**Trustees Report for Period:** 31st March 2022 to 31[st] March 2023 **Charity’s name:** Flax Bourton Hub **Registration number** : 1195804 **Address:**
Flax Bourton Village Hall Old Weston Road Long Ashton Bristol BS48 1UR
## **Trustee names**
Claire Merrick James Bernard Merrick (chair) Mark O’Connor Mark William Francis Geoffrey James Coombs
## **Structure and details of how it is managed**
The charity has one chair (James Merrick) and four other trustees of equal standing. During the year:
- Terence Williamson resigned as chair and as a trustee.
- Mark O’Connor joined as a trustee
- James Merrick became chair
## **How it recruits trustees**
The trustees were found via the initial setup of the charity, predominantly via advertising at the village hall to request for help.
One additional trustee was recruited in year. He was already involved in the charity by providing website support (free of charge).
## **Activities and objectives in the year**
The village hall remained open throughout the period, and was regularly let to local residents. Various projects have been supported including community drop in IT training, a summer celebration event and helping to support those in need including raising goods for Ukraine and providing free rental to a birthday party for a very low income family.
## **Achievements and performance, including reporting on its public benefit**
The trustees regularly meet and review performance and the charity is deemed to have me its public benefit by remaining open and available at low cost for the benefit of the community. Church groups, toddler sessions, bible groups and many children parties have all benefited from the charity.
## **Financial review including any debts and details of your reserves policy (if applicable)**
- The charity income exceeded its payments obligations for the period.
- - Surplus funds are held within the bank account as a reserve for future periods where income does not exceed expenses.
**Details of any funds held as a custodian trustee**
None
||**Charity Name**
**FLAX BOURTON HUB**
**1**|**Charity Name**
**FLAX BOURTON HUB**
**1**|**Charity Name**
**FLAX BOURTON HUB**
**1**|**No (if any)**
**195804**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
4/1/2022|**To**
|Period end date
3/31/2023||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**
Hall income
**13,672.35**
Grants
**13,672**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 13,672**
**A3 Payments**
Alarms
354.28
Broadband
390.27
Cleaning
2,775.50
Elec
1,890.49
Gas
2,475.23
Hall Booking Online
120.00
Phone
24.00
Water
122.00
Windows
357.00
Beekeeping
89.50
Capital
252.36
Festival
219.00
Maintenance
76.58
Other Expense
758.91
Plumbing
245.00
Shelving
1,059.73
Website
124.06
Windows
34.00
**_Sub total_ 11,368**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 11,368**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 2,304**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 2,304**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**13,672**
**-**
**13,672**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,672**
**354**
**390**
**2,776**
**1,890**
**2,475**
**120**
**24**
**122**
**357**
**90**
**252**
**219**
**77**
**759**
**245**
**1,060**
**124**
**34**
**11,368**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,368**
**2,304**
**-**
**-**
**2,304**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**13,672**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**13,672**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**|**13,672**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**354**|**-**|
|||||**390**|**-**|
|||||**2,776**||
|||||**1,890**||
|||||**2,475**|**-**|
|||||**120**|**-**|
|||||**24**|**-**|
|||||**122**|**-**|
|||||**357**|**-**|
|||||**90**|**-**|
|||||**252**|**-**|
|||||**219**||
|||||**77**||
|||||**759**|**-**|
|||||**245**|**-**|
|||||**1,060**|**-**|
|||||**124**|**-**|
|||||**34**|**-**|
|||||**11,368**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**|**11,368**|**-**|
|||||||
|||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,304**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**2,304**|**-**|
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
15948.78
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,949**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
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