## **Report for the Stalham & Brumstead Recreation Ground Charity 2024/25** 

The Recreation Ground was donated post WW1 to commemorate the residents of the area who lost their lives in that war and Stalham Town Council is it’s sole Trustee.  The area continues to offer leisure activities for the people of Stalham and surrounding areas. It is a large open green space that contains a football pitch, a fitness trail, an aging skate park, a few pieces of play equipment and 2 buildings.   The Poppy Centre was built some 15 years ago and an unused building formally the Youth Club. 

The football pitch is used primarily by Stalham Football club and the Baptist Church Football Club but can be available to other clubs in the area. 

The remainder of the area can be used by everyone from dawn until dusk each day of the year. 

The Unused building needs a considerable amount of work to bring it up to regulatory compliance. 

The Poppy Centre is a multiroom building that is available for hire by community and uniformed groups, public services as well as local residents and organisations for exhibitions and private functions. 

The charities’ finances remain a challenge and rely on donations from Stalham Town Council on an annual basis.  Another form of income includes payments from Ofgem’s NonDomestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme, a Government lead scheme to encourage the use of renewable heating systems.  The Charity receives income from the hire of a number of rooms within the building which include the Main Hall that is used by a number of regular groups that includes the local Scouts, the local Youth Club, SWAN, (a support group for local women) and the local Bowls Club where their winter short mat bowls meetings take place. There are a number of organisations that use the hall for annual events and they include the local horticultural society and a local model railway club.  There are also a number of ad hoc hirings and they are mostly for celebratory parties but also we have a local running club who use the hall for a halfway resting point during one of their ultra marathons.  The smaller rooms are used by many organisations for meetings etc but it is also used by the local Child Services for supervised family meetings and the NHS Diabetic Eye Clinic for the regular checkups needed by their patients. 




## **Report for the Stalham & Brumstead Recreation Ground Charity 2024/25** 

The charity also have an agreement with Stalham Football Club to assist in the maintenance of the football pitch which helps considerably with costs albeit on a reduced level of hire income from them. 

Plans to encourage further use of the rooms available for hire within the Poppy Centre and to seek funding to allow the unused building to be brought up to rental standard.  If this is successful the local Community Gym could occupy the building on a leased agreement giving income for the charity and relieving it of the expenditure for regulatory annual checks.  This would also allow two further rooms within the Poppy Centre to be available for hire thereby increasing the overall income. 



**Stalham & Brumstead Rec Ground Charity Current Year** 

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## **Working details for ANNUAL RETURN - Year ended 31 March 2025** 

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|---|---|---|---|---|
||Last Year £|This Year £<br>Code|Centre|Code Description|
||||||
|**1**|11,954|2,612<br>310||General Reserves|
|**1**<br>Balances brought<br>|**11,954**|**2,612**<br>Total balances and reserves at the beginning of the year as recorded<br>|||
|forward||in the financial records. Value must agree to Box 7 of the previous<br>year.|||
||||||
|**3**|0|4,128<br>115<br>VAT on Receipts<br>999|||
|**3**|9,427|12,023<br>1000<br>Hall Hire Income<br>100|||
|**3**|4,150|5,048<br>1001<br>Community Gym Rent<br>100|||
|**3**|40|1,926<br>1002<br>Misc Income<br>100|||
|**3**|4,295|20<br>1002<br>Misc Income<br>200|||
|**3**|0|2,347<br>1002<br>Misc Income<br>300|||
|**3**|0|500<br>1003<br>StorageHire<br>100|||
|**3**|5,078|0<br>1010<br>Grants<br>300|||
|**3**|6,380|0<br>1010<br>Grants<br>310|||
|**3**|10,074|0<br>1010<br>Grants<br>320|||
|**3**|0|66<br>1016<br>Birthday Parties<br>100|||
|**3**|405|0<br>1020<br>Fundraising Income<br>100|||
|**3**|32|0<br>1021<br>Credit Notes<br>100|||
|**3**|0|1,130<br>1030<br>Donations<br>100|||
|**3**|7,417|6,019<br>1110<br>RHI Refunds<br>100|||
|**3**|0|20,000<br>1500<br>Stalham TownCouncil<br>100|||
|**3**|0|15<br>1501<br>Recreation Ground Hire<br>300|||
|**3**|262|0<br>1550<br>Event Income<br>100|||
|**3**|0|205<br>1550<br>Event Income<br>610|||
|**3**|140|1,438<br>1600<br>Football Income<br>300|||
|**3**<br>(+) Total other<br>it|**47,701**|**54,864**<br>Total income or receipts as recorded in the cashbook less the<br>t  t/li id li 2 Ild  t id|||
|receps||precep or raeseves receve (ne ). ncue any grans receve.|||
||||||
|**5**<br>(-) Loan<br>itt/itl|**0**|**0**<br>Total expenditure or payments of capital and interest made during<br>’|||
|nerescapa<br>repayments||the year on the authoritys borrowings (if any).|||
||||||
|**6**|3,600|1,373<br>515<br>VAT on Payments<br>999|||
|**6**|0|35<br>4035<br>Bank Charges<br>200|||
|**6**|2,674|2,871<br>4055<br>Insurance<br>200|||
|**6**|0|668<br>4055<br>Insurance<br>400|||
|**6**|40|0<br>4060<br>Stationary<br>200|||
|**6**|466|0<br>4065<br>Office Equipment<br>200|||
|**6**|1,002|1,079<br>4070<br>Telephone & Internet<br>200|||
|**6**|1,090|2,518<br>4071<br>Professional Fees<br>100|||
|**6**|99|540<br>4071<br>Professional Fees<br>200|||
|**6**|0|120<br>4071<br>Professional Fees<br>310|||
|**6**|205|168<br>4071<br>Professional Fees<br>320|||
|**6**|0|629<br>4071<br>Professional Fees<br>400|||
|**6**|220|729<br>4075<br>IT<br>200|||
|**6**|1,393|1,422<br>4200<br>Rates<br>100|||
|**6**|16|22<br>4220<br>Hall Hire Refunds<br>100|||
|**6**|159|170<br>4225<br>Licenses<br>100|||
|**6**|385|211<br>4230<br>Water<br>100|||
|**6**|0|136<br>4231<br>Security<br>100|||
|**6**|1,893|1,987<br>4231<br>Security<br>300|||
|**6**|300|0<br>4231<br>Security<br>310|||
|**6**|8,607|10,317<br>4235<br>Electric<br>100|||
|**6**|23|0<br>4235<br>Electric<br>200|||
|**6**|113|0<br>4235<br>Electric<br>300|||
|**6**|0|474<br>4236<br>Legionella<br>100|||
|**6**|80|77<br>4240<br>Equipment<br>100|||
|**6**|5,169|0<br>4240<br>Equipment<br>300|||
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## **Working details for ANNUAL RETURN - Year ended 31 March 2025** 

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|---|---|---|---|---|
||Last Year £|This Year £<br>Code|Centre|Code Description|
|**6**|5,320|0<br>4240|310|Equipment|
|**6**|1,657|0<br>4240|320|Equipment|
|**6**|511|533<br>4245|100|CleaningEquipment|
|**6**|0|157<br>4250|300|Planting|
|**6**|3,460|5,327<br>4255|100|Cleaners|
|**6**|106|1,119<br>4260|100|Fire Maintenance|
|**6**|3,012|1,603<br>4270|100|Air Con|
|**6**|2,536|1,381<br>4275|100|Doors & Shutters|
|**6**|312|1,207<br>4280|100|Lift|
|**6**|0|16<br>4285|100|Plumbing|
|**6**|0|841<br>4290|100|Electrics|
|**6**|727|1,219<br>4410|100|Bin collections|
|**6**|414|0<br>4410|300|Bin collections|
|**6**|1,364|987<br>4411|100|Sani Bins|
|**6**|2,842|3,169<br>4415|300|Grass Cutting|
|**6**|42|150<br>4420|300|Trees|
|**6**|0|67<br>4421|100|Signage|
|**6**|129|0<br>4421|300|Signage|
|**6**|253|0<br>4421|310|Signage|
|**6**|185|685<br>4500|100|General Maintenance|
|**6**|260|115<br>4500|300|General Maintenance|
|**6**|5,815|1,940<br>4500|310|General Maintenance|
|**6**|444|2,785<br>4500|320|General Maintenance|
|**6**|120|0<br>4505|310|Inspections|
|**6**<br>(-) All other<br>t|**57,043**|**48,846**<br>Total expenditure or payments as recorded in the cashbook less<br>|||
|paymens||staff costs (line 4) and loan interest/capital repayments (line 5).|||
|**7**<br>(=) Balances<br>carried forward|**2,612**|**8,630**<br>Total balances and reserves at the end of the year. [Must equal<br>(1+2+3)-(4+5+6)]|||
||||||
|**8**|2,612|0<br>200<br>S&B Charity Natwest Account|||
|**8**|0|8,630<br>201<br>Unity|||
|**8**<br>Total value of<br>h d ht|**2,612**|**8,630**<br>The sum of all current and deposit bank accounts, cash holdings<br>d ht t itt hld  t 31 Mh  T  ith|||
|cas an sor<br>term investments||an sor erm nvesmens e as a  arc – o agree w<br>bank reconciliation.|||
||||||
|**9**|95,444|95,444<br>Total Fixed Assets|||
|**9**<br>Total fixed assets<br>l l t|**95,444**|**95,444**<br>The value of all the property the authority owns – it is made up of all<br>|||
|pus ong erm<br>investments and<br>assets||its fixed assets and long term investments as at 31 March.|||
||||||
|**10**<br>Total borrowings|**0**|**0**<br>The outstanding capital balance as at 31 March of all loans from third<br>|||
|||parties (including PWLB).|||
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Accountancy for everyone
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Annual Return for the financial year
ended 31 March 2025
The annual return on pages 2 to 3 is made up of two sections..
Section 1 is the Statement of Receipts and Payments Accounts completed by Stalham and
Brumstead Recrealion Ground Charity.
Section 2 is completed by Aston Shaw Limited as the reviewer appointed by the Board of
Trustees.
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Section 1- Accounting statements 31 St March 2025 for:
ROUND
Charity Name..
Year ending
. 31 MaTch
31 March
Notes and guidance
Plogse round all figures lo nearesl£1. Do not ￿ave ony t¢Jxes
- ts"lan% and repoit£O or'N4Tralan¢è$.Ai"figuins musl #gree to
underfytng financlal records.
1 Balances
brought forward
Total balances and reserve5 al the beginning of the year as
recorded In the fin8ndal records. Value must agree to Box 7 of
previous year.
Total amount of ltscal lax andlor levy r8caived or r8eèivabl8 in the
year induding funding from a sponsor5ng authority.
Excludlng any grants ￿e1ve{j.
11,954
2,612
2 1+1 Inwnw from
local tsxation
andlor
3 1+1 Totsl otr)er
receipts
4 1-1 Staff costs
47,701
54,864
Total Income or rec￿pts as recorded In Ihe cashbook less Ihe
taxavon andlor levy Olne 21. Include any gr8nt5 received hern.
Total expgnditure Lypayments rnade to and on b•half of all
èmployees. Include $8laries and wages, PAYE and Nl
(employees and ern￿oyerS). penyon cnnthbuts.ons at
emplo￿Trent expense5.
Total expenditure or payments of cA&￿tal and interest m&Je during
the ye8r on the authority'8 borro¥￿ng8 lrf4ny).
5 I-l Losn
int¢re5V¢2pilAI
repaYn￿ts
(_} All other
payments
1=1 Balanc85
camed foward
57.043
48,846
Total expenditure or paymènts as ￿cOrd￿j in Ihe cashb)ok
staff ry)sts (line 41 and loan interestlcapital repayrnents Iline 51.
Tot81 balances and reserves at the end ofthe yew.
Mustequ8111+2*31-14+5+61
2,612
8,630
8 Total cash
short temi
The gum of all cutrgnt and deposit bank accounts. cash hokling$
and short tèmi Investrnents held as at 31 March- to agr•• wÉth
bank ro¢on¢ill*llon.
2,612
8.630
InveStm￿ts
9 Totalffixed 85sets
plus other kng
temi investments
and assets
The value of all the pmpety the authC￿ty ow7
- it is m8d8 up of all its fixed 8S981s and kng
kjng ierm invesiments as al 31 Marth.
95,444
95,144
10 Tolal borrowngs
The (xjtstandlng t8Pital balanc8 as 8t 31 March of all loans from
third partie5 linduding PWLBI.
I certify that the accounts contained in this retum
pres
I fairly the financial position of the charlty,
are
islenl wf(h the undet1y¢ng financial records
8ndh
e9n prepar0 on the b88is of R￿alp1S
andP
I confirm that these accounts are opprovgd by the
Board".
and recorded as rninute referencfr..
S(qned
POn5ible FinanGial Offic8r.'
Slgned by Chair of meeung approvlng these
accoundng stst
menls..
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Section 2 - Independent Examinerfs report 31 March 2025
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 Ot.
. STALHAM AND BRUMSTEAD RECREATION GROUND
. CHARITY.NUMBER: 304072
Charity Name..
Respective responsibilities of the Trustees
As the charity Iruslees, you are responsible for the preparation of Ihe accounts in accordance with the
requirements of the Charities Act 2011 lllhe Acr}.
The trustees are responsible for keeping sufficient accounting records that disclose with reasonable
accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial
statements comply wth the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008
and the provisions of the Chari￿$ Constitution. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of
the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other
irregularities.
Independent examiner's statement
I report in respect of my examination of the Charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011
Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity
Commission under section 145{51(b) of Ihe Act.
Report
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in
connection with the examination which gives me ¢ause to believe that in, any material respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance Trmth section 130 of th& Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to
which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be
reached.
Reviewer signature
Reviewer
Lynn Mandari ACCA
Date
Iq ioalo0Q6
Relevant professional
qual¢fication(s) or body
Irf any)-
The Association of Chartered Cerbfied
Accountants (ACCA)
Address..
Aston Shaw Limited
The Union Building,
51-59 Rose Lane
Norwich
NR11BY
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