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2021-12-31-accounts

The Barnet Guild of Artists

Registered Charity number: 1186028

Trustees Report and Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31st December 2021

The Barnet Guild of Artists

Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 2021

Reference and Administrative Information

Registered Charity: 1186028

Registered Office and Operational Address: The Barnet Guild of Artists Whalebones Wood Street Barnet EN5 4BZ

Trustees and Officers

The directors of the charitable company (the Charity) are its trustees for the purpose of charity law and throughout this report are collectively referred to as the trustees. There have been no changes to the trustees during the year other than listed below.

Qing Qi Marie Susan Earnshaw Valerie Cowan David Longstaff

Members of the Management Committee
David Longstaff Chairman
Sue Russell Treasurer
Nichola Hunt Business Manager
Qing Qi
Jackie Siaw-Smith Membership
Bryan Polikoff Secretary
Jenny Eaton Events Organiser
Bankers Co-operative Bank

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The Barnet Guild of Artists

Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 2021

Structure, Governance, and Management

Governing Document CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 29 Oct 2019

Appointment of Trustees

A management committee consisting of a board of trustees and other volunteers govern the Charity. The board of trustees is elected at an annual general meeting in accordance with the Articles of Asociation, when one third of existing trustees retire from office. Trustees are eligible for re-election. There is a minimum of three trustees and, between annual general meetings, additional trustees may be co-opted by the board for a term of up to one year.

Related Parties

The charity is independent of any other charities or organisations but works closely with other organisations. The Art Studio is leased from the Whalebones Trust.

Risk Management

The trustees undertake regularly a review of the major risks to which the company is exposed and establish systems to mitigate those risks.

Objectives and activities

The Guild was founded in 1948 and the CIO created in 2019 to take over the assets, liabilities, and all activities of the existing Guild, a private artists' club. The Studio is based in the gounds of the Whalebones Trust, created by original member and owner of the Whalebones Park, Gywneth Cowing. The Guild was founded to advance education in all the visual arts for the public benefit in particular, but without limitation, by means of lectures, meetings, demonstrations, workshops, exhibitions and the provisions of facilities for the practice of the visual arts. To further such other exclusively charitable purposes (under the law of England and Wales) as the Trustees may from time to time determine.

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The Barnet Guild of Artists

Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 2021

Achievements and Performance

The Guild has had a challenging year with activites carefully resuming following the Covid 19 pandemic and the lifting of associated lockdowns and restrictions. Due to the uncertainty the annual exhibition was cancelled. The development and growth of the charity, through the building of a new studio, is delayed pending a new planning application being developed and submitted by our landlords, the Whalebones Trustees.

Financial Review

Results for the year

During the year to 31 December 2021 the charity showed a deficit of £1,044. The deficit reduced the assets held by the charity to £48,001

Format of the Accounts

The accounts comply with current statutory requirements, the Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' (SORP 2005) issued in March 2005.

Investment Powers

The trustees are empowered by the Articles of Association to invest the funds of the Charity as they deem appropriate.

Trustee Assurance

The Trustees can confirm that the Charity's Assets are sufficient to fulfil its obligations and that all cash and investments held by the Charity have been acquired in accordance with the powers available to them under the Articles of Association.

Reserves Policy

The company has reserves of over £20,000.

Current expenditure is intended to be covered by members' subscriptions and donations.

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The Barnet Guild of Artists Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 2021

Plans for Future Periods

The Guild aims to continue its development in the local community.

Statement of Trustees Responsibilities

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company Law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial period. Under that law the Trustees have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure of the Charity for that year.

In preparing these financial statements the Trustees are required to:

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Approved by the Trustees on 12th July 2022

and signed on their behalf by David Longstaff

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The Barnet Guild of Artists

Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31st December 2020

Statement of Financial Activities

Incoming Resources
Studio fees
Grants and Donations
Demonstrations
Exhibitions
Membership Subscriptions
Interest
Total Incoming Resources
Resources Expended
Studio maintenance and running
Lectures and Workshops
Exhibitions
Bank Charges
Governance Costs and stationery
Total Resources Expended
Net Movement of Funds
Fund Balances at 1st January 2021
Fund Balances at 31st December 2021		 2021
2020
£
£
1,572
1,030
0
20,000
65
0
785
0
1,105
2,260
7
90
3,534
23,380
3,135
3,793
363
373
705
5
370
100
4,578
4,266
(1,044)
19,114
49,045
29,931
48,001
49,045
Unrestricted Funds		 2021
2020
£
£
1,572
1,030
0
20,000
65
0
785
0
1,105
2,260
7
90
3,534
23,380
3,135
3,793
363
373
705
5
370
100
4,578
4,266
(1,044)
19,114
49,045
29,931
48,001
49,045
Unrestricted Funds
23,380
3,793
373
100
4,266
19,114
29,931
49,045

All activities relate to continuing operations. There are no other recognised gains or losses apart from the ones shown above.

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The Barnet Guild of Artists

Financial Statements

As at 31st December 2020

Balance Sheet
Current Account
Deposit Account
Cash
Net Current Assets/(Liabilities)
Net Assets
Represented by:
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds		 2021
£
2,727
45,204
70
48,001
0
0
-
48,001
48,001		 2020
£
3,330
45,197
424
48,951
0
0
-
49,045
49,045

Approved by the Trustees on 12th July 2022

and signed on their behalf by David Longstaff

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The Barnet Guild of Artists

Notes to Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31st December 2021

1. Principal Accounting Policies

(a) Basis of Accounting

The charity trustees must comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 with regard to the keeping of accounting records, to the preparation and scrutiny of statements of accounts, and to the preparation of annual reports and returns. The statements of accounts, reports and returns must be sent to the Charity Commission regardless of the income of the CIO, within 10 months of the financial year end.

(b) Going Concern

The Trustees consider there is reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to consider an operational existence for the forseeable future. Accordingly we continue to to adopt the going concern basis in preparing this annual report and financial statements.

(c) Change of Accounting Policy

The accounts present a true and fair view and no changes have been made to the accounting policy.

(d) Income

i) Donations and other income are credited to the Statement of Financial Activities on a receivable basis. All income arose from within the United Kingdom.

ii) Interest receivable is taken into the Statement of Financial Activities as it accrues to the charity.

(e) Resources expended

Resources expended are included in the Statement of Financial Activities on an accruals basis.

(f) Depreciation

All assets, except land, are written off in the year of the expense.

(g) Operating leases

There are no operating leases.

2 Legal Status of the Charity

The charity is a CIO Association. In the event of the Charity being wound up, the members of the CIO have no liability to contribute to its assets and no personal responsibility for settling its debts and liabilities.

3 Grants and Donations

Grants and Donations
Grants
Individual trusts and legacies
Donations
Other Donations (including Gift Aid)		 2021
£
0		 2020
£
20,000

5 Development Costs

0 0

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