## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/04/2024 Period start date To 01/04/2025 Period end date**
**Charity name:**
## **WILDERNESS TRUST**
## **Charity registration number: 1011511**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|SORP reference|
|Summary of the purposes of|Para 1.17|Environmental protection and|
|the charity as set out in its|enhancement, education in traditional|
|governing document|crafts, arts, sustainable living, natural|
|sciences and heritage. Promotion of the|
|arts. relief of suffering by inclusion of|
|marginalised people in communal life|
|and work and by providing a place of|
|temporary refuge or respite.|
|Summary of the main|Para 1.17 and|Continuation of restoration of derelict|
|1.19|
|activities in relation to those|buildings and transformation to|
|purposes for the public|community resources.|
|benefit, in particular, the|Running of several groups for vulnerable|
|activities, projects or services|adults and hosting many others.|
|identified in the accounts.|Enabling more participation in the Arts|
|(music, crafts, painting) as well as|
|hosting many performances. Offering|
|venue for several local choirs.|
|Hosting fundraising events for other|
|charities.|
|Providing numerous volunteering|
|opportunities|
|Statement confirming|Para 1.18|The Trustees have overseen the work|
|whether the trustees have|with regard to the guidance of the Charity|
|had regard to the guidance|Commission|
|issued by the Charity|
|Commission on public|
|benefit|
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**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38
|Policy on grant making|||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Yet again, volunteers contributed vast**
**amounts of time to the project (over 8,000**
**hrs). Over 100 people made a difference.**
**We had no money for a volunteer**
**manager.**|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**1. Restoration of Presbyterian**
**Chapel Started with reroofing of**
**whole building. Work began on**
**interior of the main Chapel room**
**2. Workshops built in derelict**
**garages – metal working and**
**carpentry. First courses run in**
**these subjects**
**3. Ponds (4) created on Newchapel**
**site for wetland educational**
**project**
**4. 18 grants awarded – for capital**
**works and revenue**
**5. Youth work with programmes for**
**school leavers, Wilderness skills**
**for children group, Hay Meadows**
**days for schools.**
**6. Apple Pressing Days in Llanidloes,**
**Llandinam, Llangurig. Saving food**
**waste, creating opportunities for**
**community events.**
**7. Café breaking even.**
**8. Theatre very successful year with**
**regular music and other events**
**9. More than 2000 (different) people**
**attending events and activities.**
**Some of those attending weekly**
**groups which run free of charge –**
**e.g. 2 groups for additional needs**
**young adults, pensioners group .**
**10. Work continued on Community**
**Gardens including building of**
**woodland garden.**
**11. ‘Super Sundays’ through winter**
**monthsgave free food and board**|
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games on Sundays – making a
warm welcoming space for all.
12. Community Fridge took all waste
food from supermarket for
redistribution - cutting food waste
in the community.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives Para 1.41
set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
ofthe period|Para 1.21|**The charity is covering costs and working**
**well within grant funds**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhy they areheld|Para 1.22|**Small reserves are held to help with cash**
**flow**|
|Amount of reservesheld|Para 1.22|**£2000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern
Para 1.23|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern
Para 1.23|**N/A**|
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|**Additional information (optional)**
Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatements||whererelevant about:|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Grants from Welsh Government, Powys**
**county council, private funding bodies.**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The main risk the Trust has is lack of**
**unreserved funds to service our running**
**costs on the Llanidloes project, but we**
**are managing.**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust deed**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**New trustees are sought as and when**
**required, focusing on local trustees (in**
**the future) and plugging skills gaps. All**
**trustees are involved in the appointment**
**of a new trustee.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**||
|---|---|---|
|Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatements||whererelevant about:|
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Trustees trained and inducted by our**
**project coordinator, Olivia Morris. Some**
**also do training with pavo**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|WildernessTrust|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charitynumber|1011511|
|Charity’s principal address|Old Chapel Farm, Tylwch, SY18 6JR|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Frances Blockley|Chair|||
||JohnnyHall|Vice Chair|From 13/01/2025||
||Ursula Freeman||||
||Chris Maddocks||From 13/01/2025||
||Michelle Price||From 05/02/2025||
||Jasminka O’Hora|Secretary|From 13/01/2025||
||Merlin Blockley||From 13/09/2024||
||Katherine Deurden||From 13/01/2025||
||Helen Hawkins||Until 30/11/0224||
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**HR,**
**business**|Olivia Morris|Pen-’y-Banc, Llanidloes SY186LH|
|**Accounta**
**ncy**|Janet.J Hughe|Hafod-y-geddlyn, llangurig, SY18|
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **N/A**
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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Signature(s)
Full name(s) Frances Blockley
Ursula Freeman
Position (eg Chair Trustee
Secretary, Chair, etc) ee
Date
28/01/2026
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28/01/2026 [oo]
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## **Unaudited Financial Statements**
Wilderness Trust For the Year Ended 31st March 2025
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## Contents
- 3 Directory
- 4 Independent Examiners Report
- 6 Income and Expenditure Account
- 8 Balance Sheet
- 10 Notes to the financial Statements
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## **Directory**
**Wilderness Trust For the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **Charity Number**
1011511
## **Address**
Old Chapel Farm, Tylwch, Llanidloes, Powys, SY18 6JR
## **Trustees**
F Blockley (Chair) M Price C Maddocks J O’Hora J Hall M Blockley U Freeman
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## **Client Approval**
## **Wilderness Trust For the year ended 31 March 2025**
In accordance with the engagement letter, I approve the financial information which comprises the Income and Expenditure account, the Balance Sheet and the related notes.
I acknowledge my responsibility for the financial information, including the appropriateness of the applicable financial reporting framework as set out in the notes the information and explanations necessary for their compilation.
……………………………………
Mrs F Blockley Chair Wilderness Trust 15th January 2026
Approval of Annual Accounts and Trustees’ Report
The trustees/directors approved the attached financial statements and Trustees’ Annual Report for the period ended 31 March 2025 on 15th January 2026.
We, the trustees, confirm that we have met our responsibilities under the Charities Act 2011 to keep proper accounting records and to prepare accounts that give a true and fair view of the state of the charity's affairs and of its incoming resources and application of resources for the year.
Signed on behalf of the charity trustees:
…………………………………….
F Blockley (Chair)
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## **Independent Examiners Report**
## **Wilderness Trust For the year ended 31 March 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 March 2025
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signature ………………………………………..
Janet J Pughe, Hafod-y-geddlyn, Llangurig, Powys.
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## **Income and Expenditure Account**
## **Wilderness Trust For the year ended 31 March 2025**
||**2025**
**2024**
£
£|
|---|---|
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|**Income**
Donations
Grants
Grants spent on Fixed Assets
Interest Income
Other Revenue
Room Hire Income
**Total Turnover**||
||2,102
1,467
50,291
108,846
-
(75,463)
43
9
-
24,219
-
60
**52,436**
**59,138**|
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|**Cost of Sales**
Direct Expenses
Direct Wages||
||-
-
-|
|||
|**Gross Income**|**52,436**
**59,138**|
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|**Administrative Costs**
Advertising & Marketing
Audit & Accountancy fees
Bank Fees
Capital Equipment
Charitable and Political Donations
Cleaning & Refuse
Computer Equipment Expenses
Consulting
Depreciation Expense
Employers National Insurance
Event Catering
Event costs
Fixed Asset Grant Amortisation||
||-
-
864
17
102
161
1,812
2,552
80
-
2,834
1,967
-
51
13,755
2,658
30,630
20,720
-
-
53
-
15
953
(29,550)
(13,468)|
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|General Expenses
Hanging Garden Expenses
Insurance
Interest Paid
IT Software and Consumables
Licences
Light, Power, Heating
Motor Vehicle Expenses
Ofce Admin
Pensions Costs
Postage, Freight & Courier
Printing & Stationery
Professional Fees
Rates
Rent
Repairs & Maintenance
Restricted fund project expenses
Salaries
Speakers, Tutors and Performers
Staf Training
Subscriptions
Telephone & Internet
Tools
Travel - National
Unrestricted project expense
Volunteer Expenses
Website
Winter Pressure fund expenses
Workshop & Class Expenses|55
155
49
1,904
909
859
(25)
(20)
760
99
-
479
4,064
7,729
-
987
2,409
3,575
-
22
-
-
1,704
353
829
1,298
-
417
-
-
798
9,080
-
-
8,579
5,585
6,441
7,669
-
-
295
346
987
444
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,428
482
-
-
-
-
336
1,888|
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|**Total Expenditure**|**50,213**
**58,960**|
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|**Operating Surplus**|**2,224**
**178**|
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## **Balance Sheet**
## **Wilderness Trust As at 31 March 2025**
||Notes|31 March|31 March|
|---|---|---|---|
|||2025|2024|
|**Fixed Assets**||||
|**Tangible Assets:**||||
|Land and Buildings||101693|101693|
|Less accumulated Depreciation on Leasehold improvements||(58461)|(32401)|
|**Equipment**||||
|Computer equipment||1155|1155|
|Less accumulated Depreciation on Computer Equipment||(769)|(480)|
|Equipment||19156|17344|
|Less accumulated depreciation on Equipment||(11650)|(7272)|
|**Total Equipment**||**7892**|**10747**|
|**Total Tangible Assets**||**51124**|**80039**|
|**Total Fixed Assets**||**51124**|**80039**|
|**Cash at bank and in hand**||||
|Cash Account||93|1541|
|Wilderness Trust Current Account||8686|34315|
|**Total Current Assets**||**8779 **|**35856**|
|**Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**||||
|Trade creditors||||
|Other Creditors||1940|2076|
|Barclaycard||662||
|Accruals and deferred income||81|46|
|**Total Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**||**2683**|**2122**|
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|---|---|---|
|**Net Current Assets (Liabilities)**|**6096**|**33734**|
|**Total Assets less current liabilities**|**53807 **|**113772**|
|**Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year**|||
|Trustees’ Loan Account|13884|(1844)|
|Grant Income Spent on fxed assets|35030|112947|
|**Total Creditors: Amounts falling after more than one year**|**48914**|**111103**|
|**Net Assets**|**4893**|**2669**|
|**Fund Analysis**|||
|Funds|4893|2669|
|**Total Fund Analysis**|**4893**|**2669**|
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## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
**Wilderness Trust For the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **Accounting Policies**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements have been compiled on a basis which enables profits to be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice and which provide sufficient and relevant information to enable the completion of a tax return.
## **Turnover**
Turnover comprises the invoices value of goods and services supplied by the company, net of VAT and trade discounts.
## **Tangible Fixed assets**
Depreciation is provided, at the following annual rates in order top wrote off each asset over its estimated useful life
|Freehold Property|No Depreciation|
|---|---|
|Property Improvements|Straight line over 5 years|
|Plant and Machinery|Straight line over 5 years|
|Motor Vehicles|Straight line over 5 years|
|Equipment|Straight line over 5 years|
## **Fund Analysis**
|£|**Fund**|**Income**|**Expenditure**|**Transfers**|**Gains and**|**Fund**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**balances**||||**losses**|**balances**|
||**brought**|||||**carried**|
||**forward 1**|||||**forward**|
||**April 2024**|||||**31 March**|
|||||||**2025**|
|Unrestricted|1579|17145|14921|||**3803**|
|funds|||||||
|Restricted|1,090|35291|35292|||**1089**|
|funds|||||||
|**Total funds**|**2669**|**52436**|**50213**|||**4892**|
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## **Independent Examiners Report**
## **Wilderness Trust For the year ended 31 March 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 March 2025
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signature ………………………………………..
Janet J Pughe, Hafod-y-geddlyn, Llangurig, Powys.
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