## **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|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|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**|
|11||||||||||
|12|||||||**BANK**||**3491.59**|
|13||||||||||
|14|||**3521.59**||||||**3521.59**|