## **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.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
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.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
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|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
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 £**| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**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**|**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**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
~~l~~| ||Loraine Birchall|Loraine Birchall|05/02/2024
~~approva~~| ||Roger Harris|Roger Harris|**05/02/2024**|