_Annual report 2020-21_
## Houghton & Wyton Community Fund
## Registered Charity number 1184624
Annual report of the Trustees for the first year of operations, ending
## March 31[st] 2021
## **Details of the Houghton & Wyton Community Fund (“the Fund”)**
The Fund is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. It was registered as a charity in July 2019 and began operations in early 2020.
## **Purpose and Objectives**
The Fund exists to benefit residents of, and other people closely associated with, the civil parish of Houghton and Wyton who are in need of charitable support. A significant source of finance for the Fund is envisaged to be from the surplus profits of the Houghton and Wyton Community Shop Ltd (“the Community Shop”).
## **Activities and Achievements**
The Trustees envisage that a broad range of Community support will be offered in future, for example to assist village clubs and societies, young people with ambitions to travel, and residents with extra needs who are not well served by the public sector. However in its first year of operations the Fund has focussed on the immediate needs created by the Covid-19 pandemic, and other possible future areas of support have been precluded by the Covidrelated national restrictions.
## **Governance**
The Fund is administered by up to five Trustees. The current Trustees are Lesley Craig, Guy Morton and Simon Summers, who can be contacted via the Fund’s email address which is: hwcommunityfund@gmail.com . A copy of the Fund’s Constitution and an application form for assistance is also available from this email address.
The Fund’s postal address is: c/o The Laurels Thicket Road Houghton HUNTINGDON PE28 2BQ.
The Fund’s regulator is the Charity Commission.
## **Financial Review**
During the first year of operations up to March 31[st] 2021, The Fund received a donation of £1,800 from the Community Shop. In addition the Fund appealed for donations to enable it to offer financial support to local people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Additional donations from the Parish Council, the Parochial Church Council and a number of local residents totalled £6,610. The trustees are most grateful to all who have contributed in
support of the Fund. Out of the total income of £8,410, the Trustees have made grants during the year as follows:
|To finance foodparcels for residents in need|£4,297|
|---|---|
|Grants for computers for home-schooling,and for financial hardship|£2,300|
|Totalpayments|£6,597|
The Fund began its initial period of operations with no funds and as at its first year end on March 31[st] 2021 held a cash balance of £1,813. The Fund experienced delays in opening a bank account at the height of the first period of national lockdown in Spring 2020. The Parochial Church Council of the Parish Church agreed to collect donations into its own bank account and make payments for the first food parcels prepared via the Village Shop, so as not to delay either the giving of donations or the distribution of food parcels at a time of need. The arrangement was terminated in July 2020 when Lloyds Bank opened the Fund’s bank account and the money collected by the Church, less payments made for food parcels, was transferred to the Fund’s new bank account. The Fund had no outstanding financial commitments as at March 31[st] 2021. Any future commitments to grants over more than one financial year will always be covered by funds already in the Fund’s bank account.
## **Conflicts of interest**
The Trustees note that two trustees are also officers of the Parochial Church Council, and one is a member of the Committee of the Village Shop. These are all unremunerated posts. In the Trustees’ opinions, no conflicts of interest arise in these regards.
## **Public benefit statement**
The purposes of the Fund are set out above. In the first year of operations the Trustees consider that a good start has been made on achieving these objectives to the public benefit. As the country returns to a form of normality, the Trustees hope that a broader range of projects benefitting the parish and those closely involved in it will be supported.
## **Risks and mitigants**
The Trustees are in the process of completing a Risk Register, informed by their initial experiences. No risks have been identified which cannot be managed, in the opinion of the Trustees
## **Data Protection**
The Fund has protections in place, to ensure that confidential personal data is not retained for longer than is necessary for reporting and security purposes.
The Trustees of the Houghton & Wyton Community Fund
21/06/2021
**Charity Name No (if any) Houghton & Wyton Community Fund 1184624 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2020 31/03/2021
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**1,800**
**1,000**
**500**
**5,110**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,410**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,410**
**1,017**
**3,280**
**2,300**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,597**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,597**
**1,813**
**-**
**-**
**1,813**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,800**
**1,000**
**500**
**5,110**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,410**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,410**
**1,017**
**3,280**
**2,300**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,597**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,597**
**1,813**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donation from Houghton and Wyton
CommunityShop|**1,800**|||||**-**|
|Donation from Houghton and Wyton
Parish Council|**1,000**|||||**-**|
|Donation from Houghton and Wyton
Parochial Church Council|**500**|||||**-**|
|Donations from Individuals|**5,110**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**8,410**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
|Financing of Food Parcels paid to Village
Shop|**1,017**|||||**-**|
|Financing of Food Parcels paid to
Diamond Hampers|**3,280**|||||**-**|
|Computer and Hardship grants|**2,300**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**6,597**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
||**1,813**|**-**|**-**|
**1,813**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**1,813**|**-**|**-**|**1,813**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
07/07/2021
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
none
**Details**
**Details**
none
Cash at Lloyds Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
none
**Details**
none|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,813**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,813**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Simon Peter Summers|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
|||Simon Peter Summers|28th May2021|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
07/07/2021
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