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2022-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1st April 2021 To 31st March 2022

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name The Together Centre @ Loxley House (CIO) Other names charity is known by None Registered charity number (if any) 1173335 Charity's principal address 287 Birch Lane Dukinfield Tameside Postcode SK16 5AU

Names of the charity trustees and officials who manage the charity

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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Dawson Lane Chair Membership
2 Mark Collier Secretary Membership
3 Paul Callaghan Treasurer Membership
4 Jackie Lane Trustee Membership
5 Ann Murphy Trustee Membership
Margaret Trustee Membership
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7 Susan Quinn Trustee Membership
8 Paul Rippon Trustee Membership
9 Christine Salah Trustee Membership
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

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Name Dates acted if not for whole year
None
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Leanne Bold

Section B Structure, governance and management

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Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Constitution dated 19[th] April 2017

How the charity is Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Dated 8[th] June 2017 constituted

Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)[Voluntary application and selection by membership election]

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

The charity is ultimately managed at the Centre Manager and at a strategic level by the 9 Trustees with support currently provided by local officers as part of the local council’s community asset transfer agenda. Operationally, the organisation is managed and operates through a team of volunteers who all have specific job roles and responsibilities.

A formal partnership arrangement is in place with Active Tameside to deliver a community café and health and wellbeing activities within the centre.

Tameside MBC provides a commissioned Day Service for people with disabilities from the centre with an employed team of 3 care staff and one Senior.

Risk assessments were carried out during the summer of 2022 prior to services re-opening from the lockdown periods towards the end of the year. The assessments were approved by our Health and Safety Champion. Consideration of risk is also given within the business plan in terms of overall management of the charity and its priorities. Specific risk assessments are completed as and when required in terms of events and activities. All other risks eg Fire, Health and Safety etc are managed within the relevant documents and policies.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The objects of the CIO according to the constitution are:

To further or benefit the residents of Tameside and the neighbourhood, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or 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 interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents.

In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power:

To establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory

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authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above object.

Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with (Section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005) and (Section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008)

The Centres Vision Statement is:

We want to be a place of possibility. We want to be a place where people can come together, feel safe, well and happy. Where people can learn and grow and feel a sense of pride and ownership.

The Centres Strategic Aims are:

Summary

The Together Centre at Loxley House seeks to develop a range of health and wellbeing activities over time in order to achieve our social objectives, as well as generate sufficient income to manage and maintain the centre in the longer term.

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)

Key activities of the Trust will be:

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

We currently do not have a policy on grant making, however, this is something that we will be working on more detail with our colleagues at Action Together Tameside. We have submitted a number of successful grants for specific projects within the centre and are working hard to deliver the projects.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

As with the rest of the country, the Together Centre spent the first 3 months of the year in lockdown as a result of the pandemic. During the summer of 2020 as restrictions were gradually eased the Trustees undertook a series of conversations with the local authority around the safety measures to be put in place that would permit a re-opening of the premises.

Given the highly vulnerable nature of most of the centre’s service users the decision was taken to re-introduce existing services on a gradually phased and socially distanced basis.

Volunteers – The Together Centre was able to recruit a core group of 46 volunteers who were instrumental both in reconfiguring the premises so that a limited range of activities could be re-established, cleaning and sanitising the premises after use and supporting general operations.

Trustees – The break in operations gave the current Board time both to continue working on a Community Asset Transfer with the local authority and to assess current levels of representation. Conversations have now taken place a number of local residents, service users and volunteers and we have successfully recruited new Trustees to expand the make-up of the Board, bringing in a wider set of skills and experience to help develop the CIO.

Council Support – The Centre received ongoing advice and support from local council officers, particularly in the context of making the premises safe for people to meet in small numbers in line with government regulations and guidance Work also continued on a draft business plan for the Centre as one of the key requirements to effect transfer of the asset to the Together Centre.

Donations and Funding – A Centre Manager has now been appointed who will lead on the development and submission of new grant applications and building the level of donations and commercial income into the organisation.

Activities Timetable – The Centre has returned to normal operations and will continue to include weekly wellbeing sessions and workshops.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Community Café – The purchase of new ovens has now taken place in order to bring the café back into full operation.

Partnership working – We have continued to work with Action Together on building the capacity of the organisation and they now provide our payroll service.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

As the TTC is in its formative and development years, any surpluses and reserves shall be dedicated to expand and further its ambitions as stated in the Objects section of the Constitution.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

The charities principal sources of funds and income will be derived from:

Expenditure is focused primarily on the purchase of equipment to enhance and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation.

A business plan forming the basis of a Community Asset Transfer with the local authority is well advanced and reflects our policy objectives. Reserves and working resources will, wherever possible, be employed in an ethical manner.

To develop and maintain a healthy reserve it is our policy to retain a reserve fund supplemented by a minimum of 25% of the year-end surplus. The Trust Board may increase this at any time as it sees fit and appropriate, under advisement of the Treasurer.

Section F Other optional information

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Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Paul Callaghan Full name(s) Dawson Lane Position (eg Secretary, Chair Treasurer Chair, etc) Date 29-01-2023

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The Together Centre @ Loxley House CIO 1173335
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/04/2021 31/03/2022
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Fundraising 32 - - 32 830
Grants and donations 72,709 - - 72,709 950
Room hire 6,806 - - 6,806 3,000
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 79,547 ] - - 79,547 4,780
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 79,547 - - 79,547 4,780
A3 Payments
Fundraising expenses 120 - - 120 100
Meal provision 4,261 - - 4,261 -
Resources 5,793 - - 5,793 -
Volunteer costs 8,810 - - 8,810 -
Administration costs 2,755 - - 2,755 2,059
Wages 14,326 - - 14,326 -
Establishment costs 2,997 - - 2,997 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 39,062 ] - - 39,062 2,159
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments [ 39,062 ] - - 39,062 2,159
Net of receipts/(payments) 40,485 - - 40,485 2,621
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 67,545 - - 67,545 64,924
Cash funds this year end 108,030 - - 108,030 67,545
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets		 Signature
Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
Details
Details
Equipment		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
104,136
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2,257
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-
-
106,393
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Agreement Error
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
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-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
1637
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-
-
-
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-
Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Print Name		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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-
-
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Current value
(optional)
-
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-
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Current value
(optional)
-
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When due
(optional)
Date of
approval

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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