## Abbey Physic Community Garden
Annual Report and Financial Statement Year ending 2024 Charity Registration Number: 1119456 Company Number: 06015188 Abbey Place, Faversham, Kent, ME13 7BG Tel 01795 539915 communitygarden@abbeyphysic.org Website: www.abbeyphysiccommunitygarden.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AbbeyPhysic
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## Message from our Chair of Trustees
It is a privilege to be Chair of Trustees for such an excellent and appreciated charity, with a committed board of trustees, staff, volunteers and members, all with endless energy and ideas for pushing the garden forwards, keeping it evolving to meet the needs of our community.
This year has been full of celebration for our 30[th] anniversary, being a chosen charity by our Mayor and being awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service, which is excellent recognition of all our volunteers.
We have also seen our piloted projects from 2023 become successfully embedded and the garden continues to develop a wide range of activities for and with our members, balancing activity with also providing a space for refuge. From this report, you can see the impact that the charity has achieved, and I want to say a big thank you to everyone, including our funders, for helping this all happen and protecting this magical place. At time of writing, we have just renewed our lease for ten more years, which is fantastic news (thank you to The Old Grammar School Charity Faversham) – but more of this in our 2025 report.
I take this opportunity to remember friends we have lost this past year – people we have been very grateful for knowing, even if only for a short time in our lives, you have made it richer, and this includes Gulliver Immink, Chris Ives and Mary Watts.
Thankyou to our two previous trustees who left their roles at the 2024 AGM - Lucia Dello-Iolo (Treasurer 2018-2024) and Sarah Porter (Secretary 2021-24). We also said goodbye to Millie van der Byl Williams as a valued member of staff.
I hope you enjoy this report and seeing all the achievements of our community over the past year.
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## In Memory of a Friend and Trustee
On 18th April 2024, Gulliver, a good friend and trustee of the garden died. Gulliver had been a valued trustee since 2016 and he was passionate about protecting the garden as a refuge for support, friendship and healing - it was always Gulliver calling for quiet times in the garden where people can escape the busy humdrum of life. Gulliver loved the garden itself, the trees and nature, and on a summer's evening, he'd often open up the garden so others could share his enjoyment of the tranquility he found there at this time of day. Gulliver long expected his death, however he was determined to live well with his illness. He was warm and welcoming, generous and kind, always finding a compassionate and supportive comment for members and visitors to the garden.
I wanted to include Gulliver in our report – he was one of our many members who make our charity into a supportive and thriving community where every individual matters – Gulliver actively encouraged people to feel they matter and belong and he will have touched many people’s lives.
_Helen Carr_
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## About Us
The Abbey Physic Community Garden is a half-acre, award winning, therapeutic community garden in the heart of Faversham, Kent.
## Our aims are:
To help our members and the wider public maintain or improve their physical and mental health and wellbeing, build diverse skills and confidence, reduce social isolation and connect with their community. Through our commitment to equality and diversity and provision of inclusive services and support we aim to break down the stigma of mental ill health and build understanding and empathy.
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## About Us
- The garden was established as a formal charity in 2007 however it began earlier than this and celebrates 30 years in 2024
- Our mission is **Growing a Healthy Community** – a reflection of both our focus on health and wellbeing and the importance of the community of peers who support each other with their lived experience of mental health and wellbeing and as carers
- The garden is open Mon-Fri 10am - 3pm and Sundays are staffed by volunteer members 11am - 2pm
- Garden membership aims to provide companionship and to reduce social isolation – **the charity is committed to tackling loneliness**
- Abbey Physic Community Garden provides an invaluable service for Faversham and wider across Kent. In this modern take on a ‘Physic Garden’, it is not herbs, or potions which provide healing, it is the garden itself, and the people who come here
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## **Direction of the charity is to:**
- Improve accessibility to those who need us
- Refine our existing programme of activities and to introduce new opportunities according to evolving needs
- Develop long-term sustainability of the charity
- Continue evaluating activities and
- progress
## **Impacts for users of the charity:**
Current Areas of Focus for our Charity
- Improve mood and wellbeing
- Increase confidence & sense of connection with others
- Increase understanding of and skills for selfcare
## Activities
The charity provides a wide range of activities that are both practical and therapeutic, usually both at the same time and these include:
- All year gardening
- A community kitchen and coffee cabin
- Faversham Men’s Shed
- Singing and various music groups including ukulele and guitars
- Creative arts and crafts groups
- Guided meditation, Yoga and Qi Gong Tai Chi
- A poetry and a reading group
- A walking group
- A Happy Café
- Resistance training – Kung Fu Pandas
The garden also serves as a hub for community events, e.g. regular NHS Health Checks
Please see https://www.abbeyphysic.org/activities/ for more details of activities
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## 33 Core Activities across the Year
**14** New activities in response to **19** Core activities evolving member needs and interests
All YearGardening Happy Community Bi-weekly round for the Cafes Cooking Art Gardening Mind Faversham Mindful NHS Men’s Walking Health Qui Gong Poetry Shed Group Checks Read & Pre-School Write SelfStrumming Forest Singing Yourself defence Sessions Sessions Happy Thursday W.I Open to All Saturday Crafts Gardening Shed Yoga Corner Group sessions
- 6 wk course Hands on Gardening
- 6 wk course Mindful Cooking
- Rise and Shine
- Kitchen Skills Training
- Men’s Breakfast Club
- Drop in Gardening (recovery sessions)
- • Coffee Cabin volunteering
- Permaculture
- Foraging
- Herbal Tonics
- Volunteer Training
- Friday Evening socials
- Forest Gardening
- • Wildlife survey sessions
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6 - week courses
Community Kitchen
Men’s Shed 2x week
Men’s Breakfast Club
Thursday Crafts
Wednesday Singing
Monday Strumming
Mindful Walking
Resistance Training
Read & Write for
Wellbeing
Poetry|Gardening courses
6 - week courses
Community Kitchen
Men’s Shed 2x week
Men’s Breakfast Club
Thursday Crafts
Wednesday Singing
Monday Strumming
Mindful Walking
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59
56
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21
22
17
15
15
10
10|Gardening courses
Community Kitchen
Men’s Shed 2x week
Men’s Breakfast Club
Wednesday Singing
Permaculture
Rise & Shine
Qi Gong
W.I Gardening
Little Green Folk
Social only
Volunteering Support
Weekend Courses
Saturday Morning
Yoga|17
12
22
21
17
25
28
40
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## Our Impact in Numbers
## **Groups & Events hosted by APCG**
University of Kent Embracing Life by hosting ‘Green Me’ Facing Death 50 Event 65
## **1,284 people reached**
Canterbury School 62
of Visual Arts 250 62 Porchlight Annual Curry & Carols Conference 80 150 Faversham Medway Community Refugee Support 65 Gardens 25
;
30[th] Anniversary Wine’d Down Party Evening 250 150 Windmill Community 12 Garden 15 Faversham Literacy Festival 50 60
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## Quotes from Members
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## Community Partnerships - Working with over 50 organisations in 2024 and as a key member of Faversham Community Networking Group. Partnerships include:
Referrers Education Providers
Groups
Visiting Groups
## Looking after our Environment
- Green Flag Community Award 2024-25 (‘ _Cleanliness of the compost loo was really impressive_ ’, Green Flag Judge)
- No spray (using biodiverse pest control, i.e. garlic spray and companion planting) and peat free (producing own compost)
- No dig beds
- Focus on foraging, less weeding
- Growing techniques include lasagne for veg patches, Hügelkultur raised bed, dead hedges, vertical growing
- Seed saving and community seed swaps
- Use of heritage rainwater collection and bilge pump to move water
- Wildlife monitoring and moth nights
- Permaculture centre
- APCG is the home of East Kent Permaculture Learning Centre
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## Gardening & Growing
- 58 people regularly participated in gardening this year
- 20 people attended 6-week Hands on Gardening courses
- 28 people attended gardener meetings and 27 are members on the Gardeners’ WhatsApp
- 12 people attended monthly Forest Garden sessions
- There is improving communication and planning of plants/food for the Community Kitchen
- There is improving foraging knowledge
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## Impacts of our Community Kitchen
- 16 people attended 6-wk Mindful Cooking courses
- 18 people attended Kitchen Skills courses
- Fresh meals were produced each weekday
- 56 people participated in cooking sessions, with a focus on healthy eating
- 2,626 meals were prepared, including 152 Love Lunches provided through our Pay It Forward scheme
- Reduced food miles by foraging ingredients
- Catered for 6 community events, plus Porchlight’s Annual Conference for 150 people
- Produced our first Recipe Book
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## A Productive Year for Faversham Men’s Shed
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Monthly coffee Interview with ITV
Tesco staff in
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Working with Red Zebra
Axminster Tools
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New Leaf Support
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## Impact of our Community Coffee Cabin
The Community Coffee Cabin is a welcoming hub for conversations and support.
It provides a wealth of volunteer opportunities with informal Barista training and serving refreshments to our members and visitors. This is now open six days a week
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## Students, Trainees and Work Experience
In 2024, we hosted 8 trainee GPs; Occupational Therapy Students from Canterbury Christ Church University; Visits from St Mary of Charity Primary School; Yr 12 & 13 pupils from Barton Grammar School , Archbishops School and Brogdale CIC Craftworks College for work experience; and we supported a Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School design and technology woodwork project
## Press and Media Coverage
_**Faversham Eye**_ https://www.favershameye.co.uk/post/abbey-physiccommunity-garden-celebrating-30-years-of-a-growinghealthy-community
Video: Growing flowers and food together - the new trend for old cottage garden style What an incredible interview with Jo Barker – at the APCG.
ITV News – Men’s Shed
An audio story about the history, activities and impact of Abbey Physic Community Garden
Helen Whately MP visited APCG's Faversham Men's Shed to talk about the importance of men's mental health.
Mayor’s charity of the year 2024-2025
Faversham Times
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30th Anniversary
Celebrations
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## Staffing for Year 2024
Thank you to all our staff for their commitment in keeping the garden welcoming and well run. We have 8 members of staff, full- and part-time.
We had a consistent staffing team this year, until sadly Millie left us in December. This role is now re-appointed to for 2025.
Suzanne Campbell – Garden Manager
Louise Gray - Assistant Garden Manager Millie van der Byl Williams - Finance, Administration and IT Lead Jacqueline Hunt – Community Partnerships Lead Alessa Correia-Leitch – Community Kitchen Project Lead Karen Franczak – Community Kitchen Project Lead Ian Hardie – Faversham Men’s Shed Project Lead Paul Muddle – Horticulture Trainer We welcome Deborah Hope as our Finance Officer for 2025
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## Organisation and Governance
We are a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee: Charity Registration No 111945; Company Registration No 06015188 Our registered office is:
Abbey Physic Community Garden, Abbey Place, Faversham, ME13 7BG Bank details: Santander Business Banking, Bridle Road. Bootle, L30 4BG Account title: Abbey Physic Community Garden.
Day to day management is the responsibility of the garden manager, Suzanne Campbell and her team – Louise Gray, Alessa Correia-Leitch, Karen Franczak, Jacqui Hunt, Paul Muddle and Ian Hardie.
There are regular member meetings to discuss and plan how the garden operates. Garden members appoint the trustees at the Annual General Meeting for a term of one year. Trustees are welcome to restand if they want to be reappointed.
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## Organisation and Governance
Elected trustees during 2024:
- Helen Carr (Chair) appointed Sept 2020 and Chair Sept 2021
▪ Lucia Dello-Iolo (Treasurer) appointed June 2018 and Treasurer July 2018 – Aug 2024 ▪ Philip Wyard (Treasurer) from Aug 2024
▪ Sarah Porter (Secretary) appointed Sept 2021 – Aug 2024 ▪ Gulliver Immink appointed Sept 2016 - died 18 April 2024 ▪ Imogen Tinkler appointed Sept 2023 ▪ Andrew Ireland appointed Sept 2023 ▪ Kate Bowman appointed Aug 2024 ▪ Suzanne Wood appointed Aug 2024
Trustees are appointed at each annual general meeting by members. The Trustees met at least monthly during the year.
In our planning of the charity’s activities, we have paid due regard to Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, and on the standards expected of trustees. Independent financial examiner for this set of accounts - Louise Shaw, with Philip Wyard as treasurer.
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## Hi hli hts of 2024 g g
|**_Month_**|**_Events_**|
|---|---|
|**Jan**|**New – Nurture Gardening Winter Wednesdays, and we welcomed Occupational Therapy students for a placement. Ian Hardie,**
**our Men’s Shed Lead, was interviewed for BBC Radio Kent**|
|**Feb**|**Excitingly starting our 2nd year of 3 Years’ funding from Reaching Communities (The National Lottery Community Fund) .**
**Love Lunches began in 2023 - a pay it forward scheme providing free lunches for those in need – this year we raised over 500**
**lunches for those financially struggling**|
|**Mar**|**Planting in the greenhouse, a pilot course started for Cookery for the Mind in March 2023 and this is now successfully**
**established, we held a Faversham Seed Swap**|
|**Apr**|**There was a Faversham Men’s Shed feature on Meridian News, highlighting this great work**|
|**May**|**Mental health awareness week – the Charity organised a Chatty Bench in the town centre, start of our summer BBQs, and**
**nominated as one of two of the Faversham Mayor’s charities for theyear**|
|**Jun**|**Opened our doors as part of Faversham Open Gardens, Walking for the Mind (in partnership with Age UK) began in June**
**2023 and successfully continues, as part of Loneliness Awareness Week we had a week of our Chatty Bench in the town**
**centre, we held a sponsored 30 laps of the garden to celebrate its 30th anniversary, 34 cubs received their DIY badges from**
**support of the Men’s Shedders**|
|**Jul**|**Held a Faversham & Villages Refugee Solidarity Group event at the garden, a foraging evening and we hosted a large vibrant**
**Summer Garden Party to celebrate our 30 Years as Abbey Physic Community Garden**|
|**Aug**|**Awarded the Green Flag Community Award**|
|**Sept**|**Hosted Wine’d Down evening event as part of Open Faversham and Faversham in Bloom awards held at thegarden,**|
|**Oct**|**Visited by 54 delegates from across Europe – Green Me Project**|
|**Nov**|**Awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service**|
|**Dec**|**New Men's Breakfast Club, Community wreath making sessions, and end of year Curry and Carols**
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## Summary
- 2024 was the second year in which Abbey Physic Community Garden (APCG) continued activities funded by the latest three-year National Lottery Grant, Reaching Communities. The amount available for2024 was £91k. With the additional income from other successful grant receipts, individual donations, and membership subscriptions it meant that the total income for the year was £193k.
- Staffing costs make up 82% of the expenditure of APCG. The Repairs and Maintenance costs were £6k.
- The total Expenditure for 2024 was £166k
- The net income was therefore £28k for 2024.
- The balance of funds carried forward at the end of 2024 was £139k. An increase of £28k over 2023
- The total expenditure of £166k exceeds the National Lottery Grant by £75k, so additional ad hoc fundraising, and donations remain an essential part of the income that allows the garden to continue.
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## 2024 – Income
|||Abbey Physic Garden||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||
|STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account)||||||||
|
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 December 2024||||||||
|||||||||
||||Notes|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|2024|2023|
|||||£|£|£|£|
|INCOMING RESOURCES|||2|||||
|Incoming resources from generated funds:||||||||
||
Voluntary Income:|||||||
|||Grants||450|131,385|131,835|123,211|
|||Donations||13,720|0|13,720|34,551|
|||Membership subscriptions||8,209|0|8,209|6,515|
||Activities for Generating Funds:|||||||
|||
Sales & events||12,253|0|12,253|6,202|
|||Fundraising events||2,559|0|2,559|1,905|
|||
Community Kitchen||14,891|0|14,891|7,430|
|||Optivo||844|0|844|-|
|||External Groups||0||0|0|
|||Gift Aid Reclaimed||1,289|0|1,289|246|
|||Trainees||5,562|0|5,562|1,853|
|||Faversham Lottery||2,208|0|2,208|1,870|
||Investment Income:|||||||
|||Bank interest||||0||
|Total Incoming Resources||||61,985|131,385|193,370|183,783|
|||||||||
|RESOURCES EXPENDED|||3|||||
|Cost of generating funds:||||||||
|||||||||
|||Purchases and miscellaneous costs||13,694|54|13,748|4,321|
|||Operational and support costs||29,886|122,016|151,902|134,125|
|||Governance costs||0|||0|
|||||||||
|Total Expended Resources||||43,579|122,070|165,650|138,446|
|||||||||
|NET MOVEMENT OF FUNDS|||7|18,405|9,315|27,720|45,337|
|||||||||
|RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS||||||||
|Total Funds Brought Forward||||59,319|52,115|111,434|66,097|
|||||||||
|Fund Balance Carried Forward||||77,724|61,430|139,154|111,434|
## ◦ 2024 Income
- In 2024 our income was £193k, which was £10k higher than in 2023, due to the receipt of more nonLottery grant funding.
- Income received from membership increased slightly over 2023 by £1.7k
- The drop in Donations was due to a one-off donation in 2023 from the Henry Oldfield Trust of £20k.
- Grants were mostly restricted in nature, requiring the money to be spent on specific projects. Grant income was mostly from the National Lottery 3-year grant, however amongst the other grants there were significant grants from Orchard Community (£4.6k), Co-op Community(£5k), and Henry Smith (£10k)
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## 2024 - Expenditure
|||Abbey Physic Garden||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account)||||||||
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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 December 2024||||||||
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||||Notes|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|2024|2023|
|||||£|£|£|£|
|INCOMING RESOURCES|||2|||||
|Incoming resources from generated funds:||||||||
||
Voluntary Income:|||||||
|||Grants||450|131,385|131,835|123,211|
|||Donations||13,720|0|13,720|34,551|
|||Membership subscriptions||8,209|0|8,209|6,515|
||Activities for Generating Funds:|||||||
|||
Sales & events||12,253|0|12,253|6,202|
|||Fundraising events||2,559|0|2,559|1,905|
|||
Community Kitchen||14,891|0|14,891|7,430|
|||Optivo||844|0|844|-|
|||External Groups||0||0|0|
|||Gift Aid Reclaimed||1,289|0|1,289|246|
|||Trainees||5,562|0|5,562|1,853|
|||Faversham Lottery||2,208|0|2,208|1,870|
||Investment Income:|||||||
|||Bank interest||||0||
|Total Incoming Resources||||61,985|131,385|193,370|183,783|
|||||||||
|RESOURCES EXPENDED|||3|||||
|Cost of generating funds:||||||||
|||||||||
|||Purchases and miscellaneous costs||13,694|54|13,748|4,321|
|||Operational and support costs||29,886|122,016|151,902|134,125|
|||Governance costs||0|||0|
|||||||||
|Total Expended Resources||||43,579|122,070|165,650|138,446|
|||||||||
|NET MOVEMENT OF FUNDS|||7|18,405|9,315|27,720|45,337|
|||||||||
|RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS||||||||
|Total Funds Brought Forward||||59,319|52,115|111,434|66,097|
|||||||||
|Fund Balance Carried Forward||||77,724|61,430|139,154|111,434|
◦ 2024 Expenditure
◦ Total Expenditure increased by £27k From2023 to 2024 from £138k to £165k This was due to two specific reasons: Staffing Costs increased by £17k Other running costs increased by £10k. N.B. This increase was matched by a similar increase in Community lunches income.
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## 2024 – Net Movement in Funds
Charities measure the movement of funds, the difference between money received and spent, during a reporting period.
- In 2024, we spent £28k less than we received.
- In 2023, we spent £45k less than we received. • In 2022, we spent £35k more than we received • In 2021 we spent £34k more than we received.
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## 2024 – The Balance Sheet
At the end of the year, the Abbey Physic Community Garden had £6k of fixed assets.
• The charity has one main current account with Santander, but there are other platforms such as Local Giving, Paypal and Stripe that are used to facilitate payment methods and income receipts. These feed into the main account but may have small balances at any specific point in time. At the end of 2024, there was £136k in the Santander bank account,
- The net cash balance of £136k was made up of £61k of restricted funds and £75k unrestricted funds.
- There are no loans so the total assets were £145kx.
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## 2024 – Notes to The Accounts
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS|||||||
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|For the Year Ended 31 December 2024||||||||
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|||Basis of Preparation||||||
|||The financial statements have beenprepared under the historical cost convention and are in||||||
|||accordance with Financial ReportingStandard for Smaller Entities(effective January2007),||||||
|||the Companies Act 2006,and follow the recommendations in Accountingand Reportingby||||||
|||Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice(issued 2005).||||||
|||Quickbooks accountingsoftware is used to explain income and expenditure but it does not contain all the asset calculations.||||||
|||Grants and VoluntaryIncome||||||
|||Allgrants and voluntaryincome are accounted forgross when receivable.||||||
|||Resources Expended:||||||
|||Depreciation||||||
|||Assets acquired costingless than £2,500 are charged to revenue in theyear ofpurchase:||||||
|||Assets exceedingthis purchase price: Pavillion,NewCabin,New kitchen units andisland are depreciated by10%straight line||||||
|||Purchases andmiscellaneouscosts||||||
|||Purchases andmiscellaneouscostsincludesthe direct costsof the activities. Where such costsrelateto||||||
|||morethan function cost category,theyhave beensplit onanestimated basis as appropriate.||||||
|||Thiswas prevoiuslynamedcharitable expenditure.||||||
|||UnrestrictedFunds||||||
|||Unrestrictedfunds are donations andother incomingresourcesreceivableorgeneratedfor the||||||
|||objects of the charitywithout furtherspecified purpose and are available as general funds.||||||
|||RestrictedFunds||||||
|||Restrictedfunds areto be usedforspecific purposes aslaid downbythe donor.Expenditure||||||
|||which meets criteriais chargedtothefund.||||||
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## 2024 – Notes to The Accounts
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|2|Incoming Resources|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||2024|2024|2024|2023|
||Grants Received:|||£|£||£|
|||||||||
|||Big Lottery|09/02/2024||22,875|22,875|
24,125|
||||10/05/2024||22,875|22,875|
24,125|
||||09/08/2024||22,875|22,875|
24,125|
||||06/11/2024||22,875|22,875|
24,125|
|||The Access Foundation|12/08/2024 & 17/09/2024||12,000|12,000|
0|
|||Swale Borough Council|12/04/2024|250||250|
3,761|
|||SBC Eastern Area Committee||||-|0|
|||Faversham Town Council||||-|500|
|||||||-|5,000|
|||||||-|450|
|||Benstead Trust||||-|2,000|
|||Colyer Fergusson||||-|5,000|
|||Henry Smith|08/07/2024||10,000|10,000|
10,000|
|||Cantiacorum Foundation|18/06/2024||1,800|1,800||
|||Alpkit Foundation|21/06/2024|200||200||
|||Albert Hunt|12/07/2024||2,000|2,000||
|||Austin Hope|10/10/2024||1,000|1,000||
|||H G Wills|15/08/2024||1,000|1,000||
|||Arnold Clark|20/09/2024||750|750||
|||Young SE|04/11/2024||1,000|1,000||
|||Co-Operative Community Grant|19/12/2024||5,000|5,000||
|||Orchard Community Energy|23/12/2024||4,635|4,635||
|||Imperial Plastics|15/11/2024||700|700||
|||||450|131,385|131,835|123,211|
|||||||||
||Donations:|||||||
|||||||||
|||Porchlight||1500||1500|-|
|||Organisation / Corporate Donations<£1000||2,145||2,145|1,497|
|||Personal Donations<£1000||10,075||10,075|
6,054|
|||Centrica (British Gas)|||||2,000|
|||Henry Oldfield Trust|||||20,000|
|||Colin Sharpe|||||5,000|
|||||13,720|-|13,720|
34,551|
|||||||||
||Membership Subscriptions:|||8,209||8,209|
6,515|
||Sales:|||||||
|||Refreshments donations||9,472||9,472|5,618|
|||Garden & Mens shed sales||2,781||2,781|584|
|||Community Kitchen||14,891||14,891|7,430|
||Trainees:|||5,562||5,562|1,853|
||Paid Courses|||844||844|-|
||Faversham Lottery:|||2,208||2,208|1,870|
||Fundraising Events:|||2,559||2,559|1,905|
||External Groups:|||||-||
||Gift Aid Reclaimed:|||1,289||1,289|246|
|||||47,815|-|47,815|
26,021|
|||||||||
|||||||||
||Total Incoming|||61,985|131,385|193,370|
183,783|
|||||||||
|ABBEY PHYSIC COMMUNITY GARDEN||||||||
|||||||||
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS||||||||
|FOR THE YEAR ENDING
2024|4|||||||
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## 2024 – Notes to The Accounts
|3|Resources Expended|||Unrestricted|
Restricted|
Total|
Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||2,024|
2,024|
2,024|
2023|
|||||£|
£||£|
||Purchases and miscellaneous costs:|||||||
|||Garden supplies||6,840||6,840|
2,224|
|||Grub Club Ingredients||-||-|
-|
|||Groceries/Provisions||6,853||6,853|
2,097|
|||Craft tools/Equipment||-||-||
|||Mens Shed|||54|
54||
|||||13,694|
54|
13,748|
4,321|
|||||||||
||Operational and support costs:|||||||
|||Advertising||1,385|
2,220|
3,605|
1,655|
|||Accounts/Auditing||||-||
|||Bank Charges||643||643|
338|
|||Bees,Beehives and Chickens||160||160||
|||Computer costs||905||905|
915|
|||DBS checks||136||136|
92|
|||Evaluation|||2,500|
2,500|
-|
|||External Fundraising||||-|
-|
|||External TrainigActivityProviders|||1,000|
1,000|
107|
|||Insurance||2,272||2,272|
1,710|
|||Governance / Subscriptions||340||340|
48|
|||Office supplies||696||696|
1,053|
|||Other||||-|
-|
|||Printingand Stationery||949||949|
1,184|
|||Professional Services||||-|
1,059|
|||Rent||||-|
178|
|||Repairs,renewals & maintenance||578|
4,989|
5,568|
4,444|
|||Salaries /NI||17,943|
96,046|
113,989|
96,932|
|||Sesional Workers|||12,993|
12,993|
14,961|
|||Supplies||2,054||2,054|
2,690|
|||Training||841||841|
2,012|
|||Travel/Parking||38||38|
60|
|||Utilities - Telephone / Internet||344|
463|
807|
717|
|||Utilities - Rent,electric & Water|||1,805|
1,805|
1,301|
|||Website costs||315||315|
1,929|
|||Gardenparty costs||287||287|
653|
|||Raising funds||-|
-|-|
87|
|||||29,886|
122,016|
151,902|
134,125|
|||||||||
||Governance costs:|||||||
|||Companies House||||||
|||||||||
||No employee received emoluments of more than £50,000.|||||||
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## 2024 – Notes to The Accounts
|4|Directors of the Charity|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||No member of the Board of Directors received anyremuneration duringtheperiod.|||||||
||Reimbursement of expenses to the Directors was zero.|||||||
||The charityhas Trustee IndemnityInsurance(effective from 1st November 2014).|||||||
|||||||||
|5|Taxation|||||||
||The charityis exempt from Corporation Tax on its charitable activities.|||||||
|||||||||
|ABBEY PHYSIC COMMUNITY GARDEN||||||||
|||||||||
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS(cont.)||||||||
|FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 December 2022||||||||
|||||||||
|6|Tangible Fixed Assets|||||||
||||||2024|2023|Purchase Price|
||||||£|£||
||Pavilion||Purchased 2009 10% straight line|||-||
||New Cabin||Purchased 2017 10% straight line||3,000|4,000|
10,000|
||New units & Island||Purchased 2019 10% straight line||1,122|
1,410|2,876|
||Men's Shed||Purchased 2017 10% straight line||1,857|2,209|3,518|
||||||5,980|
7,619|
16,394|
|||||||||
|7|Analysis of Net Assets between Funds|||||||
|||||2024|2023|2022||
|||||Total|
Total|
Total||
|||||£|
£|
£||
||Restricted Funds|||61,430|52,115|
39,796||
||Unrestricted Funds|||77,724|
59,319|
26,301||
|||||139,154|
111,434|
66,097||
||Apositive balancingadjustment of £443.79 was added to the 2021 restricted funds total|||||||
|||||||||
|8|Incorporation|||||||
||The AbbeyPhysic CommunityGarden is a companylimited by guarantee,without a share capital,|||||||
||incorporated on 30 November 2006.|||||||
|||||||||
||It took over the activities in thegarden on 1 December 2006.|||||||
||In the event of the companybeingwound up,membersguarantee topay£1 each towards the|||||||
||Garden's debts.|||||||
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## 2024 Notes to the Accounts
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS(cont.)|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS(cont.)||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|SCHEDULE OF ONGOING RESTRICTED GRANTS AND DONATIONS|||||
|Restricted Grants Carried forward to 2023|||||
||||||
|Bal b/f|Grant Name|Grant Receipts in 2024|2024 Restricted exp.|bal c/f|
|31/12/2023||||31/12/2024|
||||||
|5,121|BigLottery|91,500|92,613|4,008|
|5,450|Faversham Town Council|0|5,450|0|
|4,050|Benstead Trust(incl. Colin Sharp)|0|4,050|0|
|1,667|Colyer Ferguson|0|1,667|0|
|4,169|HenrySmith|10,000|9,169|5,000|
|0|TheAccessFoundation/Philips&Connie|12,000|3,400|8,600|
|0|Swale Borough Council|0|0|0|
|0|Contiacorum Foundation|1,800|1,800|0|
|0|Alpkit Foundation|0|0|0|
|0|Albert Hunt|2,000|1,000|1,000|
|0|Austin Hope|1,000|250|750|
|0|HGWells|1,000|1,000|0|
|0|Arnold Clark|750|750|0|
|0|Young SE|1,000|167|833|
|0|Co-Operative Community|5,000|0|5,000|
|0|Orchard CommunityEnergy|4,635|0|4,635|
|0|Imperial Plastics|700|700|0|
||||||
|20,457|0|131,385|122,016|29,826|
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## Abbey Physic Community Garden
**An audio story about the history, activities and impact of Abbey Physic Community Garden**
Laura Bailey has just released an excellent podcast about the garden and charity and the benefits that being a member and visitor brings to peoples’ lives. During 2024, Laura interviewed people in the garden and Laura has successfully captured the many different ways in which the garden helps us all. A big thank you to Laura and to the Arts Council England for funding Laura in this exciting project. Listen below, and read the full article on Laura’s website here: a **https://creativehealth.co.uk/podcasts/abbey-physic-communitygarden/**
We are incredibly thankful for all the support we receive from all our donors, sponsors, volunteers, members, staff and the community – helping us to support people when they need us a aa aD
We would also like to say an extra special thanks to the following: Our landlords – The Old Grammar School Charity Faversham
Key Funders - Reaching Communities England – The National Lottery Community Fund; The Swire Charitable Trust; Bensted’s Charity; Centrica; Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust; Faversham Town Council; Henry Smith Charity County Grants; Henry Oldfield Trust; and Swale Borough Council; The Access Foundation; Co-operative Community ; Orchard Community Energy
Andrew Ireland, Trustee, leaving us as a trustee at our AGM 2025 – for all your support in 2024 to which this report refers.
Many thanks to Philip Wyard (Treasurer) in preparing the accounts and Louise Shaw for examining the accounts.
On behalf of the trustees,
Helen Carr, July 2025
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## **Abbey Physic Garden**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account)**
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 December 2024
||**Notes**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Funds**|**Funds**|**2024**|**2023**|
|||£|£|£|£|
|**INCOMING RESOURCES**|2|||||
|Incoming resources from generated funds:||||||
|Voluntary Income:||||||
|Grants||450|131,385|131,835|123,211|
|Donations||13,720|0|13,720|34,551|
|Membership subscriptions||8,209|0|8,209|6,515|
|Activities for Generating Funds:||||||
|Sales & events||12,253|0|12,253|6,202|
|Fundraising events||2,559|0|2,559|1,905|
|Community Kitchen||14,891|0|14,891|7,430|
|Optivo||844|0|844 -||
|External Groups||0||0|0|
|Gift Aid Reclaimed||1,289|0|1,289|246|
|Trainees||5,562|0|5,562|1,853|
|Faversham Lottery||2,208|0|2,208|1,870|
|Investment Income:||||||
|Bank interest||||0||
|**Total Incoming Resources**||61,985|131,385|193,370|183,783|
|**RESOURCES EXPENDED**|3|||||
|Cost of generating funds:||||||
|Purchases and miscellaneous costs||13,694|54|13,748|4,321|
|Operational and support costs||29,886|122,016|151,902|134,125|
|Governance costs||0|||0|
|**Total Expended Resources**||43,579|122,070|165,650|138,446|
|**NET MOVEMENT OF FUNDS**|7|18,405|9,315|27,720|45,337|
|**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**||||||
|Total Funds Brought Forward||59,319|52,115|111,434|66,097|
|**Fund Balance Carried Forward**||77,724|61,430|139,154|111,434|
## **Abbey Physic Garden**
## **BALANCE SHEET**
## **For the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
||||**Notes**|**2024**|**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||£|£|
|**FIXED ASSETS**||||||
||Tangible assets|Old Cabin|6|0|0|
|||New Cabin||3,000|4,000|
|||New sink & Island units||1,122|1,410|
|||Men's Shed||1,857|2,209|
|**CURRENT ASSETS**||||||
||Debtors|||||
||Bank deposits|||136,238|110,571|
||Cash in hand|||51|24|
||Paypal|||2,449|766|
||Soldo|||356||
||Local giving|||0|151|
||Izettle|||0|0|
||Stripe|||60|-38|
|**Net Current Assets**||||139,154|111,474|
|**NET ASSETS**||||||
||Represented by:|||||
||Fixed Assets|||5,980|7,619|
||Restricted Funds|||43,487|52,115|
||Unrestricted Funds|||95,668|59,319|
||Retained earnings|||||
|**Total Funds**||||**145,135**|**119,053**|
For the year ending 31 December 2024 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with IAS / IFRS.
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINATION**
I can confirm that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the charity's affairs as at 31st December 2024.
## Independent Examiner signature:
…....................................................................................................................
## Date:
….......................................................................................................................
**Abbey Physic Garden**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
For the Year Ended 31 December 2024
## **1 Accounting Policies**
## **Basis of Preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and are in
accordance with Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2007),
the Companies Act 2006, and follow the recommendations in Accounting and Reporting by
Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (issued 2005).
Quickbooks accounting software is used to explain income and expenditure but it does not contain all the asset calculations. **Grants and Voluntary Income**
All grants and voluntary income are accounted for gross when receivable.
## **Resources Expended:**
## **Depreciation**
Assets acquired costing less than £2,500 are charged to revenue in the year of purchase:
Assets exceeding this purchase price: Pavillion, New Cabin, New kitchen units and island are depreciated by 10% straight line **Purchases and miscellaneous costs**
Purchases and miscellaneous costs includes the direct costs of the activities. Where such costs relate to more than function cost category, they have been split on an estimated basis as appropriate. This was prevoiusly named charitable expenditure.
## **Unrestricted Funds**
Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources receivable or generated for the objects of the charity without further specified purpose and are available as general funds.
## **Restricted Funds**
Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets criteria is charged to the fund.
|**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**2**
**Incoming Resources**
**Grants Received:**
Big Lottery
2/9/2024
5/10/2024
8/9/2024
11/6/2024
The Access Foundation
12/08/2024 & 17/09/2024
Swale Borough Council
4/12/2024
SBC Eastern Area Committee
Faversham Town Council
Benstead Trust
Colyer Fergusson
Henry Smith
7/8/2024
Cantiacorum Foundation
6/18/2024
Alpkit Foundation
6/21/2024
Albert Hunt
7/12/2024
Austin Hope
10/10/2024
H G Wills
8/15/2024
Arnold Clark
9/20/2024
Young SE
11/4/2024
Co-Operative Community Grant
12/19/2024
Orchard Community Energy
12/23/2024
Imperial Plastics
11/15/2024
**Donations:**
Porchlight
Organisation / Corporate Donations<£1000
Personal Donations <£1000
Centrica (British Gas)
Henry Oldfield Trust
Colin Sharpe
**Membership Subscriptions:**
**Sales:**
**Refreshments donations**
**Garden & Mens shed sales**
**Community Kitchen**
**Trainees:**
**Paid Courses**
**Faversham Lottery:**
**Fundraising Events:**
**External Groups:**
**Gift Aid Reclaimed:**
**Total Incoming**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**2024**
**2024**
**2024**
**2023**
£
£
£
22,875 22,875
24,125
22,875 22,875
24,125
22,875 22,875
24,125
22,875 22,875
24,125
12,000 12,000
0
250
250
3,761
-
0
-
500
-
5,000
-
450
-
2,000
-
5,000
10,000 10,000
10,000
1,800 1,800
200
200
2,000 2,000
1,000 1,000
1,000 1,000
750 750
1,000 1,000
5,000 5,000
4,635 4,635
700
700|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**2024**
**2024**
**2024**
**2023**
£
£
£
22,875 22,875
24,125
22,875 22,875
24,125
22,875 22,875
24,125
22,875 22,875
24,125
12,000 12,000
0
250
250
3,761
-
0
-
500
-
5,000
-
450
-
2,000
-
5,000
10,000 10,000
10,000
1,800 1,800
200
200
2,000 2,000
1,000 1,000
1,000 1,000
750 750
1,000 1,000
5,000 5,000
4,635 4,635
700
700|
|---|---|---|
||**450**
**131,385**
**131,835**
**123,211**
1500
1500
-
2,145
2,145 1,497
10,075
10,075 6,054
2,000
20,000
5,000||
||**13,720 -**
8,209
9,472
2,781
_14,891_
_5,562_
844
2,208
2,559
_1,289_|**13,720 34,551**
8,209 6,515
9,4725,618
2,781584
14,8917,430
5,5621,853
844
-
2,2081,870
2,5591,905
-
1,289246|
||**47,815 -**|**47,815 26,021**|
||**61,985 131,385 193,370 183,783**||
## **ABBEY PHYSIC COMMUNITY GARDEN**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
FOR THE YE4
|**3**
**Resources Expended**
**Purchases and miscellaneous costs:**
Garden supplies
Grub Club Ingredients
Groceries/Provisions
Craft tools/Equipment
Mens Shed
**Operational and support costs:**
Advertising
Accounts/Auditing
Bank Charges
Bees, Beehives and Chickens
Computer costs
DBS checks
Evaluation
External Fundraising
External Trainig Activity Providers
Insurance
Governance / Subscriptions
Office supplies
Other
Printing and Stationery
Professional Services
Rent
Repairs, renewals & maintenance
Salaries /NI
Sesional Workers
Supplies
Training
Travel/Parking
Utilities - Telephone / Internet
Utilities - Rent, electric & Water
Website costs
**Garden party costs**
**Raising funds**|**Unrestricted Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**2,024 2,024 2,024**
**2023**
£
£
£
6,840
6,840 2,224
-
- -
6,853
6,853 2,097
-
-
54 54|
|---|---|
||**13,694 54 13,748 4,321**
1,385 2,220 3,605 1,655
-
643
643 338
160
160
905
905 915
136
136 92
2,500 2,500
-
-
-
1,000 1,000 107
2,272
2,272 1,710
340
340 48
696
696 1,053
-
-
949
949 1,184
- 1,059
- 178
578 4,989 5,568 4,444
17,943 96,046 113,989 96,932
12,993 12,993 14,961
2,054
2,054 2,690
841
841 2,012
38
38 60
344 463 807 717
1,805 1,805 1,301
315
315 1,929
287
287 653
---87|
||**29,886 122,016 151,902 134,125**|
## **Governance costs:**
Companies House
No employee received emoluments of more than £50,000.
## **Directors of the Charity**
No member of the Board of Directors received any remuneration during the period. Reimbursement of expenses to the Directors was zero.
The charity has Trustee Indemnity Insurance (effective from 1st November 2014).
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from Corporation Tax on its charitable activities.
**4**
**5**
## **ABBEY PHYSIC COMMUNITY GARDEN**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (cont.)**
For the year ended 31st December 2024
## **6 Tangible Fixed Assets**
|**Tangible Fixed Assets**||
|---|---|
|Pavilion
Purchased 2009 10% straight line
New Cabin
Purchased 2017 10% straight line
New units & Island
Purchased 2019 10% straight line
Men's Shed
Purchased 2017 10% straight line|**2024**
**2023 Purchase Price**
£
£
-
3,0004,000 10,000
1,1221,4102,876
1,857 2,2093,518|
||**5,980 7,619 16,394**|
**7 Analysis of Net Assets between Funds**
Restricted Funds Unrestricted Funds
|**2024**|**2023**|**2022**|
|---|---|---|
|**Total**|**Total**|**Total**|
|£|£|£|
|43,487|52,115|39,796|
|95,668|59,319|26,301|
|**139,155**|**111,434**|**66,097**|
A positive balancing adjustment of £443.79 was added to the 2021 restricted funds total
**8 Incorporation**
The Abbey Physic Community Garden is a company limited by guarantee, without a share capital, incorporated on 30 November 2006.
It took over the activities in the garden on 1 December 2006.
In the event of the company being wound up, members guarantee to pay £1 each towards the Garden's debts.
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (cont.)**
SCHEDULE OF ONGOING RESTRICTED GRANTS AND DONATIONS Restricted Grants Carried forward to 2024
|Bal b/f|Grant Name|Grant Receipts in 2024|2024 Restricted exp.|bal c/f|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|12/31/2023||||12/31/2024|
|5,121|Big Lottery|91,500|92,613|4,008|
|5,450|Faversham Town Council|0|5,450|0|
|4,050|Benstead Trust (incl. Colin Sharp)|0|4,050|0|
|1,667|Colyer Ferguson|0|1,667|0|
|4,169|Henry Smith|10,000|9,169|5,000|
|0|The Access Foundation/Philips & Conni|12,000|3,400|8,600|
|0|Swale Borough Council|0|0|0|
|0|Contiacorum Foundation|1,800|1,800|0|
|0|Alpkit Foundation|0|0|0|
|0|Albert Hunt|2,000|1,000|1,000|
|0|Austin Hope|1,000|250|750|
|0|H G Wells|1,000|1,000|0|
|0|Arnold Clark|750|750|0|
|0|Young SE|1,000|167|833|
|0|Co-Operative Community|5,000|0|5,000|
|0|Orchard Community Energy|4,635|0|4,635|
|0|Imperial Plastics|700|700|0|
|20,457|0|131,385|122,016|29,826|
## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Abbey Physic Community Garden**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Abbey Physic Community Garden for the year ended 31 December 2024.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust 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.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
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.
Signed: Name: Lousie Shaw, CA
Relevant professional qualification or membership of professional bodies (if any): Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, M24744
Address: Chase House, 55 Preston Street, Faversham, ME13 8PG
Date: 26[th ] September 2024