## **Ground Floor** 

**Charity no. 515918** 


# **39[th] Annual Report 1981 – 2022** 



## **What is Ground Floor?** 

## **Organizational structure** 

Ground Floor is a registered charity (No. 515918) and a company limited by guarantee (No. 01867571). Ground Floor was set up to provide community facilities for disadvantaged groups living in Calder Valley, Luddendenfoot and Todmorden wards of Calderdale. 

Based in the centralized town of Hebden Bridge Ground Floor has developed a special and enduring relationship with the town. As well as being a prime site for developing centralized resources for the region. The town was severely under resourced in community amenities, something that Ground Floor has managed to remedy over the years. 

Ground Floor is run by voluntary Council of Management, which consists of the following members (correct as of November 2022) 

## **Board of Council of Management and Trustees representatives** 

Alan Sladic Kevin Hogan Ben Oubridge Peter Manning Alice Horner Richard Goodwin 

## **About Ground Floor (a potted history)** 

In 1981 in response to a lack of adequate community provision in the Hebden Bridge area, particularly for young people, a body of local people came together with the aims to create youth provision. Soon the aims grew to encompass other disadvantaged groups, including the elderly, unwaged, single parents and people with both physical and learning disabilities. Securing a lease on the rear ground floor of the Trades Club building Ground Floor was born and in the autumn of 1983 the Ground Floor Centre was officially opened. 

In 1984 Ground Floor became a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee and is now established as one of Calderdale’s longest serving charities. The move to charity status led to a change in direction for Ground Floor who went throw a period of consolidation where it focused the majority of it’s energy into developing new facilities and groups within the community. 

The charity moved to its current premises Salem Community Resource Centre, adjacent to Co-Operative Food, in 1998. 

In partnership with local community groups, Ground Floor was instrumental in developing a variety of independently run community initiatives. One such was the first ever after schools Club - Hebden Bridge Schools Out - an umbrella group that developed out of school provision and resources throughout the whole Upper Valley. Ground Floor was also the major force behind the establishment of a number of organization in the Calder Valley including the first Credit Union, Pennine Play & Leisure Library and recycling projects as Pennine Magpie, Kerbside Recycling and The Alternation Technology Centre. It also created the first ever Yorkshire Car Share Scheme - the well known Hour Car and set up the first ever Calderdale Computer Recycling Refurbishing and reissue of computers to the disadvantaged, unemployed 



and students - the equally well known Dot Communications/3RiT. Both these latter Groups are still based at Salem Community Resource Centre. 

Ground Floor is controlled by a management committee of trustees and representatives from its user groups and is currently home to over 40 such user groups including Dog and Puppy Training, Yoga, Ballet, Flamenco Dancing and other Dance Group, AA and NA Groups and a number of Social Welfare Organizations. For the last 30 years it has the Annual Toy Appeal and hosted Les Dansants Panard and other festivals. 

In conjunction with the Charities information bureau, West Yorkshire Community Work Training and the local job Centres. 

Ground Floor has won many awards including being given the Duke of York Community Initiative Award, Ground Floor begin the only charity to win this award three times in a row 2007, 2013 and 2015 and in 2013 became the first recipients of the Duke of York Community Leadership Award that included funding. In 2010 the Charity was given the Queens Award for Voluntary Service (The MBE for Volunteer Groups). 

## **Report for 2021/22 Financial Year.** 

This financial year, we managed to stay out of another lock down and things are looking up financial. 

Over the year we have had volunteers from the Halifax Job Centres. 

However during the course of the year a number of new groups joined the Ground Floor family including the Yoga Hall Soul Space with yoga group running every day and boxfit and Flamenco is back, but only monthly, but we still haven’t got all the groups back after covid, some of them are still hoping they will return at a later date. 

Despite the many accolades Ground Floor has received it does not currently receive any grant funding on a regular basis and relies entirely on donations from the groups and the hire of it’s premises to thrive. However the future of Ground Floor looks bright which makes the long term future of the Centre look good. 

## **Mission Statement** 

**Ground Floor** aims to promote positive community action that increases opportunities and benefits for all disadvantaged people living in the Calder Valley. To this end, **Ground Floor** is actively involved in providing, developing, supporting and sustaining a wide range of community-led and self-help initiatives within the region. 

## **Charitable Aims & Objectives** 

## **The primary objectives of Ground Floor, are:** 

To promote the advancement of education, the relief of the need and the provision of facilities and other leisure-time occupations in the interests of social welfare among young and other unemployed people residing within Upper Calderdale (comprising Calder Valley, Luddendfoot and Todmorden). 



- To promote the protection and preservation of the environment for the public benefit by: a) educating the public in the benefits to the environment of sustainable waste management and energy practices, b) conducting research into sustainable wast management and sustainable energy and disseminating the useful results of that research and c) developing and encouraging sustainable waste management and sustainable energy practices. 

In this clause ‘sustainable waste management and energy practices’ shall mean waste miniaturization, minimization of pollution and harmful waste, reuse of waste, waste recovery activities and clearance of pollutants from contaminated land. 

In this clause ‘sustainable energy practices’ shall mean the practical creation of energy from waste and renewable sources in such a way as to minimize pollution from the same. 

- To promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the aforesaid community and in particular the advancement of education, the protection of heath and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness, to promote and organize co-operation in the achievement of the same and to that end to bring together in council representative of the voluntary organization and statutory authorities within the area of benefit. 

- To promote the integration of the disadvantaged groups within the general community and to stress the importance of importance of self-help amongst such disadvantaged groups. 

## **In order to achieve these aims the council of management is empowered to do the following:** 

To create links and contacts both inside and outside the area of benefit. 

To establish, maintain and manage any work centers, projects or activities in furtherance of the objectives. 

To arrange and provide exhibitions, meetings, lectures and classes concerned with the education of the public. 

To enter into partnership or into arrangement for shared of mutual promotion of any of the objectives. 

## **The Staff 2020/21** 

## **Ground Floor** 

Fran Tidswell Centre Manager 

## **Volunteers** 

Alan Sladic Painting Melissa Meadows Cleaning Darryl Tidswell Odd Jobs Arron Owens Odd Jobs 

## **Job Placements (Job Centre Plus)** 

20 individuals were placed with us for work experience over the year Together with other volunteers from our user groups. 



Finan¢ial Accounts of
Ground Floor
Numbcr1867871
For the year end¢d
31° March 2022
The attached accounts hav¢ been prepared from th¢ books, records
and ¢xplanations received, and are in accordance th¢rewith.
Lord & Swain Accountants
Hawksion¢ House
Valley Road
HEBDEN BRIDGE
HX7 7BL

GTound Floor
Independent examiner's report on the accounts of Ground Floor
for the year ended 31" March 2022
I report on the accounts of the company attach¢d hcrewith.
J bave exgminedtbe books, records. oth¢r infomwtion and ¢xpl8natiOn5 supplied by th¢ ¢on]panYs
administrators without perfornan¢¢ of an audit gnd pr¢p3red accounts tbeTefrom.
The accounts ar¢ ￿ accoTdan¢e with the records 3$ supplied, whiLh I b¢lieve give atrue alld fair
view of the company's finaDcial atTairs forthe period UDderexamination.
Ng roatter has come lo tny a¢t¢ntion that gives tlle cause to b¢li¢v¢ th&1 the requ￿¢t￿ents io keep
proper accounting records gnd prepare accounts whi¢h accord with them h&ve ttoi been met.
Notes..
l. The Company's administration has undergon¢ tnajor chan¥es since th¢ withdrawal of Local
Authority ￿nded staff, a[￿ its Tole within th¢ community has altered as time has gone on, hence
Ten￿al costs and expendituT¢ streams have varied CODsideiably with time. Income has bc¢ti restored
to pr¢-patta¢￿C levels, butth¢ ¢urr¢nl uplift ￿ the cost of ¢ner8y is likely to be a challenge.
Garcth Swain M.A.A.T.
16 November 2022

Cround Floor
Statement of firt*neial acdvltles for th¢year ended 31Li Mirth 2022
Irltome 2nd Eipenditllre Attount
Ordnts & donations
Misc¢llan¢ous Income
ResouTce IncoTne
2667
86
37152
9990
549
24587
39905
35126
Salaries & Casual Labour
Reni, rates & w3t¢r
Light & heat
Insurances
Repairs & ID]piovetnettts
Communi¢3tions
Sundry expenditure
Volunteers, Expenses
Cleaning
Security
Accountant's EL￿nination
Deprc¢iation
9704
6202
13856
810
5456
865
436
662
2949
532
200
107
7960
5286
771
5072
1982
107
546
3061
1601
200
41779
38380
sU￿lUs /-D¢fi¢ii for the year
Fund b31anee brought fotward
FuJJd balan¢¢ ¢8tri¢d forw&rd
-1874
1953
-3254
5207
79
1953

Cround Floor
Statement of fihartd*l a¢tlvJdes for tbe year onded 31￿ March 2022
BAl4n¢e Sheet As at 51￿ March 2022
Fixed Assets Iper Schedule}
Current Assets
Prepaid Electricity
Balan¢¢ ai Bank
Cash in IIalld
427
534
23(M)
27
41
270
90
360
2368
TOTAL ASSETS
787
2902
Curreht Ll¥bllltles
Cr¢thtors' Ledger
Ac£nLed Liabilities
508
200
749
200
708
949
Long Tertn Liabilities
Loan attouni
79
1953
Flnallced By
Fundbalance brougbt fon¥aTd
sU￿lUs l-Drfi¢il for the yeBr
Fund bDlance canied foJivaTd
1953
-1874
5207
-3254
79
1953
For the year cndirtg 31" March 2022 the comparty was ¢ntiiled to 4xcmplion from audit urtderscclion 477121
of th¢ CotDpaniesAo 2006. Th¢ members have n0tT¢qu￿ed th¢ Company tty obtain zrt authl in aceordJnee
with 5¢¢tion476 ofthe CompathiesAct 2006.
The Iru$tces acknowledge th¢ir responsibiliryfoT.'
11 ensuringthe COTDpany keep5 attountingTccords whieh cotDply Section 386". and
111 prepanng accoynis which giv¢ a tru¢ atKI fair VI￿ of ihe siaie of affaiys of ih¢ compaiiy as ai the ¢ttd
of the finpncial y¢Ar, and ofits prof)t or1055 foT th¢ finanriAI year. in accordance with lh¢
requircincDts of Section 393. afKI which othe￿Is¢ ¢omply with the rLy]uiiemen15 oftbe cOD)pa￿leS
Act relatins to accoun15, so far a5 is applicable w the comparty.
These accounts have bc¢n prepa￿0 in Accordance Wlth the provisions applicablr to compatties subjcct tothe
small ¢0￿pÈDies, [¢￿rne. The CortEoill8 fiDanciAI swternents wer¢ approved by the brmrd and havc been

Ground Floor
Stltement of finanelal A¢tlvltie5 for the year ended 31° m￿Ch 2022
Schcdllle of movements offixed *s$ets
Fixed Asset$
Baion¢e fonvard
95677
2972
98649
Additions
Depreciation gt Start
-95401
-2714
-98115
DepT¢¢iation forPeriod
-55
-52
-107
221
206
427
Value at Stan
276
258
534

GTound Floor
Independent examiner's report on the accounts of Ground Floor
for the year ended 31" March 2022
I report on the accounts of the company attach¢d hcrewith.
J bave exgminedtbe books, records. oth¢r infomwtion and ¢xpl8natiOn5 supplied by th¢ ¢on]panYs
administrators without perfornan¢¢ of an audit gnd pr¢p3red accounts tbeTefrom.
The accounts ar¢ ￿ accoTdan¢e with the records 3$ supplied, whiLh I b¢lieve give atrue alld fair
view of the company's finaDcial atTairs forthe period UDderexamination.
Ng roatter has come lo tny a¢t¢ntion that gives tlle cause to b¢li¢v¢ th&1 the requ￿¢t￿ents io keep
proper accounting records gnd prepare accounts whi¢h accord with them h&ve ttoi been met.
Notes..
l. The Company's administration has undergon¢ tnajor chan¥es since th¢ withdrawal of Local
Authority ￿nded staff, a[￿ its Tole within th¢ community has altered as time has gone on, hence
Ten￿al costs and expendituT¢ streams have varied CODsideiably with time. Income has bc¢ti restored
to pr¢-patta¢￿C levels, butth¢ ¢urr¢nl uplift ￿ the cost of ¢ner8y is likely to be a challenge.
Garcth Swain M.A.A.T.
16 November 2022