## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/04/2023 Period start date To 31/03/2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Criccieth War Memorial Hall** ## **Charity registration number: 511623** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The provision and maintenance of a Hall**
**to further benefit the residents of**
**Criccieth and the neighbourhood,**
**without distinction of sex, sexual**
**orientation, race of political, religious or**
**other opinions by associating together**
**with the said residents and local**
**authorities, voluntary and other**
**organisations in a common effort to**
**advance education and to provide social**
**welfare for recreation and leisure time**
**occupation.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The Trustees observe the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit, and support and help**
**promote all bookings for the hall’s**
**facilities whether from regular or new**
**users. Encourage is also given for the**
**establishment of fresh activities which**
**improve and broaden the community’s**
**leisure and educational choices. The**
**management committee has close ties**
**with local schools. The list of regular**
**social and port community events**
**includes:**

**Pilates classes**

**Craft fairs**

**Yoga**

**“Starlight Players” – an amateur**
**dramatic player group**

**Youth Club**
**Other activities include:**

**Children’s parties**

**Wedding parties**

**Urdd (National Youth Group)**
**Eisteddfod activities**

**Annual Criccieth Arts Festival**
**Concerts**| |||
**Polling station for local and**
**national elections.**| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees of Criccieth War Memorial**
**Hall confirm they have reviewed the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit and**
**believe the Hall to be aligned with this**
**guidance.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The Hall was pleased to see a return to**
**growth in hall fees and income being**
**derived from events at the hall, with a**
**42% increase in hall fees year on year.**
**The Hall building is both a war memorial**
**as well as a community centre, unique**
**in that it was instigated personally by**
**David Lloyd George, Prime Minister**
**during the First World War, and it was**
**he who laid the foundation stone in**
**1922. As a permanent memorial to the**
**town war dead of the two major**
**conflicts of the 20th century, the building**
**holds sentiment to Criccieth families.**
**The Hall celebrates its centenary in 2022**
**of the first stone being laid in the**
**construction of the building, with a**
**further celebration in 2024 to mark the**| **opening of the hall’s doors to the public for the first time. Centenary concerts and plays showing the history of the hall and Criccieth were completed in the summer of 2024 to a resounding success in the local community, with the audience spanning all generations. These activities have continued to drive improved engagement and the attention to the Hall, which the trustees hope will help the Hall gain further momentum as one of the largest venues for audiences in Gwynedd. Less intensive work was done to the structure of the building in 2023-24, due in part to fewer grants being awarded to the hall.** **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The hall in 2023-24 ended the year in a deficit,**
**with £67k of income and £94k of expenditure.**
**Income was lower year on year not due to the**
**hall fees, which had an improvement year on**
**year, but the number of grants that were**
**granted to the hall, which feel from £35.5k in**
**2023 to £11.9k in 2024. In addition the**
**amount of fund raising and donations were**
**lower year on year which is a focus of the**
**committee to drive forward engagement with**
**the community to improve.**
**In terms of expenditure, this increased to**
**£94k from £72k in 2023. General**
**maintenance slightly increased but the main**
**driver of costs increases year on year were the**
**costs of electricity and gas, which went up**
**significantly when the hall’s current tariffs**
**ended.**
**The Memorial Hall received £11,930 in grants**
**during the financial year –The hall continues**
**to immensely grateful for the continued**
**support for the Hall through these**
**organisations, with the fees being used for**
**improvements to the hall.**
**Donations were down year on year for a third**
**year, and continues to be a focus for the**
**committee in terms of growing and reversing**
**a downward trend. Nevertheless, we are**
**grateful for all donations and support**
**provided to the Hall, from both regular**
**payments and one-off exceptional donations.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Sums of cash belonging to the charity**
**and not needed for immediate working**
**purposes shall be invested in trust for**
**the charity as per the Governing**
**Document and with regards to the**
**application of income.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£11,283**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charity Commission Scheme**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Elected and Nominated Members**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Criccieth War Memorial Hall| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Neuadd Goffa Criccieth Memorial Hall| |Registered charity number|511623| |Charity’s principal address|Neuadd Goffa Criccieth Memorial Hall
High Street
Criccieth
Gwynedd
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Robert Owen|President||Committee| ||Ben Rosen|Chair||Committee| ||EmilyRees|Treasurer||Committee| ||Julie Fisher|Trustee||Committee| ||Daniel Evans|Trustee||Committee| ||David Hedger|Trustee||Royal British Legion
Representative| ||Robert Cadwalader|Trustee|01/04/2023 – 07/05/2023|Criccieth Council
Representative| ||Eric Maggs|Trustee|01/04/2023 – 24/02/2024|Starlight Players
Representative| ||Lowri Parry|Trustee|05/02/2024 – 31/03/2024|Committee| ||Elizabeth Parsons|Trustee|01/04/2023 – 23/11/2023|Committee| ||Sian Williams|Trustee|03/07/2023 – 31/03/2024|Criccieth Council
Representative| ||Steffan Warren|Trustee||Committee| ||Stephen
Sandercombe-Burr|Trustee|01/04/2023 – 07/01/2024|Committee| ||Stephen Campbell|Trustee|From 06/03/2023|Committee| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None. held in this capacity Name and objects of the None. charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for None. safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **None.** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** ## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** |**Signed** **on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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Ben Rosen
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!||||| |**Position (eg Secretary,**|**Position (eg Secretary,**|Treasurer|Chair|| |**Chair, etc)**||||| |||||| |**Date**23/01/2024|23/01/2024|23/01/2024||| ## NEUADD GOFFA CRICCIETH MEMORIAL HALL REGISTERED CHARITY No 811623 Income & Expenditure Statement for Year Ended 31" March 2024 |||2024||2023| |---|---|---|---|---| |OpeningBankBalances||38,940||29,163| |INCOME||£||£| |Hall Fees
BarIncome
County/CricciethCouncilGrants||40,013
11,296
11,930||28,867
4,462
35,531| |Fund Raising/Donations||3,121||13,225| |Bank Interest||119||51| |TotalIncome||66,478||82,136| |EXPENDITURE||||| |Fundraising/Entertainment Costs||9,186||6,738| |DoorSecurity&StageTech||5,707||3,215| |BarRunning||9,701||0| |General Maintenance& Repairs||19,139||17,133| |Caretakers||10,887||8,795| |Insurances/Licenses||3,959||4,004| |Electricity||9,532||1,498| |Gas||8,304||4,939| |WaterCharges||1,456||1,124| |Telephone/Wifi||1,359||941| |Cleaning Materials||710||433| |Printing, Postage& Stationery||0||0| |Advertising costs||0||0| |Gifts& Donations||50||2,630| |SundryExpenses/Mileage||5,000||3,159| |Equipment Purchases||8,844||17,677| |Event Floats||302||75| |Total Expenditure||94,135||72,361| |Excess Income/(Expenditure)||27,656||9,775| |Closing Bank Balances||11,283||38,940| |DepositA/c (Branch)|3,174||8,055|| |LMM a/c|0||0|| |Current A/c|8,109||30,885|| ||11,283||38,940|| **----- Start of picture text -----**
NEUADD GOFFA CRICCIETH MEMORIAL HALL
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ReGcisTeReD CHaRity No 511623
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Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31" March 2024
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£
B1 Cash Funds Branch Deposit a/cs with HSBC 3,174
Current Account with HSBC 8,109
London Money Market HSBC 0
Total Cash Funds Y 11,283)
B2 Other Monetary Assets a
Debtors — (Unpaid Hall Fees) a
B3_ Investment Assets | None |
B4 Assets retained for the Charity's own use
(At Trustees valuation) Heritage Assets 101,000
(All at written Down Values) Furniture, Fixtures & Fittings 34,402
Bar & Kitchen Equipment 2,304
Control Room/Lighting 29,064
Sports & Cleaning Equipment 860
Total [167,630]
B5 Liabilties | None |
Signed by two trustees on behalf
of ail the trustees , Signature(s)ff Print Name ApprovalDate of
Pe ——— Treasurer 2| | 24
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Page 2 ) ## **Independent Examiner's Report on the Accounts** Report to the Trustees and Members of Criccieth Memorial Hall Charity No: 511623 on the accounts for year ending 31[st] March 2024 set out on Pages 2 & 3 **Respective responsibilities** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. **of Trustees and Examiner** The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: • examine the accounts under section 145 of the charities act. • to follow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145 (5)(b) of the Charities Act and • to state whether matters have come to my attention. **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner's statement** by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a "true and fair view”, and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. **Independent** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention **examiner's statement l.** which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements: a) to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and b) to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met: or **2.** to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ||con||| |---|---|---|---| |**Signed:**|con||| |**Name:**|Sally Grinham|**Date:**|22/01/2025| |**Relevant professional**|ICAEW Chartered Accountant||| |**qualification or body**|||| |**Address**|18 Golden Miller Close, Newmarket, CB8 7RT|18 Golden Miller Close, Newmarket, CB8 7RT|18 Golden Miller Close, Newmarket, CB8 7RT| Page 3