Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts
Financial Period: 23/06/2021 to 30/09/2022
| Charity name: | All Cannings Community Trust Charitable Incorporated Organisation |
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| Other names by which the charity is known: |
ACCT CIO |
| Registration number: | 1194918 |
| Principal address: | All Cannings Village Hall (ACCT) The Street All Cannings Wiltshire SN10 3PA |
| Trustees: | Mrs. Alison Leese (Chair until 1 June 2022) Mr. Richard Drury (retired 1 June 2022, deceased 22 July 2022) Mr. Peter Wilson (Chair from 1 June 2022) Mr. Peter Cooper (co-opted by trustees 1 June 2022) Mrs. Sue Webb Mr. Robert Chesson (Acting Secretary) |
| Historical Background: | Over the last 100 years, the parish of All Cannings and Allington has benefitted from a 1917 bequest by Miss Mary Watney, comprising the village hall and the land around it. Mary Watney was fond of the village, and she wanted to support family life by providing social opportunities. The hall and land were to be used for the good of all parishioners and were to be managed by the village rector and the churchwardens. Over the years, the hall became the social centre of the village and in 1971 it was converted into a village hall and a 50-year lease was granted to the All Cannings Village Hall (ACVH) Trust by the trustees of the Miss Mary Watney for Reading Room Charity (MWT). This lease expired in the Summer of 2021. In 2005 and on until 2021, the ACVH Trust sub-leased part of the land to the Village Shop (ACVS), a not-for-profit Community Benefit Society, on a series of five-year leases. The last of these has also now expired. |
| Main activities: | Over the last five years and in the period that this Annual Report addresses, volunteers and trustees from all three organisations (MWT, ACVH and ACVS) have come together to work out a plan based on modern charity rules and with a view to streamlining the charitable organisations involved. |
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They created the All Cannings Community Trust (ACCT), a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It was registered in June 2021. |
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| Governance: | The ACCT is a registered CIO using the foundation model. Its modern and fully accountable constitution (last amended 12 March 2021) was drawn up in line with the model rules for Village Halls promoted by the Council for the Protection of Rural England and has been approved by the Charity Commission. The first set of trustees are named in the constitution and were drawn from the trustees of the MWT, the ACVH, the ACVS and the village in general. The ACCT will hold an open village meeting every year at which an account of the year’s progress will be given. Future trustees will be re-appointed or replaced by the village and will, therefore, represent multiple viewpoints from the community. The ACCT has a clear mission to support all who live and work in All Cannings and Allington, furthering the initial mission of Mary Watney. |
| Aims and objectives: | The objects of the CIO are to establish and run facilities (to include a village hall) and to promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Parish of All Cannings and Allington (“area of benefit”) without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, race or political, religious or other opinions the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the conditions of life of the said inhabitants. Importantly, these objectives do not tie the Trust to only managing the Village Hall but create the opportunity for other land or buildings to be managed in the future. The new charity is, therefore, fit, and ready to manage the village hall and its land and look for other opportunities to support village life. |
| Going forward: | Both the MWT and the ACVH Trust have teams of trustees registered with the Charity Commission who are authorised to approve the transfer of their assets to the ACCT(CIO). A firm of charity solicitors will complete the paperwork necessary to ensure that we receive Charity Commission approval and that a seamless transition is made. Once this has been accomplished, the ACCT will be able to issue a new lease to the Village Shop. Instead of a short five-year lease, this will be a 30-year lease, giving the shop the ability to plan ahead for the replacement of the old buildings. |
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| Financial matters: | In this financial period the ACCT did not have its own bank account. The Village Hall set up a subsidiary savings account to handle income and expenditure on behalf of the Trust. During this financial period, transactions were wholly devoted to the process of preparing the Trust to take the transfer of assets from the ACVH and the MWT. The ACCT received a grant of £2,500 from the Wiltshire Community Foundation towards these costs. It has been agreed that expenditure above this will be shared equally by the ACVH and the ACVS. The Community Shop will meet its own legal fees for the execution of the proposed lease. |
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| Accounts for the period: | Village Hall Account Opening balance 0.00 Income Grant from Wiltshire Community Foundation 2500.00 TOTAL INCOME 2500.00 Expenditure H3 Solicitors (initial invoices) 720.00 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 720.00 Closing balance 1780.00 |
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Signed on behalf of the trustees:
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