## ANNUAL MONITORING RETURN ## FOR DUNSFORD ARTS & CRAFT GROUP ## 1st Jan to 31st Dec 2019 The Charity is known as Dunsford Arts & Craft Group ## 2. Charity Commission Number is 100804 ## 3. The Group's purposes are; - to reduce rural isolation within the older community and to - to provide community recreational facilities for older people in Dunsford and the surrounding area ## 4. The Trustees - Management Committee - as at 31 Dec 2019 are; Babs Bassett - Chairperson Bridie Fitzsimons - Vice Chairperson Kathleen Gill - Secretary Naomi Rooney - Treasurer Rosemary Wilson - Assistant Secretary Lily Kennedy Anne Liggett Eileen Milligan Adele Rea ## 5. This report is for the Financial Year 1st Jan - 31st Dec 2019 6. We meet each Thursday morning between 10am and 12pm During the year, the group organised a varied range of speakers, workshops and activities. These activities are directly linked to the group's purpose as noted at point 3 above; JAN- Safe and Well Talk - Decoupage (3 weeks) FEB - Decoupage - Exhibition of Decoupage in Ballymote Centre APR - Art Tutor - AGM - Easter Holidays (2 weeks) APRIL/JUNE - Walking Group (weekly) MAY- Art Tutor (3 weeks) - Meet & Greet session for members participating in Cross-Community 'Peace 1V' Tapestry Story Telling session relating to Tapestry. Stories to be put on to 2 tapestry panels. JUNE - Chair-based movement (3 weeks) JULY - Holidays (2 weeks) AUG - Annual Sale/Coffee Evening - Tapestry embroidery stitch workshop (5 ladies) SEPT - Outing to Ring Of Gullion/Markethill - Tapestry embroidery stitch workshop (5 ladies) - Macmillan Coffee Morning - Big Lottery Funding Training - 2 members - Macmillan Coffee Morning OCT - Outing to Cinema to see Downton Abbey NOV - 2 Tapestry panels delivered for 5 ladies to complete over the next few months - Cheque presentation to local representative from Macmillan - Talk about eye care and how falls happen because of a range of eye problems - 5 ladies begin work on Tapestry panels (weekly until completed) - Christmas Crafts - 1 class - DEC - Tapestry - Outing to St George's Market / Hillmount Garden Centre - Micro Grant meeting - 2 members - Christmas Lunch - Lobster Pot, Strangford - Christmas Holidays (2 weeks) 7. The group always has regard to the Commission's Public benefit whereby; 1. the purposes of the group are demonstrated and are beneficial to all members 2. the public benefits are for a group of ladies who meet weekly and those benefits are never to provide private benefits to individuals 8. Our Financial position is strong; Our Opening Balance at 1st Jan 2019 was £ 949.72 Our total income was £3620.25 Our total expenditure was £3914.30 Closing balance at 31st Dec 2018 was £ 655.67 9. The group has no funds in deficit SIGNED Rosemary Wilson DATED 8th May 2020 ASSETS Laptop Printer, ink cartridges and paper 4 steel cupboards Desk with chair 2 filing cabinets 40 chairs 9 large tables plus 3 small tables Notice board Sewing machines Sewing machine tables Overlocking machine Knitting machine Projector Screen Projector table Shredder Table top easels Belling Cooker 40 China beakers Assorted crafting materials e.g. wool, embroidery threads, knitting needles, crochet hooks, sewing needles, sewing threads, fabrics, etc LIABILITIES Payment to Dunsford C of I Church for use of hall Electricity Heating oil Insurance