Kendal Bowmen Trustees report January 2023 to January 2024
In 2023 the CIO continued to strengthen after the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, with more members and gradually increasing turnout at events. We continue to run three practice sessions each week for members throughout the year. We ran seven successful competitions in 2023 across a range of disciplines, one indoor target, one outdoor target, two clout and two field. We intend to explore running another outdoor target shoot in 2024. These activities help to further our goal of advancing amateur archery and also provide income to the CIO.
Ongoing work by our volunteers continued to restore our field shooting venue after the disruption of storm Arwen in late 2021 and work by our volunteers also took place to repair the roof of our equipment store at Kendal Cricket Club.
We ran three public, archery have-a-go events in 2023 and two events for local schools which were very well received. Have-a-go events help to further our charitable causes of advancing community participation in healthy recreation and the advancement of the amateur sport of archery in the local area.
Our volunteers ran four, six week beginners courses for people interested in taking up archery in 2022, two indoors and two outdoors. Between 8-12 beginners attended each course and a good percentage went on to join the club. Our have-a-gos and other publicity continue to generate interest in archery and our beginners courses make income for the CIO as well as increasing participation in line with our charitable goals.
We continue to actively look for land that may be suitable for us to buy and develop as our own venue to increase the archery opportunities that we are able to offer. However this is challenging within the local area as suitable land is generally prime agricultural land and normally sells for well above its asking price.
Through careful management of our funds and significant fund raising efforts in previous years we are in a stable financial position with good reserves and substantial funds in our capital account to help us move towards our goal of our own venue.
Overall 2023 was a successful year in which we continued to advance our charitable objectives.
Treasurer’s statement accompanying the accounts
The finance accounts have been checked and summarised for the calendar year of 2023.
Income and expenditure naturally vary, our difficult year was of course 2020, with the covid effect meaning most things were either cancelled or ran at a loss. In 2023 we were back to a reasonable average. Membership numbers are still lower than pre covid, but are gradually increasing. Have a go’s always vary, Country Fest remains our main fundraiser whilst any others we do will usually make a small income, but are primarily done for publicity, and sometimes to raise funds for other worthy causes. We did not get the promised payment for running the family festival day in Kendal, but this has now been addressed and we got a payment for 2023 and 2024 after the 2024 day. This will therefore show in next year’s accounts. We ran tournaments in most disciplines, including a newly introduced two-day clout shoot, added to the one we have run for several years. Field and clout shoots were again the most profitable in 2023, the indoor and the longbow tournaments rarely make much profit, and are unlikely to in the future, but remain viable and worthwhile, our outdoor tournament is not yet reinstated.
The costs for items such as maintenance, equipment, and medals has been relatively low during this financial year, which helps to increase the surplus figure this time. Our current account has gradually increased over several years, meaning that we are now able to look at transferring some of those funds into a savings account in order to get better interest payments.
Kendal Bowmen Year Review from 1[st] January 2023 to 31[st] December 2023
| Income | Expenditure | Balance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current Account on 1stJan 2023 | 3569.49 | |||
| Membership | ||||
| 2022 2023 | 188.00 | |||
| Archery GB | 60.00 | |||
| 2023 2024 | 3062.00 | |||
| Archery GB | 1778.00 | |||
| CCAA | 189.00 | |||
| NCAS | 59.00 | |||
| 3250.00 | 2086.00 | 1164.00 | ||
| Shoots | ||||
| Portsmouth | 356.00 | |||
| (does not include £136 paid into last accounting year) | ||||
| Venue Hire | 351.00 | |||
| Portsmouth entries for 2024 | 25.50 | |||
| Longbow | 160.00 | |||
| Catering | 96.60 | |||
| Longbow entries for 2024 | 8.00 | |||
| 3D Field | 971.00 | |||
| (does not include £20 paid into last accounting year) | ||||
| Refund | 20.00 | |||
| Gifts for Judges | 19.50 | |||
| Printing | 10.00 | |||
| 3D Field entries for 2024 | 60.00 | |||
| NCAS Field | 604.00 | |||
| Hosting | 300.00 | |||
| Refund | 19.00 | |||
| Gifts for Judges | 20.00 | |||
| Trophy Engraving | 36.00 | |||
| Printing | 10.00 | |||
| Field 2024 | 19.00 | |||
| Advertisement, WRS/Rose Award | 70.00 | |||
| Cumbria Challenge | 430.00 | |||
| Metric Clout | 831.00 | |||
| Westmorland Showground | 45.00 | |||
| Refund | 18.00 | |||
| Facilities Hire | 144.00 | |||
| Tassel Awards | 45.00 | |||
| Equipment | 217.68 | |||
| Metric Clout 2024 | ||||
| Advertisement | 25.00 | |||
| Imperial Clout | 653.00 | |||
| Westmorland Showground | 45.00 | |||
| Facilities Hire | 144.00 | |||
| Tassel Awards | 44.00 | |||
| Equipment | 22.23 | |||
| Imperial Clout 2024 | ||||
| Advertisement | 25.00 | |||
| 4417.50 | 1427.01 | 2990.49 |
| Venue Indoor Hall Kendal Cricket Club Woods 2022 Woods 2023 Have a Go Brathay Balloons Countryfest (Sat £575.50, Sun £477) Westmorland Showground Balloons Levens School Venue Beginner’s Courses Indoor Hall (2 courses) Maintenance Cricket Club roof sheeting and timber Cricket Club notice board Indoor Hall wood and paint Other (target faces, glue) Equipment Beginners’ Bows, Limbs, Finger Slings Advertisement Website Stationery Other/Miscellaneous Amount in savings accounts 1 including interest Amount in savings accounts 2 including interest Current Account on 31stDec 2023 |
1060.00 1235.00 500.00 160.00 163.50 1060.00 2058.50 (998.50) 107.00 17.00 1052.50 90.00 21.00 89.50 35.00 1249.00 163.00 1086.00 1140.00 273.00 1140.00 273.00 867.00 50.27 58.56 21.73 29.95 472.06 84.00 39.54 13.50 15.50 13.50 771.61 (758.11) 11130.00 6779.12 4350.88 7920.37 21444.68 31080.81 |
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