## **THE WARDINGTON MEMORIAL HALL**
## CHARITY NUMBER: 205878
## **TRUSTEES**
Chairman Mr Stephen N Skinner Trustrees Mrs Elisabeth J Campbell Mrs Ann Wilkins Mr Jay Jopling Treasurer Mr Stephen Mckenzie-Laurie
## **REPORT**
Wardington Memorial Hall was first built in 1920 in Memory of those who perished during the First World War. It burnt down shortly thereafter, was re-built in 1926 and then completely refurbished in 2013.
As might be expected, the Hall’s purpose is to provide an affordable and good quality facility to our villagers and surrounding community. To that end, it enjoys regular use for many different activities, Clubs and organisations.
The Wardington Memorial Hall Trustees are also responsible for an adjoining Playground, currently Leased to Wardington Parish Council, and a playing field that encompasses a cricket pitch and small pavilion, Leased to Wardington Cricket Club.
In the Financial Year to 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, the Memorial Hall enjoyed a busy year with a wide range of events taking place including, for the first time, a highly successful Village Fete. The other notable event was the refitting and decoration of the kitchen and bar area.
Overall, the Halls revenue fees for 2024-2025 increased from 2023/2024, to £13,245.30.
The Fete generated a revenue of £12,670.13 and allowed us to donate to local Charities: Dogs for Good, (£1,870); Banbury Homeless (£1,870); and £270 to Wardington Cricket Club.
A further £200 was donated to MIND from Funds raised by the first Big Breakfast event, a free breakfast open to all in our community.
As is so often the case, our Hall would not be able to operate and be so successful without a very great commitment of time and energy by our Committee and other occasional volunteers.
## Stephen Skinner
Stephen N Skinner Chairman of Trustees
28 December 2025
## **ACCOUNTS FOR YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025**
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|**ACCOUNTS FOR YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025**|||||||||||||
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|**MANAGE**||**MENT ACCOUNT(Operat**|**n**|**g Acco**|**unt)**||||||||
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||||||**2024/2025**||||**2023/2024**||||
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|**INCOME**||Hire of Hall||13,245.30||||11,156.11|||||
|||Hire of Tables,Chairs,etc||30.00||||5.00|||||
|||**Events**||||||1,234.23|||||
|||5@Film Nights||1,224.33|||||||||
|||BigBreakfast||280.06|||||||||
|||Fete||12,670.13|||||||||
|||Monies transferred from Capital Account||0.00||||0.00|||||
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|||Wayleave Payment ElectcityBoard||14.64||||14.64|||||
|||Insurancepayment bowls club||20.77||||20.77|||||
|||Mis. Fees||64.61||||0.00|||||
|||Insurancepayment for loss of Income||0.00||||1,050.90|||||
|||Insurance claim for cost of electricity||0.00||||411.82|||||
|||Insurance claim for redecoraton of Hall||0.00||||3,140.00|||||
|||Insurance claim for replacement of wooden foor||0.00||||21,614.00|||||
|||||||**27,549.84**||||**38,647.47**|||
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|**EXPENDITURE**||Water||927.05||||1,609.22|||||
|||Electricity||2,793.13||||1,735.93|||||
|||Insurance||1,375.92||||1,102.99|||||
|||Council Rates/Bins||49.00||||116.09|||||
|||Repairs(plumbing/tolets)||252.00||||0.00|||||
|||Repairs (Including light bulbs, Switches , Hoover)
Repairs Redecoraton & Fitng /Paintng||176.78||||170.32|||||
|||||12,203.97||||3,800|||||
|||Repairs external Pato/Garden area||0.00||||44.00|||||
|||Repairs to Blinds||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Repairs & Replacement to wooden foor||2,294.96||||10,807.00|||||
|||Kitchen replacement Hobb||0.00||||211.63|||||
|||StepLadder||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Swingbins||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Maintenance Contracts/alarm/light/fre/Chubb||827.63||||442.42|||||
|||Electrical TestngCertfcate every5years||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||PAT TestngAnnual basis||86.40||||86.40|||||
|||Cleaning||2,778.12||||2,650.64|||||
|||WiFi||501.46||||331.20|||||
|||**Events**||||||1,854.76|||||
|||5@Film Nights||966.57||||0.00|||||
|||BigBreakfast||219.61||||0.00|||||
|||Fete||6,237.81||||0.00|||||
|||Grant/Donatons||**4,210.00**||||0.00|||||
|||Misc/Sundries||1,355.11||||470.28|||||
|||Cleaning goods||244.40||||106.47|||||
|||Fire Equipment||128.24||||0.00|||||
|||First Aid Equipment||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Ofce Equipment||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Kitchen cutlery||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Glass boxes & Glasses||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Window cleaner||320.00||||160.00|||||
|||HallMaster(booking& Invoices system)||253.00||||253.00|||||
|||Oxford CommunityFirst||50.00||||50.00|||||
|||Locks||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||||||**38,251.16**||||**26,002.35**|||
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|**OPERATING SURPL**|**US**|**/(DEFICIT)**||||**- 10,701.32**||||**12,645.12**|||
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|||Less: Transfer to Capital Account||||0.00||||-10,807.00|||
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|**NET SURPLUS/(DEFI**|**CI**|**T)**||||**- 10,701.32**||||**1,838.12**|||
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|**OPERATING ACCOU**|**N**|**T FUND at 1st APRIL 2024**||||**10,464.72**||||**8,626.60**|||
|*This fgure adjusted to|ac|commodate -£1.35 roundingerror in 2019-2020|||||||||||
|Petycash balance redu|ct|on|||||||||||
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|**OPERATING ACCOU**|**N**|**T FUND at 31st MARCH 2025**||||**- 236.60**||||**10,464.72**|||
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|**CAPITAL**|**A**|**CCOUNT**|||||||||||
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|**INCOME**||Grants||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||FundraisingEvents||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Interest||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Insurance claim||0.00||||10,807.00|||||
|||Gif Aid||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||SundryIncome||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||||||**0.00**||||**10807.00**|||
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|**EXPENDITURE**||Professional Fees||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Open Meetng||0.00||||0.00|||||
|* Purchase of Micro|w|Fixtures & Fitngs||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Repairs to Pato/path||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Roof repairs||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||CDC Planningapplicaton||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Land Registry- Fees||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Account Charges||4.25|||||||||
|||Additonal Insurance||0.00||||0.00|||||
|||Replacement foor||0.00||||10807.00|||||
|||Electrical Update to heatngsystem||0.00||||634.80|||||
|||||||**-4.25**||||**-11441.80**|||
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|**SURPLUS/DEFICIT**||||||**-4.25**||||**-634.80**|||
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|||Transfer from/to Management Account||0.00||||0.00|||||
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|**NET SURPLUS/DEFI**|**CI**|**T**||||**-4.25**||||**-634.80**|||
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|**CAPITAL ACCOUNT**|**FU**|**ND at 1st APRIL 2024**||||**22,341.87**||||**22,976.67**|||
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|**CAPITAL ACCOUNT**|**FU**|**ND at 31st MARCH 2025**||||**22,337.62**||||**22,341.87**|||
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|**BALANCE**||**SHEET**|||||||||||
||||||2024/2025||||**2023/2024**||||
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|**ASSETS**||OperatngFund||- 236.60||||10,464.72|||||
|||Capital Fund||22,337.62||||22,341.87|||||
|||Deposits and advance fees held||1,120.30||||1,940.05|||||
|||||||23,221.32||||**34,746.64**|||
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|**REPRESENTED BY**||Cash at Bank||23,191.80||||34,717.12|||||
|||Cash in Hand||29.52||||29.52|||||
|||||||**23,221.32**||||**34,746.64**|||
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|**ACCOUN**|**T**|**ING POLICIES**|||||||||||
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|**MANAGEMENT ACCO**|Th|is Account records all transactons related to income and expe|nd|iture in respect|of the commun|ityactvites of the|M|emorial Hall bui|lding.||||
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|**CAPITAL ACCOUNT:**|Th
|is Account acts as a Reserve Account receivingand holding gr|ant|s,donatons,fu|nd raisingand s|imilar income for lo|ng|term developm|ent||||
||an|d improvement of the capital assets,furnishings and equipme|nt|of the Memoria|l Hall and other|assets owned byth|e|Trustees.|||||
||It|also acts as a reserve revenue account toprovide operatngfu|nd|s if required.|||||||||
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|**BALANCE SHEET:**|Th|e inventoryof fxed assets,furnishings and equipment vested|in|the Trustees is|not valued. Mai|ntenance of furnishi|ng|s is dealt with o|n||||
||a|replacement basis in the Accounts.|||||||||||
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|**SML : 22/09/2025**|||||||||||||
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Independent Examinees Report
The Wardington Memorial Hall (the Charity). charity number: 205878
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended:
31st March 2025
Respectlve responslbllltles of Trustees and Examlner
The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit
Is not required for this year under section 14412) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an
Independent examination is appropriate.
It is my responsibility to:
examine the accounts (under section 145 of the 2011 Act),.
follow the procedures laid down in the General Directlons given by the Charity Commission
lunder section 14515llbl of the 2011 Act); and
state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basls of Independent Examlnerfs Report
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity
Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a
comparison of the accounts presented with those records, It also includes consideration of any
unusual Items or dlsclosures In the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning
any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provlde all the evldence that would be
required in an audit and consequently the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement
below.
Independent Examlnerfs statement
I have completed my examination and I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention
in connection with the examlnation which gives me cause to believe that In, any materlal respect..
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records,. or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content
of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any
requlrement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part
of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to
which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the
accounts to be reached.
Signed
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Graham j ufiver, The Straws, The Plantation, Cropredy, Banbury, OX17 INH