## ANNUAL TRUSTEES REPORT FOR ST. JUST IN PENWITH MEN’S SHED 2023 – 2024
The year began very quietly with the Secretary and Treasurer seeking suitable premises for the workshop and the Chairman arranging for all the previously acquired equipment to be moved from Geevor Mine into storage in a farm building close to Trewellard.
Once again sales activity was fairly limited due to lack of premises, however we did build several new planters for St Just in Bloom and replace the rotting base of their large water tank outside the St Just Recreation Centre. These resulted in a modest profit which proved helpful since subscriptions and contributions had been suspended by the trustees due to the lack of any facilities.
In July negotiations opened with the Bolitho Estate, a local landowner. Several of the trustees went to look at a couple of locations in the Penwith area and agreed that the most promising was at a farm near to Lanyon Quoit, a local neolithic monument. The site had three possible locations, a small single storey store with very limited access, a two-storey stable building of which the ground floor was available and a long, former calving shed. It was agreed that the calving shed had the most potential and the greatest amount of space at around 72 Sq.m. A meeting with the landowner revealed that he and his wife were very interested in Men’s Shed and they fast tracked negotiations to obtain a license from the farm tenant to use the calving shed. The license agreement was signed in August 2023 and access to the building granted from 1 October.
Work on the building commenced in September with clearance of years of accumulated detritus inside and a mass of nettles and brambles from outside. The repair/replacement of doors and/or frames to make the building watertight ran in parallel with creating a through corridor linking the separate bays. Completely new electrical and water services were brought into the building to supply power and light for the workshop and running water for a messroom and toilet. Many hours of work went into reinstating the granite pavement along the front of the building. A composting toilet was required since there were no sewage facilities on site, and members created a concrete base at one end of the building to mount a shed that was ordered to house it.
Membership fluctuated during the year, with the death of one of our original trustees and departure of another two. Additionally, two of our early members found they had insufficient time to continue with Men’s Shed. Fortunately, we recruited a further 3 or 4 new members and work progressed at pace with between 4 and 6 members attending on most Tuesdays and Fridays, and two new trustees appointed.
In terms of equipment, we had a very good year with several major pieces of woodworking equipment and a large trailer acquired either for free or at very reasonable prices. Additionally, we had several donations of tools and fixings meaning that the workshop became very well equipped. Some items such as signage, fire equipment, shed and composting toilet had to be purchased commercially, but the expense was partially offset by generous grants from Cornwall Council, Penzance Rotary and St Just Town Council.
The year ended with funds depleted, but still adequate to keep work going on the building and facilities.
|Original signed|J B Brailey|Chairman|
|---|---|---|
|Original signed|A M R Holliday|Treasurer|
||**Charity Name**
**St Just in Penwith Men's Shed**
|**Charity Name**
**St Just in Penwith Men's Shed**
|**Charity Name**
**St Just in Penwith Men's Shed**
|**No (if any)**
**1185741**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
1-Apr-23|**To**
|Period end date
31-Mar-24|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Sale of Goods
**470**
Grants
**1,500**
Subscriptions
**60**
Donations
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,030**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 2,030**
**A3 Payments**
Materials for Sales
**432**
Materials for Workshop
**1,888**
Room Hire (AGM)
**16**
Refreshments for AGM
**-**
**-**
Insurance
**441**
Property License Fee
**50**
Electrical Connection
**300**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 3,127**
Purchase of racking
**-**
Trailer
**550**
Kity Saw and Planer+Extractor
**350**
Composting Toilet
**534**
Shed for Toilet
**590**
**_Sub total_ 2,024**
**_Total payments_ 5,151**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 3,121**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**8,891**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 5,770**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
Gift to Owner of Storage Shed Loaned
for Free
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**470**
**1,500**
**60**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,030**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,030**
**432**
**1,888**
**16**
**-**
**-**
**441**
**50**
**300**
**-**
**3,127**
**-**
**550**
**350**
**534**
**590**
**2,024**
**5,151**
**- 3,121**
**-**
**8,891**
**5,770**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**470**|**670**|
||||**1,500**|**-**|
||||**60**||
||||**-**|**110**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**2,030**|**780**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**2,030**|**780**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**432**|**504**|
||||**1,888**||
||||**16**||
||||**-**|**75**|
||||**-**|**36**|
||||**441**|**-**|
||||**50**|**-**|
||||**300**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**3,127**|**615**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**70**|
||||**550**|**-**|
||||**350**||
||||**534**||
||||**590**||
||||**2,024**|**70**|
||||||
|||**-**|**5,151**|**685**|
||||||
||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 3,121**|**95**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**8,891**||
||**-**||**5,770**||
## **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
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Bank
Petty Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
AndyHolliday
John Brailey
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**5,614**
**-**
**156**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,770**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
A M R HOLLIDAY
J B BRAILEY
**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)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||AndyHolliday|A M R HOLLIDAY|1/10/2025|
||John Brailey|J B BRAILEY|1/10/2025|