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Treasurer’s Finance Report March 2025
The clock ticks by for us all and before you know it here I am putting together my 13th Treasurer’s Report for the RPGA. As they say, “where did those years go”? I am happy to report that the financial situation for the association at the end of 2024 is very sound and once more we have a healthy cash balance in the bank to carry forward. The detailed accounts are attached to this document and so I intend to just highlight some of the key elements for you in my report.
This year, for the first time, the RPGA account has operated for the entire financial year with all payments in and out of our account being electronic, with no cheques or cash transactions at all. To add to that I have also been able to submit the accounts to the auditors entirely electronically, as well. This is due to a number of factors not least of which is that although I live in a city, there is no branch of Barclays close to where I live and so banking in person has become something of a difficult adventure. However, considering that all of our income comes to us via Standing Orders, and very few suppliers now wish to accept cheques, it certainly suites me to be able to receive and make payments entirely from home.
Since last year the good news is that I finally managed to provide the bank with all the information they needed to confirm that the RPGA is a genuine organisation, and to allow both Jan Thompson, The Secretary, and Kevin Billson, who now takes care of membership, access to the associations bank account, and be able to carry out transactions from the account. Once this was all sorted throughout the rest of the year the account has operated smoothly and without problems.
At the end of the year, working in conjunction with Harry, Kevin and Roger, we undertook a reconciliation process to match the list of paying members for 2024 with the membership list. This was based on my list from the bank statements, and Harry’s/Kevin’s membership list. Unfortunately as in previous years, there were several anomalies, based mostly around names that Harry had as members, and who did not appear on my list of subscriptions received, and people on my list who had paid in 2024 but who we know are no longer alive. I undertook to contact those people who Harry had listed as members, but had not paid in 2024, and also the odd one or two people who had been paying incorrectly, in a couple of cases, twice.
From the responses that I received we discovered that of the non-payers for 2024, of which there were 6, two have sadly died, two wished to resign and two have not responded to our correspondence to them. We agreed that where people have failed
GRAHAM MUMBY-CROFT, Treasurer
graham.mumbycroft@gmail.com
Tel: 07597 397425
If you want to see the full accounts document an e-mail to the Treasurer will secure you one.
Graham Mumby-Croft
Treasurer
Issue No. 93 Autumn 2025
