**Broughton Astley Volunteer Group** 

## **Chair’s Report by Mark Barber,  Nov 2021 – end Oct 2022** 

As Broughton Astley Volunteer Group (BAVG) started its operational Financial Year for 2021-2022, a new Covid variant was identified that thankfully proved to be less dangerous but far more contagious than previous strains. The BAVG was prepared to undertake what we did at the beginning of Covid-19 but found in the end our help was not required on the same scale as in the previous year but did still offer help those who needed it. 

The Monday coffee morning group grew in popularity, and a sub-group formed which became a knitting and craft group who found the coffee morning location ideal. We welcomed the additional help of our local area co-ordinator, John Barraclough who alongside the Social Prescribers has enabled us to offer a wrap round service providing help and advice from the NHS and County Council public health departments. A Christmas party was organised with a two-course meal with coffee and complimentary bingo which was enjoyed by all. 

June 2022 saw the Queens Platinum Jubilee celebrated in style with our coffee morning regulars, family guests and the wider community who enjoyed a garden party held in the grounds of the church. Proceeds from a raffle were donated to the Church as a way of us thanking them for their support throughout the year. 

With the help of Social Prescribers, a Dementia Support and Awareness Group was set up. As well as being a meeting place for those with dementia, it has hopefully provided much needed support to those who are caring for sufferers. 

We have continued to provide support for our local food bank by collecting on their behalf and providing a delivery service for emergency food packs if required at short notice. 

The previous year, the BAVG was successful in bidding for and receiving grant funding from Central England Co-op for two benches that were then installed at the Wildlife Area, which alongside the work of the Parish Council Office has created a wheelchair accessible path for visitors in this exceedingly small but unique area. 

After being on a waiting list for an allotment plot, we were lucky enough to get a plot next to the Wildlife Garden. Work was started to clear the plot in the hope of providing a Community Allotment for the health and wellbeing of residents who wished to participate. Both the Wildlife Garden and Community Allotment plot now need work to link them both together. This we realise will be a long-term project. 

BAVG volunteers provided the marshals for the Remembrance Day Parade, the first large gathering after the Covid lockdown and have now gained first aid medical training to provide this for future years. 

Due to the popularity of our new age kurling groups a third session was added along with a crafting group. Both groups met in the evening to accommodate those who were unable to join our groups during the day. 

The bi-monthly newsletter publication “Broughton In Touch” continues to be well received and seen as the village newsletter that updates all 4,000 homes with local community news. 



At the very end of our Financial Year a long-established Broughton Astley Group, the Gardeners Association ceased trading and they gifted, along with a donation of money, a collection of buildings on the allotment site. With a proportion of the gifted money, a defibrillator was purchased and installed to link in with the existing defibrillators located around the village. 



Income & Expenditure Summary BAVG (Charity) For the period 01/11/21 to 31/10/22 

|||Bank Acc|Petty Cash|
|---|---|---|---|
||Income|||
||Grants & Donations|||
|1|LCC Training Grant|£1,000.00||
|2|BAGA Defbrillator donation|£1,595.00||
|3|Hinckley & Rugby B/Soc|£160.00||
|4|Miscellaneous Income|£20.00||
|||£2,775.00|£0.00|
||Other Income|||
||Cofee Morning|£1,126.00|£1,276.85|
||Kurling Groups|£3,675.00|£68.36|
||Crafting Group|£242.00|£25.00|
||Jubilee event|£710.00||
||Shopping for Vulnerable|£4.72||
||Newsletter Sponsors|£2,650.00||
|||£8,407.72|£1,370.21|
||Total Income|£11,182.72|£1,370.21|
||Expenditure - Charity purposes|||
||Grant/Donation Expenditure|||
||Litter picking|-£380.16||
||Training attendances|-£773.19||
||Youth Leicestershire fee|-£150.00||
||Newsletter costs|-£2,671.48||
||Community Benches|-£192.00||
||Community Cofee Mornings/ Van|-£899.99|-£1,280.31|
||Kurling Groups|-£2,996.00|-£38.19|
||Crafting group|-£241.50|-£10.69|
||Defbrillator & Installation|-£1,595.00||
||Jubilee event expenses|-£293.97||
||Jubilee event donation to St Mary's|-£480.16||
||Allotment support|-£76.92||
||Plants & bulbs for village|-£104.97||
||Shopping for Vulnerable|-£6.00||
||Expenditure - running & admin costs|||
||Insurance|-£715.41||
||Rent|-£100.00||





|Phones|-£569.21||
|---|---|---|
|Travel Expenses|-£103.97||
|Stationery|-£160.68|-£9.20|
|Sundry|-£65.00|-£51.60|
|Total Expenditure|-£12,575.61|-£1,389.99|
|Surplus of Income over Expenditure|-£1,392.89|-£19.78|
|Movement in bank Nov'21 to Oct '22|-£1,392.89|-£18.41|





|||Y/e 31/10/22|Y/e 31/10/21|
|---|---|---|---|
|Accrued||||
|Income/Expenditur||||
|e|Prepay|TOTAL|TOTAL|
|||£1,000.00||
|||£1,595.00||
|||£160.00||
|||£20.00||
|£0.00|£0.00|£2,775.00|£10,801.22|
|||£2,402.85||
|||£3,743.36||
|||£267.00||
|||£710.00||
|||£4.72||
|||£2,650.00||
|£0.00|£0.00|£9,777.93|£3,275.26|
|£0.00|£0.00|£12,552.93|£14,076.48|
|||-£380.16||
|||-£773.19||
|||-£150.00||
|||-£2,671.48||
|||-£192.00||
|£30.00||-£2,150.30||
|-£35.00||-£3,069.19||
|-£42.00||-£294.19||
|||-£1,595.00||
|||-£293.97||
|||-£480.16||
|||-£76.92||
|||-£104.97||
|||-£6.00||
||-£90.44|-£624.97||
||£0.00|-£100.00||





|£28.18||-£541.03||
|---|---|---|---|
|||-£103.97||
|||-£169.88||
|-£10.50||-£127.10||
|-£29.32|-£90.44|-£13,904.48|-£4,631.22|
|-£29.32|-£90.44|-£1,351.55|£9,445.26|





## Balance Sheet BAVG (Charity) For the period ending 31/10/22 

||As at|As at|
|---|---|---|
||10/31/2022|10/31/2021|
|**_Fixed Assets_**|0|0|
|**_Current Assets_**|||
|Cash in Bank|7,902|9296|
|Petty Cash|223|241|
|Prepayments & Accrued Income|698|607|
|_Total Current Assets_|8,823|**10144**|
|**_Current Liabilities_**|||
|Accruals|-311.5|-283|
|_Total Current Liabilities_|-311.5|**-283**|
|**Net Worth**|8,511|9,861|
|Represented by:|||
|**Retained Funds**|8,511|9,861|