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2022-03-31-accounts

Company Number: 5052045 Charity Number: 1106420

Global Generation

Annual Report and Financial statements

For the year ended 31 March 2022

Global Generation

Reference and administrative details

Trustees Jane Jones
Amir Miah
Georgina Hamill Street
Jane Storie
Benaifer Bhandari
Wen Yuh Quek
Oluwaseun Ariyibi Ilenda
Simon Nicholas Lewis
Senior Management Nicole Van den Eijnde – Joint Director
Martina Mina – Joint Director
Company number 5052045
Charity number 1106420
Registered Office Suite 352
254 Pentonville Road
London, N1 9FQ
Principal place of business Story Garden
Ossulston Street
London, NW1 1DF
Independent Examiner Sterling Partners Limited
2nd Floor, Grove House
774-780 Wilmslow Road
Didsbury, Manchester
M20 2DR
Bankers Triodos Bank
Deanery Road
Bristol
BS1 5AS

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Trustees’ report for the year to 31 March 2022

The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006 are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year to 31 March 2022.

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply with the Charity’s Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Companies Act 2006 and the Statement of Recommended Practice ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ (revised 2019).

Structure, Governance and Management

Legal status

Global Generation is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity. The company was registered in England and Wales on the 23[rd] February 2004 and gained charitable status on the 25[th] October 2004.

Governing Document

Global Generation is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Trustees

The directors of the charitable company are its trustees for the purpose of charity law and the members of the company limited by guarantee. Throughout this report they are collectively referred to as the trustees.

The following individuals served as trustees during the period and to the date of this report::

Jane Jones Amir Miah Georgina Hamill Street Jane Storie Benaifer Bhandari Wen Yuh Quek (appointed 25[th] May 2021) Oluwaseun Ariyibi Ilenda (appointed 18[th] October 2021) Simon Nicholas Lewis (appointed 30[th] November 2021) Steven Marshall (resigned 25[th] May 2021) Rasila Jassal (resigned 30[th] November 2021)

All trustees served for the full year unless otherwise indicated above.

The Trustees meet approximately every 8 weeks to review the activities and direction of the charity. The day to day running of the charity is delegated to the joint Directors, who manage the staff team. Individual Trustees maintain an active interest and participation in many of the projects, which is an important part of ensuring the direction and spirit of the charity stays true to its original vision, aims and objectives.

Recruitment, appointment and induction of new trustees

New Trustees are recruited by the Board who consider the skills currently available and then identify the requirements of any additional or replacement trustee. Potential trustees are invited to a preliminary discussion with the Chair, at least one current trustee and one of the joint Directors. On successful appointment of a trustee, the Director provides documentary and verbal induction material to introduce the trustee to the workings and objectives of the organisation.

Related parties

Details of transactions with related parties are given in note 14 to these accounts.

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Risk Management

The trustees regularly review the risks the charity faces and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate their exposure to the major risks.

In common with many other charities Global Generation faces challenges in the area of long-term funding and resource mobilisation. The charity continually strives to develop new and more diverse sources of income to fund our work.

Public Benefit

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with their duty under Section 17(5) of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit. Global Generation carries out a wide range of activities in furtherance of its charitable objectives, as detailed under Activities and Achievements below. Where possible we have attempted to quantify the number of direct beneficiaries, and we also believe the community-building aspects of these activities provide benefit to the wider public both in the areas where we work and beyond.

Objectives and principal activities

The objects of the charity as expressed in the Memorandum of Association are

To achieve these objects, during the last financial year the charity carried out most of its work in London and through residentials at Quadrangle Trust in Kent and Wilderness Wood in Sussex.

Activities and Achievements

During the period the charity continued to take children, young people, families, local residents and business employees on a practical and reflective learning journey. The Charity helped them grow in themselves, in relationships and in practical actions to leave a positive legacy (I, We and the Planet).

Rooted in the rhythms and patterns of nature our projects have included a combination of:

Teams of paid staff and volunteers have led the work at the Story Garden in King’s Cross, the Paper Garden in Canada Water and in Regents Place. The main teams are Youth and Community, Gardens and Build.

Despite the challenges of the past year, with the continuation of lockdown and the uncertainties of Covid-19, the Story Garden remained open, providing a nourishing space for the local community. We have continued to run all our programmes at both Story Garden and Paper Garden and in both our gardens, people of all ages come together to explore the possibilities of the natural world.

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Story Garden in Somers Town

From moments of silence, to getting hands dirty with making and shared gardening and cooking, the Story Garden is a space where the community grows together.

We call the Story Garden a garden of a 1000 hands - a garden nestled in-between big institutions, which has been transformed from a large empty concrete car park into a place where food and nature is grown, stories are shared, heard and told, new ways of knowing are found and communities are created. The Story Garden is constantly evolving, finding inspiration from nature and from those who dig deep and feel its soil on their feet.

This was our third year at the Story Garden in which it has flourished into a well-established community space with the help of many hands. Our lease was extended by at least another 2 years thus we have continued to improve the infrastructure of the garden, the spaces and the way we garden. The number of programmes and people who use the garden have also increased.

Gardening at the Story Garden

In 2021 we produced over 300kg of fresh healthy crops, which were distributed to almost 2,000 Camden families via the Mobile Food Bank - 88% of those surveyed said the fresh products were the best thing about the food they received.

Gardening Together In the Story Garden we make meaningful connections with the environment and with each other, and explore ways for improving the systems that help our communities and planet thrive.

Prolonged periods of isolation indoors during the pandemic affected people’s mental and physical health, particularly those who are already vulnerable. Through one-to-one supported gardening with vulnerable young people and Twilight Gardening for adults, specifically growing and harvesting food for the food pantry, volunteers improved their wellbeing and made connections to others in their community.

We provided one-to-one nature orientated activities for 6 vulnerable young people.

107 local residents came to help in our Twilight Gardening volunteer sessions.

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Youth and Community Programmes at the Story Garden

Nourishing each other Our Community Chef offered six cooking and food demonstrations to the local community, using produce grown and harvested in the Story Garden. These sessions addressed climate change, eating seasonally, introducing affordable vegetables in more meals for children and adults, cooking for hypertension, diabetes, vitamin D deficiency, and how to avoid overly processed foods. At the end participants sat together to eat what they had helped to prepare.

In total 170 people, including families on low incomes and isolated older people referred from Ageing Better UK, attended the demonstrations.

Family Saturdays

Our list of families over this past year has grown to over 300 families. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are the most likely to suffer the negative impacts of Covid-19, and are the least likely to have access to safe green spaces. This year we ran 43 weekly sessions outdoors.

Our Family Saturdays have been a great way for families to get back outside and spend quality time together in nature. The Story Garden has become a sanctuary for many local families who had to spend so much more time indoors, in cramped living conditions.

Themes for this year have been campfire cooking, crafts, seeds, play, den making and homemade gifts. Children, parents and carers work alongside gardeners, chefs and artists to create and explore together.

We continued to run our popular after-school club in partnership with our local primary school, Edith Neville.

18 children from Year 6 have come to the Story Garden regularly on Wednesdays after school. 90% are from Black and minoritized ethnic backgrounds, which is reflective of the Somers Town area and the children who attend the school

We also ran an Easter holiday club, which 20 children attended and a summer holiday club which 72 children attended. Activities included: Wood carving, arts and crafts, clay, cob and sculpture, harvesting food from the garden, cooking, fire lighting, games and gardening.

The Story Garden continues to be a place of education for those in the community - developing skills and sharing knowledge.

In the Summer of 2021 we ran a 7 week AQA Horticulture course for 11 A level pupils at a local secondary school. The aim was to provide horticultural training and develop practical skills to help local young BAME people access jobs in an industry with a lack of diversity and representation. We are currently working with a further 13 pupils on the AQA Horticulture course.

We designed and delivered two horticultural work experience programmes. The first was a horticultural maintenance work experience programme, in which 3 SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) students from the Harington Scheme spent three hours per week learning basic horticultural skills. The programme ran throughout the year, which meant students learnt a range of horticultural activities and tasks that covered all four seasons.

Youth Social Action

This year, in and outside of the Story Garden, from the micro to the macro, change happened in all of us.

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In our Youth Social Action programmes we planned a rich and solid programme that brought in many different ways of knowing, tools, values and collaborations.

We reached young people's homes during lockdown and hunted about the Story Garden, exploring expressions of change and creativity. With 80 sessions, 7 events (including a photography exhibition) and 1 summer residential camp, we have worked with over 30 young people, including senior generators who became fellows and 4 who did their work experiences and 1 internship during summer.

Through the Generator Programme, the Climate and Food Ambassadors and the Voices of the Earth Project we made an impact on the local community, but we also learnt a lot about ourselves. The impacted outside and inside are inseparable, as there will be no real change in the world without us changing.

23 young people aged 8-12 took part in fortnightly cooking sessions, online during the lockdowns with recipe kits being dropped off at their homes, and outdoor cooking in person at the Story Garden when restrictions eased.

During the spring and summer children harvested food from the Story Garden to cook in the meals.Each session covered a vegetarian meal with different cooking skills, nutritional information and food culture and practices from around the world.

Feel Good Fridays

- Regular Friday sessions in the Story Garden for isolated 50+ year olds combining cooking, gardening, arts and crafts.

The Story Garden is one of five pilot sites in which we are aiming to improve our soils, composting and water harvesting systems, as a showcase of what is possible in urban contexts. The Story Garden also serves as the platform from which the training for 15 Youth Ambassadors and 18 Adult Ambassadors takes place.

We ran a 4-week summer school at the Story Garden with funding to alleviate child hunger during the holidays. We worked with 30 local children who took part in gardening, making and cooking over the fire. Children helped cook their warm nutritious lunches and got to connect to nature and other children locally.

Greening Somers Town

We have worked on 4 housing estates to improve communal garden spaces and empty spaces so that local residents can use these spaces to grow food, plants or to socialise. 60 local residents have participated in volunteering and gardening to get these spaces set up.

At the Somers Town Community Association (STCA) rooftop garden we put in 9 new beds and did 8 working sessions with local volunteers. At the end of the 8 weeks we were able to harvest the food and give them to the food hub at STCA, which meant local families benefited directly from the work done by the volunteers. We had over 7 volunteers involved.

We hosted various events throughout the year including COP26, the Story Garden's 2-year anniversary, Eid and The Day of the Dead.

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As restrictions eased, the events were a chance for the community to come together in the Story Garden, celebrate the diversity of the local community and (re)make community connections.

Over 2000 people visited the Story Garden during the course of the four events. They came to meet friends, family and neighbours, find inspiration, enjoy the laughter and music and, after the strange months of the pandemic, feel a sense of belonging and purpose again.

Finding common ground

We have run a series of reflective intergenerational workshops with patients from a local GP practice and primary school pupils from 2 Camden primary schools, exploring changing attitudes towards water. 20 people - younger and older - came together fortnightly to explore and learn together. They heard each others stories of water, making new friendships and discovering new possibilities of togetherness and wellbeing.

In October we welcomed recently arrived neighbours into the Story Garden: 20 Afghan families come weekly to cook and tell stories, do woodwork, garden and interact with the space and each other. Their children play, dig, and learn, surrounded by the happiness of all. They have cooked traditional food, made textiles and kites, felt the earth beneath their feet and perhaps, most importantly, found a home where their hearts can, momentarily, feel at ease and in peace. From January we also worked with 4 isolated Afghan men. The sessions took the shape of a men’s wellbeing group, supporting them to integrate and connect outside the hotels, slowly meeting new groups and communities, or venturing out with greater confidence.

Gardening in schools

Our Nurture Groups have worked with children from Reception to Year 5. In total we worked with 80 children, including children who arrived to the country from Afghanistan in September. We provided them with a safe and nurturing space with a strong focus on wellbeing. Children sowed seeds, grew food in the school gardens and participated in nature games, arts and crafts.

We secured funding to build a Wellbeing Garden at Regent's High School and to run a Gardening Club with the students. Rashid, a local carpenter and former student of the school built the raised beds, which are being used by the current students to grow vegetables.

Paper Garden in Canada Water

Since April 2021 the Paper Garden has worked with over 1,300 local people. We have adapted our practice to respond to the needs to the local communities through:

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TEDI London, Greenwich University, King's College London

In October 2021 we had to shut down our original Paper Garden and move to a new site. On the new site we are converting an old shed into a classroom and office space, building a cordwood wall and upcycling materials. It is the largest cordwood build in the UK and largest circular economy build in London. Over 200 volunteers and local people have helped grow the site so far.

Highlights have included getting local wood from Epping Forest, reclaimed windows and the completion of the front wall, new compost bays, huge mounds made from local trees, a polytunnel, the transport of the pond, 98 oak trees that were re-potted by ISG Ltd, a Construction and Engineering Company, and are providing a brilliant education tool and habitat, and community lunches around the fire.

Throughout 2021 40 local young people, gathered weekly to learn from each other, local facilitators, and the land. They learnt how to cook new meals, travelled to Kew Gardens, were part of Peckham Theatres "Being Young and Black in London", and inspired by meeting activist Kwesia, City Girl in Nature who grew up locally. They created new habitats, began designing the new Paper Garden, and transported the pond across the car park to our new home - saving hundreds of plants and creatures.

The 'Journey Garden' was designed and built by 30 local young people on the Paper Garden's Generator programme throughout 2021 as part of their social action project. This build for the public realm was done in collaboration with YES MAKE. The garden has been named the 'Journey Garden', by Generator Andras. The garden has three zones: Zone 1 - Beetle loggery or 'bug hotel' Zone 2 - Benches carved by the young people in collaboration Zone 3 - Tiles representing plants, designed and made by local primary school children, families, and young people.

Residential camps with young people

- From Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th August, the Paper Garden Generators embarked on an adventure to Wilderness Wood, in Sussex. They slept, explored and foraged through a 62 acres of chestnut coppice, beech, Scottish pine, douglas, cedar and giant sequoia woodland. For most, it was their first camp with us, for some it was their first camp at all. We all shared a unique experience with one another that brought together laughs, tears, songs, stories and wonderful art. Additionally, 6 Generators went camping with Black 2 Nature, founded by Mya Rose Craig.

We have secured 2-year funding from the Council to run a Green Ambassador programme for 30 graduates of the Generator Programme. They attend weekly workshops. The young people have been working with the communities in Silwood to grow the Alphabet Community Garden.

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Every week Bosco College students, including their ESOL group, visited the Paper Garden. They helped move the garden, created new community growing beds, cooked lunches, and will be designing and making a new eating area.

We ran two days of workshops in Compass Secondary School, themed around mental health and nature connection.

Roots and Shoots SEN students have visited the garden for monthly workshops, helping transform the new space.

We hosted a month-long Intern from Career Ready and two work experience placements in July.

We have facilitated 60 primary school workshops, exploring the old garden, helping move it to its new home, and beginning to create the new garden. The schools are very excited about the new space and for the children to see it and help it grow over the next 6 years. We are also running gardening clubs in 3 of those primary schools: Albion, Redriff and St Joseph’s.

Community groups and Saturdays

Time and Talents holiday club have used the new garden for outside activities. We have hosted 2 community Saturdays for 60 local people to grow their carpentry skills, they helped build our new community growing beds and the classroom.

In July we welcomed ten year 6 children into the garden for a weeklong summer club, supported by Redriff school. The group harvested potatoes, cooked, sang, lit fires, and created stories together. Many have gone on to join the 2022 Generator Programme.

Twilight Gardening with local people and King’s College

We hosted two trail Twilight Gardening events for local people and health researchers. Feedback from Tom, one of the participants: "Many thanks for the invite, and it is nice to see space like the Paper Garden used in a creative way, for the benefit of the local community. I especially like the way you are making the space accessible to people by holding events like last night’s Twilight Gardening session. It is a very tranquil space in a busy city, and there is something very charming about sharing food, cooked on a wood fire, with strangers."

Food harvest

We continue to grow for the local community. This year we harvested over 200kg of produce. We have been donating weekly harvests to the Love North Southwark (LNS) Food Pantry. LNS provides food for Bermondsey and Rotherhithe residents. We are growing produce from different places around the world and will be working with local people to find out what they would like to grow.

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Organisational Development

2021-2022 was a year of change and transition for Global Generation with Jane Riddiford, founder of the organisation, moving back to New Zealand. The transition has gone smoothly with the existing Joint Director staying on board and an existing member of staff progressing into the role of Joint Director, therefore keeping the collaborative leadership model that we have been working with over the past 5 years. Jane is still involved as an associate and is also supporting the staff team with continuing and developing the action research work.

Over the winter months we have focused on coming together as a team to reflect on our working practices and how we can do even more to ensure the wellbeing of staff. Our staff, as everyone, has been affected by the pandemic and its wellbeing is fundamental to how well we are able to support our communities. We have restarted running our monthly circles, where we come together to delve into certain themes and topics as a whole team, our shared cooked team lunches and our away days and engaged education sessions.

Over this period we finalised the Heads of Terms for our permanent site in King’s Cross, which will have a 999-year lease. We are very excited at the prospect of having for the first time in Global Generation’s history a permanent base from which to work.

We also ran a co-design process with a group of young people to design our Floating Garden, our newest community space on a barge on the Regents canal opposite Granary Square in King’s Cross.

Volunteers

The Charity is very involved in the community and relies on voluntary help. Volunteers have enabled the delivery of various programmes at the Story Garden in King’s Cross and Paper Garden in Canada Water by supporting the Youth and Community Team, Gardens Team and Build Team.

We are grateful to our volunteers who support the delivery of the work and the maintenance of the gardens and to King’s Cross Central Partnership, our lawyers at Freeths and the contractors on the King’s Cross and Canada Water development for their ongoing support.

Future plans

In line with our strategic plan over the coming year we have set ourselves the following strategic targets:

  1. To develop and maintain key localised gardens in Camden, Islington and Southwark influenced by I, We and the Planet. These will serve as Global Generation hubs for the team to operate from and as a base for our children, young people and community projects. We will share learning and practice across boroughs.

  2. To work with the directors of Wilderness Woods in Sussex and the Quadrangle Trust in Kent to run rural camps for children and young people and to be open to further collaboration with other organisations that support wildlife and holistic farming practices.

  3. To deepen our relationships and grow our outreach work in the communities with the highest levels of need in the areas surrounding our gardens.

  4. To actively work on greening and nature-oriented community work in the green spaces and streets surrounding the Story Garden and continue to develop the legacy of the Story Garden.

  5. To work with local young people on a co-build process for the Floating Garden, our community growing barge on the Regent’s Canal in King’s Cross

  6. To finalise the lease for a permanent Garden on the King’s Cross Estate in Islington, the fundraising for capital works and start of the build

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  1. To grow our influence and impact through writing, speaking and other forms of wider dissemination.

  2. To grow a resilient financial model for Global Generation aligned with the growth of the organisation.

  3. To invest in developing Global Generation’s culture, team, systems, skills and knowledge.

Financial review

The financial year ending 31[st] March 2022 was a year of expansion and move – the charity added a floating classroom in King’s Cross to its community spaces and started moving the Paper Garden in Canada Water to a new location. Notwithstanding the developments, with lockdowns easing and live returning to normality total income rose by 18% from £752k to £885k.

Spend increased more than income by 27% from £622k to £791. Staff cost increased by 15% due to a) staff getting paid full salary again (working staff had agreed to a salary drop to 80% during lockdown in last year) and b) by an increase in staff from an average 18 to a team of 23. Support costs also increased by 31% mainly due to recruitment expenditure and depreciation.

The net effect of these changes was positive with a surplus of £95k for the year.

The trustees are pleased with this result and with healthy addition to reserves the charity is in a reasonably strong financial position for the challenges ahead.

Reserves

The trustees’ policy is that the balance of reserves held by Global Generation should be equal to between three and six months of the organization’s running costs, which in monetary terms means approximately £198k to £395k based on the figures in these accounts. The trustees believe this level of reserves will provide short term financial stability and allow time to secure alternative sources of funding, in the event of a significant drop in income.

Although reserves which are shown as unrestricted funds in the balance sheet decreased slightly during the period from £405k to £403k, at the end of the period they were equivalent to a little over 6 months expenditure. The trustees believe this is in line with policy given the current build of the new Paper Garden and the near-future move to a permanent site.

Statement of Trustees Responsibilities

The trustees (who are also the directors of Global Generation for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable

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Global Generation Trustees, report for the year to 31 March 2022 them to ensure that the finartial statements comply the Companie$ Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the chanlable Company and hen￿ for tsking reasonable steps for the prevents'on arvj detection of fra￿j and other i(rwJularities. Small company provisions This report has been prepared in accordan￿ with the SFeuat provisions for small companies under Part 15 of the Companies Act 20￿. This report was approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on ils behaf on 21• November 2022 by: Amir Miah Treasurer 13

Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Global Generation for the year ended 31 March 2022

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the company for the year ended 31 March 2022, which are set out on pages 15 to 25.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees of the company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (the ‘2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner’s report

Since the company’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which is one of the listed bodies.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those accounting records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act 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; or

  4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended practice for accounting and reporting by charities.

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.

Narges Cyroos BSc (Hons) FCA Sterling Partners Limited Chartered Accountants 2nd Floor, Grove House 774-780 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, Manchester M20 2DR

Date: 01/12/2022

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Global Generation Statement of Financial Activities (incorporating the Income and Expenditure Account) for the year to 31 March 2022

Note
Income
Donations
2
Grants
3
Income from trading operations
Other income
Total income
Expenditure
Fundraising
4
Charitable activities:
5
Total expenditure
Net income / (expenditure) before transfers
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
12		 Unrestricted
Funds
2022
£
63,681
94,462
341,737
653
500,533
27,552
396,138
423,690
76,843
(78,834)
(1,991)
404,681
402,690		 Restricted
Funds
2022
£
-
377,599
7,330
-
384,929
-
367,130
367,130
17,799
78,834
96,633
109,406
206,039		 Total
Funds
2022
£
63,681
472,061
349,067
653
885,462
27,552
763,268
790,820
94,642
-
94,642
514,087
608,729		 Total
Funds
2021
£
65,630
498,067
186,757
1,584
752,038
14,464
607,611
622,075
129,963
-
129,963
384,124
514,087

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Global Generation Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022

Note
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible Assets
9
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtor
10
Cash at bank and in hand
CREDITORS: Amount falling due within one year
11
NET CURRENT ASSETS
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
12		 2022
£
170,442
179,535
576,443
755,978
(317,691)
438,287
608,729
206,039
402,690
608,729		 2021
£
59,662
160,855
420,840
581,695
(127,270)
454,425
514,087
109,406
404,681
514,087

The Trustees are satisfied that the company is entitled to exemption from the provisions of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) relating to the audit of the financial statements for the year by virtue of section 477, and that no member or members have requested an audit pursuant to section 476 of the Act.

The Trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for:

(i) ensuring that the company keeps proper accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Act, and

The Trustees have prepared these accounts in accordance with section 398 of the Companies Act 2006 and section 138 of the Charities Act 2011. These accounts are prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act relating to small companies and constitute the annual accounts required by the Companies Act 2006 and are for circulation to members of the company.

The notes on page 18 to 25 form part of these financial statements.

Approved by the Board and signed on their behalf on 21st November 2022 by

- �� AmirMiah Treasurer

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Global Generation Statement of Cashflows for the year ended 31 March 2022

Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities

Net movement in funds
Add back depreciation
Decrease / (increase) in debtors
Increase / (decrease) in creditors
Cash (used in) / provided by operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
Decrease in cash and cash equivalents in the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
Total cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year		 2022
£
94,642
93,423
(18,680)
190,421
359,806
-
(204,203)		 2021
£
129,963
73,357
(54,860)
9,584
158,044
-
(8,661)
155,603
420,840
576,443		 149,383
271,457
420,840

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

1 Principal accounting policies

The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below.

(a) Basis of accounting

These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ effective January 2019 (the Charities SORP (FRS 102)), UK accounting standards, including 'Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

(b) Fund accounting

(i) Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.

(ii) Restricted funds are subject to specific conditions imposed by the donor as to how they may be used. The purposes and uses of the restricted funds are set out in the notes to the accounts.

Transfers between funds are made to cover deficits on individual restricted funds and to recognise fixed assets, including those acquired with restricted income, separately within restricted funds.

(c) Income

All income is included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income.

(i) Income received by way of grants, donations and gifts is included in full in the Statement of Financial Activities when receivable.

(ii) Grants receivable are recognised when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant.

(iii) Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the same period.

(iv) The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included in these accounts.

(v) Income from charitable activities is accounted for when earned. If received in advance, fees from courses and projects are deferred until the relevant activity has taken place

(vi) Investment income is included when receivable.

(vii) Income received in advance is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.

(d) Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred, and includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered.

(i) Cost of generating funds incorporates the salaries, direct expenditure and overhead costs of the staff who undertake fundraising work.

(ii) Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred on projects undertaken in pursuance of the charitable aims of the company.

(iii) Governance costs are those costs incurred in the management of the charity's assets, organisation and compliance functions.

(iv) Support costs are those costs incurred by the company in support of its main charitable activities and projects. Where costs cannot be directly attributed, they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

(v) The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included in these accounts.

(e) Tangible fixed assets and depreciation

Approved by the Board on 1st November 2022 and signed on their behalf by

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2 Donations

onations
Donated Premises
Other donations		 2022
£
51,250
12,431
63,681		 2021
£
51,250
14,380
65,630

During the year the charity received in-kind support recognised in these accounts for rent-free premises for the Story Garden in King's Cross valued at £40,000, and the Paper Garden in Canada Water valued at £11,250.

3 Grants

Grants from Government Bodies
Camden Council
S106 grant for the Floating Classroom
Greater London Authority (GLA)
Food Roots/Young London Inspired
Camden Council
Future Neighbourhoods Fund
Southwark Council
Common Purpose Grant
Islington Council
Volunary&Community Sector Team
Camden Council
Kickstarter Grants
HMRC
Job Retention Scheme
Camden Council
Somers Town Global Generation Gardener
Mayor's Fund
Kitchen Social
City of London
Covid Response Fund
Other Grants
The National Lottery Community Fund
Climate Action Fund
Camden Giving
HS2 Camden
Paul Hamlyn
Neighbourhood Grant
Groundwork London
Grow Back Greener Fund
Cripplegate / Islington Giving
Young Grantmakers
Ernest Cook
Outdoor Learning Grant
Somerstown Big Local
Story Garden Manager
Cripplegate / Islington Giving
Friday night out youth project
The Prism Charitable Trust
Stories of Place (programmes for Afghan children)
The National Lottery Community Fund
Awards for All
Young Camden Foundation
Summer Programme Activities Grant
Ernest Cook
Green Influencers Scheme
M & C Freeman Charitalbe Trust
KX work with children
Heritage Lottery Fund
Voices of the Earth
Age Unlimited
Intergenerational project
Rose Foundation
Disabled Lift for Barge
The British Library
Story Garden Build
Kusuma Trust
Nature connection workshops
The Swire Foundation
Core Funding Activities Story Garden
Arts Council
Summer activities/part of Voices of the Earth
GreenBoard
Community Build
Other Grants
Charterhouse, Derwent London , Camden
Giving, Camden Health Partners		 2022
£
108,772
19,596
18,750
17,000
15,300
13,629
8,989
8,486
1,600
-
212,122
57,084
27,742
20,000
20,000
15,638
13,800
12,420
12,000
11,416
9,998
9,410
8,040
7,810
7,063
5,000
5,000
-
-
-
-
-
17,518
259,939
472,061		 2021
£
-
14,222
-
-
3,750
-
92,247
-
1,600
18,000
129,819
28,544
27,742
26,333
-
-
-
12,420
7,000
-
-
27,176
28,788
3,000
62,270
-
-
67,425
23,229
20,125
12,000
6,300
15,896
368,248
498,067

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

4
Fundraising
Staff costs
Support costs
5
Charitable activities
Staff costs
Freelance project staff
Volunteers expenses
Project materials
Other direct project costs
Support costs
6
Staff costs
Gross wages and salaries
Employer's national insurance
Pension
The average number of employees during the year was		 2022
£
19,333
8,219
27,552
2022
£
379,915
65,032
562
50,380
105,857
161,522
763,268
2022
£
399,605
27,248
9,193
436,046
23		 2021
£
9,168
5,293
14,461
2021
£
336,668
24,956
290
34,684
16,539
194,377
607,514
2021
£
347,038
23,960
9,256
380,254
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No member of staff received emoluments of more than £60,000 during the year (2021: none).

None of the charity's trustees received any remuneration for their services as trustees during the year. Two Trustees were reimbursed travel expenses incurred in performing their duties as trustees to a total value of £126 (2021: £nil).

The key management personnel of the charity comprise the trustees, the Founding Director (until January 2022), the Joint Executive Director and an existing member of staff progressing into the role of Joint Director (from January 2022). The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the Trust were £102.073 (2021: £92,586).

The charity operates an auto-enrolment pension scheme with The Peoples Pension. All staff are eligible once they have passed their probation period, and the charity pays a 4% employer's contribution. Pension costs stated in note 6 and charged in the statement of Financial Activities represent the total contributions payable by the charity in the year.

Staff costs have been analysed as:
Direct charitable expenditure
Fundraising
Governance
Support		 2022
£
379,915
19,333
3,320
33,478
436,046		 2021
£
336,668
9,168
2,549
31,869
380,254

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7
Support costs
Staff costs
Travel and subsistence
Premises
Finance & administration
Legal & professional
Insurance
Depreciation
Training & recruitment
Marketing
Office
Independent Examiner's fee
Other
Fundraising (note 4)
Charitable activities (note 5)
8
Net income (expenditure) for the year
This is stated after charging:
Depreciation
Reporting Accountant's remuneration
9
Fixed assets
Cost
At 1 April 2021
Additions in year
Disposals in year
At 31 March 2022
Depreciation
At 1 April 2021
Charge for the period
Disposals in year
At 31 March 2022
Net Book Value
At 31 March 2022
At 31 March 2021
10 Debtors:amounts falling due within one year
Trade debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
Other debtors		 3,320
-
-
2,760
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,650
-
7,730
Office
Equipment
£
3,716
1,164
(782)
4,098
3,493
612
(782)
3,323
775
223
Governance
function
£		 General
support
£
33,478
1,235
59,868
8,280
18,290
5,991
612
18,095
1,458
14,573
-
131
162,011
Campsite
Equipment
£
5,154
-
-
5,154
5,154
-
-
5,154
-
-		 Total
2022
£
36,798
1,235
59,868
11,040
18,290
5,991
612
18,095
1,458
14,573
1,650
131
169,741
8,219
161,522
169,741
2022
£
93,423
1,650
Sites
£
221,415
203,039
(3,519)
420,935
161,976
92,811
(3,519)
251,268
169,667
59,439
2022
£
106,734
72,801
-
179,535		 Total
2021
£
34,418
279
50,464
11,040
12,929
4,485
627
1,545
793
8,925
1,500
35
127,040
3,368
123,672
127,040
2021
£
73,357
1,500
TOTAL
£
230,285
204,203
(4,301)
430,187
170,623
93,423
(4,301)
259,745
170,442
59,662
2021
£
130,627
22,979
7,249
160,855

10 Debtors: amounts falling due within one year

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11 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Creditors:amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Taxation, Social security and pension
Deferred Income
Accruals
Summary of movements in year on deferred income
Balance at 1 Apr 2021
Released in year
Deferred in year
Balance at 31 Mar 2021		 2022
£
56,994
9,398
213,794
37,505
317,691
2022
£
96,366
(96,366)
213,794
213,794		 2021
£
23,887
4,242
96,366
2,775
127,270
2021
£
91,650
(81,650)
86,366
96,366

Deferred income relates entirely to grants where the charity has not yet completed the activity upon which entitlement to the income is conditional. This includes £110k related to future capital spend on premises development projects, £83k related to future salaries and £21k relating to other future programme activities.

12 Movements in funds

Movements in funds
At 1 April Transfers At 31 March
2021 Income Expenditure in / (out) 2022
£ £ £ £ £
Restricted Funds:
Barge - 129,410 - (126,272) 3,138
Camden Council/Future Neighbourhood - 18,750 (4,997) (648) 13,105
Camden Council/Somers Town Gardener - 8,486 (8,486) - -
Camden Giving HS2 - 27,742 (28,029) 287 -
Camden Giving/Pathways to Employment - 5,000 (5,118) 118 -
Charterhouse Southwark - 4,900 (3,590) - 1,310
Cripplegate Foundation/FNOP - 12,000 (11,759) - 241
Ernest Cook/Outdoor learning Grant - 13,800 (13,832) 32 -
Ernest Cook/Green Monitor 12,877 8,040 (20,917) - -
GLA/Food Roots Incubator Grant - 19,596 (19,599) 3 -
Greenboard 916 - (916) - -
Islington VCS 1,076 15,300 (16,414) 38 -
Kumsuma Trust 19,838 - (16,342) - 3,496
Majors Fund/Kitchen Social Grant - 1,600 - - 1,600
Somerstown Big Local - 12,420 (12,420) - -
Somerstwon Big Local/Big Local Green Fund - 7,330 (8,139) 809 -
Southwark Council/Common Purpose Grant - 17,000 (13,395) - 3,605
The National Heritage Lottery/
Voices of the Earth 3,828 7,063 (10,990) 99 -
The National Lottery Community Fund/
Climate Action Fund 2,476 57,084 (59,704) 144 -
The National Lottery Community Fund/
Awards for All - 9,998 (896) - 9,102
The Swire Foundation 8,733 - (8,733) - -
Young Camden Foundation/HAF - 9,410 (9,431) 21 -
Fixed Assets 59,662 - (93,423) 204,203 170,442
Total restricted funds 109,406 384,929 (367,130) 78,834 206,039
Total unrestricted funds 404,681 500,533 (423,690) (78,834) 402,690
TOTAL FUNDS 514,087 885,462 (790,820) - 608,729

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The trustees approved transfers from unrestricted fund to the restricted to cover any deficits left on the completed restricted projects as well as to cover the depreciation charges of the restricted fixed assets.

12 Movements in funds continued
Restricted Funds:
Arts Council
Bertha Earth Foundation
Camden Giving 2019
Camden Giving/HS2
Cripplegate Foundation/FNOP
Ernest Cook 2019-20
Ernest Cook Green Monitor
Future for Kids
Greater London Authority (GLA)
Greenboard 2019
Greenboard 2020
Islington VCS
Kumsuma Trust
Mayor's Fund/Kitchen Social
National Lottery/Awards for All
National Lottery/Voices of the Earth
Reta Lila Howard
Somerstown Big Local
The National Lottery Community
Fund / Climate Action Fund
The Swire Foundation
Fixed Assets
Total restricted funds
Total unrestricted funds
TOTAL FUNDS
Barge		 At 1 April
2020
Income
Transfers
in / (out)
At 31 March
2021
£
£
£
£
£
-
12,000
(12,000)
-
-
4,632
-
(4,698)
66
-
2,064
1,996
(4,311)
251
-
2,373
27,743
(30,606)
490
-
-
7,000
(7,020)
20
-
-
10,350
(10,362)
12
-
-
18,000
(5,123)
-
12,877
580
4,000
(4,646)
66
-
3,323
14,222
(17,681)
136
-
4,579
-
(4,647)
68
-
-
6,300
(5,384)
-
916
-
3,750
(2,674)
-
1,076
-
23,229
(3,391)
-
19,838
-
1,600
(1,903)
303
-
-
9,400
(9,470)
70
-
11,352
62,270
(69,794)
-
3,828
8,477
-
(8,568)
91
-
820
12,420
(13,423)
183
-
-
28,544
(26,068)
-
2,476
-
20,125
(11,392)
-
8,733
124,358
-
(73,357)
8,661
59,662
162,558
262,949
(326,518)
10,417
109,406
221,566
489,089
(295,557)
(10,417)
404,681
384,124
752,038
(622,075)
-
514,087
Expenditure
Grants from Camden Council, Crippelgate Foundation and Rose Foundation for the
purchase of a barge and its refurbishment including the installation of a disabled lift.		 At 31 March
2021
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
12,877
-
-
-
916
1,076
19,838
-
-
3,828
-
-
2,476
8,733
59,662
109,406
404,681
514,087

Camden Council/Future Neighbourhood

To support resident-led greening and engagement on estates and local neighbourhood.

Camden Council/Somerstown Gardener

Camden Giving/HS2

Camden Giving/Pathways to Employment

Charterhouse Southwark

To support resident-led greening and food growing projects around Somers Town, especially focusing on housing estates.

Running community workshops in the Story Garden including volunteering, supporting the community bed growers, family activities and nature oriented school workshops.

Running accredited horticulture training with local young people for them to gain skills for further education, training and employment

Youth and environmental action programmes.

Cripplegate Foundation/FNOP

Friday night cooking programme at the Story Garden with local children to learn about seasonality, increasing confidence and gaining new skills.

Ernest Cook/Outdoor Learning

Community Gardener role in the Story Garden to run nature connection workshops with children and families.

Ernest Cook/Green Influencers

Youth Social Action Projects in Kings Cross and Soutwark.

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Greater London Authority/Food Roots To develop a local network of organisations to help alleviate food poverty and support more local food growing. Greenboard Community co-design and build of the Story Garden including the whole community across ages, backgrounds, abilities and sectors. Islington VCS Intergenerational growing and cooking programme in Islington, particularly focusing on the Caledonian Ward. Kumsuma Trust Nature connection workshops and setting up a new garden at Regent High School, volunteering with vulnerable people to do the harvest for the local Food Bank. Mayor's Fund/Kitchen Social Providing meals for children during the holidays to help alleviate holiday hunger. Rose Foundation Support to build a disabled lift in the Floating Classroom. Somerstown Big Local Running community workshops in the Story Garden including volunteering, supporting the community bed growers, family activities and nature oriented school workshops. Facilitating the Somers Town Greening Committee and supporting local residents with greening and gardening. Somerstown Big Local/Big Local Green Fund To support local residents to create their own growing spaces on their housing estates. Southwark Council/Common Purpose Youth social and environmental programmes. The National Heritage Lottery/ A mythological, cultural and personal exploration into the healing power of plants. Voices of the Earth The National Lottery Community Partnership programme to support Islington residents and organisations to increase food Fund / Climate Action Fund growing, reduce food waste and improve access to local seasonal and affordable food through an Adult and Youth Ambassador Programme and linking with other pilot sites in Islington. The National Lottery Community Twilight gardening with local residents and community beds programme for local residents Fund/Awards for All to learn how to grow food. The Swire Foundation Core funding to support all activities and work taking place at Story Garden. Young Camden Foundation/HAF Summer holiday activities for children and young people, including providing a meal to alleviate holiday hunger. Fixed Assets This fund represents the net book value of fixed assets. When such assets are purchased the cost is transferred into the fixed assets fund, and future depreciation is charged to the fund. When the assets are donated the value of the donation is shown as income in the Fixed Assets fund.

This treatment ensures the charity sets aside the funds needed to cover future depreciation which would otherwise be a drain on unrestricted funds in years ahead.

Transfers between funds break down into 2 separate categories:

Where funding is received for capital expenditure, upon completion of the spend the money is transferred to the Fixed Asset fund to cover the future depreciation of the asset. In FY 2022 this includes the transfers under Barge and Camden Council /Future Neighbourhood.

All other transfers relate to revenue expenditure. For this category, on completion of projects funded by restricted income, where that income is insufficient to fully cover the costs of the project the overspend is transferred from unrestricted funds to leave a nil balance on the project. During the year, £1,552 was transferred from the unrestricted funds to restricted funds (2021: £1,756).

In the Trustees’ opinion, there are sufficient resources held to enable each fund to be applied in accordance with the restrictions imposed by donors.

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13 Analysis of net assets between funds

Fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Net assets at 31 March 2022		 £
-
720,381
(317,691)
402,690
Unrestricted
funds		 Restricted
funds
£
170,442
35,597
-
206,039		 Total
funds
£
170,442
755,978
(317,691)
608,729

14 Related parties

The founding director's husband, Rod Sugden, provided training services to the charity during the year. The fee for these services was £1,575 (2021: £4,582). The balanced owed to Rod Sudgen at the year end was £nil (2021: £694).

15 Capital

The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital. Upon appointment, trustees automatically become members of the company, and each member has undertaken to contribute up to £10 in the event of the company being wound up.

16 Corporation Taxation

The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within section 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or section 252 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects.

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