## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/04/2023 Period start date to 31/03/2024 Period end date Charity name: Roade Junction Community Group** ## **Charity registration number: 1182473** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To serve all sections of the community by**
**providing a library facility which inspires**
**lifelong learning, offers access to an extensive**
**range of information, and supports**
**recreational activities in a welcoming and safe**
**social environment.**| |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|**Run a Community Library.**
**1. Provide a full library service for all.**
**2. Provide a range of activities for**
**children to encourage reading and**
**learning.**
**3. Provide a hub where the community**
**can meet and enjoy entertainment**
**and learning. **| |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 taken note and followed**
**the guidance provided by the charity**
**commission.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making.|Para 1.38|**We do not make grants**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**We do not invest**| |Contribution made by
volunteers.|Para 1.38|**Our volunteers contribute their time to staff**
**the library and assist at fund raising events.**
**They also support community initiatives like**
**warm spaces, health and education initiatives.**| |Other||**Our income comes from library activities, fund**
**raising events, donations, solar panel income**
**and a grant**| ## **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|**Running full library services**
q **We loaned out 4,261 books this**
**year, which was slightly down,**
**but last year was very high**
**following release from Covid.**
q **We had 6,243 visitors to the**
**library up 10% on last year**
q **We had nearly 400 active**
**borrowers and signed up 82 new**
**borrowers (up 13%) on last year.**
**Associated community support**
q **We did 105 bus passes/Blue**
**badges over the year**
q **We enrolled 82 children on the**
**Summer Reading Challenge last**
**summer (up 8%)**
**We also provided a ‘Warm Space’ during**
**the six winter months and acted as a**
**base for the mobile services for Covid**
**and flu booster jabs.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Our aim was to increase the footfall into**
**the library, which we achieved with a**
**modest increase of 10%. Although we**
**loaned out fewer books this was against**
**an artificially high previous year. We**
**were particularly keen to increase**
**footfall among teens and we achieved**
**this with a significant increase in the 11-**
**15y ear borrowers.**
**We had been seeking to start the library**
**extension this year but because of**
**significant planning delays; this has**
**been put back to the next year or**
**further.**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Because of extra fundraising (we**
**increased events held to 14) so were**
**able to cover all our increased cost in**
**particularly energy and still have a small**
**surplus on operating costs.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**We do not have any investments**| |Other||**We have added a weekly Stitch and Sew**
**group, which provides a place for some**
**of the socially isolated older residents**
**to attend.**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Charity is healthy and saw a surplus**
**on the years’ operating costs**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We hold reserves to cover all our**
**operating costs for 18 months to**
**mitigate the risk of a poor fundraising**
**due to lack of volunteers. Also to cover**
**for major equipment and furniture**
**replacement and to equip the planned**
**extension to the library.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**17,000**| |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|**Charity is healthy**| |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||| ||||**Library activities – Fines, reservations**| ||||**etc.**| ||The charity’s principal||**Solar Panel Income.**| ||sources of funds (including|Para 1.47|**Fund raising.**| ||any fundraising)||**Donations.**| ||||**Grant.**| ||||**Charity does not make investments**| ||Investment policy and||| ||objectives including any|Para 1.46|| ||social investment policy||| ||adopted||| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**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|**Library activities – Fines, reservations**
**etc.**
**Solar Panel Income.**
**Fund raising.**
**Donations.**
**Grant.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Charity does not make investments**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Shortage of volunteers to staff the**
**library, resulting in library closing and**
**lack of fundraising.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**No Trusts**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**N/A**| |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|**Rotational re-election**| ## **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|**Trustees are fully DBS checked and are**
**fully conversant with our policies on**
**impartiality, safeguarding and financial**
**management.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity operates as a full library**
**service and acts as a village hub. Help is**
**available at the library for villagers**
**applying for Bus Passes and Blue**
**Badges as well as help with other**
**application forms. We also support**
**health initiatives. e.g. mobile vaccination**
**centre, CPR training.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**We operate in conjunction with**
**Northamptonshire library service who**
**provide the books and library**
**management system.**
**We lease the building from Roade Parish**
**Council and are working with them to**
**extend the library so we can hold events**
**and meetings without moving the library**
**shelves.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**Roade Junction Community Group**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|**1182473**| |Charity’s principal address|Roade Community Library
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Roger Wood|Chair||AGM Rotational| ||Jane Austin|Vice Chair||AGM Rotational| ||Margaret Armitage|||AGM Rotational| ||Marian Barber|||AGM Rotational| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 None held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |**Financial-**
**Independent**
**Examiner**|Stuart Lovell|23 Forest Road, Hartwell, Northants. NN7 2HE| |||| |||| |||| ## **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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||
Roger Wood|Jane Austin| ||
Chair|Vice Chair| |||| |||| Declarations The trustees dxlare that they have approved tho trustees. report abovo. Slgn•d on bghaff of the charlty's trustsos Slgnature(s) Full name(s) Posltlon (eg Secretary, Chalr, otc) Roger W(M)d Jan8 Austin Chair Vice Chair 16 20?5 ## **Profit and Loss** ## **Roade Junction Community Group For the year ended 31 March 2025** |**Profit and Loss**
**Roade Junction Community Group**
**For the year ended 31 March 2025**|| |---|---| ||**2025**| |**Turnover**|| |Book Reservations (Income)|68.50| |Donations|963.70| |Events Income|2,267.45| |Gift Aid (Donations)|976.50| |Grant Received|497.00| |Greeting card (sales)|450.17| |Jams and Produce (Sales)|55.00| |LMS Sales|138.95| |Membership Subcriptions (Donations)|622.50| |Other Revenue|108.10| |Overdue Payment (Fines)|147.00| |Photocopy (Income)|376.40| |Room Hire|1,965.45| |Solar Panel Income|1,122.97| |Tea and Cakes (sales)|1,209.98| |**Total Turnover**|**10,969.67**| |**Cost of Sales**|| |Cost of Goods Sold (Greeting cards)|252.00| |Direct Expenses|534.44| |**Total Cost of Sales**|**786.44**| |**Gross Profit**|**10,183.23**| |**Administrative Costs**|| |Advertising & Marketing|412.00| |Bank Fees|23.10| |Council Tax (Rates)|934.75| |Gas (Utility)|921.91| |General Expenses|1,496.53| |Insurance (Public Liability)|468.88| |Power (Utility)|1,059.04| |Printing & Stationery|4.20| |Property Lease (Rent)|750.00| |Repairs & Maintenance|363.60| |Subscriptions|136.80| |Telephone & Internet|480.99| |Water&Sewage (Utility)|115.83| |**Total Administrative Costs**|**7,167.63**| Profit and Loss Roade Junction Community Group 5 Feb 2025 Page 1 of 2 Profit and Loss **2025** |**Operating Profit**|**3,015.60**| |---|---| |**Profit on Ordinary Activities Before Taxation**|**3,015.60**| |**Profit after Taxation**|**3,015.60**| Profit and Loss Roade Junction Community Group 5 Feb 2025 Page 2 of 2 # Roade Junction Community Group Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year ended 31 March 2024 ## Roade Junction Community Group ## Contents of the Financial Statements |Business Information|2| |---|---| |Profit and Loss Account|3| |Balance Sheet|4| 1 ## Roade Junction Community Group ## Business Information for the year from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 **Proprietor** **Address** Roger Wood Roade Junction Community Group Roade Community Library High Street Roade Northampton NN7 2NW 2 ## Roade Junction Community Group ## Profit and Loss Account for the year from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 |Turnover
Cost of raw materials and consumables
Other Charges
Profit for the year|2024
£
11,322
(1,299)
(9,773)|2023
£
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Current Assets
**Capital, Reserves and Liabilities**
Capital and reserves
Creditors amounts falling due within one year|2024
£
27,831|2023
£
27,568| |---|---|---| ||27,831|27,568| ||251
27,580|-
27,568| ||27,831|27,568| These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. They were approved on 5 February 2025 by: Roger Wood **Proprietor** 4 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Roade Junction Community Group|Roade Junction Community Group|Roade Junction Community Group| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31/03/24|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1182473| ||||| ||(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 **31/03/24** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed:** _S J Lovell_ **Date:** 13/02/2025 **Name:** Stuart Lovell **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 23 Forest Road, Hartwell, Northants. NN7 2HE **Oct 2018** 1 **IER** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **Oct 2018** 2 **IER**