Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 01 May 2024 30 April 2025 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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| 8 | Mr Ian McNeilly | 16/09/2024 | 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:
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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 trustee’s 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. 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 2025 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:
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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) Peter Kennan Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Interim Secretary and Treasurer etc) Date 12 May 2025
| Friends of Queen's | Park Cricket | 1177204 | ||
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | CC16a | |||
| For the period from |
01/05/2024 | To | 30/04/2025 |
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 2,705 1,000 - 318 - 125 - 5,993 - 565 10,706 - - - 10,706 1,223 4,000 5,219 2,000 150 - - - - - 12,592 - - - 12,592 - 1,886 - 12,168 10,282 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ 2,705 1,000 - 318 - 125 - 5,993 - 565 10,706 - - - 10,706 1,223 4,000 5,219 2,000 150 - - - - - 12,592 - - - 12,592 - 1,886 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Membershipfees includingdonations | 2,705 | - - - - - - - - - |
2,705 | 3,415 | ||
| Festival brochure sponsorship | 1,000 | 1,000 | 710 | |||
| Amazon Smile | - | - | 22 | |||
| Book andprint sales | 318 | 318 | 506 | |||
| Raffleprofit | - | - | - | |||
| Sale of annuals | 125 | 125 | 114 | |||
| LegacybyWill | - | - | - | |||
| David Griffin book sales | 5,993 | 5,993 | 1,531 | |||
| Prepayments of 2024/25 memberships | - | - | 880 | |||
| Gift aid on subscriptions and donations | 565 | 565 | 930 | |||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
10,706 | 10,706 | 8,108 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| - | 10,706 | 8,108 | ||||
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| Costs of Festival brochure | 1,223 | 1,046 | ||||
| FundingSports Development Officer | 4,000 | - | ||||
| David Griffin book costs | 5,219 | - | ||||
| Grant for hybridpitches | 2,000 | - | ||||
| Cricket events contribution | 150 | 200 | ||||
| Website design | - | 2,616 | ||||
| Donation - scarifier | - | 9,000 | ||||
| Donation - IT system | - | 1,000 | ||||
| Donation - N Derbyshire Youth Cricket | - | 2,800 | ||||
| Book and Annual fees prepaid Sub total |
3,400 | |||||
| - | 12,592 | 20,062 | ||||
| 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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| - | 12,592 | 20,062 | ||||
| - 1,886 | - | - | - 1,886 | - 11,954 | ||
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| 12,168 | - | 12,168 | 24,122 | |||
| 10,282 | - | - | 10,282 |
12,168 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
13/07/2025
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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 B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds |
Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Debtors - books not yet paid for Stock of books for sale Lloyds Bank Details Details Details Neil Swanwick Signature Peter Kennan |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 10,282 - - - - - 10,282 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 660 - 1,005 - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Peter Kennan Neil Swanwick |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Date of approval |
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| Peter Kennan | Peter Kennan | 12/05/2025 | |
| Neil Swanwick | Neil Swanwick | 12/05/2025 |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
13/07/2025
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