**Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** **No. 1147927** ## **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** ## **Annual Report and Accounts 31 July 2024** C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 1 **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** **No. 1147927** ## **CONTENTS** |Legal and administra�ve informa�on|3-4| |---|---| |Chair’s annual report|5-6| |Statement of fnancial ac�vi�es|7| |Summary of Grants and Dona�ons|8| |Statement of assets and liabili�es (Balance sheet)|9| |Income & expenditure|10| |Independent examiners report|11| |Acceptance of annual report and accounts|12| C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 2 **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** **No. 1147927** ## **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** Charity Registered No: **1147927** Registered Office: 23 Bayswater Road PLYMOUTH PL1 5BU Website: h�p://www.hor�cultural-therapy-trust.org/ Trustees: P Keller (Chair) C Darke 12/10/23 J Kleinot Treasurer: T Steenhagen Independent Examiner: T Archman Bankers: The Coopera�ve Bank plc C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 3 **No. 1147927** ## **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** 23 BAYSWATER ROAD PLYMOUTH PL1 5BU Tel: 01752 659339 Email: deb@hor�cultural-therapy-trust.org Website: horticultural-therapy-trust.org/ ## **Other names** NONE ## **Governing document** TRUST DEED DATED 08 JUN 2012 ## **Area of benefit** NO INFORMATION RECORDED ## **Organisation type** STANDARD REGISTRATION ## **Registration history** 03 JULY 2012 REGISTERED ## **Charitable objects** THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE RESIDING PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS OF ANY DESCRIPTION OR IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH ILLNESS, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR WORK AND RECREATION. ## **Classification** ## **What** - EDUCATION / TRAINING - THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR SAVING OF LIVES - DISABILITY - THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY - ENVIRONMENT / CONSERVATION / HERITAGE ## **Who** - CHILDREN / YOUNG PEOPLE - ELDERLY / OLD PEOPLE - PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ## **How** - PROVIDES BUILDINGS / FACILITIES / OPEN SPACE - PROVIDES SERVICES ## **Where it operates:** DEVON AND PLYMOUTH CITY C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 4 | 4 P a g e | 4 | 4 **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** **No. 1147927** ## **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust (HTT)** ## **Chair’s Annual Report** **With contribu�ons from Paul Keller, Deb Hoskin and Tonny Steenhagen** ## **AGM held at registered address 4pm on 12th December 2024** This year HTT has supported over 60 par�cipants, experiencing moderate to severe mental health issues, towards improved mental health and holis�c well being, at HTT gardens. In July 2024 we have 37 par�cipants on our books a�ending HTT. Open ended support have meant on average over 200 hours per par�cipant. Each week is a lifesaver for some due to crisis and trauma. HTT will have supported at least 15 par�cipants in crisis to have stayed at home rather than having needed to be in hospital for safety. We have supported 4 par�cipants through to hospital and being safe and provided a�er care on return to community. This HTT year has been another year of transi�on for HTT alongside the local community transi�oning s�ll from the Pandemic, in which HTT has endeavoured to develop to meet growing mental health needs, with a rise in the numbers of people experiencing mental health issues. Also with 2 appreciated support staff leaving prior to December 2023 and since Dennis Trewin’s re�rement in Feb 2022 (co-founder along with Deb Hoskin in 2012), there had been a need to bring a new good staff and volunteer team together to offer more hours, while maintaining and growing HTT’s quality of service. The recogni�on was of the value of varied skills. Dan Stroud joined HTT as an employee in September 2023, Dan being a skilled qualified joiner who had par�cipated and volunteered for HTT for 2 years and also found benefits to his mental health. Lived experience is valued at HTT and 80% of staff, volunteers and trustees have some form of lived experience. Dan’s role was and is again funded for Fridays weekly by the Pearn Charitable Trust. Dan also has therapeu�c training. organisa�onal support as charity project officer. Fiona also has years of voluntary support roles. Ciara joined HTT in April 2024 as Project Manager alongside Deb Hoskin, Ciara has a background as an NHS Occupa�onal Therapist and also in gardening therapy, and is gi�ed in arts and cra�s. So come April the new team had formed. The HTT team also included the kind facilita�on, especially towards the new developments, of two new trustees, Kayleigh and Charlie, alongside founding trustee Paul and Jackie who has been helping HTT for a few years now. Together then with even more new volunteers from backgrounds such as lived experience and years of volunteering, to re�red GP , to re�red ESOL tutor (English for Speakers of Other Languages). Financially, as reports will show, HTT met some real challenges this year and so through which HTT are very grateful to have received such tremendous support which enabled us to keep going into the new and developing, which we con�nue into 2024-2025 on a path set with constant conversa�ons and checking in C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 5 | 5 P a g e | 5 | 5 **No. 1147927** ## **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** employing needed staff, at first with less hours and Deb temporarily reducing any Community/ Outreach session hours, so that we could begin to meet needs within the growing number of par�cipants within the HTT garden. In day�me rota’s as needed . Na�onal Lo�ery Community Fund and Postcode Lo�ery Trust funded addi�onal hours daily, which began the ability to provide more hours for more par�cipa�on.. This was all so that needs could be met in the par�cularly unique quality way that HTT provides through such varied individual benefits, each towards improved well being. All par�cipant –led. Changes were made by voluntary hours being worked including towards funding applica�ons, un�l funding was in place to cover more salaried hours, especially more session hours. HTT are so very grateful to have received funding from so many kind Funders all named in our financial report, but to name a few Claire Milne Trust, Na�onal Lo�ery Community Fund, Postcode Lo�ery Trust, Garfield Weston Founda�on, D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Leonard Laity Trust. panel submission of a Reaching Communi�es fund for 4 years, hopefully to be received in September 2024, which would cover 65% of funds needed to deliver plans, many asked for in an online survey in November 2023, by par�cipants, volunteers and also feedback from external agencies. All developments to bring HTT back into the wider community, and in the gardens and in outreach more informal training, workshops, to learn and share together with others. Also importantly to develop more ways of evalua�on, such as through the Trauma Informed Network, to be even be�er informed of what works and what doesn’t work so well, so that everyone can learn and HTT can enhance the quality of its prac�ce. “I feel at Home, what more can I say! It keeps me living” ( **HTT Par�cipant 60 yrs+** ) ages, not one par�cular age bracket, is helpful. It is a community, a small community. Certain faces each week works well for me. A lot of people in the UK are feeling lonely. HTT is needed. It’s good you can join in at your own pace. The common ground of mental health is nice”. ( **HTT Par�cipant 20 yrs+** ) “The environment is certainly a place of fascina�on, educa�on and sanctuary for me as I readjust to a new phase of life having recently re�red from over thirty five years of teaching and consider op�ons for future contribu�on and occupa�on. I con�nue to love the opportunity to work with such a kind and enthusias�c team of staff and volunteers to develop our passion for helping par�cipants with their mental well-being by connec�ng, learning, being ac�ve and crea�ve within a safe and beau�ful natural space. The values of respect, trust and equality are evidently upheld” … **(new volunteer)** All of HTT look forward to another year of be�er mee�ng needs and being inspired by each par�cipant, who each grow HTT . ## **Deb Hoskin-Project Manager** C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 6 **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust 2023-24 Accounts Statement** **No. 1147927** Compared to the last two years HTT has ended the current year with a surplus of £16,712. However, this figure includes restricted funds of £22,480 from dona�ons from both the Postcode Lo�ery Trust and the Na�onal Lo�ery Community Fund that are earmarked for the next financial year. So, in effect the charity has this year operated at a small loss. ‘Core’ income (direct par�cipant payments) has con�nued to reduce and this year there has been no ‘other’ income (external paid ac�vi�es). This is partly due to changes is staffing. Subsequently, the emphasis is even more than in previous years on fundraising / grants / dona�ons. The success of this doesn’t always exactly align with the accoun�ng period, so it means for the years 2024/25 more grants need to be secured (the good news is: they already have). The expenses side has remained very stable, with a small reduc�on in wages paid this year (-4.5%) – the biggest HTT cost. As men�oned in all previous year reports, there is never room for complacency. So, from the above it should be clear that the con�nued securing of grants / dona�ons will need to be given ongoing priority next year. Congratula�ons to all on yet another successful HTT year. *The Paypal dona�on of £657.70 is from a collec�on held a�er the funeral of a par�cipant. ## _**Tonny Steenhagen - Bookkeeper/Treasurer**_ report informa�on and all the staff's dedicated work in helping the people we work with, for all that helped to raise funds, those that funded us, to the trustees, volunteers and all involved with the running of the charity and its projects and especially to those we work with – Thank you! A list of the grants received for this year and the accounts follow. We are very grateful for the funding received which has enabled us to con�nue our work and also provided sufficient funds carried forward to ensure we can con�nue into the next year. from former years. Thank you to all of you for helping those in need. ## _**Paul Keller (Chair)**_ C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 7 Horticultural Therapy Trust No. 1147927 Horticultural Therapy Trust Transaction Detail By Account August 2023 through July 2024 Date Num Name Amount Grants and Donations 0310812023 0410812023 3110812023 0810912023 0911012023 3111012023 0811212023 1610212024 2910212024 2710312024 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 D'oyly Carte Charitable Trust Claire Milne Trust 4,000.00 8,000.00 500.00 5,000.00 2,184.00 20,328.00 1,000.00 19,972.00 500.00 657.70 Garfield Weston Foundation Pearn Trust Postcode Lottery Trust leonard laity trust National Lottery Community . MrP Paypal Total Grants and Donations 62,141.70 TOTAL 62,141.70 C:IUserslpaulDocumentslHmHorkncultural Therapy Trustlchairmans Report CROPS 2024IHTt Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt Horticultural Therapy Trust No. 1147927 Horticultural Therapy Trust UK Balance Sheet - Prev Year Comparison As at 31 July 2024 31 Jul 24 31 Jul 23 £ Chan9• % Chang• ASSETS Flx•d A8Ut8 Faclllty Constructlon Furnitur• and Fixturns 2.841.80 1.593.79 3.787.80 1,824.80 .946.00 -231.01 -25.0% -12.7% Totsl Flxed A59•t* 4.435.59 5,612.60 -1.177.01 -21.0% Olher Asgets 232.82 309.82 -77.00 -24.9% Total Oih•r Ass•ts 232.82 Y)9.82 -77.00 -24.9% Curr•nl A88•ts Account$ Rèc•lvable Jobs 462.54 -132.$4 -28.7% Total Accountg R•cofvabl• 462.54 -132.54 -28.7% Cash at bank and in hand Co•operatlv• Bank SavlrrfJ$ Total Cash at bank and In hand 33.191.00 15,537.17 16.636.60 15.302.68 16,554.40 234.49 99.5% 1.5% 48.728. 17 31,939 28 16,788.89 52.6% Total Curr•nt Ass•ts 49,058.17 32.401.82 16.656.35 51.4% Current Llabllltle8 Accounts Payable Accounts Payabl• Total Accounts Payabl• 353.40 1,663.12 -1.309.72 -78.8% 353.40 1,E63.12 -1,309.72 -78.8% Total Current LlabllltS•s 353.40 1,663.12 -1,309.72 -78.8% NET CURRENT ASSETS 48,704.77 30.738 70 17,966.07 58.5% TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT UA.. 53.373.18 36,661.12 16,712.06 45.6% NET ASSETS 53.373.18 36,661.12 16.712.06 45.6% Caplt•l and Res•rv•s R•tslned Earnlngs Profft for the Yoar 36.661.12 49,273.26 -12.612.14 16.712.06 -12.612.14 29,324.20 -25.6% 232.5% TOTALfunds 53.373.18 36,661.12 16,712.06 45.6% C:IUserslpaulDocumentslHmHorkncultural Therapy Trustlchairmans Report CROPS 2024IHTt Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** **No. 1147927** ## **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** ## Income and Expenditure ## 1[st] August 2023 to 31 July 2024 C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 10 | 10 P a g e | 10 | 10 Horticultural Therapy Trust No. 1147927 Independent Examiners Report I can confirm that I have examined the accounts, without carrying out an audit, from the books and records of the charity and information and explanations as provided by the designated book keeper. 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C:IUserslpaulDocumentslHmHorkncultural Therapy Trustlchairmans Report CROPS 2024IHTt Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt **Hor�cultural Therapy Trust** **No. 1147927** ## **Acceptance of Annual Report and Accounts** ## **Format of Accounts** For the year ending 31[st] July 2024 the company was en�tled to exemp�on under sec�on 477 (2) of the Companies Act 2006. No members have required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in ques�on in accordance with sec�on 476 of the Companies Act 2006. The directors acknowledge their responsibili�es for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accoun�ng periods and prepara�on of the accounts. These accounts have been delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small Companies regime. **The above report and accounts have been agreed by the board of trustees and signed as accurate statement on their behalf by the Chair:** **Signed** Date: 12[th] December 2024 Paul Keller Trustee / Chair C:\Users\pau\Documents\HTT\Hor�cultural Therapy Trust\Chairmans Report CROPS 2024\HTT Annual Report and Accounts July 2024v3.odt P a g e | 12