## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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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**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Phil Shaw|Chair||Trustees|
||Steven Clarke|||Trustees|
||Tom Slater|||Trustees|
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||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
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
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
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **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
- Ensuring the site remains safe and secure
- Ensuring that the courts are available for public use at low cost
- • Outreach to schools and disadvantaged groups to promote health and wellbeing through tennis related activities
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:
- policy on grantmaking;
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.
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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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**
- 172 passholders, slightly down from the previous year.
- 5,000 tennis and netball bookings, slightly down from 5,100 last year.
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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:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **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**|
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**from**|Period start date|**To**||Period end date|||
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|**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**
**-**
**8 514**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8 514**
**22 051**
**-**
**80 844**
**102 895**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total 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**
**-**
**8 514**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**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**||||||**-**|
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|**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**||||||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
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|**_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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||**80 844**|**-**|**-**||**80 844**||**-**|
||**102 895**|**-**|**-**||**102 895**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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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**
**-**
**56 358**
**-**
**10 315**
**-**
**102 895**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
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**Amount due**
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24000
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10000
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_Henrietta Bates_|**Endowment**
**funds**
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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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