## Annual Report 2020-21
## Developing Community Athletics
Registered Charity Number: 1174636
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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**
## **Report to the trustees of**
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## **On accounts for the year ended**
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2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be proper understanding of the accounts to be rea
**Signed:**
**Date: 10 Jan**
**Name:** Mark Thompson MAAT **Address:** VODA Linskill Centre Linskill Terrace North Shields NE30 2AY
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## **nuary, 2022**
## **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**|
|Signed …………….……………………… Position …………………….|||
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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**|