2025-04-30-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

	Period start date	Period start date			Period end date
**From **	01	May	2024	To	30 April	2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Bishop’s Waltham Men’s Shed

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1201580

Charity's principal address

Curdridge Reading Room

Reading Room Lane Curdridge Postcode SO32 2HF

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for **whole year **	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Martin Ashford	Secretary	Appointed 21.11.24	Bishop’s Waltham Men’s Shed
	Dennis Salter			Bishop’s Waltham Men’s Shed
	Graham Hill			Bishop’s Waltham Men’s Shed
	Robert Hill		Resigned 24.09.24	Bishop’s Waltham Men’s Shed
	David Dibb-Fuller		Resigned 24.09.24	Bishop’s Waltham Men’s Shed
	Ken Entiknap		Resigned 08.10.24	Bishop’s Waltham Men’s Shed

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name	Dates acted if not for whole year
Martin Ashford	Appointed 21.11.24
Dennis Salter
Graham Hill

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

• Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

Association

CIO

• (eg. trust, association, company)

One Trustee stands down at each AGM, and a new Trustee is elected Trustee selection methods through open nomination and a member vote

• (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

The charity’s constitution changed from being a Foundation CIO to an Association CIO on 8 October 2024, following a member vote at an EGM Newly appointed trustees review the CIO in conjunction with current trustees to ensure that all trustee responsibilities are being met.

Trustee meeting at held quarterly, but all trustees are active members of the charity and address any risk issues as they arise

The charity rents its facilities from the Curdridge Reading Room (Charity no. 203472)

• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing individuals within the Bishops Waltham and the surrounding area, from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially Summary of the objects of the excluded and assisting them to integrate into society through the provision charity set out in its of facilities in which they can meet to undertake, jointly or individually, governing document creative, physical or recreational activities, learn or pass on skills and knowledge and support each other socially. For the purpose of this clause “socially excluded” means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors, unemployment, financial

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hardship, bereavement or old age, ill health (physical or mental)

1. Provide an environment where members can socialise, chat and share time together

2. Provide a facility where members can be active, making or repairing wooden and metal items, undertaking community work, and helping others in a variety of different ways.

3. Educate members to enable them to learn new skills, and train them in the safe use of woodworking and metalworking machinery

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

1. Promote fellowship through arranging group visits to places of interest

2. Arrange social activities where members and their partners can meet together

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

1. Moved base from Bishop’s Waltham Cricket Club to Curdridge Reading Room, providing more workshop and social space for members to undertake their activities

2. Construction of a new wooden workshop in the grounds of Curdridge Reading Room

3. Extensive refurbishment of the old caretaker’s cottage attached the Reading Room, which now provides more workshop facilities, social space and office and catering space

4. Support to the Curdridge Reading Room, renovating their facilities and grounds

5. Undertaking work for local parish councils, such as refurbishing benches, notice boards, etc.

6. Attendance at local fayres and fetes with our stall, selling items that have been made in our workshops, and providing a wide range of games for children to play

7. Provision of a computer and printer in our office, and creation of a much-improved website

8. Raising of funds through successful grant applications, and donations of materials

9. Increased membership through proactive steps, such as advertising our Men’s Shed at fayres and fetes, and through our Facebook page and website

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The charity closely monitors income and expenditure, and the Treasurer reports to the members on our financial position every month. We have set a minimum bank balance, and there is an agreed purchasing policy, overseen by the Treasurer and Trustees

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

• how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

The charity receives funds from the annual member subscriptions, funding grants from parish and district councils, support from local businesses, and earns income from undertaking work for parish councils and members of the public. Income is also earned through refurbishing and selling donated tools, from sales of our made products at fayres and fetes, and through repairing and renovating furniture for members of the public.

• We have expended our income on the provision of enhanced workshop and social space for our members, and by providing top quality new equipment for use in our workshops.

• investment policy and objectives including any We invest in a deposit account to ensure that our funds earn good ethical investment policy interest and are safely protected. adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Martin Ashford Dennis Salter Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc)[Secretary and Trustee ] Date

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Bishops Waltham Men’s Shed

Accounts 2024/25

Year Ending 31st March 2025

Balance Sheet

Expenditure		Income
Working Materials	(£4,405.08)	b/f bank	£1,893.86
Rent	(£2,100)	b/f bank savings	£8,000.00
Running Costs/Utilities/Insurance	(£1,317.30)	b/f cash	£0.00
Other Expenses	(£893.00)			£9,893.86
Capital Items	(£590.00)	Bank Interest	£113.84
Event Costs	(£80.00)	Other Income	£19.87
		Donations	£893.37
		Easy Fund Raising	£225.89
		Sales Income	£7,722.70
		Members Subscriptions	£1,410.24
				£10,385.91
Total	(£9,385.38)	Total		£20,279.77
		Income over expenditure		£10,894.39

Bank £1,148.57 Savings Bank £13,113.84 Cash £0.00 Grand Total £14,262.41 Liabilities £0.00 Total Value 31 March 2025 £14,262.41