## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1.4.2024 Period start date To 31.3.2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Kingswood Hazel Leys Community Workshop** ## **Charity registration number: 1188380 Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To further or benefit the residents of Corby
and the neighbourhood, without distinction
of sex, sexual orientation, race or of
political, religious or other opinions by
associating together the said residents and
the local authorities, voluntary and other
organisations in a common effort to
advance education and to provide facilities
in the interests of social welfare for
recreation and leisure time occupation with
the objective of improving the conditions of
life for the residents.

| |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|Delivered and helped to facilitate many
classes and craft sessions around:
*Woodworking
*Macrame
*DIY Repairing and restoration
*Arts and Crafts; Machining (sewing, CNC
routeing), Screen printing, hobby crafting.
*NHS social prescription weekly sessions
*NNC resettlement sessions
*NNC Adult Learning sessions
*Community Projects/ Sleigh building.
*Saturday Supporting family sessions
through working with CCA.
We operated a Warm Hub using funding
from North Northamptonshire Council from
December 2024 to
March 2025
*We constructed a scooter/cycle shelter
*Started on our community garden
We have also Trained 6 members in first
aid, and 1 member in wood turning to a
level theycan comfortablytrain others.| 1 |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All the trustees, guided by the Charity
Commission, reviewed the KHL Community
Workshop constitution. An official name
change was agreed and accepted by the
charities commission.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |

Policy on grant making

|

Para 1.38|
The CIO is not a grant making charity| |

Policy on social investment
including program related
investment
|

Para 1.38|The CIO has a regular account with Lloyds
Bank. We use this for regular workshop
management and purchases. We have a
saving account with Lloyds. We keep some
restricted and unrestricted funds in here to
gain interest until the time arises to use it.| |

Contribution made by
volunteers

|

Para 1.38|The Trustees grew to 9 members who meet
quarterly. The steering group Reduced to 8
members who continued to meet fortnightly
for an hour all year to discuss and manage
the workshops daily needs. We did not
recruit any new volunteers as there are no
roles needing filled.
Our current team have helped in facilitating
the opening of the workshop for various
activities. On average our volunteers put in
around 60 combined hours a week to
operate our space| 2 ## **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|By the end of March 2025, we had around
215 members, men and women of all ages,
from Kingswood and Hazel Leys and the
wider area. Members continue to share skills
and knowledge and try new tools and
techniques, from sewing machines to
woodworking, jewellery making. pyrography,
whittling, leathercraft, laser engraving and
so much more.

We continue to flourish with several
organisations hiring and using our space.

The biggest highlights of the year would be:
* The installation of Our scooter/cycle
parking shelter. This has helped to free up
much needed space in the workshop by
giving users a safe space to store their
transport.
* Working with Corby Community Arts to deliver
Family sessions.
* Purchasing new and upgrading of some of the
workshop tools and machines.
* Delivering projects for local charites and
community groups
The Workshop continues to grow with more
creative ideas and projects coming to the
table regularly.| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the 31stMarch 2025 the Lloyds bank
current account held £8.517, the savings
account held £35,633 and cash held £192.
We will be applying for further grants from a
range of sources.
£12,000 of the restricted funds is from KHL Big
Local. This will be used to run the Field Day
Festval in 2025/26.
We received £2997 in restricted funding from
Groundwork UK to start our garden project.
We also received a legacy of £10,000 and
£2,000 from KHL Big Local to be used for our
Library of things project.
Another £1,000 was again from KHL Big local
spent thisyear on newpower tools.| |---|---|---| 3 |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We have developed our reserves policy as
part of our financial regulations. The
Trustee Committee will consider the level of
reserves that is prudent for KHL
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP annually.
Consideration will be given to redundancy
liabilities, lease agreements and any other
significant factors that should be considered
were KHL COMMUNITY WORKSHOP to
close
.| |---|---|---| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Unrestricted fund reserves of £17345 were
held at 31stMarch 2025, which is over a
year of regular running costs. Restricted
funds of £26,997 were held at theyear end.| ## **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|
KHL Big Local
Legacy Donation
Membership fees
Session fees
Grants
Donations
| |---|---|---| |

Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted
|



Para 1.46|The CIO has not made any investments in
stocks and shares.
The CIO’s principal asset is the Workshop a
purpose-built three-room steel building
equipped with 16 solar panels and a wide
range of woodworking, DIY, art, sewing, 3D
printing and photography equipment as well
as a space to prepare refreshments. Our
aim is to use this asset to invest in people
sharing skills, time and conversation.
Members can choose to work on individual
and community projects.| |

A description of the principal
risks facing the charity

|


Para 1.46|The principal risk is failing to attract
sufficient funds either in the form of grants
or through membership fees and sales of
work. To date we have been reasonably
successful in pursuing grant funding
opportunities and delivering on our
proposals to funders. We have built a strong
partnership with KHL Big Local,
Corby Community Arts, Made with Many,
the Core Theatre, Groundwork Northants as
well as working closely with North Northants
Council.| 4 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO Association Model| |---|---|---| |How is the charity
constituted?(e.g
unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |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|Eligibility for trusteeship (January 2019): (i)
All the Trustees shall be members of the
KHL Community in Sheds.
(ii)
No one may be appointed as a
trustee of the KHL Community in Sheds if
they are disqualified from acting as a charity
trustee by virtue of sections 178 - 180 of the
Charities Act 2011 (or any statutory
reenactment or modification of that
provision).
(iii)
No one is entitled to act as a charity
trustee whether by election or co-option
until he or she has expressly
acknowledged, in whatever way the charity
trustees decide, his or her acceptance of
the office of charity trustee.

Officers
The members will, in electing trustees at the
AGM, elect said trustees to the officer’s
posts of Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer,
Secretary and Social Secretary.

Casual Vacancies
26. The Trustees may also and at any time
co-opt up to two additional members of the
KHL Community in Sheds to the Board of
Trustees. All persons so co-opted shall retire
at the AGM following their co-option but shall
be eligible to stand for election.
| ## **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|Each new Trustee must receive, on or
before his or her first appointment: (a)
Copy of the current version of this
constitution; and
(b) A copy of the KHL Community
Workshop’s latest Trustees' annual report
and statement of accounts
| |---|---|---| 5 ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Kingswood Hazel Leys CommunityWorkshop| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|KHL CommunityWorkshop| |Registered charitynumber|1188380| |Charity’s principal address|Woodsend Bowling club
School place
Corby NN18 0QF| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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3
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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee(if any) **| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Bryan Massie|||| ||Tim Morton|||| ||Robert Harris||Retred August 2024|| ||Susanne Cunningham|Treasurer||| ||John Macintyre Whiteford|Chair|Retired October 2024|| ||John McGhee||Retired October 2024|| ||George Hill|||| ||Andrew McMichael|||| ||
Nicola Buckingham||Ocober 2024 - present|| ||Ann-Marie Leonard||Ocober 2024 – present|| ||Terry Arnold||Retired in September 2025|| ||Tom Briggs|||| ||Claire Devlin||October 2025 - present|| ## **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)** Andrew McMichael Susanne Cunningham **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair Treasurer **Date** 08.12.2025 6 |**Section A Receipts**
**A1 Receipts**|**Charity Name**
**Kingswood Hazel Leys Community in Sheds **|**Charity Name**
**Kingswood Hazel Leys Community in Sheds **|**Charity Name**
**Kingswood Hazel Leys Community in Sheds **|**Charity Name**
**Kingswood Hazel Leys Community in Sheds **|**Charity Name**
**Kingswood Hazel Leys Community in Sheds **|**No (if any)**
**1188380**|**No (if any)**
**1188380**|**No (if any)**
**1188380**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||01/04/2024
Period start date||**To**||Period end date
31/03/2025||| ||**and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |grants|**2,220**||**17,997**||**-**||**20,217**||**44,466**| |donations|**915**||**-**||**-**||**915**||**1,285**| |Fundraising|**4,162**||**-**||**-**||**4,162**||**3,404**| |membership|**1,459**||**-**||**-**||**1,459**||**1,978**| |sales ofgoods|**252**||**-**||**-**||**252**||**135**| |Other|**38**||**-**||**-**||**38**||**-**| |Running (solar income)|**956**||**-**||**-**||**956**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**10,002**||**17,997**||**-**||**27,999**||**51,268**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**|||||||||| |**interest**|**566**||||||||**78**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**566**||||||||**78**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**51,346**| ||||||||||| |cost of materials for activities|**6,135**||**-**||**-**||**6,135**||**1,908**| |runningcosts|**5,089**||**-**||**-**||**5,089**||**2,831**| |staff costs|**2,593**||**-**||**-**||**2,593**||**6,732**| |advertising|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**314**| |office costs|**1,816**||**-**||**-**||**1,816**||**1,004**| |others|**244**||**-**||**-**||**244**||**528**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**15,877**||**-**||**-**||**15,877**||**13,317**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |new equipment|**2,071**||||||||**997**| |buildingworks|**1,459**||||||||**235**| |**_Sub total_ **|**3,530**||||||||**1,232**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**14,549**| ||||||||||| ||**- 8,839**||**11,477**||**-**||**2,638**||**36,797**| ||**6,030**|
|**- 6,030**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**20,154**||**21,550**||**-**||**41,704**||**4,907**| ||**17,345**||**26,997**||**-**||**44,342**||**41,704**| ||||||||||| 7 |**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**|**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**|**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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Lloyds savings
lloyds
cash
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**8,636**||**26,997**||**-**| ||||**8,517**||||**-**| ||||**192**||**-**||**-**| ||||**17,345**||**26,997**||**-**| ||||||||OK
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
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**liability relates**||**Amount due**
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approval| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| 8 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts kndependent Exarnine¢s Report Report to the trusteesl member8 of Kingswood Hazel Leys Community in Sheds On accounts for the year ended 31" Mareh 2026 Charity no Irf any) 1188380 Set out on pages 1108 I report to the Injstees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Xhe Twst'l for the year ended 3110312025. Re8pon8ibilitiey and As the chaiity trustees ofthe Trust you are reswnsiNe for the weparalion ba$1¥ of report oflhe account5 in accordance vthh the requirements of the Charrties Act 2011 ('the Act.). I report in respecl of my exarnination of the Trusts accounts carr￿d out under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Act and in carwng out examInal￿n, I have followed Ihe ap￿￿abbe Directions gNen by the Charity Commission under section 14515Xb) of the Act. I have cornpleted my examtnation. I confimi that no materlal matters have come to my attenb'on in eonneetion wrth the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material Tespect.. accounbng reeo(ds were not kept in accordance with seclion 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord ￿itti the accounling recor(Is Independent examiners statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with Ihe exarninalion lo which attenlion should be drawn in D￿er to enable proper underslanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: 30101r2026 Name: Mrs J E Stobart Relevant profe88ional qualification(¥l or body lif any): FCCA Addres8: clo RCCE, TI)K4W￿BUSI￿es$ Park, Ipmotsty Road FeerirwJ.. COLCHESTER Essex C05 9SE