FINANCIAL SUMMARY AND APPLICATION OF FUNDS

Within the financial year to the 31^st December 1999 the Charities’ accounts show a net disposable income of £285,000. Within the same financial period the Charities applied £225,000 to a broad range of grant aided schemes and relief in need applications.

In applying Charity funds, Feoffees work closely with a broad range of support organisations, community organisations and Local Authority departments. Examples of projects with which the Charities have recently been involved include:

• The Palliative Care Unit at St Luke’s Hospital
• Enhanced public access at the Union wharf canal Basin
• Works to the clock face at Market Harborough Parish Church
• Works to Great Bowden Parish Church
• Provision of “Life Education Centre” facilities at various of the town’s schools
• The “Harborough in Bloom” project
• The Market Harborough Theatre enabling the acquisition of additional premises
• The Millennium Mile alongside the River Welland
• Establishment of the town centre Shopmobility scheme
• Conversion and access works to the Congregational Church Hall
• Enhanced junior coaching facilities at Market Harborough Cricket Club
• Provision of equipment for Market Harborough Movie Makers
• The “Harborough Mysteries” project

In addition to applying funds to these projects, the Charity has through the course of the last few years expended funds in improving its own properties, these works including improvements to shop premises at 56 High Street, improvement works to both Stevens Street and Northampton Road allotment fields, and a scheme of improvement to the Charity’s fourteen flats at Scotland End, off Scotland Road.