## **Trustees** ’ **Annual Report for the year ended 30th September 2025**
## **Ickleton Village Centre, known as Ickleton Village Hall**
## **Charity registraDon number 300400**
## **Trustees:**
Mrs P Hamilton Mrs G Hammond Mr J Holt Mrs E Molloy Mr H Molloy – Chair
Ms L O’Sullivan Mrs L Stokley Mrs C Ward – Hon. Treasurer Mr Paul Andrews (reCred 18 November 2024)
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The Charity is governed by a Trust Deed dated 1963 as amended by a Supplemental Deed in 2018 and is consCtuted as a Trust.
Trustees are appointed in accordance with the Trust Deed as amended by the Supplemental Deed, being 5 elected members, 4 representaCves of village organisaCons (the church, the football club, the Parish Council and the cricket club) and up to 3 others co-opted by the commiWee.
The Charity is managed by the Trustees as a management commiWee.
## **ObjecDves and acDviDes**
The objecCve of the Charity is to provide a building and faciliCes for the benefit of the inhabitants of Ickleton and the neighbourhood regardless of age, disability, sex, poliCcal, religious or other opinions for use for meeCngs, classes, other forms of recreaCon and leisure Cme occupaCons with the object of improving the condiCons of life for said inhabitants.
The main acCviCes of the Charity are the running of a centre for the community at a reasonable cost for the use of the public to enable them to benefit from the acCviCes as detailed above.
The Trustees have paid regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
## **Main achievements**
During the year improvements to renovate and update the Hall faciliCes conCnued, which included the installaCon of a new boiler, the replacement of the external clock on the roof of the Hall and the purchase of a new larger and more efficient cooker for the kitchen. The Village Hall was again supported by the Ickleton Open Gardens, who very generously donated 50% of their proceeds to support these improvements.
## **Financial review**
The accounts for the year ended 30[th] September 2025 show a surplus of £4,730 (2024: £2,275,) which relates primarily to the slight increase in lebngs income, together with the surplus on the Open Garden income, whilst operaCng costs remained in line with previous years.
Our reserves remain strong and we conCnue with the policy of endeavouring to maintain them at a level such as to ensure the long term future of the building and its faciliCes. Reserves reflect the need to provide a buffer against rising maintenance and running costs, unexpected significant loss of income and planned necessary upgrades. Throughout the life of the building reserves have been maintained in this way and invested as appropriate.
Signed on behalf of the Charity’s Trustees
Hugh Molloy Catherine Ward Chair Treasurer
Date: 10 November 2025
## **ICKLETON VILLAGE HALL (Charity No. 300400)**
## **ACCOUNTS OF THE CHARITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30 SEPTEMBER 2025**
|**Income**
Lettings Income (banked)
Income from Open Gardens
Water recharge
CAF bank interest
**Total Income**
**Expenditure**
Cleaning
Power
General Repairs & Maintenance
Refurbishments
Capital purchases
Water
Insurance
Rubbish collection
Licence renewal
ICO
Bank charges
Sundries
Booking Secretary fees
Caretaker fees
Memberships (ACRE)
PRS Licence
Broadband
Open Gardens
**Total Expenditure**
**Operating Surplus/Deficit**
**Current Account Reconciliation**
Cash at Bank b/f 1/10/24
Transfer to Charifund Investment
Transfer from Charifund Investment
Operating Surplus/Deficit
**Current Account balance as at 30/09/25**
**Total Reserves**
Charifund Investment
Free cash Reserves
Ringfenced Reserves - Playground
**Total Reserves as at 30/09/25**|**2025**
**2024**
24,280.23
23,547.00
12,523.01
0.00
98.76
0.00
47.16
41.32|
|---|---|
||**36,949.16**
**23,588.32**|
||3,683.92
2,330.17
3,894.54
3,640.51
2,814.44
5,002.81
3,228.84
3,818.52
8,491.40
613.00
870.65
328.03
2,102.56
2,052.01
501.50
449.82
180.00
180.00
47.00
35.00
60.00
60.00
303.99
360.00
0.00
700.00
1,000.00
1,100.00
72.00
65.00
282.56
255.83
586.46
322.70
4,099.03
0.00|
||**32,218.89**
**21,313.40**|
||**4,730.27**
**2,274.92**
21,457.55
19,182.63
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
4,730.27
2,274.92|
||**26,187.82**
**21,457.55**|
||128,372.77
113,003.12
23,483.33
21,457.55
2,704.49
0.00|
||**154,560.59**
**134,460.67**|
## **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**|Charity Name
**ICKLETON VILLAGE HALL**|Charity Name
**ICKLETON VILLAGE HALL**|Charity Name
**ICKLETON VILLAGE HALL**|
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||30 September 2025|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|**300400**|
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||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended30 / 09 / 2025.|||
**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**
- **examiner's statement**[I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have ] come to my attention in connection with the examination 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.
**Signed: Date: Name:** Jenny Lanzrein **Relevant professional** Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 40 Frogge Street, Ickleton Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SH
**Oct 2018**
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**IER**