
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From:** 2[nd] December 2023 **Period start date To:** 1[st] December 2024 **Period end date** 

**Charity name:** SHARE: Flitwick and Ampthill 

**Charity registration number:** 1198511 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|To protect and safeguard the environment<br>for the public benefit through in particular<br>but not exclusively the promotion of share,<br>repair and re-use of products as a means of<br>preventing and minimising waste disposal;<br>and the advancement of the education of<br>the public regarding the protection of the<br>environment through the sharing, repairing<br>and re-use of products.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|During the reporting period the Trustees<br>have:<br>Advertised the Library of Things and<br>continued to accept, sort, repair when<br>necessary/possible and catalogue many<br>kind donations of used equipment from<br>the public.<br>Lent out useful items to the community,<br>reducing the number of items that have<br>to be bought.<br>Run Repair Cafés in the local area, to<br>which people can bring their broken<br>household items and volunteers attempt<br>to work with them to repair the item for<br>free. During the reporting period we ran<br>5 Repair Cafés and saved over 100<br>items from landfill.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have had regard to the<br>guidance issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public benefit.|





## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the<br>main achievements<br>of the charity,<br>identifying the<br>difference the<br>charity’s work has<br>made to the<br>circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and<br>any wider benefits to<br>society as a whole.|Para 1.20|SHARE: Flitwick and Ampthill now has 156 members<br>and has completed the loan of 464 items (315 this<br>year, up from 149 in the previous year). Members of<br>the community have often commented upon how much<br>money they have saved by being able to borrow rather<br>than buy.<br>We have now run a total of 7 Repair Cafés. We ran 5<br>this year, with 147 items looked at and a repair rate of<br>69%. That is a lot of items saved from landfill!<br>The Library of Things operates between 10-12 on<br>Saturdays from the Rufus Centre.|



## **Financial Review** 

|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|As of 1stDecember 2024, SHARE: Flitwick<br>and Ampthill has £2816 in the Co-operative<br>Bank. This is enough to pay for at least<br>another year of essential expenditure such<br>as insurance, website running costs and<br>the Library inventory software, myTurn. It<br>will also allow us to purchase some much-<br>requested items for the Library of Things.<br>The trustees feel, therefore, that SHARE:<br>Flitwick and Ampthill is currently in a solid<br>financial position.|
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|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The trustees consider it prudent to ensure<br>that one year’s worth of essential<br>expenditure – covering items such as<br>insurance, website costs and inventory<br>software, without which SHARE: Flitwick<br>and Ampthill cannot operate – is held in<br>reserve at all times.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£1000|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|n/a|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|n/a|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|n/a|





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|‘Foundation’ model constitution|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|SHARE: Flitwick and Ampthill is a CIO|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Leisa Milne and Susan Clinch were voted<br>in to continue their Trustee duties.|



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|SHARE: Flitwick and Ampthill|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|n/a|
|Registered charity number|1198511|
|Charity’s principal address|3 Chestnut Close<br>Westoning<br>Bedfordshire<br>MK45 5LR|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Ian Blazeby||||
||Susan Clinch||||
||Leisa Milne||||
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||Richard House||||
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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 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** 

## **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)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>**Date**|||
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||Leisa Alexandra Milne|Ian Stephen Blazeby|
||<br> <br>Trustee|Trustee|
||27thSeptember 2025||
||27thSeptember 2025||






**Charity Name No (if any) SHARE: Flitwick and Ampthill 1198511 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 2nd December 2023 1st December 2024 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
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|Council Grants|**849**||**-**||**-**||**849**||**1,050**|
|Rental income|**911**||**-**||**-**||**911**||**576**|
|Donations|**1,484**||**-**||**-**||**1,484**||**741**|
|Membershipfees|**594**||**-**||**-**||**594**||**343**|
|Other Grants|**250**||**-**||**-**||**250**||**-**|
|Sale of inventoryassets|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Recyclingfor Good Causes|**73**||**-**||**-**||**73**||**88**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**4,161**||**-**||**-**||**4,161**||**2,798**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**2,798**|
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|Insurance|**396**||||||||**392**|
|Website|**24**||||||||**122**|
|Room rental for Libraryof Things|||||||||**900**|
|HostingRepair Cafes|**318**||||||||**460**|
|Sundries for maintenance / repairs|**225**||||||||**90**|
|Equipment for running Library / Repair<br>Café|**388**||||||||**357**|
|Itemspurchased for inventory|**905**||||||||**432**|
|MyTurn librarysoftware|**203**||||||||**208**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**2,459**||||||||**2,961**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
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||**2,816**||||||**2,816**||**-                   163**|



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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**2,816**||**-**||**-**|
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||||**2,816**||**-**||**-**|
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||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Donated inventory items<br>Shelving, other furniture<br>Bought inventory items<br>**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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||||||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

|Signature|Print Name<br>LEISA MILNE<br>IAN BLAZEBY|Date of<br>approval|
|---|---|---|
||LEISA MILNE|26th June 2025|
||IAN BLAZEBY|26th June 2025|



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