Annual report 2021-22
Houghton & Wyton Community Fund
Registered Charity number 1184624
Annual report of the Trustees for the year ending
March 31[st] 2022
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 second year of operations the Fund has continued to focus on the immediate needs created by the Covid-19 pandemic, and other possible future areas of support have been precluded by the Covid- related 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 year ending March 31[st] 2022, The Fund received a donations of £2,050 from the Community Shop. In addition donations from local residents totalled £1,040. The trustees are most grateful to all who have
contributed in support of the Fund. Out of the total income of £3,090, the Trustees have made grants during the year as follows:
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To finance food parcels for residents in need £3,780
Grants for computers for home-schooling, and for financial nil
hardship
Total payments £3,780
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The Fund therefore had an operating deficit of £690 for the year. As a result, having begun the year with a bank balance of £1,813, it ended the year with a reduced balance of £1,123. The Fund had no outstanding financial commitments as at March 31[st] 2022. 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 second year of operations the Trustees consider that reasonable progress 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. These aspirations will be constrained by the amount of financial support available from the operations of the Village Shop, and the results of any additional fundraising efforts.
Risks and mitigants
The Trustees maintain a Risk Register. 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 Food Bank supported by the Fund in its 2021-22 financial year did not provide the Fund with any personal details about the people or families they support, save to confirm that all beneficiaries fulfilled the geographical constraints of the Fund.
The Trustees of the Houghton & Wyton Community Fund
Final 30/05/2022
Charity Name Houghton & Wyton Community Fund
No (if any) 1184624
Receipts and payments accounts
Period start date Period end date To 4/1/2021 3/31/2022
For the period from
Section A Receipts and payments
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donation from Houghton and Wyton
2,050 - - 2,050
Community Shop
Donation from Houghton and Wyton Parish
Council - - -
Donation from Houghton and Wyton
Parochial Church Council - - -
Donations from Individuals 1,040 - - 1,040
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
3,090 - - 3,090
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 3,090 - - 3,090
A3 Payments
Financing of Food Parcels paid to Village
Shop - - - -
Financing of Food Parcels paid to Diamond
Hampers 3,780 - - 3,780
Computer and Hardship grants - - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 3,780 ] - - 3,780
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 3,780 - - 3,780
Net of receipts/(payments) - 690 - - - 690
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 1,813 - - 1,813
Cash funds this year end 1,123 - - 1,123
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Unrestricted | Restricted | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Categories | Details | funds | funds | ||
| B1 Cash funds | Cash at Lloyds | Bank Total cash funds |
to nearest £ 1,123 - - 1,123 |
to nearest £ - - - - |
|
| (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
OK | OK | |||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | ||||
| funds | funds | ||||
| B2 Other monetary assets | Details none |
to nearest £ - - - - - - |
to nearest £ - - - - - - |
||
| B3 Investment assets | Details none |
Fund to which asset belongs |
Cost (optional) - - - - - |
||
| B4 Assets retained for the | Details none |
Fund to which asset belongs |
Cost (optional) - |
||
| charity’s own use | - - - - - - - - |
||||
| Fund to which | Amount due | ||||
| B5 Liabilities | Details none |
liability relates | - - - - - (optional) |
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print Name
Simon Peter Summers
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CC16a
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Last year
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
Endowment funds
to nearest £ - - - -
OK
Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -
Current value (optional) - - - - -
Current value (optional)
When due (optional)
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Date of
approval
6/3/2022
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