West Peckham Village Hall Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Church Road West Peckham Maidstone Kent ME18 5JJ
Charity Number: 1190977
2023 TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT
Trustees during the period ending 31 December 2023
Matthew Edwards (Chair) Peter Johnson Caroline Pearce Liz Reading Susan Simpson John Taylor (Treasurer) Sarah Thompson Ron Wright (Bookings Clerk)
Signed on behalf of the trustees:
Matthew Edwards (Chair) 3 April 2024
2023 saw the village hall return to something more like business as usual after three years of dealing with the pandemic and making major improvements to the hall.
Hire income rose to £10,997, a rise of 39% from 2022. This is similar to the 2019 income of £10,775, and so marks a welcome recovery to pre-pandemic levels. Most of this income came from regular hires (£9,229, an increase of 52% from 2021) including dog training, an art club, yoga and pilates classes, band practice, law exams, and meetings of the parish council and the West Peckham WI. We were also pleased to welcome two new regular hirers this year, the West Kent Spiritist Group and the Dog Squad who do scent training. Alongside this, the hall is used on a more occasional basis for important village events such as Arts and Crafts fairs, the village’s Christmas drinks party, and government elections when it serves as a polling station.
Total expenditure for the year increased by 14% to £10,353. Ongoing expenditure for the year increased by 22% to £8,454, with over half of this going on cleaning, electricity and maintenance and repairs. The increase from 2022 was driven mainly by higher electricity costs (32p per kWh in 2023, up from 16p in 2022) and by increased maintenance costs for the air conditioning and the fire safety equipment. Expenditure of £1,899 on improvements remained at the lower level achieved in 2022 (£2,202) after the major work in 2021 on the toilets and the hall floor (£10,268). Projects this year included landscaping the east side of the car park under the leadership of Caroline Pearce and repair of the fencing on the west side of the hall.
The increase in income and the continued low levels of capital and improvement expenditure led to a surplus for the year of £984. The Trustees therefore decided to keep rates the same as last year.
I would like to conclude by offering thanks to my fellow trustees for their continuing support and their hard work both running and improving the hall and by encouraging villagers to make use of the hall.
Matthew Edwards Chair
West Pe(kham Village Hall CIO Accounts for the perKKI ended 3151 December 2022 Pagelof 3 WEsf PECKHAM VILLAGE HALL tharltablt Incorwrated Organlsallon iaoi (Registered Charity no. II%P3771 INCOME AIID EXPENDITURE iroupir IIXOME Im4 627 i.lr 1.428 317 Geowa fYArrv iou15e In SejUln Jè Gaine5 330 tkyTralnfr 592 Peter Martholl Bahd pr1 U3A T5 5plrtrualtst Gro U3AC stephen Thorna5 La Syrah Math 421 Sqw 210 341 416 9219 T&MgC OF Produditsis I) itd 8BC Homt Strvices 264 Arts andCJ5 Fik Casual 350 L276 TOTAL W HME 1ts8e thrt5tfO5 inkS iry) Onv¥n8exndliurE C3wtsI aThJ TOTAL EXPENDMJRE 8.454 2,202 353
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