21st October 2025
Accounts for Bookends Book Festival SCO48511 Year ending July 31st 2025
!am enclosing the accounts for 2024-2025 for Bookends Book Festival along with The Independent Examiners Report.
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| have akeacdyuploaded the Chair persons Report to our annual reporting page on your website.
| trust this is all in order and will be grateful if you can also upload these pages to our Annual Reporting page.
Many thanks, best regards
Chairperson Bookends Book Festival
Bookends Chair Report August 2024- August 2025
Bookends monthly PopUp events have becomea well loved part of the Benderloch and surrounding areas social calendar. We have around 40-50 loyal visitors who drop by every month to choose books as well as meet up with friends or just come for a coffee and a chat in a warm friendly place. Our usual total number of visitors on a Bookends day is approx 70.
In a recent survey of locals Bookends emerged as the favourite out of a list of various activities that were most important to the people who use the Victory Hall. Running our regular PopUps on the 3rd of every month is our most important task as an organisation.
We continue to keep an amazing selection of good second hand books, regularly resupplied by our regulars and other locals.
There is a really good turnover of books, especially in our children’s and fictions sections.
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Bookends is also involved in the monthly Table Top Sales run by the Victory Hall when we open up the BookRoom, usually with 1 volunteer. In addition we have a presence at the Lorn Agricultural Show every August with a stall of books and participate in the Christmas Fair also at. The Victory Hall. We still have Book Boxes/sheds in several surrounding villages, looked after by volunteers. These are especially popular since the mobile library was terminated. There is also a Book shed associated with the Racer Cafe which attracts visitors to chodse books and leave donations.
We acquired a new outlet for our surplus books since Better World Books ceased collecting from us. World of Books now takes boxes of books but involves scanning the ISBN codes to ensure they are sellable through World of Books. This is a less convenient system than before but nonetheless does enable us to avoid large stockpiles of books as we have limited storage space.
One area of concern for us is the fabric of the hall we use for our Bookroom. Thé situation is being considered by the Victory Hall committee and various assessments are being carried out by consultants to find the best way forward for repairs.
We are planning to start replacing some of the bookshelves which have deteriorated and will invest some of our current healthy financial balance to ensure the room looks good and is safe. We are also pleased to be supporting authors to carry our School visits and also plan to offer to supply books to the local Primary School.
Overall its been another good year for Bookends.
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| Bookends | Bookends | ||
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Receipts and Payments Accounts for 1sAug 2023 to 31st July 2024 |
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| £ | £ | ||
| Receipts | 1859.69 | ||
| Unrestricted awards and grants | 0.00 | ||
| Restricted grants | 0.00 | ||
| Ticket Sales | 0.00 | ||
| Donations - Festival ,pop-ups and events | 1859.69 | ||
| 1859.69 | |||
| Payments | |||
| PPS | 0.00 | ||
| Hall hire | 169.00 | ||
| Electricity | 126.00 | ||
| Refreshments | 27.44 | ||
| Authors/storyteller fees | 0.00 | ||
| Other/misc | 500.00 | ||
| 822.44 | |||
| Excessofreceiptsoverexpenditurefortheperiod | 1037.25 |
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| Notes totheAccounts as at 31 July2025 | |||||
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| __.Bokends | has.sound recording equipment.worth £149-to-enable recording of author talks to on the website. As well as the Balance sheet assets the charity has been donated book shelves, |
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| sofas, armchairs and second hand books which were used to transform the local village hall into a | |||||
| reading room. This hasbecome a permanent feature in the village hall and isnow used by all other | |||||
| hall users. | |||||
| Since these assets were donated and if the charity was to cease they would be donated on, they are | |||||
| not considered bythe trustees to have a value for accounting purposes. | |||||
| Liabilities: | |||||
| At the period end Bookends owed the following amounts: | £ | ||||
| Hall fees | 0 | ||||
| Author fees | ¢) | ||||
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| Excess of Receipts over Payments | |||||
| The excess of receipts over payments over 31 July 2025was £1037.25 | |||||
| Less: liabilities (as shown above) | |||||
| Actualexcess of Icome for the period | 1037 | ||||
| Income |
Reserves
The Bookends trustees continue to have a reserves policy. This entails allocating part of this excess income to be held as a prudent reserve so that the organisation can meet its future obligations and aims. It is possible we will be investing in new shelving within the next few months and so some Donations £500 was donated to the Victory Hall in August 2024 . This was agreed at the AGM after discussing our current financial reserves and the needs of the Victory Hall at this time. Trustee Remuneration and Expenses
No Trustee remuneration or expenses were paid during this period
Transaction with Connected Person
No Transaction were made to connected persons
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Cash 30.00
Receipts 1,859.69
Payments -822.44 Balance c/f 5,134.33
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Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of ‘Bookends’ Trust SCcoka|s il | report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 July 2025 which are set out on pages | to 5.
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 (as amended). 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 Il 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 | 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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which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
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e to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations
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e to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply)with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations
have not been met, or
- to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Relevant Professional qualification/professional body: LLB, Retired Bank Manager
Date: 21 October