## **Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association** (Registered charity, number 1173704) **Financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025** 

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# **Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association annual report for the year ended 31 March 2025** 

**Full name** Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association 

**Other names by which the charity is known** ECP&DA 

**Organisation type** Charitable incorporated organisation 

**Registered charity number** 1173704 

**Principal address** 130 Derby Road, Langley Mill, NG16 4AA 

**Trustees** Doug Swain, Chair Dorothy Stenson Geraldine Martin, Treasurer Judy Berry Glyn Stenson Shirley Cornwell Paul King Vivienne Kilbourne, until 12/06/25 Susan Swain, since 15/12/24 Norman Cornwell, until 04/04/25 

## **Independent examiner** 

, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL 

## **Governance and management** 

The charity is operated under the rules of its constitution adopted January 2017. 

New trustees are recruited from the members. 

## **Objectives and activities** 

The objectives of the CIO are: 

- The restoration, reconstruction, preservation and maintenance of the Erewash Canal and associated waterways. Its buildings, towing path, structures and craft and the conservation of its natural character as a navigable inland waterway system for the benefit of the public. 

- To provide educational and training opportunities to members and the public in all aspects of canals, through the heritage of the built and natural environment, to promote respect for this and emphasise the importance of safety requirements in a waterway environment. 

## **Public benefit statement** 

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'. 

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## **Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association** 

## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit** 

## **Summary of the main achievements during the period** 

## **Financial review** 

## **Financial risks** 



## **Independent e** xaminer’s **report to the trustees of Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association for the year ended 31 March 2025** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association (the charity) for the year ended 31 March 2025. 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). | report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or 

2. the accounts do not accord with those records. 

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 

Signed _________________________ Date ______________________01/08/2025 Jo hn O’Brien ——MSc, FAIA, FCIE Employee of Community Accounting Plus 

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## **Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 March 2025** 

|_2024_<br>Total<br>Funds<br>£<br>**Receipts**<br>634<br>Bank interest<br>394<br>Boat electric<br>849<br>Donations and legacy<br>16258<br>Events<br>319<br>Fundraising<br>2816<br>Gift aid<br>3626<br>Langley Mill<br>-<br>Members meal<br>3350<br>Memberships & subscriptions<br>622<br>Merchandise<br>9291<br>Moorings<br>4822<br>Sandiacre<br>285<br>Refunds<br>43266<br>**Total receipts**<br>**Payments**<br>1477<br>Admin & office costs<br>63<br>AWCC<br>178<br>Bank charges<br>195<br>Club 70<br>6420<br>CRT rent<br>-<br>Erewash<br>14506<br>Events<br>-<br>Fundraising costs<br>3465<br>Insurance<br>1811<br>Langley Mill<br>415<br>Licences & fees<br>467<br>Miscellaneous costs<br>75<br>Pentland<br>3180<br>Rates & utilities<br>6893<br>Sandiacre costs<br>-<br>Tools, plant & machine<br>-<br>Training<br>39145<br>**Total payments**<br>4121<br>**Net receipts/(payments)**<br>30773<br>Cash funds at start of this period<br>34894<br>**Cash funds at end of this period**|**Unrestricted**<br>**Funds**<br>**£**<br>1129<br>367<br>41633<br>1219<br>311<br>-<br>-<br>372<br>2612<br>323<br>9539<br>5152<br>-<br>**62657**<br>1644<br>144<br>113<br>190<br>6420<br>48<br>641<br>68<br>4721<br>1487<br>-<br>-<br>84<br>2962<br>6445<br>409<br>872<br>**26248**<br>36409<br>31951<br>**68360**|**Restricted**<br>**Funds**<br>**£**<br>-<br>-<br>1438<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>**1438**<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>1212<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>150<br>-<br>-<br>**1362**<br>76<br>2943<br>**3019**|**_2025_**<br>**Total**<br>**Funds**<br>**£**<br>1129<br>367<br>43071<br>1219<br>311<br>-<br>-<br>372<br>2612<br>323<br>9539<br>5152<br>-|
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||||**64095**<br>1644<br>144<br>113<br>190<br>6420<br>48<br>641<br>68<br>4721<br>2699<br>-<br>-<br>84<br>2962<br>6595<br>409<br>872|
||||**27610**<br>36485<br>34894|
||||**71379**|



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Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association
Statement of assets and liabilities
at 31 March 2025
2024
2025
Cash assets
Bank accounts
34894
34894
71379
71379
(As restated)
3189
3189
Other monetary assets
Prepayment- insurance
3541
3541
Assets retsined for the charity's own use
Sandiacre lock cottages purchase price £65,000
Langley Mill cottage purchase price £27,000
Wood chipper purchased in 2019 for £1.680
Sundry tools and equipment totalling about £7,360
Liabilities
Creditor- irKlependent examination
570
(570)
618
<618
These financial statements are ac￿pted on behalf of the chanty by:
Signed
Geraldine Martin, Treasurer
Dated 31n125

## **Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025** 

## **1. Receipts & payments accounts** 

Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand. 

## **2. Funds analysis** 





Langley Mill fund is for the purchase of tools/training for Langley Mill. Sandiacre fund is for the purchase of a timeline for Sandiacre Cottages. CRT fund is to further canal work including the purchase of life jackets and helmsman training etc. 

## **3. Premises** 

We rent Langley Mill basin from the Canal and River Trust for £1600 per quarter and sublet the moorings. We have the pump house on a 99-year lease no fees paid from Severn Trent. The lease started in June 1987. We lease the Workshop and tollhouse from the Canal and River Trust paid as part of our quarterly lease. 

## **4.** 

Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period. 

## **5. Related party transactions** 

There were no related party transactions in this period. 

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## **Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association** 

## **6. Glossary of terms** 

**Creditors:** These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period. 

**Prepayments:** These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period. 

**Restricted funds:** These are funds given to the charity, subject to specific restrictions set by the donor, but still within the general objects of the charity. 

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