## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 10/03/2022 Period start date To 10/02/2023 Period end date**
**Charity name: Halstead Community Shed**
**Charity registration number: 1198208**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To promote social inclusion for the**
**public benefit by preventing people**
**(particularly but not exclusively older**
**men), within Halstead and the**
**surrounding area, from becoming**
**socially excluded, relieving the needs of**
**those people who are socially excluded**
**and assisting them to integrate into**
**society through the provision of**
**facilities in which they can meet to**
**undertake, jointly or individually,**
**creative, physical or recreational**
**activities, learn or pass on skills and**
**knowledge and support each other**
**socially. For the purpose of this clause**
**'socially excluded' means being**
**excluded from society, or parts of**
**society, as a result of one or more of the**
**following factors: unemployment;**
**financial hardship; bereavement or old**
**age; ill health (physical or mental).**|
|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|**To secure funding to purchase premises**
**to enable us to start offering support to**
**the public.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes we have.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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SORP reference||
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|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
volunteers|Para 1.38||
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|**Still trying to secure funding to**
**purchase premises**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
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|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Charities accounts remain in a**
**positive position**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**No reserves held currently**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£o.oo**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**New Charity**|
|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|**None**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**|
|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|**Election of Volunteers**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Halstead Community Shed|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1198208|
|Charity’s principal address|Unit 16 Fifth Avenue
Halstead
Essex
CO9 2SZ|
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Kevin Pryke|Chair|||
||Janet Caton|Trustee|||
||Helen Catley|Trustee|||
||PhilipCatley|Trustee|||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity N/A Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the N/A assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and N/A 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**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
> **Signature(s)** KPRYKE **Full name(s)** Kevin Pryke
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair
**Date**
15/1/24