )
After a break for refreshments the voting results were announced
The results of the votes of 39 members who participated in the ballot was that Suzi Jarvis and Ryan Bedwell-Woods were confirmed in their roles and Alan Steward and Billy Parker were newly elected as Trustees.
Our trustees for the coming year would therefore be: Jon Bruce, Ernie Green, Suzi Jarvis, John Mallott, Billy Parker, Alan Steward, Peter Stuart, Ryan Bedwell-Woods, and Peter Webb
Minutes of AGM held on 30[th] April 2026
Page 2 of 3
The vote in favour of change A of the constitution was passed by a majority of 82% The vote in favour of change B of the constitution was passed by a majority of 95%
There were no significant issued raised during AOB and the meeting closed at 8.30 pm,
Minutes of AGM held on 30[th] April 2026 Page 3 of 3
| Unrestricted funds |
Restricbd funds |
Totalfunds | Lastyear | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tothenearest€ | tothenearcst€ | tothenearest f, | to thenearest€ | ||||
| 1 | 8190.0C | 0.00 | 8190.00 | 7940.00 | |||
| 2 | 183.97 | 0.00 | 183.97 | 649.58 | |||
| 3 | 3214.39 | 0.00 | 3214.39 | 940.30 | |||
| 4 | 1827A.AC | 0.00 | 18270.00 | 0.0c | |||
| 5 | 1468.24 | 0.00 | 1668.24 | 2414.16 | |||
| 6 | 2717.91 | 0.00 | 2717.91 | 257.6C | |||
| 8 | 398.0C | 0.00 | 398.00 | 1061.5C | |||
| 34642.51 | 0.00 | 346/,2.51 | 13263.14 | ||||
| SaleofAssets Sale of investments Subtotal |
I I I |
o.ool o.ool orol |
I I I |
o"ool o.ool o"ool |
0.00 | t4z I 0 2421 |
|
| Totalreceipb | Ire5Al-3ol | ..u&2.51 | 1SS84. |
| Ir | e5Al-3o | l | ..u&2.51 | 1SS84. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2608.98 | 0.0c | 2608.98 | 694.30 | |
| 1207.59 | 0.0c | 1207.59 | 514.74 | |
| 1397.88 | 0.00 | {397.88 | 874.69 | |
| 2239.54 | 0.0c | 2239.il | 1448.78 | |
| 1154.12 | 0.0c | 115{..12 | 451.10 | |
| 161.89 | 0.0c | t61.89 | 3.42 | |
| 386.34 | 0.0c | 386.34 | 3310.83 | |
| 60.00 | 0.0c | 60.00 | 919.27 | |
| 7850.58 | 0.0c | 7850.58 | 888.'11 | |
| 0.00 | 0.0c | 0.00 | '17900 | |
| t7066.92 | 0.00 | 17066.92 | 9284.24 | |
| I | 8o40olI | o"oolI | Bo4ool | 0.00 |
| I | ao4.oolI | o.ool! | 8o4.ool | 0$0- 0.00 |
| tretrrcl | , | s284.24 | ||
| lffiEll------1061 | 16771 | 6400.49 | ||
| I I |
1ess3r4lI eegss.€lI |
onol o.ool |
I | 13183.35 19583.84 |
| Categories | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted | Restricted | ||||
| funds | funds | ||||
| Gashfunds CurrentAccount Account CashBox Totalcashfunds |
f I I l-tI |
tonearestf, s6862/ eozso.esl lee.eol sesss.zol |
to l- I I |
nearestf oool o.ool o.ool |
5686.27 30230.33 438.83 36355.43 |
| account(s)) |
| other | assets | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockslgoods forsale | None | ||||
| Debtors | None | ||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | 0 | ||||
| lnvestment assets | |||||
| None | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| ShedAssets | |||||
| CcrnnrunityWcrk-chcpBuilding | 125,000 | 12500C | |||
| 240Vclt1-landTeols | 575 | 57! | |||
| .?4tlVolt Beilcirl-ilois | 280 | 28C | |||
| CsrdiessTootrs | 1,679 | 1679 | |||
| LairgeToois | 2,165 | 216! | |||
| [lecinrai]teri:r | 575 | 57t | |||
| fl'rhtre.auipi','-:eni | '1,875 | 1871 | |||
| Iviisce!ianeous | 1,500 | 150C | |||
| 133,649 | |||||
| Liabilities | |||||
| Trade creditors | None | ||||
| Accrtrede-pen*" | None | ||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| Signedbyone or two trustees on | |||||
| behalf of all the trustees | Siqnature | PrintName | Dateofapproval | ||
| trilr{b r\qk)|4o(lNilfrt" ?=E-i'- ^tld\0',,7 |
ry[s{26 ,V/E, |
25th March 2026 To confinn that I have checked through the provided paperwork and bank statements relating to the 2025 accounts for Poringland and District Men's Shed and the records are accurate. Lisa Roll Finance Officer- Budgeting & Accounting Norfolk County Council