## **Champions for Ynyshir**
## **Statement of Accounts**
**1st November 2024 to 31st October 2025**
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**To the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**To the nearest £**|**St Annes**
**Fund**
**To the nearest £**
**Total Funds**
**To the nearest £**
**Prior Year**
**To the nearest £**|
||**Receipts**||||
||Rhondda Cynon Taf
CBC||||
||NG Warm Weather|||9,934|
||OGI Micro Grant||||
||**St Annes Fund**||||
||Community Lottery|||2,420
2,420
3,363|
||Table Top Sales|||765
765
1,116|
||Donations – St Annes
Fund|||1,951
1,951
25|
||Donation – Chapman
Family|||2,000|
||Other Income||||
||Donations – Knitting
club|||70|
||Donation – Bingo|||80|
||Donation – Games
night|||510
510|
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||Hall rental|||340
340
254|||
||Sale of clothes
**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|||102
102
**6,088**
**6,088**
**16,842**|||
||**Payments**||||||
||Utilities||||||
||Gas|||1,042
1,042
1,724|||
||Electricity|||1,414
1,414
851|||
||Water|||366
366
276|||
||C. of Wales Rent|||538|||
||Insurance|||526
526|||
||Printing and postage
costs|||18|||
||Poppy wreaths|||36|||
||MPLC License|||189|||
||Commercial Hall
Cleaning|||700|||
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||Lottery Licence|||20|||
||Signboard|||86
86|||
||Warm Grant Purchases|||10,207|||
||BT Broadband|||447
447
615|||
||Local Giving Web
Presence Fee|||180
180
180|||
||Building repairs (roof)|||8,824|||
||Community lottery
payouts|||258|||
||Interest
**TOTAL PAYMENTS**
**NET**
**RECEIPT/PAYMENTS**|||1
1
**4,062**
**4,062**
**24,436**
**2,026**
**-7,594**|||
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||Cash Funds Last year
end||||22,016|29,610|
||Cash Funds This year
end
**Movement**||||24,042
**2,026**|22,016
**-7,594**|
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|**Statement of Assets and Liabilities**||||||||
|Current Account
**Total**||||||24,042
**24,042**|22,016
**22,016**|
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|**Approved on behalf of the trustees**||||||||
|**Name**||**Signature**|||**Date**|||
|Laura Harrington-John||LHJ|||25/08/2026|||
## **ANNUAL REPORT2025**
## **1st November 2024 to 31st October 2025**
**Champions For Ynyshir**
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## **TO OUR STAKEHOLDERS**
## **Strategic Highlights**
During the year, Champions For Ynyshir continued to focus on its core purpose: developing St Anne’s as a welcoming and inclusive community hub for Ynyshir, Wattstown and the wider Rhondda community.
The charity’s vision remains centred on two key aims:
• Reviving a Landmark: purchasing and transforming St Anne’s into a vibrant, inclusive community hub.
• Heart of the Valley: creating a space designed to serve all generations, offering activities, support and a sense of belonging in the heart of Rhondda.
The previous annual report recorded support and collaboration with a number of local and regional organisations. Maintaining these relationships, together with strengthening the volunteer and trustee base, remains important to the charity’s longer-term plans.
The 2025 accounts show that the charity operated on a much lower level of receipts and expenditure than in the previous year, while still increasing its cash reserves. This provides a more stable base from which the trustees can consider the next phase of the St Anne’s project.
## **Financial Highlights**
For the year ended 31 October 2025, total receipts were £6,088 compared with £16,842 in the previous year. Total payments were £4,062 compared with £24,436 in 2024.
The charity therefore generated a surplus of £2,026 for the year, compared with a deficit of £7,594 in the prior year. Cash funds increased from £22,016 at the start of the year to £24,042 at 31 October 2025.
## **Main sources of income**
- Community Lottery - £2,420
- Donations to the St Anne’s Fund - £1,951
- Table Top Sales - £765
- Games Night - £510
- Hall rental - £340
- Sale of clothes - £102
## **Main costs**
- Electricity - £1,414
- Gas - £1,042
- Insurance - £526
- BT Broadband - £447
- Water - £366
The significant roof repair and Warm Grant expenditure shown in the prior year did not recur in the 2025 accounts, which was a major factor in the reduced level of payments during the year.
## **The Hall as a centre of the community**
The charity’s community activity continues to be centred on St Anne’s and the hall. The previous annual report highlighted a broad range of activities including Cuppa and Chat, walking, knitting, bingo, guitar, film and games groups, table top sales and keep fit sessions.
The 2025 accounts also reflect ongoing community fundraising and use of the hall, including Community Lottery income, Table Top Sales, Games Night receipts, hall rental and sale of clothes.
The trustees’ continuing challenge is to balance day-to-day running costs with the longer-term ambition for the building, while maintaining sufficient funds to respond to repairs and other unexpected costs.
## **Looking Ahead**
The year-end cash balance of £24,042 gives the charity a stronger financial position than at the start of the year, but significant financial pressures remain if the longer-term plans for St Anne’s are to be achieved.
The charity will continue to rely on fundraising, lottery contributions, donations, use of the hall and external support. In planning ahead, the trustees will need to keep focus on:
• Purpose - ensuring the charity remains relevant and responds to the needs of the local community.
• Capacity - maintaining a strong team of trustees and volunteers with the skills and time needed to deliver the charity’s plans.
• Funding - developing sustainable income streams and seeking suitable grants and other support for the building and community activities.
• Impact - collecting useful information on participation and outcomes so the trustees can demonstrate the value of the charity’s work.
• Collaboration - continuing to work with local groups, funders, public bodies and other organisations to support the project.
• Long-term building plans - progressing the charity’s ambitions for St Anne’s while protecting cash reserves and managing financial risk.
## **Thank you**
Thank you to the trustees, volunteers, supporters and everyone who has helped Champions For Ynyshir during the year. The charity continues to depend on the time, energy and generosity of local people and organisations.
Special thanks also go to the people of Ynyshir and Wattstown for their continued support of the charity and its ambitions for St Anne’s.
## **Laura Harrington-John**
Trustee and Chair, Champions For Ynyshir
25th August 2026