2023-09-30-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 01/10/2022 Period start date To 30/09/2023 Period end date

Charity name: Friends of the X112

Charity registration number: 1184865

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	The object of the CIO is to provide transport facilities in the Furness Peninsula and South Lakes area for people who have special need of such facilities because they are elderly, poor or disabled, people with young children or those living in isolated areas where there are no adequate public transport facilities
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	Provision of a bus service, X12, No 11 and X7 services in South Lakeland via our current contractor who delivers this service for us using our Section 22 permits. As agreed with the Traffic Commissioner
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	All Trustees are aware and make decisions based on guidance issued by the Charity Commission. This is noted in any meeting minutes and all Trustees understand the need to adhere to our charitable objects and purpose.

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	SORP reference
Policy on grant making	Para 1.38	We do not currently offer grants.
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38	We do not currently invest
Contribution made by	Para 1.3	Our volunteers (including Trustees) work hard to raise funds locally with regular coffee mornings and lunches,

volunteers		quizzes and table top sales. Events that are both fundraisers and social events. We run a Standing Order donation scheme and keep the local communities informed through distribution of promotional material. We have people involved in applying for grants suited to our charitable objects. We had a one-off Fashion Show organised by a local volunteer
Other

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	Our Transport Manager, Belinda, is in charge of day to day management (as per Traffic Commissioner’s requirements) of our bus services. 2022-23 saw an increase of 10% in passenger journeys made compared to 2021-22 and this increase has continued into the present year as well the routes have been used by residents and tourists visiting the area. We commenced the routes in June 2021 following successfully obtaining our Section 22 permits in the previous financial year, contracting our service provider (Blueworks) and contracting our Transport Manager, Belinda. Passengers like the 16 seater low floor buses that we mostly use which suit elderly residents who find it hard to climb into a coach or get in and out of a minibus. They would otherwise have to pay for taxis as none of our routes have any other public transport options available to them. Our fundraising and social events mentioned above continue to be a great success and also help to raise awareness of the bus routes aand timetables. We have also been successful in obtaining various grants from a variety of sources and we continue to get great support from Local Parish Councils.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41	We aimed to start delivery of our three bus routes (two permits as the X12 and 11 are one route for our purposes) and achieved this in the summer of 2021. It has, pardon the pun, been a long road to get here and we are delighted to have

		launched our service.
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	We achieved our objectives this year as we have done in previous years in that the buses are still running and passenger numbers are increasing.
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41	Not applicable
Other

Financial Review

Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	We have £9396.41 in funds at the end of the financial year, to help operate our service.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	Reserves are held with projects in mind and to fund future services.
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£9,396.41
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	County, Distric and Parish Council Grants 4,025 Coniston 14 500 Local events 6495 Roselands Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation 5500 Cumbria County Council grant 304 Fashion show 705 Tesco grant 1000 Interest on account balance 29 Standing Order Scheme 845 Parish Council and Councillor grants 5500
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46	Lack of volunteers to do the day to day work, increasing difficulty in obtaining grants from organisations who have to ration demand because of increasing demand for help. Areal problem is in the area of sustaining the quality of the buses. Costs of trying to update vehicles has been made really difficult because of huge price increases in recent years.
Other

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s

trusts:
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Constitution adopted 26th May 2019
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	Trustees are appointed/elected at the AGM and or co-opted during the year if required or as new Trustees become available.

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:
Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees	Para 1.51	The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment: (a) a copy of the current version of the constitution; and (b) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts.
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51	(a) The 'Friends of the X112 may appoint up to 12 charity trustees. (b) Any appointment must be made at a meeting held according to the ordinary practice of the appointing body. (c) Each appointment must be for a term of [three] years. (d) The appointment will be effective from the later of: (i) the date of the vacancy; and (ii) the date on which the charity trustees or their secretary or clerk are informed of the appointment. (e) The person appointed need not be a member of the appointing body. (f) A trustee appointed by the appointing body has the same duty under clause 9(1) as the other charity trustees to act in the way he or she decides in good faith would be most likely to further the purposes of the CIO] We have a Chair, Secretary and Treasurer plus our regular Trustees.
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51

Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Friends of X112
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number	1184865
Charity’s principal address	1 Woodhill Cres, Rampside, Barrow-in-Furness LA13 3QE

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
	Loraine Birchall	Chair
	Roger Harris	Treasurer
	Linda Friday	Secretary
	Anne Hall MBE
	Sue Jenkinson	Vice Chairperson

– 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 held in this capacity

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects

Details of arrangements for 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)
Type of adviser Name
Accountant	Stephen Leonard

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) Loraine Birchall

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Chair of Trustees

10/09/23

Date

	Charity Name Friends of X112	Charity Name Friends of X112	Charity Name Friends of X112	No (if any) 1184865	CC16a
	For the period from	01/10/22 01/10/2022	To	Period end date 30/09/2023
Section A Receipts and payments Utitd		Rtitd	Edt
A1 Receipts Roseland Trust 500 County, District and Parish Councilgrants 3,804 Coniston 14 500 Garfield Weston Foundation 5,000 Duddon CGP 1,500 Tesco Grant 1,000 Standingorders and Fashion Show 1,550 Individual LegacyDonation 100 Interest on account balance 29 - Local FundraisingEvents 6,496 20,479 - - ~~Sub total~~- Total receipts 20,479 A3 Payments Expenses from FundraisingEvents 792 Bus Signage - Bus contract Payments 37,851 Transport Manager Costs 2,000 Consumables(ink etc) 30 Bank Charges 48 Leaflets 105 Public LiabilityInsurance - - Sub total 40,826 Bus - - Sub total - Total payments 40,826 Net of receipts/(payments) - 20,347 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 29,744 Cash funds this year end 9,396 nresrce funds to the nearest £ ~~Sub total~~~~(Gross income for AR)~~ (see table). A4 Asset and investment		to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - esrce funds	to the nearest £ nowmen funds	Total funds to the nearest £ 500 3,804 500 5,000 1,500 1,000 1,550 100 29 6,496 20,479 - - - 20,479 792 - 37,851 2,000 30 48 105 - - 40,826 - - - 40,826 - 20,347 - 29,744 9,396	Last year to the nearest £
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		-		29,744	35,607
		-		9,396	35,607

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on	Details Cash in CAF Bank Account Details Details Details Bus to deliver our service Details Signature Loraine Birchall Roger Harris Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	to nearest £ to nearest £ 9,396 - - - - - 9,396 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) 15,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Loraine Birchall Roger Harris Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional)	to nearest £ Endowment funds
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	Loraine Birchall	Loraine Birchall	05/02/2024 ~~approva~~
	Roger Harris	Roger Harris	05/02/2024