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2021-03-31-accounts

Annual Report 2020-21

Developing Community Athletics

Registered Charity Number: 1174636

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In a world of the individual sport brings together people of race, cultures, ability, genders, sex, religion and faith for one purpose: improvement of the self. Confidence builds selfesteem, power builds strength, resilience builds determination, purpose builds ambition, solidarity builds compassion and belief builds trust. Faster, stronger, bigger, agile, supple, flexible. Through sport we make our own destiny.

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Contents

1 Executive Summary p4
2 Chair’s Report p5
3 Trustees & Volunteers P5
4 Portfolio of Activities P5
5 Financial Reports P6

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Executive Summary

The North of Tyne Athletics Network (NOTAN) is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) reflecting a partnership between local athletics clubs and Harriers, who work collaboratively with local partners organisations.

‘for the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation for the benefit of the inhabitants of North Tyneside and its surrounding areas by the provision of facilities for athletics’.

Once more, due to COVID-19 we are unable to hold our Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was due to happen in April. Rather than postpone indefinitely, our trustees have agreed to cancel the AGM for this year and to share information with our members digitally via this report and invite any questions via our website www.info@notan.org

The trustees are pleased to present their Annual Report together with the financial statements of the Charity for the period April 2020 to March 2021 which are also prepared to meet the requirements of a Chair’s report and accounts for the Companies Act purposes.

The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006, the Memorandum and Articles of Association and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard’s applicable to the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).

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Chair’s Report

This report reflects the impact COVID 19 has had on the unpublicised third sector of business: the voluntary sector. On 23[rd] March 2020, the Government announced national lock-down measures to stop the spread of a virus that at that time had no known cure. Its sibling, Omicron, continues to wreak havoc across most sectors of business. Only those in the pharmaceutical industry appear to have been unaffected, either financially or with staff shortages. In contrast, small charities such as NOTAN, who are solely dependent on volunteers to organise, operate and deliver events, have all but abandoned hope to ever return to hosting activities that brought such joy to so many children, adults, and officials.

And it is in this sad spirit that this Annual Report has been written.

Trustees

Normally at our AGM we would ask our members to approve the Minutes of the Previous Meeting and the appointment of new trustees. I am saddened to report that NOTAN have hosted very few Trustee Meetings since last April. That said, I can confirm that the board remains unchanged from that reported in 2020 i.e.

Tommy Brannon - Chair Christopher Mole Daniel Njai-Rowney Michelle Wordsworth

Volunteers

In 2020-2021, the annual England Athletics Regional Volunteers Awards ceremony was postponed therefore, NOTAN were unable to honour our volunteers in the usual fashion i.e nominations for awards.

Portfolio of Activities

Spring Relays Postponed

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Summer Grand Prix Postponed

Winter Handicap Postponed

Visually Impaired Runners Club Postponed

North Shields Commemorative Fun Run Postponed

Financial Report

Our AGM is also the time when we usually present our year end accounts to our members. They are as follows:

Overview 202021 (Period 01/04/2020 to 31/03/2021)

Balance on 01/04/20209: £20,758.83 Balance on 31/03/2020: £20,629.83 Income: £0 Expenditure: £129.00

The only item of mention is the cost of maintaining our website. No other income or expenditure occurred in the reporting period.

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NOTAN (North of Tyne Athletics Network)

Trustees Report and Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 March 2021

Charity No. 1174636

Legal and Administrative Information

Name: NOTAN (North of Tyne Athletics Network)

Reg'd Charity No: 1174636

Trustees:

Chair: Tommy Brannon Members: Daniel Njai-Rowney Christopher Mole Michelle Wordsworth

Address: 126 Malven Road North Shields NE29 9HA Bankers: TSB Independent Examiner: Mark Thompson MAAT VODA Linskill Centre Linskill Terrace North Shields NE30 2AY

Trustees' Annual Report

The Charities object is the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation for the benefits of the inhabitants of North Tyneside and its surrounding areas by the provision of facilities for athletics.

Activity during 2020/21

This report covers a period that began with great optimism but ended with greater uncertainty. A year in which we added new events to our portfolio only to see that development fade.

In the Spring, we built on our successes of previous years and with support from North East Throws and the North Eastern Counties Athletics Association (NECAA) we delivered our first Spring Relays event. In the summer, we delivered our hugely successful Summer Grand Prix for school Year 3 to Year 6 children. The autumn saw the 32nd running of the Winter Handicap event as well as our assisting local visually impaired athletes to partake in athletics in a safe environment. in the winter, we added another new event to our portfolio: The North Shields Fun Run, alongside our 3rd Blyth’s Indoor Sportshall Series of athletics.

Yet, on the horizon of a New Year an invisible virus had arrived that would beset all our work and planning. Events began to get postponed, then re-scheduled then eventually cancelled. When they or we will start again is in the hands of UK Government, England Athletics, North Tyneside Council and host venues. The need for COVID-19 risk assessments are an added burden to our limited resources.

There are uncertain times ahead yet, we are committed to upholding our Constitutional objective.

Trustees’ Responsibilities in relation to Financial Statements

Charity Law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which comply with the regulations set out in the Charities Act 1993.

Signed: ………….………...……, on behalf of Trustees Date 10 January 2022

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT

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Date: 10 Jan

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NOTAN (North of Tyne Athletics Network)

Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2021

Statement of Financial Activities
for the year ended 31 March 2021
Receipts
Grants
Entry fees
Other Income
Total Receipts
Payments
Event Costs
Web Site and Equipment
Donations
Total Payments
Surplus/defcit for the year
Funds at 1 April 2020
Funds at 31 March 2021		 Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Total
Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
2020-21
2020-21
2020-21
2019-20
£
£
0
1800
0
11239
0
184
0
0
0
13223
0
6977
129
129
497
0
2750
129
0
129
10224
-129
0
-129
2999
17183
3576
20759
17760
17054
3576
20630
20759

NOTAN (North of Tyne Athletics Network) Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2021

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2021
2021 2020
£ £
Notes
Current Assets
Cash at Bank & in Hand 20630 20759
Total Cash Balances
Net Current Assets 20630 20759
Net Assets at 31 March
Represented By:
Restricted Funds 0 3576
Unrestricted Funds 0 17183
Total Funds 0 20759
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Date ……………………………………….

NOTAN (North of Tyne Athletics Network)

Notes to the accounts, 2021

1. Basis of accounts

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) – Charities SORP (FRS 102), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006

NOTAN meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets

and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).

2. Trustees and Staf

No Staff are directly employed by the Charity.

3. Funds

Funds
April March
Grants Received druing the fnancial period: 2020 Income Expenditure 2021
Restricted
Sir James Knott Trust 3576 0 3576
Total 3576 0 0 3576