## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From: 1 Dec 2024 To: 30 Nov 2025**
## **Charity name: Wigmore Village Community Centre**
## **Charity registration number: 1189883**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|When the village hall was built in the 1950s
the original constitution cited the objectives
as “the physical and mental training and
recreation and social, moral and intellectual
development through the medium of reading
and recreation rooms, library, lectures,
classes, recreations and entertainments or
otherwise as may be found expedient for the
benefit if the inhabitants of the village and
parish of Wigmore and its immediate vicinity
without distinction of sex or of political,
religious or other opinions”.|
|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|In the spirit of our founding constitution, the
Wigmore Village Community Centre trustees
continue to:
• Implement a changing programme of
community events/services across all tastes,
pockets, and age groups, initiated from
residents’ requests
• Maintain links with related community
organisations within the county for the
benefit of our residents
• Provide a base for pre-school toddlers and
mums
• Provide respite for walkers and visitors –
public WCs (Wigmore and adjoining areas
are popular with local and national walking
groups)
• Provide a well-equipped meeting space for
local businesses.
Generically, the Trustees also:
• ensure the maintenance and improvement
of the Village Hall;
• ensure the financial viability of the Village
Hall;
• monitor the dissemination and adherence
to policies and procedures;
• maintain positive relationships with key
stakeholders;
• receive appropriate and accuratereporting|
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financial recording.|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All of the activities cited above, relating to
our purposes comply with guidance on
public benefit.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
||SORP reference||
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Not applicable|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Not applicable|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|During this financial year, all of the trustees
were volunteers. Volunteers also ran the tots
group, coffee mornings, brunch club, setup,
clear-down and staffing for all events.|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|WVCC continues to host regular events
across a wide demographic of the
community from a tots group, to yoga
classes, to the gardening club, indoor bowls
club and open mic nights.
In addition we offer a full calendar of ad hoc
events such as food nights, supporting the
village show and festival-related events such
as Halloween kids’ disco and Christmas
festivities in association with the village
church Friends group.
All of these provide a safe forum for like-
minded people to get together to combat
issues of loneliness in a very rural
community.
All the activities and events staged are at the
request of the community identified through
opendays and social media.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|This financial year has been very positive,
having turned round a £6000 operational
loss to a £1000 operational surplus.
Our strategy of cutting costs and developing
new income streams is yielding very positive
results.
With monies awarded at the end of last
financial year we undertook a conversion /
renovation of two office spaces to let out
which we did successfully within a month of
their completion leading to a 63% increase in
rental income over the year.
With monies raised from four separate grant
bodies we installed solar panels and
batteries this year which looks likely to have
a very positive effect on our electricity bill
over the year.
In terms of operating income, our hall hiring
income was up 26%, catering sales up 13%
and we have begun to run ticketed events
which we haven’t arranged before.|
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Since the restructuring of our operational
model we have established a cash reserve
of £2000 and the trustees have approved
our Finance Reserves Policy document.
What this means in effect is that if the bank
balance drops below the reserve threshold
then the Trustees must implement
emergency cost reductions until new funding
is acquired.
The emergency measures taken will include:
•Closure of the public toilets – the toilets will
be available solely to customers hiring the
hall.
•Place the caretaker on reduced hours – no
more than 1 hr per week.
•Suspend all consumable purchases unless
authorised by theTrustees|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£2000|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Not applicable|
## **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|Grants awarded from:
Turner Trust
Rowlands Trust
Garfield Weston Foundation
Breedon Group
Hall hire
Office hire
Refreshment Sales
Ticketed Events
Donations|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Not applicable - No investments|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|On-going funding remains the biggest risk.
We have reduced our costs as much as we
can and have, for the first time, generated an
operating surplus. But we inhabit an aging
building which will inevitably come with
increasing maintenance costs.
We had to make emergency repairs this year
to the flat roof section of the building and we
will be looking to raise grant funding to have
that part oftheroofcompletelyreplaced.|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation|
|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|Trustees are nominated by any member of
the CIO management team and will be
appointed if unanimously supported by all
current trustees.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Wigmore Village Community Centre|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1189883|
|Charity’s principal address|Village Hall,
Ford Street,
Wigmore,
Herefordshire
HR6 9UW|
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**for wholeyear**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||David Swatton|Chair of
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||Bryan
Casbourne|Trustee|||
||Victoria Jill
Ireland|Trustee|||
||Davina Audrey
Martin|Trustee|||
||Hannah Mason|Trustee|From 21 July 2025||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
**None**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the Not applicable charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Not applicable 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 None**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Not applicable**
## **Other optional information**
## **None**
## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
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||**DAVID SWATTON**||
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Chair of Trustees||
||11 Feb 2026||
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|**Wigmore Village Community Centre**|**Wigmore Village Community Centre**|**1189883**||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**
**01/12/2024**|**To**|**30/11/2025**||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
3,871
1,062
1,290
276
1,061
**7,560**
154
**-**
**154**
**7,714**
2,083
195
821
1,353
1,323
12
406
139
132
150
54
**6,668**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,668**
**1,046**
**- 208**
**4,074**
**4,912**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
12,000
**12,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,000**
**24,835**
**24,835**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,835**
**- 12,835**
**208**
**12,627**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
-
-
-
-
-
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,871**
**1,062**
**1,290**
**276**
**12,000**
**1,061**
**19,560**
**154**
**-**
**154**
**19,714**
**2,083**
**195**
**821**
**1,353**
**1,323**
**12**
**406**
**139**
**132**
**150**
**54**
**24,835**
**31,503**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,503**
**- 11,789**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Hall Hire|3,871|||||**-**|
|Refreshment Sales|1,062|||||**-**|
|Office Hire|1,290|||||**-**|
|Ticketed Events|276||||||
|Grants||||||**-**|
|Donations|1,061|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**7,560**|||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
|Surplus furniture|154||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**154**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**
Salaries and NI
Kitchen supplies
Bank, legal and insurance fees
Utilities
Repairs and maintenance
Education Expenditure
Software and office expenditure
Marketing
Equipment & Infrastructure
Charitable Giving (MacMillan)
Miscellaneous Expenses
Building Expenditure
**_Sub total_ **|||||||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
|**Not applicable**|**-**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
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||**1,046**|**- 12,835**|**-**|**- 11,789**||**-**|
||**- 208**|**208**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**4,074**|**12,627**|**-**|**16,701**||**-**|
||**4,912**|**-**|**-**|**4,912**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
16/02/2026
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## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Not applicable
Basketball hoop
**Details**
Coffee Machine
Microwave
Breadmaker
Fridge Freezer
Fridge
Games Table
**Details**
Bank Current Account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Not applicable
**Details**
Not applicable
Village Hall Building and grounds|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,912**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,912**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Permanent
Endowment
**-**
Unrestricted
**818**
Unrestricted
**67**
Unrestricted
**99**
Unrestricted
**539**
Unrestricted
**439**
Unrestricted
**339**
Unrestricted
**444**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
David Swatton|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
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||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||David Swatton|11-Feb-26|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
16/02/2026
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