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## Contents |Contents|| |---|---| |Chair’s report
Growing Ability|1
2| |Branching Out|4| |Events Walks & Workshops|4| |Forest School initiatives
New Shoots
Friday Garden Club
People
Pavilion/Tai Chi
Treasurer’s Report|5
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9| |Future plans|10| ## Triangle Community Garden Created and cultivated by people of all ages and abilities at Ransom’s Rec Hitchin, Herts ## Annual Review 2022-23 We’re active in three areas within Ransom’s Rec (a small informal park near Hitchin station): the allotments, the Community Garden, and our Forest Garden alongside the River Hiz. The areas vary in character and each has different challenges and rewards. All three sites have thrived under the loving care of Friday Garden Club, New Shoots and Growing Ability, our three green care projects. ## Welcome to our Annual Review for 2022-23 Our financial year runs from 1[st] September to 31[st] August and this review deals with that period. During this time the Triangle Garden has seen some massive changes – primarily in staff but also in new projects and a renewed determination to reach as many people as possible with our work. We’ve said goodbye to two longstanding members of staff and welcomed five exceptional new people to our staff team. We’ve also initiated productive relationships with organisations such as CultureWood forest school practitioners, Ivel Valley School, and NHS Talking Therapies. **Growing Ability** works long-term with adults with learning disabilities and chronic mental health concerns, focusing on the goals, abilities and support needs of each individual, and using horticulture and engagement in nature to increase the health, wellbeing, self-esteem and selfconfidence of our ‘gardeners’. For those new to the Triangle Community Garden (TCG) and its work, here’s our vision: **New Shoots** is a 6-week project for people struggling with stress, anxiety and depression. It uses the five ways to wellbeing and the benefits of working in nature to bring about improved physical health and mental wellbeing. Many New Shoots participants go on to join our **Friday Garden Club** (pic left), made up of loyal volunteers who tend and nurture all our sites and help at our events. **‘A community where people feel happier and more fulfilled through a connection with the natural** **world and an understanding of our place in it.’** Our aim is to help people of all ages and abilities to **‘connect, grow enjoy!’,** through gardening and contact with the natural world. We do this through: New projects we introduced last year include our **Family Forest School** and **Triangle Tribe** activities (pic top left), introducing bushcraft for wellbeing to families with children aged 3-12 and 12-16 respectively, and our new **Sunday Garden Club.** More inside… - Supporting physical and mental health using social and therapeutic horticulture, arts and crafts, cooking and a focus on healthy living - Providing volunteering opportunities, - Running skills workshops and - Holding community events. Vicky Wyer, Chair of Trustees ## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please email info@trianglegarden.org **----- Start of picture text -----**
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We currently have spaces at Growing Ability! Please contact Alice for details: alice@trianglegarden.org ## Growing Ability **Growing Ability is our social therapeutic horticulture project where people with learning disabilities and other support needs gain training and experience in all aspects of horticulture, gardening and food growing.** Our Growing Ability ‘gardeners’ regularly take part in activities such as nature conservation, mindful exercise, food preparation/cooking, healthy eating, making art and crafts, selling produce and taking orders/making refreshments. Through supported learning and meaningful activities in the community Growing Ability helps people build confidence and selfworth, grow in independence, and develop and reinforce important skills. Growing Ability is a lovely friendly outdoor project and we welcome new people including those transitioning from school or college. We provide a safe, caring and stimulating environment where sessions are structured in a personcentred way. This allows us to focus on the goals that each individual wants to achieve, while also incorporating key training and life skills experience. The project is primarily based at our allotments but also incorporates the Pavilion, Triangle Garden, Forest Garden and Ransom’s Recreation Ground. Each session taps into the healing and restorative powers of nature to embed a culture of wellbeing, personal growth and connection. Our staff and volunteers understand the reciprocal benefits of working with nature: you plant and nurture a seed, and it grows into a seedling while you’ve been away. Give a little, gain a lot. The rewards are shared and enjoyed, and the challenges borne and overcome together. Running a successful vegetable plot requires planning and organisational skills, decision making and fine-motor skills as well as the application of literacy and numeracy. And that’s before you’ve even harvested anything! Growing food and harvesting it involves our gardeners in shared goals and responsibilities, as well as shared creativity, enterprise and experimentation when that food is cooked and enjoyed together. At Growing Ability we work with adults with a range of abilities and support needs including learning disabilities, autism, brain injury and chronic or severe mental ill health. Sessions are 2.5 hours long and are chargeable (from £12.80/hr). They run Tuesday-Thursday with a capacity of 6-8 gardeners per session, depending on the support need of each individual. Each session is run by two experienced care professionals, and at least one trained volunteer. ## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please contact Liz McElroy on 07887 725962, email liz@trianglegarden.org or write to Liz McElroy, Triangle Garden Project Manager, c/o Htci 27 Churchyard, Hitchin, SG5 1HP ## Growing Ability continued Across 2022-23, 20 individuals **Here are some of the things people** attended Growing Ability, five of **say about Growing Ability:** whom attended two sessions per ‘The main thing about being here is week. During that period we said you’ve got people you can talk to. goodbye to five gardeners and two Doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, key members of staff, Rachel Cottey you’ve always got someone you can and Liz McElroy, who moved to full connect with. I find the staff are time roles elsewhere. We also said a really really good, and the sad farewell to Judith, one of our volunteers. They make me feel that I longstanding volunteers. We wish belong here … I really enjoy coming them all well. We also welcomed two here and look forward to it.’ new gardeners and four new staff members. A massive change! **‘I’d definitely recommend Growing** ‘The main thing about being here is you’ve got people you can talk to. Doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, you’ve always got someone you can connect with. I find the staff are really really good, and the volunteers. They make me feel that I belong here … I really enjoy coming here and look forward to it.’ ## **‘I’d definitely recommend Growing Ability because it really helps with mindfulness and friendship…’** Alice Woodward took over as Project Manager in July 2023 and Steve Granger took on the new role of Site and Horticulture Manager. Liz Millbank, Karenanne Haye, Gail Halliday (June-Sept 2023) and Dulcie Buckenham joined Steve as care professionals supporting sessions. ‘My son was quite worried about the changes and I was quite concerned because he sometimes has difficulty coping with change but I have been very impressed with how smooth the transition has been and how well he has coped. He is very happy with how GA is organised and run following the transition.’ parent Of the five gardeners who left, one moved away and several felt confident enough to move on to become volunteers at local free-toattend horticulture projects. We see this progression as a testament to the power of Growing Ability in promoting independence, confidence and resilience in all those who attend. **‘Growing Ability is now an integral part of my son’s life. It provides twice weekly support for him, it’s a group that he’s comfortable with and a place where he can share his ideas and interests and know that he is accepted and listened to. I know that he looks forward to attending each session, and misses those sessions greatly [when] unable to attend. The staff support and encourage him in every possible way and I firmly believe that he gains immeasurably from this, mentally, emotionally and physically.’** parent We know the need is out there locally for the sort of empowerment we can provide and we’re building stronger relationships with local commissioners and special schools to reach new people. We want Growing Ability to be widely known as a welcoming place for young adults transitioning from school or college into the wider world and we’ve made a new video* (now on our website) to show this. Alice Woodward, Project Manager *funded by Cllr Ian Albert’s HCC Locality Budget **----- Start of picture text -----**
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184 sessions 20 individuals 451 volunteer hours 2 joiners 5 leavers 4 off site trips ## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please contact Liz McElroy on 07887 725962, email liz@trianglegarden.org or write to Liz McElroy, Triangle Garden Project Manager, c/o Htci 27 Churchyard, Hitchin, SG5 1HP We currently have spaces at our Branching Out Easter Scheme! Please contact Alice for details: alice@trianglegarden.org **----- Start of picture text -----**
One of our mulberry harvests
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Apple Day kids’ activities
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Jane, The Hitchin Forager
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## Branching Out Branching Out is a new initiative consisting of a series of projects **offering opportunities for young people aged 1625** with additional needs, to gain horticultural skills and work/life experience in a supported therapeutic environment. We also hope to run one in the summer (funding permitting). As well as creating opportunities for young people to experience what we do, we’ve been forging links with schools and colleges for young people with additional needs. From this year we’re running a scheme for young people with a learning disability to come and try out gardening as a group activity, as part of our social therapeutic horticulture programme. This will take the form of a **three day Easter Scheme** open to all young people in Herts and Beds (with funding from Bedfordshire Charitable Trust to subsidise places for Bedfordshire residents). Last May we visited Ivel Valley School in Biggelswade and in June some of their students visited us to experience a Growing Ability session. We hope this sort of exchange will become a regular fixture. Please contact us for more information if you are or know of a young person who may be interested in Branching Out. The scheme runs from 9-11th April 2024, from 9.30am to 3pm at our allotment site. Alice Woodward Project Manager ## Community events, walks & workshops Each year we put on a number of workshops and community events to engage and connect people with the natural world, spread the word about what we do and raise funds for our work. Common. Last summer we also ran a ‘Fairy Doors’ craft workshop, and two Veg Growing workshops run by Steve Granger. Feedback for all our workshops has been excellent, thanks to our fantastic tutors. October 2022 saw another successful Apple Day in Hitchin town centre – our 18[th] since the first in 2003. A celebration of English apples, local food and sustainability, with new stalls including Apple Cottage Cider and Plastic Free Hitchin’s very popular Halloween costume swap. The event raised £620 for our work. We held our Summer Garden Fete in September for the first time last year and although outside this reporting period, it makes sense to mention it now. Building on the previous July’s Summer Garden Party we expanded the event to include more stalls, activities and entertainments headlined by Garden City Samba and Imajica Theatre. The aim was to raise awareness of the community garden and our work and showcase local collaborators like jewellery tutor Tuuli Parker, dyeplant experts Nature’s Rainbow, and Tai Chi practitioner Three Treasures Chris. A really well-attended day! In May 2023 members of Garden Club ran a very successful stall at Hitchin farmers’ market selling plants they had raised themselves which made around £350. And in July we had an outreach stall at Plastic Free Hitchin’s Eco-Fair which was very well-attended despite the rain! Once again our Seasonal Foraging Walks have proved very popular, led by Jane Simmons, The Hitchin Forager, around Ransom’s Rec and at Oughtonhead Thanks to all who helped at our events and of course to our hardworking band of events organisers: Gemma, Mel, Vicky, Gill and Karenanne ## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please contact Liz McElroy on 07887 725962, email liz@trianglegarden.org or write to Liz McElroy, Triangle Garden Project Manager, c/o Htci 27 Churchyard, Hitchin, SG5 1HP ## Forest School and Triangle Tribe After a false start scuppered by covid in 2019, we were very excited to host our first family forest school session at the Triangle Garden in October 2022, run by Tanya Dickson of CultureWood CiC. Shortly afterwards we heard we’d been successful in getting funding from Herts Community Foundation to run a year’s worth of forest school activities for families with children and young people. • Improved wellbeing for young people/families through creating new social support networks - **outcome** : **feedback shows families appreciated the social connection elements of these initiatives, and new friendships and stronger connections have been made through both projects.** Triangle Tribe participants reported: **'Was very pleased to have this sort of thing offered to teens. There is so much aimed at young children but hardly anything for teens to do. My girls ... are very reluctant to do anything with strangers, but they were surprisingly keen on doing Triangle Tribe and rated the last session 9 out of 10!’’** Both initiatives focus on engaging young people in exploration, crafting, learning skills and play, in a natural therapeutic setting. Inspired by nature, young people and their parents/carers collaborate to learn bushcraft, fire skills and traditional green crafting, creating ephemeral nature art together. Outdoor play and discovery builds confidence, allows risk taking and encourages team building skills. Studies show that spending time in nature reduces stress, improves mental well-being, boosts immune functions, increases creativity and leaves people feeling refreshed. ‘We persevered and overcame challenges to feel proud’ **‘We had an excellent time each week’** ‘Felt peaceful after being outside’ **‘Family time – it was really fun to try new things’** ‘It was fun – I felt happy and excited for the next one!’ **‘We all really enjoyed the first week even though the kids were reluctant to go as it meant missing their normal youth club. However, they loved it so much they were happy to skip this week’s. … I’d definitely recommend this to others!”** These are the outcomes we set out to achieve: - An increase in the engagement of young people and families in looking after the local environment - **outcome: over 250 people have engaged with these two projects in 2023** **Family Forest School** meets monthly, every fourth Sunday morning 11am12.30 and **Triangle Tribe** meets every third Friday evening 6.30-8.30pm. Sessions need to be booked in advance as placed are limited. Both initiatives are neurodivergent-friendly. - Young people are educated about the environment/climate, - **outcome: feedback shows that the projects increased participants' connection with / understanding of nature and natural processes.** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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To book your place at Family Forest School or Triangle Tribe please visit trianglegarden.org/events ## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please email steve@trianglegarden.org **----- Start of picture text -----**
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“Lovely to connect with nature and do something useful with lovely people” “ I arrived stressed and tired and left relaxed and happy” To find out more about New Shoots contact alice@trianglegarden.org ## New Shoots New Shoots is a project that we set up to respond to the high levels anxiety, stress and depression brought on by the pandemic and exacerbated by the cost of living crisis. **New Shoots uses community gardening to reduce social isolation and promote mental wellbeing.** Last year thanks to funding from Herts County Council, we were able to run the second of two fullyfunded 15-week blocks of weekly half-day New Shoots sessions, based around the **five ways to wellbeing** : - **Be active** - **Connect** - **Give** - **Learn** - **Notice** For both our 15-week New Shoots blocks, weekly feedback showed participants - **enjoyed** the sessions, - **learnt something new** in most sessions, - **engaged with others** in almost all sessions, - were **physically active** at the majority of sessions, - felt **less anxious** after sessions - felt **more engaged** after sessions - felt **more positive** after sessions. The WEMWBS (Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scores) at the beginning and end of each block, showed participants feeling more confident, more useful and more able to make up their minds about things over the block period. This is what one participant had to say: **“When I came to the Triangle Garden my mental health was poor, I constantly felt tired and anxious and felt I had no time or** **motivation to do anything about it.** **“Initially, just meeting the staff and volunteers was reassuring, as they were all friendly and calm with a passion for the project that was contagious.** **“Steve spent time showing me around the forest garden and sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm about the different plants, their purpose within the garden, what they produced and how this was used. It was fascinating and inspiring, a magical place to forget the stresses of daily life and feel at one with nature.** **“I joined the New Shoots programme and started to look forward to this time every week when I could feel calm and energised. As someone with a sedentary lifestyle these sessions provided a good variety of activity to improve my physical as well as my mental health. I learn something new each week about gardening and nature, which has motivated me to get out walking more in nature and grow my own food this year.”** Several of those who attended New Shoots went on to become members of our Friday Garden Club and help at our community events, extending their positive experience. **From September 2023 we decided to move forward with a 6-week version** of New Shoots to align with a standardlength counselling block and allow us to seek referrals from NHS Talking Therapies (previously IAPT) for people on the waiting list for counselling. We are embarking on our second block in January and **actively seeking funding to continue the programme** . ## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please contact Liz McElroy on 07887 725962, email liz@trianglegarden.org or write to Liz McElroy, Triangle Garden Project Manager, c/o Htci 27 Churchyard, Hitchin, SG5 1HP ## Our Garden Clubs Friday Garden Club meets every Friday morning from 10am for some gentle guided social gardening. It is open to anyone, and its purpose is to maintain and develop the Triangle Garden and Forest Garden for the benefit of people and nature. Members enjoy learning new gardening skills, meeting new friends and being active in the fresh air, while making a positive contribution to the community and biodiversity. There are also regular trips and outings. A very important part of the Garden Club experience is the cuppa, cake and chat at the end of each session! Thanks go to Lesley for her homemade cakes at coffee time, often using produce from our sites. Friday Garden Club has met most weeks throughout the year, excluding holidays and extreme weather. Volunteer numbers have increased this year, with 20 volunteers overall, and an average of 9 people coming each week, giving a total of 728 volunteer hours, up 20% on last year. Allotment plot 6A continues to be a productive space in both what is grown and produced there, alongside the benefits to those working on it. The polytunnel has given the Garden Club a dedicated space to raise plants for the Farmer's Market plant stall and for the Forest and Community Gardens. Garden Club continue to make steady progress in their dedicated nurturing of our community spaces for biodiversity and people. The ongoing task of removing the ‘weed suppressing’ membrane continues slowly but surely, allowing the planting of a new herbaceous layer to the Forest Garden. We have had many positive comments from those using the park about the improved paths through this area. As the Forest Garden plants mature, we are getting larger and larger harvests. This year we harvested our first Mashua tubers. Time away from the garden plays a valuable role in providing inspiration and a change of scene. Last year we enjoyed a trip to Jordans Mill to admire their planting areas and to Cambridge Botanic Garden. Many Garden Club volunteers staffed our plant stalls at Apple Day and the Farmers Market in town, bringing in valuable income to support our work. Local building company Crane BSU have continued to attend regularly, as volunteers, carrying out various tasks including building new compost bins and fixing shelves in the lock up. The pond had a bit of a dredge out early in the season and volunteers cut back some of the encroaching branches around it to let more light in. We are still looking for a contractor willing to carry out a clean out and replacement of the damaged liner. Once that is done and the pond is returned to a better state we can reintroduce pond-dipping and autumn pond maintenance sessions to our calendar of activities. We collaborated with Groundwork once again this year to run a six-week GOGA (Go Outside, Get Active) block of nature conservation sessions with volunteers from various places including the Living Room. They carried out many tasks including replanting pollinator plants in the raised beds which are doing well. They also removed the Dogwood from the willow maze area, opening the site up in preparation for improvement. Garden Committee have been active over the last year, meeting more regularly and making plans for the revitalisation of our monthly volunteer mornings, now known as **Sunday Garden Club** on the second Sunday of every month. Look out for them and book yourself a free place. All ages and abilities welcome! Steve Granger, Garden Club Leader **----- Start of picture text -----**
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To find out more about joining Friday Garden Club please contact Steve Granger via steve@trianglegarden.org To book your free place at Sunday Garden Club visit trianglegarden.org/events ## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please email steve@trianglegarden.org **----- Start of picture text -----**
Liz (top) and Rachel
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Alice Woodward our new PM
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3 community events 5 local food stalls 5 sustainability stalls 35 event volunteers 6 foraging walks 9 dye workshops 18 jewellery workshops ## People This year has seen a lot of fond farewells and many more ‘welcome aboard’s! - **Funmi Daramola** started in the spring as volunteer Accounts Assistant **Liz Millbank, Karenanne Hay and Gail Halliday** joined us as GA horticultural support workers last spring-summer - A massive thank you goes to staff members **Liz McElroy and Rachel Cottey** (top left) for their dedicated work from 2013-2023 as Project Manager and GA Support Worker. Also to **Margaret Byrne** our longstanding and longsuffering Accounts Assistant and trustee **Fiona Dolman** who both stepped down last year. We’re delighted that Margaret continues to assist with Pavilion hires and Fiona continues to co-chair Garden Committee and volunteer at Friday Garden Club. We also said a sad goodbye to GA volunteer **Judith** and several of our GA gardeners who have moved on to pastures new. - **Alice Woodward** , our new Project Manager, joined us in July (pic left) - • **Dulcie Buckenham** joined us in September, replacing Gail who had to leave at the end of the summer • **Steve Granger** was promoted to the role of Site and Horticulture Manager. As always we say a big thank you to our wonderful Garden Club volunteers who help to keep our sites so biodiverse and beautiful, to our Growing Ability and New Shoots volunteers and gardeners and their supportive parents and carers, our events team, our trustees, our accounts volunteer, our webmaster, and all our collaborators, supporters and funders. A special thank you also to jam making supremo Chris, ably supported by her creative assistant Gill. A warm welcome goes to the many new staff members and volunteers who have joined us over the last year: - **Ed Harkness** joined us as Business Development Manager in Dec 2022 ## Pavilion hires and Tai Chi in the park It’s great to see our Pavilion continuing to be hired by external arts tutors for creative workshops such as **Tuuli Parker’s silver clay and glass fusion jewellery classes** , and **Kim Raymont’s art workshops** which last year focused on screen printing. plant materials throughout the growing season, including a two day workshop on working with Japanese Indigo and an inspiring day of Botanical Printing. These hires provide welcome income to help fund our Friday Garden Club and Sunday volunteer mornings, and make good use of our little community facility. **Nature’s Rainbow** have also been regular hirers of the pavilion and our outdoor classroom space on the allotment. Last year they hosted several visits to their small but abundant dye plant garden on Ransoms’ allotments and ran workshops on ‘How to plan and plant a dye garden’ to groups from across the country. Their demonstration dye plot at Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture Festival drew lots of attention last year and they continue to run practical workshops teaching people how to dye with natural We’ve also been trying to introduce more community activities to Ransoms Rec, to make better active use of the space and fill it with positivity. Our first foray has been to persuade Chris Nutley of **Three Treasures Tai Chi to run a weekly outdoor Tai Chi class** on the Rec (bottom left). This now happens every Friday 11.15am-12.15, whatever the weather and is slowly building a following. Come along and give it a try! Beginners welcome! ## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please email info@trianglegarden.org or events.trianglegarden@gmail.com ## Treasurer’s Report Similar to last year, this financial year to 31 August 2023 saw the charity make a surplus, though more modest than in 2022. grant applications – their efforts this year have yet again been vital. This year we would also like to thank McCarthy & Stone for becoming Platinum Sponsors. In the absence of an Open Day for this period (2023’s event was held in September), our main fundraising events were our annual Apple Day in October 2022 which made a profit of £600, and plant stall run by Garden Club volunteers in May at Hitchin Market which made £350. Along with our other sources of income, the pavilion continues to be an important source of funds – generating fees from use by local community groups and classes, and providing facilities for TCG activities and projects. Income from client fees has again shown a modest increase during the year, but under the new fee structure introduced by Hertfordshire County Council, the level of this income is precarious going forward as new rates represent a reduction on those paid previously. This uncertainty over future fee levels, and a desire to ensure that TCG runs a full programme of fully-attended sessions led to the decision to create a new role of Business Development Manager this year, and we were very pleased to appoint Ed Harkness (below right) into the role. Currently, this role is being funded from our reserves but the intention is that the additional income that is brought in will make the role self-sustaining. We also received a small income from our Forest School and Triangle Tribe activities which we will be using to continue them across the current financial year now that their funding has come to an end. Whilst we are very pleased to see that TCG’s combined activities, have delivered a surplus this year of over £2,000, we remain very aware of the hard truth that without other sources of income, the charity would certainly have made a deficit if it had to solely rely on fees from Growing Ability gardeners. Finally, from a financial management perspective, we thank our previous volunteer bookkeeper Margaret (bottom right) for her many years of hard work, dedication and commitment, and welcome our new bookkeeper Funmi who has quickly and effectively taken up the reins. We would also like to thank Deniz Brown who has been our Independent Examiner for many years and to welcome our new IE, Charles Osei ACIE. This serves to highlight how important these other sources are, and how grateful we remain to those that provide them. In this year this includes very kind donations (such as those from Crane, Waitrose, Hitchin Nature Network, St Marks Church and private individuals via our People’s Fundraising website, amongst others) or the grants awarded to us (such as those provided by Herts Community Fund and our local Councillors). It also shows the hard work undertaken by the team in submitting robust and convincing Abbreviated accounts are shown below. The full accounts in the format required by the Charities Commission are available on our website. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please email info@trianglegarden.org ## Future plans Over the course of the last year, we have been looking at ways to make the Triangle Community Garden more financially sustainable. Our organisation is a valuable community asset and we want to safeguard its future. The first step in doing so has been to identify how to build financial resilience in the face of current and future economic challenges. With our community feeling the effects of the cost of living crisis it is critically important that we can continue to provide access to meaningful nature-based activities. Across the board budgets are tightening and funding is becoming more competitive so ensuring that we have consistent and sustainable revenue streams is critical. We are looking for ways to achieve this across all of our activities: When it comes time for these young people to leave further education and choose a future path, we hope they will feel more confident and comfortable joining our Growing Ability sessions. **New Shoots:** Having run two pilot programmes for our 6-week mental health course we are confident that it can have a significant impact on people living with common mental health issues. We have been working closely with NHS Talking Therapies in Hertfordshire to generate referrals and are looking at ways to start offering this as a funded service. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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**Workshops and Public Events:** Our public events are always immensely popular and allow people to engage with us in more ad hoc ways. They also offer us opportunities for face-to-face fundraising activities through plant and produce sales. We aim to build on the successes of our 2023 activities by continuing to provide an eclectic mix of events and workshops for our community. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Summer Fete 2023
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**Growing Ability:** We want to run more Growing Ability sessions each week including some full day sessions. This will ensure that we are making the best use of our gardens, allotments and pavilion. It will mean that we can offer social and therapeutic horticulture sessions to more adults with support needs, making our green spaces more accessible. It will also give us further secure, regular income. **Fundraising Activities:** Our work this year would not have been possible without the support of our generous funders to whom we are very grateful. **Branching Out:** Our newest project aims to introduce young people (16-25) to our social and therapeutic horticulture offer. ## Ed Harkness **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## Find out more at www.trianglegarden.org Triangle Community Garden: Registered charity No 1145243, Company Limited by Guarantee No 07676360 For more information please email info@trianglegarden.org ## **Triangle Community Garden Accounts 2022-23** (aka Hitchin Community Gardens) |**Hitchin Community Gardens**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Income and Expenditure for the year ended 31st August**||**2023**|||| ||||||| ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Total| ||Funds|Income Funds|Funds|This Year|Last Year| |**Income from:**|||||| |Donations and Legacies|12401|9557|0|21958|12304| |
Other Trading Activities|6239|1072|0|7311|6245| |
Charitable Activities|3435|33518|0|36953|32696| |Investments|0|0|0|0|0| |**Total Income**|**22075**|**44147**|**0**|**66222**|**51245**| ||||||| |**Expenditure on:**|||||| |Raising Funds|2745|3331|0|6076|3171| |
Charitable Expenditure|16900|41220|0|58120|38623| |
**Total Expenditure**|**19645**|**44551**|**0**|**64196**|**41794**| ||||||| |**Net Income before Other**|**2430**|**-404**|**0**|**2,026**|**9,451**| |**Recognised Gains and Losses**|||||| ||||||| |**Other Recognised Gains and Losses**|0|0|0|0|0| |**Transfer between Funds**|||||| |**Net Movement in Funds**|**2430**|**-404**|**0**|**2,026**|**9,451**| ||||||| |**Total funds Brought Forward**|**27412**|**22982**|**0**|**50394**|**40943**| ||||||| |**Total Funds Carried Forward**|**29842**|**22578**|**0**|**52420**|**50394**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |**Hitchin Community Gardens**|||||| |**Balance Sheet as at 31st August 2023**|||||| ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Total| ||Funds|Income Funds|Funds|This Year|Last Year| |**Fixed Assets**|||||| |Tangible Fixed Assets-Equipment|0|0|0|0|0| |
**Total Fixed Assets**|**0**|**0**|**0**|**0**|**0**| ||||||| |**Current Assets**|||||| |Stock|206|0|0|206|230| |Debtors and Prepayments|415|1855|0|2270|4337| |
Cash at Bank and in Hand|32688|18694|0|51382|47938| |**Total Current Assets**|**33309**|**20549**|**0**|**53858**|**52505**| |**Current Liabilities**|||||| |Creditors and Accruals|639|799|0|1438|2111| |Deferred Income|0|0|0|0|0| |**Total Current Liabilities**|**639**|**799**|**0**|**1438**|**2111**| |**Net Current Assets**|32670|19750|0|52420|50394| ||||||| |**Total Assets less Current Liabilities**|**32670**|**19750**|**0**|**52420**|**50394**| |**Amounts falling due after more than 1 Year**|||||| |Deferred Income|0|||0|0| ||||||| |**Net Assets**|**32670**|**19750**|**0**|**52420**|**50394**| ||||||| |**Funds of the Charity**|||||| |Triangle Community Garden Fund|5652||0|5652|1921| |
Pavilion Fund|21663||0|21663|17149| |Specified General Funds|8749|||8749|13191| |
Restricted Funds||16356|0|16356|18133| |**Total Funds**|**36064**|**16356**|**0**|**52420**|**50394**| ||||||| Triangle_Garden_Accounts_2022-23.pdf 1 ## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2023** ## **1. Basis of Accounting** The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the FRSSE and the 2015 SORP ## **2. Accounting Policies** The principal accounting policies are summarised below. The accounting policies have been applied consistently throughout the year. ## **(a) Fund Accounting** Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity. Designated finds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes. Restricted funds are subject to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor. ## **(b) 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: **Voluntary Income** is received by way of grants, donations and gifts and is included in full in the Statement of Financial Activities when receivable. **Donated Services** are included at the value to the charity where this can be quantified. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included in these accounts. **Income from Trading and Charitable Activities** are accounted for when earned. Hertfordshire County Council is responsible for the payment of fees for six of the clients (gardeners). Fees of £11,378 were received from HCC in the year ended 31st August 2023. ## **(c) Expenditure** Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes VAT which cannot be recovered and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates. Costs of generating funds comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income and the costs of trading for fundraising purposes. Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them. It includes governance costs which are those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the charity and include the accountant’s fees and costs linked to the strategic management of the charity. ## **(d) Fixed Assets** Fixed Assets are included at cost less accumulated depreciation. The cost of minor additions, those costing below £1000 and those whose purchase costs are fully covered by a grant are not capitalised. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the asset over its expected useful life, which in all cases is estimated at 5 years. Currently the charity has no fixed assets which have not been written off. Triangle_Garden_Accounts_2022-23.pdf 2 ## **3. Income** ## **(a) Donations** Triangle Community Garden £411.93 Donation from Waitrose - £1,200 Donation from Crane Charitable Funds (for Growing Ability) - £1,974.79 Neighbourly Trust - £1,000 Donation from St Mark’s Church - £250 Donations from Crane Charitable Funds - £5,488 Donations from Crane Charitable Funds - £2,667.37 ## **(b) Grants** Herts Community foundation - £4,930 Forest School and Triangle Tribe activities. Herts County Council – £650 Locality grant (Video). North Herts CVS - £750 Sustainability. Bedfordshire Charitable Trust £2,636 – Growing Ability Taster Scheme (for Bedfordshire residents.) ## **4. Expenditure** For analysis see attached appendix A ## **5. Trustee Remuneration and Related Party Transactions** Reimbursements were made to trustees for purchases made directly for Hitchin Community Gardens. Details of trustees’ other transactions with the charity are given in note 14. ## **6. Salaries and Wages** At 31[st] August 2023, 6 part time staff were employed. Total wages including pension contributions paid in the year to 31[st] August 2023 were £47,308.21. ## **9. Tangible Fixed Assets** |**At Cost**
At 1stSeptember 2021
Acquisitions
At 31stAugust 2022
**Depreciation**
At 1stSeptember 2021
Charge for Year
At 31stAugust 2022
**Net Book Value**
At 31stAugust 2022
At 31stAugust 2023|Equipment
£
2916
0| |---|---| ||2916
2916
0| ||2916
0
0| Triangle_Garden_Accounts_2022-23.pdf 3 ## **11. Debtors** Prepaid expenses £ 720.10 Debtors £1550.38 Reclaimable Gift Aid Tax £ 0.00 £2270.48 ## **12. Creditors and Accruals** Income received in advance £ 493.65 Creditors £ 576.70 Payroll & pension liabilities £ 368.17 Total £1438.52 All deferred income has now been written back. ## **13. Analysis of Net Assets Between Funds** Triangle Community Garden and Ransom’s Pavilion £27,316 Growing Ability Group £13,300 Capital Expenditure Fund (balance of grants) £11,804 ## **14. Related Parties** One trustee is a director of Bowles & Wyer who do the photocopying for Hitchin Community Gardens. No charge is made for black and white copies, and colour copies are invoiced at cost. This is considerably cheaper than using another supplier. See page 5 for Appendix A (Note 4) and page 6 for Reserves Statement Triangle_Garden_Accounts_2022-23.pdf 4 ## **Appendix A** ## **Note 4** ## **Hitchin Community Gardens** ## **Expenditure for the Year ended 31st August 2023** |**Voluntary Income Costs**
General Admin & Publicity
Website
**Fundraising Costs**
Event Costs
Workshop Costs
Children's Activities Costs
Pavilion Costs
Gazebo Costs
**Charitable Expenditure**
Insurance
Subscriptions
Gardening Club & Sunday Staff
Growing Ability (GA) and New Shoots Tutors
Project Management Salary
Visits
Volunteer Expenses
Training
Project Management & GA Overheads
Wi-fi
Materials, Tools & PPE
Allotment Rent & Shelter
Refreshments
**Governance Costs**
Accounting
Accountants Fees
DBS Checks
Legal costs
Other Governance Costs
**Total Expenditure**|Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Funds
Funds
132
132
4
5
9| |---|---| ||136
5
141| ||1620
1620
800
130
930
0
3196
3196
187
187
0
0| ||2607
3326
5933| ||391
261
652
71
106
177
2718
0
2718
1495
23562
25057
10184
9349
19533
68
577
645
0
0
0
4
1342
1346
380
3759
4139
127
190
317
1092
574
1666
0
93
93
59
524
583| ||16590
40336
56926| ||266
645
911
40
60
100
0
172
172
5
8
13
0| ||311
885
1196| ||**19644**
**44552**
**64196**| Triangle_Garden_Accounts_2022-23.pdf 5 ## **Hitchin Community Gardens Reserves Statement 2023** Hitchin Community Gardens needs reserves to: - Meet any contractual liabilities should the organisation have to close - Meet unexpected costs like repairs to the pavilion - To replace equipment as it wears out. - Ensure the charity can provide a continuing service for its gardeners and to the community - To provide working capital if funding is paid in arrears, and to enable it to bid for funding which is paid in arrears - To provide working capital where there is a gap between funding streams. Where funding is not renewed bids for alternative sources can take time to process. - Enable it to expand the range of services offered - Provide a contingency fund in the event of a shortfall in one or more of its funding activities Hitchin Community Garden Reserves at 31[st] August 2023 Hitchin Community Garden’s reserves policy states that reserves should be between 30% and 40% of turnover. Reserves at 31[st] August 2023 are £52420. This is 79% of turnover. These reserves are earmarked for the continuation of our Business Development/Outreach post which will allow us to reach more beneficiaries and provide more wide-ranging services to address the needs of the post-pandemic community. Part of the purpose of this role is to seek new markets and new funding to address future known financial shortfalls: cuts to our contract income from the local authority came into play in 2021-22 and are likely to seriously impact us by 2023-24, when our existing clients are passported over to the new rates. The cuts are likely to halve the income we currently receive to deliver commissioned services, with no change to the quality or quantity of service delivery required. Any future clients we attract through the commissioning framework will come in on the new low rates. This is already impacting us as we recruit new clients. Furthermore the cost of living crisis is enticing existing clients away from our chargeable service to local free-to-attend volunteer-run services nearby, threatening to undermine our viability. In 2022-23 we were very lucky to receive several large donations which masked the impact of lost clients and revenue. Next year we may not be so lucky. We therefore need our reserves to address future known challenges and provide a safety net to offset future reduced income. Triangle_Garden_Accounts_2022-23.pdf 6 Hitchin Community Gardens Company rngistratlon number 7676360 Charlty reglstratlon number. 1146243 TRUSTEES. REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEAIENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 202 CONTE Pago Legal and Administrative Details Independent Examin8Vs report Balance Sheet Staternent of Financlal Actfvitles &9 Notes to the Accounts Hitchin Community Gardens Company registratlon numb•r. 7676360 Charlty regl8tratlon nuM￿r. 1145243 ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023 TRUSTEES Chair VIrtOfia Mary Wyer Adrian Peter Stones Andrew Danger Green Hilary Jean Oughton Gareth Hi118 John Anthony Wyer REGISTERED OFFICE: 23 Priory Way Hrtchin SG4 9BJ BANKERS: The Ctroperative Bank-Busine8S PO Box 250 Skelmersdale WN8 6wr INDEPEDNDENT EXAMINER: Charles 08ei. BSclHons), MSC, ACIE, AFA ATA, MCIPP Flat 3. 11 Rothjale Way. Deplford London SE8 4LY Page I Hitchin Community Gardens Roglstsred Charity N￿ 1145243 Company RegS8tration: 7676360 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT ON THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS TO THE TRUSTEES OF HITCHEN COMMUNITY GARDENS I report on the financial statements for the year erKled 31 August 2023 set oui on pages 3- Ro•poctlve rnspon•ibilitlo8 of Tru8toe• and Ind•pondent oxamOn•r The chanty'8 trustees are responsible for the Fyeparation of the accounts in accordance with the te￿9 of the Charftles and Trustee Investment {Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charties Accounts (Scotland) R8gulats'ons 2006 (as amended). The Charity Trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10{1)(d) of the 2006 Accounts Regulation8 does not apply. It is my responsibilty to examine the accounts as required under 8ection 44{1)(c) of the Act and to state ￿*￿ther particular matter8 have come to my attentTron. Ba818 of Indopondont examlnerf• Slatffi￿nt My examlnation18 carried out in accordance wlth Regulation 11 of the 20(B ACc￿nts Regualtlon8. An examination includes a revw of the accounts'ng records kept by the Charity, and a comparison of tho accounts presented with those records. It a180 indude8 consthration of any unusual rtem8 or di8¢108ures In the accounts and seeking explanations from you as Trustees concerning any such matter8. The proc6dure8 und8rtaken do not provide all the evKlence that *r•uld be required in an audrt. and ¢on8equently no opinion 18 given as to whether the accounts pr88ent a Irue and fair and the reports limited to those matters sel out in the Statement as follows.. Ind•p•nd•nt •xamln•f• •tat•m•nt In connecti(In my examination. no matter has come to my attentlon: 1) which gives me r•asonable cau8e to believe that In any material respect the requirement8 a) to keep accounting records in accordance I￿th Sects'on 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts R8gulation8 b) to prepare accounts which accord *ith the accounting record8 and comply Regulations 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulation8 have not been met, or 2) to which, in my opinion. attentton should be drawn in order to enable a pmper understanding of the accounts to be reathed. 12 Date................... Charfes Osei, Bsc (Hon$), MSC, ACIE, AFA. ATA , MCIPP. MIPA Flat 3, 11 Rochdale Way Deptford London SE8 4LY Page 2 Hltchin Community Gardens Ghrlty regl8tr4tlon numlxr. CE SHEET UGUST 2023 AT 202Z.23 i￿11.22 Income Funds Fvnth Total Total Tangible Fixed Assets- E ul ment Total Flxed Currnnt A8Mts Stock Debtors and Prepayrnents Cash at Bank and In Hand Total Current Assets Current Lb•bllltles Credltor5 and Accrua15 Deferred Income Tgtal Current Llabllltles N•t Curr*ntAss•ts 206 2,270 5L382 53AS8 230 4,337 47,938 52,505 415 32.f I￿55 18.694 20J49 io li 639 1,438 2,111 639 32,670 2,111 50,394 19.750 52,420 Total Assets les5 Cyfftnt Llabllld Amounts f•llSni du• aft•r mor• than l Y••r Deferred Income 19.750 SOJ94 50,394 otth¢ Charfty Trl&n8le Communjty Garden Fund Pavllion Fund Balance of Grant Restrfcted Funds Total Funds 5.652 21,663 8.749 16,356 1.921 17,149 13,191 18,133 SOJ94 21,663 8.749 16,356 J56 The ch3fft8ble cofflpany15 èntltled to exem￿On from a￿lIt wtssertw 477 ofthè Ctynpanies kt 2￿6 forthe year ended 31 st August 2023. The member5 have not required t￿C¢M￿anyt00bta0n an a￿Of its finanoal ststernpJts forthe ended 31st A4gust 2023 in accordance wlth Sectlon 476 of the Compari￿ Act 2￿. il ensuring that the charitati￿ (>yry•ty awAwrth"rvJ rrKord• that S•¢lbM 388 387 of the Companles Art 20C* and ill preparing finaqntial statements whKh 8fve a t￿￿ and fair¥iew (rfthe stste of affalr5 ofthe tharitable cowany as at the end of each finartial year and d Its surplu5 or defeitt for&*h financial year in accordance wtth the wufjre￿nts of knion 394 and 395 and wh￿b otherwise comWy with the requlrements ofthe c￿panieS P£t rel*in8to finandal statsrnents. so far as applicable tothe charitable company. These financSal statements have been prepared in withthe wv•lslons applKable to charftable companie5 subject to the small tompanies wme. Slgned by two trustws on bèhalf of all trustees Print Name S*nature Date 15 Mar 2024 15 Mar 2024 Pa8e 3 Hltchln Communlty Ganlons Comp•ny r•gi•lrnllon nwnb•r. Charlty r•gSstratlon numb•r. R THE YEAR AUGUST 2023 Totsl In￿mI Irom: Donations and Le8acles Other Tradlng Artlvltles Charltable Artlvltles Investments Total In¢¢x 12.401 9.557 1.072 33￿18 21.958 7.311 36.953 12.304 6.245 32,696 3,435 44J47 Sl,245 E¥pendFture on: Ralsing Funds Charitable Expenditure Total Exp•ndlture 2,745 16,9XJ 45 3.331 41.220 44Wi 6.076 58,120 196 3,171 38.623 41.794 Net In¢om• b•for• I￿h•f Roco Ised Galns and ios 9A51 Ixher R•cognlsed Galns and Loss•s Transfer between Funds N•t Mov•mant In Funds 1026 9051 Totsl funds Brou8ht Forw•rd 27M12 50,394 40,943 Totsl Funds C*rrf•d Forw•rd 29 215n 50J94 Hltchln Communlty Gardens Company ro9tstr4tk•n number. 7676360 Charlty reglstrathn numbw. 1145243 NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS ENDED l. A¢¢ountlng Pollckni Bash of Prnparatlon. These accounts have been prepared OT7 an accrual ba$15 and Indude Income and expendlture as th* are •amed or In￿rred, rnther than as receTh*d or pa¥J. R6femi¢x tr) tho"Chwilies SORV rnfef8 to th• Ch8rite8 SORP {FRS 102}.' Reptyllty by Chaiitios. Sl8tertwl of RwxNMmgndwJ Pracjke applkable to charrtie8 preparing their 8tt01m18 In acurdarKx *ith the Flnondal R8Fthing Stsndard 8pplIC8b￿ in the UK and Republlc cl lrnlgnd. 2nd ed￿ ofvL*ve 1 JonLWy 2019, and in aco)rdance wtth the Companwd Act 2C(O. 1•. Inc¢)M• All in¢om• 1$ r•cgni8od th• Charity has •ntiUlement to the income. rt 18 wb•bl• that tho IrK¢m• t•AII b• recelved, and the amount of Income fecebvable can be measured fella￿. Grants are Included In the Statement of finandal actlvltles on a f￿1¥ab]e basls. The balance of Income received lor 8pecific purposes bui not exFknJed during th• pwicd is sh(y*m in the relevant fvrKIB on tho Balance Sheet. Where Income Is recefved In advance of en￿llement of recelpt. Its recognltlon Is deferred and Included In credltors as deferred Income. Where entltlement o¢¢urs before Income Is receivÈd, the Income Is accrued. Income tax recoverable In relatlon to donatlons recelved under Glft Ald or deeds of covenant Is recognlsed at the tlme of the donatlon. Income tax recoverable In relatlon to In¥estrnent Incorne15 reco8nlsed at the tlme the investment Income15 receivable. 1b. exp•ndltur• ExwdilLfft 1$ recognised once theTe is 818981 ty cl)nsrf￿ to tran8far e￿orn￿ bgnefit to a thlrd party, tt 18 possible that a transfer of benefft8 b? rwired in al￿￿Tht of Ihe obligation can be rneasu￿d reliably. ExpendilLn on ch811t0b￿ 8thitses i8 in￿￿ed ￿ direc* the ￿ryt*S futhertho Ch8ntys obled¢vg8. a8 a8 ony 8$60aat&l 8UPWt oi6ts. All expendilure is indu8fve ofiNe¢Thrth VAT. 1¢. Gov•mm•nl gr•nts 1d. Fund a¢¢ounth Unrestridèd Funds 8re recefvable CT gerv*ed ofthe r*wity T*iilbxrtftH speThfied pU￿0$e and are Walab￿ as general fvnds. Restrided Funds s￿ to restridm ffi their eXp￿IlLUre by the d(Thy. Designatsd Fund$ org unreslric*ed knd8 tArt aamwked tr4tstees ts parti￿lar pwmes. Page S Hitchln C¢)mmunity Gardo Company registration number. 7676360 Charity rnglstration number. 1146243 NOTES TO THE Accoupirs CONTD E YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 19. Taxatlon The Charity is Considered to pass the tests set cwJt in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 ofbts Fin￿Ce A¢t 2010 and therefore ft meets the definition of a cJ)arilable Lx)mpany for UK ¢orporath)n tax purposes. Ac¢ordiThJly. the Charity is potentslty exempt from taxation in respect of income ￿ ¢apttsl gains recewed wrthln categofi8S covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Cryp)ration Tax Act 2010 or Section 2￿ of the Taxatiffi of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the exztent that such income or wns ate apPl￿d exclusivety to chantab19 purposes. 11. D•lJtorn Trad8 and othor dabtors are rcogni8ed at the 86tuem￿ amI￿nt Prepayments are valued at amount prepaid. lg. C••h at bank •nd In hand Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and ShOrt-te￿ hyhty IiquKI investrnents wilh a short matuity of threa months or less from the date of acqui6iUon (K openinig ofthe dep)g'1 or limikqr a(xxunt. Ih. Llabllltlm and wovl•lons Llabilities are recogn*ed when there is ￿ obl￿akn at the Wance Sh￿ dale as a resu￿ of a past event, it is probable that a transfer of econom￿ benefit will bo rw4uir8d in 8elUomert and tho amount of the 88ttlement can be estimated reliabty. Llabllitles are recc*Jnlsed al the amount thai the Chanty anticipatss it *ill pay to settle tho debt or th• amount rt ha8 received as advanc•J payments the gryyts or li must provKIe. ProvL8ions are meesured at the best estimate ofthe amounts rw4uir•J to 8ettto the d)Ilgakn. Ilthere the effect of the time value of money is material. the wovisTh is ba8ed on the wesent value of those ￿ounts, discounted at the pr&tax discount rate that refacts the Ttsks Spear￿ to th8 liabitty. The unwinding of the discount18 reccsnwj in the Statement of financial aclivitw as a finan(x aJsL 11. Flnanclal In8lrum•nts The Charity onty has financi81 assets and fina￿al liabilities of a kirKI that qualrfy as basic financi* instruments. Basic financial instruments are initialty recogni8ed at trans&Xion value subsequenly measured at their settlement value wilh the exccepb.on of bank vthich are susequentty measured at amortised ￿$t using the effective interest method. 11. Crlllcal accountlng •stlmat•8 and aw• of Judg￿￿ Estimates and judgements are conttnualty ew4uated and are b88ed on histortal exFerEnce and other factors, induding expe¢tstK)n$ offuture events that a￿ bdiev&l to be reasonabk under the clr¢umstsnces. The Charity does not currenty have ary Synificarrt acxx)unbrKJ estimates or areas of judgement Hltchin Communlty Gardens Company rngi$tration number. 7676360 Charity rngistratlon nUm￿r. 1145243 Ik Tanglble Flxod A880ts Equipmént and other tangible f￿1 assets are ￿p￿rISed the cost Is £5￿7 or more EquIpl￿n¢ At Cost At 1st September 2022 Juisttion At 31st August 2023 2.916 2,916 D•pro¢l•tlon At 1st SepteM￿r 2022 Charge for Year At 31st August 2¢r23 2,918 2.916 N•t Book Value At 31st August 2023 At 31st August 2022 6 Income for year ended 3tst Auwtst 2023 TCG Capltal Total Voluntsry Incom• Glfts and donations Grants 8XII 1,991 2,636 4,627 2,20) 6,330 8,530 12,992 8,966 21,958 8XII Artlvltles for GeneratlNa Funds Fundralsin8 Apple Julce Sales Jam Sales Book Sales Card Sales Sponsorshlp Workshop Fees School Vlsits Children's Activltles Group Vlsits Pavilion Workshop Income Pavilion External Lettin8S Gazebo Letting5 1,068 752 140 45 io 500 1,682 752 140 45 io 18 1.041 1,059 15 310 1,670 60 7,311 15 310 1.670 4.272 1.980 18 1,041 Charttable Acilvltles Imxne Fees from Clients HCC Client Fees Income from Sale of Produce Pavilion Income from GAIGH 22.140 11,378 22,140 11,378 3.435 3.435 3,435 36,953 33,518 Totsl Incom• 13.073 SA15 38,164 9.571 66,222 Page 7 Hltchln Communlty Gardens Company registratlon numb•r 7676360 Charity registration numb•r. 1145243 7 Expendlture forthe Year ended 315t AW 2023 2022.23 Totsl 2021-22 Totsl Funds Voluntsry Income C¢>sts General Admin & Publicity Webslte 132 132 136 141 Fundralsln8 Costs Event Costs Workshop Costs Chldren's Actlvltles Costs Pavilion Costs Gazebo Costs 1,620 1,620 930 3,196 187 976 880 130 3.196 187 1,250 57 3,163 2.607 3,326 5,933 Charltable Expendlturn Insurance Sub5crlptlons Gardening Club & Sunday Staff GA and NS Tutors Prolect Management Salary Visits Volunteer Expenses Tralnlng Prolect Management & GA Group <￿ert￿ad$ Wi-fi Materla15. Tools & PPE Allotment Rent & Shelter Refreshments 391 71 2.719 1.495 10,184 261 6S2 177 2,719 25.OS7 19.533 645 648 189 3,124 17,548 10,869 171 23,562 9,349 577 1,342 3.759 190 574 93 524 40.336 1,346 4,139 317 1,666 93 583 56,926 439 2.762 317 1,018 679 171 37,935 127 1.092 59 16,5SY) Governance Costs Accountin8 Accountants Fees DBS Checks Legal costs Other Govemante Costs 266 911 100 172 13 590 85 172 13 311 1.196 688 Total Exwdlture 19,644 44.552 64196 41,795 Page 8 Hltchln Communlty Gardens Company registratlon number: 7676360 Charlty registratlon nUm￿r. 1145243 2021-22 8 Stock Apple Julce Books Cards Total 37 123 230 206 230 9 Debtors and actruod Income Insurance Web Maintenance Permaculture Assoclatlon NCVO Hitchin Forum HPCA HCC-{Involcedl GA Fees accrued Prepald expenses Debtors Reclaimable Gift Aid Tax Total 637 24 12 35 1.102 748 45 4,337 2,270 10 Cash at Bank and In Hand 51,382 47,938 11 Credltors and Accruals Workshop income received in advance Apple Day income ￿ceiVed in advance Open Day income received in advance Pavillon Income In advance Vlrgin Media Iwi-fi} Ellzabeth Millbank Steve Gran8er Gemma ward Pavilion clearner Vicky Wyer expenses Culturewood Expenses NEST Payroll Liabilities Income received in advance Creditors Total io 20 95 369 26 23 18 371 952 390 770 IA39 1.342 Pa8e 9