## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 6 April 2024 5 April 2025 **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) Charity's principal address** Old School Lane Yateley Hampshire **GU46 6NG** 1202685 Yateley Men’s Shed YMS ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Christopher Barnes|Chair||| ||Denis Adams|DeputyChair||| ||John Stephens|Secretary||| ||Stephen Bond|Treasurer||| ||Nicholas East|Membership||| ||John Underwood|Tools Officer||| ||John Race|Social||| ||TerryGillings|Health & Safety||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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Constitution adopted April 2023
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Unincorporated association
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Constitution adopted April 2023|| |||Unincorporated association|| |||Trustees are appointed or reappointed annually at the Annual General
Meetings held in April|| ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** Membership of Yateley Men’s Shed is open to anyone, male or female, You **may choose** to include over the age of 18. additional information, where The Shed opens every weekday morning for members to use the relevant, about: woodworking tools. While attendance in the Workshop is restricted to 8 • members only, the Green Room Social Area has no restrictions. policies and procedures adopted for the induction and The Trustees oversee the day to day running of the Shed through a training of trustees; number of Key Holders who have responsibilities for each session. • the charity’s organisational The use machine tools in the Workshop are only open for members with a structure and any wider proven competence to use such equipment. network with which the charity works; Members Meeting are held monthly were all activities and plans are • discussed with the members attending. A record of the meetings is relationship with any related circulated to the wider membership. In addition YMS runs a Website to parties; communicate with the public, plus a member’s only page for club • Trustees’ consideration of Trustees’ consideration of information. - Trustees’ consideration of Trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To provide a meeting place where members are able to safely work on woodworking projects, for them, the Shed or the Community. To minimise loneliness and social isolation of members, particularly **Summary of the objects of the** elderly men, by joint projects and social interaction. **charity set out in its governing document** **TAR** March **2012** 2 Yateley Men’s Shed uses its facilities and equipment for members to come together in a social environment and enhance their woodworking skills and abilities by:- - Making or repairing items for their own use. - Repairing items for the General Public - Undertaking projects for the Local Authority, Schools, and Other Charities etc. - Making items for sale at local shows and craft markets. **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)** - Refurbishing old tools so they can be put back into use rather than go to landfill. - Assisting youth groups such as Scouts to develop their skills through training and support. - Recycling old timber products into usable items, avoiding the wood being sent to scrap. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - Contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main** During the year we achieved the following:- **achievements of the charity** • Attended the Yateley May Fayre to support the Lions Club **during the year** Charity, raise funds by selling hand crafted goods and advertised for new members. • Attended the Yateley Feel Good Festival to support the Yateley Town Council’s Wellbeing Campaign. • Attended the Yateley Christmas Market • Attended Yateley Council’s Craft Fair. • Attended Yateley Lion’s Firework Festival with children’s games and entertainment. • Refurbished an ex-building site office into a new Social Area by adding a kitchen, toilets, Wi-Fi, security cameras and large screen monitor. This was formally opened by the Yateley Town Mayor. • Organised Quiz Nights and Social Events for members. • Repaired play equipment for a local nursery. • Assisted the Royal British Legion in making a Poppy Wall for the Remembrance Ceremony. • Refurbished 15 Picnic Tables and distributed them to local sports groups. • Designed and constructed Carnival Games to enable a local school and children’s charity to raise funds. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** ## **Brief statement of the** ## **charity’s policy on reserves** Total Bank and Cash held at 5th April 2025 was £13,977 in unrestricted funds. We normally hold funds to cover 12 months utility costs and commitments. However this year we have needed additional funds to cover the purchase and refurbishment of our new Green Room Social Area. **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); Our main source of income is the annual membership fees and fundraising projects. However this year we received grants totally £13,500 from the District Council and the Lottery Fund specifically for the Green Room Project - 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** We intend to use our funds to further equip our Workshop, including better machine tools and a more comprehensive dust extraction system to improve air quality for members. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Stephen Bond **Full name(s)** Christopher Barnes **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Treasurer **etc) Date** 04/02/2026 **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## Yateley Men's Shed - Accounts Summary 2024/25 |Income|Apr-24|May-24|Jun-24|Jul-24|Aug-24|Sep-24|Oct-24|Nov-24|Dec-24|Jan-25|Feb-25|Mar-25|Total| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |1a - Membership|1,364|1,863|574|59||83||60||18|18|24|£4,063| |1b - Attendance Fees|142|160|169|191|198|217|183|197|134|197|222|251|£2,261| |2 - Donations|25|153|108|30|167|5||121|64|50|354|663|£1,740| |3 - Grants||11,000||||||||||2,500|£13,500| |4 - Sales & Event Income|103|1,586|90|195|170|228||719|588||12|90|£3,781| |6 - Social & Wellbeing||||5|150||||280|452||72|£959| |7 - Sale of Assets|79|50|29|20|10|59||125|100|64|9|89|£634| |Total Income|£1,713|£14,812|£970|£500|£695|£592|£183|£1,222|£1,166|£781|£615|£3,689|£26,938| |Expenditure|Apr-24|May-24|Jun-24|Jul-24|Aug-24|Sep-24|Oct-24|Nov-24|Dec-24|Jan-25|Feb-25|Mar-25|Total| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |1a - Premises - Electricity||58|57|50|57|59|76|90|138|289|261|315|£1,450| |1b - Premises - Waste Collection||40|43|39|59|56|59|39|59|39|119|85|£637| |1c - Premises - Insurance||||||||809|||||£809| |1d - Premises - Miscellaneous|||32|20|174|20|84|96|20|20|20|20|£506| |2 - Project Materials|47|48|22||20|37|56|28||80|37||£375| |3 - Consumables|78|35|3|131|12|||7|51||43|106|£466| |4 - Tool Purchases||3,240|21||||||257||32|92|£3,642| |5 - Repairs & Renewals||37|5|20|||34|23||63|||£182| |6 - Refreshments & Cleaning|15|9|3|6||8|11|42||1|||£95| |7 - Admin & Office Costs|51|20|5||16||4||||||£96| |8 - Subscriptions|||||||||||30||£30| |9 - SundryCosts - General|||584|197||19|96|||||27|£923| |9 - SundryCosts - Green Room|5,994|6,014|1,200|904|687|197|||3|2,773|1,802|539|£20,113| |10 - Social & Wellbeing|||||293|||||716|||£1,009| |Total Expenditure|£6,185|£9,501|£1,975|£1,367|£1,318|£396|£420|£1,134|£528|£3,981|£2,344|£1,185|£30,334| Independent examIne￿S report to the trustees of Yateley Men's Shed I report to the twstees on my exarnina1K￿ ofth8 acn. l Lxy)fimi Ihal no malerialMatte￿ have Ccvne lo my attent￿ in Gonnection wrfh the examinafron gwirKJ me cause to belwe th81 in any material respect. actJ)unbng ￿CordS 44Ere nol keptin ￿SpeCt oflhe Charity as reqUI￿d by Sect￿ 730 ofthe Act,. or the ￿nts do not wmply with the applicable wiwn8nts conceming the 8nd ¢ontgnt of accounts set out ￿ chanb.es Regulatt.￿S (ther than any ￿￿mentt that the accounts ￿ve a In￿ and fair v7ew whth is not a rnattÈr¢on&dered as part of an i￿ePendent examination. 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