## **Charity Registration Number: NIC: 101283**
## **Glenravel Historical Society**
**Report and Accounts for the Year End:**
**30 June 2024**
## **Glenravel Historical Society**
## **Report and Accounts for the Year End 30 June 2024**
## **Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|**Trustees' Report**|1|
|**Independent Examiner’s Report**|2|
|**Funds Statements:-**||
|Receipts & Payments Account|3|
|**Statement of Assets & Liabilities**|4|
|**Notes to the accounts**|5|
## **Glenravel Historical Society**
## **Trustees Annual Report for the Year Ended 30 June 2024**
The Trustees present their report and financial statements for Glenravel Historical Society for the year ended 30 June 2024.
## **Public Benefit Statement**
The Trustees of Glenravel Historical Society confirm that they have had due regard for the guidance on Public Benefit by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland and are pleased to report that during the period the group continued to provide the Public Benefits through the programmes and services we offer. In particular, the Trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set.
## **Public Benefit**
The direct benefit which flows from this purpose is an increased knowledge and understanding by members, students of history at all levels and people generally, of the area’s past, people and places.
This benefit is evidenced through feedback from both members and interested parties, at local, national and international levels, using the Society’s website. Our benefit reaches people who live abroad and are interested in researching their genealogical origins within the area. Participants have access to information through a recent local history publication “Along The Ravel and Clough Water” and history presentations and trips, with local and general themes.
## **Achievements and Performance**
The focus in 2024 was the International Furnance Festival in June. Expert smelters and blacksmiths from around the world gathered in Newtowncrommelin over a weekend in June to bring traditional iron skills back to life. The Festival was part of the celebrations of the founding of Newtowncrommelin village 200 years ago and included smelting and blacksmithing demonstrations, outdoor museum and heritage displays and talks and tours on iron ore mining in Glenravel.
Glenravel Historical Society is a non-profit making organisation. Total income for the year amounted to £5,319. £5,000 of this was a donation from Hagan Homes for the Furnace Festivaland the remainder from fundraising and memberships.
Total expenditure for the year amounted to £5,067.
The net income for the year amounted to £252 with net assets of £1,071 at 30 June 2024. The Trustees consider that the Association is in a satisfactory position to carry on its charitable activities.
## Gregory F O' Reilly.
Gregory F O' Reilly. (Mar 4, 2025 15:56 GMT)
Mr Gregory O'Reilly
_**Trustee**_
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## **Glenravel Historical Society**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Glenravel Historical Society**
I report on the accounts of Glenravel Historical Society for the year ended 30 June 2024 which are set out on pages 2 to 5.
## **Respective Responsibilities of the Trustees and Examiner**
As the Charity’s Trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 65 of the Charities Act 2008;
- follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Commission
- under section 65(9)(b) of the Charities Act 2008;
- state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of Independent Examiner’s report**
I have examined your Charity accounts as required under section 65 of the Charities Act and my examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland under section 65(9)(b) of the Charities Act.
My examination included a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also included consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as Charity Trustees concerning any such matters.
My role is to state whether any material matters have come to my attention giving me cause to believe:
1. That accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 63 of the Charities Act.
2. That the accounts do not accord with those accounting records.
3. That the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act.
4. That there is further information needed for a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
I have completed my examination and have no concerns in respect of the matters (1) to (4) listed above and, in connection with following the directions of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland; I have found no matters that require drawing to your attention.
Kevin Higgins Kevin Higgins (Mar 4, 2025 16:03 GMT)
KHA Higgins FCA Chartered Accountant
9 Knockanully Road Martinstown Ballymena BT43 7LZ
_This report was signed on 04 March 2025._
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## **Glenravel Historical Society**
## **Statement of Receipts & Payments for Year End:**
## **30 June 2024**
|**RECEIPTS**
**_Voluntary Receipts:_**
Donations & Fundraising
**_Charitable Activities:_**
Lectures & Events
Membership fees
**PAYMENTS**
Lectures & Events
Gifts
Bank Interest & Fees
Asset / Investment Purchases
**Surplus / (Deficit) for the Year**|**Current Year**
**Current Year**
**Current Year**
**Previous Year**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2024**
**2024**
**2024**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|
||-
**-**
107
129
5,000
**5,129**
341
190
**190**
130|
||**319**
**5,000**
**5,319**
579|
||8
5,000
**5,008**
5
20
59
**59**|
||**67**
**5,000**
**5,067**
**25**|
|||
||-
-
**-**
-|
|||
||**252**
**-**
**252**
554|
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**30 June 2024**
## **Glenravel Historical Society**
## **Statement of Assets & Liabilities - Year End:**
|**FUNDS RECONCILIATION**
**Current Year**
**Current Year**
**Current Year**
**Previous Year**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2024**
**2024**
**2024**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Total funds brought forward 01.07.23
819
-
**819**
265
Surplus / Deficit this Year:
252
-
**252**
554
Total funds carried forward 30.06.24
**1,071**
**-**
**1,071**
819
**Bank & Cash Balances**
Bank of Ireland Current Account
**1,065**
265
Cash in Hand
**6**
554
**1,071**
819
**Other Assets (Unrestricted Fund)**
**-**
-
**Liabilities (Unrestricted Fund)**
-
-
**TOTAL NET ASSETS**
**1,071**
819|**Current Year**
**Current Year**
**Current Year**
**Previous Year**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2024**
**2024**
**2024**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|**Current Year**
**Current Year**
**Current Year**
**Previous Year**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2024**
**2024**
**2024**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|---|
||819
-
252
-|**819**
265
**252**
554|
||**1,071**
**-**|**1,071**
819|
|||**1,065**
265
**6**
554|
|||**1,071**
819|
||||
|||**-**
-|
||||
|||-
-|
||||
|||**1,071**
819|
This report was approved by the Trustees on 04 March 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
Gregory F O' Reilly. Gregory F O' Reilly. (Mar 4, 2025 15:56 GMT)
Mr Gregory O'Reilly
**Trustee**
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**Glenravel Historical Society**
**Notes to the Accounts for the Year End:**
**30 June 2024**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## _**Policies relating to the production of the Accounts.**_
## **Basis of preparation and accounting convention**
The Accounts have been prepared on the receipts and payments basis, under the historical cost convention, and in accordance with The Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 which are applicable to the financial years of registered charities beginning on or after 1 January 2016 or their date of registration with The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.
## **Going Concern**
The charitable activities are entirely dependent on continuing grant aid and voluntary donations as well as trading revenues. As a consequence, the going concern basis is dependent on the future flow of these uncertain funding streams. Accordingly, the Trustees, after reviewing the financial forecasts for future periods, are satisfied that, at the time of approving the financial statements, it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Other than these matters, the Trustees are not aware of any material uncertainites about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.
## **Fund Accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal or as implied by law.
## **Liability to taxation**
The Trustees consider that the charity satisfies the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010 for UK corporation tax purposes. Accordingly, the Charity is potentially exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received.
## **Winding up or dissolution of the charity**
If upon winding up or dissolution of the charity there remain any assets, after the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities, the assets represented by the accumulated fund shall be transferred to some other charitable body or bodies having similar objects to the charity.
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