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Charity Number: 1096755

The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust

Report and financial statements For the year ended 31st May 2024

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The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust

Reference and administrative information

for the year ended 31st May 2024

Charity number 1096755

Registered office and operational address

93 Silverdale Road Yealand Redmayne Carnforth LA5 9TD

Trustees who served during the year and up to the date of

Trustees

this report were as follows: Natasha Twigg Chair Ian Taylor Secretary Rebecca Oaks Jack Holden Lorna Singleton Edward Acland Tony Morgan Jon Scragg

Bankers

Santander

Customer Service Centre Bootle, L30 4GB

Independent

Examiner

Helen Shaklady

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The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust

Trustees’ annual report

for the year ended 31st May 2024

The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31st May 2024.

Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements and the charity’s constitution.

Objectives and activities

As stated in our constitution our objectives are:

i. The advancement of education in traditional coppice skills for the public benefit by the establishment and running of an apprenticeship scheme.

ii. To promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment in particular by promoting biodiversity and the better management of broad-leaved woodland through traditional coppice skills.

The Bill Hogarth (MBE) Memorial Apprenticeship Trust was set up in memory of the late, widely known and respected Cumbrian coppice merchant Bill Hogarth MBE who died in 1999. Bill learned his trade from his father and worked as a coppice merchant in Cumbria for 56 years. Apprentices are placed with a main sponsor (or shared by part time sponsors) and fulfil the main requirement of the BHMAT Diploma of 32 hours a week working within a coppice business over three years. The apprentice learns the skills of coppicing and certain greenwood crafts from their sponsor. S/he also has a budget for specialist training (in further greenwood crafts not offered by the sponsor, as well as in business, first aid and chainsaw skills). Apprentices also have a tool budget, a travel budget, and a small monthly bursary to help them as they progress through the scheme.

We run a recruitment event each year entitled Woodland Pioneers where we train up to 6 apprentices, taking on 2 each year if funding and a suitable placement is available.

Each year, apprentices are asked to put together a portfolio of their learning which forms part of their assessment. They also have practical assessments which are carried out by their sponsors and an oral assessment carried out by BHMAT members at the end of each year. Administration and support with coursework is supported by our BHMAT apprentice officer.

By the end of the 3 years, each apprentice has the skills and contacts to set up their own coppicing business.

Without trained coppice workers in place, the key benefits that coppicing can provide of an essential habitat niche for many woodland species, a specialised timber supply for many heritage and niche woodland crafts and a vibrant living woodland for the benefit of the wider public to enjoy, will not exist.

We believe that our work providing trained coppice workers who can manage our woodlands, meets the Charity Commission’s guidance on providing public benefit.

The trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits the charity has brought to those groups of people that it is set up to help. The review also helps the trustees ensure the charity's aims, objectives and activities remained focused on its stated purposes.

The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity's aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.

Achievements and performance

The charity's main activities and who it tries to help are described below. All its charitable activities focus on the advancement of education in traditional coppice skills for the public benefit by the establishment and running of an apprenticeship scheme and to promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment in particular by promoting biodiversity and better management of broad-leaved woodland through traditional coppice skills and are undertaken to further The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust’s charitable purposes for the public benefit.

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The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31st May 2024

Chair’s Report

The 2023 AGM was held on November 7[th] 2023 at Gilpin Bridge Inn, Levens.

We held Executive Committee meetings on June 6[ th] , August 27[th] , November 7[th] ,January 9[th] , March 13[th ] and May 1[st,] . All meetings held in person.

Executive Committee

An executive committee was formed with 8 trustees Twiggy (Chair), Ian Taylor (Secretary) Rebecca Oaks, Edward Acland, Tony Morgan, Lorna Singleton, Jack Holden and Jon Scragg. Edward Mills and John Gibbs (Treasurer) are co-opted onto the committee.

Announcements

Firstly I would like to thank the committee for all its continued support, especially Kath, Ian and John for all their help and gentle reminders. A good few of us had a lovely day at Sprint Mill with a spar making day organised by Edward and Romola and led by Graham Carter. The weather was fantastic and the day was very rewarding. Graham was a great enthusiast of using British spars so was very glad of a group of people wanting to learn new skills.

Apprentices

Andrew is in his final year and finishes in January. He has worked hard at starting up his business in Sheffield and is doing a grand job and he is looking into starting a co op down there. He has a few contracts for this coming winter and finishing of a barn he has been making from timber he felled for a client. He is working a few days with Ray Lister and has gate orders and has been at a few shows demonstrating. His final assessment will be in January.

Gordo is in his second year and doing well with all his sponsors. He will start to cut a hazel coupe at MAHS as part of his 2[nd] year woodland management assessment.

Leo has settled in up with Mark Shipperley in the North East and passed his 3 month probation.

Moss and Heights Spring Wood

Plenty of “fundays” had, thanks to all that have contributed, especially Ian Taylor.

And thanks to all that helped out on the work days.

. Public Profle

The ones where the information boards were taken were Arley Hall Flower show, Beacon Green Fayre, Chorley Flower Show, Betley Show, Westmorland show and events for Woodland Trust, Southway housing (Manchester). A big thanks to Kath for updating and reinvigorating the power point presentation for BHMAT

Tool Bank

Tool bank held with Edward Acland at Sprint Mill.

National Coppice Apprenticeship

.We have had good progress with moving forward with the Greenwood Centre. They are hoping to realign with our scheme and we have been working closely with them to help them with that. We invited Tom a representative to come to woodland Pioneers to have a better look at how we run the apprenticeship.

Woodland Pioneers

A new site this year at the Silverhelm Scout site at Silverdale.A few places were not booked so we had 3 not quite full 4 x 1 day courses ran and the returners courses were fully booked with wood carving with James Mitchell and hazel baskets with Lorna. It was great to catch up with everybody and to have Lyn and Mike doing the catering. A big thank you to Sue for the delicious cakes for the week. The site worked well and the facilities are better than at Stavely.

Website

Thanks to Tony Morgan for updating and managing the site. There was no Newsletter this year.

Financial review

In the financial year ending 31st May 2024, we spent £27,404 and received £31,918 giving a surplus of £4514. The major income source in the year were various donations from private individuals and payments in respect of payments for the Woodland Pioneers event. The charity held £51,749 in unrestricted funds at the end of the year.

Reserves policy

BHMAT does not consider it necessary to hold a reserve as we are a very small charity and have set budgets for our apprentices and only recruit when we can afford to do so.

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The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31st May 2024

Structure, Governance and Management

The organisation is an unincorporated charity, registered as a charity on 19th January 2001 in England and Wales.

The charity is constituted under a constitution dated 19th January 2001. The trustees are members of the charity but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in the charity.

Executive Committee members not to be personally interested.

1. Subject to the provisions of sub-clause 2 of this clause no member of the Executive Committee shall acquire any interest in property belonging to the Charity (otherwise than as a trustee for the Charity) or receive remuneration or be interested (otherwise than as a member of the Executive Committee) in any contract entered into by the Executive Committee.

2. Any member of the Executive Committee for the time being who is a solicitor, accountant or other person engaged in a profession may charge and be paid all the usual professional charges for business done by him or her or his or her firm when instructed by other members of the Executive Committee to act in a professional capacity on behalf of the Charity, provided that at no time shall a majority of the members of the Executive Committee benefit under this provision and that members of the Executive Committee shall withdraw from any meeting at which his or her own instruction or remuneration or that of his or her firm is under discussion.

3. The Executive Committee shall consist of not less than 3 members nor more than 9 members being:

4. a) The honorary officers specified in the preceding clause.

5. b) Not less than 0 and not more than 6 members elected at the Annual General Meeting who shall hold office from the conclusion of that meeting.

The Executive Committee may in addition appoint not more than 3 co-opted members, but so that no one may be appointed as a co-opted member if as a result more than one third of the members of the Executive Committee would be co-opted members.

1. All the members of the Executive Committee shall retire from office together at the end of the Annual General Meeting next after the date on which they came into office but they may be reelected or re-appointed.

2. The proceedings of the Executive Committee shall not be invalidated by any vacancy among their number or by any failure to appoint or any defect in the appointment or qualification of a member.

3. Nobody shall be appointed as a member of the Executive Committee who is under 18 years or who would if appointed be disqualified under the provisions of the following clause:

4. No person shall be entitled to act as a member of the Executive Committee whether on a first or on any subsequent entry into office until after signing in the minute book of the Executive Committee a declaration of acceptance and of willingness to act in the trust of the Charity.

5. Nominations for elections to the Executive Committee must be made by members of the Charity in writing and must be in the hands of the Executive Committee at least 14 days before the annual general meeting. Should nominations exceed vacancies, election shall be by ballot.

The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31st May 2024

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The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31st May 2024

	Restricted Funds	Restricted Funds	Total Unrestricted	Prior Year Funds
		£	Funds £	£
Receipts
Donations			5100.	11780.
Grants		7920.	1943.	3909.
				Restricted 9570.
Course Fees (1stAid				1290.
and Ecology)
Woodland Pioneers			16938.	13237.
Other Income (Book sales)			17.	24.
Total Receipts£31918		7920.	23998.	39810.
Payments
Woodland Pioneers			11925.	10996.
Apprentice Spend	2030.		11624.	9862.
BHMAT Events Insurance			411.	416.
Other Training Courses			0.	1274.
Administration + Accounting			766.	349.
MHS Wood			648.	954.
Equipment and Tools			-	-
Total Payments£27404		2030	25374.	28846.
Net Receipts LESS Payments			4514.	1394.
(Totals of both restricted and
unrestricted)
	Restricted Funds		Total Unrestricted	Total all Funds
		£	Funds £
Cash funds last year end	b/f	4575	b/f 53125.	c/f 57700 .
Cash funds this year end	c/f	10465	c/f51749.
Total of all funds			c/f	62214 .

(restricted and unrestricted)

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