**01 09 2019** 

## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

**From** 

Period start date 

**To** 

Period end date 

**31 08** 

**2020** 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** Upper Don Trail Trust **Other names charity is known by** UDTT **Registered charity number (if any)** 1104333 **Charity's principal address** 28 Millau 2 Kelham Island Sheffield **Postcode S3 8RD** 

Upper Don Trail Trust 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Simon Ogden|Chairperson||AGM of registered members|
||Chris Prescott|Treasurer|||
||Chris Bell|Trustee|||
||David Holmes|Trustee|||
||Ian Holmes|Trustee|||
||Tim Rippon|Trustee|||
||Lee Heykoop|Trustee|||
||Julie Parfitt|Trustee|||
||TonyCanning|Trustee|||
||Ben McGarry|Trustee|||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 

**Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

**TAR** 

March **2012** 

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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of adviser Name Address** 

## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted 

Constitution 

CIO 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Trustee selection methods Elected by AGM 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

The Upper Don Trail Trust works with a wide range of partners and groups in order to achieve the aims of it’s charitable objectives. These include city and town councils, local communities, private landowners, statutory bodies such as the Environment  Agency, other charities and developers. 

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; 

- relationship with any related parties; 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

The objects of the CIO are: 

**Summary of the objects of the** _"The provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation_ **charity set out in its governing document** _and leisure time occupation of the public with the object of improving their conditions of life particularly through the provision of providing footpaths, cycleways, and bridleways as locally appropriate alongside the River Don_ 

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|**Summary of the main**<br>**activities undertaken for the**<br>**public benefit in relation to**<br>**these objects (include within**<br>**this section the statutory**<br>**declaration that trustees have**<br>**had regard to the guidance**<br>**issued by the Charity**<br>**Commission on public**<br>**benefit)**|_from Lady’s Bridge to Stocksbridge and to the Peak District National_<br>_park.”_|
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||Throughout the course of planning and managing our activities for this the<br>organisation has very much kept in mind the Charity Commission’s<br>guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings.<br>COVID-19 had some impact on our activities.<br>Following a relaunch in October 2019 and despite the severe restrictions<br>resulting from the Pandemic from early 2002, the Trust has made a very<br>significant impact on progressing the Trail in almost every section whether<br>through commenting on and influencing planning applications, seeking<br>partnerships with landowners, applying and supporting funding bids and<br>organising volunteering events when permitted.<br>The Trustees and other active supporters have continued to meet using<br>virtual meeting technology, which has given us the ability to include<br>members otherwise unable to attend in person, a facility which we hope to<br>retain when meeting in person is again allowed.|



**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**TAR** 

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Section D                      Achievements and erformance p 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

All our activities are steered by volunteers. 

## Little Kelham Bridge 

After a number of false starts the Council’s funding contribution was reconfirmed in August 2020 and a partnership agreement with Citu drafted which should allow the bridge to be constructed, subject to costs remaining within budget. A new planning application will be required as the previous one has timed out. 

## Herries to Hillfoot 

This new project was adopted as the first priority of the relaunched trust as it is the key missing link in the inner city section of the trail between established sections in Kelham/Neepsend and Beeley Woods. A successful bid to SUSTRANS was submitted by the Council and supported by the UDTT, with additional funding from the Council and a planning application was submitted and approved. However subsequent site investigations have revealed unforeseen problems with buried electric and gas services which render the route unviable as an accessible cycle and wheelchair trail. An alternative route for cycling is therefore being explored following the river bank more closely whilst more modest improvements to the previous alignment as a walking only route are being considered. 

## Stocksbridge Healthy Towns Fund 

Trustees have been invited to join the sub-group of the above board to help shape its bid for up to £20m from the government’s Healthy Towns Programme. The successful initial bid has been approved including up to £3.75m for new connections in the walking/cycling/horse riding trails around Stocksbridge, most of which form part of or connect with the UDT. Stakeholder work, consultation and detailed feasibility, costing and design will continue. 

## Planning Applications 

The UDTT has commented on the following planning applications to ensure parts of the trail are provided as part of the development: 

- Bloor Homes – 450 houses at former brick works Manchester Rd Deepcar with 1km of riverside trail and improvements to Station Rd 

- Barrett Homes – 200 houses at former paper mill Manchester Rd Wharncliffe Side with 1km of riverside trail plus new bridge over the River Don and connecting trail into Oughtibridge 

- Jaguar Estates – retail and leisure development between Penistone Rd and Herries Rd, Hillsborough with potential to improve existing cycling and walking facilities on Penistone Road (decision yet to be made) 

## Volunteering 

A clean-up of the Beeley Woods section of the Trail was organised in February 2020 in partnership with SUSTRANS Rangers, City Kayak Club, Good Gym and the River Stewardship Co. Over 40 people took part and the whole length of trail from Abbey Stainless to Oughtibridge Cricket Club was litter picked, leaves and detritus scraped off and encroachment of vegetation cut back. 

Further activities are planned at Club Mill Rd when permitted again. 

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Section D                      Achievements and erformance p 

## Design Guidance 

Trustees are working to produce a compendium of design standards for widths, surfacing, signage etc based on best practice from across Europe. This will be used to influence the design of new sections and the upgrade of existing trails including removal of security barriers which exclude legitimate users. 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the** The Charity doesn’t maintain significant reserves and raises funds on a **charity’s policy on reserves** needs by needs basis. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

None. 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: 

- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); 

Our principal sources of funds are: 

   - i. Grant applications 

   - ii. Business sponsorship (funds and in kind) 

- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; 

- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Ben McGarry **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 31.07.2021 

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**Charity Name Upper Don Trail Trust** 

## **Recei ts and a ments accou p p y** 

**For the period** Period start date **To from** 31/08/2019 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

**Unrestricted** 

**Restricted funds** 

**funds** 

**to the nearest      £ to the nearest £** 

**Endowment** 

**funds** 

**to the nearest £** 

||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**200**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**200**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||
|Balance||**-**|**-**|
|Donations|**200**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**200**|**-**|**-**|



|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**(see table).**||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**|**200**||**-**||**-**|



## **A3 Payments** 

|**A3 Payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|<br>Media: short film commission|||||**-**|
|Artwork: logo|**200**||||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**200**||**-**||**-**|



|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Total payments_**||**200**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**|1<br>|**-**|||**-**|||14/07/2021<br>**-**||





_**Cash funds this year end**_ **-** 

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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the perio** 

||||||**Unrestricted**|
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||**Categories**|**Details**|||**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**|
|**B1**|**Cash funds**|Acounts|with Co-op Bank plus float||**23,526**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||**_Total cash funds_**||**23,526**|



|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|Acounts with Co-op Bank plus float<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|
|||**23,526**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**23,526**|
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**|
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**B5 Liabilities** 

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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

|Signature<br>_C. Prescott_|Print N<br>C. PRES|
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**o (if any) 104333 unts CC16a** Period end date 310/08/2020 

## **Total funds** 

## **Last year** 

**to the nearest £ to the nearest £** 

|||**26,236**|
|---|---|---|
|**200**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**200**||**26,236**|



|**-**|||
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**200**||**26,236**|



|**-**||**2,510**|
|---|---|---|
|**200**||**200**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**200**||**2,710**|



|**-**|||
|---|---|---|
|**-**|||
|**-**||**-**|
|**200**||**2,710**|
|||**23,526**|
|**-**||**-**|
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**23,526 23,526** 

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## **od** 

|**od**||
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|**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||**-**|
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## **Restricted funds** 

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|**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|



|**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|---|---|
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|~~7~~<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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