## **Caddington Heathfield Centre Trustees’ Annual Report for the period Year from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025** ## **Objectives and Activities** To further or benefit the residents of Caddington and the neighbourhood and to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation. To establish or secure the establishment of a Community Centre and to maintain or manage or cooperate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre. The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. ## **Achievements and Performance** Throughout the period, the Community Centre has been open for the residents of Caddington and the neighbourhood. On average, there has been over 500 residents a week using the Centre. ## **Financial Review** The Charity’s financial position at the end of the period is deemed to be satisfactory for its purposes. The Trustees consider that a reasonable level of reserves should held, so that funds are available if there is a significant cost required for a one-off significant repair/maintenance. The desired minimum amount of reserves to cover these costs at the period end is £5,000. The Building and Land are currently owned by Central Bedfordshire Council, who are at present taking significant steps regarding the sale of the Site, which may include refurbishing the Building, which in turn may impact upon the Charity’s ability to continue to provide a Community Centre. Given the uncertainty regarding how long the Building may not be usable for Caddington Heathfield Centre and what costs may be incurred when no income is being generated, and if it becomes usable again whether there will be sufficient business to sustain it, the Trustees have attempted to increase Reserves much more than the desired minimum in normal circumstances of £5,000 as noted above. ## **Structure, Governance and Management** Caddington Heathfield Centre is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation that is governed by a Constitution. The agreement of the majority of the Trustees by a resolution is required to appoint a new Trustee. Any new Trustee will be appointed for a 3-year term. In the appointment process of a new Trustee, the Trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the administration of the Charity. ## **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**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Mr R W Fitzsimmons|Mr J Waller| ||Chair|Secretary| |||| |||| ## **TRUSTEE ANNUAL REPORT** |For theyear|For theyear|For theyear| |---|---|---| |From 1st April 2024|to|31st March 2025| ## **SECTION A** ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION DETAILS** |Charity Name
Registered charity number
Charity's' principal address|CADDINGTON HEATHFIELD CENTRE| |---|---| ||| ||1198785| ||| ||Hyde Road
Caddington
Bedfordshire
LU1 4HF| Names of the charity trustee who manage the charity ||**Trustee Name**|**Office(if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**| |---|---|---|---| |1|Robert William Fitzsimmons|Chair|Reappointed 5 September 2025| |2|John Waller|Secretary|Reappointed 5 September 2025| |3|Ellen Rita Tims|Treasurer|Reappointed 5 September 2025| |4|Roy Charles Catford||Reappointed 5 September 2025| |5|David Soper||Reappointed 5 September 2025| |6|Wendy Marian Soper||Reappointed 5 September 2025| |7|Susan Diment||Reappointed 5 September 2025| |8|Annette Susan McGovern||Reappointed 5 September 2025| |9|Jane Maureen Payton||Reappointed 5 September 2025| |10|Sarah Fitzsimmons||Reappointed 5 September 2025| |11|Kevin Blake||Reappointed 5 September 2025| ## Names and addresses of advisors |Type of Advisor|Name|Address| |---|---|---| |Independent Examiner|Carol Hardy|13 Ledwell Road| |||Caddington| |Bankers|Lloyds Bank|Chequer Street| |||St Albans| **Last Period Caddington Heathfield Centre 1198785 covers Receipts and payments accounts 01-Apr-23 For the Year to 01-Apr-24 To 31-Mar-25 from 31-Mar-24** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**25,979**
**1,304**
**1,230**
**10**
**15**
**1,479**
**30,017**
**11,818**
**3,391**
**321**
**544**
**-**
**750**
**-**
**-**
**227**
**17,051**
**12,966**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,979**
**1,304**
**1,230**
**10**
**15**
**1,479**
**30,017**
**11,818**
**3,391**
**321**
**544**
**-**
**750**
**-**
**-**
**227**
**17,051**
**12,966**|**Last Period**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Hire of Hall/Facilities|**25,979**||||**20,991**| |Donations|**1,304**||||**499**| |Grants|**1,230**||||**2,162**| |Sale of Items|**10**||||**139**| |Bank Interest|**15**||||| |FundraisingEvents|**1,479**||||**1,268**| |**_Total receipts_ **|**30,017**||||**25,059**| |**Payments**|||||| |Light, Heat and Water|**11,818**||||**15,004**| |Repairs and Maintenance|**3,391**||||**1,429**| |Costs of FundraisingEvents|**321**||||**-**| |Computer Costs|**544**||||**552**| |Insurance|**-**||||**96**| |Accountancy|**750**||||| |Bank Charges|**-**||||**35**| |LotteryLicence|**-**||||**40**| |SundryExpenses|**227**||||**36**| |**_Total payments_ **|**17,051**||||**17,192**| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|||||| ||**12,966**|**-**|**-**|**12,966**|**7,867**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Cash Funds**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**28,698**
**28,698**
**1,875**
**1,875**
**41,289**
**41,289**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**28,698**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,698**
**1,875**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,875**
**41,289**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,289**
**2,863**
**1,418**
**4,281**
**Print Name**|**Last Period**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |Bank Accounts|**28,698**|||**14,707**| |On behalf of Village Magazine||||**-**| |||||| ||**28,698**|||**14,707**| |**Other Monetary Assets**||||| |
Trade Debtors|**1,875**|||**3,124**| |Other Debtors||||**2,191**| ||**1,875**|||**5,315**| |**Non Monetary Assets**||||| |
Equipment|**41,289**|||**41,289**| |||||| ||**41,289**|||**41,289**| |**Liabilities**||||| |Village Magazine||||**500**| |Central Beds Council||||**-**| |Accruals||||**6,196**| |**Signed by one or two trustees on**
**behalf of all the trustees**|**Signature**|||**6,696**| |||||**Date of**
**approval**| |||||| |||||| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Caddington Heathfield Centre **On accounts for the year** 31[st] March 2025 **Charity no** 1198785 **ended (if any)** **Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **DD / MM / YYYY** . - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed: Date:** 28/08/2025 **Name:** CAROL ANN HARDY **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 13 LEDWELL ROAD CADDINGTON, BEDS LU1 4JH 1 **October 2018** **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **October 2018** **IER**