ST PANCRAS BOYS CLUB CHARITY INFORMATION
TRUSTEES:
S HOIER C MANN G SPRINGER
MEMBERS:
J Barr D Geey Honorary Legal Officer S Hoier C Mann G Mann-Smith Honorary Public Relations Officer S Rosenkranz Honorary Treasurer R Smith A Springer G Springer Chairman
Honorary Secretary : S Hoier
Charity Number: 294538
Headquarters: St Pancras Boxing Club 25/27 Talacre Rd London NW5 3PH
Indpendent Examiners: Fisher Phillips LLP Summit House 170 Finchley Rd London NW3 6BP
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ST PANCRAS BOYS' CLUB
TRUSTEES REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2022
The Trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2022
Objectives and activities
The Club's objectives are to help and educate young people through their leisure time activities so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society, and that their quality of life may be improved.
The Club achieves its objectives through physical training with a focus on boxing as exercise and for competition and the Club is affiliated to England Boxing, the sport's governing body. Through the Club's membership of the London Federation of Youth and Essex Clubs for Young people we are able to offer wider selections of youth activities promoted by these organisations such as outward bound activities, sailing and other sports activities both for individuals and teams. Eg Kids football sessions
The Club also recognises its need for close links with its local community including with local schools and continues to foster them further
After the prolonged national lockdowns during the Covid pandemic in this reporting period the Club Committee took the view it would not fully reopen again until September 2021 With outdoor exercise permitted in external settings in small numbers from May 2021 , however, the Club training team undertook a number of these in local parks and open spaces . This meant that members would be in a better position for when formal training in the gym would reopen.
The Gala fundraising dinner boxing shows which would have normally taken place in March 2020 and March 2021 were cancelled during the Pandemic lockdowns but the Club focused on an ambitious programme for the season September 20212022 and indeed slowly a return to more normal activities began with the gym and club centre reopening to classes and sessions
On 31 March 2022 the Club was once again able to reinstate its Annual Gala Fundraiser Dinner Boxing Show with a new venue at the Nobu Hotel Portman Square . This proved highly successful both financially and in terms of Club member participation in the event .
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The net amount raised proved the highest yet and made a huge contribution to the Club’s running costs. Taken with sponsorships and returning subscription income the Club had restored its financial stability pre-Pandemic. Unfortunately with the end of special Government reliefs on overhead expenses for those organisations impacted with closure in the national lockdowns the running costs of the Club gym and centre also reached a new high . The Club Committee looked to balance income and expenditure .
In terms of member outcomes on the Nobu Hotel show of 31/3/22 four out of five St Pancras boxers taking part were successful in winning their bouts. The new venue having proved a good one a further Annual Gala Boxing Dinner Show was made a priority fixture in the season 2022-23 season with 26 January 2023 as the selected date.
In terms of boxer member partipation in key events the Club again enthusiastically took part in the prestigious Haringey Box Cup at Alexandra Palace in June 2022. It is a tough competition but Christian Thomas reached the Semi final stage of the Male Elite 71 kilo Group A with Club stalwart Sheriffdeen Lawal reaching the Quarter Finals of the Male Elite 71 kilo Group B and Jermaine Dhliwayo the same stage of the 60kilos Group B competition .
Jermaine has continued to show impressive form coming into the
new season a London 60 kilo Champion.
The Club is run wholly by volunteers as officers, committee members, youth leaders, trainers and coaches.
In planning our activities for the year we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings.
Management and governance arrangements
The Club, an unincorporated charity, has been governed by the Constitution and Rules adopted in March 1986 incorporating revisions of 6/5/1992, 10/6/1997 and 6/ 6/2000. This provides for a management committee of between six and twelve people who have the duty to appoint the trustees and the Club's officers. The Constitution and Rules provide for between two and five trustees to be appointed by the management committee. There were three trustees in post in the financial year ended 30 June 2022
Twelve years ago, the Club trustees and committee agreed to the formation of a company limited by guarantee, St Pancras Boys' Club Ltd,
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which would be the trading subsidiary of the charity. It was first used to undertake the substantive development of the Club gym and premises. It is now more than ten years from the completion of construction and the relationship of the Club and company has assumed a settled basis. Details of the continuing financial impact thereof are contained in the Financial Review section below.
As the Club is affiliated to England Boxing, the London Federation of Youth and Essex Clubs for Young People it models its training, equality, governance , safety, child protection and other policies on the best practices recommended by these organisations.
Achievements and Performance
Members in normal times continue to enjoy full use of the gym since its transfer to the charity This reporting period only saw the slow return to normality in the final 8 months from September 2021
The Club is immensely grateful to sponsors who have regularly contributed funding to the upkeep of the Club gym . This was especially important in the period when it closed from March 23[rd] 2020 effectively from then until September 2021 in line with the Covid national regulations. Many organisations saw closure because of the Lockdowns and the inability to raise income to remain a going concern. The sponsors and supporters of St Pancras Boys Club have ensured its continuance in good shape.
The accounts for the year ended June 30 2022 continue to reflect only a slow recovery from the exceptional lockdown periods . With activities by members only allowed for two thirds of this period expenses continued relating to them and the full use of the gym amounts to a lower amount than the usual annual budget totals We are grateful too to the volunteers who in the brief open time in the autumn of 2020 undertook the immensely important monthly deep clean of the gym centre.
Before the March 2020 lockdown the Club continued to upskill and extend qualifications of its training and coaching team by sending several of them on official England Boxing qualification courses. As they have had to wait some time for the next possible England level 1 Coaching courses it is appropriate to conclude by congratulating Jay Foster on achieving his level 2 Coaching Course
Details of the Club training times for the separate Youth, Kids , Fitness and Boxing Team for both girls and boys, men and women can be found on the Club website and the Club contact phone number is 07946-821235
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Stephen Hoier- on behalf of St Pancras Boys Club trustees.
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