## **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**|
|**Date approved by trustees:**|||
## **Signed on behalf of the trustees:**
**Full name: Position: Date:**
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