Butterknowle Village Hall – Trustees Annual Report for the year March 2024 to February 2025. During the last financial year the Hall has been booked for the following regular Weekly events; Sequence Dance, Zumba, I Quong, Parent and Toddler, Carpet Bowls and Gentle Martial arts, and monthly events; Parish Council, Open Mic, and 50+ Club. As well as these regular events there have been; 2 Christenings. 12 Birthday/other parties 4 Funeral teas 5 Taekwando grading events 10 Northern Heartland craft/well being sessions 6 Flower arranging sessions – Sofia Blooms - 2 Scout fundraising events School Christmas concert, Christmas and Summer Fayres, History Exhibition and Church Xmas afternoon tea. The village hall committee organised a New Years Eve party, and 7 events including a singer and a Band the regular monthly afternoon tea fund raiser continues to be well supported. Events the committee have organised also includes a quiz evening for families these will resume later in the year. The scouts continue to use the hall for events and fund raisers. The Committee has continued to maintain the hall to a high standard and has been successful in being awarded grants totaling almost £30K one of which from our County Councillors and TAP paid for the installation of CCTV cameras and a new electric cooker for the kitchen, the second also from TAP contributed to the cost of decorating the main hall through the Trades4Cares scheme and a third via Community Action North from the National Lottery of £25K paid for the installation of solar panels and battery system and a new oil boiler to replace the existing. The Committee purchased a Christmas tree and provided lights to illuminate it at the entrance path to the hall. The Committee is currently fundraising to refurbish the cabinet for the community defibrillator. '> z!> z (n (HARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO ANO WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independenl Examiner's Report Report to the trustees rrE VI LL ffj E klhLL CI ATioNJ 29TH FEBouhQy 2025 On accounts for the ￿ar ended Charfty no (If any) 5207¥9 Sot out on pag•• I report to the trustees on my examination o charity (Ihe Trust.) for the year ended '2S the accounls of the above Responslbllltles and basls of report As tha charrtys trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts In accordance wlth the requlrements of the Charltles Act 2011 (llhe Act.). I report in respect Of my examinaiion of the Trust's accounts carrled out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and In carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent examlnerf6 ststement I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come 10 my attention in connection wrth the examinatlon (gthep ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act.. or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requlrements conceming the lom and content of accounts set out in the Charrties (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts glve a 'true and falr, vlew whlch Is not a matter considered as part ol an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other mstters in connectlon wlth the examination to which attention Should be drawn in this report In orderto enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reathed. ' Please delete the words in the brad(ets if they do not apply. Slgned: Date: eo105 Name: S412AH Relevant professional quallflcatlon(8) or body ACCA CFCCA) IER Oct 2018