## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date Period end date 01ay MonthJan Year Day31 MonthDece Y2025ear uary 2025 **To** mber
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## 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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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||JOHN HUMPHRIES|CHAIRMAN|||
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||ANGUS MAUGHAN||||
||MICHAEL SMITH||18.03.25 TO 31.12.25||
||PATRICIA HAIGH||18.03.25 TO 31.12.25||
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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) CNARITABLE 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 PLCAE A CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE You **may choose** to include ADULTS SAFEGARDING POLICY. additional information, where THE PURPOSE OF THIS POLCY IS:relevant, about: TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE policies and procedures ADULTS WHO COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE CHARITY. TO PROVIDE ALL TRUSTEES, STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS THE adopted for the induction and OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDE OUR APPROACH TO training of trustees; 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 SOCIETY BESAUSE **Summary of the objects of the** THEY HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO TRANSPORT AND RECREATIONAL **charity set out in its governing** FACILITIES. **document** THE CHARITY HAS PROVIDED COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FACILITIES VIA A BOAT AND A MINIBUS SERVICE, BOTH THE BOAT AND MINIBUS ARED 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
**Summary of the main** THE CHARITY HAD AN IMPROVED YEAR OVER 2024 CARRYING **achievements of the charity** MORE PEOPLE BOTH ON THE WHEELYBOAT AND THE **during the year** WHEELYBUS.
WE CONTINUE TO RECRUIT NEW VOLUNTEERS AND DRIVERS, ALTHOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND YOUNG PEOPLE WILLING TO TAKE UP THESE ROLES.
WE HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE IN THAT TWO VOLUNTEERS ACCEPTED OUR OFFER TO BECOME TRUSTEES DURING THE YEAR ADDING THEIR KNOWLEDGE TO THAT OF THE EXISTING TRUSTEES.
WE INTRODUCED A “SUMUP” CARD READE DURING THE YEAR WHICH HAS ENABLED US TO COLLECT DONATIONS WHEREPEOPLE DO NOT CARRY CASH.
WE HAVE BEEN MORE SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING GRANTS THIS YEAR AND OUR THANKS GO TO THOSE ORGANISATION WHO
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Section D Achievements and performance
HAVE PROVIDED SAME. SPECIAL MENTION MUST GO TO THE AUDLEM CHARITY SHOP WHO ONCE AGAIN HAVE BEEN MOST GENEROUS IN SUPPORTING THE CHARITY. OUR FUNDRAISING WAS NEARLY SOME £3.000 GREATER THAN IN 2024 AT CIRCA £15,000 UNFORTUNATELY THE ELECTRIC MOTOR ON THE WHEELYBOAT FAILED BEYOND ECONOMICAL REPAIR AND WE HAVE HAD TO PURCHASE A REPLACEMENT AT A COST OF £3,000. ONCE AGAIN WE MUST THANK THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF LOCAL ORGANISATIONS – IN PARTICULAR THE OVERWATER MARINA WHERE WE STORE THE WHEELBOAT AND WHEELYBUS.
|**Section E Financial review**|**Section E Financial review**|
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|**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit**
**Further financial review details**
You**may choose**to include
additional information, where
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.||
||THE CHARITY AIMS TO HOLD SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO CONTINUE
TO OPERATE AND REPLACE ITS ASSETS.|
||OUR MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME HAS BEEN GRANTS, DONATIONS
AND FUND RAISING EVENTS AND IT IS OUR AIM TO CONTINUALLY
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**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 D .Cookson **Full name(s)** Michael Dean Cookson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 4[th] February 2026
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|**OVERWATER WHEELY BOAT SERVICES**
**Charity Name**|**OVERWATER WHEELY BOAT SERVICES**
**Charity Name**|**OVERWATER WHEELY BOAT SERVICES**
**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period**
**from**|I JANUARY 2025
Period start date|
**To**|31 DECEMBER 2025
Period end date|
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**12 792**
**2 159**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14 951**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14 951**
**3 050**
**2 611**
**1 625**
**1 190**
**-**
**309**
**240**
**323**
**-**
**9 348**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9 348**
**5 603**
**- 5 000**
**5 114**
**5 717**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**546**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**546**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**546**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**546**
**5 000**
**20 236**
**25 782**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12 792**
**2 159**
**546**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15 497**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15 497**
**3 050**
**2 611**
**1 625**
**1 190**
**-**
**309**
**240**
**323**
**-**
**9 348**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9 348**
**6 149**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12 792**
**2 159**
**546**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15 497**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15 497**
**3 050**
**2 611**
**1 625**
**1 190**
**-**
**309**
**240**
**323**
**-**
**9 348**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9 348**
**6 149**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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|DONATIONS AND GRANTS|**12 792**|||||**10 407**|
|FUND RAISING EVENTS|**2 159**|||||**1 890**|
|INTEREST|**-**|||||**236**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**14 951**|||||**12 533**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**12 533**|
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|REPLACEMENT ENGINE|**3 050**|||||**-**|
|INSURANCES & LICENCES|**2 611**|||||**2 709**|
|EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE|**1 625**|||||**1 805**|
|FUEL|**1 190**|||||**885**|
|CLOTHING|**-**|||||**343**|
|DRIVER TRAINING & MEDICALD|**309**|||||**250**|
|I.T.SYSTEM|**240**|||||**308**|
|STATIONERY,POSTAGE & SUNDRIES|**323**|||||**180**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**9 348**|||||**6 480**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**6 480**|
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||**5 603**|**546**|**-**|**6 149**||**6 053**|
||**- 5 000**|**5 000**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**5 114**|**20 236**|**-**|**25 350**||**19 297**|
||**5 717**|**25 782**|**-**|**31 499**||**25 350**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|BANK ACCOUNT(NATWES)
**Details**
1|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**5 717**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**25 782**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||BANK ACCOUNT(NATWES)|**5 717**|**25 782**|**-**|
||1|**-**|**-**|**-**|
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||**_Total cash funds_**||**5 717**||**25 782**|||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||||||
||account(s))||OK||OK|||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|BUS||**UNRESTRICTED**||**33 842**|||**12 500**|
||BOAT||UNRESTRICTED||**10 000**|||**1 000**|
||SPARE ENGINE||UNRESTRICTED||**3 050**|||**3 050**|
||TRALER||UNRESTRICTED|||**600**||**250**|
||HEATER||UNRESTRICTED||**1 782**|||**750**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**-**||**-**|
|**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
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|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|||**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**|||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name||||Date of
approval|
||MICHAEL COOKSON||MICHAEL|COOKSON|||||
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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