Experience Community CIO (Charity Number 1189057)
Trustees’ Annual Report Year Ending 29[th] April 2024
Charitable Objects:
3.1 To promote social inclusion among persons who are excluded from society because of any form of disability and assisting them to integrate into society by the provision of outdoor and indoor day trips to the countryside; 3.2 To advance the education of persons concerning issues regarding access to the outdoors for individuals with any form of disability; and 3.3 To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by the provision of activities that include persons with any form of disability including arts based projects.
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:
Experience Community seeks to help people with a disability access the outdoors through a range of walking, cycling, arts and conservation activities for mental and physical wellbeing, to reduce social isolation and help build our participants daily confidence. All of our activities are peer-led meaning that they are organised and run by disabled people for disabled people with support from our non-disabled support staff and volunteers.
The main activities run through the charity are fortnightly rambles using all-terrain wheelchairs known as Mountain Trikes that enable disabled people access the outdoors. During the period 30[th] April 2023 - 29[th] April 2024 we ran 22 Rambles that supported 160 participants and their families and friends and provided in-house training for our Ramble Leaders to facilitate our activities.
We organised two residential trips including a Mountain Trike Ramble trip at Kielder Forest and an Off-Road Cycling Trip to take part in the renowned ‘Dirty Reiver’ 65km gravel event. In total 25 participants attended our trips.
Experience Community • The Civic Basement • New Street • Slaithwaite • HD7 5AB
Staff time for organising and running our rambles and residential trips has been donated from Experience Community CIC, for which we are grateful, as without this support we wouldn’t be able to undertake our work. We are also extremely thankful to all of the volunteers who have supported our activities throughout the year.
We have collaborated with Nikon School of Photography again during this period to provide 3 photography taster and training days at nature reserves in Yorkshire. We also continued our community gardening days at our offices in the village of Slaithwaite and at Tunnel End Woods, Marsden and we have started planning how Experience Community can best serve our local community in the Colne Valley in the South Pennines.
Special thanks are extended to Craghoppers Clothing for their donations both financially and in kind and our volunteers for their continued support. We would particularly like to thank our longest serving volunteers, Gill Arnett, Raiden Naylor and Bill White.
Experience Community • The Civic Basement • New Street • Slaithwaite • HD7 5AB
Charity Name No (if any) Experience Community CIO 1189057 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 4/30/2023 4/29/2023
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| A1 Receipts Ramble Donations 866 Residential Trips 3,140 Donations and Fundraising 5,702 - - - - - 9,708 - - Sub total - Total receipts 9,708 A3 Payments Ramble Expenses 355 Residential TripExpenses 3,544 Ramble Leader Training 294 - - - - - - Sub total 4,193 - - Sub total - Total payments 4,193 Net of receipts/(payments) 5,515 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end - Cash funds this year end 5,515 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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| #VALUE! | CraigGrimes | 2/26/2024 | |