## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From April 1[st] 2024 To September 30th 2025** ## **Charity name: North East Restoration Club** ## **Charity registration number: 1181786** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1) Promoting the maintenance,**
**restoration and use of classic and**
**historic vehicles.**
**2) Providing facilities to support the**
**above.**
**3) Providing technical assistance to**
**like-minded groups.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The Club continues to provide short**
**medium and long term bays to members**
**in support of the charitable objectives.**
**Facilities to complete work on classic**
**vehicles are provided and enhanced as**
**and when funds and need are identified.**
**The Club provides multiple ‘show’**
**events, both full day and evening and**
**gives regular guided tours of the facilities**
**to individuals and groups. Support is**
**provided to other organisations.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had update on this**
**guidance and ‘The Essential Trustee’**
**document.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **N.A.** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **N.A.** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **Volunteers continue to restore, maintain and show classic vehicles in line with the** |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**charitable objectives. All activities of the**
**Club, including public access activities,**
**management and trusteeship are**
**operated/supported by Club members**
**who are all volunteers.**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Around 28 vehicles are undergoing**
**restoration at the Club. The introduction**
**of short medium and long term contracts**
**for work on vehicles, together with a five**
**year upper limit on tenure, introduced in**
**the previous report year, have increased**
**the throughput of completed**
**restorations.**
**Numbers of vehicles on display at open**
**days and the number of members of the**
**public attending these events have**
**beenmaintained at previously reported**
**levels, while monthly evening gathering**
**of classic vehicles between April and**
**September have continued in popularity**
**and remain a significant part of the**
**Club’s calendar.**
**The monthly summer ‘autojumbles’**
**(sales of classic car parts by stallholders)**
**identified as a pilot in the previous report**
**have been suspended after falling**
**attendances, largely due to weather and**
**outdoor arrangement.**
**The club continues to support other like-**
**minded groups, including hosting events**
**for other car clubs and supporting the**
**production of a replica WW1 aircraft by a**
**preservation group.**
**Important progress in this reporting**
**period is the completion of a new roof for**
**one section of the Club’s premises,**
**having been identified in previous reports**
**as a significant risk factor for the Club.**
**(See below)**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**See above.**| |---|---|---| |||**As identified in the previous report, the**
**Club set a target of raising funds to**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**replace the roof of the building. This has**
**been consistently reported as the most**
**significant risk to the future of the Club,**
**being around 150 years old. A survey had**
**identified the main area of risk and prices**
**had been secured for the cost of**
**replacing these most at risk areas.**
**In November 2024, a new roof was**
**installed on one of the two workshops**
**that make up the Club premises. Activity**
**continues to raise the required funds to**
**complete the other workshop. This work**
**has been monitored and supported by**
**the trustees as part of their on-going risk**
**management role.**| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N.A.**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**As seen in the financial statement, the**
**Clubs balance/reserve dropped after the**
**completion of the roof work, but has once**
**again risen and is making progress to a**
**level at which the other roof can be**
**similarly replaced.**
**Division of the Club’s funds into working**
**and saving funds adds security to the**
**funding for the roof project. As above,**
**such additional work on the financial**
**management of the Club (and production**
**of a finance policy reflecting this**
**development) has been supported by the**
**trustees.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**As above, during the year under review,**
**the Club established a formal policy on**
**finance and reserves. As in the previous**
**report, this reserve is intended, in the**
**first instance, to address the replacement**
**of the roof as stated above, but will act as**
**an ‘emergency fund’ and fund for**
**planned fufutre improvements to the**
**Club’s premises and facilities in line with**
**its charitable objectives**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£80,000 as stated, with the expectation**
**this will grow.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N.A.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N.A.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Income from membership fees, ‘bay’**
**rentals (areas for members to restore**
**cars) and open days and other events.**
**Minor grants from Local Authority.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N.A.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**As previously stated in this report and**
**previous reports; at 150+ years old, the**
**roof of the building is the key risk. In the**
**period of this reporta new roof was**
**installed on one of the Club’s workshop**
**areas and progress is being made on**
**funding for replacement of the other**| worksho roof. Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charities Commission model**
**Constitution for CIO.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees self-nominate and if there are**
**more nominations than places available,**
**they are selected by vote at the AGM.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**N.A.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Trustees oversee the operation of the**
**organisation as a charity in line with the**
**terms of ‘The Essential Trustee’. Trustees**
**also monitor and report risk as a formal**
**responsibility.**
**An elected committee of club members**
**undertakes the day to day operation of**
**the Club: within this a Chairman,**
**Secretary and Treasurer hold formal**
**roles.**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**None formal.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|North East Restoration club| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|None| |Registered charity number|1181786| |Charity’s principal address|1 Wilden Rd,
Pattinson Industrial Estate,
Washington
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||James David Pace|Chair/Secretary||| ||John Michael Scott|Treasurer||| ||Malcolm Geoffrey
Holliday|||| ||Arthur Douglas
Scott|||| ||Colin William
Lidster|||| ||Bernard
McConville|||| ||Kenneth Ian
Tunnicliffe|||| ||James Hayes|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** James D Pace **Full name(s)** James David Pace **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** **Date** 04/12/2025 North East Restoration Club end ofyear December 2024 End ofyear December2024 End of year March 2024 En¢ ol year N8rch 2023 Incorne Memberships Bays conialners ect Open days Scrap sales Key Oeposit Autojumble Spaylprep bay Kitchin club night Roof fund Pay paigiving Regalialcom Errors Insurancelrefund Zèttie card payment £13,517.24 £17,081.00 £8.715.00 £367.90 £100 £16.708.28 £20,550.00 E7,137.18 £751. £6,090.00 £15,235.00 25,340.00 £497.60 £300.00 £430.00 £340.00 £1.185.00 £1.115.00 £136.00 r1217.00 434.69 rnorgan5 £80.OQ £183.01 £432.78 Grant £4,043.92 £1,795.18 £600.00 £186.50 £8.705.00 £125 £228.50 refund £ioi.00 £0 £75 £1,116 £1,150 £6,000.00 £0 £139.52 asset sale £4,763 £0 £49,588.54 £61,689.36 £36,675.00 Expenses Insurance BOC ElectiiclPower Telephone Waier £5,258.03 £449.28 £4.487.78 £273.33 É273.49 El.816.40 £0 £519.36 £1,280.86 £2.295.41 £180.00 £1.200.00 £389.52 £531.00 £310.11 £5.838.01 £747.79 E5.075.21 £325.95 £316.36 £1.843.20 £352.57 £640.01 É4.936.69 £2,441.72 £180.00 £1,179.59 £￿6.25 £J.032.91 £0 £160 £8.894 £677.65 É1.119.37 £5.033.48 £576.88 ES.888.67 £438.23 £498.95 Rates Waste skip Food open days Malntenceliepairs Workshop purchase Accountancy Peityca5h Postage15tationery Keylfirelect Trophieslclutyflag Wixlcorn Roof deposit sun(Jries eriorlrefun El.116.40 £646.40 £722.78 £982.16 £2,229.84 £180.00 £3,581.99 £218.66 £0 £0 £160.00 £514.19 £0 £0 £201.60 rnorgan5 £22,266.00 fieldwork £224.40 £318.01 clubroom £42,074.58 E3E,096.99 £22,586.63 total Incorne totalspend surplus g49.588.54 £42.074.59 £7,513.95 E81,689.36 £36.096.99 £25,592.37 £22,586.63 E14,088.37 at bank31st Dec 24 add to bank È9.290.95 E7,513.95 É31,698.46 £25.592.37 E77,619.57 £57.290.00 £48,000.00 31698.46 £60,000.00 £9.48 atbank 31st Dec24 £16.804.90 to reserve £112,042.92 £128,847.82 c105ing closing r8setve account toialar 31st Dec 24 £9,290.84 £109.749.89 £2.19 £91.707.94 £77.619.57 £14,088.37 Toialar31st Dec 2024 £128,847.82 £119,042.92 £91,707.94 Olst April 24 till 30th September 25 Add to bank Money out End April 24 End May 24 End June 24 £10,303.31 £14,009.71 £4,066.74 £3,230.39 £2,561.10 £7,170.30 £2,543.90 £2,094.90 £3,337.78 £77,969.00 £6,712.67 22,192.12 £5,402.84 £16,171.16 £4,961.12 £6,184.18 £2,604.80 £6,677.07 £178,193.09 £6,102.25 £3,033.81 £1,774.79 £2,134.54 £1,264.61 £24,039.90 £1,146.97 £846.64 £1,731.08 £84,649.77 £867.45 End July 24 End August 24 End September 24 End October 24 End November 24 End December 24 End January 25 End Feburary 25 End March 25 End April 25 End May 25 End June 25 End July 25 End August 25 End September 25 £8,636.26 £2,076.62 £2,015.83 £2,834.98 £1,692.11 £25,845.17 £6,106.60 £176,799.38 Includes the payment of new roof about £89000