## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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Period start date Period end date
7th Nov 2022 6th Nov 2023
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Macclesfield and District Canoe Club**
**Other names charity is known by** MADCC **Registered charity number (if any) 1175025 Charity's principal address** 16 Mortimer Drive
Sandbach Cheshire **Postcode CW11 4HS**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Alan Tonge Secretary
Patricia Davison Treasurer /
2
Safeguarding Officer
3 John Bunyan Committee Member
Christopher Wood Membership
4
Secretary
5 Nigel Kinge Committee Member
6 Fraser Kerr Training Officer
7 David Coles Committee Member
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9
10
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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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)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected from membership at Annual General Meeting (Held annually in Trustee selection methods November each year) Trustees can appoint additional trustees mid-year (eg. appointed by, elected by) but these appointees are subject to election at the next AGM.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- 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;
Macclesfield and District Canoe Club is affiliated to British Canoeing (Canoe England).
MADCC currently undertakes regular training activities from a rented property in Bollington, Cheshire, a lakeside location at a nature reserve in Brereton, Cheshire managed by Cheshire East Council, and indoor training at a local leisure centre in Bollington, Cheshire.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation in Macclesfield, east Cheshire and the surrounding area by the provision of facilities for the sport of canoeing and paddle sport (the terms ‘paddle sport’ and ‘canoeing’ are inclusive of all forms of canoeing and kayaking).
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|**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)**|Macclesfield and District Canoe Club has carried out its purposes, by
providing a range of services. The club operates on a membership basis,
fees are modest and non-members are able to participate on an
introductory basis.
Macclesfield and District Canoe Club (MADCC) has been active
throughout 2023. MADCC is affiliated to British Canoeing and maintains
this affiliation through annual subscription. This year none of our regular
scheduled activities were impacted by COVID19 restrictions.
MADCC operates under a formal constitution and manages its affairs
through monthly committee meetings, all trustees are members of the
committee. The Committee met on 10 occasions between the 2022 and
2023 AGM meetings, these meetings were held in-person. Ordinary
Committee meetings are open for any/all members to attend, all
members are invited to the annual AGM in line with the procedures
detailed in the MADCC constitution.
Volunteer coaches have provided general training and coaching in
paddlesport at regular twice weekly paddling sessions through late spring
Spring and Summer months. The club hired facilities to allow indoor
swimming pool training sessions on 16 occasions throughout the winter
(October22 to March23, and again from October 2023).
Club coaches are competent and registered to provide training towards
recognised paddlesport awards and have assessed paddlers for awards
in a range of disciplines at introductory and intermediate levels.
The club regularly organises a number of competitive events including
monthly club hare and hounds races, regional events (Hasler Series) and
the annual Cheshire Ring race attracting national and international
competitors. This year the Hare and Hounds events were run as were a
number of Hasler events including the race organised by MADCC but
again the Cheshire Ring Race was not run. These activities are
supported by weekly race boat training sessions throughout the year.
The club organised regular monthly sea kayaking trips suitable for
beginner and intermediate paddlers and supported by appropriately
qualified coaches/leaders. This year the club supported sea kayak leader
training for 1 individual who gained British Canoeing Moderate Water Sea
Kayak Leader award, bringing the number of qualified Sea Kayak
Leaders to five.
The club continued to offer regular flat water touring trips. In addition,
the club has provided a framework that supports members in a wide
range of paddling activities including expeditions and multi-day trips.
This year we again offered regular moving water(river) trips and training.
The club does not charge members or non-members for coaching or
training; however, charges are made for equipment hire (there is no
charge if paddlers use their own equipment), pool hire, and entry to race
events.
The activities of the club have been supported by a range of volunteers
including a group of qualified coaches and leaders, the club provides
financial assistance in the form of training bursaries, contributing to the
cost of any training that is specifically related to gaining or maintaining
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The club continues to maintain a comprehensive range of kayaking and canoeing equipment including boats, paddleboards, paddles, safety and other accessory equipment. The equipment has been maintained in good order, stored in rented facilities and made available to members for hire and use at all times throughout the year.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## **Events**
MADCC undertook a normal programme of activities throughout 2023 having been impacted by COVID restrictions in previous years.
## **Equipment**
The club purchased specialist race paddles and race boat roof racks in 2023.
## **Competition and Progression**
MADCC paddlers typically compete each season to qualify for the National Hasler finals, and other national events. The club also supports an active subgroup of members that compete successfully in Quadrathlon competitions. Training for these activities was maintained, throughout 2023 and a normal programme of competitions attended.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
MADCC funds are held as unrestricted funds, though these are notionally organised under designated funds/budgets for annual outgoings, training, and capital development
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **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);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
MADCC principal sources of funding include membership fees, boat hire, race fees and grants (typically to support the purchase of specialist equipment, or training bursaries).
MADCC expenditure is aimed at maintaining a base for canal-based paddling, paddling at a local nature reserve/lake, storage for boats and equipment, purchase of boats and equipment, associated fees (British Canoeing affiliation, insurance, rent) and support for training for club coaches and volunteers.
- MADCC has sought to identify and secure suitable permanent / long term premises, and has designated funds to support the development of a proposal (feasibility studies etc) should potential premises / location be identified.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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Date 22 [nd] July 2024
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Charity Name No (if any)
Macclesfield and District Canoe Club 1175025
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 07/11/2022 06/11/2023
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Membership 4,321 - - 4,321 4,579
Boat hire 2,400 - - 2,400 3,500
Pool Sessions 1,763 - - 1,763 1,293
Brereton premits 484 - - 484 495
Bank interest 407 - - 407 35
Hasler Race 227 - - 227 266
Club clothing 45 - - 45 30
Other income 344 - - 344 1,125
Sea Symposium 823 - - 823 -
Training 183 - - 183 598
key deposit 10 - - 10 30
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 11,006 ] - - 11,006 11,951
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
Equipment sold 498 - - 498 319
- - - - -
Sub total 498 - - 498 319
Total receipts 11,504 - - 11,504 12,270
A3 Payments
Pool Sessions 1,440 - - 1,440 1,350
Brereton premits 496 - - 496 492
- - 329
Hasler Race 234 - - 234 134
Sea Symposium 793 - - 793 -
Training 1,107 - - 1,107 1,375
Rent Building 1,685 - - 1,685 1,478
Insurance 1,269 - - 1,269 1,134
Expenses 257 - - 257 304
BCU levy 558 - - 558 501
Sub total [ 7,838 ] - - 7,838 7,097
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Equipment purchased 722 - - 722 1,939
- - - - -
Sub total [ 722 ] - - 722 1,939
Total payments 8,560 - - 8,560 9,036
Net of receipts/(payments) 2,945 - - 2,945 3,234
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 29,311 - - 29,311 26,077
Cash funds this year end 32,256 - - 32,256 29,311
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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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Account Balances
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**32,256**
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**-**
**-**
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**32,256**
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OK
OK
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
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Print Name
Alan Tonge|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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**funds**
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Date of
approval
11/11/2023|
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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