## **Goxhill Bowling Club** # **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year to 31 October 2025** **Charity registration number** 1195169 **Trustees** _(currently & for the whole period unless shown otherwise)_ Peter TK Cox Christine M Ellis John Guggiari Anthony W Hebblewhite _Trustee from 28/01/2025_ Stewart G Smith _Trustee until 28/01/2025_ Irene EM Ballam **Address** Goxhill Bowling Green Manor Lane, Goxhill, North Lincolnshire DN19 7LB **Telephone** 01469-530363 **Website** https://goxhill-bowls-club.weebly.com/ **Banker** Barclays Bank plc The Trustees submit their annual report and financial statements covering the year ending 31 October 2025. Goxhill Bowling Club (‘the Club’) is a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). ## **Objects** The objects of Goxhill Bowling Club CIO (‘the Charity’) are the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by the inhabitants of Goxhill and the neighbouring area through providing a green and other facilities for bowling. ## **Review of activities during the period** After the success of 2024’s bowls tasters for pupils of Baysgarth Secondary School, we arranged a repeat event that was similarly well-received. This consisted again of several consecutive hour-long sessions across a morning. Nevertheless, whilst this is an effective means of promoting bowling, we cannot realistically view it as likely to recruit junior members without the support of adults in their families. We considered the viability of running some after school hours or weekend roll-ups - aimed at young people accompanied by their parents or grandparents – but lacked volunteers available to run them. Our usual Tuesday afternoon bowls drives, open for anyone to attend on a pay-as-you-go basis, ran throughout the summer season thanks to Club volunteers running them. These drives provide a pleasant, sociable way for new and existing bowlers to mix and develop, as well as being a shop window for our Club and our green. They continue to be both an effective recruitment tool and a contributor to our funds. We have continued to invest in our bowling green, including renovation and fertilizer treatments, although this is becoming increasingly unaffordable. But a good quality green undeniably helps ensure that bowling is as enjoyable as possible for both newcomers and experienced players so it must remain high on our list of priorities. However, more important even than the level of expenditure is the voluntary labour of our ‘Green Team’ who generously commit their time to the many tasks needed to keep the green, and the whole Manor Lane site, at their best. We converted to a charitable incorporated organization in 2021 primarily to become a legal entity able to hold a lease in the Charity’s name rather than via custodian trustees. After several false starts, at long last a twenty years lease was completed early in 2025. This followed protracted exchanges between the Charity Commission and our landlord, the charity Goxhill Memorial Hall & Recreation Ground, to whom we are very grateful for their perseverance on our behalf. Our biggest sources of regular income remained membership subscriptions at £1,860 and match fees. Unfortunately, financial pressures on local businesses seem to have been the reason why almost half of our advertizers did not renew their boards and that source of income fell to £600 from £1,250 in 2024. We can only hope that there might be an upturn in both the national and local economies with advertizing income returning to us. With all areas of expense increasing, we have again run a deficit, despite increasing Page 1 ## **Goxhill Bowling Club** membership fees. When the opportunity came this year to obtain an almost 90% grant for the purchase of a new mower for the bowling green, we were happy to invest £1.1K from our reserves. Thanks to the Community Grant scheme of North Lincolnshire Council, we now have a high-quality mower that will reduce our maintenance and repair costs and at the same time last us for many years. Having considered the Charity’s reserves at the end of the year, the Trustees are satisfied that, even in their much-diminished state, they remain just sufficient to cover essential running costs along with a modest contingency fund. However, we are seeking ways to improve our income through reviving past income streams, like the advertizing boards, and identifying potential new sources of revenue. At sporting level, we thank our league captains who, on occasions last season, had a difficult job ensuring that we were able to put out full teams to honour our league match commitments. In results we were mostly around the middle of the league tables: 2[nd] of 6 teams in the Barnetby & District Bowling League; 4[th] of 10 teams in the Scunthorpe & District Bowls League’s First Division; 5[th] of 7 teams in the Grimsby, Cleethorpes & District Bowling Association’s Premier Division; and 6[th] of 9 teams in the North Lincolnshire Bowls Triples Leagues’ Mixed First Division. We had no real cup success, even having to concede once because of insurmountable fixture clashes. Whilst fun and enjoyment of the personal challenges of the sport are the normal route that individuals come to bowls, the majority like to progress to league bowling once they have mastered the basics. Therefore, we will stay in all four leagues in order to provide plentiful playing opportunities and hopefully we will be able to achieve greater success in 2026. Not only does the publicity of success helps attract new members, it undeniably helps retain those single-minded bowlers for whom bowling is primarily about honours and trophies. The Trustees wish to record their gratitude to the many volunteers who help the Charity and Club achieve success through their selfless commitment and enthusiasm. We rely on everyone who helps whether it is through fundraising, greenkeeping, community activity, running gala days & competitions, team selections, match arrangements, and all the many administrative tasks that help us achieve our objectives. ## **Management and responsibilities** The Trustees collectively administer the charity. Trustees must be Members of the charity and are elected at its Annual General Meeting with one-third of them retiring at each AGM but eligible for re-election. Additional Trustees to fill vacancies may be co-opted during the year until a maximum of nine trustees are in post. Names of all current Trustees, along with those who served in that capacity during the year, appear on page 1 of this report. The Trustees recognize their collective responsibility for keeping proper accounting records and preparing financial statements each year. The appended financial statements have been prepared on a cash basis, with the resulting report included as part of these financial statements. Approved by the Trustees on 8[th] January 2026 and signed on its behalf by: John Guggiari Page 2 Goxhill Bowling Club CIO (registered charity no. 1195169) Receipts and Payments Account for the year ending 31 October 2025 Receipt$ 2024125 £p 2023/24 £p Note Fundraising Raffles & Cards Retreshments Bowls drives Pamlion use Advert boards Grants Donations Club Member Fees Subscriptions Match fees 1nd.comp entries Tournameni Fees Open Club Other Other Club & Leaguedinners Club shirts Sundry recéipts Suspense 202.00 128.75 786.00 206.40 364.00 275.00 7,250.00 1,790.00 122.00 410.00 9.$00.00 111.50 1.860.00 1.450.00 98.25 7,670.00 1,684.00 189.50 375.00 IL13.25 131.00 180.00 249.00 714.00 46.48 15,724.00 8,504.63 Payments Club Member fees County & League affiliations Match travel 1nd.comp entries Prizes & Trophies Open prizes & engraving Club trophy engraving Ropoirs & Mainton8noo Mowers & green equipment Sprinkler irrigation system Sheds R&M Pavilion Other R&M Newfixed assets Green Maintenance Fertilizer & seed Petrol & oil Contrgd 8eNi¢¢s Other racurring ¢osts Electricity Water Ingur8nce Green waste collection Donalions 391.00 1.628.50 189.50 939.Xi 98.25 224.YJ 184.00 87.50 660.78 200.00 558.00 1.557.33 78. 76 314.97 576.19 10,849.96 1.053.00 155.96 1,176.00 93.24 509.02 497.22 $57.09 449.22 249. 76 403.09 140.80 GMH 250.00 30.00 60.00 In memorium Other Administralive Post & stationery Club shirts for stock Club & League dinners Lease legal fees Sundry payments Suspense 33.49 78.22 271.26 781.85 110.00 723.40 121.94 55.78 17,448.98 9,544.50 Net surplus (deticitl bm cash & bank baL8nces clf cash & bank baianees comprising Returnable deposits Cash TH Cash JG Barclays Bank 11.724.981 4.081.17 2.356.19 17,039.87) 5,121.04 4,081.17 {60.￿) 1.230.47 12.24 1.173.48 2.356.19 (60.00) 784.56 36. 79 3,919.82 4.081.17 Goxhill Bowling Club {re￿$t￿re0 charlty no. 1195169) Statement of Assets & Liabilities as at 31 October 2025 31Qct-2S 30-Oct-24 C••h fund• 8arcLoyScurr￿t account Petty cash less returnable dep)sit8 1,173.48 1.242.71 160.001 2.356.19 3,919.82 221.35 (60.00? 4081.17 A*ut* r•tdn•d fof own Bulldlng• Club Pawknon Sioragc contakncr Shed (old pawlionl Trsitors ehaiet 133.320 133,329 2.500 6.000 146.2 146.260 Mdm•n•nco oqulpm¢nt Dcnnig FT610 clw 10 bladc c8sscn¢ Oennis Dl IOTh%trticuttcr eassette AILctr Tournamcnt 24 mowcr Alco Royalc Ibwntcr mowcrl MoUnrf￿1d rIde￿n Vikini mc*Her Sprinktersystem StrimmoTS x2 Stihl he0g￿rIMmer Itong_reach. battery) Hcdgccuttcr (p￿r0 Stihl blowcr IpctToI) AILofr Spikcr alt￿hm¢nl kjhn Deere scarif￿( att. 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