## **Rowallane Community Hub Company No. NI609218 Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 30 September 2025** The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2025. ## **Objectives and Activities** ## **Aims and Objectives** The objects of Rowallane Community Hub are to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Rowallane area and its environs to: - Provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupation with the object of improving the quality of life for the inhabitants of the area of benefit. - Advance community development in the area of benefit, and in particular the promotion of the community and voluntary sector for the benefit of the public by providing support and facilities to community and voluntary groups. - Promote education and training by: providing facilities and equipment for the educational courses and programmes; and promoting knowledge and education in good gardening principles and the protection of the natural environment and encouraging participation in horticultural and gardening activities. Promote good community relations. The Charity complies with the duty to have regard to the Commission’s Public Benefit requirement statutory guidance. In setting the objectives and planning the activities for the year the Trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland’s guidance to ensure that the activities have helped to achieve the Charity’s purposes and provide a benefit to the beneficiaries. ## **Public Benefit** The public benefit of the charity include: - giving people a meeting place to get together with others to do enjoy social interaction and to take part in activities of a social and recreational nature. The participants learn new skills and share their own knowledge and skills with each other. - encouraging people to become active in a voluntary capacity, organise groups if required and use our facilities and activities to make life better for themselves and their neighbours. - the education of people in a range of subjects including Horticulture, the environment, gardening, computer training, numeracy and literacy. - providing neutral space in the town of Saintfield which will be promoted to the whole community regardless of religion, ethnic origin and personal background. ## **Achievements and Performance** ## **Main Achievements** Rowallane Community Hub during this period continues to provide a shared community space for community groups, voluntary and statutory organisations, to meet and offer services. The hall operates in two separate buildings i.e. main building with upstairs conference room, accessible toilet, kitchen and store, which can be accessed by a lift, and a ground floor building at the rear of the site which provides additional space, toilets and kitchen area. During this period, we facilitated 10 regular user groups and 40 ad hoc users. The facility, all of which provides support and services to the residents of Saintfield and surrounding area and improving their quality of life, had a footfall of approximately 5000 in the year. Our users’ activities include Rowallane Men’s Shed, children’s dance class, Bible classes, training, interagency meetings, networking meetings, children’s parties, public meetings and youth activities etc. In addition, we facilitate a Hen’s Shed, Club @ The Hub, sewing and craft classes, and physical activity classes, again reducing social isolation and improving the health and wellbeing of local people. Page 2 ## **Rowallane Community Hub Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 30 September 2025** ## **Financial Review** ## **Financial Position** During the year, Rowallane Community Hub had income in the year of £16,472 (2024:£13,754). There was costs in the year of £25,950 (2024:£29,897) including depreciation of £15,658. This resulted in an overall deficit in the year of £9,478 (2024: £16,143). ## **Trustees and Officers** The trustrees and officers served during the year are listed on page 1. ## **Structure, Governance and Management** ## **Governing Document** The organisation is a charitable company, limited by guarantee and incorporated on 27 September 2011. The company is governed under its Articles of Association and in the event of the company being wound up members would be required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1. ## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities** The trustees (who are also the directors of Rowallane Community Hub for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statement unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing the financial statements the trustees are required to: - select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; - observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP; - make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and - prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business. The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at anytime the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. ## **Small Company Rules** This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006. The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by: Mrs Hazel Bland Trustee Date 16 May 2026 Page 3