Black Mountain Shared Space Company No. NI645295 Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 30 April 2025
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 April 2025.
Objectives and Activities
Aims and Objectives
The objectives of the charity are as follows:
To increase intra-community capacity and cohesion.
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Build positive cross-community relationships at all levels across the Upper Springfield Road/Upper Shankill interface area.
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Create initiatives that improve the health and well-being of residents in both communities. Develop and manage initiatives to address education, training and employability deficits in the area. Act as the main forum for cross-community dialogue and peace-building in the Upper Springfield/Upper Shankill Road area.
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Soften, remove or re-image ten interface barriers between the two communities. Develop a social enterprise initiative to create local employment opportunities.
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Develop a shared space for both communities to potentially include community, retail, training and leisure spaces.
Public Benefit
The charity works to promote intra-community capacity building and cross-community good relations in the Upper Springfield/Upper Shankill area.
Trustee and Officers
The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end are listed on Page 1.
Achievements and Performance
Main Achievements
Our main achievement for this year has been the opening of our Shared Space Centre.
Physically this building has removed pre-existing Peace Walls/Barriers, connecting 2 communities and making resources readily available to both.
Our building also provides a wide range of programmes and services to the neighbouring communities. We have welcomed over ten thousand people through our doors from both communities and introduced events that would not otherwise be available in this area.
Financial Review
Financial Position
The results for the year are set out on page 7. Net movement of funds int he year was a deficit of £153,965 for the year compared to a surplus of £31,778 in the previous year. During the year there was expenditure of restriceted funds which were received in the previous year. At the year end the balances of restricted and unrestricted funds held were £32,203 and £35,750 respectively.
Structure, Governance and Management
Governing Document
Blak Mountain Shared Space is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 19 April 2017. It is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated September 2017.
Trustee Selection Methods
In accordance with the Constitution, the trustees retire by rotation and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.
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Black Mountain Shared Space Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025
Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
The trustees (who are also the directors of Black Mountain Shared Space 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:
Mr Paul Millar Mr Steven Corr Trustee Trustee Date 08 Dec 2025
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