Chairman’s Report
This year has been a very good year for our group with lots of varied activities so thank you to Dave and Lyn for the organization of the year. We have also been very lucky to have been granted some funding with thanks again to our development officer Dave Urwin.
As money comes in it also goes out and thank you to our treasurer Chris Poole for keeping tabs and getting everything together and preparing statements for the meetings and the auditors.
Thank you, David Brooks-Dawe, for all your time looking after caravan bookings and keeping the caravan tidy and preparing it for bookings, which have been very good this year.
Thank you, Lyn, for your sustained hard work organizing all the activities for this year and going forward. The holiday in Torquay, which was enjoyed by everyone, thank you Lyn for all the communications, paperwork and organizing and next year there is a welcome break! I say welcome because as everyone knows that absence makes the heart grow fonder or missing it once will make the following year more special!
Our treasurer Chris Poole is still working hard behind the scenes and has expressed the desire to step down. Unfortunately, we don’t seem to be able to produce a volunteer to take his place. Does anyone know of a willing candidate?
We are looking forward to a very exciting 2024 with music of differing sorts and trips out. I am looking to having a go on the drumming and I shall report back because I’m having an early session at the Bus Station through work!
Thank you, Moira, for your support during the year and thank you to all the trustees and volunteers who help out at all the activities because without you we would be like the Koalas at Longleat!
Charlie Farrand
November 2023
# **TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY**
Charity Registration Number 205244
Accounts
30 September 2023
TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
## **CONTENTS**
||_Page_|
|---|---|
|Income and Expenditure Account|2|
|Balance Sheet|3|
|Notes to the Accounts|4|
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TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
## **INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT**
Year ended 30 September 2023
|**_Note_**
**_2023_**
**£**
Income
Subscriptions
1,248.00
Donations received
2
-
Grants used to support
the period’s expenditure
3
7,689.00
Caravan bookings
3,588.00
Interest
4
20.27
Social events & activities
5
13,106.96
Fundraising
6
616.82
Other income
240.88
26,509.93
Expenditure
Affiliation fees
7
60.00
Insurance premiums
209.07
Caravan expenses
8
1,403.90
Social events & activities
5
12,858.98
Secretary
9
3,129.12
Development officer
10
6,256.80
Postage
108.99
Bank charges
76.20
Printing
535.00
Appreciation/Christmas gifts
28.98
Fundraising expenses
16.75
Stationery
-
Other expenses
-
24,683.79
1,826.14
Gain on disposal of fixed assets
-
Grants used to support
purchase of fixed assets
-
Depreciation
11
(5,824.23)
Excess/(shortfall) of income over
expenditure transferred to/(from) reserves
(3,998.09)|**_2022_**
**£**
1,342.00
639.70
10,378.00
3,574.00
5.14
12,194.40
1,055.74
-
29,188.98
60.00
593.72
1,388.27
11,633.12
3,129.12
6,256.80
64.08
124.80
405.00
124.00
-
8.50
25.39
23,812.80
5,376.18
8,300.00
5,000.00
(3,465.80)
15,210.38|
|---|---|
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TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
## **BALANCE SHEET**
As at 30 September 2023
|**_Note_**
**Assets Employed**
Fixed assets
11
Current assets
12
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
13
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Total net assets employed
**Represented By**
Reserves
14|**_2023_**
**£**
19,953.09
14,213.99
(3,031.48)
11,182.51
31,135.60
31,135.60
31,135.60|**_2022_**
**£**
25,263.32
12,709.85
(2,839.48)
9,870.37
35,133.69
35,133.69
35,133.69|
|---|---|---|
These accounts were approved at the Annual General Meeting held on 21 November 2023.
Signed on behalf of the Committee
Chairman
## Treasurer
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TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
Year ended 30 September 2023
## 1. **ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## Tangible Fixed Assets
Fixed assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives. These lives are as follows:
||Caravan|5 Years||
|---|---|---|---|
||Equipment|3 Years||
|2.|**DONATIONS RECEIVED**|||
|||**_2023_**|**_2022_**|
|||**£**|**£**|
||In Memory of Janice Sugars|-|150.00|
||In Memory of Darren Topp|-|298.90|
||Private & Anonymous Donations|-|190.80|
|||||
|||-|639.70|
|3.|**GRANTS**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**_Creditor_**|**_Received_**|**_Utilised_**|**_Creditor_**|
|||**_30 Sep 22_**|**_2022/2023_**|**_2022/2023_**|**_30 Sep 23_**|
|||**_£_**|**_£_**|**_£_**|**_£_**|
||The National Lottery|-|7,689.00|7,689.00|-|
|||||||
|||-|7,689.00|7,689.00|-|
|4.|**INTEREST**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||**_2023_**|**_2022_**|
|||**£**|**£**|
||CAF Bank|20.27|5.14|
|||||
|||20.27|5.14|
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TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
## 5. **SOCIAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES**
||**_2023_**|**_2023_**|**_2023_**|**_2022_**|**_2022_**|**_2022_**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Income**|**Expenditure Income Expenditure**||||||
||**£**||**£**|**£**||**£**||
|Halloween Party|408.00||283.54|361.00||216.77||
|Valentines Party|318.00||199.42|360.00||252.16||
|Christmas Party|448.00||473.51|420.00||332.80||
|Bingo|10.00||40.25|339.00||370.02||
|Cooking With Catherine|305.00||272.76|485.00||104.95||
|West Somerset Railway|406.00||540.00|812.00||784.00||
|Gang Show|244.67||170.00|171.00||170.00||
|Wayfarers Pantomime|254.50||255.00|387.00||336.00||
|Mencap Holiday|7,602.00||7,360.00|6,713.50||6,638.00||
|Longleat Round Table|18.00||400.00|37.50||-||
|Charlie’s Bingo|481.09||314.58|-||-||
|Valentines Ball|120.00||50.00|-||-||
|Mencap’s Got Talent|95.00||491.29|-||-||
|Quiz Night|162.70||46.25|-||-||
|Queen Tribute|230.00||234.00|-||||
|Slimbridge|591.00||765.10|-||-||
|Luis Martelo Music|258.00||100.00|-||-||
|Plymouth Aquarium|547.00||545.00|-||-||
|Frankie Valli Tribute|146.00||190.00|-||-||
|New Year Meal|195.00||-|-||-||
|Skittles|267.00||-|36.00||-||
|AGM|-||28.50|-||248.87||
|Sundry Activity Expenses|-||99.78|-||-||
|You Do Forest School|-||-|200.00||221.00||
|Christmas Crafts|-||-|136.00||168.50||
|Taunton Races|-||-|443.00||200.00||
|Exmouth River Cruise|-||-|480.00||231.55||
|Drumming|-||-|40.00||-||
|Pantomime Trip|-||-|390.00||523.50||
|Seaton Tramway|-||-|511.40||565.00||
|Flashback Theatre|-||-|(128.00)||
-||
|Unlock Art|-||-|-||270.00||
|||||||||
||13,106.96||12,858.98|12,194.40||11,633.12||
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TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
|6.
**FUNDRAISING**
Somerset Lottery
Amazon Smile
Collection Tins
Sponsored Run
Bucket Collection
Car Boot Sale
Sponsored Walk
7.
**AFFILIATION FEES**
National Mencap
8.
**CARAVAN EXPENSES**
Insurance
Maintenance
Gas
Electricity
Equipment
Other expenses
Janitorial expenses
Furnishings
Storage expenses
9.
**SECRETARY**
Salary|**_2023_**
**£**
140.00
36.89
180.00
148.93
111.00
-
-
616.82
**_2023_**
**£**
60.00
60.00
**_2023_**
**£**
230.54
787.80
70.98
101.18
169.45
43.95
-
-
-
1,403.90
**_2023_**
**£**
3,129.12
3,129.12|**_2022_**
**£**
156.00
21.84
229.90
-
-
106.00
542.00
1,055.74
**_2022_**
**£**
60.00
60.00
**_2022_**
**£**
225.12
40.20
31.40
82.95
304.15
-
35.38
236.00
433.07
1,388.27
**_2022_**
**£**
3,129.12
3,129.12|
|---|---|---|
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TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
## 10. **DEVELOPMENT OFFICER**
|**DEVELOPMENT OFFICER**|||
|---|---|---|
||**_2023_**|**_2022_**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Salary|6,256.80|6,256.80|
||||
||6,256.80|6,256.80|
## 11. **FIXED ASSETS**
|||**Caravan**|**Equipment**|**Total**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**||
||**Cost**|||||
||At 30 September 2022|29,183.63|-|29,183.63||
||Additions|514.00|-|514.00||
||Disposals|-|-|-||
|||||||
||At 30 September 2023|29,697.63|-|29,697.63||
|||||||
||**Accumulated Depreciation**|||||
||At 30 September 2022|3,920.31|-|3,920.31||
||Charge for the year|5,824.23|-|5,824.23||
||Disposals|-|-|-||
|||||||
||At 30 September 2023|9,744.54|-|9,744.54||
|||||||
||**Net Book Amount**|||||
|||||||
||At 30 September 2023|19,953.09|-|19,953.09||
|||||||
||At 30 September 2022|25,263.32|-|25,263.32||
|12.|**CURRENT ASSETS**|||||
||||**_2023_**|**_2022_**||
||||**£**|**£**||
||CAF Bank - Current account||12,965.73|12,355.17||
|||||||
||Total Bank Account Balances||12,965.73|12,355.17||
||Prepayments||1,248.26|354.68||
|||||||
||||14,213.99|12,709.85||
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TAUNTON AND DISTRICT MENCAP SOCIETY
|13.
**CREDITORS – FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
Sundry creditors
Payroll creditors
Event advance payments
14.
**RESERVES**
Excess/(shortfall) of income over
expenditure for the year
Reserves at beginning of the year
Reserves at end of the year|**_2023_**
**£**
175.00
2,346.48
510.00
3,031.48
**_2023_**
**£**
(3,998.09)
35,133.69
31,135.60|**_2022_**
**£**
475.00
2,346.48
18.00
2,839.48
**_2022_**
**£**
15,210.38
19,923.31
35,133.69|
|---|---|---|
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Hazelford Slades Orchard Horton Ilminster Somerset TA19 9SQ
Mr Chris Poole Treasurer Taunton and District Mencap Society Suite 119 Bridge House 7 Bridge Street Taunton Somerset TA1 1TG 28 November 2023
Dear Mr Poole
## **Taunton and District Mencap Society**
From the information and explanations supplied to me, I have reviewed the financial statements of Taunton and District Mencap Society for the period ended 30 September 2023 and confirm that in my opinion they present a true and fair view.
Yours sincerely
Alan W Marshall ACIB