## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 January 2024 31 December 2024
**From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
OVERWATER WHEELYBOAT SERVICES
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1179021
**Charity's principal address** THE LONG HOUSE KINSEY HEATH AUDLEM, CHESHIRE **Postcode CW3 0DR**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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20|**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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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**|
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|**BANK**|NATWEST|42 CHESHIRE STREET|
|||MARKET DRAYTON|
|||SHROPSHIRE TF9 1PG|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
CONSTITUTION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) MEMBERS OR TRUSTEES MAY APPOINT A NEW TRUSTEE Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
- THE CHARITY HAS IN PLACE A CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE
- You **may choose** to include ADULTS SAFEGUARDING POLICY.
- additional information, where THE PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY IS:-
- relevant, about: TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE
- policies and procedures ADULTS WHO COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE CHARITY. adopted for the induction and TO PROVIDE ALL TRUSTEES, STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS THE training of trustees; OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDE OUR APPROACH TO SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS.
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG PEOPLE WITH LIMITED MOBILITY, SPECIAL NEEDS AND ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM **Summary of the objects of the** SOCIETY BECAUSE THEY HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO TRANSPORT **charity set out in its** AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES. **governing document** THE CHARITY HAS PROVIDED COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FACILITIES VIA A BOAT AND A MINIBUS SERVICE. BOTH THE BOAT AND MINIBUS ARE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING WHEELCHAIR ACCESS. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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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
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## Section D Achievements and performance
THE CHARITY MANAGED TO INCREASE, OVER 2023, THE NUMBER **Summary of the main** OF PEOPLE CARRIED O0N THE CANAL AND MINIBUS TO 885 THIS **achievements of the charity** YEAR AS AGAINST 684 PREVIOUSLY. **during the year** WE HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE IN BEING ABLE TO RECRUIT NEW VOLUNTEERS, INCLUDING DRIVERS, TO WHOM APPROPRIATE TRAINING IS GIVEN.
WE CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE I.T. MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WHICH INCLUDES A BOOKING SYSTEM FOR THE TRIPS.
ONCE AGAIN WE MUST THANK OUR VOLUNTEERS AND MEMBERS FOR ALL THE WORK THEY PUT IN TO ENSURE THE CHARITY RUNS SMOOTHLY. WITHOUT THE CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE OVERWATER MARINA THE CHARITY WOULD STRUGGLE TO OPERATE SUCCESSFULLY AND WE ARE GRATEFUL TO ALL AT THE MARINA.
WE SOLELY SURVIVE ON DONATIONS, GRANTS AND FUND RAISING EVENTS. OUR THANKS GO TO ALL, ESPECIALLY THE AUDLEM CHARITY SHOP FOR THEIR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION. OUR FUNRAISING THIS YEAR AMOUNTED TO NEARLY £12,OOO. WE HAVE APPLIED FOR SEVERAL GRANTS BUT HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL MAINLY DUE TO THE LACK OF AVAILABLE FUNDS AS MORE ORGANISATIONS ARE LOOKING AMONGST FEWER SOURCES. WE WILL CONTINUE TO APPLY FOR SUITABLE FUNDS.
## **Section E Financial review**
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**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
THE CHARITY AIMS TO HOLD SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE AND REPLACE ITS ASSETS.
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
OUR MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME HAS BEEN GRANTS AND DONATIONS AND IT IS OUR AIM TO CONTINUALLY SEEK FURTHER FUNDING IN THIS WAY.
- 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)** Michael Cookson **Full name(s)** Michael Dean Cookson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 10th February 2025
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**No (if any)**
**OVERWATER WHEELYBOAT SERVICES**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**CC16a**
|**For the period**
**from**|1/1/2024|**To**|12/31/2024|
|---|---|---|---|
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
DONATIONS AND GRANTS
**10,407**
FUND RAISIING EVENTS
**1,890**
INTEREST
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,297**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**236**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**236**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|DONATIONS AND GRANTS|**10,407**|**-**|**-**|**10,407**
**1,890**
**236**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,533**|**11,168**
**2,679**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,847**|
|FUND RAISIING EVENTS|**1,890**|**-**|**-**|||
|INTEREST|**-**|**236**|**-**|||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**12,297**
|**236**|**-**|||
|**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 12,297**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**236**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||
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**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|
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|||**236**|**-**|**12,533**|**13,847**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||
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|**(see table).**||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|**_Total receipts_ **||**12,297**||**236**||**-**||**12,533**||**13,847**||
|**A3 Payments**
INSURANCES & LICENCES
**2,709**
EQUIOMENT MAINTENANCE
**1,805**
FUEL
**885**
CLOTHING
**343**
DRIVER TRAINING & MEDICALS
**250**
I.T.SYSTEM
**308**
STATIONERY,POSTAGE & SUNDRIES
**180**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 6,480**|**A3 Payments**
INSURANCES & LICENCES
**2,709**
EQUIOMENT MAINTENANCE
**1,805**
FUEL
**885**
CLOTHING
**343**
DRIVER TRAINING & MEDICALS
**250**
I.T.SYSTEM
**308**
STATIONERY,POSTAGE & SUNDRIES
**180**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 6,480**|**-**
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**-**
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INSURANCES & LICENCES|**2,709**|**-**|**-**|**2,709**
**1,805**
**885**
**343**
**250**
**308**
**180**
**-**
**-**
**6,480**|**1,237**
**1,012**
**873**
**299**
**1,542**
**1,612**
**224**
**-**
**-**
**6,799**|
|EQUIOMENT MAINTENANCE|**1,805**|**-**|**-**|||
|FUEL|**885**|**-**|**-**|||
|CLOTHING|**343**|**-**|**-**|||
|DRIVER TRAINING & MEDICALS|**250**|**-**|**-**|||
|I.T.SYSTEM|**308**|**-**|**-**|||
|STATIONERY,POSTAGE & SUNDRIES|**180**|**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**6,480**|**-**|**-**|||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||
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|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|**_Total payments_ **||**6,480**||**-**||**-**||**6,480**||**6,799**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**5,817**||**236**||**-**||**6,053**||**7,048**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**- 6,000**||**6,000**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**5,297**||**14,000**||**-**||**5,297**||**12,249**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**5,114**||**20,236**||**-**||**25,350**||**19,297**||
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**unds**|**Details**
BANK ACCOUNT(NAT WEST)|**to nearest £**
**5,114**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**20,236**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
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||BANK ACCOUNT(NAT WEST)|**5,114**|||
**B1 Cash funds**
## **B2 Other monetary assets**
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Total cash funds_**||**5,114**||**20,236**||**-**||
|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||OK||OK||OK||
|||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**||
|||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**||
|**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
**Fund to which Current value Cost (optional) Details asset belongs (optional)**
## **B3 Investment assets**
## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
|**Details**
BUS
BOAT
SPARE ENGINE
RAILER
HEATER
**Details**|**UNRESTRICTED**
UNRESTRICTED
UNRESTRICTED
UNRESTRICTED
UNRESTRICTED
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Cost (optional)**
**33,842**
**10,000**
**2,141**
**600**
**1,782**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**15,000**|
||||**1,500**|
||||**500**|
||||**300**|
||||**1,000**|
||||**-**|
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||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
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|Signature
MICHAEL COOKSON|Print Name
MICHAEL COOKSON|Date of
approval|
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||MICHAEL COOKSON|1/28/2025|
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