## **Layer de la Haye Queen Elizabeth Hall** 

## **Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year End 31[st] March 2025** 

## **Trustees** 

## **Elected** 

- Mr Ian Moore (Chair) (Management) 

- Mrs Carole Littlewood (Hon Secretary) (Management) 

- Mrs Susan Neal (Hon Treasurer) (Management) 

## **Representatives** 

- Mr Peter Halls (Bowls) 

- Mrs M A Hughes (Scouts and Church) 

- Mrs Caroline Chambers (Pre School) 

- Mrs Anne Taylor (Layer Ladies) 

- Mrs B Clay (Good Companion and JB TOTS) 

- Mrs Lesley Ellis(Badminton) 

- Mrs G Barclay (Brownies) 

- Mrs Laura Lawrence (Booking Clerk) 

The object of the charity is to provide a village hall for the use of the inhabitants of the Parish of Layer de la Haye and others for meetings, lectures and classes and for other forms of recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions for the said inhabitants. The main hall is used by Layer Preschool each day during term time. 

Income is generated from Hire fees, charity events and donations. 

Cash reserves at the end of the year were £44,959. The reserves policy is to allow for running costs of the two halls and for necessary repairs. 



|**Queen Elizabeth Hall**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Analysis of income and expenditure**||||
|**Selected period: 01 April 2024 to 31**|**March 2025**|||
||**Total**|||
||**This year**|**Last year**|**Variance**|
|IR0101 - Hall Hire & Lettings|28,910.25|27,281.55|<br>1,628.70|
|IR0102 - Hall Fumd Raising|750.00|541.00|<br>209.00|
|IR0103 - Bar Receipts|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|IR0104 - Deposits not Returned|0.00|85.00|<br>-85.00|
|IR0105 - Phone Income|0.00|45.00|<br>-45.00|
|IG0201 - Deposit Account Interest|395.80|405.16|<br>-9.36|
|IG0202 - Savings Account Interest|0.00|10.99|<br>-10.99|
|IG0203 - Virgin Money Interest|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|FURL - Furlough|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|IR106 - Grants|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
||30,056.05|28,368.70|<br>1,687.35|
|EG0101 - Wages|10,228.27|8,236.88|<br>1,991.39|
|EG0151 - General Rates|210.36|198.55|<br>11.81|
|EG0200 - Insurance|3,510.90|3,319.55|<br>191.35|
|EG0251 - Electricity|7,139.36|7,742.84|<br>-603.48|
|EG0252 - Gas|1,205.72|930.46|<br>275.26|
|EG0253 - Water|848.45|727.60|<br>120.85|
|EG0301 - Entertianment|85.00|0.00|<br>85.00|
|EG0351 - Postage|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|EG0352 - Stationery|8.00|6.95|<br>1.05|
|EG0353 - Books|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|EG0401 - Telephone & Broadband|775.29|716.74|<br>58.55|
|EG0402 - Computer & Software|463.56|814.44|<br>-350.88|
|EG0451 - Licences|934.78|1,041.22|<br>-106.44|
|EG0452 - Premises Expenses|117.86|168.39|<br>-50.53|
|EG0453 - Booking & Caretaker|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|EG0454 - Equipment Hire & Purchase|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|EG0455 - Cleaning|2,590.85|1,860.99|<br>729.86|
|EG0456 - Repairs & Renweals|8,055.49|3,357.79|<br>4,697.70|
|EG0457 - Annexe Building Costs|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|EG0458 - Bank Charges|130.20|127.60|<br>2.60|
|EG0459 - Covid expendoture|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|EG0490 - Extraordinary Expenditure|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
|EG0500 - Hall Hire|0.00|0.00|<br>0.00|
||36,304.09|29,250.00|<br>7,054.09|
|Profit / (Loss)|(6,248.04)|(881.30)|(5,366.74)|



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|**Queen Elizabeth Hall**|**Queen Elizabeth Hall**|**Queen Elizabeth Hall**|**Queen Elizabeth Hall**|**Queen Elizabeth Hall**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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|**Analysis of income and expenditure**|||||
|**Selectedperiod: 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023**|||||
||||||
|||**Total**|||
|||**This year**|**Last year**|**Variance**|
||||||
||IR0101 - Hall Hire & Lettings|27,217.13|<br>24,451.15|<br>2,765.98|
||IR0102 - Hall Fumd Raising|375.00|<br>341.00|<br>34.00|
||IR0104 - Deposits not Returned|0.00|<br>400.00|<br>(400.00)|
||IR0105 - Phone Income|225.00|<br>210.00|<br>15.00|
||IG0201 - Deposit Account Interest|91.71|<br>2.59|<br>89.12|
||IG0202 - Savings Account Interest|2.40|<br>0.08|<br>2.32|
||IG0203 - Virgin Money Interest|188.23|<br>0.00|<br>188.23|
||Total Income|28,099.47|<br>25,404.82|<br>2,694.65|
||||||
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||EG0101 - Wages|9,703.65|<br>6,158.49|<br>3,545.16|
||EG0151 - General Rates|373.76|<br>166.79|<br>206.97|
||EG0200 - Insurance|3,156.00|<br>2,944.90|<br>211.10|
||EG0251 - Electricity|5,900.18|<br>4,356.10|<br>1,544.08|
||EG0252 - Gas|570.70|<br>532.05|<br>38.65|
||EG0253 - Water|862.45|<br>675.77|<br>186.68|
||EG0352 - Stationery|9.99|<br>0.00|<br>9.99|
||EG0401 - Telephone & Broadband|879.73|<br>874.60|<br>5.13|
||EG0402 - Computer & Software|1,507.50|<br>414.00|<br>1,093.50|
||EG0451 - Licences|1,143.22|<br>180.00|<br>963.22|
||EG0452 - Premises Expenses|227.06|<br>1,050.30|<br>(823.24)|
||EG0454 - Equipment Hire & Purchase|79.98|<br>148.00|<br>(68.02)|
||EG0455 - Cleaning|2,636.08|<br>2,142.85|<br>493.23|
||EG0456 - Repairs & Renweals|1,930.73|<br>2,606.18|<br>(675.45)|
||EG0458 - Bank Charges|132.34|<br>38.80|<br>93.54|
||EG0490 - Extraordinary Expenditure|0.00|<br>5,230.00|<br>(5,230.00)|
||Total Expenses|29,113.37|<br>27,518.83|<br>1,594.54|
||||||
||Income over expenses|(1,013.90)|(2,114.01)|1,100.11|



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(HARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 31 03 20 1
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accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
("the Act").
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
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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 requirement
that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter
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