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2021-12-31-accounts

Description Description Description ofthe ch a rity's trusts rity's trusts
Type of governing document Constitution,
following
Charity Commission
CIO
(eg. trust deed constitution) Association
Model
How
(eg
the
trust,
charity is constituted
association,
company)
Charitable
Incorporated
Organisation
(Association
Model)
Trustee selection
(eg appointed
by,
methods
elected by)
Elected by members
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include Ansty Community
Sports Club (ACSC) was
additional information, where established
as a Charitable
Incorporated
relevant, about: Organisation
(CIO) in November 2020.The
~ policies and procedures
adopted
for the induction
and training of
trustees;
~the charity's
organisational
purpose ofthe ACSC isto promote community
participation
in healthy
recreation
by providing
facilities for the playing ofcricket and football.
The ACSC will do this by assuming
responsibility
for the activities ofAnsty Cricket
structure and any wider network Club and Ansty Football Club previously
carried
with which the charity works; out by Ansty Sports and Social Club (ASSC), a
~ relationship with any related members'
club. In addition to the continuation
of
parties;
~trustees'
consideration
ofmajor the sports clubs, the ACSC will also promote
diversity
and inclusion
in amateur
sport.
risks and the system and The ACSC delivers its activities
from the new
procedures to manage them. Ansty Village Centre is at Deaks Lane, Ansty,
West Sussex, RH17 5AS.The AVCT website
can be found at https:ltwww. anstysports. club.
In December 2020the members ofthe ASSC
voted to dissolve the Club at point in the future
to be determined
by the Management
Committee.
The members
also agreed for the
charitable
functions
and operations
ofthe ASSC
and its sections to be transferred
to the ACSC.
The non-charitable
activities ofthe ASSC will
be
transferred
into a subsidiary
company ofthe
ACSC, ACSC Services Limited.
It is envisaged
that the winding-up
and transfer functions
into
the new structure
will be completed
in 2023.
The objects ofthe ACSC are:
a) to promote community
participation
in healthy
recreation
by providing
facilities and services for playing cricket, football and other sports;
b) to provide and assist in providing
facilities for sport, recreation
or other
Summary
ofthe objects ofthe
charity set out in its governing
document
leisure
time occupation
of such persons
who have need for such
facilities
by reason
of their
youth,
age,
infirmity
or disablement,
poverty
or social and economic circumstances
or for the public at
large in the interests
of social
welfare
and
with
the object
of
improving their conditions oflife; and
c) to advance the education
of children
and young
people through
such
means as the Trustees
think
fit in accordance
with
the
law
o
charity,
Public Benefit
CSC and its sporting sections —Ansty Cricket Club and Ansty Football
Club - to deliver the public benefits that flow from its objects, including:
~An enhanced
quality oflife and sense of health and well-being
through engagement
with and participation
in sporting and other
leisure-time activities that bring people together,
leading to
improvements in physical and emotional
well-being,
quality oflife
and promote a stable and cohesive community.
~ Increased opportunities
to engage
in sporting
and leisure-time
Summary of the main activities activities, leading to greater social cohesion and fulfilment.
undertaken for the public ~ Enhanced active citizenship
and involvement
in community
life
benefit in relation to these through participation
in community
events and through
objects (include within this volunteering.
section the statutory CSC assesses the progress
in the delivery ofpublic benefits
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measuring,
amongst other things, the number ofparticipants
and
volunteers
supporting
community
activities, the number
and range of
events delivered,
and the de/ersification
ofthe programme
including
its
engagement
with a broader. range ofcommunity
groups.
The ACSC is also working closely with funders toassess progress
towards outputs and outcomes
identified
in the funding
agreements.
For
example,
Ansty CC has a service level agreement
with the Sussex Cricket
Foundation
(the Foundation)
against which progress
is assessed annually.
dditional details ofobjectives and activities (Optional
information)
You may choose
further statements,
elevant, about:
to include
where
II activities ofthe charity and its sporting sections are delivered
by
volunteers.
policy on grantmaking;
policy programme
related
investment;
contribution made by volunteers.
ummary
ofthe main
chievements
ofthe charity
uring the year
chievements
and performance
porting
activity returned
to the new Centre and the Recreation
Ground
ay 2021 while operating
within the Covid -19requirements
for social
A
S
M
in
stancing.
Activity
in the Centre increased over the summer as the
dl
overnment's
Covid-19 restrictions
were relaxed. The sports sections-
mbracing
adult and junior cricket for both sexes and adult soccer —are
G
e
egular users ofthe changing
and Clubroom
facilities.
Here the levels of
ctivity have returned
to pre-pandemic
levels with 7 adult cricket teams
a
nd 10junior teams playing
regularly
throughout
the summer.
Ansty FC
un one senior and one veterans team.
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Th
ba
e Clubroom
and the Meeting Room are also available
for booking
by
mmunity
groups embracing
activities as diverse as community
choirs,
by massage,
lip reading classes and a U3A recorder group.
In October 2021,the Ansty Village Centre Trust, the ACSC's landlord,
granted the ACSC a 150-year lease on the clubroom
and sports changing
facilities in the newly constricted
Ansty Village Centre.
Diversity and Inclusion
T
th
S
th
he redevelopment
ofthe site at Ansty has opened new opportunities
for
eACSC to diversify
its cricket programme
and to partner
with the
ussex Cricket Foundation
(SCF)to reach out to disabled people.
With
e support ofthe Peter Harrison
Foundation
the Club is delivering
the
improvements
in the playing
facilities that helping to make Ansty a safe
and welcoming
environment
for cricketers of all backgrounds
and ability.
Having made a significant
investment
in the disabled
facilities in the new
pavilion we are delivering
further projects to improve access to the playing
area, deliver pitch and outfield improvements
for youth and disabled
players,
and new practice Icoaching nets. These improvements
will
deliver an outdoor facility for disabled
people to enjoy cricket that Mid-
Sussex currently
lacks.
Disability Cricket. Ansty CC secured ECBDisability Cricket Champions
Club (DCCC) status,
in March 2021, hosting a weekly cricket session for
young disabled cricketers.
Following the success ofthe DCCC sessions,
nsty CCwas granted
Super 1sstatus by the Lords Taverners,
giving its
access to funding to run indoor sessions for the group through
the winter.
The Club has also organised
round-robin
tournaments
with Super 1s
teams invited
down from Merstham
and Hackney.
In addition to cricket,
our volunteers
work with the parents
and guardians
to put together a
social programme,
which involves skittles nights
in the Clubhouse.
Supporting
County Cricket. Another feature ofthe Ansty CC programme
is to host festivals and matches to support the delivery ofcricket to young
disabled people across the county.
In 2021 the Club hosted two full
county disability
matches (D40, county disability
matches of40 overs),
where Sussex host other county sides. The Club also hosted a 'Super gs*
festival where players not quite at D40 level where players
from Sussex
Briefstatement ofthe charity's
policy on reserves
The ACSC maintains
financial reserves to meet its working
capital
requirements
and to fund capital improvements.
AVCT will hold working
capital and reserve funds on deposit and, where appropriate,
in short- and
medium-term
bonds to secure the best possible return subject to Trustees'
assessment
ofthe acceptable
level of liquidity
risk.
The ACSC maintains
financial reserves to meet its working
capital
requirements
and to fund capital improvements.
AVCT will hold working
capital and reserve funds on deposit and, where appropriate,
in short- and
medium-term
bonds to secure the best possible return subject to Trustees'
assessment
ofthe acceptable
level of liquidity
risk.
Details ofany funds materially
in deficit
No
Further financial
review details
(Optional
information)
You may choose to include
additional
information,
where
relevant about:
~ the charity's
principal sources of
funds (including
any
fundraising);
The ACSC's financial statements
record the donations
received from the
Peter Harrison
Foundation
to deliver improvements
in the facilities at
Ansty of824,849. During 2021 R6,S was spent on a landscaping
and
drainage
project to improve access to the playing area. The remaining
funds are being held as funding
towards the installation
ofnew cricket nets
and playing area enhancements.
~ how expenditure
has supported
the key objectives ofthe
Pending the dissolution
ofthe ASSC the revenues
and expenditures
incurred
in delivering
the cricket and football programmes
continue to be
charity; accounted
for in the ASSC financial statements
and those ofthe cricket
~ investment
policy and objectives
and football sections.
including
any ethical
ACSC's annual
running
costs are covered through
membership
investment
policy adopted.
subscriptions,
fundraising
and sponsorship.
Capital projects are funded
grants and by fundraising.
by
Total cash funds 6() 18,241
(a(tree balances with receipts and paytnents
account(s)) QK GK
Unrestricted Restricted funds Endowment
funds funds
B2Other monetary assets Details to nearest a to nearest g to nearest g
B3Investment assets Details Fund to which
belongs
asset Cost {optional) Current value
(optional)
84Assets retained for the Details Fund to which
belongs
asset Cost (optional) Current value
(optional)
charity's
own
use
B6Liabilities Details Fund to which
liabiTity relates
Amount due
{optional)
When due (optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of
ll the trustees Signature Print Name Date ofapproval
Shaun Janman 26/10/22
John Thorpe 26/10/22