## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 July 2022 Period start date To 30 June 2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Community Scrapstore North Somerset** **Charity registration number: 1191943** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1. To protect and preserve the**
**environment for the public benefit in**
**particular but not exclusively by:**
**(a) advancing the education of adults**
**and children about the reuse and**
**recycling of scrap, waste and surplus**
**materials; and by**
**(b) promoting reuse and recycling of**
**surplus, waste and scrap materials**
**within the community**
**2. To advance arts and crafts in**
**particular but not exclusively by:**
**(a) Facilitating the provision and use of**
**recycled, scrap and surplus materials to**
**adults and children as a creative**
**resource with the aim of improving their**
**social welfare and conditions of life;**
**and mental health and wellbeing; and by**
**(b) inspiring group and individual**
**creativity for the public benefit and for**
**the benefit of the environment**| |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|**Collection of surplus and waste**
**resources from local businesses and**
**industries; sorting and displaying**
**resources in our Warehouse for**
**members to choose and collect in**
**return for a donation.**
**Running events and activities both in**
**the Scrapstore and in the wider**
**community to facilitate creativity and**
**play, and emphasise ways to reuse and**
**recycle existing resources.**
**Working with other community groups**
**and charities to support reuse via**
**creative play.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issues by the Charity**
**Commission 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|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The Community Scrapstore depends**
**extensively on its volunteers, and is**
**very grateful to those who willingly and**
**regularly offer their time to carry out a**
**wide range of activities, including:**
**- collecting resources from donor**
**premises**
**- sorting and stocking the Scrapstore**
**- serving and advising members on the**
**resources they can use for their projects**
**- helping plan and run events and**
**activities in the community**
**- carrying out administrative tasks**
**- promoting the Scrapstore in the**
**community**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Achievements and Performance** |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.|SORP reference
Para 1.20|**Thanks partially to its location on a**
**large business and industry estate,**
**Community Scrapstore was able to**
**substantially increase the number of**
**businesses that donated their re-usable**
**waste products to us. In turn, this led to**
**more variety in the scrap resources held**
**in our warehouse and more families and**
**community groups took out**
**membership as they recognised that we**
**were offering low-cost resources that**
**suited their particular needs. The**
**trustees increased the Scrapstore**
**Manager’s hours to a full-time role,**
**enabling the store to be open an**| |---|---|---| **additional day per week. We provided affordable resources to over 100 local schools, nurseries and community groups, as well as over 300 families. Community Scrapstore played a leading role in increasing public awareness of environmental impacts and climate change by working with the organisers of North Somerset’s Climate Carnival, particularly by hosting ‘Make’ sessions where local community groups and individuals were able to select resources and make clothes and costumes from repurposed materials. The resulting fashion parade through the town attracted much praise. Our work in promoting the environmental benefits of reuse was boosted when Weston-super-Mare hosted the See Monster (a repurposed North Sea gas rig), as part of the national Unboxed arts festival. We provided resources that were used for educational purposes and ran a kitemaking day for families, which saw around 500 children making kites and flying them on the beach.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity’s finances were sound at the**
**end of the financial year. Although**
**expenditure exceeded income, this was**
**due to quarterly rent paid in advance at**
**the end of the accounting year, resulting**
**in 5 quarters rent being reporting in this**
**year’s figures.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The Charity’s policy on reserves is to**
**hold at least 3months’ essential**
**running costs in unrestricted reserves**
**at any time. Such reserves would give**
**the Charity time to seek external funding**
**should the level be close to being**
**breached.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£8,670**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**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|**Principal sources of funds:**
**- grants**
**- project funding**
**- membership fees**
**- donations for scrap resources**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |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|**CIO**| |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|**Potential trustees are invited to attend**
**three trustee meetings as observers,**
**with the right to speak, but not vote on**
**any issues. After the third meeting, the**
**existing trustees will vote on whether to**
**offer a trusteeship to the applicant. No**
**person or body has the right to appoint**
**trustees to the management board.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |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|Community Scrapstore North Somerset| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1191943| |Charity’s principal address|66 Gazelle Road
Weston-super-Mare
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Rebecca Condron|Chair||| ||Barbara Roche|Treasurer||| ||Gail Alder|Trustee||| ||WendyWilliams|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for 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**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** Declarations The trusteos declare that they have approved the trustees. report above. Signed on ￿half of the charity's trustoos Signature(s) Full name($) Position (eg Secretary. Chair, etc) Date 26. 04 2D2+ **Community Scrapstore North Somerset** Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees For the Year Ended 30 June 2023 ## **Independent examiners report to the Trustees of Community Scrapstore North Somerset** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts for Community Scrapstore North Somerset (“the charity”) for the year ended 30 June 2023. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the 2011 Act; or 2. the accounts do not comply with these records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Michelle Ferris BSc (Hons) FCA DChA Albert Goodman LLP Goodwood House Blackbrook Park Avenue Taunton Somerset TA1 2PX Date: 29 April 2024 **Charity Name No (if any) COMMUNITY SCRAPSTORE NORTH SOMERSET 1191943 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/07/2022 30/06/2023 **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts** |Scrapstore sales|**26,857**||**-**||**-**||**26,857**||**20,024**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Grants|**20,000**||**-**||**-**||**20,000**||**29,834**| |Invoiced income|**1,768**||**-**||**-**||**1,768**||**885**| |Interest received|**52**||**-**||**-**||**52**||**-**| |Donations|**19**||**-**||**-**||**19**||**4**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**192**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**48,696**||**-**||**-**||**48,696**||**50,939**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**50,939**| ||||||||||| |SalaryPayment|**15,385**||**-**||**-**||**15,385**||**8,504**| |Casual labour|**200**||**-**||**-**||**200**||**-**| |Rent + Utilities|**33,212**||**-**||**-**||**33,212**||**27,679**| |Propertymovingfees|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**15,579**| |Scrap purchases|**113**||**-**||**-**||**113**||**663**| |Expenses|**839**||**-**||**-**||**839**||**1,335**| |Insurance|**1,058**||**-**||**-**||**1,058**||**1,023**| |Business rates|**1,258**||**-**||**-**||**1,258**||**1,575**| |Telephone & cardpayment fees|**729**||**-**||**-**||**729**||**656**| |Accountancyfees|**1,056**||**-**||**-**||**1,056**||**1,200**| |Sundry|**39**||||**-**||**39**||**947**| |**_Sub total_ **|**53,889**||**-**||**-**||**53,889**||**59,161**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |E-Cargo Bike|**-**||||||||**3,329**| |Other fixed assetpurchases|**-**||||||||**1,621**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**4,950**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**64,111**| ||||||||||| ||**- 5,193**||**-**||**-**||**- 5,193**||**- 13,172**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**13,863**||**-**||**-**||**13,863**||**27,035**| ||**8,670**||**-**||**-**||**8,670**||**13,863**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 22/04/2024 1 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period 4Jnre8tri¢tod R￿trIcted funds Endowment fund$ twtr•st£ Catsgorl88 Dètail B1 Cash funds 8lJ24 Total cash funds 8,670 Unmtrietsd Restrl¢ted funds Endowmert funds Detsil$ to n•ar•st£ 82 Other monetsry assets F￿yJt0TJ￿SBh Detsl B3 Investment as80ts FuTrl Iowhkh (JJrrprtvBhJo on•1 Details Pnrt 84 Assets retalned for tho harlty's own use 273 Sam5urvJ Tat*t 139 20 ￿bCharg 720 l￿fi 64GB 319 150 FLMJd towhlch T•Vhon duo Detsils RC B5 Llabllltles 1(KJ L*rttknJm*) 1,140 Svjned by one trustees behawof all tr￿ l¥ustees Date of roval S¥Jnature Prnt Name CCXX R2 account5 ISSI 2210412024