## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01 April 2024 To 31 March 2025 Charity name: SOUTHOWRAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION**
**Charity registration number: 1172019**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP
reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To further or benefit the residents of**
**Southowram 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.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17
and 1.19|**In furtherance of these objects but not**
**otherwise, the trustees shall have exercised**
**their 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.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Specifically, and having full regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity Commission**
**on public benefit, Southowram Community**
**Association (SCA) has continued to provide**
**and maintain Community Centre facilities**
**that are available, without any**
**discrimination, for use by entities, groups**
**and individuals for their activities that**
**enhance opportunities and interest for the**
**benefit of local people.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP
reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The charity does not make grants but**
**husbands carefully its resources to sustain**
**and where possible improve the Community**
**Centre for the long term.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|---|---|---|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**All Trustees and officers of the Association**
**are volunteers. They receive no**
**remuneration of any kind for the time and**
**effort they give to their duties as Trustees**
**and/or Officers of the charity.**
**Occasional assistance is provided by other**
**volunteers for routine duties such as**
**cleaning.**|
|Other||**N/A**|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP
reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The Charity has maintained the Community**
**Centre and its environs successfully**
**throughout this period. Despite the**
**challenges of the Centre’s ageing**
**infrastructure, which is leased on a**
**peppercorn rent from Calderdale**
**Metropolitan Borough Council, the charity**
**has sustained high standards of repair that**
**encourage and enable its frequent use as**
**described and intended.**
**The Community Centre has continued to be**
**a useful and valued venue for a wide range**
**of activities that would be much less**
**accessible to local people if undertaken**
**elsewhere.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**The primary objective, the provision of a**
**Community Centre for community use,**
**continues to be met.**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Revenue generation and fundraising have**
**allowed both essential and some**
**discretionary maintenance to be undertaken.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A**|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Charity has maintained adequate levels**
**of income and kept overheads and other**
**outgoings under careful control. At the end**
**if this reporting period it is solvent, has**
**strong reserves relative to its operating**
**costs. Trustees are entirely confident in**
**declaring it to be a going concern with in-**
**built resilience.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity’s policy is to retain at least 6**
**months of operating costs in its reserve to**
**guard against the possibility that some**
**unforeseen structural issue may prevent use**
**and hire of the facilities which would reduce**
**revenue to almost nothing.**
**However, Trustees deliberately are building**
**the charity’s reserves in anticipation of what**
**could be significant structural repairs or**
**potential replacement of the Community**
**Centre in future. External grants would be**
**sought and these could require either**
**match-funding or a meaningful contribution.**
**No timeline has been set for the**
**achievement of any such aspiration.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**The chartity began the period with reserve**
**of £48k and ended it with over £43K. This is**
**significantly in excess of the amount**
**required as a policy but will enable the**
**charity to seize opportunities for**
**refurbishing or repairing infrastructure if**
**they arise or become essential.**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Fees paid by local individuals and**
**enterprises for the hire of Community**
**Centre facilities provide the main source of**
**income but donations are made from some**
**attendees at keep fit and by participants in a**
**local walking group.**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Reserves are held in a bank deposit account**
**to maximise security. It is understood and**
**accepted that this does not lead to growth in**
**real terms but that it also provides flexibility**
**while minimising risk.**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The greatest risk to the charity’s objects is**
**that the local authority reclaims or**
**condemns the building or that the building**
**suffers a catastrophic structural failure.**|
**Under any of those extreme circumstances, it is likely that the charity would fold. As per the Constitution, its assets would be donated to a charity with similar objects. N/A** Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Elected by Trustees.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**It is a requirement of the Constitution that**
**new trustees are given:**
**a. Copy of the current version of this**
**constitution; and**
**b. Copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’**
**Annual Report and statement of**
**accounts**
**In addition:**
**a. The Chairman or Trustee appointed**
**by him will explain what is expected**
**of Trustees in terms of commitment**
**to meetings, specific duties if they**
**have any and volunteering**
**opportunities to support the charity’s**
**activities**
**b. The Secretary will explain extant**
**policies, relevant past activities and**
**relevant decisions made by or under**
**consideration by the Board.**
**c. The Treasurer will explain the**
**financial position, revenue streams,**
**outgoings and perceived risks faced**
**by the charity.**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity has a small board of trustees**
**and a flat structure.**
**It is not part of a wider network.**|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**|
Other **N/A**
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Southowram Community Association|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1172019|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o Colburn Hall, Bank Top, Halifax HX3 9UB|
|||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Stephen Padgett OBE|Chairman||Trustees|
||Amanda Padgett|Secretary and
Treasurer||Trustees|
||Piers Greenwood|||Trustees|
||||||
||||||
||||||
– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name N/A**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
|---|---|---|
|**N/A**|||
||||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets held in this capacity|N/A|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the charity on whose
behalf the assets are held and how this falls
within the custodian charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for safe custody and
segregation of such assets from the charity’s
own assets|N/A|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser Name**
**Address**|||
|**Solicitor**|Hugh Skillington|Brearleys Solicitors, The Round House, 12 King
Street, Brighouse, HD6 1NX|
||||
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
N/A
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A**
## **Other optional information**
**N/A**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
Signature(s)
{Original Signed} {Original Signed}
Full name(s) Stephen Padgett OBE Piers Greenwood
Position (eg
Chairman Trustee
Secretary, Chair,
etc)
Date
01 Jan 2026
**----- End of picture text -----**
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||||**BANK**||**PETTY CASH**||**TOTALS**||
||OPENING BALANCES||**£48,044.75**||£826.67||£48,871.42||
||TOTALS||**Income**|**Expenditure**|**Income**
**Expenditure**||||
||||**£7,484.60**|**£12,442.73**|**£1,288.31**|**£1,422.64**|£8,772.91|-£13,865.37|
||||||||||
||Income v Expenditure||-£4,958.13||-£134.33||-£5,092||
||CLOSING BALANCES|31-Mar-25|**£43,086.62**||**£692.34**||**£43,778.96**||
||ACTUAL BANK BALANCE 31-Mar-25||**£43,086.62**||||||
||**DIFFERENCE**||**OK**||||||
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## **SOUTHOWRAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION**
||**BANK TRANSACTIONS**|**BANK TRANSACTIONS**|Period:
**01-Apr-24**
to
**31-Mar-25**
~~0~~
~~1~~
~~2~~
~~3~~|Period:
**01-Apr-24**
to
**31-Mar-25**
~~0~~
~~1~~
~~2~~
~~3~~|Period:
**01-Apr-24**
to
**31-Mar-25**
~~0~~
~~1~~
~~2~~
~~3~~|Period:
**01-Apr-24**
to
**31-Mar-25**
~~0~~
~~1~~
~~2~~
~~3~~|4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11|4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11|4
5
6
7
8
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10
11|4
5
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11|4
5
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11|4
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Source/Payee**|**Apr-24**|**May-24**|**Jun-24**|**Jul-24**|**Aug-24**|**Sep-24**|**Oct-24**|**Nov-24**|**Dec-24**|**Jan-25**|**Feb-25**|**Mar-25**|**Totals**|
||**INCOME**|Source||||||||||||||
||**Grants**|Calderdale MBC|||||||||||||£0.00
£0.00
£2,149.20
£0.00
£2,628.00|
|||Donations||||||||||||||
||**Room Hire**|SOFA|**£129.60**|**£108.00**|**£183.60**|**£194.40**|**£453.60**||**£194.40**|**£194.40**|**£140.40**||**£324.00**|**£226.80**||
|||Yoga (Ebba)||||||||||||||
|||Dance Group (AmyNeill All Stars)|**£108.00**|**£156.00**|**£168.00**|**£144.00**||**£336.00**||**£912.00**|**£228.00**||**£576.00**|||
|||Craft Group|**£64.80**|**£81.00**|**£64.80**|**£64.80**||**£145.80**|**£54.00**|**£43.20**||**£75.60**||**£43.20**|£637.20
£350.00
£202.00
£0.00
£144.00
£122.00|
|||DogTraining|**£84.00**|**£102.00**|**£20.00**|||**£24.00**|**£84.00**||**£12.00**|||**£24.00**||
|||Clairvoyant (LovingSpirits)|**£67.50**|**£67.50**|**£67.00**|||||||||||
|||Karate||||||||||||||
|||PonyClub (Ryburn Valley)||||||||||**£24.00**|**£120.00**|||
|||One-off Users|||||||**£50.00**|**£48.00**|||**£24.00**|||
||Misc Finances|Bank Card - Cash Back|||**£0.16**||||||**£0.13**|**£1.91**|||£2.20|
||Interest/transfer|From Savings or PettyCash||||||**£1,250.00**|||||||£1,250.00|
||**Total Income**||**£453.90**|**£514.50**|**£503.56**|**£403.20**|**£453.60**|**£1,755.80**|**£382.40**|**£1,197.60**|**£380.53**|**£101.51**|**£1,044.00**|**£294.00**|**£7,484.60**|
||**EXPENDITURE**|Payment To||||||||||||||
||**Utilities & Certification**|||||||||||||||
||**Gas**|Gas (EDF)|**£160.01**|**£130.96**|**£85.58**|**£44.35**|**£12.18**|**£13.81**|**£19.16**|**£107.95**|**£219.78**|**£256.74**|**£490.19**|**£263.31**|£1,804.02|
||**Electricity**|Electricity (Yu Energy)|**-£86.32**|**£49.00**|**£49.00**|**£49.00**|**£24.53**|**£41.56**|**£43.21**|**£63.99**|**£60.78**|**£161.71**|**£55.09**|**-£31.94**|£479.61|
||**Water**|Water (Everflow)|**£7.56**|**£11.09**|**£15.12**|**£15.12**|**£14.75**|**£15.12**|**£14.75**|**£15.12**|**£15.12**|**£24.99**|**£34.97**|**£22.01**|£205.72|
||**Gas Cert & Boiler Service**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Repairs & Maintenance**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Buildings Maintenance**|||||**£120.00**|**£168.00**||**£329.00**|**£844.33**|**£906.00**|**£120.00**|||£2,487.33|
||**Misc Purchases**|||**£46.99**||||**£245.20**||**£170.40**|**£402.31**|||**£868.89**|£1,733.79|
||**Paint/Painting**||||||||||**£600.00**||**£176.60**|**£1,060.93**|£1,837.53|
||**Grounds Works/Maint**|Various e.g. mowing,skips,etc.||**£357.87**|**£715.74**|**£357.87**||**£715.74**|||||||£2,147.22|
||**Cleaning & Consumables**|Bulbs,Loo roll,etc.||||||||**£9.98**||**£32.00**|||£41.98|
||**Major Repairs/Works**||||||||**£121.84**||||||£121.84|
||**Boiler/Eqpt Repair**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Remediation**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Rates, Insurance etc**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Business Rates**|||||||||||||**£284.43**|£284.43|
||**Insurance**|||||||||**£1,187.42**|||||£1,187.42|
||**Deposits**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Refunds togood users**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Admin, Ads, Cons**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Mobile Phone**||**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|**£9.32**|£111.84|
||**Admin**||||||||||||||£0.00|
||**IT/Cons/Electronics**|E.g.printing|||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Total Expenditure**||**£90.57**|**£605.23**|**£874.76**|**£595.66**|**£228.78**|**£1,040.75**|**£537.28**|**£2,408.51**|**£2,213.31**|**£604.76**|**£766.17**|**£2,476.95**|**£12,442.73**|
|||||||||||||||||
||**Excess of Income v Expenditure**||£363
-£91||-£371
-£192||£225
£715
-£155
-£1,211
-£1,833
-£503
£278
-£2,183
-£4,958|||||||||
|||||||||||||||||
||Balances to check against statements|£48,044.75|£48,408.08|£48,317.35|£47,946.15|£47,753.69|£47,978.51|£48,693.56|£48,538.68|£47,327.77|£45,494.99|£44,991.74|£45,269.57|£43,086.62||
||||Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct|Correct||
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## **SOUTHOWRAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION**
||**PETTY CASH**|**ANALYSIS**|Period:
**01-Apr-24**
to
**31-Mar-25**|Period:
**01-Apr-24**
to
**31-Mar-25**|Period:
**01-Apr-24**
to
**31-Mar-25**|Period:
**01-Apr-24**
to
**31-Mar-25**||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||||||||
||||**Apr-24**|**May-24**|**Jun-24**|**Jul-24**|**Aug-24**|**Sep-24**|**Oct-24**|**Nov-24**|**Dec-24**|**Jan-25**|**Feb-25**|**Mar-25**|**Totals**|
||**Opening Balance**||**£826.67**|**£859.34**|**£890.34**|**£1,201.34**|**£1,307.34**|**£1,347.34**|**£131.34**|**£239.34**|**£351.34**|**£391.34**|**£475.34**|**£550.34**|**£826.67**|
|||||||||||||||||
||**INCOME**|||||||||||||||
||**Users & Donors**|WalkingGroup|||**£260.00**||||||||||£260.00|
|||KeepFit (C Blackbond)|**£101.00**|**£89.00**|**£51.00**|**£106.00**|**£40.00**|**£34.00**|**£108.00**|**£112.00**|**£40.00**|**£84.00**|**£75.00**|**£142.00**|£982.00|
|||Misc|**£46.31**||||||||||||£46.31|
||**Events**|PartyDeposits|||||||||||||£0.00|
|||Summer Fair|||||||||||||£0.00|
||**Total Income**||**147.31**|**89.00**|**311.00**|**106.00**|**40.00**|**34.00**|**108.00**|**112.00**|**40.00**|**84.00**|**75.00**|**142.00**|1,288.31|
||**EXPENDITURE**|||||||||||||||
|||Calendar|||||||||||||£0.00|
|||Grounds Maintenance|||||||||||||£0.00|
|||Cleaning& materials|||||||||||||£0.00|
|||Consumables(e.g. loo rolls, printing)|**£114.64**|**£58.00**|||||||||||£172.64|
|||Misc|||||||||||||£0.00|
|||Payments to bank||||||**£1,250.00**|||||||£1,250.00|
||**Total Expenditure**||**114.64**|**58.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**1,250.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**1,422.64**|
||**Excess of Income v Expenditure**||**32.67**|**31.00**|**311.00**|**106.00**|**40.00**|**-1,216.00**|**108.00**|**112.00**|**40.00**|**84.00**|**75.00**|**142.00**|-1,422.64|
||**CLOSING BALANCE**||**859.34**|**890.34**|**1,201.34**|**1,307.34**|**1,347.34**|**131.34**|**239.34**|**351.34**|**391.34**|**475.34**|**550.34**|**692.34**|**-595.97**|
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