Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 1 January to 31 December 2021
Charity name: St Davids Penknife Club
Charity registration number: 1187151
Objectives and Activities
The St Davids Penknife Club operates within the St Davids Peninsula in Pembrokeshire supporting charities and good causes within that area. We raise funds by organising local events including a New Year’s Day swim at Whitesands, local walks, film shows and various other fundraising schemes. We also receive ad hoc donations from supporters and collection boxes in local commercial premises.
Our objective is:
“To provide or assist in the provision of facilities, in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individual. who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life”
Restrictions resulting from government measures taken to limit the impact of COVID again resulted in lower than normal activity in 2021. The only significant fundraising activities we were able to do were the May Bank Holiday walk (which was delayed by 4 weeks to the late May Bank Holiday) and the St Davids carnival. We ceased having meetings after the beginning of March 2020 because of Covid. However, as restrictions eased meetings restarted in May 2021 albeit with limited numbers attending.
Achievements and Performance
The restricted opportunities to run fundraising events meant that the amount of money we raised in the year was limited. Nevertheless we did hold some events and the money raised from these together with money raised in previous years meant we were able to support a small number of deserving causes in the year. These included:
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£1368 to Shalom House
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£1000 to St Davids Carnival Association
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£1350 for an event to thank the local covid heroes
Financial Review
We remain in a sound financial position (see financial statement for 2021). We raised £5080 in the year and the balance in hand at 31 December 2021 was £6,138.
We agreed donations to deserving causes totalling almost £5000 in 2021.
Charity Set Up
The St Davids Penknife Club (1187151) is constituted as a CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation). The trustees for the year are shown below and they were all reappointed for 2022.
| Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) |
|---|---|---|---|
| RR Williams | Treasurer | All year | None |
| WJG Preece | Secretary | Allyear | None |
| G Richards | Allyear | None | |
| L Cotton | Allyear | None | |