## **HIGGINBOTTOM RECREATIONAL CHARITY**
Charity No 243194
## Statement of Financial Activities
Year Ended 31 March 2022
|**Income**
Regular User
Venue Hire
URM Glass Reclaim
Textile Bank Credits
Grant/Fund Raising
CCLA Income
Donations
Miscellaneous
**TOTAL INCOME**
**Expenditure**
NNDC Rates/Bins
Phone/Internet
Electricity
URM Glass Bin Empty
Wave Business Water
Repairs & Renewals + cleaner
Play Park
Miscellaneous
Licence
**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**
**Income less Expenditure**
Balance B/Fwd
Income less expenditure
Balance to carry forward
**Cash held**
Barclays Bank
Unbanked cheque
**Market Value of Investments**
CCLA 541150001T Investment 12832.55 units
CCLA 541150002T Investment 1019.94 units
TOTAL VALUE OF INVESTMENTS|**Year 2021/22**
7,880.74
2,177.20
290.59
74.90
11,693.72
7,398.61
910.07
660.64
**31,086.47**
612.75
871.20
2,592.00
189.36
780.00
16,894.55
908.31
452.70
519.00
**23,819.87**
**7,266.60**
22,249.63
7,266.60
**29,516.23**
29,596.23
(80.00)
**29,516.23**
253,315.82
20,133.72|Year 2020/21
4,147.00
65.00
383.00
-
36,274.00
12,452.00
2,210.00|
|---|---|---|
|||55,531.00|
|||401.00
1,245.00
4,525.00
157.00
521.00
36,698.00
30,236.00
1,500.00
576.00|
|||75,859.00|
|||(20,328.00)
42,577.63
(20,328.00)|
|||22,249.63|
||||
|||22,249.63|
|||229,571.75
18,246.52|
||**273,449.54**|247,818.27|
Chairman’s Annual Report on behalf of the Trustee of the Higginbottom Recreational Charity for the year ending 31st March 2022.
Members of the Corporate Trustee of the Higginbottom Recreational Charity from 1[st] April 2021 until 31[st] March 2022 as follows:-
Pete Moulton (Chair) Ian Chilton (Vice Chair) Graham Pickhaver Matthew Pickhaver Terry Girling Hayley Quinsey (until 30/11/21) Martyn Barr Les Edwards Simon Twiddy Noeleen Woodhouse (until 31/10/21) Ian Seward (from 5/5/21) David Chambers (from 5/7/21)
Despite the removal of covid restrictions, casual lettings have, so far, failed to return to their pre-pandemic levels although most of our regular user groups have now returned. The reduced level of income caused by this has been offset by the local authority backing received during the lockdown.
The refurbishment of the Pavilion, which began during the lockdown, has continued and is now complete.
Also nearing completion is the overhaul of the children’s play park on the recreation ground which has been a much appreciated improvement.
During this year we lost two of our most committed Trustees. They will be difficult to replace, and it will take us a while to adjust to being without them.
On behalf of the Trustees, I would like to thank them for the tireless effort and application which they brought to the charity.
The charity enters the next year on a firm financial footing and hopefully will remain secure in providing facilities for the villagers of Briston for the foreseeable future.
Pete Moulton
**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**|Higginbottom Recreational Charity|Higginbottom Recreational Charity|Higginbottom Recreational Charity|
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||31 March 2022|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|243194|
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 March 2022** .
**Responsibilities and basis** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts **of report** 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 under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent examiner's** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material 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 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.
**Date:** 30 October 2022 **Signed: Name:** Marie-Anne Edwards AATQB **Relevant professional** AAT **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 156 Fakenham Road, Briston, Norfolk, NR24 2DH