**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
|**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**|
|---|---|
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Saltdean Community Association
31.12.2022
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1179749
3 & 4
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2022.|
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**
|Samantha Pratt|27.09.2023|
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||Samantha Pratt||
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||Association of Chartered Certified Accountants||
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||26 Woodland Way||
||Brighton||
||BN1 8BA||
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|**Saltdean Community Association**||**1179749**|
|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||
|**For the period**
**from**
1.1.2022|**To**|31.12.2022|
**CC16a**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|
Grant - Dayat the seaside|**-**||**3,998**||**-**||**3,998**
**5,982**
**1,800**
**2,175**
**29**
**170**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|Grant - Neighbourhood Plan Project|**-**||**5,982**||**-**||||
|Food Bank|**-**||**1,800**||**-**||||
|Tunnel|**-**||**2,175**||**-**||||
|Interest|**29**||||**-**||||
|Donations|**-**||**170**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**29**||**14,125**||**-**||**14,154**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,154**|**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||
||**-**||||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|||||||||**-**|
||||||||||
|
Entertainment|**146**||||**-**||**146**
**764**
**56**
**270**
**1,000**
**2,677**
**680**
**4,664**
**606**
**1,032**
**408**
**671**
**255**
**338**
**384**
**682**
**900**
**1,091**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|Repairs|**764**||||**-**||||
|Insurance|**56**||||**-**||||
|Professional fees|**270**||||||||
|Maintenance|**1,000**||||||||
|Rent|**2,127**||**550**||||||
|Storage|**680**||||||||
|Donations|**4,664**||||||||
|Plants|**606**||||||||
|Food for Dayat the seaside|**632**||**400**||||||
|Food Bank|||**408**||||||
|Paint & Materials|**671**||||||||
|Signs|**255**||||||||
|Tiles|||**338**||||||
|Software|||**384**||||||
|Newsletter design and forum|||**682**||||||
|Consultancy|||**900**||||||
|Payment in error(refunded 2023)|**1,091**||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**12,963**||**3,662**||**-**||**16,625**
**1,694**
**-**
**1,694**
**18,319**
**- 4,165**
**-**
**39,568**
**35,403**|**-**|
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
|**Equipment**|**1,694**||||||||
||**-**||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,694**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||
|||||||||**-**|
||||||||||
||**- 14,628**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**
**-**|
||**39,568**||||||||
||**24,940**|||||||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
26/09/2023
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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
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B1 Cash funds**|Equipment
**Details**
**Details**
Refund owed to CIO
Cathy Gallagher
Signature
Bank balances
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**24,940**
**10,463**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,940**
**10,463**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,091**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Cathy Gallagher
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**2,494**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
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||||Date of approval|
||Cathy Gallagher|Cathy Gallagher|26.09.2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
27/09/2023
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## **ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHARITY TRUSTEES NO 1179749**
The Trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2022.
## **ORGANISATION**
The overall management of the Association is the responsibility of the Charity Trustees.
## **CONSTITUTION and PUBLIC BENEFIT**
The Association is governed by its constitution dated 5[th] April 2017 and is a registered charity. No. 1179749.
In shaping the objectives and planning the activities for the year, the Trustees have due regard to public benefit. The Trustees consider that the report set out in the following paragraphs relate the benefit that the Charity provides to the public.
## **THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AS SET OUT IN THE CONSTITUTION**
- a) To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Saltdean and the neighbourhood (herein after called “the area of benefit”) without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions by associating with the local authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving conditions of life for said inhabitants.
- b) To establish or to secure the establishment of a Community Centre (hereinafter called the Centre”) and to maintain and manage, or to cooperate
with any local statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the Association and its constituent bodies in furtherance of the above objects.
- c) The Association shall be non-party and non-sectarian in religion. The Association shall have powers to be affiliated to the National Federation of Community Associations and to other organisations with similar objects.
## **REVIEW OF OPERATING ACTIVITIES.**
The Trustees at the start of January 2022 were
Chair - Cathy Gallagher,
Vice Chair - Jon Newsome Ray
Treasurer - Fergal Gallagher
Trustee - Rebecca Coyne
At the 2021 Annual General Meeting on the 10[th] August 2022
David Wilson was elected as a Trustee
## **Membership**
Saltdean Resident’s Association (SRA) is an affiliated organisation and as such all members of the SRA are automatically affiliated members of the SCA with full voting rights. Membership is open to all adults over 18 years old.
## **Saltdean Community Space**
The Saltdean Community Association vacated the Saltdean Lido Building Community Centre at the end of November 2021.The final clearance was completed with the piano and other items considered as important being placed in storage.
Towards the end of 2021 Brighton and Hove City Council offered the SCA a Beach Chalet on Saltdean Undercliff which the Trustees happily accepted.
This has allowed SCA to have a social meeting space whilst the work on the Lido Building is being carried out.
The Licence is for 5 years from the end of 2021
The expectations are that the Charity will return to Saltdean Lido Community Building when the rebuild is complete expected late 2023.
The Beach Chalet was given a facelift and was opened for reservation to Saltdean Residents. It has been a welcomed addition to Community space.
We look forward to the opening of Saltdean Lido Community Building.
## **Beneficiaries**
The Trustees have encouraged as wide a range of community activities as possible across all ages and sectors of the community. The problems and uncertainty around the aftermath of the pandemic with lock downs and continuance of the Covid virus within the Community.
The Trustees have supported other Charities and Not for Profit Groups :Saltdean Lido Community Interest Company and Saltdean and Rottingdean Youth Club are beneficiaries of grants and have been supported by the Charity.
Saltdean Swim and Surf a newly formed registered charity membership 8yrs old to 16+, To promote sea safety and lifesaving water-based activities.
A donation of £1400 paid for 14 exclusive use sessions in Saltdean Lido.
Saltdean Resident’s Association a donation of £1000 to support
outdoor Community events such as Queen Elizabeth 11 , Platinum Jubilee in Saltdean Oval Park
Chatsworth Public Park ,Telscombe . planting and report to promote bio-diversity and wellbeing of local people.
East Saltdean Wildflower verges and benches continuing maintenance and investment in an easily accessible walk of Homeridge House , over 60’s flats
Saltdean Gardening Club. Grant to allow local people to meet and have speakers.
The Trustees concentrated on helping families and children within Saltdean because of the continuing pandemic effects. A day at the Seaside was located at Saltdean Lido exclusive use with free food and drink.
## **APPROVAL**
This report was approved by the trustees on 10th August 2022 and signed on their behalf ;
C Gallagher Trustee
Jon Ray Trustee