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2025-09-21-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period start date Period end date Period end date
22 Sept 2024 21 Sept 2025
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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Beacon Park Tennis Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1174799 Charity's principal address 33 Cherry Orchard Lichfield Postcode WS14 9AN

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16		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for
**whole year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Phil Shaw Chair Trustees
Steven Clarke Trustees
Tom Slater Trustees
Katarina
Obranovic-O’Dell		 Trustees
James Broomfield Trustees
Henrietta Bates Trustees

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

How the charity is constituted

CIO

Elected by existing trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

No significant structure or governance changes

Section C Objectives and activities

Beacon Park Tennis is a charity which is run by a group of trustees elected on 3-year terms at the Annual General Meeting.

We have no members but exist to serve the community by raising funding to resurface and manage the tennis courts in Lichfield’s Beacon Park. The initial objective of BPT was to secure funding for and then resurface the court area and to install modern gate and lighting control.

Since completion of the project, we manage the court pricing and Summary of the objects of the availability for the public, promote wellbeing and physical activity and charity set out in its support local schools and clubs for tennis and netball. governing document We use the money obtained from bookings to build a fund to ensure we can maintain the courts in their current condition and ensure long term sustainability.

In deciding which activities to run this year the trustees of BPT have considered the guidance issued by the charity commission on public benefit and balanced this against the primary objective. In addition, we were mindful of the impact of the pandemic and restrictions placed on our team and customers

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Our activities continued to be focussed on

See Section D for details of activities in this period

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Beacon Park Tennis could not have progressed without support from the local community, the Lichfield District Council and our partners.

We continue to welcome support in helping to manage the day-to-day activities of the court site. Without our volunteers’ time and goodwill none of this would be possible.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

Special mentions for Sarah and Levi for their work as Safeguarding officers and to Pam Beale for her continued support for our activities and willingness to give her time to help with our invoicing

A big thank you to all the trustees for their time and effort.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Community Engagement: The venue has hosted a variety of events, holiday camps once again and, this year, has been a host venue for a council sponsored Wellbeing initiative. We continue to provide facilities for Tennis For Free and hold a free social session. We also held a taster session for Pickleball to assess demand for future support for this growing sport.

Funding: We received no significant grants or other donation income. We have decided to self-fund the free coaching sessions once the Tennis For Free programme ends in October until another option is available.

Site Maintenance and Renewal : We continued our maintenance programme to ensure the site continued to remain operational. We plan to repaint court 4 to add Pickleball markings in 2026 after the success of our taster session.

Safeguarding : We continued to adhere to the LTA's new

Welfare/Safeguarding guidelines. Sarah completed a managed handover of her Safeguarding duties to Levi.

Recognition : For the 4th consecutive year, the LTA honoured us with the Parks Award.

Key Statistics

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

This year we continued to hold our prices at the same levels and continued to pay down our LTA loan

Our finances are healthy at this stage; we see no reason why we will not be able to pay our liabilities in the next period and continue our seed fund for future resurfacing and maintenance.

Details of any funds materially Not applicable in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

LTA loan repayments continue (£4,000 p.a.)

Seed fund continues to grow in line with forecast for future resurfacing work.

We anticipate additional costs in the next period for maintenance and repainting of court 4

Section F Other optional information

None

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Steven Clarke Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc) Date 06/11/2025

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Charity Name Charity Name Charity Name No (if any) No (if any) No (if any) CC16a
For the period
from		 Period start date To Period end date
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£
4 360
1 980
4 224
2 000
14 160
2 037
131
28 892
1 635
38
1 673
30 565
150
353
1 237
560
1 275
364
575
4 000
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8 514
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8 514
22 051
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80 844
102 895		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
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-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
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to the nearest £
4 360
1 980
4 224
2 000
14 160
2 037
131
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28 892
1 635
38
1 673
30 565
150
353
1 237
560
1 275
364
575
4 000
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8 514
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8 514
22 051		 Last year
to the nearest £
Microsports 4 360 -
Chasetown Netball 1 980 -
Lichfield Spires 4 224 -
Lichfield Cathedral School 2 000 -
Stripe PAYG 14 160 -
GC C1 - Membership 2 037 -
Competition fee / donation 131 -
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Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 28 892 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
Interest from savings 1 635
Interest from savings account 19272650
not added to lastyears accounts		 38 -
Sub total 1 673 -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
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Support Staff - audit fee 150 -
Royal Mail PO Box 353 -
CIA Gate maintenance and annual fee 1 237 -
LTA Venue Fee 560 -
Electricity 1 275 -
AbbeyStone 364 -
Equipment 575 -
LTA Loan 4 000 -
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**Sub total ** 8 514 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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**Sub total ** - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
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22 051 - - 22 051 -
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80 844 - - 80 844 -
102 895 - - 102 895 -

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B1 Cash funds		 Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Current Account
Savings account 1928804
Savings Account
Details
Details
Details
LTA Loan
Lichfield Cathedral School pre-payment
Signature		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
36 222
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56 358
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10 315
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102 895
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OK
Unrestricted
funds
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funds
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Cost (optional)
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Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
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24000
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Print Name
Henrietta Bates		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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Endowment
funds
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Current value
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Current value
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When due
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Date of
approval
Henrietta Bates 20/06/2026

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of

Beacon Park Tennis

I report on the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 21 September 2025.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’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.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination, I confirm that no material 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 Trust 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 :

Debbie Wellecomme (FMAAT) Date : 27/05/2026

Support Staffordshire, Stafford Civic Centre, Riverside, Stafford, Staffordshire ST16 3AQ