
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From    1 September 2021   to 31 August 2022 Charity name:  South Manchester Men in Sheds Charity registration number:  1174275** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|Prevent social exclusion of adults in South<br>Manchester especially men. Relieving the<br>needs of those who are socially excluded<br>by involving them in creative, recreational<br>activities individually or in groups and<br>learning or passing on related skills|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|The building remained closed to the public<br>with small member presence. During this<br>period, the public, remaining outside,<br>brought small items for repair, mainly bikes<br>and wooden items. We opened early<br>January to trustees only. We made more<br>internal refurbishments.<br>Opening more fully, a larger project of<br>shelving for Burnage community centre and<br>food bank was completed.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees are aware of and have regard to<br>the guidance on public benefit when<br>making decisions.|
|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|We are not a grant awarding body, so do<br>not give out grants|
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38|All funds received are allocated for ongoing<br>work in line with our charitable purposes.<br>We do not hold any funds to invest|
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|During the difficult period of covid<br>restrictions, members, who were willing and<br>able, continued to contribute in isolation in<br>their own room. From early January the<br>building was open to trustees only. Later,|





as restrictions eased, more members slowly gained confidence to return to help with internal improvements, repair work for the public and the Burnage project. Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|Members, in isolation, continued to<br>contribute to internal improvements, re-<br>carpeting the office, improving storage and<br>internal doors.<br>Bike maintenance, repair and<br>enhancement for the public is popular and<br>begins to reach the pre-covid levels.<br>We made bird tables and boxes, bat boxes,<br>dog kennels, flower boxes, plant-pot<br>holders using existing materials together<br>with chair repair.<br>The Burnage community centre and food<br>bank shelf-project was rewarding for them,<br>their public and satisfying for our members.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||





## **Financial Review** 

|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>ofthe period|Para 1.21|See Account uploaded at same time|
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|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22||
|Amount of reservesheld|Para 1.22|Noreserves|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|Most income has been restricted for use in<br>carrying out our proposals in successful<br>grant applications, or donated for the<br>purpose of buying equipment or to pay for<br>training.|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|N/A|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Grants<br>Donations and support from Southway<br>Housing Trust<br>We are working on sustainability by<br>producing products we can sell to generate<br>income and by expanding our bike repair<br>service|
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46|We do not hold money to invest|
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Momentum lost due to COVID-19|
|Other|||



## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|<br>Para 1.25|**Constitution**|





|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
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|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**Election at AGM or other meetings of**<br>**trustees**|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charityname|South Manchester Men InSheds|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1174275|
|Charity’s principal address|38 Merseybank Ave., Manchester M21 7NN|





## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Peter Shipton|Chair|||
||Nick Larder||||
||Andrew Yates|Treasurer|||
||Nick Anderson||||
||Fredryk Paul<br>Unsworth||||
||Bethan Unsworth||||
||Maria Yates||||
||Robert Dolan||||
||Chris Gale||||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

**Director name None** 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **||
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|**None**|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**adviser **|||



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

No paid staff 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **Other optional information** 



## **Declarations** 

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

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature(s)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>**Date**|||
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||Peter Shipton||
||<br> <br>Chair||
||29 June 2023||
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||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No (ifany)**|**No (ifany)**||**CC16a**|
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||**South Manchester Men in Sheds**|||||**1174275**||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||01-Sep-21||||31-Aug-22|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Lawson HIS|**240**||**-**||**-**||**240**||**-**|
|CHQPeter Bradymemorial donation|**350**||**-**||**-**||**350**||**-**|
|SouthwayHousingref 210322|**500**||**-**||**-**||**500**||**-**|
|Manchester Wythenshawe CHQ|**500**||**-**||**-**||**500**||**-**|
|SouthwayH. ref 180722 runningcost|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**|
|Green Chorlton|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**500**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**2,590**||**-**||**-**||**2,590**||**500**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment**<br>**sales, (see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_**|**2,590**||**-**||**-**||**2,590**||**500**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Nick Larder Craft room refurbish|**600**||**-**||**-**||**600**||**-**|
|CHQ 62pettycash|**250**||**-**||**-**||**250**||**-**|
|CHQ 61 Waterplus|**253**||**-**||**-**||**253**||**-**|
|Manchester CityCouncil|**199**||**-**||**-**||**199**||**-**|
|Cash Orville materials refund|**300**||**-**||**-**||**300**||**-**|
|EON Electric|**327**||**-**||**-**||**327**||**-**|
|EON Gas|**575**||**-**||**-**||**575**||**-**|
|Waterplus|**222**||**-**||**-**||**222**||**-**|
|Man CityCouncil Business rates|**189**||**-**||**-**||**189**||**-**|
|Cash Withdrawal|**186**||**-**||**-**||**186**||**-**|
|Cash Withdrawal|**650**||**-**||**-**||**650**||**-**|
|EON|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,685**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**3,752**||**-**||**-**||**3,752**||**1,685**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Totalpayments_**|**3,752**||**-**||**-**||**3,752**||**1,685**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**-               1,162**||**-**||**-**||**-               1,162**||**-              1,185**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**4,149**||**-               4,149**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**2,682**||**5,198**||**-**||**7,880**||**9,065**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**5,670**||**1,049**||**-**||**6,719**||**7,880**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 


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Unrestricted  Restricted  Endowment<br>Categories  Details   funds  funds  funds<br>to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £<br>B1 Cash funds  NIF1 (Bike & DIY)                            271                                -                                -<br> NIF2 (Greening)                         1,172                                -                                -<br> SWAY AFT 1                            610                                -                                -<br> SWAY CBF                         2,097                                -                                -<br> FOREVER MANCHESTER                                -                                69                              -<br> BUZZ NHS 5                                -                              500                              -<br> Bike Revenue                                -                              480                              -<br> Various Funders                         2,682                                -                                -<br>                              -                                  -                                -<br> Total cash funds                   6,832                  1,049                      -<br>(agree balances w ith receipts and payments<br>account(s)) Agreement Error OK OK<br>Unrestricted  Restricted  Endowment<br>funds  funds  funds<br>Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £<br>B2 Other monetary assets                               -                                  -                                -<br>                              -                                  -                                -<br>                              -                                  -                                -<br>                              -                                  -                                -<br>                              -                                  -                                -<br>                              -                                  -                                -<br>Fund to which  Current value<br>Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional)<br>B3 Investment assets                               -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>Fund to which  Current value<br>Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional)<br>B4 Assets retained for the                                -                                -<br>charity’s own use                               -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>                              -                                -<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>




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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||||||PeterShipton||||29 Juner 2023|



