## **Trustees' Annual Report** for the period > From (start date) 0 5 0[4][2] 4 0 4 0 4 2 5 ~~.~~ I ~~__ , _~~ I to (end date) ._I --'-.I _ ~~[I] --~~ Reference and administration details ## Section A > Charity name FRIENDS OF EASTWOODS PARK > Other names the charity is known by MINERS LAMP COMMUNITY CAFE & HUB > Registered charity number (if any) 1 1 8 1 1 6 8 > Charity's principal address Miners Lamp Community Cafe & Hub Eastwoods Park, Eastwoods Road Prudhoe, Northumberland > Postcode N E 4 2 5 D T ~~I I I I I I I~~ Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity **Name of person (or body) Dates acted if not for Trustee Name Office (if any) entitled to appoint whole year trustee (if any) 1** Alexandra Bond Chair 2 Hayley Dickinson 3 Lesley Ineson 4 5 **6 7 8 9** 10 **11 12** 13 **14 15 16 17** 18 **19 20** Names of the trustees for the charity, if any (for example, any custodian trustees) **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** **March 2012** **1** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Solicitors Power Scott 16 Clifford Road, Stanley, Co Durham
Banking Unity Trust Bank Nine Brindleyplace, Birmingham
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The Charity has adopted the following policies; Bullying and harassment policy and procedures Complaints handling Complaints policy and procedures Conflicting interests Financial reserves policy and procedures Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures Internal risk management policy and procedures Risk management Safeguarding policy and procedures Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures Volunteer management To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Prudhoe without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, race or of political, religious, or opinions by associating together the said inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisatioins in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for said inhabitants. To establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain and manage the same in furtherance of the objects. To promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined. Maintain and manage the Miners Lamp Community Cafe & Hub Provision of food bank services to the community Environmental improvements and maintenance within Eastwoods Park Provision of sports, sports equipment and facilities to the community Redusing food waste and redistribution to those in need Promotion and protection of local heritage for the community Holding of public events to promote community cohesion Our volunteers make a valuable contribution to the operations of our charity. We are delighted that our volunteers are from within our community, and we have such strong support from within our community. Main achievements within the year; Our Food Bank; we provided 226 food parcels, providing 4.5 tonnes of food to those facing food poverty in our community, 54% of those we support live within the West Wylam area of Prudhoe. We have seen an increase in requests for support from the previous year. Reducing Food Waste; Working with Fareshare, we have redistributed 3.3 tonnes of fresh food and 500kg of frozen food which would otherwise have gone to landfill. Food was used within the Miners Lamp Community Cafe to provide over 300 FREE meals over the winter period. Overall, we have provided 20,000 meals through our foodbank and waste reduction programs, and have saved over 5.5tonnes of CO2 from entering our atmosphere. Eastwoods Park Improvements; We have created over 2000sqm of new wildflower area including new wildlife pond. Community Events; We continue to host Prudhoe Town Show, our towns oldest community event, since 1854. Youth Employment; We continue to provide employment and skills for young people through the Miners Lamp Community Cafe & Hub. Providing opportunities for growth life skills The trustees have no defined policy in terms of the levels of resources held. However, the trustees regularly on a quarterly basis review the amount of reserves that are required to ensure that they are adequate to fulfill the organisations continuing obligations and to provide our services for a minimum of 6 months. No funds are in deficit We are suported by a number of funds and grant making bodies in addition to donations from the general public. Organisations that we have been supported by include; National Lottery Community Fund Northumberland County Council Prudhoe Town Council Sir James Knott Foundation Karbon Homes Asda Foundation No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 during the year No Trustees, nor any person connected to them, have received any remuneration from the charity during the year. |,
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1|2|6| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A** ## **Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Friends of Eastwoods Park **On accounts for the year** 04/04/2025 **ended** **Charity no** 1181168 **(if any)** **Set out on pages** 4 and 5 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **04/04/2025** **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of **basis of report** 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 (other than that disclosed below *) 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. - _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ > **Date:** 01/02/2026 **Signed: Name:** Lynne O’Brien 1 **February 2026** **IER** **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** 6 Shepherds Way East Boldon, Tyne and Wear NE36 0QT **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 2 **February 2026** **IER** **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 3 **February 2026** **IER** ||**FRIENDS OF EASTWOODS PARK**|**FRIENDS OF EASTWOODS PARK**|**FRIENDS OF EASTWOODS PARK**|**FRIENDS OF EASTWOODS PARK**|**FRIENDS OF EASTWOODS PARK**|**1181168**|**1181168**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||**05/04/2024**||||**04/04/2025**||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Miners Lamp Cafe Trading Income|**35,914**||**-**||**-**||**35,914**||**27,835**| |Northumberland Lottery|**592**||**-**||**-**||**592**||**612**| |Donations and Grants|**36,798**||**10,530**||**-**||**47,328**||**9,676**| |Clothes Bank|**463**||**-**||**-**||**463**||**450**| |Northumberland County Council|**- 0**||**4,108**||**-**||**4,108**||**-**| |National Lottery Community Fund (RC
North East and Cumbria|**- 0**||**68,818**||**-**||**68,818**||**55,297**| |Sir James Knott Foundation|**- 0**||**10,000**||**-**||**10,000**||**-**| |Spacehive Crowdfunding|**- 0**||**26,211**||**-**||**26,211**||**-**| |Karbon Homes|**- 0**||**1,200**||**-**||**1,200**||**1,500**| |Prudhoe Town Council|**- 0**||**11,600**||**-**||**11,600**||**8,500**| |Asda Foundation|**- 0**||**1,000**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**| |Interest Accrued|**947**||**-**||**-**||**947**||**-**| |HMRC Gift Aid|**328**||**-**||**-**||**328**||**429**| |Northumberland Estates|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,500**| |Prudhoe Community Workshop Trust|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**20,000**| |Rothley Trust|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**900**| |Community Action Northumberland|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**900**| |Catherine Cookson Trust|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**500**| |Prudhoe Town Football Club|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,906**| |Essity|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**500**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**75,042**||**133,467**||**-**||**208,509**||**131,505**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**75,042**||**133,467**||**- 0**||**208,509**||**131,505**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Fundraising Costs|**22,328**||**-**||**-**||**22,328**||**21,089**| |Charitable Activities|**11,731**||**68,473**||**-**||**80,204**||**25,505**| |Wages and Salaries (inc Pensions)|**14,134**||**31,804**||**-**||**45,938**||**54,790**| |Rent and Rates|**- 0**||**1,438**||**-**||**1,438**||**1,658**| |Utilities|**- 0**||**3,045**||**-**||**3,045**||**-**| |Motor Expenses|**- 0**||**1,916**||**-**||**1,916**||**3,101**| |Printing, Stationary and Marketing|**761**||**-**||**-**||**761**||**1,384**| |Internet, IT and Web Hosting|**1,420**||**-**||**-**||**1,420**||**1,658**| |Professional Fees and Subscriptions|**- 0**||**4,070**||**-**||**4,070**||**6,890**| |Bank Charges|**420**||**-**||**-**||**420**||**357**| |Insurance|**1,606**||**-**||**-**||**1,606**||**1,040**| |Equipment Hire and Leasing|**450**||**-**||**-**||**450**||**3,778**| |Repairs and Renewals|**- 0**||**6,046**||**-**||**6,046**||**1,034**| |PPE and Training Costs|**254**||**-**||**-**||**254**||**334**| |**_Sub total_**|**53,104**||**116,792**||**-**||**169,896**||**122,618**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 02/02/2026 4 |**_Sub total_**|**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_**|**53,104**||**116,792**||**- 0**||**169,896**||**122,618**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**21,938**||**16,675**||**-**||**38,613**||**8,887**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**8,681**||**21,495**||**-**||**30,176**||**21,183**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**30,619**||**38,170**||**-**||**68,789**||**30,070**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end**||||||**of the period**|||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Current Account||||**30,120**||**-**||**-**| ||Instant Access Savings Account||||**-**||**38,170**||**-**| ||Cash In Hand||||**499**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**30,619**||**38,170**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**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**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of
approval| ||||||Alexandra Bond||||02/02/2026| ||||||Lesley Ineson||||02/02/2026| ||||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 02/02/2026 5 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A** ## **Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Friends of Eastwoods Park **On accounts for the year** 04/04/2025 **ended** **Charity no** 1181168 **(if any)** **Set out on pages** 4 and 5 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **04/04/2025** **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of **basis of report** 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 (other than that disclosed below *) 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. - _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ > **Date:** 01/02/2026 **Signed: Name:** Lynne O’Brien 1 **February 2026** **IER** **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** 6 Shepherds Way East Boldon, Tyne and Wear NE36 0QT **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 2 **February 2026** **IER** **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 3 **February 2026** **IER**