**Registered charity number:**
**211459**
## **The Birdbrook & District Community House**
**Report and Financial Statements**
**For the year ended**
**31 December 2021**
**The Birdbrook & District Community House**
## **Contents**
**For the year ended 31 December 2021**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Particulars of the Trust|1|
|Trustees' report|2|
|Independent examiner's report|3|
|Statement of financial activities|4|
|Balance sheet|5|
|Notes to the accounts|6|
**The Birdbrook & District Community House**
## **Particulars of the Trust For the year ended 31 December 2021**
**Name of the Trust** The Birdbrook & District Community House **Registered Charity Number** 211459 **Trustees** S R Filbey E M Filbey M P Unwin **Charity's Principal Address** Birdbrook Community House The Street Birdbrook Halstead Essex CO9 4BN **Correspondence Address** Finkle Green Farm Birdbrook Halstead Essex CO9 4BU **Bankers** National Westminster Bank Plc **Independent Examiner** Claire Langridge Countryfiled Ltd Clay Cottage Sturmer Road Kedington Suffolk CB9 7NG
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## **The Birdbrook & District Community House**
## **Trustees' Report**
## **For the year ended 31 December 2021**
The trustees submit their annual report on the affairs of the trust together with the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021. The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies on page 7 and comply with the charity's trust deed and applicable law.
## **Constitution, charitable objectives and grant making policy**
The trust was established by virtue of its declaration of trust dated 22 January 1958. Its objectives are to benefit the inhabitants of Birdbrook, Essex and its immediate vicinity.
## **Management and organization**
The trust is controlled and managed entirely by the trustees.
## **Review of activities**
During the year the trust continued to receive rental income from the flat and room hire.
## **Investment and reserves policy**
The majority of the trust's investments are held in bank accounts and an international investment bond. The trust maintains reserves funds, in the form of investments and cash funds, to generate future income to fulfil its charitable objectives and to cover ongoing expenditure.
## **Trustees' responsibility for the accounts**
Charity law requires the trustees to prepare accounts for each financial period to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of its incoming resources and application of resources for that period. In preparing those accounts, the trustees are required to:
- 1) select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
- 2) make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- 3) prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the trust will continue to operate.
- 4) prepare the accounts in accordance with the methods and principles set out in the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and reporting by Charities and to state whether or not the accounts have been prepared in accordance with the statement and applicable accounting standards.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which are sufficient to show and explain the charity's transactions and to disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Trust and to enable them to ensure that any statements of account comply with applicable law and regulations and the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by the Board of Trustees on …........................................................ and signed on its behalf by:
…........................................................ Trustee
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**The Birdbrook & District Community House**
## **Independent Examiner's Report For the year ended 31 December 2021**
We report to the Trustees on our examination of the accounts of the above trust for the year ended 31 December 2021, which are set out on pages 4 to 6.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act").
We report in respect of our examination of the Trustee's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out our examination we have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
We have completed our examination. We confirm that no material matters have come to our attention in connection with the examination giving us cause to believe that in any material respect:
- 1) accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
- 2) the accounts do not accord with those records; or
- 3) the accounts do 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 requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter to be considered as part of an independent examination.
We 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.
…........................................................ …........................................................ Independent Examiner Date
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**The Birdbrook & District Community House**
## **Statement of financial activities For the year ended 31 December 2021**
|**Note**
**Income**
**Charitable activities**
Events
**Investments**
Flat rent
Room hire
Interest receivable
**Other income**
Grant income
**Total income**
**Expenditure**
**Charitable activities**
Donations
**Other expenses**
Water rates
Business rates
Light and heat
Insurance
Maintenance
Secretarial
Professional fees
Website and internet
Property management fees
**Total expenditure**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
Investment gains/(losses)
**3**
Net movement in funds
Funds balance as at 1 January 2021
**Funds balance as at 31 December 2021**|**2021**
**£**
-
-
5,100
1,078
7
6,185
28,384
34,569
-
450
55
733
1,553
15,867
121
370
74
612
19,835
19,835
14,734
2,730
17,464
128,127
145,591|**2020**
**£**
-
-
5,100
241
39
5,380
10,000
15,380
2,000
335
-
68
1,567
359
-
-
-
612
2,941
4,941
10,439
(1,179)
9,260
118,867
128,127|
|---|---|---|
The trust had no recognised gains or losses other than those shown above, all of which derive from continuing activities. The net movement in funds represents the only movement in the trust's funds.
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**The Birdbrook & District Community House**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **For the year ended 31 December 2021**
|**Note**
**Fixed assets**
**Investments**
**3**
**Current assets**
Other debtors
**Cash at bank and in hand**
Natwest Current Account
Natwest Reserve Account
**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
Other creditors
**Net assets**
**Representing**
**Unrestricted funds**
Approved by the Board of Trustees on ….................|**£**
373
22,894
68,477
221
...........................|**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
**£**
54,068
54,338
622
14,773
58,469
91,744
73,864
75
(221)
(75)
145,591
128,127
145,591
128,127
145,591
128,127
............ and signed on its behalf by:|
|---|---|---|
…........................................................ Trustee
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**The Birdbrook & District Community House**
## **Notes to the accounts For the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of preparation**
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified by the revaluation of investments, in accordance with the provisions of the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, the Statement of Recommended Practice Accounting and Reporting by Charities and the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective March 2008).
## **Income**
All income is accounted for on an accruals basis.
## **Investments**
Fixed assets investments are included in the accounts at their market value at the balance sheet date.
## **Funds**
Unrestricted funds comprise accumulated surpluses and deficits of general funds. Restricted funds are those funds subject to specific restrictions declared by the donors and are unavailable for the general purposes of the trust.
## **2 Trustees**
No trustee, nor any person connected with them, has received or is due to receive any remuneration or expenses for the year either directly or indirectly from the charity's funds.
|**3**
**Investments**
**Market value at 1 January 2020**
Additions
Disposal proceeds
Revaluation gains/(losses)
**Market value at 31 December 2021**|**£**
54,338
-
(3,000)
2,730
54,068
**Investment**
**Bond**|**£**
54,338
-
(3,000)
2,730
54,068
**2021**|58,516
-
(3,000)
(1,179)
54,337
**2020**|
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