||**Charity Name**
**Mellor Brook and District Comminity Centre**
**5**|**Charity Name**
**Mellor Brook and District Comminity Centre**
**5**|**Charity Name**
**Mellor Brook and District Comminity Centre**
**5**|**No (if any)**
**04047**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
1/1/2025|**To**
|Period end date
12/31/2025||
|||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**29,090**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,090**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,090**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**300**
**10,250**
**10,550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,550**
**18,540**
**-**
**-**
**18,540**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,808**
**7,566**
**30,738**
**3,761**
**500**
**88**
**1,760**
**40**
**54,261**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,261**
**5,022**
**5,556**
**1,885**
**564**
**1,118**
**2,655**
**6,939**
**3,984**
**-**
**474**
**10,250**
**38,447**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38,447**
**15,815**
**-**
**-**
**15,815**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Centre Rent|**9,808**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**9,808**|**8,547**|
|Flat and Office Rent|**7,566**|||**7,566**|**9,067**|
|Grants and Donations|**1,648**|||**30,738**|**10,917**|
|Events|**3,761**|||**3,761**|**1,671**|
|100 Club|**500**|||**500**|**600**|
|Bank Interest|**88**|||**88**|**57**|
|Centre Refundable Deposits|**1,760**|||**1,760**|**1,844**|
|Sale of chairs
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**40**|||**40**|**410**|
||**25,171**
|||**54,261**|**33,113**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**|**54,261**|**33,113**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,022**|**5,056**|
|||||**5,556**|**1,237**|
|||||**1,885**|**1,744**|
|||||**564**|**841**|
|||||**1,118**|**3,430**|
|||||**2,655**|**2,561**|
|||||**6,939**|**5,145**|
|||||**3,984**|**5,693**|
|||||**-**|**100**|
|||||**474**|**532**|
|||||**10,250**|**16,196**|
|||||**38,447**|**42,535**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**|**38,447**|**42,535**|
|||||||
|||**18,540**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**15,815**|**- 9,422**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**18,540**||**15,815**|**- 9,422**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Current a/c
Deposit a/c
Petty Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Details**
Current a/c
Deposit a/c
Petty Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Details**
Current a/c
Deposit a/c
Petty Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Details**
Current a/c
Deposit a/c
Petty Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**3,291**
**5,724**
**458**
**9,473**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**18,366**
**-**
**18,366**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**18,366**
**-**
**18,366**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||OK|
|||||||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**-**|
|||||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
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|I have inspected the accounting records of Mellor Brook
Community Centre, and confirm that the Receipts and Payments
Statement for the year ended 31st December 2025 are in
accordance with thm.|||Jennifer McNamee
FCA|||||7/15/2026|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name
Nigel Clarke(Treasurer)
Seamus Heffernen(Chair)|||Date of
approval|
||||||Nigel Clarke(Treasurer)|||7/15/2026|
||||||Seamus Heffernen(Chair)|||7/15/2026|
## Chair's Report to AGM
The last year was marked by the deaths of two significant friends of the CC: serving volunteer and committee member, Joan Woolmington and, on 7th May, Albert Britcliffe who, while not serving on this committee, was a regular fixer and facilitator in and around the centre and served on the sub-group managing the funding and delivery of the conversion of the outside yard into what is now the atrium, completed in 2012.
There was great success in funding applications, most via Chris Rush of TJB Communities. The commission payable to TJB however, is substantial reflecting the large amount of combined grants secured but now that this is to be repaid gradually, and as we spend the money on the specific projects identified, this should ease the burden of payment. However, the efforts to augment our regular income streams from user-groups and our 2 tenants will need to be maintained. Weekend one-off hirings and social events can make a significant contribution. I thank those who have regularly opened up, closed up or shown around prospective hirers. Our popularity as a venue for family celebrations and other one-off events should be embraced as both a true function of our remit as well as an increasingly significant revenue contribution (treasurer to comment further in report)
We have lost some regular groups: Christian singing group, Toddlers, Beavers and Cheryl Watkinson now teaches dance only on a Friday)
Some new ones are trialing us (e.g. yoga recently began on Tuesday am’s and Wednesday pm’s). Again, it is vitally important we encourage new activities and their organisers. The support we offer is good. Once a new activity becomes established, the participants become familiar with our building, the requirements we impose are understood and we develop in them a responsibility towards the collective good of the Centre. They accordingly become self-managing. It is my hope that we can continue to attract midweek, daytime activities in particular and have the Centre used even more than it is a present. The extensive building repairs and redecorating in Feb/March caused some disruption to some of our groups. However, it was managed well - thanks to JE for advance planning and to our contractors for working around some of our groups. John also deserves credit for managing the building generally. He’s quick to react to unplanned mishaps, even when away from the area. It is to the benefit of the Centre that we have someone on hand and someone who, through his experience as a key member of the infrastructure at Samlesbury War Memorial hall, understands the machinations of the voluntary sector. Our other paid employee, Rachael also deserves special mention. When we volunteers turn up to let in and close up for users of the Centre, she produces a tailored checklist. She is meticulous in her planning. As the first contact for most of our one-off hirers, she is expert in briefing them on the whys and wherefores. She produces accurate documentation for our clients. This is updated whenever the committee takes decisions at their regular meetings. The Centre is lucky to have such a diligent and efficient administrator.
But the lifeblood of the Centre is its volunteers. The unstinting commitment of its unpaid labourforce is a wonder. We might sometimes believe our work goes unnoticed and unappreciated and, perhaps to the outside world, that is often the case. But the rest of us get it - that these regular sacrifices we make for the good of our “community” make the difference and give the only worthwhile pay-back, a sense of pride in our building and the quality of facility we, as a management group offer. Well done to all. Please continue to complement our magnificent building with such first-rate service.
If you elect me as chair for the next 12 months, I hope, when I stand down next summer, that there is at least continuity, stability and sustainability both in the structure of our great building as well as the personnel who manage it.
To this end, I want to promote a recruitment drive. I shall consider how this might be best managed and report to the committee after my own consideration (I have a few ideas) and after consultation with its existing members. Seamus Heffernan May 27th 2026