Eden Miners Centre Leadgate Accounts 2025 

|Opening Balance<br>Income<br>Continuum<br>£480.00<br>keep ft<br>£220.00<br>clothes<br>£150.00<br>Ark<br>£480.00<br>Youth Clubs<br>£922.50<br>Boxing<br>£3,150.00<br>**Total rents**<br>Misc<br>£84.29<br>Trusts etc<br>£3,020.00<br>warm hub<br>£869.76<br>**Other income**<br>**Total income**|£4,262.79<br>Expenditure<br>buidling<br>£903.93<br>misc<br>£393.90<br>water<br>£1,004.00<br>energy<br>£3,368.36<br>insurance<br>£1,150.25<br>broadband<br>£566.74<br>**£5,402.50**<br>**Total running costs**<br>warm hub<br>£1,012.82<br>**Other expenditure**<br>**£3,974.05**<br>**£9,376.55**<br>**Total expenditure**<br>Closing Balance <br>£13,639.34|
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**£7,387.18** 

**£1,012.82** 

**£8,400.00** 

£5,239.34 

£13,639.34 




## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From 1.4.2025  Period start date    To 31.3.2026    Period end date** 

**Charity name:  Eden Miners Centre** 

## **Charity registration number:1187759** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|1.2to promote the benefit of the inhabitants<br>of the area of benefit without distinction of<br>sex, sexual orientation, age, disability,<br>nationality, race or of political, religious or<br>other opinions, by associating together the<br>said inhabitants and the statutory authorities,<br>voluntary and other organisations in a<br>common effort to advance education and to<br>provide facilities in the interests of social<br>welfare for recreation and leisure time<br>occupation with the object of improving the<br>conditions of life for the said inhabitants;<br>2.2to establish, or secure the establishment<br>of, a Community Centre and to maintain and<br>manage the same (whether alone or in co<br>operation with any statutory authority or<br>other person or body) in furtherance of the<br>Objects|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|We have run four different youth clubs<br>throughout the year. In addition we have run<br>a weekly Welcome/Warm Hub providing<br>food and company for lonely adults in our<br>community. We host and run a weekly food<br>recycling programme with The Bread and<br>Butter Thing providing some 40000 bags of<br>inexpensive food to our village each year. In<br>addition during the year we have hosted a<br>boxing club, a church group, and a keep fit<br>group as well as running fundraising and<br>social events and hosting other groups in our<br>meeting rrom|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|We have and remain conscious of the<br>guidance from the Charity Commission and<br>confirm all our activity is aimed at public<br>benefit|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference 



|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We do not make grants**|
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|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38|**We do not make social investments**|
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|We depend totally on volunteers for the<br>management of the centre, fund raising and<br>delivering the services we provide. Our 20 or<br>more volunteers are our life blood.|
|Other||**n/a**|



## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**We have run four different youth clubs**<br>**throughout the year. In addition we have**<br>**run a weekly Welcome/Warm Hub**<br>**providing food and company for lonely**<br>**adults in our community. We host and**<br>**run a weekly food recycling programme**<br>**with The Bread and Butter Thing**<br>**providing some 12 000 bags of**<br>**inexpensive food to our village each year.**<br>**In addition during the year we have**<br>**hosted a boxing club, a church group,**<br>**and a keep fit group as well as running**<br>**fundraising and social events and**<br>**hosting other groups in our meeting rro**|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

**N/A** Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set **N/A** Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set 



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|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A**|





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|**We hold a balance of £5200 at year end**|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We do not hold any reserves**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**nil**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|**Lack of income**|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**|
|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Fundraising, rental income, grants**|
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**|
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Small charity lacking reserves**|
|Other||**n/a**|





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Statement of constituion**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**cio**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**Volunteers elected at an agm**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **We have an induction policy** Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees **n/a** The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works **n/a** Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties **n/a** Other 

## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Eden Miners Centre|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|**1187759**|
|Charity’s principal address|Eden Miners Centre Watling Street Leadgate Co Durham<br>DH8 6DP|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

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|||Andrew Plant|Secretary|||||
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## **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 Name Address adviser** 

**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

**n/a** 

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## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature(s)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>**Date**|||
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||Andrew Plant||
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