## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**From **|1|April|2021|**To**|31
March|2022| ## Section A Reference and administration details ## **Charity name** Amersham Men’s Shed **Other names charity is known by** Amersham Men in Sheds **Registered charity number (if any)** 1172047 **Charity's principal address** Old Amersham Farm High Street Amersham **Postcode** HP7 0HR ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||John Latchford|Chair||| ||AnthonyButtle|Treasurer||| ||Pat Dunphy|Secretary||| ||PhillipTroth|||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** ||**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---| ||Not applicable|| ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |No advisors appointed||| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** No staff employed ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) - How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Constitution – March 2017 Association CIO New Trustees may be appointed by existing Trustees to serve until the Trustee selection methods next AGM at which point they retire. New Trustees (or Trustees standing (eg. appointed by, elected by) for re-election) may be elected by members at the AGM. **TAR** Jan 2023 1 ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; Rules for members and policies for H&S and other issues are in place and are regularly reviewed. The activities of Amersham Men's Shed are covered by appropriate insurance. - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To promote social inclusion for the public benefit of men, primarily over 50 years of age, without distinction of political, religious or other opinions, resident in Chiltern District, by assisting them from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of such people and assisting them to integrate into society through the provision of a premises in which they can meet jointly or individually undertake and share creative, physical, social and recreational activities as are available in the Shed. For the purpose of this clause 'socially excluded' means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; old age. The main activity of Amersham Men's Shed (AMS) is running a workshop for the public benefit. It is aimed at preventing people, particularly but not exclusively older men, within Amersham and the surrounding area from becoming socially excluded; also to relieve the needs of those people who are socially excluded and to assist them to integrate into society through the provision of these workshop facilities. In the interests of maintaining a safe environment, those enjoying the facilities of the shed are Members. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** Jan 2023 2 The Trustees recognise the considerable support and encouragement from the Trustees and members who continue to give their time to maintain our premises. You **may choose** to include further statements, where Amersham Shed does not make grants relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** Jan 2023 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main** The effects of Covid19 pandemic lead to considerable disruption in our **achievements of the charity** normal activities during the year. The main achievements of AMS during **during the year** the period are: 1. Running weekly workshop sessions when the site was open which our membership have enjoyed 2. Successful attendance at craft fairs to sell our work 3. Continuing to build our funds in order to iron out future fluctuations in charity income. This reserve has proved invaluable in allowing us to continue paying our rent and other fixed costs despite the major loss of income since April 2020 due to the Covid 19 lockdowns & restrictions. **Membership** Membership numbers and activity are limited by workshop space as we currently only operate for one day a week, so we did not actively recruit new members, however membership is stable, we had 16 members at years end; the age distribution of the membership at year end was: 50 - 65yrs 6 65 - 80yrs 8 Over 80 2 **Community Engagement** Key objective was to raise the profile of the Shed in the local community. To this end, Shed members ran stalls selling wooden items we had made at the Red Kite Craft Fairs at Little Chalfont when Covid19 restrictions were lifted, and at two Christmas Fairs in Amersham. A Facebook page was used to publicise our activities. **Covid19 effects** The lifting of the Covid19 restrictions lead a phased return to normal operations, and some new members joined. When we were able to open, we have benefited from supplies of PPE and hand sanitiser distributed by the UK Men’s Sheds Association. **Change of Landlord** Since we moved to Old Amersham Farm in 2016, our landlord had been a charity, Mares Community Farm. Early in 2022, Mares decided to cease operations, and left the site in early May. The farm owner, Copas Farms, have given us a short term licence to occupy our social cabin, and the workshop containers whilst plans for our longer term future are finalised. In October 2022 we agreed a 6 year lease for the Cabin & 2 workshops containers; and a Licence to Occupy for the 3[rd] storage container. **TAR** Jan 2023 4 ## **Section E Financial review** The aim is to build up sufficient reserve funds to cover at least 6 months **Brief statement of the** of operational costs, and to allow for a future move to larger premises. **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** The two principal sources of funds are weekly donations by members, You **may choose** to include and income from selling items made by members at local craft fairs. additional information, where relevant about: Main items of expenditure were on the rent of the two workshop • the charity’s principal containers, formerly paid to the Mares Community Care Farm, and now sources of funds (including to Copas Farms; Insurance premiums; and workshop tools, supplies and any fundraising); materials to make items for sale. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives Our funds are currently not large enough to require an investment policy of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** Amersham Men’s Shed is a member of the UK Men’s Sheds Association (UKMSA) – who provide advice and support for new and existing Sheds. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Signed copy on file **Full name(s)** John Frederick Latchford **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 6/1/2022 **TAR** Jan 2023 5 **Amersham Men's Shed** **1172047** **Receipts and payments accounts** 01/04/2021 31/03/2022 **For the To period from** ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricte**
**d funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**150**
**2,316**
**4,053**
**-**
**-**
**6,519**|**Restricte**
**d funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**150**
**2,316**
**4,053**
**-**
**-**
**6,519**|**Last year**
**to the**
**nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Grants & donations|**150**|**-**|**-**|**150**|**51**| |Membership Subscriptions|**2,316**|**-**|**-**|**2,316**|**639**| |Product sales|**4,053**|**-**|**-**|**4,053**|**1,170**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**6,519**|**-**|**-**|**6,519**|**1,860**| **A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).** |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| ||**_Total receipts_**|**6,519**||**-**||**-**||**6,519**||**1,860**|| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |Rent||**1,190**||||||**1,190**|||| |||||**-**||**-**||||**1,170**|| |Insurance||**294**||||||**294**|||| |||||**-**||**-**||||**294**|| |Running costs & cost of sales||**1,775**||||||**1,775**|||| |||||**-**||**-**||||**405**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**||||||||||| |||**3,259**||**-**||**-**||**3,259**||**1,870**|| ||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and**|**investment**||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**_Sub total_**||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| **TAR** Jan 2023 6 |**_Total payments_**|**3,259**||**-**||**-**||**3,259**||**1,870**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**3,260**||**-**||**-**||**3,260**||**-10**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||||||||| ||**6,418**||**-**||**-**||**6,418**||**6,038**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**9,678**||**-**||**-**||**9,678**||**6,028**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowmen funds funds t funds Categories Details to nearest £ to nearest to nearest £ £ B1 Cash funds** Bank account **9,479 - -** Cash held by Treasurer **199 - - - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **9,678 - -** (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK OK **Unrestricte Restricte Endowme d funds d funds nt funds to nearest £ to nearest to nearest £ Details £ B2 Other monetary assets - - - - - - - - - Fund to Current Cost which asset value (optional) Details belongs (optional) B3 Investment assets - - - - - - Fund to Current Cost which asset value (optional) Details belongs (optional) B4 Assets retained for the** Tools and equipment **-** purchased by CIO **charity’s own use - - - - - - - - - -** **TAR** Jan 2023 7 ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees **----- Start of picture text -----**
Fund to Amount When due
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John Latchford
Signature on file 6/1/2023
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