## **KINGSLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION** 

## **Year ended 31 December 2022** 

## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT** 

The Trustees present their annual report and accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2022. 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

It has been another busy time for the Association and the Community Centre. On a practical level, the inside of the Centre has been painted and refreshed. Earlier in the year we had a morning when we worked together with Kingsley Players to clear out and rearrange store rooms so that they can be better used. We are hoping to refurbish the kitchen and toilets but this is dependent upon the availability of grants. 

Regular weekly exercise sessions are provided at the Centre, to suit all ages and levels of activity: Tai Chi, Pilates, Yoga, Karate, and Gentle Yoga and Gentle Exercise.  Aluto Fitness and Wellbeing, a holistic approach to fitness founded and run by a Kingsley resident, has been introduced in recent months and is proving to be a popular addition to our programme. From mid September there will be a new class running on a Thursday evening: Yoga and Enerchi, a yoga class for all abilities helping to restore, recover and rejuvenate mind, body and spirit. So we may be confident that we are doing our best to keep Kingsley fit and happy. 

CRTA events continue to be staged at the Centre (Cheshire Rural Touring Arts). In April we hosted Casablanca Steps, a 1920’s styled Jazz Band from Cheshire. In May, Jazz returned to Kingsley when we welcomed the Brownfield/Byrne Quintet. Both events attracted good audiences and we look forward to enjoying further Jazz evenings here at the Centre. 

Highfield Choir performed to a sell out audience in May, and in July Ashton Sings will return to the Centre for its annual concert. 

The Centre also served the Community by becoming a Polling Station for the May 2023 Local Elections. 

The Friday fortnightly coffee club has proved to be a great success. Thanks once again to Stephanie Thornhill and her team for organising the mornings and for bringing so many to the Centre for coffee, cake and a chat. 

Kingsley Players and Kingsley Players Youth Theatre have continued with their performances at the Centre throughout the year. Kingsley Players began the year in January with their pantomime, this year being Wind in the Willows. The Kingsley Youth Theatre Players go from strength to 



strength; they have worked on the National Theatre Connections programme and used the Centre for both rehearsals and for delivery of their performance of the play ‘Model Behaviour’.  In July they are staging an outdoor summer production of ‘Babe the Sheep Pig’, to be held in the outdoor setting of Kingsley St John’s Primary School playing fields. 

Steve Easton took on the role of Kingsley News Editor towards the end of last year. Kingsley News is delivered to every household in the village and is available digitally. Thanks to Steve, and thanks to our willing band of volunteers who print and deliver Kingsley News for us each month. 

One disappointment is that no one from the village came forward to take on the running of the Kingsley Youth Group. It has now been disbanded. 

Thank you to all of our associated groups for their continued use of the Kingsley Community Centre. 

My thanks to fellow Committee Members for their continuing hard work, all undertaken, thankfully, with good humour. 

## **Financial Review** 

The accounts show a surplus of £6788 (2021 £8795.11). The reduced surplus is because 2021’s surplus was boosted by Government Covid grants: without these 2021 would have shown a deficit of £8112, compared to a pre Covid grant surplus of £4121 in 2022. 

2022’s surplus also benefited from a grant from the Coop of £3114, which has been spent on purchasing new tables for the hall, and the decoration of the Centre. We also received a £1500 refund of the Restart grant that we gave to Kingsley Youth Group in 2021 as, regrettably, the Youth Group has folded. 

Kingsley Players donated £589 from their ‘Allo ‘Allo performances and added a further £895 donation which was received in January 2023. Kingsley Players is also an important contributor to Bookings income, which has recovered well since the pandemic, increasing by nearly 60% year on year to £8762, a record for the Centre and around 10% higher than pre pandemic 2019. Hire rates have not increased over this period, so this is all derived from increased activity. 

Feed in tariff from our solar panels has increased to £3095, a healthy contribution to the running of the Centre. 

Running costs for the Centre, excluding depreciation, were £13044, an increase of over 40% over 2021. Around half of this increase was down to increased energy costs amounting to nearly £5000 in 2022. These will be 



a further increase in 2023 but will still be affordable. Most of the rest of the increase was down to the tables purchase and decorating funded by the Co-op grant. The cost of insurance in 2022 was lower because of the delayed benefit of the 3 month insurance “holiday” granted by Zurich during the pandemic. 

The non-cash depreciation charge (the accounting annual “cost” of our investment in capital assets, such as the extension, stage, solar panels etc) sharply decreased as the solar panels became fully depreciated and the impact of grants on the net cost of the extension was recognised. 

Bar and events produced a surplus of £1035, a reduction on the £1296 achieved in 2021. Takings were well up, but there was higher expenditure on bar staff. This year we have a split of ticket sales and cost of CRTA events which shows a small surplus of £138 on CRTA productions. 

Kingsley News made a surplus of £845. A sharp increase in advertising revenue from £2473 to £3978 resulted from the higher charges for colour advertising. At the same time, costs increased because of the additional costs of colour printing and a roughly 50% increase in the cost of paper. 

On the Balance Sheet, prepayments were high at £4051 because it included the 2022 feed in tariff income, the cash receipt for which was not received until January 2023. 

Bank balances stood at around £26000 at the year end and currently stand at around £17000 following the purchase of the storage battery for c £10500 in April 2023. The storage battery will enable us to make better use of our solar panels, and thus reduce our purchases of electricity. 

Elizabeth M Batey 

Chairman 



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|||2022|2022|||2021||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||lncomeExpenditureProfiU(Loss)<br>t€s|||lncomeExpenditure Profiu(Loss)<br>€f€|||
||OPERATIONAL GRANTS & DONATIONS(note2)|||||||
||Government lockdowngrant|2667.OO|||16907.00|||
||KingsieyPlayers|589.00|||0.00|||
||Co-opgrant|3114.51|||0.00|||
||KingsiayPC||||o.00|||
||Others||||0.00|||
|||6370.51||6370.51|16907.00||16907.00|
||CENTRE|||||||
||Boskings|8762.50|||5499.75|||
||Feed inTariff|3095.38|||29\4.74|||
||Repairs and Servicing||1998.05|||2043.4L||
||Nervtables||7047.95|||0.00||
||Deccrating||550.0c|||0.00||
||Cutlery||0.00|||331.23||
||FireAlarm|||||509.97||
||Water&wastewater||299.U|||204.1A||
||Electricity||1209.34|||727.65||
||Gas||3603.94|||L944.55||
||Broadband||295.11|||168.13||
||Cleaning||7346.a3|||1400.99||
||lnsurance||964.76|||1253.97||
||Licences &relatedcourses||513.15|||356.09||
||!T costs||68.38|||68.37||
||Depreciation||1783.48|||5074.06||
||Bank charges||!!2.12|||88.20||
||Ailisc||0.00|||92.49||
|||1 1857.88|14832.05|-2974.17|8418.49|14283.29|-5844.80|
||BAR&EVENTS|||||||
||Ticket Sales|704.5A||||||
||CRTA performance costs||566.83|||||
||Takings|2821.84|||2549.1L|||
||Barstaff||572.5A|||140.O0||
||Bargoods|||||L113.16||
||Other||22.4.O5|||0.00||
|||3526.30|2490.54|1035.76|2349.71|1253.16|1296.5s|
||KI'\'GSLEYNEVI'S|||||||
||Advertising revenue|3948.00|||v473.00|||
||Printing andpapercosts||3102.50|||2036.64||
|||3948.00|3102.50|845.s0|2473-0A|2036.64|435.36|
||OTHER|||||||
||Restart grants|||||||
||Kingsley Players|||||1500.00||
||KingsieyYouth Group||-1500.oo|||1500.oo||
||Kingsley Wl|||||so0.o0||
||GardeningClub|||||s00.00||
||lnterest|10.58|||0.00|||
|||10.58|-1s00.0c{5{0.58||0.00|4000.00-4000.00||
|a|TOTAL|25713.27|18925.096788.18||30348.20|21553.098795.11||





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|Balance Sheet|||||||
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|||2022|||2A21||
||s|e|€|€|s|s|
|FIXED ASSETS(note1)|||40454.32|||42247.84|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||||
|Bar Stock|220.OO|||220.00|||
|HallHire|600.00|||485.00|||
|Advertising|882.00|||1162.00|||
|Prepayments|4451.77|||624.48|||
|Bank Current Account|L5976.34|||10564.05|||
|Bank Reserve Account|1001L.32|||10000.89|||
|Cash|198.99|||185.34|||
|||31944.42|||23241.76||
|CURRENTLIABILITIES|||||||
|Accruals|r-512.00|||1385.O0|||
|||1s12.00|||1385.00||
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||3A428.42|||2{856.76|
|TOTAL ASSETS|||70892.74|||64104.56|
|Profit&Loss Account|||||||
|BroughtFonrvard||64104.56|||55309.45||
|Surplus for the Year||6788.18|||8795.11||
||||70892.74|||64104.56|
|Total Funds|||74892.74|||64104.56|
|SignedSimonGBatey|C* ufL-r||||||
|Treasurer|||||||
|a:,March 2023|||||||





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|Notestothe Accounts|||||||||||
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|1.fixedAssets|||||||||||
||ExtensionStage||Solar|Floor|Oouble||Blinds|lhotocopieTotal||Iotal|
||workinprogress||panels||glazing||||||
|Grosscost1Janvary2022|117296.51|15s00.00|17868.37|931t-24||3029.18|8d.2.40|0.001638s3.70 t22120.W|||
|Additions|0.00|||||||L620.001520.00||433s2.72|
|Grantsreceived-cLrrrentyear(note2)|||||||||0.00|-2629.03|
|Grantsreceived-prioryears|-75188.46 0.00<br>0.00|||-4658.62||-1514.59|-42t.20|Q.00-81782.87-79153.84|||
|N€t cost|42108.05|X5s00.00|17868.37|4658.62||1514.59|421.20|1620.00|83690.83|83690.83|
|(Disposal)|||||||||0.00<br>0.00||
|Cost 31 December 2022|42108.05|15500.00|L7868.37|4658.62||1514.59421.20||1620.00|83690.83|83690.83|
|Accumulated Depreciation1January2022|234s.93|1S500.00|17868.37|3759.23||1224.30|421.20|324.O4|4tM3.03|36358.97|
|Chargeforyear|B4Z.t6|0.00|0.00|465.86||151.46|0.00|3?4.OO|1783.48|5074.06|
|(Disposal)|||||||||CI.00|0.00|
|Accumulated Depreciation31Decernher2t)22|318&0e|15500.q8|fi808.s7|422s.0q||Le7s.7q|utao|648.00|43?46.s1|41443.03|
|Net bookvalue 31 December 2022|38919.960.00 o.qo|||433.53138.83|||0.fi)|972.OO|404il,32|42241$A|



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|ExtensionOperationi|2022|202t|
|---|---|---|
|Project|Total|Total|
||0.00|0.00|
||0.00|0.00|
||0.00|1379.03|
|2657"00|2667.00|16907.00|
|589.00|589.00|0.00|
|3114.51|3114.51|0.00|
||0.00|0.00|
|0.00|0,00|0.os|
|0.006370.51|6370.51|18286.03|
|{note1)Profit&Loss|||





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