2024-12-31-accounts

Lilleshall Memorial Hall

Registered Charity 240569

Financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2024

LILLESHALL MEMORIAL HALL

Contents

Independent Examiner’s Report .................................................................................. 3 Financial statements .................................................................................................... 4 Financial statements (continued) ................................................................................ 5 Treasurer’s Report ....................................................................................................... 6

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LILLESHALL MEMORIAL HALL

Independent Examiner’s Report

For the year ended 31 December 2024

I report on the accounts of Lilleshall Memorial Hall for the year ended 31 December 2024 set out on the attached pages.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the 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 under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent Examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

• Accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or

• The accounts do not accord with the accounting records;

• 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 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 order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

L D Clifford FCA, BSC (Hons) 11 Manor Farm Drive Hinstock Market Drayton Shropshire

29 March 2025

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Financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2024

					2024 £ 22,198.50 150.00 4,600.00 8.31		2023
Income and Expenditure				£			£
Receipts
Lettings							20,543.25
Grants and donations
Sole bar rights							330.00
Bungalow rental							4,011.80
Post Office rental							375.00
Wayleave							8.31
					26,956.81		25,268.36
					7,359.60 1,000.00 520.00
Payments
	Manager's Commission						6,822.19
	Manager's wage						1,000.00
	Cleaner's Pay - Hillside Room						520.00
	Capital expenditure:
		Hive control		395.00
		Bungalow door		75.00
		Wall outside main hall		2,376.00
					2,846.00 292.87 424.79 651.10 354.89 261.14 2,115.78 682.70 519.30 11.55 800.00 275.00 100.00		13,833.66
		Annual service - boilers & security					314.30
		Repairs and renewals					671.44
		Waste disposal					602.80
		Ground maintenance					811.57
		Cleaning materials					275.62
		Gas & Electricity					2,100.41
		Insurance					1,426.84
		Licences					313.83
		Admin: postage & stationery					114.97
		Deposit & booking refunds					680.00
		Window cleaning					150.00
		Charity donation					200.00
					18,214.72		29,837.63
					8,742.09
		(Deficit)Surplus					(4,569.27)

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Financial statements (continued)

For the year ended 31 December 2024

					2024 £ 4,204.47 12,946.56		2023
							£
Cash Funds
Bank current account:
		31 December 2023					8,773.74
		31 December 2024					4,204.47
					8,742.09		(4,569.27)

I approve the above Income and Expenditure Account and confirm that I have made available all relevant records and information for its preparation.

Signed …................................................................ Mrs Edith Pamela Millard Chairman of the Management Committee

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Treasurer’s Report

For the year ended 31 December 2024

Independently examined accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2024 are tabled today together with your Treasurer’s detailed version of these same accounts. These accounts will be presented to the Parochial Church Council at their meeting on 31st March 2025, the accounts having been circulated to all members prior to that meeting. The accounts have been examined by our independent examiner, Lynn Clifford FCA, BSC Honours of Clifford & Co.

The Main Hall and the new Hillside Meeting Room were both very well used over the year resulting in letting income of £20,543.25. Added to this we received rental income from the bungalow of £4,011.80 and from the post office £375.00. This post office rental was for the first 5 months of the year only as Post Office Ltd withdrew the facility and closed the office end May citing “insufficient customer support”.

Capital expenditure of £13,833.66 represents excavation, infilling and tarmacking perimeter sections of the carpark at a cost of £7,818.66 and the fitting in the main hall of new internal doors and panel doors under the stage costing £6,015.00.

This capital expenditure has resulted in a net trading deficit of £4,569.27 this year. As was the case last year, this expenditure and the resultant deficit has been offset and covered by community support grants totalling £38,832.85 paid to us by Telford and Wrekin Council in our financial years 2020 and 2021 to support the business over the period of the Covid 19 lockdowns when trading was shut down. So, despite our capital expenditure this year and the resultant deficit we see a year-end fund credit balance of £4,204,47.

Finally, may I propose that we formally reappoint Lynn Clifford FCA / BSC Hon’s of Clifford and Co, Chartered Accountants, Hinstock, as our “Independent Examiners” for this current year ending 31[st] December 2025.

Cedric Ayres - Hon. Treasurer

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