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← Maxton 21 SCIO

2025-03-31-accounts

MAXTON 21 SCIO

Receipts and Payments Accounts 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

Charity No: SC046798

Contact Address

Charity Name:

MAXTON 21 SCIO

Other Names:

Previously Maxton Village Hall Committee and Maxton 2000

Reg Charity No:

SC046798

Address:

c/o STONEWALL COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, MAXTON, ROXBURGHSHIRE TD6 ORL aee

Type of Governing Document:

SCVO SCIO Constitution (two tier) Constitution of Maxton 21 SCIO

Trustee Recruitment and Appointment:

From amongst the charity members

Charitable Purposes:

The provision and organisation of recreational activities and the advancement of education and health.

To improve the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities and activities are primarily intended.

Summary of Main Activities for the period 1 April

2024 — 31 March 2025

Maxton 21's primary purpose is to maintain and make available Maxton Village Hall as a recreational centre for the community for health, education, and wellbeing.

Our secondary purpose is to fund raise for nominated local charities and community projects.

Maxton Village and Parish contains around 200 people. There is no shop, post office or public house.

It falls to the village hall to provide a focus for village life, where people can get together and enjoy a sense of community. Our aims and objectives are therefore to provide a comfortable community venue for the people of the village and parish, to encourage its use, and to organise community activities and events.

The Village Hall is owned by Scottish Borders Council and is currently leased on an annual ‘wind and watertight’ basis to our charity. The charity maintains the interior of the hall and during the past year began undertaking the cleaning of the hall which had previously been contracted to a private company.

We have Pilates, Art, Sewing, and QI Gong groups using the hall on a regular basis, as well as other occasional lets for meetings such as a local fishing group, and events by other groups such as private parties. (Their fees go towards the hall upkeep.)

The charity members together with supporters hold regular meetings, normally monthly, in the hall to discuss and manage hall matters, and to plan events to foster community spirit and to support the upkeep of the Hall and our charitable funding. For all these which we use the hall as a base.

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We also organise the Christmas lights and the Christmas Tree outside the hall, which again brightened up the village for Christmas and New Year 2024/25. Linked to this, we organised the regular community carol-singing around the village.

During the year several fund-raising events were held for the hall. These included:

We also raised funds for our external charity of the year, the Border Holiday Group SC038524 ,and for planting flower beds and tubs in Maxton village.

During 2024/25 we continued upgrading the hall’s facilities. The main work done on the hall was redecorating the entrance to the hall and painting the internal storage cupboard, as well as the regular clearing of gutters, window cleaning and maintaining fire safety equipment. We also requested our landlord, Scottish Borders Council, to repair some external windows and window frames, and this work was done.

Future

In 2025/26 we are looking for opportunities to put on more community events and encourage more lets for the village hall. One of these is an event to mark 25 years since the millennium celebrations in 2000. We are also looking to redecorate the interior of the hall.

Financial Review

These accounts relate to the period 1 April 2024 until 31 March 2025. For this period the overall income was £4,135.70. This comprised:

The overall expenditure for this period 1 April 2024 until 31 March 2025 was £4,431.34 This comprised:

Reserves Policy

It is the Trustees policy to maintain reserves of up to £10,000 to deal with the risks of any fall off in hall rentals and to deal with any items of major spending arising from equipment failure etc. At the end of March 2025 Maxton 21 had £6,058.64 in its bank account

Maxton 21 — SCIO

Receipts and Payments Accounts 1 April 2024— end of March 2025

1 April 2024—31 March2025
1 April 2023—31 March2024		 1 April 2024—31 March2025
1 April 2023—31 March2024		 1 April 2024—31 March2025
1 April 2023—31 March2024
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
Unrestricted
Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds		 Funds Funds
£
£
£
£		 £
OpeningBankBalances 5804.28
 580(1) 6354.28
Surplus/(Deficit)fortheYear 8644 (1) 209.20 -295.64
Closing Balances 5,717.84
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6058.64		 5804.20
TotalFunds 5717.84
+340.80
6058.64
5804.28		 6354.28

Note 1 the restricted funds for £550 at the beginning of the year comprised a grant from

he Central Borders Village Halls Association and this was used pay for the decoration

o the entrance to the hail.

tote 2 During the year funding raising of £292.50 was made for the Border Holiday Group SC0385245 with £100 paid; and £148.30 has been set aside for he pianting of flower beds in Maxton.

|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Maxton 21 —SCIO||||||| |Receipts and PaymentsAccounts||||||| |forthe period 1 April 2024 until 31st||||||| |March 2025||||||| ||Unrestricted
Funds|Restricted
Funds|Total Funds|||Total Funds| ||4 April 2024—|| |April 2024— ||4 April2024-|||1|April 2023-| ||31 March|31 March|31 March||31 March|| ||2025|2025|2025||2024|| |Income|£|£|£|||£| |VillageHallEventsandFunctions
HallRentals
Fund raisinginsupportofHall
OtherIncome|800
3,275.90
220.00
199.00|f 0.00 F000
| 000
3,275.90
| 0:00
220.00
}
| 0:00
199.00||||643.30
3,150.50
0.00 |
750.00| |FundRaisingfortheNominated Outside
Charity and community project||440.80(1)|440.80|||4187.95| |||—||||| ||3694.90|440.80|4135.70|||4731.75| |Expenditure||||||| |Costs of CharitableActivities||||||| ||3781.34|650 (2)|4431.34|||5074.53| |Total Expenditure||||||5074.53| ||3781.34||||||

Notes:

1) Income of £440.80 for charity fund raising to the Border Holiday Club SC03852 2) Donation of £100 for Border Holiday Club SC038524 and ring fencing of £340.80 at the end of the year refer to monies collected for the Border Holiday Club SC0385245 i.e. £192.50 and the planting of flower beds in Maxton of £148.30 for payment in 2025/26.

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