# **FORTH & DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT TRUST SC046894**
## **ANNUAL REPORT PERIOD TO 31 OCTOBER 2024**
## _**GARDINER & CO LTD**_
151 Main Street, Forth, Lanarkshire, ML11 8AE www.gardinerandcoltd.co.uk Telephone/Fax: (01555) 811496 Email: enquiries@gardinerandcoltd.co.uk
_**GARDINER & CO LTD**_
## Forth & District Development Trust SC046894
## Annual Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 October 2024
|Contents:||
|---|---|
|Annual Report|3|
|Independent Examiner’s Report|4|
|Statement of Receipts and Payments|5|
|Balance Sheet|5|
|Notes to the Accounts|6,7|
Accounts prepared by:
Gardiner and Co Ltd Accountants 151 Main Street Forth ML11 8AE 01555 811496 gardinerandco@hotmail.co.uk
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_**GARDINER & CO LTD**_
Forth & District Development Trust SC046894
## YEAR END OCTOBER 2024 – SECRETARY’S STATEMENT
The Development Trust committee continues to be run by volunteers with the aim of serving our community. We have focused on increasing our numbers this year and the committee has grown by two. The ongoing cost-of-living crisis is still having an impact on our community and as such the committee are doing everything they can to better serve the community and help where possible.
Over the last 12 months here are some of the projects we have been involved with.
1. The committee secured funding to help pay for transport to assist residents getting to and from hospital appointments and support groups.
2. The committee run a social supermarket every Wednesday to enable residents to pay £4 and select 16 items of food and basics toiletries. This runs from the Masonic on main street Forth.
3. The committee continues to organise and administer the Micro Grant on behalf of the Renewable Energy Fund.
4. Members have been involved in clearing pathways/walkways to ensure they remain passable throughout the summer.
5. Members have been involved with Community Action Lanarkshire mapping local walks which will be produced as a leaflet, a notice board will also be erected to showcase these walks in the village of Forth.
6. The Mining Memorial Statue has now been erected. An unveiling day will be held on the 26[th] of April.
7. Committee Members continue to be involved in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Providing free books to children.
8. The committee have been conducting a survey to explore with the community the options around potentially purchasing The Inn’s Pub to run as a community Pub/Café.
9. The committee has installed a third defibrillator at Climpy and continues to fund the purchase of battery and pad replacements where necessary.
Secretary Date:
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_**GARDINER & CO LTD**_
## Forth & District Development Trust SC046894
## Independent Examiner’s Report of Forth & District Development Trust
## Year Ended 31 October 2024
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 October 2024 which are set out on pages 5 and 7.
## Respective responsibilities of 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 2006 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 independent examiner s statement: -
My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations. 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 view given by the accounts.
## Independent examiner’s statement: -
In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention;
1. Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- a. to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1)(a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and
- b. to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations.
- Have not been met, or
2. To which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date:
Gardiner & Co Ltd Accountants 151 Main Street Forth ML11 8AE
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_**GARDINER & CO LTD**_
## **Forth & District Development Trust SC046894**
## **Statement of Receipts and Payments for the Year Ended 31 October 2024**
|**Receipts**
Donations
Grants
**Total Receipts**
**Payments**
Payments
relating
directly
to
charitable activities
Gross Trading Payments
**Total Payments**
**Surplus/(Deficit) for the Year**
Bank balance at 01/11/2023
Surplus/(Deficit) for the year
_No.1 Account_
_No.2 Account_
_Cash_
Total Bank balance at
31/10/2024|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Total**
**2024**
**Total**
**2023**
8,000
8,099
16,099
170
3
58,633
0
58,633
63,379
66,633
8,099
74,732
63,549
4
50,021
354
50,375
33,178
5
685
1,285
1,970
20,417
50,706
1,639
52,345
53,595
15,927
6,460
22,387
9,954
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Total**
**2024**
**Total**
**2023**
25,870
4,543
30,413
20,459
15,927
6,460
22,387
9,954
_36,797_
_11,003_
_47,800_
_30,413_
_5,000_
_0_
_5,000_
_0_
_0_
_0_
_0_
_0_
41,797
11,003
52,800
30,413|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Total**
**2024**
**Total**
**2023**|
|---|---|---|
|||8,000
8,099
16,099
170
58,633
0
58,633
63,379|
|||66,633
8,099
74,732
63,549|
|||
50,021
354
50,375
33,178
685
1,285
1,970
20,417|
|||50,706
1,639
52,345
53,595|
||||
|||15,927
6,460
22,387
9,954|
These accounts were approved and signed on behalf by:
Approved by the Trustees on (date) and sign on their behalf by:
Secretary
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_**GARDINER & CO LTD**_
**Forth & District Development Trust SC046894**
## **Notes to the Accounts Year Ended 31 October 2024**
- 1 Funds
Unrestricted funds are funds that the charity may freely use in the furtherance of its objects. Restricted funds must be used for the purpose for which they were given.
2 Trustee Remuneration and Expenses No trustees received any remuneration or reimbursement of expenses in the year 2024.
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Receipts
Restricted Donations Received:
Cloburn Quarry (mining memorial)
Scottish mining (micro)
Restricted Grants Received:
Valencia(mining memorial)
South Lanarkshire Council (mining)
South Lanarkshire Council (can do)
South Lanarkshire Council (micro)
South Lanarkshire Council
Levenseat (grapevine)
Main Grants
Voluntary Action
Corra Foundation
Co-op
Woolfords
FDDT
_Total Restricted_
Unrestricted Grant Received:
Tormywheel Windfarm
Corra Foundation
Valencia
Other donations
_Total Unrestricted_
TOTAL
4
Payments relating directly to charitable activities:
Restricted:
Mining statue
Help with Cost of Living Crisis / Community Health
& Wellbeing Fund / Anchor
Donations
AED|**2024**
**2023**
7,000
0
1,000
0
_8,000_
0
22,500
0
19,968
0
10,000
0
5,000
0
480
24,859
685
500
0
14,000
0
12,130
0
5,000
0
1,000
0
500
0
468
_58,633_
_58,457_
_66,633_
_58,457_
0
4,422
0
250
0
250
8,099
170
_8,099_
_5,092_|
|---|---|
||74,732
63,549|
||
33,464
10,024
10,270
10,267
3,500
5,000
1,200
133|
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|Micro grant/maintenance
Events
Hall Hire for Help with Cost of Living Crisis /
Community Health & Wellbeing Fund / Anchor
School support
Community bike facilities
_Total Restricted_
Unrestricted:
AED
Donations
Equipment
_Total Unrestricted_
TOTAL
5
Gross Trading Payments:
Restricted:
Printing
Consulting
Website
Design
Stationery
_Total Restricted_
Unrestricted:
Stationery and printing
Accountant
Website
Public liability insurance
Membership and professional fees
Tool equipment
Sundries
_Total Unrestricted_
TOTAL|**_GARDINER & CO LTD_**
856
0
480
0
150
2,963
101
0
0
2,983
_50,021_
_31,370_
354
0
0
1,618
0
100
0
90
_354_
_1,808_|
|---|---|
||50,375
33,178|
||685
232
0
18,580
0
500
0
120
0
81
_685_
_19,513_
537
596
240
120
232
24
157
129
50
35
46
0
23
0
_1,285_
_904_|
||1,970
20,417|
7 These accounts have been prepared on the Receipts and Payments basis in accordance with the Charities and Trustees Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended).
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