Charity Registration No: 1172024 ## **Starbeck Community Library** **Trustees Report and Unaudited Accounts For the period ending 31 March 2022** STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY ## **Trustees Report and audited Accounts** ## **Contents:** ||Page| |---|---| |**Legal and administration**|1| |**Trustee Report**|2 & 3| |**Independent Examiner’s Report**|4| |**Statement of Financial Activities**|5| |**Balance Sheet**|6| |**Notes to the Account**|7| STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY **Legal and Administrative Information** ## **Trustees:** **Charity Registration Number: Company Registration Number: Registered Office:** Mrs J Moseley Mr P Broadbank Mrs A Henry Mrs M Smith Mrs D.L Stokes Mrs M C De Courcey-Bayley Mrs C Gilchrist 1172024 CE010554 68A High Street Starbeck Harrogate North Yorkshire HG2 7LW 1 ## STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY ## **Trustees report for the year ended 31 March 2022** The Trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in the notes to the accounts and comply with the charity’s articles of association, the Companies Act 2006 and the Statement of Recommended Practice “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” issued in March 2006. ## **Structure governance and management:** The charity was established by a charitable trust deed on 14 March 2017. The Trustees who served during the year were: Mrs J Moseley Mr P Broadbank Mrs A Henry Mrs M Smith Mrs D L Stokes Mrs M C De Courcey-Bayley Mrs C Gilchrist Under the requirements of the charitable trust deed the trustees are elected/re-elected at the annual general meeting. None of the trustees has any beneficial interest in the charity. The charity has a management committee of up to 7 members who meet at regular intervals and are responsible for the strategic direction and policy of the charity. The charity receives funding from various activities and grants from North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) in furtherance of its charitable activities, The trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks. 2 **(Continued)** **Trustees report for the year ended 31 March 2022** ## STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY ## **Objectives and activities:** The Charity’s objects are the advance the education of the public in Starbeck and the surrounding areas by operating and managing a lending library and to promote, for the benefit of the residents of Starbeck and the surrounding area, the provision of a public library for recreation and/or other leisure time occupation of Individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the conditions of life of the said residents. There has been no change in these objectives during the year. The Trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities the charity should undertake. ## **Achievement and Performance:** ## **Financial Review** The main source of funds was in the form of Grants from NYCC. Combined with income generated from the hire of rooms, funds raising events and donations for businesses and the general public. Total reserves carried forward at the end of the year were: £ 20,841 Signed on behalf of the Trustee: ## **Mr P Broadbank** Trustee Dated 01 November 2022 3 ## STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY ## **Independent Examiner’s report to the Trustees of Starbeck Community Library** We report on the accounts of the charity, and accompanying notes, set out on the following pages for the year ending 31 March 2022 ## **Respective responsibilities of the trustees and examiner:** The trustees who are also the directors of the charity-blank for the purpose of the company law are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Trustees consider that an audit is not required for the period under section 144(2) of the Charity Act 2011 and that an independent examination is needed. Having satisfied ourselves that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination it is our responsibility to: - 1) Examine the account under section 145 of the 2001 act; - 2) To follow the procedures laid down in the general direction given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 act; and - 3) To state whether particular matters have come to our attention. ## **Basis of Independent Examiner’s report:** Our 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 of the accounts, and seeking explanations form you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in a 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 the course of our examination, no matter has come to our attention which gives us reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: - (i) To keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; and - (ii) To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of 36 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principle of the Statement of Recommended Practice : Accounting and Reporting by Charities; to which, in our opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached Raven Accountancy 69 Whitehouse Road, Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire, ST2 8HL Date 29 October 2022 4 STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTS:** ## _**FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2021**_ |**Incoming resources from generated funds**
Donations and Legacies
Investment Income
Incoming resources
Other incoming resources
**Total Incoming resources**
**Resources extended**
Government Costs
**Total resources expended**
**Net Income for the year/**
**Net movement in Funds**
Funds balance at 1 April 2021
**Funds balance at 31 March 2022**||Unrestrict
ed Funds
Restricted
Funds
£ 951
£ 427
£ 1,378
£ 1,904
£ 0
**£ 3,282**
£ 4,890
**£ -1,607**
£ 22,448
**£ 20,841**||Funds
£ 951
£ 427| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||£ 1,378
£ 1,904
£ 0
**£ 3,282**
£ 4,890
**£ -1,607**
£ 22,448
**£ 20,841**| The charity is entitles to exemption from the audit requirement contained in section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year Ended 31 March 2022. No Members of the company has deposited a notice, pursuant to section 476, required an audit for these accounts. The trustees acknowledgement their responsibilities for ensuring that the charity keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Act and for preparing accounts which gives a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity as at the end of the financial period and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure for the financial period in accordance with the requirements of section 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to accounts, so far as applicable to the company. These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 The Accounts were approved by the board on: 01 November 2022 Mr P Broadbank Trustee Company Registration Number: CE010554 5 STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY **BALANCE SHEET:** ## _**AS AT 31 MARCH 2021**_ |**Tangible Fixed Assets**
**Tangible Fixed Assets**
Stocks
Cash and Bank Balances
**Current Assets**
**Creditors : Amounts falling due within one year**
**Net Current Assets**
**Total Assets less Current Assets**
**Creditors : Amounts falling due after more than one year**
**Total Net Assets**
**Represented by funds of the Charity :**
Unrestricted Income Funds
**Unrestricted Funds**|2022
£0
20,841| |---|---| ||20,841
**20,841**| ||0
**20,841**| ||**20,841**| 6 STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY Notes to the Account for the year ending 31 March 2022 ## **Note 1: Accounting Policies:** ## **Note 1.1: Basis of preparations** The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and have been prepared in accordance with applicable standards; the Statement of Recommended Practice (Accounting and Reporting by Charities) issued in March 2005 and the Companies Act 2006 ## **Note 2: Trustees** None of the trustees (or any persons connected with them) received any remuneration during the accounting period. Normal out of pocked expenses was reimbursed as required and has been verified by the trustees. ## **Note 3: Employees** During the year the average number of employees was 0 (2021: 0) 7 ## STARBECK COMMUNITY LIBRARY Notes to the accounts for the year ending 31 March 2022 ## **Income** |Library Receipt
£723
Room Hire
£427
Coffee Bar
£112
Book Sales
£157
Fund Raising
£883
Donations
£951
Other receipt including grants
£29
**Total Income**
**Payments**
Premises
£3,000
Insurance
£0.00
Maintenance
£1,010
Equipment
£101
Cleaning
£256
Other
£522
**Total Expenses**
Surplus of Income over Expenditure
Excess of Expenditure over Income
Funds Brought Forward
Funds Carried Forward|**£ 3,282**
**£4,889**
£0
£1,607
**£22,448**
**£20,841**| |---|---|