## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** **From** Period start date 1 04 **To**[Period end date ] 2024 31 03 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Repair Cafe Winchester CIO **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1202335 **Charity's principal address** Badger Farm Community Centre Badger Farm Winchester **Postcode** SO22 4QB ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** - 1 Alison Cochrane Secretary 2 Rebecca Hare Treasurer - 3 Hannah Henshaw Chair - 4 Graham Monro Trustee - 5 Stuart King Trustee - 6 Simon Applebaum Trustee - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 1 > March **2025** **TAR** **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 Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** The charity trustees benefit from advice and support from a group of the You **may choose** to include charity’s volunteers who act in an advisory capacity on operational and additional information, where governance issues. 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; - relationship with any related - parties; - trustees’ consideration of - major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** • To protect and safeguard the environment for the public benefit through in particular but not exclusively the promotion of share, repair and re-use of products as a means of preventing and minimising waste disposal; and **Summary of the objects of the** • The advancement of the education and well-being of the public regarding **charity set out in its governing document** the protection of the environment through the sharing, repairing and re-use of products. 2 > March **2025** **TAR** ## **Repair Cafe events and training** In the reporting period Repair Cafe Winchester ran 21 repair cafe events in Winchester, held across three different venues. We have had over 400 local people bring their broken household items to the repair cafe. Our team of volunteers have diagnosed and, where possible, repaired items, seeking to share their knowledge and skills with visitors as they go. Furthermore, the charity has held training sessions for our volunteers to ensure basic safety measures are understood, to provide opportunities to improve knowledge and learn new skills, and to foster a supportive **Summary of the main activities** volunteering environment. **undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these** To undertake these activities we have purchased equipment and **objects (include within this** consumables as required. **section the statutory declaration that trustees have Talks and support had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity** We have promoted share, repair and re-use by giving talks and **Commission on public benefit)** We have promoted share, repair and re-use by giving talks and presentations, and attending various community events to promote the repair movement, including: - Sharing our journey and experience with sustainability groups interested in setting up their own repair cafes - Attending a local music event to promote musical instrument repairs ## **Community cohesion** Our cafe events provide a welcoming space for local people to gather and meet new people. We have many returning visitors who value both the skills we offer and personal connection with others. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Volunteers’ time, skills and efforts are invaluable and are key to the success of the cafe. In December 2024, we sent out a volunteer survey to capture our volunteers’ experiences of the cafe and to ask how we could improve the repair cafe both for volunteers and visitors. Wherever possible, we seek to offer thanks to our volunteers through informal conversations, written communication and activities such as providing a thank you breakfast at key milestones. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; ● policy programme related investment; ● contribution made by volunteers. 3 > March **2025** **TAR** Section D Achievements and performance In the reporting period we: **Summary of the main** ● Fixed 292 items **achievements of the charity** ● Prevented 917kg waste **during the year** ● Prevented 6441kg CO2 emissions 4 > March **2025** **TAR** **Section E Financial review** The charity does not currently have a policy on reserves. ## **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** Our finance policy states: _The trustees will consider the level of reserves that is prudent for RCW to have when agreeing the annual budget. Consideration will be given to future strategy, potential redundancy liabilities, and any other significant factors that should be taken into account were RCW to close. The specific reserves policy including any designation of reserves for specific purposes will be agreed by trustees on an annual basis._ ## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **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; ● investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy 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)** Hannah Henshaw **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair **Date** 26/11/2025 **TAR** 5 March **2025** **Repair Café Wnchester CIO 1202335 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 1/4/2024 31/3/2025 **To from** **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,222**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,222**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,222**
**470**
**291**
**422**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,800**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,800**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,800**
**1,023**
**814**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,800**
**2,222**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,022**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,022**
**1,023**
**1,284**
**291**
**422**
**-**
**-**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Grant|**-**||||**4,645**| |Donations|**2,222**||||**2,216**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,222**||||**6,861**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||||**6,861**| ||||||| |
Equipment||**1,023**|**-**|**1,023**|**1,535**| |Venue Hire|**470**|**814**|**-**|**1,284**|**884**| |IT & Software|**291**|**-**|**-**|**291**|**389**| |Insurance|**422**|**-**|**-**|**422**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 26/11/2025 1 ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**1,183**||**1,837**||**-**||**3,020**||**2,808**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,183**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,837**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|


||**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,020**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,808**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**1,183**||**1,837**|||**-**||**3,020**||**2,808**| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**1,040**||**2,963**|||**-**||**4,003**||**4,053**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**2,216**||**1,837**||**-**|||**4,053**||**-**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**3,256**||**4,800**|||**-**||**8,056**||**4,053**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|Cash in bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**3,256**
**-**
**-**
**3,256**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**4,800**
**-**
**-**
**4,800**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 26/11/2025 2 |**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** ## **B5 Liabilities** |**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ## **Details** |**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**When due**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---| ||**-**|| ||**-**|| ||**-**|| ## **Details** CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 26/11/2025 3 Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |||||||**-**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||**-**||| ||Signature||Print|Name||||Date of
approval| ||||HANNAH|HENSHAW||||26/11/2025| |||||||||| CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 26/11/2025 4