HUMBIE HALL TRUST
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
Charity Number: SC 041603
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Reference and Administration Information
Charity Name: Humbie Hall Trust
Charity Registration Number: SC 041603
Contact Address:
Sandy Wilson
1 Shillinghill
Humbie EH36 5PX
Trustees:
Chairperson of the Management
Committee: Mrs Lynne Lowrie
Treasurer: Sandy Wilson
Principal Office-bearers
Chairperson:
Mrs Lynne Lowrie
Secretary: Mrs Anne McAlpine
Treasurer: Sandy Wilson
Management Committee
Humbie Box Office Joy Clark
Humbie Youth and
Community Fund Hayley Dalrymple Humbie Hookers Jayne Bisset
Humbie Parent & Toddlers Samantha Coutts
SWRI Janice Dagg
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Toasty Tuesday
Margo Hodge
Humbie Players
Frank Kirwan
Elected
Andrew Bayne-Jardine
Elected Lynne Lowrie
Elected Fiona Harvey-Jones Elected John Heaphy Elected Anne McAlpine Elected Sandy Wilson
Independent Examiner Alex Campbell
Keith Marischal
Humbie
EH36 5PA
Bankers Bank of Scotland
44 Court Street
Haddington
EH41 3NP
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Trustees Annual Report
Year ended 30 June 2025
Structure, Governance and Management
The Hall is administered in accordance with the terms of the Deed of Constitution.
Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees
The Charity Trustees are set out in the Deed of Constitution but, the original Trustees are dead and as posts of County Councillor and District Councillor (in the old sense) no longer exist, two new Trustees have been appointed namely: Chairperson of the Management Committee and Honorary Treasurer, both for the time being.
Organisational Structure
The Management Committee, which consists of six elected members and representatives from seven organisations who use the Hall regularly, meet two times a year and additionally as required.
Objectives and Activities
The Trustees and the Management Committee provide a Hall with its various facilities for the use, when required, of the community of Humbie and anyone else who respects the facilities offered.
Achievements and Performance
The Trust continued to encourage community groups to make full use of the Hall facility during the accounting period.
Humbie Crochet and Knitting Group (‘Humbie Hookers’) has continued to grow and bring new people to the Hall as has the Humbie Acoustics musical group and a now thriving Parent and Toddler Group. The Humbie Youth and Community Fund has continued to organise the annual Humbie Winter Fair and a Burns Supper and Fireworks Night (following the mothballing of Humbie Primary School) while Humbie Players performeda highly successful and well attended play over two evenings. SWRI meets at least monthly and our HBO Film Club continues to show films monthly and on occasion additional showings take place. Weekly yoga and pilates exercise classes also take place and private function hires are readily accommodated when requested.
The well attended Toasty Tuesday community lunch initiative established during COVID continued to provide a warm social space (substantially on a weekly basis) with activities, entertainment and speakers for members of the community. Home delivery
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of lunches by volunteers takes place where individuals are unable to attend the Hall in person. Toasty Tuesdays have also provided summer outings and visits for some of the more senior members of our community and Messy Church took place twice in the Hall during the reporting period.
During the accounting period, the Management Committee progressed plans to enhance further the Hall facilities with a view to ensuring rental income is maintained and if possible increased. The first phase (‘Phase 1’) of the enhancement involves the installation of bi-folding doors (and replacement where necessary of some windows in need of repair) on one elevation of the Hall with associated external ramp providing disabled access. This has required architectural and structural engineering professional services input which were commissioned during the reporting period. The second phase (‘Phase 2’) of the enhancement of the Hall involves in due course the upgrading of the much-used kitchen and redecoration of the main hall.
Financial Review
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The main source of Humbie Hall Trust’s income is rent received from the hire of the Hall facility which amounted to £5,814 (prior year £6,628 including £1,900 received for the last time from the (now mothballed) Humbie Primary School’s use of the Hall).
Income from the Hall’s solar panels was again significant at £1,989 (£1,621).
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Electricity cost continued to be high at £3,122 (£2,507) but this requires to be viewed against the (only slightly reduced) rental income generated notwithstanding the mothballing of Humbie Primary School and loss of rental income from that source.
During the reporting period, the Trust invested £2,366 in commissioning professional services in connection with Phase 1 of the above Hall enhancement project.
The Management Committee is grateful to DLX Community Benefit Trust for their further generous donations to the Hall during the reporting period:
Grant for essential maintenance and repair £4,000 Grant towards the increased cost of electricity £1,350 Total £5,350
Repairs and maintenance increased modestly £1,627 (£1,150 prior year).
Total receipts inclusive of the above grants was £13,153 (£12,450) versus total payments inclusive of Phase 1 expenditure of £10,967 (£7,542) resulting in a decreased surplus of £2,185 (£4,907 prior year surplus).
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Reserve Policy
It is the Trustees’ policy to retain any annual surpluses as a reserve against any future repairs or redecoration or any future deficits. This year’s surplus of £2,185 served to increase the reserve.
Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities
The members of the Hall Management Committee must prepare financial statements which give sufficient detail to enable an appreciation of the transactions of the Hall during the financial year. The members of the Management Committee are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which, on request, must reflect the financial position of the Hall at that time. This must be done to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities and Trustee (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Act 2006. They are responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Hall and must take reasonable steps for the prevention and / or detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf:
sacha stat bbs eB ANIMA th odadhe . Lynne Lowrie, Trustee and Chairperson of the Management Committee
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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Humbie Hall Trust
| report on the Accounts of the Charity for the year ended 30 June 2025 which are set out on pages 8 to 9 of this report.
Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and Examiner
The Charity’s Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the Accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006.
The Charity Trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1)(d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the Accounts as required under Section 44(1)(c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of the Independent Examiner’s Statement
My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the Accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the Accounts and seeks explanations from the Trustees concerning such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently, | do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the Accounts.
Independent Examiner’s Statement
In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention,
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i) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1)(a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and to prepare Accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations have not been met, or
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il) to which, in my opinion, attention should have been drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the Accounts to be reached.
Alex Campbell vt Teg CoyMh Date. ccccccccssssseeseeseeeel 2\ LAMA ‘LoMORO
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Receipts and Payments Account
Receipts
| 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| 6,628.50 | Rent | 5,814.00 |
| 1,621.65 | SSE FIT | 1,989.24 |
| 4,200.00 | DLX | 5,350.00 |
| Hb. Community Fund | ||
| Miscellaneous | ||
| 12,450.15 | 13,153.24 | |
| Payments | ||
| 2,507.44 | Electricity | 3,122.68 |
| 2,093.65 | Insurance | 2,160.26 |
| 1,357.44 | Cleaning | 1,220.00 |
| 1,150.41 | Repairs/Maintenance | 1,627.38 |
| A33.31 | Miscellaneous | 471.33 |
| Phase 1 prof. services | 2,366.00 | |
| 7,542.25 | 10,967.65 | |
| 4,907.90 | (Deficit)/Surplus | 2,185.59 |
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Balance Sheet
2024 2025 15,814.09 Balance b/fwd 20,721.99 4,907.90 Add Surplus / Deficit 2,185.59 20,721.99 Balance c/fwd 22,907.58
Cashflow
2024 2025 2024 2025
15,814.09 Current Account 20,721.99 7,542.25 Payments10,967.65 12,450.15 Receipts 13,153.24 20,721.99* Cur.Acc 22,907.58# 28,264.24 33,875.23 28,264.24 33,875.23
*represented by £17,479.49 cash at bank and £3,242.50 in accrued accounts.
represented by £21,822.58 cash at bank and £1085.00 in accrued accounts.
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