## **Appendix 1** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** From OSC **r** ||Period start date|Period start date|Period start date||Period end date|Period end date|Period end date| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year| |From|1st|February|2025|To|31st|January|2026| Office of the Scottish **Charity Regulator** **Charity name** |||| |---|---|---| |




|Ellon and District Men’s Shed|| |||| ||SC044586|| ||Hospital Road|| ||Ellon|| |||| |||**Postcode**AB41 9AW| **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number** SC044586 **Charity’s principal address** ## **Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report** |**1**
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**19**|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole year**|**Name of person**
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**appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Andrew Leonard|Chairman||AGM election| ||Colin Gibb|Vice Chairman||AGM election| ||Gillian Forrest|Secretary||AGM election| ||Andrew Leonard|Treasurer||AGM election| ||Ronnie Gair|Trustee||AGM election| ||Alexander Burnett|Trustee||AGM election| ||Ian Elder|Trustee||AGM election| ||Duncan Macrae|Trustee||AGM election| ||John Hardy|Trustee||AGM election| ||Mike Bruce|Trustee||AGM election| ||Niall Webster|Trustee||AGM election| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| 1 **20** ## **Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)** |**Name**|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |**Structure, governance and management**
**Type of governing**
**document**
Constitution
**Trustee recruitment and**
**appointment**
Nominations at AGM and co-options at other times.||| ||Constitution|| ||Nominations at AGM and co-options at other times.|| 2 |**Charitable purposes**
**Summary of the main activities**
**in relation to these objects**|The purpose of the organisation is to provide recreational facilities and
advance the social needs, health and wellbeing of men of all ages and
backgrounds living in Ellon and surrounding area| |---|---| ||a) Creating, developing and maintaining a facility, namely a Men's Shed.
b) Offering opportunities for men in the Ellon area to meet and undertake
creative, physical, purposeful and recreational activities of their choice.
c) Reducing isolation of men in the area thus contributing to their physical
and mental wellbeing.
d) Developing the capacity of men in the Ellon area to share their skills
and knowledge with others in the community.| 3 ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the financial period** The year has been another busy one for the Shed with some significant changes, We adopted a new constitution – a requirement for the Asset Transfer Request (see below) and to allow women to be members of the overall organisation (also a requirement for some funding bodies). Early in 2025 we held exploratory meetings about establishing a women’s shed. In April we held the first sessions of the Women’s Shed – meeting on alternate Wednesdays. This is continuing with about 12 women attending regularly. We need to consider how we progress this in the future on a sustainable basis. For the Men’s Shed we have about 60 men who attend regularly. In terms of visits to the Shed this has shown a progressive increase over the last 4 years – the average visits per week was 16 in 2020; 23 in 2021, 38 in 2022; 47 in 2023 and 2024; 55 in 2025. Some highlights from the main workshops: - Following on from last year’s modifications to the main woodworking workshop we installed a new, more powerful and effective extraction system. The main workshop has had a busy time refurbishing items, making nest boxes, mink trackers, planters etc. - The bike / motorbike workshop has been a great success. With Jim Hardy leading the pushbike refurbishing. We’ve donated bikes to the Academy, repaired and refurbished lots of bikes – and passed some on to Stella’s Voice. Stuart Smith has been leading the motorbike work – now on the rebuild of the 6[th] bike (Norton Commando). - The laser engraving has been very successful – with great stuff produced by Ian, Duncan and Arthur. Arthur worked tremendously hard in the run up to Christmas. - Picture framing ticks along – generally undertaking bespoke repairs and new frames (including frames for a jigsaw and a tapestry) - 3D printing has also been going well – Christmas gifts and repairs for equipment. - CNC has been used for plaques, house signs and other speciality items. A new training course will shortly kick off so that more people can use the machine. - Metal cold forming still needs to ‘get off the ground’ – but other metal working to help furniture refurbishing has gone well. Recently, Bill Higgins has been passing on welding skills to other members. ~~4~~ The IT training initiative with Aberdeenshire, Community Learning and Development (CLD) is continuing and proving to be very popular. The drop-in sessions on Mondays are well attended. On the gardening front the polytunnel was well used last summer – with lots of tomatoes and other veg. David Stark used one of the greenhouses last summer. In March 2026 we had a new 12.5m Polycrub installed to replace the old polytunnel. This was funded by a grant from the MacAskill Family Trust. This will be a great addition to the garden – giving more opportunities for propagation and growing fruit and veg. The pétanque club (affiliated with the Scottish Pétanque Association) continues to meet on a Thursday afternoon. The playing surface needs to be re-laid as it is too soft and variable for competitions. We have started a cribbage group with Ian McDonald taking the lead – it meets on a Tuesday morning c 10.30am. Come along if you want to join in. Harry Emslie has continued with his terrific gardening work at Ythanvale and has been largely responsible for maintaining their gardens. We’d like to attract more men who are in full or part time employment. We have significant capability at the Shed (3D printing, laser engraving, CNC router, picture framing, bike maintenance…) that more men could use. We need ideas on how to attract them. We have been very successful with our fund raising in the last year. In May we received a grant of £700 from the Rotary. On 1[st] January 2026 we received £7066 from the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund to fund our running costs for the year (and we will receive a second payment of £7343 in 2027 to cover next year’s running costs. On the 20[th] January we received £12274 for the Polycrub from the MacAskill Family Trust. This paid for both purchase of the kit and installation. The installation was very efficiently done by North to South services, St Fergus. In terms of ‘external’ events. We held open-days on 17[th] May and 15[th] November giving visitors a chance to have a look round, see what we are doing buy items made in the Shed and spare tools, and of course, have tea, cake and burgers. A big thank you to Shed members who made items to sell at both these events and for members of the men’s and women’s sheds who helped out on the day. New member Andy Cruickshank helped Hybrid Gaming with guidance on soldering techniques. In August, in collaboration with Aberdeenshire Council’s Community & Learning team, we held a Family Learning Workshop at the Shed. Several families with young children came along and had a good time undertaking some craft and model building activities and watched a demonstration of the Shed’s 3D printer. We get a kick out of supporting young people’s activities: e.g. donating bikes to the academy, supporting Arnage Primary School in their pre-Christmas project, family activity days, visits from the Brownies, nest-box building with a carer and ‘her’ children. In October we held a fund-raising quiz at McDonald Golf Club. 5 We again opened the Shed as a ‘Winter Café’ for adults to come for warmth, company, board -games refreshment and food. We opened every Wednesday through November until end February. The sessions were run by members of both the men’s and women’s shed – thank you to those who helped out. In January we had our Annual Meal Out, this year at McDonald Club, where 38 of our members and partners enjoyed a lovely lunch by Cuthberts catering. To conclude, I look forward to the rest of 2026. In March 2025 we submitted an Expression of Interest to Aberdeenshire Council for a Community Asset Transfer of the Shed. This is because our lease runs out in 2030 and we have run out of internal and external space at the Shed. We wish to: - Secure long-term control of the Shed and it’s site by purchase or, long term lease - Expand the site area - Ensure long term adequate electrical supply We will continue to try and increase membership, expand into new activities, and provide a safe and enjoyable space for members to socialise and progress their hobbies. We will also look at other ways we can support the members – e.g. more health talks. If you have other ideas, please let us know. We will continue to progress the women’s shed and have some important decisions to make on how we do this. We will need to consult widely with the membership to make sure we do this well. As the treasurer will tell you, we remain in a healthy financial position which gives us a solid basis to work from. There are some areas we need more help with – two are particularly important: wood workshop supervision and webmaster to manage our social media presence. Please let us know if you could help. It’s been a very active and progressive year. This doesn’t happen without hard work. I’m not going to highlight everyone’s contribution – just to say a big thanks to all of them for support they’ve given the Shed. It takes time and hard work. But there has been an extra effort this year to get the women’s shed off the ground. Several trustees helped with this but Allan Forrest, Colin Gibb and Duncan Macrae put in significant extra time and effort to supporting this. Please remember this is your Shed and we welcome your ideas and feedback on better ways to support you and the community. We also would welcome members to step up and become trustees to help run the Shed – the effort needs to be shared about. So, I’ll hang around a bit longer yet. But, September will mark 5 years as Chairman and 8 years as Treasurer. 6 ## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** We aim to maintain reserves amounting to c 3 months’ running costs. **Details of any deficit** No deficits **Donated facilities and services (if any)** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above** . **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Andrew Leonard **Position (e.g. Chair)** Chairman **Date** 13/04/2026 7 |**ELLON & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED**|**ELLON & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED**|**ELLON & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED**||**SC044586**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**|||||||||-||| |**(INCLUDING RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT)**|||||||||||| |
**FOR YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**|||||||||||| ||||||||||**Total**||Total| |||||||**Restricted**|**Unrestricted**||**Funds**||Funds| |||||||**Funds**|**Funds**||**2026**||2025| ||||||||||||| |**RECEIPTS**|||||_Notes_|**£**|**£**||**£**||£| |Grants|||||_1_|**26,040**|**1,500**||**27,540**||29,403| |Donations||||||**-**|**1,225**||**1,225**||2,903| |Receipts from FundraisingActivities||||||**-**|**4,552.88**||**4,553**||3,657| |Receipts from Charitable Activities||||||**-**|**12,748**||**12,748**||7,548| |Investment Income||||||**-**|**143**||**143**||108| ||||||||||||| |Total IncomingResources||||||**26,040**|**20,168**||**46,208**||43,618| ||||||||||||| |**PAYMENTS**|||||||||||| |Resources Expended for Fundraising||||||**-**
**676**
**25,294**
**15,982**
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**240**|||**676**||393| |Resources Expended for Charitable Activities|||||||||**41,276**||29,424| |Governance Costs - Independent Examination|||||||||**240**||180| |||||||**25,294**
**16,898**|||||| |Total Resources Expended|||||||||**42,192**||29,997| |||||||**746**
**3,270**
**18,594**
**13,379**|||||| |Net Incoming/(Outgoing)resources for Year|||||||||**4,017**||13,622| ||||||||||||| |Total Funds at 1 February2025|||||||||**31,973**||18,351| |||||||**19,340**
**16,649**|||||| |Total Funds at 31 January2026|||||||||**35,989**||31,973| ||||||||||||| ||||||||||||| |||The statement of financial activities includes allgains||||and losses in theyear.|||||| |||The above receipts andpayments are split between restricted and unrestricted funds.|||||||||| ||||||||||||| ||||||||||||| 8 |**ELLON & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED**|||**SC044586**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**STATEMENT OF BALANCES**|||||||| |**AS AT 31 JANUARY 2026**|||||||| ||||||||| |||||||**Total**|Total| |||||**Restricted**|**Unrestricted**|**Funds**|Funds| |||||**Funds**|**Funds**|**2025**|2024| |||||**£**|**£**|**£**|£| |Cash and Bank Balances at 1 February2025||||**18593.77**|**13379.27**|**31,973**|18,351| |Surplus/(deficit)for theyear|||**746**
**3,271**|||**4,017**|13,622| ||||||||| |**Cash and Bank Balances at 31 January 2025**||||**19,340**|**16,650**|**35,990**|31,973| ||||||||| |**Cash & Bank Balances as at 31 January 2026:**|||||||| |Account -1(Treasurers Account)|1,550.77||||||| |Instant Access Account(interest bearing)|34,011.79||||||| |Account 2|200.00||||||| |PettyCash in Hand|226.59||||||| ||**£35,989.15**||||||| ||||||||| |**Fixed Assets**|||||||| |CNC Machine(Year 4/7)|**£7,000.00**||||||| ||||||||| |The financial statements were approved bythe Board of Trustees on 13/4/20206|||||||| |and were signed on its behalf by:|||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| |……………………………………………………….|||||||| |Trustee|||||||| |Andrew Leonard|||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| 9 |**ELLON & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED**|**ELLON & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED**|**ELLON & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED**|**ELLON & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED**|**SC044586**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**||||||| |**FOR YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |**Nature & Purpose of Funds**||||||| The organisation successfully applied for funding for various projects and equipment with funding held as restricted and spent under the terms of the relevant funding agreements. Unrestricted funds consist of donations, fundraising and sales of new and refurbished items. ## **Trustee Remuneration & Expenses** No remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to a trustee in this period. Direct reimbursement of purchases on behalf of the organisation were paid to 9 trustees on submission of receipts. These payments amounted to £1016 for routine Shed activies. In addition specific expenditure due to tool purchase funded by the Poverty Allevation Fund. £530 was paid to Jim Hardy and £899 to Duncan Macrae. |||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**_Grants_**||||||| ||PovertyAlleviation||Fund|£6,000|(restricted)|| ||Rotary|||£700|(restricted)|| ||CMHWF|||£7,066|(restricted)|| ||MacAskill FamilyTrust|||£12,274|(restricted)|| ||George Crombie Trust|||£1,500|(unrestricted)|| |||||**£27,540**||| |||||||| 10 ||**EDMS RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**|**EDMS RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**|**EDMS RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**|**EDMS RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**|**EDMS RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**|**EDMS RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**|**EDMS RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**|**EDMS RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||| ||||**TOTAL**|||||**TOTAL**| ||||**25/26**|||||**25/26**| ||||**£**|||||**£**| |**Receipts**|||||**Payments**|||| ||**3Dprinter**||**149.00**|||**3Dprinter**||**1,224.02**| ||**Cards**||**21.00**|||**Cards**||**0.00**| ||**CNC**||**660.19**|||**CNC**||**634.92**| ||**Donations - miscellaneous**||**1,225.15**|||**Event catering**||**624.79**| ||**Event catering**||**711.64**|||**Garden**||**343.02**| ||**Garden**||**25.00**|||**Kitchen & social**||**1,463.65**| ||**Grants**||**27,540.00**|||**Laser engraver**||**1,056.34**| ||**Kitchen & social**||**2,051.73**|||**Major Eqpt**||**1,845.06**| ||**Laser engraver**||**862.84**|||**Metal work**||**27.07**| ||**Major Eqpt**||**0.00**|||**Miscellaneous**||**1,271.08**| ||**Metal work**||**0.00**|||**Motorbikes**||**801.62**| ||**Miscellaneous**||**948.31**|||**Picture Framing**||**523.81**| ||**Motorbikes**||**2,160.00**|||**Push bikes**||**777.51**| ||**Picture Framing**||**125.00**|||**Quiz**||**50.91**| ||**Push bikes**||**882.94**|||**Refurbishing misc**||**3.98**| ||**Quiz**||**763.20**|||**Room hire**||**0.00**| ||**Refurbishing misc**||**780.00**|||**Running costs**||**8,809.52**| ||**Room hire**||**0.00**|||**Site Maintenance**||**0.00**| ||**Site Maintenance**||**0.00**|||**Site work - capex**||**17,229.52**| ||**Site work - capex**||**54.91**|||**Tools - woodworking**||**1,286.96**| ||**Tools - woodworking**||**49.80**|||**Trailer**||**0.00**| ||**Trailer**||**78.00**|||**Training**||**0.00**| ||**Wooden workshop**||**6,977.12**|||**Wooden workshop**||**4218.17**| ||**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||**46,065.83**|||||| ||**Bank Interest**||**142.64**|||||| ||**TOTAL INCOME**||**46,208.47**|||**TOTAL PAYMENTS**||**42,191.95**| |||||||||| ||||||**Surplus/(Deficit)**|**for the year**||**4,016.52**| |||||||||| |||||||||| 11 ## **APPENDIX 3** ## **Independent examiner’s report on the accounts** **Report to the** Charity name **trustees/members of** Ellon and District Men’s Shed ||**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts **| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Charity name
Ellon and District Men’s Shed||||||||| |**Registered charity**
**number**
**On the accounts of the**
**charity for the period**
**Set out on pages**
**Respective**
**responsibilities of**
**trustees and examiner**
**Basis of independent**
**examiner’s statement**
**Independent examiner’s**
**statement**
**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
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**Address:**|**SC044586**||||||||| ||Period start date|||||Period end date|||| ||Day|Month|Year|||Day||Month|Year| ||
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31||January|2026| ||Receipts & Payments accounts on pages 8–11 attached|||||||(remember to include the page
numbers of additional sheets)|| ||||||||||| ||The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance
with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act 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.||||||||| ||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 any such matters. The
procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit
and, consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.||||||||| ||In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention
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which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the
requirements:
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to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and
Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and
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to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with
Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations
have not been met.||||||||| ||||||**Date:**||15 April 2026||| ||Ian Gourlay||||||||| ||||||||||| ||43 Gordon Place||||||||| ||Bridge of Don||||||||| ||Aberdeen||||||||| ||AB23 8RB||||||||| *Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. If the words do apply, set out those matters which have come to your attention on the following page. 12