## **Barton Lane Community Association** (Registered charity, number 1184179) **Financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**Page**|**Contents**|
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|2 - 4|Trustees’ annual report|
|5|Independent examiner’s report|
|6|Receipts & payments account|
|7|Statement of assets & liabilities|
|8 - 9|Notes to the accounts|
# **Barton Lane Community Association Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2025**
**Full name** Barton Lane Community Association
**Other names by which the charity is known** Park Gate Community Centre
**Organisation type** Charitable incorporated organisation
**Registered charity number** 1184179
## **Principal address**
Park Gate Community Centre, Chamberlain Close, Clifton, Nottingham, NG11 8RX
## **Trustees**
P Wilkins, Chair L Gilchrist A Dunnett, Vice Chair S Gilchrist T Osborne, Secretary/Treasurer D Goodfellow C Farrow, Membership Secretary A Darby T Dunnett, until 31/01/25
## **Independent examiner**
John O’Brien, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL
## **Governance and management**
The charity is operated under the rules of its CIO Association adopted 1[st] July 2019. Trustees are appointed and voted in at the AGM.
## **Objectives and activities**
To further or benefit the residents of Clifton Lane/Barton Lane area of Nottingham and the neighbourhood, without discrimination of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations 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 the residents.
In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power: to establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects.
## **Public benefit statement**
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'.
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## **Barton Lane Community Association**
## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit**
All activities bring all age groups together to socialise, support one another, and child development. Groups combat isolation, form friendships, helps for support, advice etc. Most groups open to people of all disabilities, vulnerable people as well as promoting new skills, hobbies and interests.
Private hire parties/events for public promote family, friendships and neighbourhood cohesion.
Our main activities are as follows:
- Mondays: Monthly: Aquatics Group & Term Time AGCF Group
- Tuesdays: Karate/Medieval Enactments Group
- Wednesdays: Little Angels (mums & toddlers) 9.30am & Youth Group 6pm
- Thursdays: Children’s Dance Group & Youth Group 6pm
- Fridays: Monthly Councillor Surgery, Good Companions & Parkgate Community Kitchen & Pantry and Friday After school club 'The Ark' & Men’s Group (school term time)
- Saturdays: Hire for Parties
- Sundays: AGCF Church Group 9.30am to 1pm and Parties Hire from 1pm
## **Summary of the main achievements during the period**
- Started a Food Pantry on Fridays from 9.30am -12 noon to run alongside Community Kitchen.
- Held 2 Christmas Meals for local people including those isolated, vulnerable & elderly as well as families, including Boxing Day.
- A small group carried out maintenance & repairs to the centre throughout the year and maintained the garden grounds.
- First Aid Course & Food & Hygiene Course held at the centre for all Parkgate volunteers/staff and other residents. Also a First Aid Course held at the centre both funded for free.
- Held monthly talks with NCC in regards to the centre’s future and the extra bills the centre is to pay from April 2024 (water, refuse etc.). Attended monthly NCC meetings at Loxley House in regards to new leases for centres and the end of all financial support from NCC for all centres.
## **Financial review**
Due to NCC not giving any financial support we have had to make a slight increase in rent hire. We advertise the centre constantly. We have applied for grants which we are waiting on (grant for pantry and costs also a grant for energy saving costs for community venues).
## **The charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity has no specific policy with regard to the level of reserves.
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## **Barton Lane Community Association**
## **Risk analysis**
Without NCC releasing new leases we are struggling to apply for substantial amounts of money for the centre to stay open. With NCC off-loading more costs for the centre to pay, last year and in 2025, we aren’t financially secure which would result in closure of the centre.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
Signed _____________________________________________ Date __________ P Wilkins, Trustee
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## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Barton Lane Community Association for the year ended 31 March 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Barton Lane Community Association (the charity) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’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 matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
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 _________________________ Date ______________________ John O’Brien MSc, FAIA, FCIE Employee of Community Accounting Plus
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## **Barton Lane Community Association Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|_2024_
Total
**Unrestricted**
Funds
**Funds**
£
**Note**
**£**
**Receipts**
14573
Grants & donations
**2**
473
1949
Fundraising
-
7560
Room rents
10741
4513
Super kitchen takings
-
28595
**Total receipts**
**11214**
**Payments**
650
Activities & materials
-
24
Cleaning & hygiene
28
5226
Equipment, repairs & renewals
539
475
Food for resale
-
535
Hospitality
50
502
Insurance
517
1054
Membership
-
264
Payroll service
264
-
Premises maintenance
465
25
Printing & stationery
-
436
Professional fees
500
-
Rent
195
1404
Telephone, internet & postage
1864
-
Travel & subsistence
50
10867
Utilities
5253
4672
Wages, NI & pension
4725
100
Volunteer expenses
-
112
Sundry payments
-
26346
**Total payments**
**14450**
2249
**Net receipts/(payments)**
(3236)
8709
Cash funds at start of this period
10958
10958
**Cash funds at end of this period**
**7722**|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
1900
-
3501
**5401**
-
-
2781
384
-
-
2236
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
**5401**
-
-
**-**|**_2025_**
**Total**
**Funds**
**£**
473
1900
10741
3501|
|---|---|---|
|||**16615**|
|||-
28
3320
384
50
517
2236
264
465
-
500
195
1864
50
5253
4725
-
-|
|||**19851**|
|||(3236)
10958|
|||**7722**|
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## **Barton Lane Community Association Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 March 2025**
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2024 2025
£ Cash assets Note £
10958 Bank accounts 7722
10958 7722
Other monetary assets
1437 Prepayments 4 2468
1437 2468
Assets retained for the charity’s own use
General equipment
Liabilities
(420) Creditors 5 (554)
(420) (554)
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These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:
Signed ___________________________________ Dated ___________ T Osborne, Trustee
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## **Barton Lane Community Association Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **1. Receipts & payments accounts**
Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.
## **2. Grants & donations**
|Sundry donations
**Funds analysis**
**Restricted funds**
Other
Super Kitchen
**Unrestricted funds**
General|**Opening**
**balance**
**£**
-
-
**-**
10958
**10958**|**Unrestricted**
**£**
473
**473**
**Receipts (Payments)**
**£**
**£**
1900
(1900)
3501
(3501)
**5401**
**(5401)**
11214
(14450)
**11214**
**(14450)**||**Total**
**£**
473
**473**
**Closing**
**balance**
**£**
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|||||**-**
7722|
|||||**7722**|
## **3. Funds analysis**
The Other restricted fund is money received specifically for FareShare membership. The Super Kitchen fund is money taken on Fridays for meals at the Friday Community Kitchen.
## **4. Prepayments**
|Insurance - Russell Scanlan
Membership - FareShare|**£**
232
2236|
|---|---|
||**2468**|
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## **Barton Lane Community Association**
## **5. Creditors**
**£** Professional fees - IE 438 Wages, NI & pensions - HMRC 116 **554**
## **6. Premises**
The premises are provided by the local authority.
## **7. Trustees’ remuneration**
During the accounting period, T Osborne, Centre Manager, received total pay and benefits of £4,776.
## **8. Related party transactions**
There were no related party transactions in this period.
## **9. Glossary of terms**
**Creditors:** These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.
**Prepayments:** These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.
**Restricted funds:** These are funds given to the charity, subject to specific restrictions set by the donor, but still within the general objects of the charity.
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