## **– Buxhall Village Hall Management Committee Treasurers Summary Report for 2024.** 

**1.** Great fundraising year with a total of £3922 raised through our tearoom, fun quizes and donation from Elmswell bingo. All being earmarked for the refurbishment of the village hall. 

**2.** Hall bookings went up by £1121 from last year. 

3. Little Ernie receipts increased by £330. 

4. The surplus for 2024 is skewed due to the receipt of the MSDC grant of £11,030.26 for the kitchen being received in January 2024 when we had already paid out most of the expenses for the kitchen. 

5. Thanks to Hilary for her grant writing skills she secured the above grant for the village hall as well as living well in winter £1638.79 and the MSDC grant for the feasibility study of £4836.  You can see how the monies have been spent using the notes to the accounts. 

6. The biggest expense was in obtaining the feasibility study.  The initial costs have been covered by the grant.  Ben Nicol is now keeping a close eye on any work we would like to complete and the costs that may be incurred. 

7. The other big expense has been buying equipment for the tearoom – again mostly covered by the Keep Warm in Winter grant. 

8. The grants have kept us in a very good position financially. 

9. We transferred the bulk of our money to Barclays savings account, pending opening a savings account with Wise Bank an online bank. 



|Receipts and Payments 2024|Notes|||2024||2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Receipts|||£|||£|
|Hall Hire Fees||1||2854.95||1746|
|Electricity meter receipts||||600||318|
|Amazon Credits||||||46|
|Grants||2||17505.05|||
|Mid Sufolk Recycling credits||||40.74||42|
|Quiz Night Donations||||829||802|
|Events||3||867.24|||
|Table Tennis||||||50|
|Donations||4||854||508|
|Tea Rooms||||2948.75||1736|
|BPC roof donation||||||13897|
|Little Ernie Draw Receipts||||1870||1540|
|Bank Interest||||28.48|||
||||||£28,398.21||
|Payments|||||||
|Water Rates||||276||172|
|Electricity||5||946.01||515|
|Cleaning||||312.98||175|
|LA License||||70||567|
|Fire Safety||6||1189.32||186|
|First Aid||||||151|
|Insurance||||739.77||619|
|Kitchen Refurbishment||||||15255|
|Repairs & Maintenance||||1662.98||14138|
|Tea Room Expenses||||737.32||234|
|Stationery and sundries||||194.11||89|
|New equipment||7||3253.51||2395|
|Little Ernie Draw Prizes||||760||965|
|Services||8||3806|||
|Stephanie Carr Evening||3||468.71|||
|Excess of (Payments)/Receipts for the year|||||14416.71||
|Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2024||||2024||2023|
|Assets|||||||
|Village Hall Barclays Community Account||||4014.85||23619|
|Little Ernie Barclays Bank Account||||1600||1104|
|Village Hall Barclays savings account||||33028.48|||
|Tea Room Cash Float||||132.20||61|
|Income not yet banked||9||174.97||185|
|||||38950.50||24969|
|Representing|||||||
|Accumulated Fund|||||||
|Balance at 1st January 2023/ 24||||24,969.00||39,745.00|
|Add defcit surplus for the year||||13,981.50||-14,776.00|
|Balance at 31 December 24||||38,950.50||24,969.00|





20685
35461
.£14,776

Independent Examiner's R8POrt to the Trustees of Buxhall Village Hall
I report to the trustees on my examination of the Charity's accounts, prepared on the
Receipts and Payments basis. for the year ended 31" December 2024.
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 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.
Mrj Biles
MulLetts Farm
Brettenham Road
Buxhall
Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP143DX
3 July 2025