Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 1 January to 31 December 2024
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 individuals, 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”
Achievements and Performance
The year began well with the New Year’s Day swim which raised just under £2000 and set the tone for the year. We are hoping to organise a similar event in 2025.
The other events we undertook included
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The May Walk which raised £1284
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A new event for 2024 was a horse racing night organised in conjunction with the Farmers Arms Public House which raised over £1600
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Working with Pembrokeshire Friends of Prostate Cancer Cymru in support of their “Big Walk” on the Pembrokeshire Coastal path in July and the “Big Breakfast” at the St Davids Brewery in November
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We assisted with the St Davids Carnival by providing martials. We also acted as martials for the switch on of the St Davids Christmas lights and organised the Father Christmas sleigh.
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Helping with the Solva FA barbecue
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We organised Pancake Day races and an Easter Egg Hunt for local children
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A committee was set up to renovate the St Davids scout hut for community use and we assisted by providing a channel for the donations they received through a ‘go fund me’ page.
Financial Review
We remain in a sound financial position (see financial statement for 2024). We raised £13,786 in the year and the balance in hand on 31 December 2024 was £7,447.
We agreed donations to deserving causes totalling £15,526 in 2024 although over £4,700 of this was made in January 2024 from money raised in 2023.
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 all stood for the whole of 2024. Subsequently L Cotton stood down and was replaced by S Cartwright, who is also the Secretary, for 2025
| 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 | Allyear | None | |
| G Richards | Chairman | Allyear | None |
| L Cotton | Allyear | None | |
| 2023 2141 64 1346 50 3957 07 2871 48 328 02 2608 00 367 19 -16 00 895 17 430 37 -51 32 14878 12 70 00 1341 25 70 12 1481 37 16359 49 9976 24 1147 13 11123 37 5235 92 |
St Davids Penknife Club Charitable Funds: Receipts & Payments 2024 Events Receipts Payments New Year's Day Swim 1974 58 0 00 May Walk 1563 66 280 00 Film Night 304 66 0 00 Horse Racing Night 1605 00 0 00 Cathedral Concert 0 00 119 04 Prostate Cymru 3011 78 52 50 St Davids Carnival 0 00 90 00 Barry Hankinson memorial 392 00 0 00 No Shave November 358 98 0 00 Pancake day/Easter egg hunt 65 00 26 00 Coronation Street Party Solva FA Barbecue 517 93 385 00 Xmas lights Switch on 9793 59 952 54 Other Receipts Collection Boxes 442 31 Donation 319 00 Miscellaneous 100 00 Scouts Hut 794 13 Santander funding support 2500 00 Auction At Ball 790 00 4945 44 Total 14739 03 952 54 Less Payments - Donations 15526 00 - Scouts Hut 965 00 - Admin 966 17 Surplus/Deficit for Year |
|---|---|
| 5881 63 5236 12 11117 75 |
Surplus B/Fwd 1/01/2024 Surplus/Deficit for 2024 Surplus C/Fwd 31/12/2024 |
Net 1974 58 1283 66 304 66 1605 00 -119 04 2959 28 -90 00 392 00 358 98 39 00 0 00 132 93 0 00 8841 05 442 31 319 00 100 00 794 13 2500 00 790 00 4945 44 13786 49 17457 17 -3670 68 11117 75 -3670 68 7447 07