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|Trustees|Andrew Neil McCallum||
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||Michael Edward Young MA (Oxon) Retired TEP Solicitor||
||Jennifer Elizabeth Sproston RGN DN OND CAT||
||Peter Aubrey Latronico BA PGCE||
||David Longdon BSc FRICS||
||Julia McGhie B.Ed (Hons)||
||Samantha McCallum AIDTA||
||Joanne Louise Meredith|(Appointed 22 May 202|
||Gareth Roberts|(Appointed 19 March 2|
||Jackie Roberts|(Appointed 19 March 2|
||Simon Ashleigh Millard|(Appointed 30 April 202|
|Executive Committee|Rona Moroney|Chief Executive Officer|
||Andrew Neil McCallum|Chair|
||Michael Edward Young MA (Oxon) Retired TEP Solicitor|Secretary|
||Julia McGhie B.Ed. (Hons)|SEN Co-ordinator|
||Jennifer Elizabeth Sproston RON DN OND CAT|Trustee|
||Peter Aubrey Latronico BA PGCE|Trustee|
||David Longdon BSc FRICS|Trustee|
||Samantha McCallumAIDTA|Trustee|
||Joanne Louise Meredith|Trustee|
|Charity number|1197017||
|(England and Wales)|||
|Incorporation number|CE027533||
|Principal address|Wingate Centre||
||Wrenbury Hall Drive||
||Wrenbury||
||Nantwich||
||Cheshire||
||CW5 8ES||
|Independent examiner|Afford Bond Holdings Limited||
||31 Wellington Road||
||Nantwich||
||Cheshire||
||CW5 7ED||
|Bankers|HSBC Bank PLC||
||Crewe Branch||
||30 Market Street||
||Crewe||
||Cheshire||
||CW1 2ES||
|Solicitors|Hibberts LLP||
||25 Barker Street||
||Nantwich||
||Cheshire||
||CW5 SEN||





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|||2024|2024|2024|2023|2023|2023|
||Notes|£|£|£|£|£|£|
|Income from:||||||||
|Donations and legacies|3|207,087|45,495|252,582|336,238|32,291|368,529|
|Charitable activities|4|55,836||55,836|132,741||132,741|
|Other trading activities|5|24,298||24,298|17,603||17,603|
|Investments|6|2,872||2,872|1,696||1,696|
|Other income|7|210,737||210,737|41,660||41,660|
|Total income||500,830|45,495|546,325|529,938|32,291|562,229|
|Expenditure on:||||||||
|Raising funds|8|32,741|13|32,754|21,302||21,302|
|Charitable activities|9|496,326|7,109|503,435|406,912|5,690|412,602|
|Other expenditure|10||||17,968||17,968|
|Total expenditure||529,067|7,122|536,189|446,182|5,690|451,872|
|Net income/(expenditure)||(28,237)|38,373|10,136|83,756|26,601|110,357|
|Transfers between||||||||
|funds|12|50,259|(50,259)||74,546|(74,546)||
|Net movement in||||||||
|funds|14|22,022|(11,886)|10,136|158,302|(47,945)|110,357|
|Reconciliation of funds:||||||||
|Fund balances at 1 January||||||||
|2024||1,163,495|21,388|1,184,883|1,005,193|69,333|1,074,526|
|Fund balances at 31||||||||
|December 2024||1,185,517|9,502|1,195,019|1,163,495|21,388|1,184,883|





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|Fixed assets||||||
|Tangible assets|19||1,026,061||1,028,342|
|Current assets||||||
|Stocks|20|803||582||
|Debtors|21|22,827||28,259||
|Cash at bank and in hand||320,535||165,613||
|||344,165||194,454||
|Creditors: amounts falling due within|22|||||
|one year||(35,207)||(37,913)||
|Net current assets|||308,958||156,541|
|Total assets less current liabilities|||1,335,019||1,184,883|
|Provision for other liabilities|23||(140,000)|||
|Net assets|||1,195,019||1,184,883|
|The funds of the charity||||||
|Restricted income funds|26||9,502||21,388|
|Unrestricted funds|27||1,185,517||1,163,495|
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|Donations and gifts|193,020|45,495|238,515|336,238|32,291|368,529|
|Grants|14,067||14,067||||
||207,087|45,495|252,582|336,238|32,291|368,529|
|Donations and gifts|||||||
|Donors => £25,000|55,000||55,000|165,000||165,000|
|Donors £10,000 <£25,000|30,292|33,859|64,151|50,855|19,000|69,855|
|Donors £5,000 <£10,000|40,434|5,507|45,941|38,000|7,520|45,520|
|Donors £2,500 <£5,000|29,415|4,131|33,546|29,408||29,408|
|Donors £1,000 <£2,500|23,607|1,598|25,205|19,259|5,771|25,030|
|Donors < £1,000|9,295|400|9,695|15,861||15,861|
|Gift aid|4,977||4,977|17,855||17,855|
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|Residential - Accommodation||
|Fees contributed|7,972<br>90,246|
|Recreational - Sport and recreation||
|Fees contributed|47,864<br>42,495|
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||funds|funds|
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||£|£|
|Fundraising events a)|8,882|13,379|
|Cafe sales|8,423|2,845|
|Room hire|875|1,379|
|Community meals|6,118||
||24,298|17,603|
|a) Analysis offundraising events|||
|Quiz night|2,219|2,188|
|Wingate 35||1,135|
|Family fete|2,408|6,002|
|Wingate skydive||1,670|
|Christmas raffle|826|1,014|
|Easter raffle|428|1,101|
|Bryony bounce-a-thon|2,850||
|Other fundraising activities < £1 ,000|151|269|
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|Miscellaneous income||557|638|
|Non-disability activities|b)|47,886|41,022|
|Insurance claim||162,294||
|||210,737|41,660|
|b) Analysis of non-disability activities||||
|Childrens' parties||5,589|5,629|
|Mini play||6,366|5,408|
|Pilates||3,330|3,924|
|Cheerleading||9,825|9,725|
|Gymnastics club||22,776|16,336|
|||47,886|41,022|



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|Staff costs|17|24,964||24,964|17,236||17,236|
|Support costs|16|5,937|13|5,950|4,066||4,066|
|Governance costs|16|1,840||1,840||||
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|Direct costs|||||||||
|Staff costs 17|156,007||160,515|316,522||127,677|121,502|249,179|
|Depreciation and 19|||||||||
|impairment|1,756||24,514|26,270||2,061|19,319|21,380|
|Coaching fees|||1,518|1,518|||5,458|5,458|
|Residential fees||||||1,950||1,950|
|Catering supplies|9,489|||9,489||12,205||12,205|
|Prizes and awards|||69||69||||
|Replacement|||||||||
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|consumables||639|1,050|1,689|||||
|Hosting fees||725|||725||||
||168,616||187,666 356,282|||143,893|146,279|290,172|
|Share of support and|governance||costs (see note 16)||||||
|Support 16|73|,540|40,107|113|,647|61,403|31,011|92,414|
|Governance 16|29|,255|4,251|33|,506|28,699|1,317|30,016|
||271|,411|232,024|503|,435|233,995|178,607|412,602|
|Analysis by fund|||||||||
|Unrestricted funds|269|,809|226,517|496|,326|228,305|178,607|406,912|
|Restricted funds 13|1|,602|5,507|7|,109|5,690||5,690|
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||Staff costs||4,451||2,327|
||Residential fees||||1,950|
||Prizes and awards|||69||
||Replacement equipment and consumables||1,050|||
||Light and heat|||700||
||Repairs and renewals|||694|141|
||Computer expenses||||1,023|
||Motor and travel|||145|249|
||Printing, postage, stationery and advertising|||13||
||||7,122||5,690|
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||Raising funds|8||13||
||Charitable activities|9|7,109||5,690|
||||7,122||5,690|
|14|Net movement in funds||2024||2023|
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||The net movement in funds is stated after charging/(crediting):|||||
||Fees payable to the charity's independent examiner:|||||
||- for the independent examination of the charity's financial statements||1|,150|1,100|
||- for tax advisory services||||850|
||- for other financial services||3|,865|3,969|
||Depreciation of owned tangible fixed assets||31|,233|24,607|
||Loss on disposal of tangible fixed assets||||17,968|



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|Staff training<br>Direct||370|3,183|444|3,997|100|
|Staff expenses<br>Direct||92|977|263|1,332|970|
|Water rates<br>Direct||4,940||260|5,200|5,230|
|Cleaning costs<br>Floor area||2,961|987||3,948|4,169|
|Light and heat<br>Floor area||28,486|11,626|2,447|42,559|35,265|
|Repairs and renewals<br>Floor area||21,825|6,959||28,784|20,540|
|Computer expenses<br>Direct||||1,938|1,938|2,666|
|Motor and travel<br>Direct|||156|617|773|714|
|Printing, postage, stationery and advertising Usage|4,465|377|1,617||6,459|5,492|
|Bank, card and fundraising charges Income|159|147|915||1,221|1,991|
|Insurance Risk|243|5,654|12,721|243|18,861|15,091|
|Telephone Usage|661|1,136|773|125|2,695|2,363|
|Sundry expenses Direct|276|899|193|316|1,684|1,889|
|Bad debts Income|146||||146||
|Governance c)|1,840|7,743|4,251|21,512|35,346|30,016|
||7,790|74,630|44,358|28,165|154,943|126,496|
|Expenditure on support and governance costs within:|||||||
|Raising funds - support 8|5,950||||5,950|4,066|
|Raising funds - governance 8|1,840||||1,840||
|Charitable activities - support 9||66,887|40,107|6,653|113,647|92,414|
|Charitable activities - governance 9||7,743|4,251|21,512|33,506|30,016|
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|Support costs from raising funds of £5,950 (2023: £4,066) and||||
|charitable activities of £113,647 (2023: £92,414) gives total support||||
|costs of:||119,597|96,480|
|Governance costs from raising funds of £1,840 (2023: £-) and charitable||||
|activities of £33,506 (2023: £30,016) gives total governance costs of:|c)|35,346|30,016|
|Total support costs allocated to activities||154,943|126,496|
|c) Governance costs||2024|2023|
|||£|£|
|Staff costs|17|11,327|13,115|
|Depreciation|19|4,963|3,227|
|Independent examination fees||1,150|1,100|
|Accountancy||3,865|2,000|
|Legal and professional||5,796|6,812|
|Consultancy fees||8,245|3,762|
|||35,346|30,016|
|17 Employees||||
|The average monthly number of employees during the year was:||||
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|Staff||25|21|
|Employment costs||2024|2023|
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|Wages and salaries||330,895|264,523|
|Social security costs||16,216|11,120|
|Other pension costs||5,702|3,887|
|||352,813|279,530|
|Analysed between:||||
|Residential|9|156,007|127,677|
|Recreational|9|160,515|121,502|
|Fundraising|8|24,964|17,236|
|Governance|16|11,327|13,115|
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|The remuneration of key management personnel was as follows:|||
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|Aggregate compensation|39,552|37,354|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Freehold|Fixtures,||Total|
|||land and|fittings and|||
|||buildings|equipment|||
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|Cost||||||
|At 1 January 2024||941,537|512,287|1|,453,824|
|Additions||15,683|14,188||29,871|
|Disposals||(175)|(20,669)||(20,844)|
|At 31 December 2024||957,045|505,806|1|,462,851|
|Depreciation and impairment||||||
|At 1 January 2024|||425,482||425,482|
|Depreciation charged in the year|||31,233||31,233|
|Eliminated in respect of disposals|||(19,925)||(19,925)|
|At 31 December 2024|||436,790||436,790|
|Carrying amount||||||
|At 31 December 2024||957,045|69,016|1|,026,061|
|At 31 December 2023||941,537|86,805|1|,028,342|
|All tangible assets are used for charitable purposes.||||||
|Depreciation charge allocated to:||||||
|Residential|9||1<br>,756||2<br>,061|
|Recreational|9||24<br>,514||19<br>,319|
|Governance|c)||4<br>,963||3<br>,227|
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||Raw materials and consumables|266||
||Finished goods and goods for resale|537|582|
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|21|Debtors|||
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||Amounts falling due within one year:|£|£|
||Trade debtors|3,909|3,420|
||Payments on account||10,000|
||Other debtors|7,529|3,797|
||Prepayments and accrued income|11,389|11,042|
|||22,827|28,259|
|22|Creditors: amounts falling due within one year|||
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||Taxation and social security|4,529|3,571|
||Income invoiced in advance|13,166|1,195|
||Trade creditors|7,646|8,758|
||Accruals and deferred income|9,866|24,389|
|||35,207|37,913|
|23|Provisions for liabilities|2024|2023|
|||£|£|
||Deferred donation - The Edward Gostling Fund|140,000||
||Movements on provisions:|||
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|Defined contribution schemes|£|£|
|Charge to profit or loss in respect of defined contribution schemes|5,702|3,887|



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|Annette Duvollet Trust|162||(72)||90|
|Boshier Hinton Foundation|399|||(399)||
|Cheshire Community Fund|2,041||(1,126)|44|959|
|CRH Charitable Trust|5,000||(2,198)|574|3,376|
|Duchy of Lancaster|4,750|||(4,750)||
|Fence Club|3,463|1,598|(23)|(4,844)|194|
|Peter Colyer|2,754||(264)|(2,139)|351|
|Sport England|2,469||(3,091)|622||
|Strasser Foundation|350||||350|
|Cheshire East Council||4,131||(4,131)||
|Cloth Workers||12,800||(12,800)||
|Hobson Charity||21,059||(21,059)||
|Screwfix Foundation||5,507||(1,377)|4,130|
|Warburton Foundation||400|(348)||52|
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|Annette Duvollet Trust|620|||(458)|162|
|Barbara Shuttleworth Trust|400||(400)|||
|Boshier Hinton Foundation||1,943|(70)|(1,474)|399|
|Cheshire Community Fund|1,319|1,920|(1,198)||2,041|
|CRH Charitable Trust|5,000||||5,000|
|Duchy of Lancaster|4,750||||4,750|
|Fence Club|3,463||||3,463|
|Morrisons Foundation||7,520||(7,520)||
|Peter Colyer|47,963|19,000|(1,023)|(63,186)|2,754|
|Percy Bilton||1,908||(1,908)||
|Radio City|1,500||(1,500)|||
|Sport England|3,847||(1,378)||2,469|
|Strasser Foundation|350||||350|
|Ursula Keyes|121||(121)|||
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|General funds|1,163,495|500,830|(529,067)|50,259|1,185,517|
|Previous year:|At 1 January|Incoming|Resources|Transfers|At 31|
||2023|resources|expended||December|
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||£|£|£|£|£|
|General funds|1,005,193|529,938|(446,182)|74,546|1,163,495|





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|||2024|2024|2024|
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||At 31 December 2024:||||
||Tangible assets|1,026,061||1,026,061|
||Current assets/(liabilities)|299,456|9,502|308,958|
||Provisions|(140,000)||(140,000)|
|||1,185,517|9,502|1,195,019|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
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||At 31 December 2023:||||
||Tangible assets|1,028,342||1,028,342|
||Current assets/(liabilities)|135,153|21,388|156,541|
|||1,163,495|21,388|1,184,883|
|29|Cash generated from operations||2024|2023|
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||Surplus for the year||10,136|110,357|
||Adjustments for:||||
||Investment income recognised in statement of financial activities||(2,872)|(1,696)|
||(Gain)/loss on disposal of tangible fixed assets|||17,968|
||Depreciation and impairment of tangible fixed assets||31,233|24,607|
||Movements in working capital:||||
||(Increase) in stocks||(221)|(285)|
||Decrease/(increase) in debtors||5,432|(12,286)|
||(Decrease)/increase in creditors||(2,706)|14,687|
||Increase in provisions||140,000||
||Cash generated from operations||181,002|153,352|
|30|Analysis of changes in net funds||||



