
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

Period start date Period end date **01 May 2023 30 April 2024 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**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|1|Mr Neil Swanwick|Chair||Trustees||
|2|Mr Peter Kennan|Interim Secretary &<br>Treasurer||Trustees||
|3|Mr Jonathan Harris|||Trustees||
|4|Mr Chris Radford|||Trustees||
|5|Mr Steve Brunt|||Trustees||
|6|Mr Paul Hand|||Trustees||
|7|Mrs Jill Mannion-<br>Brunt|||Trustees||
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|12||||||
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||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||||
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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: 

- 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; 

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. 

- relationship with any related parties; 

- 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. We were very pleased to have been able to make a number of grants in the year.  Details are in the accounts. We were also able to, once again, produce our yearly publication which gives details of cricket news, past performances at Queen’s Park, interviews as well as reports on the charity’s activities for the year. We are very grateful to the advertisers who loyally continue to support the publication which means we are able to cover the costs of production making this cost neutral. We will continue to produce the Annual as it is **Summary of the main** an important strand of our heritage work. **activities undertaken for the** We have produced a book telling the definitive history of cricket at **public benefit in relation to** Queen’s Park Chesterfield and this is now available.  It is part of our **these objects (include within** history and heritage purpose and is not intended to produce a **this section the statutory** commercial profit. **declaration that trustees have** Our bank balance at the end of April 2024 was healthy and the trustees **had regard to the guidance** have already identified projects to advance the charity objects over the **issued by the Charity** year ahead. **Commission on public benefit)** 

## **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: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- 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)** Peter Kennan **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Interim Secretary and Treasurer **etc) Date** 25 August 2024 




|**Friends of Queen's**|**Park Cricket**||**1177204**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**<br>**from**|01/05/2023|**To**|30/04/2024||



|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**3,415**<br>**710**<br>**22**<br>**506**<br>**-**<br>**114**<br>**-**<br>**1,531**<br>**880**<br>**930**<br>**8,108**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**8,108**<br>**1,046**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**200**<br>**2,616**<br>**9,000**<br>**1,000**<br>**2,800**<br>**3,400**<br>**20,062**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**20,062**<br>**-                   11,954**<br>**-**<br>**24,122**<br>**12,168**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**3,415**<br>**710**<br>**22**<br>**506**<br>**-**<br>**114**<br>**-**<br>**1,531**<br>**880**<br>**930**<br>**8,108**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**8,108**<br>**1,046**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**200**<br>**2,616**<br>**9,000**<br>**1,000**<br>**2,800**<br>**3,400**<br>**20,062**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**20,062**<br>**-                   11,954**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Membershipfees includingdonations|**3,415**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**3,415**||**3,193**|
|Festival brochure sponsorship|**710**|||**710**||**720**|
|Amazon Smile|**22**|||**22**||**33**|
|Book andprint sales|**506**|||**506**||**464**|
|Raffleprofit|**-**|||**-**||**743**|
|Sale of annuals|**114**|||**114**||**299**|
|LegacybyWill|**-**|||**-**||**10,000**|
|Prepayments of book sponsorship|**1,531**|||**1,531**||**-**|
|Prepayments of 2024/25 memberships|**880**|||**880**||**-**|
|Gift aid on subscriptions and donations|**930**|||**930**||**479**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**8,108**|||**8,108**||**15,931**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**8,108**||**15,931**|
||||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||||
|Costs of Festival brochure|**1,046**|||||**895**|
|Irrigation system donation|**-**|||||**2,500**|
|Lotterylicence|**-**|||||**20**|
|Secretarial expenses|**-**|||||**71**|
|Cricket events contribution|**200**|||||**475**|
|Website design|**2,616**|||||**792**|
|Donation - scarifier|**9,000**|||||**-**|
|Donation - IT system|**1,000**|||||**-**|
|Donation - N Derbyshire Youth Cricket|**2,800**|||||**-**|
|Book and Annual fees prepaid<br>**_Sub total_**|||||||
||||**-**|**20,062**||**4,753**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||**-**|**20,062**||**4,753**|
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||**-                   11,954**|**-**|**-**|**-                   11,954**||**11,178**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**<br>**-**|**-**|<br>|**-**|
||**24,122**|**-**||**24,122**||**12,944**|
||**12,168**|**-**|**-**|<br>**12,168**||**24,122**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

25/08/2024 

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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>Lloyds Bank<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Neil Swanwick<br>Signature<br>Peter Kennan|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**12,168**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**12,168**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Peter Kennan<br>Neil Swanwick|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
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||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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||||Date of<br>approval|
||Peter Kennan|Peter Kennan|25/08/2024|
||Neil Swanwick|Neil Swanwick|25/08/2024|



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

25/08/2024 

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