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2021-03-31-accounts

Registered Charity Number 1171983 England & Wales

Mark Cross Community Centre Annual Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2021

Mark Cross Community Centre Annual report and accounts Contents

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Mark Cross Community Centre Trustees' Report

Legal status

Mark Cross Community Centre (MCCC) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity’s Commission under registration no: 1171983 on the 10th March 2017

Charity Objectives

To provide a community centre facility for the whole community.

Achievements and Performance

Due to Coronavirus the Community Centre has remained shut for most of the year ended 31st March 2021 so the Charity has had only a very small amount of income as shown on page 5. It closure also meant that all users of the hall had to stop their activities at short notice and some of our customers have not been in position to reestablish themselves once the restrictions were lifted.

The Community Centre relies on these small groups for a large part of its income and the trustees are working with these groups to assist them where possible.

Sinking fund

It is a condition of our lease under faculty that the Community centre contributes annually to a sinking fund. The Community centre's contribution to this is £1,000 annually on the 1st January each year. The landlord will produce annual accounts of service charge expenditure and funds in the sinking fund made up to 31st March each year. The 2021 payment was deferred until November 2021 and therefore we have not provided for this liability in the attached accounts.

Utilities

As at year ending 31st March 2020 the Community Centre were awaiting an invoice for light and heat amounting to £1,124 This has been received and paid in this period of accounts along with the ongoing light and heat costs that were incurred and payable in the period ending 31 March 2021

Future

Cash reserves have allowed the Community Centre to remain financially viable despite the lack of income and some of its customers have returned. The Community centre is currently seeking new customers to fill the available time slots and to maximize the Charity's future income.

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Mark Cross Community Centre

Trustees' Report

Reserves policy

The MCCC does not own any physical assets except the cash at the bank of £19,798 ( 2020 £22,096)

Reserves are required to meet the normal everyday running costs and the trustees have agreed that £10,000 will be retained and designated for this purpose from the cash funds held and the remaining balance will be kept and used towards cosmetic upgrading of the interior of the building in the future for items that were not part of the original conversion works

_ by theTrustees om ........b.0 wah,A and signed on their behalfby: Nic Ramsden

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Mark Cross Community Centre

Independent Examiners Report to the Trustees

For the year ended 31st March 2021

I report on the accounts of the Mark Cross Community Centre for the year ended 31st March 2021 which are set out on pages 5 to 6

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider the audit requirement of Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 does not apply for this year and that an independent examination is needed

It is my responsibility to:

Basis of Independent examiner's statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a "true and fair view" and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below

Independent examiner's statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention : Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements :

have not been met: or

To which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached

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Mark Cross Community Centre Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2021

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||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |2021|2020| |£|£| |Receipts| |Community|centre|hire|fees|181|4,008| |Fundraising|-|448| |Grant|from|Sussex|Churches|-|6,500| |Other|community|donations|-|615| |181|11,571| |Payments| |Premises|costs:| |Sinking Fund|-|4,087| |Light|and|heat|1,854|-| |Cleaning|251|256| |Building|insurance|-|342| |Other|repairs|and|renewals|93|-| |Building|repairs &|renewals||-|____—«4,616| |2,198|9,301| |General|administrative|expenses:| |Stationery|and|printing|38|44| |Website|87|87| |Subscriptions|144|168| |Small|equipment|-|153| |Fundraising|expenses|-|37| |Sundry|expenses|peas,281He||52940| |2499|____9830_| |Excess|of payments over|receipts|~~|(2,298),|4,741|

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Mark Cross Community Centre Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31 March 2021

2021 2020
£ £
Cash Funds
No Current Account - Barclays 19,650
No 2 Current Account - Barclays MB -
Total Cash Funds 19,798 22,096
Receipts and payments account
Brought forward 22,096 20,355
Excess ofpayments over receipts _(2,298) 1,741
19,798 22,096

Signed on behalf of the Trustees WX ate) Wd. Deni (biter NG Truste ()

NIA OL A. AB Date

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Mark Cross Community Centre Charity Information

Trustees

Trish Boddey - appointed 28th September 2021 Sara Garland - resigned 6th June 2021 Dawn Squance Nic Ramsden Denise Jeffery

Treasurer

Denise Jeffery

Bankers Barclays bank ple

Registered office Snowdrop House Mark Cross, Crowborough, East Sussex TN6 3NP

Registered charity number 1171983 England & Wales

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