Trustees Annual Report for the period from l August 2020 to 31 luly 2021 for
Pinhoe Rlfle Club tradlng as Pinhoe Target Shooting Club
Registered Charity Number:_ 269248
Charity's Correspondence Address:_
Cyderpress Cottage, 4 Old Bridwell, Uffculme, Cullompton, Devon, EX15 3BU
Charity's TradingAddress:.
Langaton Lane, Pinhoe. Nr Exeter, Devon
Charity Trustees:.
Name
Geor
e Canii
ohn Pullen
im Newton
Michael Ta lor
Chris Blirrow
Lindsa
ates
Robert Beard
Office
Custodian Trustee
Custodian Trustee
Custodian Trustee
Chairman
Vice-chairman
Secretar
Treasurer
Dates Actin
Whole Year
Whole Year
Whole Year
Whole Year
Whole Year
Whole Year
Whole Year
ointed b
Annual General Meetin
Annual General Meetin
Annual General Meetin
Annual General Meetin
Annual General Meetin
Annual General Meetin
Annual General Meetin
Principal Bankers
Natwesl Bank PLC. 18, St Thomas Centre, Cowick Street, Exeter, Devon EX4 IDE
Structure, Governance & Management
The governing document is the constitution adopted in 1998
The charity is an unincorporated association
The officers of the charity are elected or re-elected annually at the Annual General Meeting held in
September.
Objectlves and Activities
The object of the club shall be to encourage the sport of Small-bore and Air gun Target Shooting by
providing to members and guests, the facilities, instruction, and opportunity to practice and compete
in such chosen leagues and competitions as they should wish, and so that, by their improved skill,
they will be better fitted to serve their country in the Regular or Reserve Forces or in any other
organisation in which their services May be required in the defense of the Realm in times of peril.
In planniiJg our activities for the year we kept in mind the Charity Commission's guidance on public
benefit at our committee meetings. The competitions and leagues entered into are designed to
further the high degree of skill, self discipline and self confidence to reach a good standard and it Is
the development ol that skill, self discipline and self confidence that is of benefit to the public. The
club is open and inclusive to all persons who can satisfy the legal requirements for membership
especially to the young, disabled and blind persons. The club provides a venue for members to meet,
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Trustees Annual Report for the perlod from l August 2020 to 31 July 2021 for
Plnhoe Rifle Club trading as Pinhoe Target Shootlng Club
socialize, discuss their sport and to engage in the running of the charity. The club encourages team
participation in open evenis and shoulder to shoulder shooting in competition with other clubs and
participates in leagues for both individiial and team target shooting at both county and national
levels. Club members have reached the highest level of the sport in being selected to shoot for Great
Britain. The committee would also welcome communityuse of the club's facilities during the daytirne
when not in use tor shooting activities which would also be for the public good as Pinhoe's
community facilities are presently fully utilized and yet the village has grown and is growing further
with neiv housin
pandemic.
Most of these objects and activities have had to be curtailed due to the Covid
Summary of the main achievements ofthe charity during the year
The building project to provide new ranges, armories and store room5 Started in earnest with the
foundations being completed at the start of the year. The additional foundations to cope with the
soft and wet ground cost an additional £46,000 above the contract price and the club was fortunate
that these addiiional cosis were met by the cumulative Government Covid grants. August saw the
galvanized steel frame of the building being erected with a huge crane onsite. By The begiiining of
October the concrete tloor had been laid and polished with work started on the building of all the
block walls around the building and the roofwas put on.
The Chairman worked hard to obtain a grant froTn Viridor Waste Management Communities Fund
for £50,0110 to help pail t'or the electrical, ventilation, steel target walls. baffles, firing polnt ceil ings,
block worK and armories inside the building. A group of up to 24 member5 took on the internal fit
out ofthe building in the Autumn, chrough the winter, springand up to completion in July 2021. The
new ran.ges were certified by the NSRA l-ange inspector in May and the IOM air range started to be
used.
With the rantastic new building all but finished and the opening ceremony planned it was discovered
that the club's sewerage system had reached the end of its life as it was conti nually filling up with
rain waier and the sewerage pipes were all blocked after being invaded by tree roots. The Charity
had enough funds to get a new system installed and commissioned by the year end.
Shooting was able to start again in late luly 2021 buf events were reduced and then shooting had to
be terminated again with the winter lockdown due to C.ovid. The winter season was therefore
disrupted and cut shorr. A significant numl)er of members were loath to return to shooting and
mixing with fellow members and quite a number ofmembers have never been seen again since Covid
hit the country.
The Constitution was reviewed and updated as required to revise the requirement for an audit to an
independent I'eview of the receipts and payments accounts and to correct the records as far as the
trustees and custodian rrustees were concerned.
Financial Revlew
The Lease of the Fonthill range undei-neath the swimining pool at the Exeter Pyramids was
terminated at 31 March 2021 as it was not being used due to the Covid pandemic. The University of
Exeter Rifle Club terminated its arrangement with the club for the use of shooting facilities as they
felt thar tronthill was not safe to use during the pandemic and the Pinhoe ranges were too far out of
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Trustees Annual Report for the period from l August 2020 to 31 luly 2021 for
Pinhoe Rifle Club tradlng as Pfinhoe Target Shooting Club
the city- The Fonthill site provided valuable grants during Covid and its closure saved running costs
and the loss or the University resujfed in a loss of annual income of £1,800.
The club re-opened tnrough the hard work of the committee as soon as it was able through the use
of alternate firing points, social distancing and cleansing procedu res. Covid hit U5 in terms of reduced
incorne from memDers, donations and shooting. There were further lockdowns in 2020/21 which
closed the club 10 shooting. We were fortunate to be eligible for Covld grants for our two different
sites to compensatp.
The charity tias onlv one general fund. The Charity has accumulated funds over the years in order to
improve the shooting facilities for members and these have now been spent to build 2 new 25 yard
and one new 10 metre ind.oor range. The charity has no desire to accumulate funds unnecessarily.
Reserves at 31 Iuiy 2021 were £138,142.
The Treasurer would l ikr to apologise for the late publication of the Charity's accounts for the year
on the charity Lomniission website. The accounts were completed in a timely fashion and the AGM
was held on time and the accounts presented and approved by the members at that meeting. The
accounting spreadsi]eet then suffered a severe corruption as did the backup copy and the accounts
had to be prepared all over again taking until the following year's accounts needed to be prepared.
Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved rhe trustees, report above.
Signed on behalf of tlie charity's trustees
Signature
Full name
Chairman
Date
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Pinhoe Target Shooting Club
31 st July 2021
Un￿trICt¢d
fund5
Restrfcted
funds
Endowm•nt
funds
Totsl funda
Lasty•ar
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Recel ts
G￿eTr and 9L*5t foes
211
281
$41
14.49)
2.J92
14.585
26.162
116
t4,4WJ
2.392
14,585
26,862
11.460
6.610
71,250
21.795
Amn¥JDitl￿
Proj￿1 GFan15
19 Grant5
1,310
J.518
1.J10
3.511
431
tota
111.53
A2 Asset and Investment sales, {gee table).
Sale of club guns & tractor
1,375
1.375
lJ78
1.740
to
Total rernpts
120.27
A3 Paym•nts
5.527
5,527
139
4,531
714
139
710
710
S.J93
728
721
251
Loan
1500
Sub total
A4 Asset and Inveslment purcha¥es. lablel
13.648
13.
17.1
165,133
165.133
76.727
Sub total
165.1J
165.1
Totalpayments
178.781
178,781
93.85
Net ofrecelpts/(payments)
AS Transfers belween funds
A6 Ca#h fund¥ laat y¢arend
113,862
113,852
z££zz
141,685
141,68
115,260

Pinhoe Target Shooting Club
Cash funds thls year end
Section B Statement of assets and Ilabilities at the end of the period
31 st July 2021
27,833
27,833
141.683
Unrestrictèd
fund$
Restricted
fund8
Endowment
funds
CaiegOIiCS
B1 Cash funds
Cash in Hand
1,139
26.694
Bank Current Awounls
Bank Deposit Accounis
Investment Accwnts
rotal cash funds
27,833
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19.0
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SignatLtre
Print Name
Date of approval
Rot•rt M T Beard
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## **Pinhoe Rifle Club trading as Pinhoe Target Shooting Club** 

## **Pinhoe Rifle Club** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Pinhoe Rifle Club for the period ended 31 July 2021. 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the 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. 

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me 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. 

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. 


Signed: 

Name: Neil Hitchings FCA 

Address: Francis Clark LLP Centenary House Peninsula Park Rydon Lane Exeter Devon EX2 7XE 

Date: 24/05/23