## **BROADSTONE YOUTH CENTRE**
**Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 August 2024,**
**Annual Report to 31 August 2024**
**BROADSTONE YOUTH CENTRE**
## **OUR MISSION**
**To help young people, especially but not exclusively through leisure time activities, so as to develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society.**
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## **CONTENTS**
|Administraton Details|3|
|---|---|
|Trustees’ Report|4 to 6|
|Independent Examinaton Report|7|
|Receipts and Payments Account|8|
|Statement of Assets and Liabilites|9|
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## **ADMINISTRATION DETAILS**
**BROADSTONE YOUTH CENTRE** is a registered charitable incorporated organisation
Charity registration number: 1200324 Address: 5 Moor Road Broadstone Dorset BH18 8AZ
## **Trustees**
During the year and up to the date of signing of this report, the following persons served as Trustees:
Mrs Vikki Slade – Chairman Mr Craig Dunn FCCA Mr Andrew Kenway Mr Michael Brooke **Bankers:** Lloyds Bank plc **Accountants:** Newton Magnus Ltd Arrowsmith Court Station Approach Broadstone Dorset BH18 8AT
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## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT For the year ended 31 August 2024**
The trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2024.
## **Structure, governance and management**
Broadstone Youth Centre (BYC) is a charitable incorporated organisation, incorporated on 9 September 2022. The governing document is our constitution adopted on 9 September 2022. The charity is governed by a Board of Trustees, which meets quarterly. There are currently four Trustees.
BYC was previously a local youth club run by a committee of volunteers,
All four Trustees were former committee members of the youth club.
Trustees are appointed for no fixed term and may continue to serve as long as they are deemed fit and proper by the Board. Any person who is willing to act, and who would not be disqualified from acting, as a trustee may be appointed to be a trustee by a decision of the Board of Trustees. The trustees have undertaken a trustee skills audit to identify areas gaps in the skills, knowledge and experience of the Board. Following this, it is the intention of the Board of Trustees to add one or two new trustees to the Board over the coming year.
In anticipation of this, a Trustee Induction pack is being developed, setting out key documents, policies and procedures. New trustees will be invited to meet with key members of the Centre, our service users and other stakeholders to understand the culture and priorities of BYC. New trustees will also be offered suitable training and support where needed.
Any decision of the Board of Trustees must be by a majority of the trustees present and voting at a quorate meeting. Decisions may also be made by a majority of the trustees voting by electronic means, unless one or more of the trustees has a conflict of interest. In the event of an equality of votes, the chair of the meeting has a second or casting vote. Trustees are required to declare any conflicts or potential conflicts of interest before any voting takes place.
The trustees have reviewed the major risks to which BYC is exposed, and have established systems and procedures to mitigate and manage those risks. Policies and systems have been put in place covering all potential areas of risk, including, but not limited to, safeguarding, health and safety, data protection, and finance.
## **Objectives and activities**
The objectives of the charity, as set out in our constitution, are:
To advance in life and help young people through:
(a) the provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life;
(b) providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals. to help young people, especially but not exclusively through leisure time activities, so as to develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society.
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The Charity is run by volunteers.
The centre is open on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night. We offer a safe space for young people to meet, relax or get involved with a wide range of activities.
## **Achievements and performance during the year**
On average, around 80 members attended the centre each week, almost all of whom participated in some form of activity.
BYC is run entirely by volunteers. We currently have 20 male and females with various specialities. A few with actual youth work knowledge, with safeguarding, first aid and such like. Our main numbers of volunteers come from people who just see the need for youth services to continue and use their life skills and parenting skills. Ages range from the 3/4 young volunteers 16 years old right through to 60.
We would like to thank all of our volunteers for their hard work in running the centre.
## **Financial review of the year**
Income receipts for the year was £29,338 and expenditure for the year was £6,451.
The charity had no endowment funds at any time during the year.
Our opening bank balance on 1 September 2023 was £46,448 and our carried forward balance at the end of the year was £69,336.
The trustees review, on a regular basis, the financial risks that the charity faces and the possible financial impact this could have on our operations. We have determined that between six and nine months of free reserves should be sufficient allow us to respond to any potential shortfall in income receipts or unexpected expenditure. The Charity is looking to increase reserves to enable taking over the management of the building from the Local Council.
## **Public benefit statement**
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. The trustees regard BYC’s activities as manifestly for the public benefit in that there is an identifiable benefit to local young people, who are able to participate in physical and social activities.
## **Trustees’ Responsibilities in relation to the financial statements**
Charity law and good practice requires the Board of Trustees to prepare financial statements which give a true and fair view of the charity’s affairs, of its income and expenditure for each accounting year and a statement of assets and liabilities at year end.
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In order to achieve this, the trustees must comply with their obligation under the Charities Act 2011 with regards to the keeping of accounting records for the charity which disclose, with reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the charity and enable to ensure that the financial statements comply with applicable accounting regulations.
They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Trustees’ Report was approved by the Board of Trustees on 2 July 2025
……………………………………….
Craig Dunn FCCA Trustee
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## **Independent Examiner’s Report to Broadstone Youth Centre**
I report on the financial statements of Broadstone Youth Centre for the year ended 31 August 2024, which are set out on pages 8 to 9.
## **Respective responsibilities**
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is required.
## It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions of the Charity Commissioners.
An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the financial statements, and seeking explanations concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a "true and fair" view and the report is limited to those matters below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention, which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met; or to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Date: 3 July 2025
**C J Fairhall FCCA Newton Magnus Chartered Certified Accountants Arrowsmith Court Station Approach Broadstone Dorset BH18 8AT**
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## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
**For the year to 31 August 2024**
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Total funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|
|**Receipts**
Voluntary Receipts
Donatons – general
Membership
Tuck shop
Other receipts
Hall hire
**Sub total**
**Asset & investment sales**
**TOTAL RECEIPTS**
**Payments**
Tuck shop purchases
Licences
Merchant cards
Repairs and maintenance
Toys and equipment
Volunteer welfare
Lock costs
Charitable donatons
**Sub total**
**Asset & investment purchases**
**Sub total**
**TOTAL PAYMENTS**
**Net of receipts**
Transfers between funds
Cash funds previous year end
**Cash funds this year end**|866
6,680
3,942
-
17,401
**28,889**
450
**29,339**
2,556
159
140
1,426
1,719
245
104
102
**6,451**
-
**6,451**
**6,451**
**22,888**
-
46,448
**69,336**|-
-
-
-
-
**-**
-
**-**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
**-**
-
**-**
**-**
-
-
**-**|866
6,680
3,942
-
17,401
**28,889**
450
**29,339**
2,556
159
140
1,426
1,719
245
104
102
**6,451**
-
**6,451**
**6,451**
**22,888**
-
46,448
**69,336**|
||**69,336**|**-**|**69,336**|
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## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES At 31 August 2024**
||**Unrestricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||**Endowment funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||to the nearest £|to the nearest £||to the nearest £|
|**Cash funds**
Current account
**Total cash funds**
**Other monetary**
**assets**
None|69,336
-|-
**-**
-||-|
|||||**-**
-|
|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optonal)**||**Current value**
**(optonal)**|
|**Investment assets**
None
**Assets retained for**
**the charity’s own**
**use**
Furniture, fxtures
and ftngs|-
Unrestricted|-||-|
Signed on behalf of all the trustees
…………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………… Craig Dunn FCCA, Trustee Vikki Slade, Trustee Date: Date:
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