## **THREE TOWNS COMMUNITY SHED**
## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT**
**For 1[st] September 2024 - 31[st] August 2025**
## **Reference and administrative details**
|**Charity Name**|**Three towns and District Community Shed**|**Three towns and District Community Shed**|
|---|---|---|
|**Also known as**|**Three towns community Shed**||
|**Charity Number**|**SC048649**||
|**Registered Office**|**Castle works, 12 Hill Street, Ardrossan, KA22 8HE**||
|**Shed Address**|**Three towns community Shed,**|**Castle works, 12 Hill S**|
|||**Ardrossan. KA22 8HE**|
|**Email Address**|**3townsmensshed@gmail.com**||
|**contact telephone**|**07958566500**||
|**List of Trustees**|||
|**Scott Jamieson**|**Chair**||
|**Louisa Stewart**|**Secretary & Vice chair**||
|**George Gillies**|**Treasurer**||
|**Jim Aitchison**|**Trustee**||
|**Jim Cotter**|**Trustee**||
|**Yvonne Atwood**|**Trustee**||
|**Elizabeth Dunwoodie**|**Trustee**||
|**Carolyn Walker**|**Trustee**||
|**Jim Cotter**|**Stood down as Trustee at AGM**|**30/06/2025**|
|**Elizabeth Dunwoodie**|**Stood down as Trustee at AGM**|**30/06/2025**|
|**Replaced with David Carswell & Sandra Aitchison respectively**|||
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
Type of governing document: The charity operates under a SCIO constitution.
## Trustee recruitment and appointment:
as a charity at each AGM, the members may elect any member (unless he/she is debarred from membership under clause 55) to serve as a charity Trustee for a term of 3 years.
The Board may at any time appoint any member (unless he/she is debarred from membership under clause 55) to be a charity Trustee until the next Annual General Meeting of the organisation.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## Charitable purposes:
The purpose of the organisation is to provide recreational facilities and advance the social needs, health and well-being of residents of all ages and backgrounds living in the Three towns and surrounding areas, by creating, developing and maintaining a facility, namely a community Shed **.** Offering opportunities for all in the Three towns area to meet and undertake creative, physical, purposeful and recreational activities of their choice. Reducing social isolation in the area thus contributing to their physical and mental well-being. Developing the capacity of all in the Three towns area to share their learned/occupational skills and knowledge with others in the community.
## **Achievements and Performance**
Summary of the main achievements of the Charity during this financial year.
With active grant and funding applications, the Shed has now almost completed the refurbishment and re-purposing of the new premises in Hill Street. With the addition of a second unit in the premises, we have now created the space required for both Men’s shed and she shed to function in the same space, although we still choose separate days/times, give or take a few crossovers. This is to facilitate discussions that may otherwise not take place within mixed sex company. This additional space has given us the added advantage of completely level access, coupled with our disabled toilet facilities we now have premises fit for all. The additional space ha also facilitated a growth in our membership, at around 12% over the past year. We continue to fulfil some larger commissions in the enlarged space and have shuffled the space to allow expansion into restoration projects whilst enlarging our 3D printing facilities to include a wood etching machine; all of which continues to bring us much needed donations to assist in running the group. We are still discussing opening more days although as previously we are still looking at the funding mechanisms which would allow this to happen..
The downside of our new premises is that we no longer have the previous advantage of being situated on the main street with a shop window, therefore we are having to rely more on our social media and web site to allow the public to see our finished wares. This has not happened to any great degree over the year because we struggle to get ordinary members to give the Trustees a hand with promoting the Shed, and the “working” Trustees are small in number.
Training on Men’s health has been provided by the Scottish Men’s Shed Association (SMSA) through whom we have had some wider promotion, but our aim for the next financial year is to get more training plans for our members and to promote ourselves at every opportunity we can.
Our major achievements have still been, being able to assist a few members who were struggling badly with their mental health to reach out and seek suitable help, in addition we are aware that a few of our members may have early onset dementia and we are proud to continue to give them
somewhere where they can engage with others, keeping them from succumbing too early, to this dreadful disease. We have continued to carry out building of items for the local community, mud kitchens & benches for schools, memory trees for local NHS facilities and a bench in memory of the leading light at the local allotment site.
Two neuro divergent members have been welcomed to the shed over the last year, both seem to have flourished in the environment and are designing and building their own woodwork projects, much of which they are building with no assistance, such is their self-confidence.
Sadly, we have lost a few members over the past year, we all miss them may they rest in peace.
**----- Start of picture text -----**
. ST
SHI. VGL oceLele J eeealhsorssovaceronsenttiinonnyglllennsiliS“ Oe i ninonsthe
**----- End of picture text -----**
## Scott Jamieson
(Chairperson 2024-25)
Enter SC No. below **SC048649**
APPENDIX 2
Enter charity name below
**Three Towns and District Community Shed SCIO**
|||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Period start date|||||||||Period end date|Period end date|||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||1
Day|||09
Month||||2024
Year|**to**|Day
31||Month
08||||Year
2025||||
|**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**|||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||||**Total funds**
**current period**||||**Total funds last**
**period**|**Total funds last**|
||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||||
|Donations|**6,224**|||||||||||||||**6**|**6**|**6,224**||**8,455**||
|Legacies||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Grants|**59,563**|||||||||||||||**59**|**59**|**59,563**||**35,990**||
|Receipts from fundraisingactivities||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Gross tradingreceipts|**6,849**|||||||||||||||**6**|**6**|**6,849**||**2,379**||
|Income from investments other than||||||||||||||||||||||
|land and buildings||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**7**|**7**|
|Rents from land & buildings||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Gross receipts from other charitable||||||||||||||||||||||
|activities||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,491**||
|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|**_A1 Sub total_**|**72,635**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**72,635**|**72,635**|**72,635**||**49,322**||
|**A2 Receipts from asset & investment**|**A2 Receipts from asset & investment**|||||||||||||||||||||
|**sales**||||||||||||||||||||||
|Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 72,635**
**-**
**-**
~~—~~||||||||||||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**72,635**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**72,635**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**72,635**||**-**
**49,322**||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||||
|Expenses for fundraising activities||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Gross trading payments|**30,113**|||||||||||||||**30**|**30**|**30,113**||**1,517**||
|Investment management costs||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Payments relating directly to charitable||||||||||||||||||||||
|activities|**24,517**|||||||||||||||**24**|**24**|**24,517**||**39,735**||
|Grants and donations||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Governance costs:||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Audit / independent examination|**91**|||||||||||||||**91**|**91**|**91**||**195**|**195**|
|Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Legal costs||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|Other|Other|||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||||
|**_A3 Sub total_ **|**54,720**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**54,720**|**54,720**|**54,720**||**41,448**||
|**A4 Payments relating to asset and**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**investment movements**||||||||||||||||||||||
|Purchases of fixed assets
Purchase of investments
**_A4 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 54,720**
**-**
**-**
~~SSS ~~||||||||||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,720**
**41,448**
~~5]—~~||||||||||
|**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**17,915**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,915**
**7,874**
**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**-**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**
**17,915**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,915**
**7,874**
~~——————~~||||||||||||||||||||||
APPENDIX 2
**Three Towns and District Community Shed SCIO**
**SC048649**
|**Section B Statement of balances**|**Section B Statement of balances**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**
**B3 Other assets**
**B5 Contingent liabilities**
**B4 Liabilities**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Investments**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**38,854**
**17,915**
**188**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
-
**Fund to which**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**|
||Cash and bank balances at start of year|||||**38,854**|**30,980**|
||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account|||||**17,915**|**7,874**|
||cash in hand|||||**188**||
|||||||**-**||
||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**56,957**||**-**|**-**|**56,957**|**38,854**|
|||-||
-
**Fund to which**|
-
**asset belongs**|
-|
- 0|
|||||||**Market valuation**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**asset belongs**|**Total**
**Cost (if available)**
**to nearest £**|**-**|
**-**|
|||||||**Current value (if**
**available)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**Total**
**Fund to which l**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**|
||||||**iability relates**|**Amount due**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which l**|**Total**
**iability relates**|**-**|**-**|
|||||||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
||**Signature**|||**Print Name**|**Total**|**-**|
**-**|
||||||||**Date of**
**approval**|
Three towns ^0District community shed 24-25 / Statement of balances
2
December 2007
## APPENDIX 2
**----- Start of picture text -----**
B4 Liabilities 7
**----- End of picture text -----**
,
Detalis
. .
## Details
**----- Start of picture text -----**
|
Total 4 7 "
**----- End of picture text -----**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
Fund to which liability relates Amount due Last year
. . to nearest £ ___to nearest £
Total 5 *
**----- End of picture text -----**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
ar Amount due
Fund to which liability relates (estimate) Last year
to nearest £ __to nearest £
**----- End of picture text -----**
B5 Contingent liabilities
**----- Start of picture text -----**
Total - rn
**----- End of picture text -----**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
## Signature
**----- Start of picture text -----**
, / Sa
ee eee nee ak,
**----- End of picture text -----**
## Print Name
**----- Start of picture text -----**
Sco Jamieson
eea
**----- End of picture text -----**
Date of approval
**----- Start of picture text -----**
09/a7/} [26]
**----- End of picture text -----**
|
**----- Start of picture text -----**
|
**----- End of picture text -----**
Three towns “ODistrict community shed 24-25 / Statement of balances
2
December 2007
APPENDIX 2
**Three Towns and District Community Shed SCIO**
**SC048649**
## **Section C Notes to the Accounts**
**C1 Nature and purpose of funds** _(may be stated on analysis of funds worksheets)_
## **C2 Grants**
**Individual / Number of grants £ Type of activity or project supported institution made Total -**
## **C3a Trustee remuneration**
If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to a trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b) **X £ Authority under which paid**
## **C3b Trustee remuneration - details**
## **C4a Trustee expenses**
If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross this box (otherwise complete section 4b) **X**
**Number of £ trustees**
## **C4b Trustee expenses - details**
**Nature of relationship Nature of transaction**
**Transaction Balance amount (£) outstanding at period end (£)**
## **C5 Transactions with trustees and connected persons**
## **C6 Other information**
Three towns ^0District community shed 24-25 / Notes
3
December 2007
## **APPENDIX 3**
## **’ Independent examiner s report on the accounts V2**
**Report to the** Charity name **trustees/members of** Three Towns and District Men’s Shed SCIO
|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 (as amended). 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.|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 (as amended). 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.|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 (as amended). 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 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 viewgiven bythe accounts.|||
|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:
•
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
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper
understanding of the accounts to be reached.|||
|Kaye Johnstone|**Date:**|09/04/2026|
|Kaye Johnstone|||
|(Receipts & Payments)|||
|27 Vernon Street|||
|Ardrossan|||
|KA22 7HU|||
||||
## **APPENDIX 3**
## **Disclosure section**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose**