East Molesey Cricket Club
Annual Report
31 October 2025
East Molesey Cricket Club Treasurer’s Report Year Ended 31 October 2025
Overview
It has been a positive year for the Club financially.
The Club’s main income streams continue to be rental income, member subscriptions and bar profits. Our rental income (see Note 4) has increased in the year for two main reasons. First, we have returned to having a full year’s occupancy in the café space in 2024/25 after having a three month gap without rent between licensees in 2023/24. Second, we have also begun to receive rent from HiTZ which began operating during the year. Alongside these rental income streams, income from subscriptions (see Note 1) and bar profits (see Note 2) remained strong.
Separately, as a one off, the Club has sold the leasehold for the telephone mast space for £51,000 in the year (see I&E Report).
As well as covering the Club’s normal operating expenditure, the above has allowed us to invest £90,211 in capital expenditure on ground machinery, pavilion improvements, the car park and covers (see Note 10 Additions). The Club will see the benefit of these investments for many years to come.
Income
Bar Profits (see Note 2)
On becoming a registered charity on 19 March 2018 the Club set up a trading subsidiary, East Molesey Cricket Club Bar Ltd (Company No 11398581), in order to earn all the bar profits and donate them back to the Club free of corporation tax. The bar profits are thus shown on a Donations line in the Income & Expenditure Account but nothing has changed practically speaking beyond that.
The bar’s profit has stayed flat in the year at £68,029 in 2024/25 (£72,134 in 2023/24). Tracy has continued to put particular emphasis on our pavilion hire fees to non-members and increasing our drinks prices for nonmembers to more appropriately compare to other local venues available to them. She has simultaneously kept members’ drinks prices flat in the year in order to continue to strike a balance as is correct for us as a members’ club. Thank you very much to Tracy for all of her efforts this year.
Rental Income (see Note 4)
Licence fee income received from Miss Polly Café for the use of the café space has increased from £40,000 in 2023/24 to £52,242 this year. This figure reflects a full year of rental income after 2023/24 including a 3 month gap between licensees from November 2023 to January 2024. We can expect this to be the norm rising with inflation going forward.
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HiTZ started operating from their building in the car park on 13 February 2025 generating a new revenue stream for the Club totalling £10,363 in the year. Now that the facility is well known in the community, we would hope for that to total closer to £20,000 per year going forward, a fantastic benefit to the Club both on and off the pitch.
The rent from the telephone mast has reduced to £2,758 in the year compared to the flat £5,149 per year received since 2008. This is due to this rent only reflecting a part-year to 15 May 2025 (see below). Going forward into future years this line will be £nil in the accounts.
Profit on Disposal of Telephone Mast Lease (see I&E Report)
The Club signed a ten year lease with Vodafone (now CTIL) on 17 September 1998. We have thus been out of contract since 16 September 2008. Since then, we have been paid a fixed and uninflated £5,148.71 per year. The Electronic Communications Code 2017 deemed such masts to be “critical national infrastructure” and thus gave significant additional powers to operators like CTIL to negotiate much lower rents with landlords like us so it was likely that CTIL would aim to bring this number further down. Consequently, the Committee chose to sell the leasehold rights for a thirty year period to AP Wireless for £51,000 on 15 May 2025 as this reflected better value and a more secure option for the Club.
Members’ Subscriptions and Fees (see Note 1)
The Club’s largest source of income continues to be from members’ subscriptions and match fees. They have remained flat in the year at £145,273 vs £146,860 in 2023/24. Thank you very much to Annika, Jamie and all the captains for collecting them in the year.
Donations (see I&E Report)
Thank you very much as always to all our members who donated money to the Club in the year. The Club is always hugely grateful for these donations, big or small. We on the committee all hope you believe they are being put to good use. The Club’s charitable status has allowed us to claim Gift Aid on these donations which grosses up their value by 20%.
Sponsorship (see I&E Report)
Sponsorship income has reduced this year at £16,146 compared to £28,785 in 2023/24. Last year’s figure did however include two lots of annual sponsorship of £6,005 each received from Charles Stanley in the year to sponsor the new wheelie covers at Graburn Way. We were therefore never expecting this income to replicate itself in 2024/25. As ever, thank you very much to all our sponsors for their generous support in this challenging economic environment. Thank you too as well Alex and David for taking over the reins from Mike and ensuring this remains a significant income stream for the Club.
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Investment and Expenditure
Car Park Improvements (see Note 10 Additions)
After tarmacking the driveway in 2023/24 at a cost of £49,615, the Club has been able to complete the job and tarmac the car park at a cost of £63,000 in this financial year. I’m sure all members will agree it is a great improvement to our facilities that will provide us with lasting benefit.
Pavilion Improvements (see Note 10 Additions)
The Club spent £12,217 improving the pavilion in the financial year. This was almost entirely the replacement of the floor in the café’s side extension which is the Club’s responsibility as licensor of the space. The remainder were residual payments to finish the improvements to the toilet facilities done primarily in 2023/24.
Ground and Ground Machinery Additions (see Notes 5 & 10 Additions)
When including the capital expenditure on ground machinery the spend on our two grounds grew significantly in the year from £55,008 in 2023/24 to £87,265 in the year. This is naturally unwelcome when we consider the disappointing standard of our two grounds during the 2025 season compared to what we are used to.
The increase is due to having to pay a premium for subcontractors to fill in when we found ourselves without a groundsman in March along with a number of one-off costs to return our outfield, square and machinery to the standards expected by our members.
We are however confident that this spend has kept the damage in 2025 and set us up well for our facilities to return to their previous high standards in 2026 and onwards. Thank you to Paul for navigating this unexpected challenge in his first year as Club Captain. Thank you too to Toby for his work to make the subcontractor model workable at all.
The Club has recently entered into a fifteen year lease for the WECA in order to make it our permanent second ground. In conjunction with the Council, funds have been set aside in 2025/26 to complete the process bringing the WECA to an appropriate standard for our members for the duration of this lease. We would hope to have two grounds we can be proud of by this time next year.
Loans
Members Loans
Four of our members loaned the Club £58,000 interest-free in the year to fund the work on our car park (see above) in the spring. This loan was initially expected to be for a three year period but the opportunity to sell the leasehold of the telephone mast (see above) allowed the loan to be repaid early in this financial year. The loan is not visible in these accounts as it was made and repaid between the two balance sheet dates. Thank
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you to those members for the trust shown in the Club allowing us to get this project done before the Club could afford it organically.
Related Party Transactions
To make the Club’s finance function more sustainable, we have been using a member of staff at D S Burge and Co Ltd to carry out the bookkeeping and payroll since May 2024. As of October 2024, D S Burge and Co Ltd has been charging that time at its cost to the Club. There is no profit being made by D S Burge and Co Ltd on this work.
This is billed to the bar trading subsidiary for tax purposes so it not directly shown in these figures. It has reduced the EMCC Bar Ltd Donation line (see I&E Report).
Aside from this, my work as Treasurer remains on a voluntary basis as it has always been.
Independent Examination
As a Registered Charity (Charity Commission Number 1177586) with gross income greater than £25,000, charity law requires us to arrange an Independent Examination of our accounts. We did so last year for the Club’s year ended 31 October 2024 and the Committee will again this year once they have been signed off at the AGM. Our Independent Examiners are below:
Robert A Price LP Chartered Certified Accountant 39 Etchingham Park Road Finchley London N3 2DU
Kieran Burge Treasurer
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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF EAST MOLESEY CRICKET CLUB
Independent examiner's report to the trustees of East Molesey Cricket Club ('the Company')
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31[st] October 2025.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
Independent examiner's statement
Since your charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a listed body. I can confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a registered member of The Association of Certified Chartered Accountants which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
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accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
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the accounts do not accord with those records; or
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the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of Section 396 on the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
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the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities [applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)].
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached
Sophie Jones FCCA
Price Jones Partnership Ltd Alders Farm, Ivy Lane Great Brickhill MK17 9AH
Date: 27[th] August 2026
East Molesey Cricket Club Income & Expenditure Account Year ended 31 October 2025
| Note | 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income | |||||||
| Members' subscriptions and fees | 1 | 145,273 | 146,860 | ||||
| Donations | |||||||
| General | 1,217 | 9,723 | |||||
| Restricted | - | - | |||||
| EMCC Bar Ltd | 2 | 68,029 | 72,134 | ||||
| Sponsorship | 16,146 | 28,785 | |||||
| Grants | - | 8,654 | |||||
| Socials | 3 | -1,435 | -243 | ||||
| Rental income | 4 | 75,295 | 55,292 | ||||
| Profit/(Loss) on disposal of assets | 51,603 | -5,000 | |||||
| Other | 2,004 | 1,166 | |||||
| 358,132 | 317,371 | ||||||
| Expenditure | |||||||
| Rates | 318 | 73 | |||||
| Light and heat | 10,540 | 15,536 | |||||
| Water | 1,376 | 8,878 | |||||
| Rubbish disposal | 3,093 | 3,568 | |||||
| Sewage disposal | 822 | 3,231 | |||||
| Cleaning | 5,931 | 10,331 | |||||
| Repairs & maintenance | 11,313 | 10,881 | |||||
| Insurance | 8,864 | 8,865 | |||||
| Legal fees | 5,143 | - | |||||
| Ground maintenance | 5 | 73,321 | 55,008 | ||||
| Overseas player | 6 | 8,735 | 10,137 | ||||
| Playing costs | 7 | 50,372 | 50,614 | ||||
| Coaching | 8 | 54,728 | 46,890 | ||||
| Accountancy fees | 500 | 500 | |||||
| Other | 9 | 96,695 | 92,883 | ||||
| 331,751 | 317,395 | ||||||
| Excess of Income over Expenditure | 26,381 | -24 | |||||
| Capital Expenditure | 90,211 | 52,778 | |||||
| Excess of Income over Expenditure and Capex | -63,830 | -52,802 |
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| East Molesey Cricket Club | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance Sheet | |||||
| as at 31 October 2025 | |||||
| Note | 31 October | 2025 (£) | 31 October | 2024 (£) | |
| Non-current assets | |||||
| Fixed assets | 10 | 248,380 | 217,294 | ||
| Current assets | |||||
| Other stock | 2,389 | 2,389 | |||
| Prepayments | 1,916 | 1,920 | |||
| Trade debtors | 9,879 | 1,950 | |||
| Cash at bank | 2,615 | 12,885 | |||
| Loan to EMCC Bar Ltd | 5,933 | 27,384 | |||
| 22,732 | 46,528 | ||||
| Total assets | 271,112 | 263,822 | |||
| Non-current liabilities | |||||
| Other Loans | - | - | |||
| Members Loans | - | - | |||
| - | - | ||||
| Current liabilities | |||||
| Trade payables | 2,510 | 2,236 | |||
| Deferred income | - | 4,506 | |||
| Café deposit | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||
| Other creditors | -4,866 | 9,993 | |||
| 7,644 | 26,735 | ||||
| Total liabilities | 7,644 | 26,735 | |||
| Net assets | 263,468 | 237,087 | |||
| Reserves | |||||
| General | 263,468 | 237,087 | |||
| Restricted | - | - | |||
| Total reserves | 263,468 | 237,087 |
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East Molesey Cricket Club Notes to the Accounts Year Ending 31 October 2025
Note 1 - Members' subscriptions and fees
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
|---|---|---|
| Seniors | ||
| Subscriptions | 11,103 | 7,715 |
| Match fees | 6,305 | 6,030 |
| Winter nets | 1,437 | 2,400 |
| 18,845 | 16,145 | |
| Juniors | ||
| Boys Subscriptions | 76,573 | 80,355 |
| Girls Subscriptions | 30,990 | 32,500 |
| Match fees | 75 | - |
| Winter nets | 18,439 | 17,260 |
| 126,077 | 130,115 | |
| Social | ||
| Subscriptions | 350 | 600 |
| 145,273 | 146,860 | |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Number of senior members | 62 | 45 |
| Number of juniors members (Boys) | 418 | 440 |
| Number of juniors members (Girls) | 188 | 164 |
| Number of social members | 7 | 10 |
| Number of life members | 17 | 17 |
| 692 | 676 | |
| Note 2 – Donations from East Molesey Cricket Club Bar Ltd | ||
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
| Bar takings | 189,775 | 187,239 |
| Pavilion hire | 21,361 | 9,840 |
| Stock purchased | - 58,967 | -56,423 |
| Salaries | - 49,163 | -47,607 |
| Other | -34,977 | -20,915 |
| 68,029 | 72,134 |
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East Molesey Cricket Club Notes to the Accounts (cont.) Year Ending 31 October 2025
Note 3 – Socials
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
|---|---|---|
| Income | 1,718 | 6,105 |
| Expenditure | -3,153 | -6,348 |
| -1,435 | -243 | |
| Note 4 - Rental income | ||
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
| Café | 52,242 | 40,000 |
| HiTZ | 10,363 | - |
| Telephone mast | 2,758 | 5,149 |
| Other | 9,932 | 10,143 |
| 75,295 | 55,292 | |
| Note 5 - Grounds maintenance | ||
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
| Groundsman | 47,535 | 42,050 |
| Machinery Servicing | 9,913 | 3,619 |
| Machinery Hire | 3,346 | 236 |
| Container Rental | - | - |
| Ground Supplies | 12,227 | 8,303 |
| Other | 300 | 800 |
| 73,321 | 55,008 |
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East Molesey Cricket Club Notes to the Accounts (cont.) Year Ending 31 October 2025
Note 6 - Overseas player
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
|---|---|---|
| Flights | - | 1,115 |
| Salary | 8,255 | 5,726 |
| Accommodation | - | 1,500 |
| Other | 480 | 1,796 |
| 8,735 | 10,137 | |
| Note 7 - Playing costs | ||
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
| Seniors | ||
| Teas | 12,097 | 8,450 |
| Scorers | 7,465 | 7,291 |
| Umpires | 451 | 748 |
| Competition subscriptions | 1,634 | 3,822 |
| Winter nets | 3,000 | 2,100 |
| Pitch hire | 5,919 | 7,087 |
| Equipment | 1,892 | 2,692 |
| 32,458 | 32,190 | |
| Juniors | ||
| Competition subscriptions | 4,954 | 3,532 |
| Winter nets | 4,578 | 6,265 |
| Pitch hire | 7,194 | 3,783 |
| Equipment | 606 | 3,819 |
| Trophies | 582 | 1,025 |
| 17,914 | 18,424 | |
| 50,372 | 50,614 |
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East Molesey Cricket Club Notes to the Accounts (cont.) Year Ending 31 October 2025
Note 8 – Coaching
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
|---|---|---|
| Seniors' coaching | 7,598 | 6,259 |
| Juniors’ coaching | 46,950 | 38,931 |
| Coaching courses | 180 | 1,700 |
| 54,728 | 46,890 | |
| Note 9 - Other expenditure | ||
| 2025 (£) | 2024 (£) | |
| Television, Telephone & Internet | 745 | 540 |
| Security | 1,509 | 1,486 |
| Depreciation | 58,828 | 67,553 |
| Bank charges | 3,520 | 3,715 |
| Software | 2,248 | 2,883 |
| Administration costs | 14,811 | 16,000 |
| Charitable donations | - | 1,213 |
| Miscellaneous expenditure | 15,034 | 9,493 |
| 96,695 | 92,883 |
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East Molesey Cricket Club Notes to the Accounts (cont.) Year Ending 31 October 2025
Note 10 - Fixed assets
| Ground | Groundsman’s | Pavilion |
Driveway & | WECA | Outdoor | Other | Total (£) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machinery | Shed & Yard | Improvements | Car Park | Improvements | Nets | |||
| Cost | ||||||||
| 1 November 2024 | 74,364 | 80,265 | 57,383 | 49,615 | 11,017 | 77,791 | 173,162 | 523,597 |
| Additions | 13,944 | - | 12,217 | 63,000 | - | - | 1,050 | 90,211 |
| Disposals | -1,250 | - | - | - | - | - | - | -1,250 |
| 31 October 2025 | 87,058 | 80,265 | 69,600 | 112,615 | 11,017 | 77,791 | 174,212 | 612,558 |
| Accumulated depreciation | ||||||||
| 1 November 2024 | 50,523 | 16,016 | 11,420 | 13,023 | 6,600 | 51,947 | 156,774 | 306,303 |
| Charge in the year | 13,492 | 8,007 | 6,960 | 10,952 | 2,204 | 7,779 | 9,435 | 58,828 |
| Disposals | -953 | - | - | - | - | - | - | -953 |
| 31 October 2025 | 63,062 | 24,023 | 18,380 | 23,975 | 8,804 | 59,726 | 166,209 | 364,178 |
| Net book value | ||||||||
| 1 November 2024 | 23,841 | 64,249 | 45,963 | 36,592 | 4,417 | 25,844 | 16,388 | 217,294 |
| 31 October 2025 | 23,996 | 56,242 | 51,220 | 88,640 | 2,214 | 18,065 | 8,003 | 248,380 |