## **ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHARITY TRUSTEES NO 1179749** The Trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2024. ## **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 2024 were Chair - Cathy Gallagher, Vice Chair - Jon Newsome Ray Treasurer - Fergal Gallagher Significant changes to our Trustees took place prior to and at our Annual General Meeting. The full list of changes are as follows:- ## TRUSTEES WHO LEFT IN 2024 (LENGTH OF TENURE IN 2024) |TRUSTEES WHO LEFT IN 2024 (LENGTH OF TENURE IN 2024)|TRUSTEES WHO LEFT IN 2024 (LENGTH OF TENURE IN 2024)|TRUSTEES WHO LEFT IN 2024 (LENGTH OF TENURE IN 2024)| |---|---|---| |NAME|POSITION|| |CATHY GALLAGHER|CHAIR|1/1/24 - 4/4/24| |FERGAL GALLAGHER|TREASURER|1/1/24 - 4/4/24| |JANE BRAMWELL|TRUSTEE|1/1/24 - 4/4/24| |JULIA PANTON|TRUSTEE|1/1/24 - 4/4/24| |PATRICIA CLOWSER|TRUSTEE|4/4/24 -13/6/24| |JON RAY|DEPUTY CHAIR|1/1/24 - 13/1/24| 2 |||| |---|---|---| |**CURRENT TRUSTEES**||| |NAME|DATE APPOINTED|POSITION| |FRASER WOODWARD|JAN 2024|CHAIR| |ALLAN MCCOLGAN|JAN 2024|TREASURER| |TOBY KEYNES|APRIL2024|SECRETARY| |REBECCA CROOK|APRIL2024|TRUSTEE| |Dr MARK EARTHEY|APRIL2024|TRUSTEE| |DAVID WILSON|APRIL2024|TRUSTEE| |BRIDGET FISHLEIGH|APRIL2024|TRUSTEE| ## **OPERATIONS** - Our AGM appointed a new board of seven trustees, bringing in a range of different skills and experiences. Developed a new funding application form and membership application form, and started to directly recruit members - Successfully managed the community beach chalet, redecorated it and introduced a new online booking system. The chalet has been pretty much booked solid from April to the end of October, giving dozens of local residents and families the chance to spend time there and make use of it. Booking for 2025 is now open - Begun to explore with our East Saltdean & Telscombe councillors how we can improve accessibility to the Tye. - Agreed placement of trees in Robert Kingham and Chatsworth Parks, making use of Co-op grant. - Began work to lobby for better safety on our undercliff walk - Supported and attended a Day in the Park to promote the charity and directly recruit members. 3 ## Beneficiaries The Trustees have encouraged as wide a range of community activities as possible across all ages and sectors of the community. For example;- - Donated piano to local care home - Sponsored “Saltdean Swims”, a free evening of swimming at our local Lido for local children - Funded the local food bank, benefitting local families in food poverty - Provided funding and supported an information bus in the local park for young people during the summer holidays - Replaced web cam to enable residents to view sea conditions 24/7 - Sought and achieved public funding for CCTV to be installed in local park to deter anti-social behaviour which had increased. ## 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. As well as engaging the Residents Association’s affiliated members we have started to increase our own direct membership base. APPROVAL This report was approved by the trustees on 24th March 2025 and signed on their behalf Fraser Woodward Chair of Trustees Allan McColgan Trustee 4 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report Report to the trustees/** Saltdean Community Association **members of On accounts for the year** 31.12.2024 **Charity no** 1179749 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 2 & 3 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2024. **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|18.03.2025| |---|---|---| |||| ||Samantha Pratt|| |||| ||Association of Chartered Certified Accountants|| |||| ||26 Woodland Way|| ||Brighton|| ||BN1 8BA|| 1 |**Saltdean Community Association**||**1179749**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**
1.1.2024|**To**|31.12.2024||| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
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**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
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Grants|||||**-**||**-**||**10,480**| |Food Bank|||**100**||**-**||**100**||**2,110**| |Tunnel|||||**-**||**-**||**534**| |Chalet|**451**||||**-**||**451**||**118**| |Gift Aid|||**1,427**||**-**||**1,427**||**8,883**| |Repayment of charge from 2022|||||||**-**||**1,094**| |Interest|**429**||||**-**||**429**||**201**| |Donations|**5**||**10,035**||**-**||**10,040**||**200**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**885**||**11,562**||**-**||**12,447**||**23,621**| |**_Total receipts_**|||||||||| ||**885**||||||||**23,621**| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Entertainment|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Repairs|**203**||||**-**||**203**||**129**| |Insurance|**90**||||**-**||**90**||**-**| |Professional fees|**750**||||||**750**||**250**| |Maintenance|**229**||||||**229**||**200**| |Rent|**1,932**||||||**1,932**||**2,586**| |Storage|||||||**-**||**-**| |Donations|**925**||||||**925**||**2,280**| |Plants|**1,422**||||||**1,422**||**186**| |Dayat the seaside|||||||**-**||**414**| |Paint & Materials|||||||**-**||**-**| |Signs|||||||**-**||**-**| |Tunnel|||||||**-**||**3,457**| |Software|||||||**-**||**-**| |Newsletter design and forum|||||||**-**||**-**| |Consultancy|||||||**-**||**4,445**| |Payment in error(refunded 2023)|||||||**-**||**-**| |Trees|||||**-**||**-**||**4,733**| |Food bank|||||**-**||**-**||**1,566**| |Website|||||**-**||**-**||**1,000**| |Refund to HMRC Gift Aid|||||**-**||**-**||**6,141**| |Printing& Stationery|**38**||||||**38**||**100**| |DogBins|||||||**-**||**260**| |Xmas carols event|||||||**-**||**603**| |Other|**836**||**-**||**-**||**836**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**6,425**||**-**||**-**||**6,425**||**28,350**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |**Equipment**|**294**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**294**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**28,350**| ||||||||||| ||**- 5,834**||||||||**- 4,729**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**20,085**||||||||**35,403**| ||**14,251**||||||||**30,674**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 18/03/2025 1 ## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Bank balances
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
Accountancy fees
Equipment
Allan McColgan
Signature|**Unrestricted**
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**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**14,251**
**22,151**
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**-**
**14,251**
**22,151**
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OK
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**to nearest £**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
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**350**
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Allan McColgan|**Endowment**
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**(optional)**| ||||**2,039**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**01 April 2025**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| ||Allan McColgan|Allan McColgan|18.03.2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 18/03/2025 2