Murrow Community Facilities AGM
Chairman’s Report 2025
During the past 12 months the Murrow Community Facilities committee has been busy with running the village hall, managing the playing field and discussing the future plans for both.
Christine Patrick has again successfully organised a number of events throughout the year. Holly has helped with these events also, so thanks goes to both. The village hall bingo has remained profitable, however the annual Lego Event has unfortunately been put on hold due to poor attendance. Christine and Holly organised another Christmas Treats Fayre which remained successful, with a good turnout from the local community. New this year were the children’s events organised by Holly Boughen, Liana Hunns, Julia Ward and Michelle Compton. These were very well attended and good feedback was received from village residents, so thanks goes to this team too.
I must also thank Maureen Woollard for all her many years hard work on the committees for both the village hall and playing field. Every year she has organised the very popular Fruit and Vegetable Show, which remains a huge success, along with many other events over the years. It has been a huge privilege to have had Maureen on the committee and she will be sorely missed.
The hall has been booked for a number of parties and celebrations. Evening parties are still not being accepted due to a couple of bad experiences in the past, meaning that none of the current keyholders are willing to lock up after them. If anyone joins the committee and is willing to lock up at the end of the booking then the decision can be reconsidered.
Christine Carr has continued working on the merger of the Playing Field and Village Hall Committees, using a solicitor recommended by ACRE. We hope the merger will be completed very soon. We would like to thank Christine for her work on this.
Again this year there have been ongoing issues with the play equipment on the playing field. The swing has been stolen and the usual issues with vandalism. The play equipment was inspected during the year and as a result some items have had to be removed. The committee hopes that new equipment will be installed soon. The committee are currently in the early stages of planning an overhaul of the playing field and its facilities. Murrow Street Pride are still litter picking the field regularly, for which we thank them. There has been a problem with dog fouling as in previous years, however we are trying to keep this under control with signs and patrols.
The lights in the main hall have been replaced recently, however the floor repairs were not carried out due to the contractor being ill. This has been put on hold for now. Further roof repairs were carried out in the year, the roof is in poor condition but the committee do not want to replace this because the village hall will be relocated in due course. I must thank all those committee members who have taken the time to organise repairs throughout the year.
Finally, I would like to thank the committee for their hard work and dedication in keeping the playing field in order, and the village hall functioning.
Luke Patrick Chairman
MURROW COMMUNITY FACILITIES Income & Expenditure Account year ending 31st December 2024
| 2023 | INCOME | 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 205.00 | Hall Hire Murrow Street Pride | 90.00 | ||
| Wisbech St Mary Parish Council grass cutting & playing field grant | 2,784.00 | |||
| 122.43 | Nat West Bank Raise Roof Account Interest | 456.03 | ||
| Wisbech St Mary Parish Council grant | 3,555.60 | |||
| 5.00 | Hall Hire Macmillan Cancer Coffee Morning | |||
| 250.00 | Hall Hire FDC Elections | 500.00 | ||
| 90.00 | Hall Hire Wisbech St Mary Parish Council | 135.00 | ||
| 194.50 | 3 Quiz Evenings | |||
| 11,156.00 | Zurich Insurance Village Hall Roof damage claim | |||
| 315.00 | Hall Hire Private Lettings | 172.50 | ||
| 187.50 | Leggo Fund Raising Event | |||
| 300.00 | Planet Aid Recycling Clothes donation | 75.00 | ||
| 216.90 | Christmas Treats Fayre | 351.65 | ||
| Charities Aid Foundation Grant | 100.00 | |||
| 846.95 | 3 Bingo's | 513.75 | ||
| Summer Craft Event | 158.35 | |||
| 463.60 | Flower & Vegetable Show | 496.00 | ||
| Hall Hire Murrow Primary Academy | 40.00 | |||
| Childrens Halloween Event | 192.40 | |||
| 8,587.79 | Playing Field Association Funds paid over to Murrow Community Facilities | |||
| £ | 22,940.67 |
TOTAL INCOME | 9,620.28 | |
| EXPENDITURE | ||||
| 517.06 | EON Electricity | 621.29 | ||
| 73.59 | Anglian Water Business Ltd | 79.66 | ||
| 20.00 | Fenland District Council Lotteries Licence Renewal | 40.00 | ||
| 60.00 | Cambridgeshire ACRE Membership Fee | 65.00 | ||
| 1,215.90 | Heating Oil | 688.28 | ||
| 1,184.84 | Insurance | 1,797.09 | ||
| 20.00 | Bookings Secretary Phone Top Up | |||
| 29.49 | Secretary Expenses - printer cartridge | |||
| 58.22 | PRS Music Licence | 154.80 | ||
| 331.13 | Cleaners Wages & Cleaning materials - supplies | 189.75 | ||
| 28.28 | First Aid Materials | |||
| 80.00 | B & P Oil Boiler Services - boiler service | 95.00 | ||
| 100.00 | Purchase of Leggo from Sarah Bligh | |||
| 83.40 | Fenland Fire Appliance Check | 83.40 | ||
| 470.92 | Fenland District Council Rates | 501.42 | ||
| 180.00 | FDC Premises Licence renewal | 180.00 | ||
| 144.00 | Fenland Leaisure Playing Field Inspection | |||
| 1,188.00 | Fishlocks Ground Works on Playing Field | |||
| 1,020.00 | Bowles Tree & Garden Services felling of tree on playing field entrance | |||
| 67.92 | Bingo Books & Raffle Draw Ticket books | |||
| 210.00 | Alan Clarke Electrical Ltd 5 yearly Inspection & Test on Village Hall | |||
| 500.00 | Solicitors Fees for Merger | |||
| 8,448.00 | Turners Roofing Contractors - roof repairs under insurance claim | |||
| 1,289.56 | Gopack Ltd replacement tables for village hall | |||
| 204.00 | Turners Roofing Contractors - subsequent roof repairs | 102.00 | ||
| 1,620.30 | T A Blackamore Ltd Murrow Playing Field Grass Cutting | 1,669.80 | ||
| 985.00 | Gary Matthew hall ceiling decoration claim for roof damage | |||
| 23.00 | Replacement Kettle for hall | |||
| Repairs to play equipment | 831.60 | |||
| £ | 20,152.61 |
TOTAL EXPENDITURE | £ | 7,099.09 |
MURROW COMMUNITY FACILITIES Balance sheet as at 31st December 2024
| Opening Bank Balances at 1st January 2024 Nat West Current Account Nat West Raise the Roof Account Cash in hand Add Income received Total Less Expenditure Current Funds Balance Closing Bank Balances at 31st December 2024 Nat West Current Account Nat West Savings Account Cash In Hand Total Balance Sheet and Accounts Prepared by Yvonne Reader Treasurer Independently checked and verified |
37,936.73 5,323.01 413.33 |
|---|---|
| 43,673.07 9,620.28 |
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| 53,293.35 (7,099.09) |
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| 46,194.26 | |
| 19,954.24 25,779.04 460.98 |
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| 46,194.26 | |