Enpals Trustees’ Report 2024/2025
The 2023/2024 AGM due to be held in Oct/Nov 2024 was postponed until Jan 13th 2025 as there were insuficient trustees able to attend to in 2024 to achieve a quorum To reduce the workload on individual trustees Wendy Cox was appointed a trustee in July 2025 and it is hoped that that this will enable a trustee to attend library events in future as well as providing a quorul for trustees meetings in future
As the treasurer reported the only income this year has bee from the BH Lottery tickets sales and one fund raiser earlier in the year , plants sales ( thanks Paul ) and donations from Keith Watson after sales of his paintings exhibited in the library.
The accessible toilet project is still an active goal but after numerous E mails to Tony Currie ( BCP Surveyor) and the intervention of Cllrs Jackie & Stephen a site meeting was arranged and 2 proposals were put forward for consideration….neither really was ideal as both would result in reduced storage space & loss of
staf work area…..provisional costings were £ 21,887 & £28,730 .
The preferred trustees’ option is to demolish the staf toilet and building a new building containing the staf toilet facilities accessible from the staf kitchen & a customer toilet accessible via an external door . However this was deemed impractical by BCP as it would not be large enough to accommodate Disabled Access& baby changing facilities …..it is frustrating that this negativity has hampered progess on this project as once again Enpals is ofering to fund a badly needed facility at no cost to BCP authority
An application is in progress to bid for CIL funds of £10,000 which if successful would enable Talbot Village Trust to be approached for match funding in the 2026 round of applications .
The continuing support of the Ward Councillors is crucial to advance this project and overcome the lethargy of the BCP Authority.
I would fnish this report by thanking my fellow trustees, ward councillors and library staf for their ongoing support .
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | |
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| 1 | BALANCE SHEET | ||||||||
| 2 | Income | Expenditure | |||||||
| 3 | OpeningBalance | 3136.59 | |||||||
| 4 | Fund RaisingEvents | 217.00 | Event Expenses | ||||||
| 5 | EP Booklet | Donations | |||||||
| 6 | LIF Money | Insurance | |||||||
| 7 | Donations | Garden Room | 30.00 | ||||||
| 8 | Lottery | 168.00 | Misc | ||||||
| 9 | |||||||||
| 10 | Totals | 3521.59 | 30.00 | ||||||
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| 12 | BANK | 3491.59 | |||||||
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| 14 | 3521.59 | 3521.59 |