## **Bishopswood Village Hall (Charity number: 520935) Chairs Annual Report – September 2024 – August 2025** ## **Principal Objective** The object of the charity is to provide a village hall for use of the inhabitants of Bishopswood and the surrounding neighborhood; for the use of meetings, lectures, classes and for other forms of recreation, with the aim of improving their quality of life. The governing document of the charity is a trust deed. ## **AGM reporting** Our financial period runs from September to August. This is therefore a report covering 1[st] September 2024 – 31[st] August 2025. Regular Hires are at a good level and we have a pretty full diary each week with regular hirers. Private Hires are still not back to pre 2020 levels, Children’s parties have been popular but other private hire events such as weddings etc have not been booked as often as previously. We are constantly trying to balance our own increasing costs with trying to keep the hire rates for the hall at a fair and competitive level. Which is not as easy as it sounds and has taken a lot of discussions and work from our Trustees. But the hall does continue to play an important part in the community – providing opportunities to keep fit, pursue artistic ambitions amongst other things and – most importantly - socialise, maybe over a cup of something hot or a meal. This year Bishopswood Players came together and put on there bi-annual pantomime. This brought the community together and raised funds for the village hall. The Village Hall Committee is constantly endeavouring to increase the sustainability of the hall as well as to reduce its carbon footprint. The village hall already has 16 solar panels on the roof and we had a Tesla Powerwall II Solar Battery installed on the 15[th] August 2024 at the hall. The final cost of the installation was £7,868.75 and when we were provided with the final invoice, we were informed that Village Halls are now eligible for a zero rating for VAT therefore we did not have to pay VAT on the installation. The cost was largely met from grants obtained in the previous year, and the hall has already seen the benefit of the solar battery and will continue to do so for many years to come. This year we celebrated the 25 year anniversary of the opening of our current village hall. We had a celebration weekend that brought the community together and acknowledged the contributions made by our many trustees over the years and our current volunteers that put on a variety of events during the week, culminating with a free afternoon tea for many of the regular users of the hall who were entertained as they dined by Peter one of our Trustees on his Grand Piano, while the rest of our Trustees and Volunteers prepared, organised and served the multitude of sandwiches and cake. I would like to thank everyone on the committee and also our other Volunteers for all their hard work they do to keep the hall running. Keeping the hall running takes an incredible amount of work and I would like to thank Jon for all of his hard work as our Vice Chair and Treasurer. Bob for maintaining our online presence and the growing ‘Friends’ group. Barry for the ongoing maintenance of the Hall. Sandra as Secretary for keeping up with minuting the meetings and maintaining the Operations Calendar. I would also like to thank Marcia and Christine for all of their hard work in dealing with all of the bookings for the hall. ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name BISHOPSWOOD VILLAGE HALL **members of On accounts for the year** 31/08/2025 **Charity no** 520935 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/08/2025** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I 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 records I 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. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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1 **October 2018** **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **October 2018** **IER** CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO AND WAIES 81SF￿P5YUID VILLAGE HALL 52093$ Receipts and payments accounts Forth• perfod fwom 01109r2024 To 3110812025 CC16a Section A Receipts and payments Ua¥e5triGtpd fvnds R•strfct•d fundi Endovsmfrnt funds tOtr• M4rtyt £ lotr• nbV•bt e Total funds La¥ty•ar A1 Rec•1 PLtyt Inccy Pnv*e FU￿ fknsl 8ar RE￿ Inlerest 11.SJ7 5.169 7.991 9.614 tOtr* f••r••t t 6.1 7.991 9.614 17.335 7.162 S.$36 1.020 9J2 7.500 33 2.600 5•7 s￿ tot•i(Gm&% income trAR) 43B 2,436 A2 Asset and InTrt*lm•nt sakn, 40.051 S(rt> total 42.436 42,436 40,Q51 A3P E*trKrt BT 8UsM￿S & Pr￿￿85 Ex C#tsr 572 41 525 th8rtL5 Ctht$ 1.616 Sub total J2,7 29.5BJ A4 Asset and Inve8trnent purcha￿. ls•• tabhl PV Batt total 7,869 Totalpaym￿rts 32.78B 32,788 37,452 Netof rne•pts/lpayments) A5 Transfer4 between funds A8 Cash funds last year end Cash funds UNS year end 9,648 9.648 2,600 47.349 47.349 56,997 44,749 47,349 S6J97 CCXX Rl acownts ISSI 2610412026 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unfestricted funds torn•r•Bt £ ReSt￿tted funds EndowrnÈnt funds to rnar••t £ Categowies O¢tsl Bl C¥sh funds 1,641 21.007 Tot•lc•sh funds 56.997 Unrestrlct funds R•stfkted fund5 Endowment funds tr* nv4r•Jt E tts r•¥•Bt £ Details Oxr•rt val •t Iity"tyxI) Detalls B3 Invostment assets {￿ty￿) Details Ltr¥eslr*ted B4 Assets retsin•d tt Gharty's ¢)wn Iise Oetails Ilatyltty fdat•s BS Liablliiles S*2n8d by ona ortso tsustees on b6haN of al tho ￿$t688 Fyit Na Date of approval J Lir)DL ZG .l(D J6c 2610412026 CCXX Ff2 ac£ounls (SSI