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Trustees' Annual Report for the period
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Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1st Jan01 2025 To 31st Dec 2025
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name THE BRUNEL SHED Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1203449 Charity's principal address Pockeridge and Potley Community Centre Corsham Wilts Postcode SN13 9SA
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole **year ** |
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Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Peter Turner | Chairman | ||||
| Robert Mullins | Treasurer | ||||
| AnthonyWilde | DeputyChair | ||||
| Laurence Lewis | Secretary | ||||
| Colin Davies | |||||
| RodneyVeazey | Project Officer | ||||
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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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
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO Association Constitution How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by members at Annual General Meeting Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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.
We connect with other mens sheds via the UK Mens Sheds Association, exchanging ideas and equipment as appropriate.
Our organisational structure is based on the requirements of a CIO with policies and guidelines generally following recommendations from the UK Mens Sheds Association.
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
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 provision of facilities in which they can meet to undertake, jointly or individually, 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
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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). The Brunel Shed provides a workshop environment within which groups of men and women work side by side on individual, civic or community projects. It provides an environment for conversation and social interaction between those who are retired, isolated or widowed is a forum for the exchange of informationon I ssues particularly affecting older people . Currently, five sessions in a workshop environment are 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 reduces loneliness and Summary of the main isolation, particularly amongst elderly and widowed men activities undertaken for the It also provides benefit to the local community in the form of projects completed for local primary schools, councils, charities, community gardens and churches. 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)
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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
The charity provided regular weekly sessions for members to attend and experience friendship and shared undertakings.
Three of the weekly sessions were for general workshop and concentrated mainly on woodworking
One session was for craft specialising in stained glass work.
The fifth session was for a workshop activity specifically for clients with dementia, operated jointly with our local Wiltshire charity Beyond Dementia.
An active membership of 26-28 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 completed for the local community, including buddy benches, notice boards ,bug hotels, restoration of village stocks, bat boxes, bird boxes, church gates etc.
Financial viability was maintained by undertaking projects with material costs and donation provided by the clients.
The charity attended local events, fetes, community gardens etc.
The charity was a finalist for the annual Heritage Award given by the UK Mens Sheds Association.
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Section E Financial review
Our Policy is to retain a minimum £6000 in reserve Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially in deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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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) Peter Turner Full name(s) Rodney Veazey Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Project Officer etc) Date
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