2022-09-30-accounts

Hickling Broad Sailing Club CIO RCN 1187111 Staithe Road Hickling Norwich Norfolk NR12 0YJ UK

ANNUAL RETURN TO CHARITY COMMISSION of ANNUAL ACCOUNTS and REPORT for year ending 30 September 2022

The objects of the CIO are:

1. to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for sailing on Hickling Broad and adjoining waters, as well as facilitating canoeing, kayaking, rowing, wind-surfing and paddle-boarding, and:

2. to advance education and training for the public benefit in the subject of sailing and the use of power boats as safety boats.

Throughout the sailing season, the Club has provided opportunities for participation in its activities through regular racing programmes on Sundays and Wednesdays; open meetings; cruising days; the provision of temporary and visitor membership; public celebration of events, notably in 2022 the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee; and provision of its facilities and safety boats to other sailing organisations. As an RYA Recognised Training Centre it continues to offer certificated training courses in sailing and power boat handling to non-members as well as to its members. Other training sessions are aimed specifically at juniors and at encouraging women into the sport.

All of the Club’s activities are reliant on the commitment of time, energy and skills from volunteers. It is volunteers who have the day-to-day running of the Club through the management committee; who comprise the board of trustees; staff all the many various training courses; offer their services to maintain the premises and facilities; and provide catering for Club events. Their membership fees accounted for 64% of the Club’s income, and income from training courses accounted for another 20%. As the accounts show, the largest outlay is on safety and dinghy maintenance (c.20%) and rent, rates and water account for a further 20%.

Below is the Trustees’ Report to the CIO’s AGM held 27 January 2023 :

This has been a frustrating year for the club in a number of areas, none more so than in relation to the efforts which have been made to complete the new lease of the clubhouse site. Although the term of the current lease expired in 2019, the club has continued to occupy the site on the same terms and conditions including the payment of rent. The club has also been

able to continue to use the Alder Carr as agreed with the NWT [Norfolk Wildlife Trust]. This area of land is to be included in the new lease.

Although the new lease is to be renewed on the same terms and conditions, other than the term of years and the rent, the solicitors acting for the NWT have taken the opportunity to update the document, although the general provisions remain the same. Having received a copy of the new draft lease in April - after some delay - and responded to the club’s solicitors, we had hoped that there would be no further delays. Unfortunately this has not proved to be the case and at the present time certain points raised some time ago have still to be dealt with by the NWT. A considerable amount of effort has been put in by the club in order to complete the new lease, but to date it has not been possible to deal with the outstanding issues. The club has suggested that a joint meeting of the parties together with their respective solicitors might help to resolve the outstanding points, but unfortunately it has not been possible to arrange such a meeting. Philip Traverso, who has been the link with the club’s solicitors, will be available at the meeting and will try to answer any questions that may be raised.

Malcolm, as Commodore elect, has written to the CEO of the NWT to see if anything can be done to expedite matters and is awaiting a reply at the present time.

Plans for work on the clubhouse and the changing rooms were pursued enthusiastically in the spring. The New Build committee was delighted when Fran Bradshaw agreed to offer her services to the club. Fran lives in Hickling, is a club member and is an architect with a particular interest in sustainable building in environmentally sensitive sites. She is helping steer us through the process of drawing up a design brief and commissioning an architect. Temporarily, the committee’s work has had to be put on hold pending the completion of the club’s leases: any applications for grant funding of the New Build work depend upon the club holding secure long-term leases. Our frustration at the hold-up is great.

In addition to the ongoing NWT lease , two further issues arose in 2022 which are proving contentious for the club:

• In February 2020, the club’s solicitors began the process of registering and transferring to the CIO the title to the club car park. The onset of the pandemic delayed the transaction of this business. Meanwhile, in November 2021, the field bordering the club car park was bought by J Jefferies Ltd. (JJ Ltd). When the registration of the car park was resumed, the Land Registry found discrepancies between the extent of the common boundary claimed by the two titles. The club has supplied to its solicitors detailed documentation substantiating its claim and we await the response of JJ Ltd.

• In the course of the July 2022 management committee meeting, Julian Jefferies declared a conflict of interest: JJ Ltd, in which he is a partner, was in the process of a commercial transaction to buy from John Uff, owner of The Pleasure Boat inn, a strip of land amounting to the track through the Club dinghy park and some land alongside it. Julian left the meeting. As a result of a subsequent meeting with the flag officers, Julian agreed to step down from his position on the management committee with immediate effect. He currently remains club bosun.

We were subsequently informed on 23 November 2022 by Mr Uff and on 14 December 2022 in an email from Sue Allen, the additional shareholder in JJ Ltd, that the anticipated completion of the purchase is early in 2023.

The Management committee and trustees have also been advised by Sue Allen that, on behalf of JJ Ltd, all communications with the club are to be solely through herself.

The trustees have requested additional information from JJ Ltd. However to date no answers have been provided pending completion of the transaction, other than to indicate, in the email of 14 December 2022, that following completion, "I can instigate discussions and plan the way forward for access in a way that is mutually beneficial to both sides."

Whilst this matter is ongoing, the implications of this transaction are at best unclear in terms of future rights of access to the club over the land currently being purchased by JJ Ltd, together with uncertainty over future levels of rent that the club may be asked to pay to what would become an additional landlord (NWT and John Uff being existing landlords).

The management committee however have been advised by Mr Uff in November 2022 that there will be no change in rent until a review in March 2024, at which time discussions relating to this particular area of land will be between the club and JJ Ltd.

CHARITY COMMISSIO FOR ENGLAND AND WALE .kling Broad Sailing Club CIO 1187111 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For th• porlod from To Section A Receipts and payments Unre$trlGted funds Re$trl¢ted funds Endowmont lunda Totsl funds Last year to th• n•ar•¥l to th• n•Arttte toth• M•rnBt£ A1 R•c•lpt• pr¥￿tion by HBSC 1he Club" 0lh•r Oon8tlons In subst4rKe donationÈ Subs¢thpvcffj4 Ind B8rthi Bo81 Hlm and Trainin9 GAlby. Koys. PrDmO Grants Bnd HMRC Investm&nl In¢om¢ Oth•r I￿.728 $79 10.102 41.232 16N52 3301 t.976 10,075 0,761 429 41.232 16.452 3,201 3.208 126 213 Sub tot&l(Gross income forARJ A2 A8SOt and Invèstmgnt so1￿. 78.$¥9 211.7•2 Boats and Equipment Sub total 212,312 ISW 12.755 t5.449 12.7SS 5.524 75T Sal8ty. & Boat rnalnknarc• Insw8nr G￿￿y. Kèys. ProTrKJ Prof•w411ge&and su￿pU0n¥ 1.743 1.745 Yo4 Sub tota $7.T4J 37.745 .754 A4 Ao••t •nd Investment purcha•￿. IM• tsbhl Equipm8nl 12.735 Sub tot• Il73J SOA78 N•t of recelptsl(payments) AS Tr•nshrs b•tw••n fun A6 Ca•h fvnd¥ l••t y••r •nd C•h funds th18 year en 21380 201.04 201047 202.047 230,427 201047

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H B S C CIO- YEAR LIYDED30 SEPTEMBER2022 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT BALANCE SHEET 30 SEPTEMBER 2022 2022 2021 21n2 2021 Ir4COME FIXED ASSETS Subs and Basic Fees 25J82 15.922 Land, Buildings and Slipways Saf¢¢y Boats Club Swling ￿.￿ghI¢S Furniturc. Filtin88 and Eqwprrknii lkss Grani Fundmg received 8964 12.838 11.407 B¢nhiThg Fccs in¢1 trailcrs ct¢ Keys Club Boats Hire 22W6 14.007 1SJ52 510 165 2,872 7,622 1.489 1,627 178 8J44 Regallas and Opm MectitL8S Trainin8 Coj Prorntionlll S4les I￿ EV￿ty & Gallcy Takm85 tktM)sit Acwjnt Interest EknnNtions and OthLY Inrome Rcttipi on Girl Aid Grants Rel¢as&l 11986) (1982) 14.777 5.653 251 Nei BrA val￿ ofciub Assets 32.7JO 31,756 2J41 Jo 94 280 848 2241 cuRREp￿ ASSETS IA) lrtTrCsi￿ThI$ tsnd Bunk 1 230,427 SILKk5 attd Prepaid Exi 466 202.047 Covid Support Grani Tot1 intome 2ffj67 3,999 206,046 75J14 39,148 234130 LESS.. CURREpif LIABILITIES IB) Cr&h"tots thd Accrued 22 R¢nL Rates & W•teT 10359 4.397 2.192 13.962 smo 1028 Electri¢ity 733 r4ET CURRETr￿ ￿ETs IA-B) 212J45 192,084 1ffj25 552 2057 11,017 1.130 2,902 16S TOTAL CLUB ASSETS 245375 223,840 S•fety & Djnghy M•ittt•Jancc 328 4?42 PriDw St￿10[￿ & Pc4t Telep1K￿¢ SubscriptiODS Pxofessiwl Fe¢$ 41 445 207 REPRESE1￿ED BY: 1.72 454 2.2(M) 251 223140 21A35 Surplus l (D¢fi¢itl itl Year Gifw by HBSC ACCUMULATED FUNDS 8.410 232230 223,840 Sl1￿ Ev¢nts & Gailcy ExF¢nses 1076 72 278 260 245J75 9,707 27.488 Total expenditure 53179 47¥9 Sig￿1 Comt NET SURPL DEFicrr 2133$ {8Aii) ACCOuNTA￿'s REPORT The IKomc thl EX￿￿j1ture A¢¢th￿t for tk yeareDled 30 sryt￿btr 2022 4￿j thc Balat￿¢ STr￿ 89 datc bav¢ b R05fi Club Actount•Dt Dated: