Accounts for year ending 31st March 2017

30 May 2017

 

Receipts and Payments Account for year ended 31st March 2017

 

RECEIPTS £
Precept 5,500.00
Wayleaves 69.14
Bank interest 1.95
Grants etc. 0.00
Burial fees 0.00
Others 0.00
 

TOTAL RECEIPTS

 

5,571.76

PAYMENTS £
Clerk’s salary 1,800.00
Clerk’s expenses
Insurance 221.07
Commemorative seat at Overton 690.00
Audit fees          0.00
Port Eynon Hall Hire 220.00
Web site hosting 50.00
One Voice Wales 113.00
Church yard maintenance costs 0.00
Knelston Burial Ground, maintenance 200.00
Commemorative coins for school 300.34
Bramble clearance at Port Eynon 120.00
Joint Councils press announcement 59.09
Land Registry enquiry 7.00
 

TOTAL PAYMENTS

 

£   3,780.50

SUMMARY £
Opening Balance

 

Add Income

14,775.21

 

5,571.76

Deduct expenditure   (3,780.50)
Total 16,556.47
Represented by:         £
Current account 10,372.09
Savings Account 5,259.38
Burial Ground Account 935.00
Creditors / Debtors 0.00
Total  16556.47

Bank Reconciliation

 

Financial year ended 31st March 2017

 

Prepared by      Barry J. Stubbings  (Clerk and Treasurer)                                   Date:    10th May 2017

 

Balance per bank statements as at 31st March 2017: £ £
Current account 10,372.09
Savings Account 5,259.38

 

No. 2 (Burial ground) Account 935.00
16,566.47
Less: any un-presented cheques at 31st March 2017:
Add: un-banked cash at 31st March 2016: 0.00 0.00
Net balance at 31st March 2016: 16,566.47

 

 

The net balances reconcile to the cash book (receipts and payments account) for the year, as follows:

 

CASH BOOK

 

Opening Balance 1st April 2016: 14,775.21
Add: Receipts in the year 5,571.76
Less: Payments in the year (3,780.50)
Closing balance per cash book as at 31st March 2016 16.566.47

Explanation of variances – pro forma                                                             Attachment 1.2

 

The OVW/SLCC ‘Practitioners’ Guide 2011’ provides guidance on explaining significant variances (This is not just a matter for the audit, as it is good practice for the RFO to provide the Council with explanations for differences between one year’s actual expenditure/income and the next, and between budgeted and actual expenditure/income in a year, as part of the normal budgetary control arrangements and when setting the precept.)

 

Please explain any variances of more than 15% between the totals for individual boxes. We do not require an explanation for variances of less than £200; however in some cases there may be compensating variances which leave the total for a box relatively unchanged – e.g. where there was a major one-off project in 2010/11 (e.g. contribution to a village hall extension of £30,000), but a totally different expense of a similar size in 2011/12 (e.g. purchase of playground equipment of £28,000). In such cases it would be helpful to provide an explanation of movements within each box. We also ask you to explain any change where there is a movement to or from zero.

 

Section 1 2015/16

£

2016/17

£

Variance

(+/-) £

Detailed explanation of variance

(with amounts £)

Box 2

Annual precept

 

 

5,500

 

5,500

 

0

 
Box 3

Total other receipts

 

 

3

 

71

 

68

Wayleave of £69 (2016/17)

Bank interest £2

Box 4

Staff costs

 

 

1600

 

1.800

 

0

 

Increase in Clerk’s of £200 pa

 

Box 5

Loan interest/capital payments

 

0

 

0

 

0

 
Box 6

Total other payments

 

 

10,293

 

3,780

 

6,313

 

One off Expenditures in 2015/16 of £8,440

 

Box 7

Balances carried forward

 

14,775

 

16,566

 

1,791

 

 

Box 8

Debtors and stock balances

 

0

 

0

 

0

 
Box 9

Total cash and investments

 

14,775

 

16,566

 

1,791

 
Box 10

Creditors

 

 

0

 

0

 

0

 
Box 12

Total fixed assets and long term assets

 

4,831

 

5,191

 

0

 

Seat purchased

Box 13

Total borrowing           

 

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

 

Asset Register

 

The Community Council holds the following assets:

 

  1. A Burial Ground in the Parish of Knelston formerly attached to the Providence Baptist Chapel and for which the Council levies appropriate charges for internments, etc.

[asset value – £1].

 

  1. Public Notice Boards & seats at the following locations:

 

  • Scurlage Village Green,signboard erected in 2009/2010 @ cost of          £680
  • Port Eynon, signboard near church yard erected in 2010/2011 @ cost of £920
  • Knelston Burial Ground signboard erected in 2010/2011 @ cost of £740
  • Knelston village signboard erected in 2014 @ cost of £956
  • Bench Seats purchased in June 2014 @ cost of £1071.36
  • Bus shelter seats purchased in July 2014 @ cost of £463.1
  • Commemorative seat at Overton Green 2016 £360

 

TOTAL @ COST         £5,191

Notice of appointment of date for the exercise of elector’s rights

Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2017

 

Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 and the Accounts and Audit (Wales) Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/337)

 

  1. This notice will be displayed from 22 May 2017 to 4 June 2017

 

  1. Each year the Council’s Annual Return is audited by an auditor on behalf of the Auditor General for Wales, and any person interested has the opportunity to inspect and make copies of the Annual Return and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts relating to them.

 

  1. These documents will be available on reasonable notice on application to:

 

Mr. Barry Stubbings (Clerk to Council)

Burry Court

Burry Green

Gower

SA3 1HR

 

between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Monday to Friday.

 

commencing on:           5th June 2017

 

and ending on :             30th June 2017

 

  1. Local electors and their representatives also have:

 

  • The opportunity to question the Auditor General about the accounts; and

 

  • The right to attend before the Auditor General and make objections to the accounts or any item in them. Written notice of an objection must first be given to the Auditor General and a copy sent to the Community Council.

 

The auditor on behalf of the Auditor General can be contacted at the address below for this purpose from the  3rd  July 2017  until the audit has been completed.

 

  1. The Council’s audit is being conducted under the provisions of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004, the Accounts and Audit (Wales) Regulations 2014 and the Auditor General for Wales Code of Audit. The audit of Port Eynon Community Council is being carried out by:

 

BDO LLP

Arcadia House, Maritime Walk

Ocean Village

Southampton

SO14 3TL

029 2034 2777