## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From  01/04/2023          Period start date   To     31/03/2024         Period end date** 

**Charity name:** CRAWLEY UNIT 487 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS 

## **Charity registration number:305359** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|Sea Cadets units were created by communities<br>wanting to give young people instruction on a<br>naval theme. The unit is a member of the Sea<br>Cadet Corps governed by the MSSC —the<br>Marine Society & Sea Cadets. We aim to inspire<br>young people to reach their potential by<br>developing valuable, personal attributes like<br>team working, independence and<br>communication skills through nautical based<br>adventure.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|The Sea Cadets are a uniformed youth<br>organisation, providing structured training,<br>activities and personal development to young<br>adults from 9 to 18 years of age.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees had due regard to the<br>commission's public benefit guidance when<br>exercising any powers or duties to which the<br>guidance is relevant.|





## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|Crawley Sea Cadets has provide training and<br>development in a structured environment,<br>which is provided via parade nights at the<br>Crawley Unit along with other activities and<br>training such as boating, field craft and sports.<br>Within the current year we have managed to<br>get many cadets boating using both Tilgate<br>Lake and Sea Cadets at Shoreham Harbour.<br>This includes rowing, sailing and powerboating.<br>As well as the boating throughout the Summer<br>Crawley Sea Cadets has taken responsibility for<br>a Adventure Training Centre which has been<br>utilised for walking, mountain biking and by<br>the Royal Marine Cadets and Junior Sea<br>Cadets.<br>As well as the cadets gaining new skills and<br>qualifications staff have also managed to<br>develop themselves by attending courses<br>which has in turn benefitted the cadet<br>experience at Crawley.<br>We have also seen the closure of Horsham Sea<br>Cadets and they in turn merged their staff and<br>cadets with Crawley which increased our cadet<br>numbers and staff.<br>Crawley Sea Cadets has improved and grown<br>over this financial period which will continue to<br>do so over the coming years.|



## **Financial Review** 

|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|At the end of the financial period 31 Mar 2024,<br>the Charity held cash £70,447. This is sufficient<br>for the running costs of the Unit.<br>The surplus at the end of the period was<br>£27,763.<br>There is £15K that have been set aside for back<br>rent and other maintenance costs required to<br>maintain the hall for the prescribed<br>maintenance work to ensure that it is up to the<br>relevant health and safety standards.|
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|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|There is not currently a reserves policy|
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|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|There is £70,447 of reserves of which £15,000<br>have been set aside for back rent and other<br>maintenance work that is required on the<br>centre.|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|The charity was profitable and has sufficient<br>cash to meet upcoming liabilities and therefore<br>there is no uncertainty about the charity<br>continuing as a going concern. The accounts<br>have had an independent audit and no going<br>concern issues were flagged.|





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Crawley Sea Cadets forms part of a wider<br>Charitable Organisation, which is known as the<br>MSCC which holds a Royal Charter with Her<br>Majestybeingthepatron|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees must be nominated by two other<br>trustees and voted in at the Annual General<br>Meeting.|



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charityname|CRAWLEY UNIT 487 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS|
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|Other name the charity uses|N/a|
|Registered charity number|305359|
|Charity’s principal address|Sea Cadet Corps (Crawley)<br>Longmere Rd<br>Crawley<br>RH10 8ND|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

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||Paul Chapman|Capt(SCC)||Sea Cadets|
||Ben Davies|Chairman||Elected at AGM|
||Natasha Heather|Vice-Chair||Elected at AGM|
||LucyPoleykett|Treasurer||Elected at AGM|
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## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** Ben Davies ~~=~~ **Full name(s)** Ben Davies **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 17/01/2025 



|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~|**Crawley Unit 487 of the Sea Cadets**<br>**305359**<br>**Receipts andpayments accounts**<br>4/1/2023<br>**To**<br>3/31/2024<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~es ee~~||**CC16a**<br>~~-~~|
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|||**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
|||**to the nearest**<br>**£**|||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||
|Donations||**4**|**4,096**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**4,096**||**4,293**|
|Grants||**-**|**-**||**5,000**|||**-**||**5,000**||**-**|
|Subscriptions||**10**|**10,625**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**10,625**||**8,060**|
|Bar Income||**3**|**3,678**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**3,678**||**2,379**|
|Other Income||**39**|**39,125**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**39,125**||**24,008**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|_(Gross income for AR)_|**57,524**<br>_(Gross income for AR)_|**57,524**||**5,000**|||**-**||**62,524**||**38,740**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||
|**(see table).**|||||||||||||
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_ **||**57**|**57,524**||**5,000**|||**-**||**62,524**||**38,740**|
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||
|Cadet costs||**5,911**|**5,911**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**5,911**||**7,034**|
|Bar costs||**2,291**|**2,291**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**2,291**||**3,456**|
|Overheads||**19,839**|**19,839**||**6,720**|||**-**||**26,559**||**17,531**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **||**28,041**|**28,041**||**6,720**|||**-**||**34,761**||**28,021**|
|**_Sub total_ **<br>**_Total payments_ **<br>**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **28,041**<br>**6,720**<br>**-**<br>**34,761**<br>**28,021**<br>~~——=———~~||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**29**|**29,483**||**-                 1,720**|||**-**||**27,763**||**10,719**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-                 1,720**|**-                 1,720**||**1,720**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**42**|**42,684**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**42,684**||**31,965**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**70,447**|**70,447**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**70,447**||**42,684**|



## **CC16a** ~~-~~ 



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|**Details**<br>Cash at bank<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Back rent<br>Signature<br>#VALUE!<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**70,447**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**70,447**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**15,000**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Ben Davies<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**to nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

**Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

|**Report to the trustees/**<br>**members of**|Charity Name<br>CRAWLEY UNIT 487 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS|CRAWLEY UNIT 487 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS|CRAWLEY UNIT 487 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS||
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|**On accounts for the year**|31/03/2024|31/03/2024|**Charity no**|305359|
|**ended**|||**(if any)**||
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|**Set out on pages**|Above||||
|||(remember  to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||(remember  to include the page numbers of additional sheets)|
||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above||||
||charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31.03.2024.||||
|**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|accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011|||
||(“the Act”).|(“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** I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have 

- **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) 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. 

* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ 

**Date:** 14/01/2025 

**Signed: Name:** Louise Meadows FCA **Relevant professional** Chartered Accountant, ICAEW **qualification(s) or body (if any):** 

**Oct 2018** 

1 

**IER** 



**Address:** 14 London Road, Buntingford, Herts, SG9 9JN 

## **Section B                           Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 

**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

**Oct 2018** 

2 

**IER** 

