**CHARITY REG NO: 523264**
## **LEVEN PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE PERIOD 1 JANUARY 2023 – 31 DECEMBER 2023**
**LEVEN PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES for the period 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION DETAILS**
**Charity Name:** Leven Playing Field Association
**Registered Charity number:** 523264
**Principal address:** 49 Barley Gate Leven Beverley HU17 5NT
## **Charity Trustees**
The following people have been charity trustees throughout the period:
Stuart Hobson Stephen Hunt Sara Towne
## **Independent examiner**
Mr Adrian Allen FCA Sowerby FRS LLP Beckside Court Annie Reed Road Beverley East Yorkshire HU17 0LF
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**LEVEN PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) for the period 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023**
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is governed by conveyance trust deeds dated 30 June 1964 and conveyance dated 5 June 1972.
## **How the charity is constituted**
The charity is a non-incorporated charity.
## **Charitable Status**
The charity became registered at the Charity Commission on 8th March 1971, and was also recognised as a charity for tax purposes by HM Revenue & Customs on that date.
## **Trustees**
New trustees are appointed by members at annual general meeting; or by the members or charity trustees at any other time.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objects**
The charity's objects are:
To provide amateur sports facilities
To help members of the general public in Leven and the surrounding area.
To provide buildings, facilities and open space
## **Activities**
The provision of sporting and social facilities for the local community.
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
## **Main achievements of the charity**
Leven Playing Fields Association is a voluntary organisation that provides sporting and leisure facilities.
Currently football, cricket, bowls, tennis, netball, badminton, karate, kick boxing, Zumba are regular activities.
Dance classes, line dancing, garden club, walking, Alzheimer’s memory care, Leven Lites Theatre Group, Leven School Pre- School all rent rooms.
There is an annual auction and craft fair.
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**LEVEN PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) for the period 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023**
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
**Reserves Policy**
The trustees’ policy on reserves is not to create specific reserves, but at the same time, carry sufficient liquidity to meet all foreseeable expenditure.
Restricted funds are only expended in the manner for which the funds were given. Once restricted funds are received, the trustees take steps to use those funds expediently for the specified purpose.
Throughout the year under review, and the previous year, the trustees consider that all funds have been unrestricted funds.
## **DECLARATION**
This trustees’ report has been approved by the trustees and is signed on their behalf:
Trustee: **STUART HOBSON**
Date:
………
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**INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF LEVEN PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Leven Playing Field Association (‘the Charity’) for the Period 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023 set out on pages 5 to 7.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 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 examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by Section 130 of the Act;
or
- the accounts do not accord with those 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 this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Adrian Allen FCA Sowerby FRS LLP Beckside Court Annie Reed Road Beverley East Yorkshire HU17 0LF
Date:
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## **LEVEN PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
## **FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023**
|**Receipts**
Rent
Lettings
Fund-raising activity
Grants
Members club rent
Donations
Quarterly Draw Net
Sundry Income
Transfer from closed NSI Account
Bank interest received
Grants – Improvements
Grants – Car Park
**Total receipts**
**Payments**
Wages and salaries
Rent
Water Charges
Insurance
Light and heat
Grounds maintenance
Improvements
Property repairs and maintenance
Equipment repairs and maintenance
Westwood Mower
Printing, postage and stationery
Fund Raising costs
Accountancy
Professional fee
Sundry expenses
Projects
**Total payments**
**Net (deficit)/surplus of receipts over payments for the period**
Bank & cash funds brought forward at beginning of period
Net (deficit)/surplus for the period
**Bank & cash funds carried forward at end of period**|**2023**
**funds**
**£**
5,590
23,470
3,947
2,749
0
745
0
119
0
210
0
21,950
**58,780**
6150
630
280
1,783
6,110
1,587
0
1,951
3,430
0
687
2,726
420
0
811
266
**26,831**
**31,949**
10,784
31,949
**42,733**|**2022**
**funds**
**£**
4,452
19,653
808
849
0
756
0
450
0
13
0
38,625|
|---|---|---|
|||**65,606**
8,250
630
671
1,634
8,961
1,311
629
4,750
1,364
0
585
0
390
2,578
113
77,006|
|||**109,016**|
|||**(43,410)**|
|||54,194
(43,410)|
|||**10,784**|
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## **LEVEN PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
## **AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2023**
|**Assets**
**Bank & cash funds**
Bank balances
Cash balances
**Total bank & cash funds**
**Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
Freehold land & buildings
Plant & machinery
Fixtures & fittings
**Total assets retained for the charity’s own use**|**2023 funds**
**£**
42,733
0
**42,733**
347,172
16,416
119,525
**483,113**|**2022 funds**
**£**
10,784
0|
|---|---|---|
|||**10,784**|
|||347,172
17,923
152,347|
|||**517,441**|
The notes form part of these financial statements.
These financial statements have been approved by the trustees and are signed on their behalf:
## Trustee: **STUART HOBSON**
Date:
…….
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**LEVEN PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION**
## **Notes to the financial statements for the period ended 31 December 2023**
## **ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis.
## **Receipts**
Receipts consist of cash donations and grant funding.
## **Payments**
Payments consist of amounts expended in relation to the charity’s work in furtherance of its objects.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.
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