Annual Report 2021-22
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 |
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| 2 | Chair’s Report | p5 |
| 3 | Trustees & Volunteers | P5 |
| 4 | Portfolio of Activities | P5 |
| 5 | Financial Reports | P6 |
| Appendix 1 | P7 |
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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’. (Object 3, of our Constitution)
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 2021 to March 2022 which are also prepared to meet the requirements of a Chair’s report and accounts for the Companies Act purposes.
Due to the level of inactivity the Trustees felt it unwise to commission an accountant to review our accounts as there has been no transactions in or out since 2019, as evidenced in this Report.
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Chair’s Report
This report reflects the continued 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.
Small charities such as NOTAN, who are solely dependent on volunteers to organise, operate and deliver events, remain in the process of recovering from ‘long COVID’. Our once thriving activities programme ground to a halt in February 2020, and has thus far failed to get going.
Our once army of volunteers, some of whose children are now at on the precipice of international athletics have had their heads and hearts swayed to watch athletics in stadia away from North Tyneside rather than remain at the grassroots and be part of our succession delivery.
As I write this Annual Report the Trustees appear to [finally] be in recovery mode. Muted conversation of activity delivery is now being spoken aloud and planning has moved from the pre-contemplation to contemplation.
We, the Trustees, are aware that our sport brings 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
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Michelle Wordsworth
Volunteers
In 2021-2022, NOTAN were unable to honour our volunteers in the usual fashion i.e nominations for awards at the annual England Athletics Regional Volunteers Awards ceremony. It is hoped that this will be the last time we do so.
Portfolio of Activities
Spring Relays Postponed
Summer Grand Prix Postponed
Winter Handicap transferred to North Shields Polytechnic Club, who have continued to deliver the series in our absence.
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 202122 (Period 01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022)
Balance on 01/04/2021: £20,529.83 Balance on 31/03/2022: £20,529.83 Income: £0 Expenditure: £0
No income or expenditure occurred in the reporting period, as evidenced in Appendix 1.
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