## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 January 2023 Period start date To 31 December 2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Friends of Ilkley Rail Station (FOIRS)** ## **Charity registration number: 1197227** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To preserve for the public benefit, Ilkley**
**Railway Station, a Grade II Listed mid 19th**
**Century building as a building of**
**architectural and historic interest.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**FOIRS continues to organise an Annual**
**Winter “Music on The Station” event**
**where funds are collected for a**
**nominated charity (CandleLighters).**
**Continuing the theme with the Ilkley**
**Station School Planters, FOIRS asked**
**each school to produce a pair of pictures**
**which have now been printed and**
**mounted on the front of the planters.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**FOIRS can confirm that our trustees have**
**given due attention to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by|Para 1.38|**FOIRS has a small committee, we have**
**held two events during this year that**
**required volunteers. These were school **| |volunteers||**children from 5 Ilkley middle schools who**
**maintained their planters on the station in**
**the spring and summer.**
**One of our associates is a qualified**
**Landscape Gardener and he has**
**provided support on related topics. **| |---|---|---| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The Annual Winter “Music on The**
**Station” event where funds are collected**
**for a nominated charity, (CandleLighters**
**in 2022), continues.**
**I can report that our Event on 17 Dec 23**
**raised a further £922.88.**
**FOIRS has now launched its Website and**
**Social Media platforms.**
**FOIRS can report that the Ilkley Rail and**
**Bus and Station Board in conjunction**
**with Ilkley and Keighley MP, Robbie**
**Moore, Northern Rail, Network Rail,**
**West Yorkshire Combined Authority and**
**Ilkley Council is now up and running.**
**There have been three meeting this year**
**and while forward progress is painfully**
**slow, there is optimism for the future.**
**Partly due to the formation of the Ilkley**
**Rail and Bus and Station Board and the**
**persistence of FOIRS a meeting was held**
**on the Station with representatives from**
**Network and Northern Rail, Ilkley Council,**
**Robbie Moore MP and Northern Rail**
**Contractors ISS in July 2023.**
**Following this meeting some major**
**improvements of the surrounds of Ilkley**
**Station have been completed by Network**
**Rail contractors ISS.**
**Additionally all the wooden fencing has**
**now been replaced and work on the**
**Entrance Canopy at the Bus Station has**
**been completed.**
**FOIRS has also been offered the chance**
**to Adopt an area of “green space” at the**
**foot of the steps from the Ilkley Rail**| **Station Footbridge. This is ongoing and if successful, FOIRS will be looking for Sponsors to finance the replanting of this green area. In mid November, Michael Portillo was appearing at the Kings Hall, Ilkley. Two FOIRS Members were able to meet with him and invite him to become a Patron. On a festive note, FOIRS has purchased a Xmas Tree at the Annual St Margarets Xmas Tree Festival.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of this year FOIRS had**
**£4,190.00 In cash assets.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhy they areheld|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A **| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**FOIRS has undertaken no direct**
**fundraising activities on its own behalf.**
**FOIRS has applied for a number of grants**
**from local sources and has been**
**successful with grant from Bradford**
**Council Community Chest Fund (£500.00)**
**and Northern Rail Station Adoption Fund**
**(£1,500.00).**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**FOIRS has no premises and very little**
**property.**
**We consider our risks are very low.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**None**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**with voting members other than its**
**trustees.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**All trustees are volunteers involved with**
**the initial setting up of the charity.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**FOIRS is one of a number of “Friends of**
**Ilkley” groups and regularly participates**
**in the Ilkley Community Network (ICN)**
**monthly meetings. The nature of our**
**charity also requires close liaison with**
**Northern and Network Rail and West**
**Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA). **| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Friends of IlkleyRailStation| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|FOIRS| |Registered charitynumber|1197227| |Charity’s principal address|Friends of Ilkley Rail Station, Northern Ilkley Railway, Station
Road, Ilkley, LS29 8HF| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Stephen Thornton|Chair/Admin||N/A| ||Robert Hartley|Treasurer/Admin||N/A| ||Charles Scaife|None||N/A| ||Julia Collington|None||N/A| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |**N/A **||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **N/A** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **N/A** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for **N/A** safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser N/A** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** **N/A** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **None** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|S R Thornton|R W Hartley| |---|---|---| ||Stephen Russell Thornton|Robert William Hartley| ||

Chair & Admin|Treasurer & Admin| |||| |||| |**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Friends of Ilkley Rail Station**|||||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|1.Jan.23
Period start date|**To**|31.Dec.23
Period end date||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,190**
**500**
**1,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,190**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,190**
**250**
**950**
**290**
**30**
**106**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,626**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,626**
**4,564**
**-**
**-**
**4,564**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**88**
**-**
**-**
**88**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**88**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**88**
**-**
**-**
**88**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,190**
**500**
**1,500**
**-**
**-**
**88**
**-**
**-**
**6,278**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,278**
**250**
**950**
**290**
**30**
**106**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,626**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,626**

**4,652**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Cash Carried Forward from 2022|**4,190**|||||**-**| |Bradford CommunityChest Fund Grant|**500**|||||**-**| |Northern Rail Station Adoption Fund Grant|**1,500**|||||| |Peronal Donation|**-**|||||**20**| |Grant from IlkleyCouncil Green Spaces|**-**|||||**5,000**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**6,190**|||||**5,020**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**
|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**5,020**| |||||||| |Annual Website HostingFees|**250**|||||**-**| |Setupof FOIRS Website|**950**|||||**-**| |Print School Planter Artwork|**290**|||||**-**| |St Margaret's Xmas Tree Festival Fee|**30**|||||| |Xmas tree Decorations|**106**|||||| |School Plannter Expenses(Topsoil)||||||**178**| |FOIRS Redevelopmentplan Brochure||||||**214**| |Roller Signs for AT Event|**-**|||||**123**| |Design & Artwork for Roller Signs|**-**|||||**175**| |Large Xmas Banner|**-**|||||**140**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**1,626**|||||**830**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**830**| |||||||| ||**4,564**|**88**|**-**|
**4,652**||**4,190**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**4,564**|**88**|**-**|**4,652**||**4,190**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 5.4.24 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|R W Hartley
Signature
S R Thornton
None
**Details**
**Details**
None
Balance at Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
None
**Details**
None|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,564**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,564**
**-**
OK
Agreement Error
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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Stephen Thornton
Robert Hartley|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
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**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||S R Thornton|Stephen Thornton|| ||R W Hartley|Robert Hartley|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 5.4.24