NEWPORT MEMORIAL HALL. Chairman’s Report. 16[th] February 2023
We continue to work towards our objective of placing Newport Memorial Hall at the heart of the community. The Hall has continued for almost 100 years to operate by its charitable purposes. It aims now, as then, to meet the needs of the community by providing a centre for leisure, life long learning and to act as a cultural and social anchor for all ages.
In 2022 a newly formed sub committee began the work of developing Centenary celebration events, to be delivered throughout 2023. The committee was drawn from all walks of our community and has successfully produced a programme of events for all to enjoy. Additionally, the committee have been responsible for ensuring this hall, now has bilingual signage, over its front doors. To further commemorate 100 years of service to Newport, CSC members have committed to the renovation of the Hall’s front gates.
Through funding applications, we continued our programme of refurbishment of the Main hall, lobby and toilets. Volunteers completed the work of repainting, then the fitting of new acoustic panels to roof and walls of the Main Hall. Others updated our toilets. We can now offer a large space with fantastic acoustics, an over head projector and large, remotely controlled screen. We fitted blackout curtains to compliment this equipment and next year hope to finalise the project by applying for funds to supply new stage curtains.
After a lengthy process, we were successful in obtaining planning permission for a building extension to house toilets adjacent to the Garden room. Having this permission in place will now allow us to start an application for funding, to cover cost of this building work and the post of a hall manager.
To maximise the use of the hall environs, we were successful in a number of other grant applications, providing us with outdoor opportunities. The objective was to engage further with the community, increase rental income and to enhance the profile of Newport Memorial Hall as a hiring venue.
Lastly, we were successful in raising funds through the Warm Community Spaces initiative. This runs from December 2022 through to March 2023. In December we ran the first of these events, which was aimed at providing a warm space, food, hot drinks and companionship to those living alone and to others affected by the current cost of living crisis.
Our accounts bear witness to the Hall slowly recovering . However, we are living through challenging, economic times. The Halls running costs are increasing and the community, faced with inflation and their utility costs spiralling, do not have as much spare resources for leisure, or cultural outlets,
On a positive note, bookings did increase as the year progressed and of significance was the greater use of our commercial kitchen, as a stand alone income generator.
So, as we enter the Hall’s Centennial Year, with modernised premises and facilities, the promise of an improved accounting system and new website, plus a new post of Bookings Clerk in place, we are hopeful that growth will be maintained in 2023. Grace Hagen Chair NMH
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|Independent Examiner's Report|1|
|Income and Expenditure Account|2|
|Balance Sheet|3|
|Notes to the Accounts|4|
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|||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|
|Income||||
|Unrestricted||||
|Donations & Legacies||||
|Charitable Activities:||||
|Hall Activities||13,854|2,383|
|Memorial Hall Events||||
|Bar Income||6,826|694|
|Grants|Note 4|1,744|5,245|
|Investments:||||
|Bank Interest||6|2|
|Restricted||||
|Charitable Activities:||||
|Fund 1||5,776|5,519|
|OutdoorConnections||1 ,462||
|||29,668|13,843|
|Expenses||||
|Raising Funds:||||
|Bar Stock IJsed and Write Off||3,029|810|
|Charitable Activities:||||
|Staff Costs|||1,100|
|Administration/Office||2,518|2,924|
|Repairs & Maintenance||11,377|13,564|
|Utilities||3,961|1 ,592|
|Caretaking||1 ,466|1 ,034|
|Depreciation||2,920||
|Donations||1,124||
|||26,395|21,024|
|Surplus/(Deficit) for the year||3,273|(7,181)|
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|f|or the yearende|d 31 December 2022||
|---|---|---|---|
|||31-Dec-22|31-Dec-21|
|Fixed Assets||||
|Equipment||8,762|1,697|
|CurrentAssets||||
|Debtors||165|5,519|
|Bank|Note 3|25,643|26,540|
|Bar Stock||||
|Liabilities||||
|Trade Creditors||(1 ,019)|(1 ,478)|
|Accruals||||
|Accured Income||(1,138)|(3,138)|
|||32,413|29,140|
|Represented By:||||
|Funds b/f||29,140|36,321|
|Surplus (deficit) for year||3,273|(7,181)|
|Funds c/f||32,413|29,140|
|Of which restricted|Note 2|1,352||
|Of which unrestricted||31,061|29,140|
|||32,413|29,140|
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|||31-Dec-22|31-Dec-21|
|---|---|---|---|
|2|Movement on Restricted Funds|||
||LEADER Planed funds b/f||4,498|
||Welsh Governmentfunds bff||8,922|
||Fund 1|5,776|5,776|
||OutdoorConnections|1 ,462||
||Winter Festival|3,138||
||Expenses|||
||Associated Expenses|(9,024)|(19,196)|
|||1 ,352||
||OutdoorConnections fund c/f|214||
||WinterFestival Fund c/f|1,138||
|3|BankAccounts|||
||Current Account|14,141|18,555|
||Building Account|7|7,878|
||100 Plus Account|11,495|7|
|||25,643|26,440|
|4|Covid Support Grants|||
||Pembrokeshire County Council|120|3,000|
||PAVS Grant
- SCAF|1 ,624|2,245|
|||1 744|5,245|
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|Independent Examiner's Report|1|
|Income and Expenditure Account|2|
|Balance Sheet|3|
|Notes to the Accounts|4|
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|||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|
|Income||||
|Unrestricted||||
|Donations & Legacies||||
|Charitable Activities:||||
|Hall Activities||13,854|2,383|
|Memorial Hall Events||||
|Bar Income||6,826|694|
|Grants|Note 4|1,744|5,245|
|Investments:||||
|Bank Interest||6|2|
|Restricted||||
|Charitable Activities:||||
|Fund 1||5,776|5,519|
|OutdoorConnections||1 ,462||
|||29,668|13,843|
|Expenses||||
|Raising Funds:||||
|Bar Stock IJsed and Write Off||3,029|810|
|Charitable Activities:||||
|Staff Costs|||1,100|
|Administration/Office||2,518|2,924|
|Repairs & Maintenance||11,377|13,564|
|Utilities||3,961|1 ,592|
|Caretaking||1 ,466|1 ,034|
|Depreciation||2,920||
|Donations||1,124||
|||26,395|21,024|
|Surplus/(Deficit) for the year||3,273|(7,181)|
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|f|or the yearende|d 31 December 2022||
|---|---|---|---|
|||31-Dec-22|31-Dec-21|
|Fixed Assets||||
|Equipment||8,762|1,697|
|CurrentAssets||||
|Debtors||165|5,519|
|Bank|Note 3|25,643|26,540|
|Bar Stock||||
|Liabilities||||
|Trade Creditors||(1 ,019)|(1 ,478)|
|Accruals||||
|Accured Income||(1,138)|(3,138)|
|||32,413|29,140|
|Represented By:||||
|Funds b/f||29,140|36,321|
|Surplus (deficit) for year||3,273|(7,181)|
|Funds c/f||32,413|29,140|
|Of which restricted|Note 2|1,352||
|Of which unrestricted||31,061|29,140|
|||32,413|29,140|
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|||31-Dec-22|31-Dec-21|
|---|---|---|---|
|2|Movement on Restricted Funds|||
||LEADER Planed funds b/f||4,498|
||Welsh Governmentfunds bff||8,922|
||Fund 1|5,776|5,776|
||OutdoorConnections|1 ,462||
||Winter Festival|3,138||
||Expenses|||
||Associated Expenses|(9,024)|(19,196)|
|||1 ,352||
||OutdoorConnections fund c/f|214||
||WinterFestival Fund c/f|1,138||
|3|BankAccounts|||
||Current Account|14,141|18,555|
||Building Account|7|7,878|
||100 Plus Account|11,495|7|
|||25,643|26,440|
|4|Covid Support Grants|||
||Pembrokeshire County Council|120|3,000|
||PAVS Grant
- SCAF|1 ,624|2,245|
|||1 744|5,245|