# **West Peckham Village Hall Charitable Incorporated Organisation** Church Road West Peckham Maidstone Kent ME18 5JJ ## **Charity Number: 1190977** ## **2024 TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT** ## **Trustees during the period ending 31 December 2024** Matthew Edwards (Chair) Peter Johnson Caroline Pearce Liz Reading Susan Simpson John Taylor (Treasurer) Sarah Thompson (up to 22 October) Jo Pembroke (from 22 October) Ron Wright (Bookings Clerk) ## _Signed on behalf of the trustees:_ Matthew Edwards (Chair) 10 April 2025 Last year I noted that 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. This trend continued in 2024, with the hall producing a surplus thanks to stable hirer income, a generous donation from the village fete and slightly lower expenditure. Hire income amounted to £11,085 in 2024, a very small increase from 2023 (£10,997). As in 2023, most of this income came from regular hires (£9,164, a small decline from £9,229 in 2023). These included dog training, an art club, yoga and pilates classes, band practice, law exams, and meetings of the parish council, the West Peckham WI and the West Kent Spiritist Group. Alongside this, the hall continued to be 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. Overall income rose significantly to £13,265, up from £11,337 in 2023. This was due to a very generous donation of £1,400 from the West Peckham Village fete, and increased interest income on reserves (up by £490 to £740 in 2024). Total expenditure for the year fell slightly to £10,242, down slightly from £10,353 in 2024. Ongoing expenditure for the year rose by £678 while capital and major improvements expenditure fell by £789. The increase in ongoing expenditure was mainly driven by higher electricity costs partially offset by reductions in cleaning costs following a change of supplier. General maintenance and repair expenditure was higher (£1,493, up from £853) due to the electrical work required, but this was balanced by much reduced costs for Fire Equipment maintenance (£262, down from £547) and Air Conditioning maintenance (£236, down from £523). Capital and Major Improvements spend was limited in 2024, with replacement of some guttering and the installation of an outside tap to facilitate gardening amounting to £1,110. The increase in income and the continued low levels of capital and improvement expenditure led to a surplus for the year of £3,023, increasing the surplus carried forward to £21,159, in addition to the reserve for major expenditure of £10,000. This means the hall is in a good financial position, able to make further improvements and to deal with unforeseen maintenance and repairs. 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 Peckham Wdlage Hall ao Accounts for the pe￿d ended 31st December 2024 Pa8elof 3 L024 Felidty Crouchlmilli Sarn Peiier Geor* D'Arcy Loutse In 627 SueJulFan Sue Gair [h)ETr￿n• Trair# 378 592 196 Peter Marshall lin Wl*der Hild¥¥ 8va55 396 Carol Fltnes5 I￿11￿ Wlthl TS Sp*[k￿l[stGT0Up StÉphen Thtynas law Syrth M¥tin 36 1146 471 L395 West Peckhamwl 341 9.164 330 rtsand Crafts hlr Casual 476 35D 785 IAoo Illage ￿$t￿a5 t￿n￿5 Onwng expendi￿re &454 Lllo TOT￿exPEN[lruRE West Peikham Willage Hall ao A¢￿￿nts forthe ￿n{mI ertded 3tst December 2024 Page2of 3 2014 Elethioty aea4ng(In5ide aT¥J TArytthwsl 3.019 145 Fire EquI￿￿t M31n￿￿￿ and Repar 547 236 Mu%ic ￿Cer￿{PR$ A0￿be5} Watrr 160 142 236 197 IA93 295 193 139 Sundry Ind￿11￿ frlyyvEr05ts - li 241 Replace Guttèring JLW¢HnwtOlOSlWHLsxmiwTh6)Jyo￿+￿*vIVJI0WJ￿vnmZsw)1VAW￿NLv1IVay¥￿Y￿v1PyxQ￿￿1Ell1lU¥)y￿￿0.l¢Y￿r￿JHu West Peckham ￿lIage Hall ao Page3of 3 Accounts for the perKxI ended 31st D￿mber 2024 2023 land ¥d Bulth See I*Ae3 120 Cash 61 Bank 2&472 2&8r4 Debto 2.724 255 257 31.512 4n -L634 -L674 473 swpIu5 135 17.152 1023 ts5 3L159 Appr(y¥ed date . M.tgLS IME**arth) Chairma Treasurer Note I Basrs of1￿oUnting.Th￿ ￿cOuntsa￿e pr￿ared ustr¥ the recetpts and payments metknd adjusted fDryeare4d debtOT5 and creditaT5 Note 2 Following on from ￿ CcNid 19 outbreakCoMrr￿Un8 in 21J20. theGovemrnent ha5 continued tu [Kov￿e the Retsil. Hospitalttyand Leisure sect￿5 WrtPL SUPVXt by Pro￿1n8 75% relief Business Rates affecting both 2024 and 2023. Note 3 Land and Buikling: The Village Hall Iwtlding and 35s(xiated land wd5tran51Erred on l January 2021 into the West Peckl%m Vilk8e Hall Charitable IFKorporated organ￿at￿)n at nil [Dn5￿erètron. The land and building a￿ induded in these acmunts at the nominal cost. being the Land Registry transfer fee paid.