## **Lanarkshire Beekeepers Trustees’ Annual Report** March 2024 to April 2025 ## **Charity contact information** Lanarkshire Beekeepers Scottish Charity Number: SC051101 Address 7 Carrick Gardens, Hamilton Postcode ML3 8XE Website: www.lanarkshirebeekeepers.org.uk Charity Trustees ## **Objectives and activities** The organisation’s purposes are to connect and support beekeepers throughout Lanarkshire; to promote the study of apiculture and to inform others about the importance of pollinators to our wellbeing and to our environment through: 4.1 The advancement of education in relation to the honey bee and the craft of beekeeping. 4.2 The advancement of the heritage, culture, and science of beekeeping; and 4.3 The advancement of environmental protection by conservation of the honeybee and its environment. ## **Structure, governance, and management** LBK is a SCIO and has a constitution that was created March 2021. Trustee recruitment and appointment ## as been appointed a trustee **3** ## **Achievements and performance** - Membership continues to grow. - ABC (Absolute Beginners Course) in beekeeping is very popular and attracts participants from Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, and Dunbartonshire. - Several members passed the Scottish Beekeepers Association (SBA) Basic Beekeeper Certificate after being supported via a Study Group. - Interest in the Mentor support group continues to grow. - Supporting junior members with their beekeeping - The _Bee Healthy Lanarkshire_ programme continues with talks, workshops and support materials is embedding Best Practice in honeybee husbandry in Lanarkshire. - Members are focussed on reducing imports of bee and are raising healthy _Lanarkshire Bees for Lanarkshire Beekeepers_ . - In support of our aims, we continue to provide the bulk purchasing of quality equipment and materials for members such as poly nucs, bee feeds and honey jars. - Members give talks and presentations to various community groups and schools and have set up educational displays at outdoor public events. - Our Honey Show and10 year anniversary was a great success - Continue to work with Royal Highland Education Trust to do presentation to Lanarkshire schools on Beekeeping. - A junior member was selected by the SBA to represent Scotland and the Junior Beekeeping event in Dubai. - Reviewed and update our policies and procedures **4** ## **Financial review** Statement of the charity’s policy on reserves The charity is run by volunteers and the reserve policy is that any reserves should be kept to a minimum with the aim of keeping LBA financially viable for 6 months. Details of any deficit LBA is has no deficit. Donated facilities and services Support from Julian Stanley from Ayr Beekeepers to deliver the ABC in Beekeeping and the Basic Beekeeper Study Group. Access to Cambuslang Community Apiary for practical beekeeping sessions. Bothwell Community Garden for the use of their premises for outdoor workshops. **5** ## **Future plans** - Continue Monthly Meeting and Lectures on line and in person. - Continue to deliver Basic and Advanced Beekeeping Courses - As membership is growing need to find a new venue for in person meetings - Search for a suitable site for a club apiary. The search is proving difficult due the requirements for a specific site - Continue to provide practical workshops and focused apiary sessions. - Support for those applying for the SBA Basic Beekeeper Certificate. - Mentoring Team to support new beekeepers. - Extend _Lanarkshire Bees for Lanarkshire Beekeepers_ by offering training in raising queen bees with a view to establishing a queen rearing team. - Working with Lanarkshire schools to promote the importance of Bees and Beekeeping - Redesign the association website. - Committee succession planning - Create promotional packs on Beekeeping and the association. - Implement the lessons learned e.g., Honey Show - Review policies and procedures **6** ## **Declaration** Signed on behalf of the charity trustees: Print name Designation Trustee 26 September 2025 Date **7** Enter SC No. below APPENDIX 2 Enter charity name below ## **Lanarkshire Beekeepers** ## **SC051101** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ||||||Period start date|Period start date|Period start date|Period start date|Period start date||||Period end date|Period end date|Period end date|Period end date|Period end date|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||01
Day||04
Month||||2024
Year|**to**|Day
31||Month
03||||Year
**2025**|||| |**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**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 £**|**to nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||| |Donations|**3,130**||||||||||||||**3**|**3**|**3,130**||**3,108**|| |Legacies|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Grants|**448**||||||||||||||**448**|**448**|**448**|||| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Gross tradingreceipts|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Income from investments other than||||||||||||||||||||| |land and buildings|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Rents from land & buildings|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Gross receipts from other charitable||||||||||||||||||||| |activities|**8,560**||||||||||||||**8**|**8**|**8,560**||**11,284**|| ||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |**_A1 Sub total_**|**_A1 Sub total_ 12,138**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**12,138**|**12,138**|**12,138**||**14,392**|| |**A2 Receipts from asset &**||||||||||||||||||||| |**investment sales**||||||||||||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 12,138**
**-**
**-**
~~—~~|||||||||||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,138**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,138**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,138**||**-**
**14,392**|| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Gross trading payments|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Investment management costs|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Payments relating directly to charitable|Payments relating directly to charitable|||||||||||||||||||| |activities|**7,862**||||||||||||||**7**|**7**|**7,862**||**12,866**|| |Grants and donations|**705**||||||||||||||**705**|**705**|**705**||**428**|**428**| |Governance costs:||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Audit / independent examination|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Preparation of annual accounts|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Legal costs|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |Other|Other|||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| ||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| |**_A3 Sub total_ **|**8,567**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**8,567**|**8,567**|**8,567**||**13,294**|| |**A4 Payments relating to asset and**||||||||||||||||||||| |**investment movements**||||||||||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets
**-**
Purchase of investments
**-**
**_A4 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 8,567**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,567**
**13,294**
~~SSSSS~~||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**3,571**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,571**
**1,098**
**-**
**3,571**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,571**
**1,098**
~~——————~~|||||||||||||||||||| APPENDIX 2 **SC051101** **Lanarkshire Beekeepers** ## **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 £**
**16,741**
**3,572**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**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||||||**16,741**|**15,643**| ||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account||||||**3,572**|**1,097**| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**20,313**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**20,313**|**16,740**| |||1|-|
-
**Fund to which**|
-
**asset belongs**||1
**Market valuation**
**to nearest £**|- 1| |||||||||**Last year**
**to nearest £**| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Total**
**Cost (if available)**
**to nearest £**||**-**|
**-**| ||||||||**Current value (if**
**available)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Total**
**-**
**Fund to which liability relates**|**-**||
**-**|
**-**| ||||||||**Amount due**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Total**
**Fund to which liability relates**|||**-**|**-**| ||||||||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Signature***|||**Total**
**Print Name**|||**-**|
**-**| |||||||||**Date of**
**approval**| |||||||||##############| |||||||||| / Statement of balances 2 December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **SC051101** **Lanarkshire Beekeepers** ## **Section C Notes to the Accounts** **C1 Nature and purpose of funds** _(may be stated on analysis of funds worksheets)_ Bulk Orders Jars, Bee Feed & Nuc boxes on behalf of members, who reimburse the organisation. No profit is made from these sales ## **C2 Grants** ## **C3a Trustee remuneration** |**Type of activity or project supported**|**Individual /**
**institution**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||**Total**|**-**
| ||||| |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)|||| **£ 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) **C4b Trustee expenses - details** ## **C5 Transactions with trustees and connected persons** ||Reimbursal for Event Expenses
~~Reimbursal for Equipment~~
Purchased
Reimbursal for Event Expenses
**Nature of transaction**
Reimbursal for Event Expenses|**Number of**
**trustees**
**£**|**Number of**
**trustees**
**£**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |Trustee
President
Treasurer
Secretary
**Nature of relationship**||**Transaction**
**amount (£)**
**Balance**
**outstanding at**
**period end (£)**|| |Trustee|Reimbursal for Event Expenses|**588**|| |President|Reimbursal for Event Expenses
~~Ribl f Eit~~|**13**|| |Treasurer|~~emursa or qupmen~~
Purchased|**444**|| |Secretary|Reimbursal for Event Expenses|**134**|| ||||| **C6 Other information** / Notes 3 December 2007 APPENDIX2 l Not8S Dec8mber 2007 APPENDIX 2 **SC051101** ## **Lanarkshire Beekeepers** ## **Additional analysis (1)** ## **Analysis of receipts and payments** ## **1 Donations** |**1 Donations**|**1 Donations**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**Total last**
**period**
**to nearest £**| |MembershipFees||**2,383**|||||**2,383**||**1,707**| |General Donations||**747**|||||**747**||**1,401**| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |**Total**||**3,130**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**3,130**||**3,108**| |||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ## **2 Grants** |**2 Grants**|**2 Grants**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|||**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**Total last**
**period**
**to nearest £**| |Rural Development Climate Hub||**448**|||||**448**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |**Total**
**448**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**3 Gross receipts from other charitable activities**||**448**||**-**|||**448**||**-**| |||||**-**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**-**
**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**-**
**Total last**
**period**
**to nearest £**| |Absolute Begineers Course||**2,362**|||||**2,362**||**1,995**| |Sale of Mechandise||**278**|||||**278**||**609**| |Bulk Order Reimbursement||**4,590**|||||**4,590**||**8,485**| |Events||**1,330**|||||**1,330**||**195**| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |**Total**||**8,560**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**8,560**||**11,284**| |||-||-|-|-|-||-| ## **4 Payments relating directly to charitable activities** |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last**
**period**
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|**765**| |Scottish Beekeepers Fees||**35**|||||**35**||**215**| |||**-**|||||**-**||**332**| |Bulk Orders - Bee Feed, Nucs, Jars||**6,157**|||||**6,157**||**8,395**| |Equipment||**604**|||||**604**||**2,493**| |Events||**1,066**|||||**1,066**||**606**| |Refund Bothwell CommunityGarden Hire||**-**|||||**-**||**60**| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |**Total**||**7,862**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**7,862**||**12,866**| |||-||-|-|-|-||-| Additional notes (1) December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **SC051101** ## **Additional analysis (2)** ## **5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds** |**5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 1 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 2 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 3 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 4 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds last**
**period**| |Donations|**3,130**|||||**3,130**|**3,108**| |Legacies||||||**-**|| |Grants|**448**|||||**448**|| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities||||||**-**|| |Gross tradingreceipts||||||**-**|| |Income from investments other than land and buildings||||||**-**|| |Rents from land & buildings||||||**-**|| |Gross receipts from other charitable activities|**8,560**|||||**8,560**|**11,283**| |**_Sub total_**
**Receipts from asset & investment sales**|**12,138**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**12,138**|**14,391**| |||||||-|| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets||||||**-**|| |Proceeds from sale of investments||||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**Payments**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**12,138**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**12,138**|**14,391**| |||||||-|| |Expenses for fundraisingactivities||||||**-**|| |Gross trading payments||||||**-**|| |Investment management costs||||||**-**|| |Payments relatingdirectlyto charitable activities|**7,862**|||||**7,862**|**12,866**| |Grants and donations|**705**|||||**705**|**428**| |Governance costs:||||||**-**|| |Audit / independent examination||||||**-**|| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||**-**|| |Legal costs||||||**-**|| |||||||**-**|| |||||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**|**8,567**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**8,567**|**13,294**| |||||||-|| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||**-**|| |Purchase of investments||||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||||||-|| ||**8,567**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**8,567**|**13,294**| |||||||-|| ||**3,571**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**3,571**|**1,097**| ||||||||| |||||||**-**|| ||||||||| ||**3,571**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**3,571**|**1,097**| |||||||-|| **Nature and purpose of funds** Funds are used to facilate the delivery of education and Social Activities and purchase of equuipment on behalf of members Additional notes (2) December 2007 APPENDIX 3 OSCR Independent examinerfs report on the accounts R•port to th• n.•np. ly￿1••$1M0rnb•rS d LanarkS￿re BecktXPWS R•gi5t•r•d charity SC051101 Peficrfj start datc PWKXI end charity for period Y•w 2