## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 1 January 2025 **To** 31 December 2025 **Charity name:** Hathersage Memorial Hall **Charity registration number:** 520541
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|i. The provision and maintenance of Hathersage
Village Hall for the use of the inhabitants of the
Parish of Hathersage and its immediate vicinity
without distinction of political, religious, or other
opinions, with the object of improving the
conditions of life for the said inhabitants.
ii. The said land and building shall be held upon
trust for the purposes of a village hall as aforesaid
as a memorial to the officers and men of the said
parish who fell in the Great War 1914–1918.|
|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 hall is used for meetings, lectures, classes, and
other forms of recreation and leisure time activities,
as well as being available for private hire.|
|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 Hathersage Memorial Hall are aware
of the Charity Commission guidance on public
benefit and have taken this into account when
making decisions on behalf of the charity.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policyongrant making.|Para 1.38|N/A|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment.|Para 1.38|N/A|
|Contribution made by
volunteers.|Para 1.38|The trustees of Hathersage Memorial Hall and
members of the hall management committee
volunteer their time for free, to ensure that the hall
facilities are maintained and improved, and that the
charityremains financiallyviable.|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|Hathersage Memorial Hall is a popular venue for
community events. As well as regular users, such as
Hathersage Choir, Hathersage Players, Hathersage
Parish Council, Baby and Toddler group and the
U3A, other events such theatre, cinema, live music,
yoga, singing, badminton, pickleball, community
parties,
weddings
and
birthdays
are
held
throughout the year. Large events take place in the
Main Hall but there are two adjoining halls, the
Lawrence Hall and the Stanage Hall, that are used
for smaller events, as well as being opened up to
add more space for a bar and food during larger
events. There is a fully equipped kitchen, male and
female toilets, as well as two unisex toilets with
easyaccess.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set.|Para 1.41|To facilitate an appropriate plan for building
maintenance and works the trustees and hall
management committee in 2025 commissioned a
fabric inspection report from Crooks Architecture,
a specialist firm of conservation and ecclesiastical
architects. The final report was delivered in
December 2025 and identifies work, repairs and
alterations for immediate attention, requiring
attention within the next 12 months, 12 to 24
months and 5 years, as well as options with no
timescale. Following examination and discussion of
the report the trustees and management committee
will formulate a 5-yearplan.|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set.|Para 1.41|In 2025 the hall received money from a Better
Derbyshire Dales Grant (£2500) for environmental
improvements to the building to reduce the carbon
footprint, as well as a grant from Hathersage Parish
Council for improvements to the acoustics in the
Stanage Hall. Once the building maintenance and
works priorities have been identified in the 5-year
plan then further opportunities to raise money
through grants and other fundraising activities will
bepursued.|
|Investment performance
against objectives.|Para 1.41|The hall has money in a COIF Charities Deposit
Fund. This is a UK Common Deposit Fund managed
by CCLA Investment Management Ltd, which is the
largest manager of charity funds in the UK. CCLA
was formed in 1987 and is owned by investment
funds of three client groups – churches, charities
and local authorities. The COIF Charities Deposit
Fund is designed specifically for the charity sector
and is categorised as a short-term Low Volatility
Net Asset Value Money Market Fund. At the end of
2025 the amount in the fund was £28,163 and the
net interest for theyear £1053.|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|Hathersage Memorial Hall had a surplus of £6,659
at the end of 2025 (income £52,248, expenditure
£45,589). The surplus will be used to implement
the 5-year building maintenance and works plan,
when this has been agreed by the trustees and hall
management committee.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|At the management committee meeting on 18
December 2025, it was decided that the money kept
in reserve should be 12 months hall running costs.
The total amount of money spent on utilities,
insurance, mobile phone, broadband, waste
management and cleaning (but not building
maintenance repair and improvement) in 2025 was
£17,607, therefore this will be the level of the
reserves for 2026.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£17,607|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern.|Para 1.23|N/A|
## **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|The principal source of income in 2025 was
from lettings of the hall (£38,172). Grants and
donations amounted to £10,970 and interest
from the COIF Charities Deposit Fund was
£1053.|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any social
investment policy adopted.|Para 1.46|To diversify the hall investment portfolio,
mitigate risk and ensure a balance between
easy access and higher interest earnings the
trustees and hall management committee
agreed to open additional savings accounts at
NatWest bank with 35 and 95 noticeperiods.|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity.|Para 1.46|The principal risk is damage or wear-and-tear
to the building structure that requires
extensive expenditure.|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document.|Para 1.25|Hathersage Memorial Hall has a constitution
that was last formally approved at the Annual
General Meeting on the 7 March 2015 and is
regularly reviewed by the management
committee.|
|How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|According to the constitution Hathersage
Memorial Hall was declared a trust on 19 May
1930. The Parish Council of Hathersage (HPC)
is the Custodian Trustee of the Charity and the
land, with the building is held in trust by HPC
for the Charity.|
|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|Trustees are identified and appointed by the
management committee.|
## **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|New Trustees are provided with the Charity
Commission Charity Trustee welcome pack:
(https://www.gov.uk/government/
publications/charity-trustee-welcome-pack).|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works.|Para 1.51|Hathersage
Memorial
Hall
Management
Committee consists of Elected Members
appointed
at
the
AGM,
Representative
Members, appointed from not more than
seven user groups and no more than two Co-
opted members, from individuals deemed fit
bythe committee.|
|Relationship with any related
parties.|Para 1.51|N/A|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|Hathersage Memorial Hall|
|---|---|
|Other name the charityuses|N/A|
|Registered charitynumber|520541|
|Charity’s principal address|Oddfellows Road,
Hathersage,
Hope Valley
S32 1DU|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**wholeyear**|**Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint**
**trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Simon Richardson|Chair|June – Dec 2025||
||PhilipBenson|Treasurer|||
||Marion Codd||||
||Heather Rodgers||||
||Amanda Foster||||
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 held
in this capacity|N/A|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|N/A|
## **Additional information (optional) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|Independent Auditor of
the account|Brian Wood|East Midlands Audit Services Ltd (https://emasltd.co.uk)|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
N/A
## **Other optional information**
N/A
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Philip Benson ~~a~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 13-02-2026
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||**CC16a**||
|**For the period**
**from**
~~ee~~|||01/01/2025
~~ee ~~||**To**
~~ee~~||31/12/2025
~~ee~~|||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**|||**Last year**||
||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||
|Lettings|**38,172**||**-**||**-**||**38,172**|||**30,952**||
|Grants|**7,500**||**-**||**-**||**7,500**|||**5,591**||
|Donations|**3,470**||**-**||**-**||**3,470**|||**4,900**||
|Sundries|**2,053**||**-**||**-**||**2,053**|||**1,090**||
|Interest|**1,053**||**-**||**-**||**1,053**|||**928**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||
|~~**_Sub total_**~~~~_(Gross income for_~~|**-**
~~_(Gross income for_~~||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||
|_AR)_|_AR)_**52,248**||**-**||**-**||**52,248**|||**43,462**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 52,248**
**-**
**-**
**52,248**
**43,462**
~~——————~~||||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||
|Utilities|**9,544**||**-**||**-**||**9,544**|||**10,444**||
|Broadband andphone|**787**||**-**||**-**||**787**|||**697**||
|Derbyshire Dales District Council|**1,213**||**-**||**-**||**1,213**|||**830**||
|Insurance|**2,099**||**-**||**-**||**2,099**|||**2,055**||
|Building Improvements, Maintenance &||||||||||||
|Repair|**24,047**||**-**||**-**||**24,047**|||**9,884**||
|Cleaning|**3,963**||**-**||**-**||**3,963**|||**2,945**||
|Sundries|**3,935**||**-**||**-**||**3,935**|||**2,239**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**45,589**||**-**||**-**||**45,589**|||**29,094**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 45,589**
**-**
**-**
**45,589**
**29,094**
~~=————=~~||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**6,659**
**-**
**- 6,659**
**14,367**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**6,659**
**-**
**- 6,659**
**14,367**
~~===>>~~||||||||||||
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
13/02/2026
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**|
||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**45,154**
**28,163**
**-**
**73,317**
NatWest Current Account
COIF Charities Deposit Fund
**_Total cash funds_**
~~—S ~~|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~==~~|||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||
||account(s))||Agreement Error|OK||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~=====~~||||||
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
~~==~~||||||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
~~a~~||||||
||||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**||**When due**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
13/02/2026
Print Name
PhilipBenson
Signature
**Details**
2
13/02/2026
~~ae~~||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of the Hathersage Memorial Hall Charity No 520541
| report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31° December 2025
## Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
As the charity's trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act’).
| report in respect of the examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145 (5) (b) of the Act.
## Independent Examiner's statement
| have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect
@ accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or @ the accounts do not accord with the accounting statements
| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Brian Woo ~ a
Qualification: D.M.A.
Address: Amberley, 298 Smedley Street, Matlock, DE4 3LH
Date 14" January 2026