## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1.04.24 Period start date To 31.03.25 Period end date Charity name: Cottingley Town Hall Church and Community Centre Charity registration number: 1186614** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To promote religious, moral and secular**
**knowledge in Cottingley and provide the**
**Town Hall for this purpose and other**
**activities beneficial to the community**| |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|**Religious Christian church services and**
**related activities. Provision of**
**reasonably priced meals at a weekly**
**Drop In providing reasonably priced**
**meals, warm space and opportunity to**
**socialise. Meetings of the Cottingley**
**Village History Society and Heritage**
**Centre are open to all the community**
**with speakers and displays providing**
**education. Free musical concerts**
**throughout the year providing**
**entertainment and a place to meet**
**others.**
**Local families hire the community**
**rooms for parties.**
**Other local organisations and**
**businesses hire rooms at low cost**
**providing a range of social and**
**educational activities enjoyed by the**
**community e.g weekly Art Classes,**
**Ukulele rehearsals, Dance group and**
**Slimming World meetings**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees do have regard to the**
**Charity Commission guidance on public**
**benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|**The charity has by its activities been**
**able to fund maintenance and improve**
**the fabric of Cottingley Town Hall which**
**is a Grade 2 listed building. By keeping**
**the building open this has provided an**
**place and opportunity for community**
**activities and socialising that have**
**benefitted by improving health and**
**wellbeing of people who attend events**
**or hire the premises.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |||| Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The financial position at the end of the**
**period was confirmed as satisfactory by**
**the trustees. Total money in hand**
**£78,159.11**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The policy for the amount held in**
**reserve account is decided by the**
**trustees and reviewed at regular**
**meetings. This enables the reserve fund**
**to generate interest income and**
**separates same from current account**
**funds which are kept at appx £10,000 for**
**to meet everyday expenditure.**
**The reserve account are held as a**
**contingency to cover both planned and**
**emergency/ unforeseen expenditure.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Reserve at 31/03/25 £65,994.56.**| |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|**Church collection £5987**
**Room hire from regular community**
**events £4694**
**Room hire for parties £1536**
**Gross income from Drop In meals £3480**
**Misc donations and fundraising events**
**£2969**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Difficult to predict cost that may arise in**
**maintaining a 160 year old building**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust deed and scheme**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated**| |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|**New trustees are appointed by current**
**trustees by vote at a properly convened**
**meeting.**
**New trustees volunteering for the role**
**should have a local connection, be of**
**good character and of a Christian faith.**
**Trustees up for re-election and wanting**
**to continue as trustees are again agreed**
**upon or otherwise by trustees at a**
**properly convened meeting.**| |**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|**In addition to requirements under**
**Charity Commission rules trustees are**
**made aware of the policies in place for**
**Volunteers, Equal Opportunities,**
**Safeguarding, Data Protection, Health**
**and Safety, Complaints and**
**Confidentiality,**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Cottingley Town Hall Church and Community Centre| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1186614| |Charity’s principal address|Cottingley Town Hall
Main Street
Cottingley
Bingley
West Yorkshire| BD16 1SU ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Hilary Barbara
Charnock|Chair and Church
Deacon||| ||Peter Earp|Church Deacon||| ||Victoria Frances
Whitehead|Safeguarding Officer||| ||Martin Francis
John Holdsworth|Returns Officer||| ||Thomas William
Stead|||| ||John Goode|||| ||Baroness (Ellen
Margaret)Eaton|||| ||Raymond Kingsley
Firth|||| ||Kathleen
McGuinness|Booking Secretary||| ||Michael Taylor|Health and Safety||| ||Andrea Taylor|First Aid||| ||Susan Whytell|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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**|| |---|---|---| |**Hilary Barbara Charnock**||| |**Kathleen McGuinness**||| |**Peter Earp**||| |**Susan Whytell**||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **None applicable** ## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Hilary Barbara Charnock|| ||
Chair|| ||28/12/25|| ||28/12/25|| |**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Cottingley Town Hall Church and Community Centre**|||||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|01/04/2024
Period start date|**To**|31/03/2025
Period end date||| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,190**
**-**
**10,000**
**5,474**
**6,231**
**870**
**5,988**
**1,534**
**118**
**964**

**34,367**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,367**
**551**
**2,634**
**4,662**
**556**
**354**
**320**
**1,097**
**3,579**
**13,752**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,752**
**20,616**
**-**
**-**
**20,616**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,190**
**10,000**
**5,474**
**6,231**
**870**
**5,988**
**1,534**
**118**
**964**
**34,367**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,367**
**551**
**2,634**
**4,662**
**556**
**354**
**320**
**1,097**
**-**
**3,579**
**13,752**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,752**
**20,616**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,190**
**10,000**
**5,474**
**6,231**
**870**
**5,988**
**1,534**
**118**
**964**
**34,367**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,367**
**551**
**2,634**
**4,662**
**556**
**354**
**320**
**1,097**
**-**
**3,579**
**13,752**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,752**
**20,616**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations toilet|**3,190**|||||**2,291**| |Donationsgen|**-**|||||**577**| |One off volunatarydonations|**10,000**|||||**-**| |Fundraising|**5,474**|||||**4,666**| |Room Hire|**6,231**|||||**2,387**| |HMRC Gift Aid|**870**|||||**679**| |Church Collection|**5,988**|||||**5,602**| |for PAT testingfrom Hist Soc||||||**5**| |Refund maintenance Pest||||||**66**| |BuildingSoc interest|**1,534**|||||**930**| |Misc|**118**|||||| |Charitable activities|**964**|||||**801**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**34,367**|||||**18,005**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| |**None**|**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**18,005**| |||||||| |Fundraisingexpensess|**551**|||||**692**| |Repairs and maintenance|**2,634**|||||**5,060**| |Light and heating|**4,662**|||||**2,353**| |Water|**556**|||||**627**| |Replacement cooker|**354**|||||**-**| |Misc sundries|**320**|||||**494**| |Charitydonation|**1,097**|||||**670**| |Advertisement||||||**261**| |Organ||||||**386**| |Insurance|**3,579**|||||**3,391**| |**_Sub total_ **|**13,752**|||||**13,935**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |
**None**|**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**13,935**| |||||||| ||**20,616**|**-**|**-**|**20,616**||**4,070**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**20,616**|**-**|**-**|**20,616**||**4,070**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 10/01/2026 1 |**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**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Buildings insurance valuation
Contents from insurance valuation
Current account
Building Society
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
-
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**12,164**
**-**
**65,995**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**78,159**
**-**
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**funds**
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**funds**
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**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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HilaryCharnock|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**2,630,506**| ||||**51,094**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| |||HilaryCharnock|10/01/2026| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 10/01/2026 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts ."?. Section A Independent ExaMine￿S Report Report to the trusteesl members of -tbvl¥ offtsy cLfvJrfQr¢ On accounts for the year ended 31 lo"1 Charfty no (if any) I I8L61 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examinats'on of the accounts of the above charrty (Ih8 Trust") fw the year ended Respon81bllllles and As the charrty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have Gom ￿eted my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention (oth0F1￿*ETr0v￿) in ¢onnection with the examination which gives m8 cause to believe that in, any material resFed: accounting records were not kept in ac￿rdanCe with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not a￿rd with the accounting records Independent examiner's Statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the woffls in the brackets rfÉhey do not apply. Signed: Date: Name: PfvuL Relevant professional qualificationls) or body (If any): Address: IER October 2018