|**30/9/2024 Bank Balance Carried Forward 2023-2024 - £23,220.47**|**30/9/2024 Bank Balance Carried Forward 2023-2024 - £23,220.47**|**30/9/2024 Bank Balance Carried Forward 2023-2024 - £23,220.47**|**30/9/2024 Bank Balance Carried Forward 2023-2024 - £23,220.47**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Income 1/10/ 2024 to 28/10/2025 - Date of transaction specifed as per bank**
**statement for larger items or listed as(end ofyear) total for smaller items**||||
|**Date/Item description**|**Amount in**
**£**|**Total in £**|**Running**
**total**|
|**Donations and Grants In**
4.10.24 Scottish Community Alliance
20.12.24 Donation from Sigma Capital
17.1.25 Donation in memory of Tom Collin
17.3.25 CLLD, South Lanarkshire Council
and the Scottish government- grant for
setting up website etc to raise awareness of
CMS
14.4.25 Donation from Carluke Masonic
Lodge comedy Night
Kilt walk total - donations under ‘just giving
on BS’, £726.83, plus £480 cash into bank on
2/6/25
CMS Members – annual total
CMS Ladies Night Members – annual total|£457.00
£500.00
£645.00
£519.20
£700
£1206.83
£5085
£540|Total
£9653.03|£32873.50|
|Virgin MoneyCashback on BS - annual total|£40.15|£9693.18|£32913.65|
|Woodworking tools sold - no longer required
by woodshed, plus donation(s) for work
done bymembers – Annual total|£240|£9933.18|33153.65|
|**Balance Carried Forward £23220.47**||**£23220.47**|**£33153.65**|
## BS – Bank Statement
CMS – Carluke Mens Shed
DD – Direct Debit on Bank Statement
LDVG – Larkhall Volunteer Drivers Group
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## **Outgoings 1/10/24- to 28/10/25 – larger items itemised**
|**Outgoings 1/10/24- to 28/10/25 – larger items itemised**|**Outgoings 1/10/24- to 28/10/25 – larger items itemised**|**Outgoings 1/10/24- to 28/10/25 – larger items itemised**|**Outgoings 1/10/24- to 28/10/25 – larger items itemised**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Date/Item description**|**Amount**
**Out £**|**Total out £**|**Running**
**Total**|
|**General Maintenance/Improvement of**
**Facilities/Equipment**
14/2/25 Boiler Service – Cash
17/2/25 Dishwasher
19/5/25 Firepoint Scotland
6/6/25 Defbrillator maintenance
4/11/24 Laptop plus software/antivirus
protection etc £537.99 – as shown on BS
11/7/25 New Printer|£90
£248.95
£76.50
£125.94
£537.99
£224.99|£1304.37|£1304.37|
|**Refreshments and Cleaning products/Bird**
**food**
21.7.25 Refreshments for open day
Refreshments and Cleaning products
Annual total|£102.49
£215.19|£318.19|£1622.56|
|**Woodshed Equipment/materials for repair**
**and maintenance for all buildings and**
**materials for community jobs undertaken**
19/5/25 Concrete – Forth Valley Airdrie
22/5/25 ScrewFix voucher
29/5/25 Sealant
9/7/25 Materials for new shed
17/7/25 Skip hire
24/7/25 Wiring for electrician to update
electrics
6/8/215 Materials for new shed
13/8/25 Mark the spark – electrics
8/9/25 Material for new shed £132 including
Chemical storage
13/10/25 Bandsaw bought for woodshed
NB restricted funding used to buy plants, see
restricted funding on page 4, section 2 for
details)|£473.64
£200.00
£126.00
£347.31
£299.00
£149.94
£161.46
£480.00
£132.00
£400.00|£3597.67|£5220.23|
|**Billspaid by direct debit, including utilities andphone**||||
|Monthly Bank charges from VM – started
26/6/25||£39.03|£5259.26|
|Electric Bills – paid by Direct Debit every 3
months see BS - EDF||£677.28|£5926.54|
|Gas Bills – Bills by email – see bank
statement for monthly direct debit payments
– total energy||£439.10|£6375.64|
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|Phone Bill changed supplier from BT at £10
top up pay as you go per month to Lebara
Sim card pay £5 DD per month
(not paid £10 since took over, just ran down
PAYG credit till it ran out) New contract
started 10/3/25||£40.00|£6415.64|
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|TV licence – paid by DD every 3 months –
start date 16/6/25
||£89.76|£6505.40|
|Wif Bills – Talk Talk, paid byDD monthly||£381.81|£6887.21|
|**Regular annual billspaid when invoiced - Datepaid shown asper BS**||||
|**Insurance**
3/3/25 Indemnity and Public Liability
Insurance
8/4/25 Buildings Insurance|£435.17
£300.47|£735.74|£7622.95|
|3/7/25 Rent paid Annually (NB restricted
fundingused asperpage 4,item 1)||£500.00|£8122.95|
|7/8/2 5SMSA annual membership||£25.00|£8147.95|
|**Adhoc Outgoing Payments as shown on Bank Statement, larger amounts**
**recorded separately as per date on bank statement, smaller amounts under**
**adhocpayments total for lesser amounts**||||
|19/7/25 Donation given for sky dive in
memory of
– fund raising
for QEH neurology ward £
23/9/25 Kitchen Hygiene Course for 4
members from High speed Training
17/10/24 Forth boat tours
19/11/24 LDVG for S. 14/1/25 Queensferry
trip
4/12/24 LDVG for trip to Ratho
7/8/25 Tickets for Hampden Park visit £85.86
28/8/25 Refreshments for members visit to
Hampden park
13/10/25 LDVG Trip to Hampden Park
Small items total as per receipts/BS not
already recorded under another category|£100.00
£96.00
£272.00
£152.00
£136.00
£85.86
£95.35
£129.65
£910.35|£1977.21||
|19/2/25 - Website Design and Maintanance
for 18 months paid for by grant received from
Community Led Local Development, South
Lanarkshire Council and the Scottish
GovernmentPaid by bank Transfer to Richard
Stuart of Digicraft||£432|**£10557.16**
**Total**
**Outgoing**|
|**30/10/25 Total Incoming/Outgoing**
**£9933.18**
**£10557.16**
**-£623.98**
**30/10/25 Balance Carried forward from**
**1/10/24**
**£23220.47**
**£22596.49**
**30/10/25 closing Balance**
**£22596.49**||||
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## **Restricted funding Breakdown 1/10/24 to 30/10/25**
**1.** Balance of £167.04 from original amount of £2000 received from the Robertson Trust Wee Grant on 9/9/2022 covering solicitor’s fees, planning permission, yearly rent, building insurance for our leased building at 1 Kilmory Road, Carluke, ML8 4PB
**Total carried forward from last year is £167.04**
**Total used this year is £167.04 towards rent**
**Amount carried over to next year £0.00**
**2.** Balance of £279.00 from original £1,000 received on 22/8/25 from Greenspace Scotland covering our blue token collection in Tesco, Carluke from 1/4/23 to 30/6/23.
**Carried over from last year £279.00**
**Total spent this year £81.20 towards, flowers and planters**
**Amount carried over to next year £197.80**
**3.** Balance of £2,400 for the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing fund, year 3 received on 29/2/24 from Vaslan, evaluation form submitted to Vaslan and spending completed as agreed. Includes Mental Health and Wellbeing Sessions, 1[st] Aid Course
**Carried over from last year £2,400**
**Total spent this year £2,400**
**Amount carried forward to next year is £0.00**
**4.** Balance of £453.00 from original £700.00 for the Refurbishment of New Premises fund, Year 3 received from Vaslan on 29/2/24. Spending included in main accounts, evaluation form submitted to Vaslan and approved. **Carried over from last year £453.00 Total spent this year £453.00 Amount carried over to next year £0.00**
**Total restricted funding carried over from last year £3299.04 Total restricted funding used £3101.24**
**Total restricted funding carried forward to next year is £197.80**
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## **Carluke Men’s Shed Accounts 1/10/24 to 30/10/25**
1/10/24 Opening Balance £23220.47 30/10/25 Closing Balance £22596.49
**Restricted funding** (see page 4) £197.80 **Unrestricted funding** £22398.69
**This is a true record of Carluke Men’s shed accounts for 1/10/24 to 30/10/25 inclusive**
Date signed 17/11/25 Signed below by , Treasurer CMS
Date signed 17/11/25
Countersigned below by , CMS Trustee
Date signed 17/11/25
Signed below by Independent Examiner, , Councillor, south Lanarkshire Council, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 OAA 07748114580
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AGM Minutes of Carluke Men’s Shed
28/11/25
Date:
12pm to 1pm
Time:
Carluke Leisure Centre
Location:
Present:
Apologies:
Discussion of Agenda Items/AGM Business Actions
1 Welcome, housekeeping and introduction
Vice
Chairman
2 Minutes of previous AGM dated 29/11/24 were issued to all members via email John Kerr
on 10/12/24 with no comments Received and no further comments at AGM.
Minutes of last year’s AGM approved.
Proposed by Jamie
Seconded by Gerry
3 Treasurer’s Report – Signed Accounts Read out and all members had copies
available to read – Please see attached copy of signed accounts for more Treasurer
detailed information. Summary of Treasurers report detailed below.
Thanks to for leaving us with a bank balance of
£23,220.47 on 30/9/24 when our accounts were last signed off.
Our total incoming from 1/10/24 to 30/10/25, including Donations, Grants and
Cashback on our current account was £9933.18. See separate copy of signed
accounts page 1 for more details.
Thanks to all who donated to the CMS last year as per the copy of the signed
accounts, especially our members who raised £5085, our lady members, who
raised £540 and who raised £1206.83 on their annual
kilt walk.
Our total outgoings are as listed on the separate copy of the signed accounts
document attached. See pages 2 and 3 for more details. Larger items are listed
separately within their headings.
General Maintenance – total outgoings £1304.37
Refreshments/cleaning Products – total outgoings £318.19
Woodshed Equipment/Materials – total outgoings £3597.67
Bills Paid by direct debit – annual cost of each listed separately £1666.98
Regular annual Bills – Insurance, Rent, SMSA Membership total £1,260.74
Larger amounts for adhoc bills for eg trips out – total annual cost £1066.56
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Small Items total as per receipts not listed elsewhere total outgoing £910.35
Website Design and Maintenance for 18 months £432
Total Outgoing 1110124 to 30110125 is £10557.16
Restrlcted fund5ng- see page 4 on separate copy of signed accounts for
details. Outstanding restricted funding carried over is £197.80 from
Greenspace Scotland. Not used in total this year as our greenhouse was
damaged in the storm earlier this year.
Our accounts are now updated so most are now paid by direct debit or bank
transfer, as listed on copy of signed accounts.
Thankyou to members of our Woodshed for all thelr hard work thls year.
Improving our facilities with their Free of charge (FOC) work, providing FOC
materials FOC and persuading others to provide materials FOC. Carrying out
work in our community for individuals as well as jobs requested by some of our
local primary schools.
donating and persuading others to donate FOC materials for our new
tool shed and refurbishing the wood storage shed. Saving £IOOOs on the cost of
building these.
for the extra work done in schools this yoar,
especially Gilbert for the work replacing the train outside Carstairs Junction
Primary School {CJPS1. Everyone involved for the work on CJPS outdoor and
indoor play areas, They are also planning on helping Crawford dyke Primary
school improve their outside area.
Thank you to everyone involved in making items for sale at our open day earlier
this year. Thanks to
work for our cornmunity and raising funds for CMS for the donations given for
their hard work.
Thanks too to the Monday Malntenance and cleanlng Crew- more
volunteer's welcome.
member, who also recommended a new supplier for our minibus for
trips out- we used thern for the ISI time on our distillery trip and it was a great
recomrnendation and will be looking to use thern again.
Many thanks t
for keeping us supplied with refreshments and
cleaning materials.
Accounts approved.
Proposed by
Seconded by
Election of Office Bearers
All Office Bearers are happy to stand again, already discussed and agreed with
as they were unable to attend the meeting.
Approved by all, no objections, no-one else proposed or nominated to stand.
Chalrman-
Vlce Chalrman-
Treasurer-
Secretary
Trustees
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Any other competent business (AOCB)
FN asked for an update on the Woodshed
Woodshed floor is rotting and needs urgently replaced, one section has been
concreted, but the rest needs finished using rhino board offcuts, FOC from one
clients. A saving of £20(K). Hoping to finish for January. The walls are
also leaking, so they need to be opened up to find and repair the leak. This
likely caused the rot. Will need to buy materials to paint and seal the roof and
replace the rotting boards. Needs insulating and made watertight.
The number of members stand at 62, 6 dropped out over the last year,
4 of them in response to email sent out about AGM Agenda, but numbers are
up from the 44 we had last year.
Thanks to everyone for the hard work that went into our open day earlier this
year from baking to woodwork and other arts and crafts- we have another
open day on 6112125 and hope to do as well, this time sellin8 soup and a roll
instead of doing a BBQ.
Thanks to everyone involved in creating and delivering examples of their
own/our CMS work for the display in the library over the last 2 weeks to raise
our profile in Carluke. Everything needs collecting on Monday $0 we Can price
up the items that are going to be for sale at our open day on Saturday.
Ladles Nlght-thanks to all involved in creating the arts and crafts that have
beenlgoing to be sold at our upcoming open day. Special thanks to
(not a membor) for donating a vast amount of equiprnent and materials for our
use. It fills the pantry and needs sorting out, but once it is sortedWI is happy
for us to sell any material/equipment we can't use, as long as it helps fund out
CMS. Thanks also to
for donation of Tartan material, some of the
products made from this will be on sale at our open day on Saturday.
Many thanks to for keeping us all refuelled and refreshed with hot
drinks and biscuits so our artistic and creative members can use their knttting,
sewing, crocheting, pom-pom making •1 and woodworking skills to create
items we can sell to help toward the upkeep of our shed and our CMS
community.
asked to say a few words and to discuss trips out and fund
raising. Requesting we arrange a Golf day as suggested in last yearfs minutes.
has organised the Motherwell FC bucket collection again this year and, also
asked Tesco re doing a bag packing session and asked for 7 members to help
with this. Advised that these points will be answered as this inupdate
under AOB, still to be reported below.
GDPR (Data Protectlon) We are tightening up on GDPR this year as a priority
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paperwork with members personal data is locked in the filing cabinet in the
committee room, so members personal data such as on membership forms can
only be used in accordance with the members wishes and only for use by the
committee on CMS business. The information is removed from the files and
from any other record when we are informed a member has left CMS. We have
also updated the email address used for CMS from a private email as used last
year, to
to comply with GDPR. This is to
ensure when a committee member leaves the committee that the password to
the email/files are changed and they lose access to this private data. Members
names are no longer on the noticeboard e.g. for trips out – just let a committee
member know if you want to be added to any trip.
**Our website**is up and running now and has current opening times, activities
and contact details as well as advertising our open day on Saturday. A few
minor updates will be added next week. Asked for volunteers to help with our
social media accounts to help with the website/ Face Book page content and
keeping this up to date.
is the admin of our current FB page as it
is linked to his personal page.
Thanks to all our members for their contributions to our community and shed,
whether that is social (nattering and eating biscuits), being creative and artistic,
carrying out work to help our local community and schools, or playing pool in
the games room. We appreciate your contribution to our community of
shedders.
**Trips -**In response to
earlier questions regarding trips next
year and fundraising, we have discussed as a Committee that we are happy to
arrange trips out for members where there is enough interest, (eg we didn’t do
Ratho again this year as there wasn’t enough interest) but we also need to
consider cost, whether costs are refundable or not if members cancel, as well
as the time needed to arrange the trips. No response to the request for
members to help to organise trips at the meeting, but since then
has
volunteered to help with this – thank you
this is much appreciated.
**Suggestions so far include**Glasgow Central Station Tour, Biggar Museum,
Aviation Museum at Dumfries – please let anyone on the Committee know of
any other suggestions to consider/arrange. Various other trips were suggested
by members for last year, that didn’t go ahead due to cost/time to arrange the
trips and reasons for decline fed back to the members who made the request.
**Fundraising Activities**
**Motherwell FC bucket collection**– arranged by
this is in hand, the date
given by Motherwell FC is not until March, so necessary paperwork will be
completed by the time it is required and volunteers asked for nearer the time.
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arranging with Tesco's. The general feeling is that is physically demanding and
none of us are getting any younger.
Grant applications- Several grants were applied for last year and we were only
funded for the Raising Awareness of CMS grant, which has been fully spent on
Office equipment and paying for the Website design and maintenance for 18
months. Other grant applications were declined as we did not meet the crtteria
for being awarded the grants. Each grant applied for needs to have a fully
costed project which matches the criteria set by the awarding body, EG the
mental health awareness grant is specifically for counselling/speakers around
Mental Health (MH) issues/MH I, aid courses and cannot be used for days out
for our members. We did have 2 members signed up for a 2 day MH I, aid
course held locally but had to pull out as l of the days was today. This can be
rearranged, and we can get further funding if others are interested in
completing this.
We now have contacts in the NHS who will provide some Health/MH talks so
no longer need to apply for more funding for Mental Health and Wellbeing. EG
will arrange for talks next year regarding falls prevention in th8 new year; we
have nurses that work in MH and addiction teams that will discuss these topics
with us. Please let us know if there are any topics you would like covered and
we can arrange for them to visit.
they do not have access to your health
records, so cannot discuss individual cases with you.
suggested another local group that we may want to exchange visits with
is Fool On Wishaw. They are a local MH charity offering weekly workshops
across Lanarkshire offering free guitar, singing, songwriting and stand-up
comedy sessions. This could help with our music room development, so agreed
we will agree a date andWI will liaise with fool On to visit us.
We tried to get 1st aid training for our members through St ATrdres as
recommended bvlll as this is supplied by volunteers for a donation. But have
been unable to get a volunteer on any of the dates we requested. They will
update us when a volunteer becomes available, or we can look at an
alternative trainer that may charge a fee. This will be looked at again next year.
We applied for a grant for a ramp at the kitchen fire escape door so that
members who use a walker or wheelchair can use this exit if needed, but this
was declined as other projects met the awarding bod¢s criteria more closely.
In addition to matching the criteria for awarding a grant, we often need to
submit our accounts, bank statements and current bank balance. Our bank
balance is still relatively healthy as can be seen on the copy of the signed off
accounts for this year. We do not have any major projects in progress that need
major Outgoing costs: unlike when the building needed repaired and prepared
for opening up as CMS or solar panels. It takes a lot of time and effort to cost
grant application, to prepare and submtt the information, so we have decided
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as a committee to only apply for grants when we strongly match the criteria
set, to give us a better chance of being awarded a grant.
the raising
awareness grant was awarded because it met the criteria.
Ongolng projects These are being successfully managed without applying for
grant funding and includes our woodshed mentioned above. It could easily
have cost several £IOO(Ys and has cost very little in comparison, due to
getting a lot of the materials needed donated. The ladies night project had a lot
of materials and equipment donated since starting up earlier this year, so no
funding needed forthis either at present. This also means we are reducing
waste and landfill as well as repurposinyJreusing/recycling/upcycling donated
materials and getting new (to us) facilities whilst improving our environment.
Update since the meetingWI has had a donation of a greenhouse and this
will be replacing our damaged greenhouse next year.
Isuggested anothèr local group that we may want to exchange visits with
is Fool On Wishaw they offer Weekly workshops across Lanarkshire offering
free guitar, singing, songwriting and stand-up comedy sessions
There were no fvrther commentslquestions from members at this point.
Tlme. date and locatlon of nèxt meetlng- date to be confirmed. but usually
the last Frlday In November each year.
Vote of thanks to everybody present and meetlng closed at 12.42pm
Date
28/11/25
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