Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 01 May 2022 30 April 2023 From To
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Friends of Queen’s Park Cricket Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1177204 Charity's principal address 58 Miriam Avenue Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3NF
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
| Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole **year ** |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| 1 | Mr Neil Swanwick | Chair | Trustees | ||
| 2 | Mr Peter Kennan | Interim Secretary & Treasurer |
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| 3 | Mr Jonathan Harris | Trustees | |||
| 4 | Mr Chris Radford | Trustees | |||
| 5 | Mr Steve Brunt | Trustees | |||
| 6 | Mr Paul Hand | Trustees | |||
| 7 | Mrs Jill Mannion- Brunt |
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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)
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
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by Trustees
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
Trustees are selected based on the skills that they have which would be useful for the Charity. The Charity has identified training courses for trustees and is going to cover key areas of charity law at some trustees meetings in the year ahead.
The trustees have considered and implemented actions needed to deal with new Data Protection legislation.
The trustees have a regularly updated Conflicts of Interest Policy.
The Charity utilises the Essential Trustees Guide as a basis for training.
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
To promote community participation in healthy recreation (including cricket coaching).
To advance education including social and physical training related to Summary of the objects of the cricket at Queen’s Park in Chesterfield. charity set out in its To advance education for the public benefit by increasing public learning governing document and knowledge about the history and heritage of cricket in Queen’s Park, Chesterfield.
It is confirmed that the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant. The accounts show an increased level of income and expenditure in the 2022/23 year with the return of the Chesterfield Festival of Cricket, following the release of COVID restrictions. This in turn has meant that we were able to attract some new members and membership subscriptions have stayed relatively stable compared to the previous year. We were very pleased to contribute towards a new irrigation system for Queen's Park at a cost of £2,500. Summary of the main We were also able to, once again, produce our yearly publication which activities undertaken for the gives details of cricket news, past performances at Queen’s Park, public benefit in relation to interviews as well as reports on the charity’s activities for the year. We these objects (include within are very grateful to the advertisers who loyally continue to support the this section the statutory publication which means we are able to cover the costs of production declaration that trustees have making this cost neutral. We will continue to produce the Annual as it is had regard to the guidance an important strand of our heritage work. issued by the Charity Our bank balance at the end of April 2023 was healthy and the trustees Commission on public have already identified projects to advance the charity objects over the benefit) year ahead.
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
The charity’s policy on grant making is driven by its charitable objects and the outcomes are reviewed at trustee’s meetings.
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance These are outlined in Section C Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
Section E Financial review
As we do not employ staff or purchase equipment for ourselves that Brief statement of the would need replacement, reserves are kept at a minimum. The charity’s charity’s policy on reserves intention is to ensure expenditure is kept under tight control so as not to exceed the incoming resources of the charity. A contingency reserve is always maintained. Details of any funds materially in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information) Our major sources of income are membership subscriptions, corporate You may choose to include sponsorship, fundraising at the Cricket Festival, generous donations and additional information, where also bequests. 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. 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
Signature(s) Peter Kennan Full name(s) Neil Swanwick Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair Interim Secretary etc) Date 28 July 2023
| Friends of Queen's | Park Cricket | 1177204 | ||
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | CC16a | |||
| For the period from |
01/05/2022 | To | 30/04/2023 |
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 3,193 720 33 464 743 299 10,000 479 15,931 - - - 15,931 895 2,500 20 71 475 792 - - - 4,753 - - - 4,753 11,178 - 12,944 24,122 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 3,193 720 33 464 743 299 10,000 479 15,931 - - - 15,931 895 2,500 20 71 475 792 - - - 4,753 - - - 4,753 11,178 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Membership fees including voluntary additions |
3,193 | 3,625 | ||||
| Festival brochure sponsorship | 720 | 810 | ||||
| Amazon Smile | 33 | 19 | ||||
| Book andprint sales | 464 | 100 | ||||
| Raffleprofit | 743 | - | ||||
| Sale of annuals | 299 | - | ||||
| LegacybyWill | 10,000 | - | ||||
| Gift aid on subscriptions and donations | 479 | - | ||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
15,931 | 4,554 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 4,554 | ||||||
| Costs of Festival brochure | 895 | 716 | ||||
| Irrigation system donation | 2,500 | 2,576 | ||||
| Lotterylicence | 20 | 20 | ||||
| Secretarial expenses | 71 | - | ||||
| Cricket events contribution | 475 | - | ||||
| Website design | 792 | - | ||||
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| Sub total | 4,753 | 3,312 | ||||
| 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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| 3,312 | ||||||
| 11,178 | - | - | 11,178 |
1,242 | ||
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| 12,944 | - | - | 12,944 | 11,702 | ||
| 24,122 | - | - | 24,122 |
12,944 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
02/09/2023
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets |
Details Details Lloyds Bank Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 24,122 - - 24,122 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Amount due (optional) - - - - - |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
| Signature | Print Name Peter Kennan Neil Swanwick |
Date of approval |
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| Peter Kennan | ||
| Neil Swanwick |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
02/09/2023
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