## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 06 June 2023 31 Dec 2023 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1203449 THE BRUNEL SHED |**Charity's principal address**|
Pockeridge and Potley Community Centre|
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||RodneyVeazey|Chair||| ||BarryReed|Treasurer||| ||AnthonyWilde|DeputyChair||| ||Laurence Lewis|Minutes Secretary||| ||Colin Davies|||| ||David Moore|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **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)** **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 Constitution CIO Association Constitution - (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members at Annual General Meeting Trustee selection methods - (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 Brunel Shed operates 38 weekly dementia-related activities per year in co-operation with Altzheimers Support Wiltshire to provide a safe environment where meaningful activity takes place with the support of volunteers on a one-to-one basis. This arrangement allows relatives/ carers to take time out from their caring duties. Our organisational structure is based on the requirements of a CIO with policies and guidelines generally following recommendations from the UK Mens Sheds Association. - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. **TAR** March **2012** 2 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The aims (“the Objects”) of The Brunel Shed are: To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people (particularly but not exclusively older men), within Corsham and the surrounding area, from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society through the **Summary of the objects of the** provision of facilities in which they can meet to undertake, jointly or individually, **charity set out in its** creative, physical or recreational activities, learn or pass on skills and knowledge and support each other socially. **governing document** For the purpose of this clause 'socially excluded' means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; bereavement or old age; ill health (physical or mental). In 2023 The Brunel Shed provided a workshop environment within which groups of men and women worked side by side on individual, civic or community projects. It provided an environment for conversation and social interaction between those who were retired, isolated or widowed, acting as a forum for the exchange of information and issues particularly affecting older people **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)** Five weekly sessions were supervised by competent individuals, providing the opportunity of developing new skills to match the wide variety of projects undertaken. By offering regular weekly sessions, the Brunel Shed reduced loneliness and isolation, particularly amongst elderly and widowed men. It also provided benefit to the local community in the form of projects completed for local primary schools, councils, charities and churches. The trustees of the Brunel Shed have followed the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. ## **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** The charity provided regular weekly sessions for members to attend and **achievements of the charity** experience friendship and shared undertakings. **during the year** Three of the weekly sessions were for general workshop and concentrated mainly on woodworking One weekly session was for craft specialising in leaded glass work. The fifth weekly session was for a workshop activity specifically for clients with dementia, operated jointly with our local Wiltshire charity Altzheimers Support. An active membership of 28-30 members was maintained, with the only memberships lost due to illness/death. All sessions were well supported. Members who had lost partners, had significant medical problems and were in need of relief from loneliness, benefitted from the friendship and mutual respect amongst members A number of projects were undertaken for the local community, including village signs, notice boards, playground equipment for primary schools and restoration of stone mining equipment for a local museum Financial viability was maintained by undertaking projects with material costs and donation provided by the clients. ## **Section E Financial review** Our Policy is to retain a minimum of 6 months fixed operating cost in **Brief statement of the** reserve, plus a further contingency for project materials of £2000. **charity’s policy on reserves** (In the full year Jan-Dec 2023 this would be £6,300 reserve; our cash reserve at that year end was £9980) **Details of any funds materially in deficit** **Further financial review details (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 4 You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); The principal sources of income were membership session fees, agreed material costs from clients, and donations principally from local organisations charities and individuals. Note: a significant proportion of the membership fees were collected before the 6[th] June start date for the accounts. - how expenditure has The expenditure recorded in the accounts allowed the Brunel Shed to provide materials and machinery to provide meaningful, challenging - supported the key objectives projects for members to work on safely, usually side by side with - of the charity; colleagues. This provided an environment where social interaction and - investment policy and friendship flourished. objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** The information in the report and accounts refer to the first seven months of operation as a CIO in 2023.. The Brunel Shed has been in operation since January 2016. ## **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)** Rodney Veazey **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 10/12/2024 **TAR** March **2012** 5 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO AND WALES THE BRUNEL SHED Recei tsand ments accounts CC16a Forthè p•rfjod To 07W2023 3111212023 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted lunds Restricted fund8 Endowment lunds Total funds Lasi yèar to th• nMf•Bt£ toth• no•rvt£ Al Recel Membership & Se5￿0￿ fBes Work done & m8tenai c¢xt8 Grants & dcmabon5 MerTh)ry Shwj 8888w f 1.616 2.883 5.285 ross Income or AR) ¢002 6.Q)2 11,704 an $8• tsblo . 8,002 3Pa ents Lrability, In5urarte & safety utility CQ8ts 10 gBJ, & ¥ Gay bOi￿r maint FlfB txbnguthr mainteria￿* FlreAntfth#eralatm & #euJnty UKMSA web￿le fees Purchase ￿1￿MalertaI$ C￿sum￿•9 Ibrnber, rf*tsl. Kthtekl 312 1,147 312 1,372 108 60 57 30 128 3.270 3,431 1.0fy7 1.902 1.W2 720 6.706 720 705 Sub fot81 &652 A4 A••¢t and InYMtm•nt Sub total 6.705 6.705 8,852 Net of re¢eiptsl(paymentsJ A5 Trnnsfers between fund8 A6 Cash funds last yèar •nd Cash funds thls and 703 703 2.852 9.980 2.852 CCXX R1 accounts ISSI 1311212024 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrictsd funds bj nezrt8t£ Restsicted funds Endowment funds Categories Details 81 Cash fund8 Total cash funds 10.18S Llnrnstrlcted fund• R•8trlcted fvnd• Endowment fund8 to n•thr•rt£ Detal Fundto whlth Detsl ¢o•t (optb￿a ¢uvront valu• ilonal Fundto whlch awl b910 Cuwr•thtv•lug Ik*nal Detalls Cc*t loptlmall B4 Assots rntalned for the ¢harlty'8 own u 2MO 1.000 000 FurNI to Whon du Detal 85 Llabllltl SvJned by 0￿ or trust￿ on 8ifof 411 th9 Irust88 Date of n)val s￿nature Pnnt Name 1311212024 CCXX R2 acDJunts ISSI 1311212024 THE BRUNEL SHED Notes to accounts for nod 07 June to 31 December 2023 1. The Brunel Shed is a 'not for proff organisation. 2. The bulk ofThe Brunel Shed income is derived from the paymenl of both an annual and individual session subscnption paid by its members. The fees concerned are decided upon at each AGM. The trustees have discretion to waive such fees in agreed circUmstan￿s. 3. The Brunel Shed's other income is derived mainly from grants or donations from other bodies in appreciation of work done for such bodies wrthout charge. The Brunel Shed normally seeks reimbursement of expenditure on projects requested by customer bodies, but invoices are not generally prOdu￿d thal include any element for labour or services. 4. The Brunel Shed's principal asset is a shipping container that was purchased as having been pre-owned. The container is used principally as an overflow store for materials that cannot be accommodated with the main premises. Other assets comprise woodworking machinery and a wide range of hand tools. 5. As an associated activty The Bwnel Shed operates in association with Alzheimer's Support Wltshire what is known as the Memory Shed. This activity invohies engaging with a lirnrted number of those suffering from Alzheimer's in simple woodworking projects and related social activity.