## **Westbourne Community Hall A.G.M. Yearly Report** **Thank you all for coming to the A.G.M. for Westbourne community hall** **(C.I.O.) Charitable incorporated organisation** **I am pleased to inform you that the hall is now being used most days of the week by various organisations. Firstly the upstairs room is being used 5 days a week by Tiddly-Toes preschool this provides us with a steady income from the rent of the room.** **MONDAY — 7.30pm until 9.30pm LINE DANCING** **TUESDAY — 4.15pm until 6.15pm KICK BOXING and 7pm until 8pm** **WEDNESDAY** **2ND Wednesday of the month 6.30pm until 9.30pm Women’s Institute** **THURSDAY** **4th Thursday of the month 1.30pm until 3.30pm AFTERNOON CLUB** **THURSDAY — 6.00pm until 7.00pm BOUNCE FITNESS** **FRIDAY — 9.30am until 10.30am DRAGON FITNESS** **FRIDAY — 2.00pm until 4.00pm SHORT MAT BOWLS** **We have Daytime discos organised for the 12th 0f July 20th September and the 15th of November in addition to that the hall has been hired for several varied discos for Friday July** **4th 80s video disco, Friday 8th of August 60s Rock and roll disco Friday September 12th 70s disco and 2 more one for Friday 10 October and Friday 7th of November** **Also On Saturday 25th of October there will be an Octoberfest organised by Westbourne weekend** **All of these events and organisations bring income into the hall and help with the maintenance upkeep and general running of the hall** **This year we have redecorated the lounge bar area with paint and and equipment of £250 in value supplied Brewers of Chichester which we are very grateful for we still have enough paint to redecorate the main hall when we have time and availability to do it.** **Repairs to the roof were carried out at the end of April we have not noticed any leaks since the has been done so hopefully the roof will be ok for a while longer in the long run we would hope to be able to renew the whole roof.** **Westbourne weekend have built and installed shelving in the old cellar that has made it possible to store and keep that area tidy.** **We have had a grant from the parish council to refurbish the kitchen and hopefully we will be starting that project in the near future also we hope to be able to re-floor the kitchen, bar area and the alcove outside the kitchen.** **We would also like to renew and upgrade a list of other things in the future this would include Rear exit emergency doors, fire doors in the bar and main hall, repainting the roof area above the stage, redecorating the** **passage way, renewing the wooden fence at the front of the building, sanding and repainting the floor in the main hall and maybe getting the pool table refurbished.** **We had a meeting with county councillor Andrew Kerry Bedell, District councillor Roy Bristoe, Chairman of the parish council Nigel Riketts, and also the deputy Highways transport and planning Officer to Ollie King plus the head teacher of the Westbourne primary school Laura Sibley in regard to the parking restriction outside the hall the out come of which could be positive and lead to the removal of the current restrictions in our favour to enable people to stop and drop off at the entrance to the hall. At the same time we took the opportunity to speak to Roy Bristoe about our water meter that is in the road full of mud and unreadable hopefully we will be able to get it moved off the road and nearer the entrance to the hall.** **Lastly thank you for coming along to the A.G.M and taking an interest in the community hall.** ## Westbourne Community Hall RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st January 2025 |**£**
**2025**
Room hire groups
23,517
misc room hire
983
24,500
table top sale/outdoor market
-
other various sales
-
interest
105
donations
108
legacy 2024 / Donation received 2023
-
dances and parties
1,612
Grant WPC
-
Miscellaneous refund and cash donation
230
26,555
**£**
**2025**
Wages
-
B Rates and Water and Trade Refuse
4,859
Light and Heat
4,503
Insurance
804
repairs and renewals and equipment
2,120
printing postage and stationery and adverts
75
licences
177
Cleaning costs and materials (incl £35 cash)
47
Bank charges
-
legal costs and accounting (cash)
50
donations
-
Sundries
-
repayment of loan and now donation in accpounts
-
12,635
13,920
6,937
20,857
**SURPLUS/ (DEFICIT) FOR YEAR**
**SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) BROUGHT FORWARD**
**SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) CARRIED FORWARD**
**RECEIPTS**
Total Receipts
**PAYMENTS**
Total Payments|| |---|---| ||**2024**| ||6,619
-
-
5
5,064
5,000
1,630
2,878
25| ||21,221| ||| ||**£**| ||**2024**| ||-
1,721
3,444
787
4,651
30
189
22
-
50
-
-
5,000| ||15,894| ||| ||5,327| ||| ||1,610| ||| ||6,937| Page 3 **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/ members of** Westbourne Community Hall **On accounts for the year** 31[st] January 2025 **Charity no** 1182665 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 2-4 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/01/2025 - **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: Date:** 10/07/2025 **Name:** Mrs Vivien R Gowlett **Relevant professional** CIPFA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Firs Platt, Broad Road, Hambrook Chichester, West Sussex PO188RF 1 **October 2018** **IER**