## **PULBOROUGH SHEDDERS CIO**
(Registered charity No 1200629)
## **ANNUAL REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS 2024/2025**
## **AS AT 31/3/2025**
## **Trustees**
Tim Tapley – Chair
John Crook – Treasurer
George Bryant Andy Heath
## **Management committee**
|Tim Tapley|JohnCrook|
|---|---|
|Alyson Heath|GeorgeBryant|
|AndyHeath|Alan Hall|
|Mark
Hodgson||
**Address :** The Witterings, London Road, Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 1AT
**Current opening hours** : 09.30 to 12.30 Wednesdays and Fridays
**Website** : **www.pulboroughshedders.org**
**E mail :** info@pulboroughshedders.org
**Bank :** Metro Bank
Sort 23-05-80
Account No: Current :50106721 Savings : 50106736
## **Mission**
Registered charity number 1200629
The mission statement of Pulborough Shedders is contained within our constitution, and is as follows:
To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people within Pulborough and the surrounding area from becoming socially excluded. To relieve the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assist them to integrate into society. This is done through the provision of facilities where they can meet to undertake creative, recreational or physical activities, learn or pass on skills and knowledge and support each other socially.
## **Trustee’s report April 2024 – March 2025**
The main focus of our attention this year has been both in progressing plans for a permanent base, and on building our membership numbers. We have worked closely with individuals from Pulborough Parish Council who share our vision of having a permanent facility built on land owned by them.
Membership numbers have continued to steadily rise. At the end of March 2024 we had thirteen members. This number rose to twenty-three by the end of March 2025. We are delighted to be growing as a charity and supporting more people from the locality. The expansion in numbers has also created problems which needed addressing. In particular, our temporary base does not have capacity to safely allow our growing membership to collectively partake in projects. To overcome this we began to open on two mornings per week as opposed to one and also opened up space in a double garage which is now used by Shedders when they meet. Analysis of both the Wednesday morning meetings and the Friday morning meetings shows that numbers attending both have steadily increased throughout the year.
Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. Activities undertaken are beneficial to members and not detrimental in any respect. This can be shown through the results from an Impact Report which is referred to later in this report. The charity is open to anybody over the age of eighteen, to all sections of society and has a broad range of members.
An optimistic timescale for the planning , funding and building of a permanent base is two years. With this in mind we have continued to look for larger premises which will allow us to expand further prior to a permanent base being agreed upon and built. This exercise continues to be time consuming and frustrating. We have had many leads which have unfortunately come to nothing. We continue to look for a more suitable facility.
Support from the public has been outstanding. We have regularly updated our activities by the use of social media, and have attended fetes, markets and fairs locally. This has given us the opportunity to sell products made in the Shed. More importantly it has allowed us to meet people and spread our message about what we are trying to achieve. In addition we have been proactive in involvement with projects which are of benefit to the community. Examples of this are the construction of compost bins for the Memorial Garden, bug “hotels” for the local church and goat platforms for a local animal sanctuary. We have
Registered charity number 1200629
remained in close contact with Social Prescribers based at Pulborough Medical Centre. They have signposted several of their clients in our direction.
In early 2025 we asked all members to complete an anonymous survey. We wanted to understand the impact which our charity was having upon the welfare of our members. We adapted a questionnaire which had been devised by the University of Glasgow when they had been studying the impact which Scottish Sheds were having. The results were as follows:
- 75% of our members said that projects they were involved in gave them a sense of achievement.
- 83% said that they enjoyed the projects they were involved in
- 75% felt more confident generally as a result of their involvement in the Shed.
- 100% said that they felt more involved in their local community.
- 100% said that they had made good friendships and felt supported.
- 75% felt an improvement in their mental health by attending.
- 92% felt they had become more active.
- 81% felt their physical health had improved.
- 100% felt that attending activities in the shed has made them feel happier.
Tim Tapley (Chair)
Registered charity number 1200629
**Charity Name No (if any) Pulborough Shedders Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 4/6/2024 4/5/2025
**CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
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|**A1 Receipts**
Grants / Donations
**2,844**
Membershipand weeklysubs
**2,013**
Interest
**6**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,863**
**None**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 4,863**
**A3 Payments**
Charitable acxtivity
**2,105**
Insurance
**322**
Training
**31**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 2,458**
**Balance**
**-**
Deposit
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 2,458**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 2,405**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**1,180**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 3,585**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|**to the nearest £**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,844**
**2,013**
**6**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,863**
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**4,863**
**2,105**
**322**
**31**
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**2,458**
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**2,458**
**2,405**
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**1,180**
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Bank balance
**Details**
None
**Details**
None
**Details**
Donated Tools (Zero monetary value)
**Details**
Signature
J Crook (Treasurer)
T Tapley
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**3,625**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,625**
**-**
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Print Name
John Crook
Tim Tapley
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||J Crook (Treasurer)|John Crook||
||T Tapley|Tim Tapley||