Crawshawbooth Community Association
Trustees Annual Report
April 2022-March 2023
The Association’s year was fairly quiet as Groups and individuals continued to move back to normal activities following the difficulties of Covid 19 and numerous lockdowns. Some of our previously successful activities such as a weekly lunch club for older people were never able to return despite the best efforts of staff and volunteers. We had sadly lost many members and were unable to recruit new ones.
Our Children’s activities did continue to grow and the Out of School Club had a reasonably successful year.
Holiday Club ran for all the holidays, including four days at Christmas. The numbers grew compared to previous years and its popularity increased with families from across the Rossendale area signing up. The Association again signed up to the Holiday Activities and Food Scheme, administered by Rossendale Leisure Trust, providing an extra 10 places per day during main holidays for children on free school meals.
The Holiday Club provided a welcome income which helped us withstand the extremely high fuel bills for the building. Because of the massively increased costs we were unable to invest any money in the redecoration of rooms which we would have wished to do.
Our activities supporting people in need continued to grow during the year. The Food Box which we providing first in the 2020 lockdown was again increasingly used but also supported by both individuals and groups. Rossendale Borough Council supported both the Box and our provision of emergency food parcels with grants. The local Baptist Church were particularly supportive of our efforts with donations of both food and money. Throughout the year we found the needs of our community were more widespread and deeper than ever. Demand for our food parcels continue to increase.
The Community Library has had a loyal band of volunteers who were able to open the Library for eight sessions a week and worked hard to create a friendly welcoming. Numbers of users, however have not returned to the levels experienced before Covid.
Our financial forecast for the next twelve months is not good – we know energy bills are set to increase still further and we are already looking for ways to increase income and reduce costs without impacting the offer we make to our groups and individual users.
The Trustees would like to thank our Manager, Louise and all our staff, and the amazing volunteers for all they did during what was not an easy year.
Hazel Harding CBE DL
Chair of Trustees
November 2023
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