## **Chair’s Statement 24/25**
A year during which thanks to the lovely sunny weather the facilities of the Club could be enjoyed by all And importantly the finances of the Club are in a healthy state and many thanks must be paid to Ellen who has run the treasurers job so efficiently and to Malcolm and his team for the large contribution from the bar.
With regard to outside activities the Boule pitch is being increasingly used whilst the tennis club after a few months of concern has formed a new young committee under the chairmanship of Chris Carey made up mainly of people from the village. The Club continues to derive income by renting out the pitches to football teams. In addition, the folk nights run by Jamie and Doug are becoming more and more popular with music appealing to all generations as well as boosting bar profits.
Following the incident at last year’s fireworks members of the Committee who had helped on the night were obviously concerned about the ramifications I would like to confirm that any involvement of the Club was totally within the health and safety rules which was confirmed afterwards.
Many thanks to those that helped and were concerned about their involvement. We are grateful to Charlie Macbeth who has volunteered to organize this year’s fireworks under his responsibility.
I would like to thank those who contributed to the good appearance of the Playing Fields and Club House which played a big part in Cuddington coming 2nd in the Village Cup Winners Cup.
Special thanks to those bar teams who gave up their weekends to raise funds who were not all part of the CPFA but turned up when help was needed.
We now have a new mower, and many thanks must be given to Malcolm who negotiated a substantial grant from the Football Foundation saving the Club a lot of money.
Fun Day was to complement the Dog Show and show off the CPFA and all its facilities. Considering the abject weather forecast we were fortunate to have the sunshine for the crucial times until the monsoon arrived. Thanks to all the helpers on the bar ,pork and burger stand, tea and biscuit tent and those who showed their artistic creations.
Finally I would like to thank my Committee for all their contributions during the year to Ellen for keeping us in credit, to Macolm for keeping the beer flowing and to Carol for coordinating it all.
**Charles Sanderson Chairman**
## **Treasurer’s statement**
Despite economic uncertainty and increased costs of utilities and services, I am proud of what we have achieved as a team this year. I am pleased to report that we have made a modest profit of £690 during a year of increased spending.
Income wise our funding came predominantly from the Football Foundation Grant and the Cuddington Playing Fields Club bar donation. Hire fees remained steady but fundraising was down.
Our largest purchase to date has been the mower. We are thankful to Malcolm for applying for a grant to cover 75% of this cost, and also the fete and Haddenham Beer Festival Trust for providing us with additional funding. Taking into account the cost of the mower and the funding received (see mower funding breakdown) the CPFA used £4444 of its reserves to make up the shortfall. We agreed at the outset that this would be a good investment, not only in terms of an asset but for what it would do for our Playing Field.
At the 2024 AGM I set the goals of increasing fundraising by £1,000, reducing maintenance by £1,000 and reducing utilities by £1,000 in order to make up that years’ deficit.
Whilst we missed the fundraising target, I am pleased to report that the cost of utilities have decreased by approximately £2,000. This due to electronic equipment being turned off when not in use, and also the locking in of competitive 3-year gas and electricity tariffs.
In other good news we managed to reduce maintenance costs by approximately £1,000.
## **The year ahead**
Gas and electricity are fixed for the next 2.5 years, and we should remain diligent regarding its usage.
Water is a concern but this is a national issue due to large hikes by all the major suppliers. Fixing leaks should be part of the maintenance agenda moving forward.
Insurance has increased by approximately £1,400 due to the addition of the mower to the policy. A detailed investigation failed to find cheaper options than our current supplier for reasons I detailed earlier on this year.
Excluding the mower, total expenditure for 24/25 was £9649. Adding the additional insurance costs mean our projected spend for 25/26 is approximately £11,000. Whilst this amount (and more) was donated by the bar team last year*, we should not rely solely on this as a source of income.
I would welcome a discussion regarding hire fees for Jan 2026, and would advise that for any further large spending grants are explored.
***Amendment** – Since writing this statement, I have noticed that donations total £11,500 but this is made up of £8,500 from the bar and £3,000 from the Parish Council. The overall financial results remain the same, the source of income was noted incorrectly due to the transactions having very similar names (Par donation and Bar donation). For charity commission reporting purposes, the official spreadsheet remains unchanged.
|**Cuddington Playing Fields Association**|**Cuddington Playing Fields Association**|**Cuddington Playing Fields Association**|**291980**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period**
**from**|01/05/2024|**To**|30/04/2025|
## **CC16a**
**For the period** 01/05/2024 30/04/2025 **To from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**11,500**
**700**
**1,605**
**1,220**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,025**
**2,250**
**-**
**2,250**
**17,275**
4598
**233**
**1,313**
**241**
**2,955**
**550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,890**
**5,995**
**700**
**6,695**
**16,585**
**690**
**-**
**10,956**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
26087
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,087**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,087**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,087**
**26,087**
**26,087**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**11,500**
**26,787**
**1,605**
**1,220**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,112**
**2,250**
**-**
**2,250**
**43,362**
**4,598**
**233**
**1,313**
**241**
**2,955**
**550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,890**
**5,995**
**26,787**
**32,782**
**42,672**
|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**11,500**
**26,787**
**1,605**
**1,220**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,112**
**2,250**
**-**
**2,250**
**43,362**
**4,598**
**233**
**1,313**
**241**
**2,955**
**550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,890**
**5,995**
**26,787**
**32,782**
**42,672**
|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations|**11,500**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**11,500**||**6,250**|
|Grants|**700**|||**26,787**||**1,000**|
|Hire fees|**1,605**|||**1,605**||**1,658**|
|Fundraisingactivities|**1,220**|||**1,220**||**2,464**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**15,025**|||**41,112**||**11,372**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
|Mower|**2,250**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,250**|||
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**2,250**|||**2,250**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**43,362**||**11,372**|
||||||||
|
Utilities|4598||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**4,598**||**6,648**|
|Licences|**233**|||**233**||**1,046**|
|Insurance|**1,313**|||**1,313**||**201**|
|Equipment|**241**|||**241**||**448**|
|Maintenance|**2,955**|||**2,955**||**4,147**|
|Fundraisingcosts|**550**|||**550**||**1,168**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**9,890**|||**9,890**||**13,658**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
|
Mower|**5,995**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,995**|||
|Mower|**700**|||**26,787**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**6,695**|||**32,782**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||**-**|**42,672**||**13,658**|
||||||||
||**690**|**-**|**-**|||**- 2,286**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**|||
|||**-**||**-**||**12,552**|
||**10,956**|**-**|**-**|||**10,266**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
25/02/2026
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## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Reserves
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Mower
Fixtures and fittings|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**10,957**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**10,957**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||OK|
|||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||||
|||||||**1,800**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||Date of
approval|
||||||||
||||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
25/02/2026
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
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Section B
Disclosure
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