Crowthorne Community Minibus – Chairman’s Charity Report 2022.
This is the first public AGM we have held since the pandemic took over all our lives. As you all know the bus was off the road for some eighteen months, safely parked at Wellington College. However, we were able to resume our programme of trips in August 2021. Bearing in mind we were off the road for so long, we were delighted with the response we received from our
passengers, who were happy to be back and enjoying trips out with their friends.
Every Sunday the bus provides transport for the combined churches of Crowthorne when we collect passengers and take them to different churches around the village. We provide the bus three days a month to both Crowthorne and Sandhurst Stroke Clubs and this year we have provided transport to Pinehurst Care home to enable them to take their residents out on day trips which without a minibus with special accessibility they would just not be able to leave the home. We will again this year be providing transport for the Crowthorne Carnival which is on Saturday 2[nd] July.
The everyday programme for our 180 registered passengers has proved to be as popular as ever with very many trips again being oversubscribed.
Our fundraising has been looked after this year by my Vice Chairman Peter Hattersley and we have had another excellent year with the two major projects during the year. The very popular Jazz Concert held at Wellington College and our 100 club,
I have always described our bus as a social amenity bus which serves the elderly and disabled residents of the village and indeed you must be a local Crowthorne resident to qualify to register as a passenger. The bus is of course fully accessible with a tail lift which enables us to transport wheelchair passengers who need this facility to travel on the bus. As you can imagine all this requires a good deal of resource to keep the bus on the road, as well as
our 16 drivers we have 10 committee members who all have a specific job to do. To enable us to offer this pretty unique service to the village everyone involved in running the charity is a volunteer, we have no paid staff, no offices and apart from keeping the bus on the road no large costs. You will see from the accounts that we have large reserves, which have accumulated during and before lockdown, this is because of two substantial legacies left to us. This created us with a dilemma as both were given on the understanding that the monies would benefit the charity and our passengers. The trustees thought long and hard about this, as we have a relatively new bus with very low mileage which certainly will not need to be replaced for some years. Finally, we made the decision to truly benefit our passengers by giving everyone who books on our bus free transport. This will allow us to justify to the Charity Commission that we are using our reserves wisely.
This brings me nicely onto to offering my personal thanks to all our trustees, drivers and volunteers for the outstanding support they have given over the last few years, the bus offers a lifeline to so many elderly and disabled residents of Crowthorne and has done for so very many years. It has been a delight and a privilege to be the Chairman of such a wonderful organisation.
David Hobbs - Chairman
cROHORNE COMMUNITY MINIBUS ear ended 31st Mar¢h 2022 Accounts for the Statement of Recel ts and Pa ments 2022 Recetpts Payments Net Re[pts Payrrwits Fare5 lThJryhJual Fares Clut6 Totsl Fa5 3.455 920 1.794 41.712 874 41,712 77 1,729 1,634 834 FUThyrarIj 1.634 Eonabor Intere T¢)t81 Other Incryyie 47.407 3,456 mini C BLE serv 0rat0Grant Fuel Serytce. Spares & repairs IrwJrare Hir? of Mini B TLtsI Min1t RunniThJ C¢)sts 757 859 2.439 1,434 1.698 83 168 757 5,571 4.814 942 635 -1.677 -375 69 1.814 165 10 Offio anL5 Other Cods Bank Charges Drwer T8$1, Trainiw, MedKo1 1.677 375 669 -1.814 -165 -10 48.163 12.667 4,397 mÈnts 35,497 Proceed5 from the ¥ale of okj Purchase ofthe new bus 5,497 61,955 1120(YJI Minitw t1 Deye(aaJ 49.5 1120001 49.955 37,955 37.955 49.955 Min value 5.812 25.856 189 .LK1 Cash Acwunt CNF Tr&8wer Cash Account CAF PLDUr Cash Aecwnt CAF 11XJ Club Scotttsh Wido%s Derwt Account Petty Cash I Cash 25.858 282 62.136 2.328 130,596 145.340 ateThJ c4 168.551 Indepeent Etsminets &aterTrent In Cne(On 7th my exarnination. no matter ha5 tfme to my attentio 1 gNes me reasonat4e to believÈ that.ln any rnalenal resFeCt.the wuirernents. -to keep ac<x)untiry records in accordan with the Chattyes Act and "to prepafe accountswhKh accor(S wrth the acrountsng records and CoMY wth the accounting rUiremerts of the Ch¥ribes Ad. have not been met or 2. to wluth. In my opnKin. attent#)n slKwkl be dr in orderto enae a proper uTrJeT*anding of t 8ccwntsto be TeacheLI. S¥Jned Date
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of G(LG LA) On accounts forthe year ended Charity no Ilf any) lo 11 Set out on pago8 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charily (Ihe Trust'l for the year ended 3 i 03 Ro$ponslbllltles and As the charty trustees of the Tru, you responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 ofthe 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under seth'on 145(5){b) of the Ad. I have rnpleted my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention ( ') in connection with the examinati whith gives me cause to beliove that in, any materi81 respect.. accounting re(y)rds were not kept in accordance ¥Mth 8ection 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord wlih the accounting records I have no concems and have come across no other matters in conrse¢tion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper undefstanding of the acccunts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the brad(ets if they do not apply. Dats: Independent examiner'8 Statsment Slgned: 24/10/2 2 Name: Relevant professlonal qualifiGation(s) or body (If any): rcLA 1373233 Address: fZ&tsc) IER October 2018
Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of charity am)unts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detsils of any itsms thattho examiner wishes to disclo. IER October 2018
cROHORNE COMMUNITY MINIBUS ear ended 31st Mar¢h 2022 Accounts for the Statement of Recel ts and Pa ments 2022 Recetpts Payments Net Re[pts Payrrwits Fare5 lThJryhJual Fares Clut6 Totsl Fa5 3.455 920 1.794 41.712 874 41,712 77 1,729 1,634 834 FUThyrarIj 1.634 Eonabor Intere T¢)t81 Other Incryyie 47.407 3,456 mini C BLE serv 0rat0Grant Fuel Serytce. Spares & repairs IrwJrare Hir? of Mini B TLtsI Min1t RunniThJ C¢)sts 757 859 2.439 1,434 1.698 83 168 757 5,571 4.814 942 635 -1.677 -375 69 1.814 165 10 Offio anL5 Other Cods Bank Charges Drwer T8$1, Trainiw, MedKo1 1.677 375 669 -1.814 -165 -10 48.163 12.667 4,397 mÈnts 35,497 Proceed5 from the ¥ale of okj Purchase ofthe new bus 5,497 61,955 1120(YJI Minitw t1 Deye(aaJ 49.5 1120001 49.955 37,955 37.955 49.955 Min value 5.812 25.856 189 .LK1 Cash Acwunt CNF Tr&8wer Cash Account CAF PLDUr Cash Aecwnt CAF 11XJ Club Scotttsh Wido%s Derwt Account Petty Cash I Cash 25.858 282 62.136 2.328 130,596 145.340 ateThJ c4 168.551 Indepeent Etsminets &aterTrent In Cne(On 7th my exarnination. no matter ha5 tfme to my attentio 1 gNes me reasonat4e to believÈ that.ln any rnalenal resFeCt.the wuirernents. -to keep ac<x)untiry records in accordan with the Chattyes Act and "to prepafe accountswhKh accor(S wrth the acrountsng records and CoMY wth the accounting rUiremerts of the Ch¥ribes Ad. have not been met or 2. to wluth. In my opnKin. attent#)n slKwkl be dr in orderto enae a proper uTrJeT*anding of t 8ccwntsto be TeacheLI. S¥Jned Date
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of G(LG LA) On accounts forthe year ended Charity no Ilf any) lo 11 Set out on pago8 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charily (Ihe Trust'l for the year ended 3 i 03 Ro$ponslbllltles and As the charty trustees of the Tru, you responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 ofthe 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under seth'on 145(5){b) of the Ad. I have rnpleted my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention ( ') in connection with the examinati whith gives me cause to beliove that in, any materi81 respect.. accounting re(y)rds were not kept in accordance ¥Mth 8ection 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord wlih the accounting records I have no concems and have come across no other matters in conrse¢tion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper undefstanding of the acccunts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the brad(ets if they do not apply. Dats: Independent examiner'8 Statsment Slgned: 24/10/2 2 Name: Relevant professlonal qualifiGation(s) or body (If any): rcLA 1373233 Address: fZ&tsc) IER October 2018
Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of charity am)unts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detsils of any itsms thattho examiner wishes to disclo. IER October 2018