Ladybarn Community Hub Annual Report. 1[st] April 2024-31[st] March 2025
By Chair of Trustees: Charlotte Coull
Aims of Ladybarn Community Hub
Ladybarn Community Hub seeks to provide a space for the local community that is warm, welcoming, and safe. This space is inclusive, working with the diverse and mobile population of Ladybarn that includes everyone from retirees, students, and professionals at all stages of their careers. We aim to provide activities and groups that appeal to as many people as possible, bringing the community together and creating cohesion and unity.
We aim to maintain and develop the building and surrounding grounds and gardens as a community asset for these groups to use. This includes investing in the building as needed to keep it safe and secure, as well as maintaining a welcoming atmosphere.
None of this would be possible without our volunteers. The Hub continues to host volunteers from a range of backgrounds who facilitate our activities and help care for the building and community who use it.
Staff, volunteers, trustees
In late August 2024 the Hub took on Hannah Jewell as the new manager and continued on to employ a new volunteer coordinator and a building and facilities manager . This brings the staff total to four, with staff hours at 2.4 FTE. The Hub is operating with 38 volunteers, who have contributed 2278 hours of volunteering as of the start of April 2025. Additionally, the board of trustees presently has seven members.
Community Activities (a selection)
We offer 11 in-house activities and groups across a range of interests. These include:
Garden Group: this group has continued to grow, with new members joining and new additions to the Hub’s garden space being made. We now have a nature pond and a compost bed system set up. The community orchard continues to thrive.
Thursday Lunch Club: our ever-popular Thursday Lunch Club continues to run, providing a hot meal, dessert, and post meal games for an average of 28 attendees.
LGBTQ+ coffee morning: this continues to be a popular and valuable group, with a core group of about 10 attendees.
This year we have introduced several new groups and activities, including Monday Crafternoon, a Thursday evening drumming circle, and a games club. We hope to continue expanding the activities we offer and are always on the lookout for new groups and ideas that may suit the community.
The building
The redecoration works planned in the year 2023 to 2024 have taken place; the hall, a focal point for so many of the hub’s activities, has been repainted and new lights have been installed, creating a fresh and vibrant space that is ready to use.
Additionally, the Hub has continued to maintain the building, replacing the fascias, and making the small meeting room space more usable by resituating the electric box.
Finances/funding
The Hub continues to operate using a combination of grant income and income gained from room rentals. Maintaining room rental income gives us a consistent and predictable income to reinvest in the building and salaries of our staff, and grant money from various sources allows us to run ongoing activities such as Wellbeing Wednesday and make one off purchases to benefit both the Hub staff and community; an example of this would be funding from the MCC Food Insecurity Grant and MCC Neighbourhood Investment Fund that enabled the purchase of a dishwasher and slow cooker.
Expenditure |
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|---|---|---|
Staff Wage costs |
52134.10 |
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Employers Pension |
1118.55 |
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Employee Settlement & Legal Fees |
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Payroll Processing Fees |
312.00 |
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Sundry Expenses |
479.08 |
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Refreshments & Lunches |
126.42 |
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Older Peoples Expenses/Wellbeing (Food/cook/prizes/trips etc) less donations |
778.59 |
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South Asian Lunches less donations |
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Ladybarn Choir |
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Staff & Volunteer DBS Checks |
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Kitchen Equipment |
349.36 |
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Staff & Volunteer Expenses |
598.06 |
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Premises Costs (Water & Rates) |
3296.32 |
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Advertising & Marketing Promotion Costs |
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Business Insurance |
1534.03 |
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Light & Heat |
8007.51 |
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Waste Collection |
1482.89 |
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PPM Contracts (Security & Alarms) |
3583.24 |
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PAT Testing & Fire Extinguisher Services |
426.00 |
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Printing |
938.40 |
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Stationery & Postage |
553.75 |
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Office Sundry( Furniture & Tables) |
407.84 |
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Telephone |
2205.90 |
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Computer Software |
212.40 |
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IT Support & Backup |
2911.73 |
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Property Repairs |
3357.36 |
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Cleaning Wages & Materials |
7646.87 |
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Accountancy Fees |
788.00 |
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Consultancy Fees |
540.00 |
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Expired Grants |
-1950.49 |
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Building Survey & Consultancy Report |
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Subscriptions |
1318.36 |
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Insurance Claim |
-559.02 |
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Depreciation |
42.00 |
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Total Operating Costs |
92639.25 |
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Surplus of Expenditure over Income for the Year |
-1050.69 |
income & Expenditure Account |
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Year Ended 31 March 2025 |
£ |
£ |
£ |
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income |
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MCC Core Funding Grants |
39000.00 |
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MLCO |
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39000.00 |
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Room Hires |
49239.50 |
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Sundry Donations |
3349.06 |
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Grants |
Direct |
Carried |
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Restricted Funding & Grants |
B/fwd |
Expenses |
Grants |
Forward |
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Co op Community Fund |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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WG Edwards Heating Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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NIF Mural Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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NIF Alarm System Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Co op Gardening Project Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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We Love MCR Community Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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OPeNs Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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NHS Covid Community Engagement |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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GMMH Wellbeing - Gardening |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Lunch Group Fees Collected |
1311.81 |
1311.81 |
0.00 |
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MACC Volunteer Expenses Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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GMMHW Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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Awards for all Grant |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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We Love MCR - Flower arranging course |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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BUZZ NHS - Kingswood Park Grant |
57.00 |
57.00 |
0.00 |
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NIF - Litter Pick Equipment |
-12.73 |
-12.73 |
0.00 |
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Bollyfit |
280.00 |
280.00 |
0.00 |
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Soundup choir grant |
240.00 |
240.00 |
0.00 |
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Nif LGBTQ grant |
1020.00 |
1020.00 |
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Internation women's day grant |
-26.27 |
-26.27 |
0.00 |
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Morrisons decorating grant |
5282.10 |
5282.10 |
0.00 |
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8151.91 |
7131.91 |
0.00 |
1020.00 |
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Funding & Grants in the Year |
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NIF Builidings grant |
1641.69 |
-3800.00 |
2158.31 |
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NIF Lawnmower grant |
229.99 |
-229.99 |
0.00 |
||
Nif LGBTQ grant |
350.62 |
-500.00 |
149.38 |
||
Duchy of Lancaster |
700.00 |
-1138.00 |
438.00 |
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Food Insecurity Fund |
59.98 |
-1177.00 |
1117.02 |
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Winter warmer funding |
666.00 |
-666.00 |
0.00 |
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Hubbub Foundation |
1990.27 |
-5500.00 |
3509.73 |
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Outreach |
6635.34 |
-24000.00 |
17364.66 |
||
8151.91 |
19405.80 |
-37010.99 |
25757.10 |
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Net Income for the year |
91588.56 |
Balance Sheet |
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31 March 2025 |
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£ |
£ |
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Fixed Assets |
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Office Equipment at Cost |
407.59 |
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Additions in the Year |
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407.59 |
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Depreciation b/f |
127.59 |
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Depreciation for the year |
42.00 |
169.59 |
|
238.00 |
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Current Assets |
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Bank Balance |
30068.80 |
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Savings Account |
20000.00 |
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Trade Debtors |
7075.00 |
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Petty Cash |
723.26 |
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57867.06 |
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Current Liabilities |
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Sundry Creditor |
231.04 |
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Accrued Expenses |
475.00 |
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706.04 |
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Net Current Assets |
57161.02 |
||
57399.02 |
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Less: Restricted Funding & Grants |
25757.10 |
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31641.92 |
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Reprersented by: |
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Revenue Reserves brought forward |
32692.61 |
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Surlpus of Expenditure for the year |
-1050.69 |
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31641.92 |