BCH Trustees Report Year Ending September 30th 2025
During this year, the Burpham Community Hub conducted its first full calendar year of activities, including the public hiring of the Sutherland Memorial Hall in Burpham, the establishment of a weekly Saturday morning community cafe operated by volunteers as a social gathering space for the community, and various public community events, including an Easter Egg Trail, various free workshops, and the funding of the Burpham Village Fair, with various activities and stalls providing free or low-cost entertainment. During this year we also adopted policies on Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Financial Reserves, Pre-Approval of Expenditure, Deposit Return and Financial Internal Controls. We also received a top level 5 food safety standards rating for the community cafe, based on our food hygiene and safety practices and the training for volunteer baristas.
Of the administrative goals we established last year, we have yet to be able to adopt a Bullying and Harassment Policy to document our internally agreed processes, and for this coming year we wish to adopt this policy and to also ensure that all adopted policies are published on our website.
In the past year we improved our hall booking process by adopting an online booking platform, which included stronger financial record keeping for hire charge payments and deposits. We also raised significant donations towards expenditure on hall equipment and future community events, spending of which is anticipated to continue in the upcoming year.
Burpham Community Hub Income and Expenditure Account For the Year ended 30 September 2025
| 2024/2025 | |
|---|---|
| £ | |
| Income | |
| Hall Hire Fees | 1,433.75 |
| Less payments rec’d for hires after 31/10/25 (497.50) | |
| Donations | 8,267.00 |
| Bank Interest | 3.77 |
| Café Income |
2,311.69 |
| Burpham Village Fair | 2,281.77 |
| Total |
13,800.48 |
| Expenditure |
2024/2025 |
| Printing costs | 144.00 |
| GBC Rent | 1,216.30 |
| Public Liability & Events Insce | 509.16 |
| Café costs |
878.91 |
| Café costs owed but not yet paid | 282.14 |
| BVF Expenditure | 1,355.43 |
| Total | 4,385.94 |
Income – Expenditure 9,414.54
Burpham Community Hub Balance Sheet as of 30 September 2025
| 2024/25 £ Cash at bank and in Hand 11,269.78 Less deposits for after 31/10/2025 (1500.00) Total 9,769.78 Represented by: Current account 5,723.49 Less deposits paid for next year (1500.00) Deposit account 5,506.29 Café Cash 40.00 Total 9,769.78 |
2023/24 £ 1,597.72 0.00 1,597.72 1,095.20 0.00 505.52 0.00 1,597.72 . |
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Signed B.C.H. Treasurer