||**Trustees' Annual Report**|**Trustees' Annual Report**|**Trustees' Annual Report**|**Trustees' Annual Report**|**Trustees' Annual Report**|**for the period**|**for the period**|**for the period**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**From**|Period start date|||**To**|Period end date||| |||01|01|2022||31|12|2022| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Visually Impaired Bowls England **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 273134 **Charity's principal address** 54 Towerscroft Avenue St Leonards on Sea E Sussex **Postcode TN37 7JB** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Christopher
Charles Price|Treasurer||| ||David Anthony
Mears|Chair||| ||Scott Charles
Vallance|Vice Chair||| ||Adrian Christopher
Mears|Secretary||| ||Clive John
Robinson|President||| ||Ronald Gordon
Homer|Committee Member||| ||Gail Hepworth|Committee Member||| ||Kelvin John
Horriben|Membership
Secretary||| ||Barbara Doreen
Metcalf|Committee Member|Since June 2022|| ||Moira Sheehan|Committee Member|Since June 2022|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution and Standing Orders Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) All Executive Committee members as voted on by General Membership Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **TAR** March **2012** 2 To provide or assist in provision of facilities to encourage visually impaired people to participate in the sport of bowls, indoor and outdoor. To encourage other visually impaired people to try the game of bowls. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To organise Bowls Tournaments for visually impaired bowlers and ensure that all facilities and equipment are provided to meet with health and safety requirements. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 3 All Committee members are volunteers and give their time freely. Many visually impaired bowlers require Directors to assist them, these Directors also give their services on a voluntary basis. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: During Tournaments we rely on the support of volunteers, from organisations such as Lions, to provide callers and markers. The Umpires Association also provide official umpires on a voluntary basis. - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance During 2022 the Committee, together with the England Team Manager, **Summary of the main** were responsible for the selection of England Teams to participate in The **achievements of the charity** UK Indoor Nationals and The International Blind Bowls Association World **during the year** Championships to be held in Australia in March 2023. This included the booking of accommodation and air tickets for a party of 26 bowlers, directors and management. We also organised 2 indoor and 2 outdoor Tournaments throughout the year. **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** All monies are held in one of two current Accounts. Nothing is held in any Reserve Account. **Details of any funds materially** The organisation does not have any outstanding loans or debts. **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: The Charity main income comes from fundraising, ie raffles held at Tournaments and donations from Bowls Clubs and individuals. Many Clubs hold fundraisers on VIBE’s behalf such as ‘spiders’. - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - The Committee took the decision to donate £50 to all those taking part in the UK’s and £1000 to those going to the World Championships in Australia. - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Christopher Price **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 23 October 2023 **TAR** March **2012** 6 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Visually Impaired Bowls England|Visually Impaired Bowls England|Visually Impaired Bowls England| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31/12/2022|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|273134| ||||| ||(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2022. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. - **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have - **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) 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:** 13/10/2023 **Signed: Name:** Rowena Walsh **Relevant professional** FCCA **qualification(s) or body (if any):** 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** **Address:** Manningtons 39 High Street, Battle TN33 0EE ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **Oct 2018** **IER** ||**Visually Impaired Bowls England**|**Visually Impaired Bowls England**|**Visually Impaired Bowls England**|**273134**|**273134**|**273134**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|01 01 2022
Period start date|**To**||31 12 2022
Period end date||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**£20,626**
**£20,695**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**

**41,321**
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**£31,341**

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**51,492**
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**51,492**
**- 10,171**
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**£59,298**
**49,127**|**Restricted**
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**to the nearest £**
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**to the nearest £**
**20,626**
**20,695**
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**to the nearest £**| |General Account|**£20,626**||||||**-**| |Team Account|**£20,695**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
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**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||| ||**- 10,171**|**-**|**-**||**- 10,171**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**£59,298**|**-**|**-**||**59,298**||**-**| ||**49,127**|**-**|**-**||**49,127**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 13/10/2023 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
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**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
End of year balance General Account
End of year balance Team Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**33,961**
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**15,166**
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**49,127**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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Print Name
Christopher Price|**Endowment**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Christopher Price|23/10/23| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 13/10/2023 2