2022-04-30-accounts - Green Britain Foundation

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GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

Company No. 08121843 Charity No. 1148783

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Contents	Page No.
Reference & Administrative Information	1
Report of the Board of Trustees	2 to 16
Report of the Independent Examiner	17
Statement of Financial Activities	18
Balance Sheet	19
Cash Flow Statement	20
Notes to the Financial Statements	21 to 29

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REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Charity name Green Britain Foundation Registered charity number 1148783 Company number 08121843 Registered address Lion House Rowcroft Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 3BY Website www.greenbritainfoundation.co.uk Telephone Number 07803 124541 Contact Helen Taylor (helen.taylor@ecotricity.co.uk) Directors / Trustees Dale Vince OBE Dahlia Nahome Helen Taylor Senior Management Team Helen Taylor – General Manager Independent Examiner Joshua Kingston BSc, ACA Burton Sweet Limited The Clock Tower, 5 Farleigh Court Old Weston Road, Flax Bourton, Bristol BS48 1UR Solicitors TLT LLP 1 Redcliffe Street Bristol BS1 6TP Bankers HSBC Bank PLC 3 Rivergate Temple Quay Bristol BS1 6ER

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The trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 30 April 2022, which also comprises of the Directors’ Report required by the Companies Act 2006.

Reference and administrative information, as set out on page one, form part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities (effective from January 2019).

Structure, Governance and Management

The Green Britain Foundation is a company limited by guarantee, registered under the Companies Act. It is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 12 August 2019 and is registered with the Charity Commission (registered number: 1148783). Date of incorporation was 27 June 2012.

In the event of the company being wound up, the member is required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1. Dale Vince is the sole member of the charity.

By operation of law, all trustees are directors under the Companies Act 2006 and all directors are trustees under Charities legislation and have responsibilities, as such, under both company and charity legislation. The trustees are all individuals.

Appointment of trustees

As set out in the Articles of Association, trustees are invited to join the board. The trustees who served in the reporting period were Dale Vince, Helen Taylor and Dahlia Nahome, who was appointed on 23 July 2021. There were no other changes during the year, or in the period between the year-end and the approval of the accounts.

The governing document allows for a minimum of two trustees and there are currently three.

In appointing trustees, the charity follows the Charity Commission guidelines and specifically:

Identifies the need
Agrees the skills and experiences we require and create a person and role specification
Agrees an open process of recruitment
Ensures that the charity opens the opportunity to a diverse range of candidates
Interviews against the criteria the charity has identified, in a fair and objective manner
invites preferred candidates to join subject to references
Obtains written confirmation that candidates are eligible in law to be trustees
Asks candidates to declare conflicts of interest
Formalises the appointment in line with the charity’s governing document
The chair writes to candidates setting out their duties and responsibilities as trustees and directors or delegates this to the General Manager

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A formal induction process is undertaken
Trustees are formally welcomed to the board
The decision is ratified at the next AGM

At the Annual General Meeting one third of the trustees retire by rotation but are eligible for reappointment. Mr Dale Vince retires as a trustee at the next Annual General Meeting but is eligible for reappointment.

Organisation

The board of trustees, which shall include no less than two members, administers the charity. The trustee board comprises of three trustees.

The Charity comprises the wholly owned subsidiary, FGR Community, delivering outreach programmes aligned to the football club, Forest Green Rovers FC, in accordance with the Articles of Association. The FGR Community board comprises three directors: two independent directors and one representing Forest Green Rovers FC. The board meet at least three times a year, with separate sub-committees responsible for operations, human resources, finance, governance and outreach updates.

A Chief Executive Officer, as appointed by the trustees, manages the day-to-day operations of FGR Community. A General Manager is appointed by the trustees to run the day-to-day operations of the Green Britain Charity as a whole.

Risk management

The trustees are aware that a key risk is the safeguarding of children and adults, including GDPR measures, which are particularly relevant to FGR Community’s programme delivery within the community. A safeguarding culture has been instilled throughout the organisation from top to bottom, with stringent processes and training in place.

Staff and volunteers understand the importance of safeguarding and the appropriate action that is required to ensure FGR Community provides a safe environment for its service users. FGR Community has a Designated Safeguarding Officer, as well as a further support, in the form of a Safeguarding Forum managed by Forest Green Rovers Football Club – with a designated Safeguarding lead on the Board of Directors of FGR Community.

Throughout the reporting period, the Covid 19 pandemic continued to affect FGR Community’s ability to run a full programme of activities, particularly into early 2022.

Objects and activities of the charity

The purpose of the charity is as set out in its governing document.

The charity’s purposes (objects) are for the benefit of the public generally, both in the United Kingdom and overseas:

a) To promote, for the benefit of the public, the protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment

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b) To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of association football and other sports capable of improving health
c) To provide, and assist in providing, facilities for sport recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty, or social and economic circumstances, or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life
d) To promote, for the benefit of the public, the protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by providing facilities and activities in an environmentally friendly way and which demonstrates the benefits of the physical and natural environment
e) To advance the education of children and young people through such means as the trustees think fit, in accordance with the law of charity and in particular in relation to the protection of the physical and natural environment.

A full version of the objects is available on the Charity Commission website.

The main activities undertaken in relation to these purposes during the year

The Green Britain Foundation serves to encourage and empower people to live more sustainably and reduce their personal carbon footprint, while also using the power of football and other outreach activities to improve the lives of people through participation in sport and education.

The Foundation’s objectives for year-ending 30 April 2022, encompassed:

Environmental Education – Engaging young people in the solutions towards a greener Britain, through the development and implementation of a new eco curriculum
Environment and sustainability - Increasing awareness of sustainable practice by means of education and action
Sport and Recreation – Engaging people of differing ages and abilities in sport and physical recreation to increase people’s participation in sport
Health and Wellbeing – Promoting healthy behaviours, encouraging people to take responsibility for their own physical health and mental wellbeing
Inclusion and Community Cohesion – Providing the opportunity for people and communities facing common barriers to come together under the umbrella of football
Education and employability – Educating, motivating, and inspiring people to learn of opportunities through the power of sport to help them fulfil their potential and consider their impact on their wider community and the environment.
Governance – Ensuring the operations of the Foundation/Trust were run efficiently and effectively
Community Benefit – Supporting ways that people can reduce their environmental impact through the administration of a Community Benefit grant to communities within the vicinity of Ecotricity’s energy generation projects.

The board of trustees continues to be satisfied that the activities of the Green Britain Foundation and its wholly owned subsidiary, FGR Community, satisfactorily meet the Charity Commission public benefit requirements.

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Further information within the achievements and performance section of this report provides details of the work undertaken to meet these aims and objectives.

In terms of delivery, the charity experienced some challenges in relation to the Covid-19 omicron variant that became particularly prevalent during the Christmas period of 2021 which led to some programmatic activities having to be postponed. This situation improved from February 2022 onwards.

Thanks to the success of various funding bids and collaborative working with other community partners, FGR Community (also known as ‘the Trust’) has continued to serve as a central part of the community over this reporting period.

The board is grateful to Ecotricity Group Limited for its funding support towards the running of the Foundation and development and implementation of the Ministry of Eco Education programme, along with funding gifted by the legal firm, TLT LLP.

Significant funding has also been received from the English Football League Trust, as unrestricted funds to support the running of FGR Community along with some restricted funds to support the ongoing development of the Trust. The Premier League Charitable Fund (PLCF) has also continued to fund FGR Community’s ability to run the Premier League Primary Stars programme throughout the Gloucestershire area, as referenced below and the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) has funded a programme of activity involving Forest Green Rovers FC players attending school visits and engaging with the community.

Individual grants have been secured - several from local authorities who have granted funds to FGR Community to deliver the Government’s Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme in 2022 within the Gloucestershire area, particularly Stroud and Nailsworth.

The Board of trustees is grateful to all those who have granted funds, including an increasing number of businesses who have formed partnerships with the Trust to achieve some powerful additional community engagement. Particular thanks go to companies: Candriam, Grundon, Innocent, Filtration Ltd, First Choice Utilities, Adey Innovation Limited and Parkers.

The Board is also pleased to have been able to invest the reserves received from the closing of the Green Britain Centre bank account (it’s charitable visitor centre that operated until summer 2018) into the Green Britain Foundation. A proportion of this funding is to be used to bring in an external consultant to help support the ‘next phase’ development and strategy for FGR Community, with the aim of increasing the Trust’s income and impact in line with the needs of the immediate and wider community.

Key Developments and Achievements

The following developments and achievements have been delivered over the course of this financial year:

Environmental Education

Aim: To engage young people in the solutions towards a greener Britain, through the development and implementation of a new eco curriculum.

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Delivery: The Ministry of Eco Education (MEE) was established in the Summer of 2021 with the aim of greening up the National Curriculum and making this available for primary schools. Initial activities included mapping the environmental education landscape and compiling free resources, drawn from over 160 environmental organisations. These were woven together into more than 50 series of lessons, framed around broad enquiry questions, initially based on the principles of achieving a Green Britain: focusing on the energy we use, the way we travel, what we eat and the importance of making room for nature

Minchinhampton Academy in Stroud led the journey by taking part in a process of collaboration between staff, pupils and the wider school community to help craft and refine the curriculum.

For the academic year Sept 2021 to 2022 the Ministry of Eco Education supported fifteen pioneer primary schools, in an initial trial, embedding sustainability across their curriculum. Schools gained access to support materials, in person visits, assemblies and staff training.

Through a reflective process, schools provided feedback and shared best practice to help inform and develop the curriculum. By the end of the 2021/22 academic year more than 100 schools were engaging with the Ministry of Eco Education materials and support.

Across the schools Ministry of Eco Education witnessed a significant impact on young people, staff and wider initiatives in the community:

Young people developed a deeper connection with nature and increased knowledge and understanding of the climate and nature emergency.
Young people experienced increased positive engagement with the local community.
Teachers felt more supported and confident to teach education for sustainability.

Throughout the year the Ministry of Eco Education actively sought relationships to build the scope of the curriculum as well as enlist more schools to take part.

Future Plans:

To extend and adapt the curriculum for a secondary school audience, with the mission to reach 10,000 primary and 2,000 Secondary schools by 2025 and deliver the first Young Green Briton Challenge, a national platform to nurture, support and celebrate youth-led, school-based climate action.

The Challenge will support students aged 11-14 to learn and apply design, innovation, business and other transferable skills, empowering young people to explore local climate and sustainability issues and design entrepreneurial solutions or campaigns to address the problems they identify.

Students will have the chance to receive seed funding from the Green Britain Foundation and mentorship to support the development of their ideas. It is hoped the Challenge will supercharge a new generation of positive social action in communities across the UK. Schools are at the heart of their communities and have the potential to be catalysts for positive change in the face of social and environmental crises.

The Ministry of Eco Education team will work alongside FGR Community to promote this Challenge and support them in delivering environmental Education Activations, including

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workshops and training to schools, community organisations and Forest Green Rovers’ School Ambassadors.

Environment and Sustainability

Aim : To increase awareness of environmentally sustainable practices through education and action-led initiatives.

Alongside FGR Community’s parent club, Forest Green Rovers FC (FGR), declared as the “greenest football club in the world” by FIFA, the Trust continued to share ways of tackling the climate crisis to its community audience and played a significant role during the year in helping shape the way other EFL Trusts could begin to be more environmentally responsible.

From early June 2021, FGR Community worked with the English Football League (EFL) Trust and Premier League Charitable Foundation (PLCF) to produce an additional section (‘Section 15’) to the EFL Trust’s Capability Code of Practice (CCOP). All EFL Trusts, known as ‘Club Community Organisations’ (CCO’s) are required to adhere to the CCOP to operate and meet specific funding eligibility criteria set by the EFL Trust.

Section 15 of the CCOP required all 72 CCO’s in the English Football League to embed environmental sustainability practices into their operations and fan engagement activities for the first time – and for each CCO to demonstrate tangible reductions in their carbon footprint.

Section 15 was announced in October 2021 at the EFL Trust Conference, hosted at St George’s Park (England’s FA’s Training Ground) with the support of FGR Community and Dale Vince, Trustee of the Green Britain Foundation and Chairman of FGR. The new CCOP was officially launched in January 2022. This was seen as a transformational shift for football clubs and their CCO’s up and down the country to be recognising the importance of environmental sustainability and to be engaging their community in doing something about this.

To support this new approach, the EFL Trust sought ‘Kickstarter’ funding to place young people looking to develop a career in sustainability within CCO’s and help implement Section 15. FGR Community took on two such Kickstarter roles, who have been invaluable in continuing to embed good environmental practices within the Trust and support other

CCO’s based around the UK in working towards this. One young person who was with the Trust has since gone on to work for an environmental organisation in London, the other still works for FGR Community and is being supported in her continued development.

FGR Community also hosted several student visits at FGR to engage young people in the challenges we face relating to the climate crisis and how these are being practically tackled within the unusual setting of a football club. These visits included: 180 pupils from George Dixon Academy, Birmingham, Year Seven pupils from Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, and students from the University of Birmingham and University of Gloucester. Students from Bath University produced a video to showcase FGR Community’s/FGR’s green credentials, which was shared by each party’s social media platforms to raise awareness of the importance of everyone being involved in tackling the climate crisis and ways to do this.

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As well as the above, FGR Community hosted Fit2Last sessions for Wycliffe College in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire and Randwick Primary School in Stroud. Students joined the Trust for the day to learn about the environmental practices the Club has introduced and met the Club Chef who ran a demonstration cooking session for the students before helping them make some of the menu items that are eaten on a matchday at FGR. This served as great way to learn about food groups, how a vegan diet can be good for the environment and your health and how this practice can be emulated at home.

FGR Community also hosted numerous Eco tours throughout the match season, as well as mid-week at FGR’s ground, for fans, visitors, and community organisations, including volunteers at Nailsworth Information Centre, to help them learn about the Club and Trust’s green ethos and how this can be replicated in their own settings and promoted to local visitors.

In addition, FGR Community has l ed meetings and discussions about the environmental; lessons and opportunities that have arisen through being the ‘Greenest Club in the World’ with other local participants, as well as many from beyond the county boundaries, and supported the club in communicating these values to national and international fans and research fellows.

The FGR Community team also oversaw unwanted sports kits and boots being collected and redistributed by FGR’s fans and FGR school ambassadors, including kit donated from the club and retail items bought at cost that have been distributed throughout the season to individuals and groups where there has been a need, thus also diverting unwanted clothing from landfill and ensuring the club reuse and wastes less in line with the Trust and club’s core ethos.

Sport and Recreation

Aim: To engage people of differing ages and abilities in sport and physical recreation to increase people’s participation in sport

Throughout the year FGR Community continued to help increase people’s participation in sport, using football to motivate, inspire and encourage them to realise how sport has a big part to play in achieving a healthy, happy lifestyle.

Building on its parent club’s matchday excitement, FGR Community continued to deliver fun and engaging activities such as Soccer Camp holiday programmes for younger children in the community. Thanks to the generous funding support of Stroud District and Gloucestershire County Council, and FGR Community Partner funding, FGR Community were able to include several children eligible for HAF (Holiday Activities and Food) funding support in the year’s Soccer Camp programme of activities.

Soccer Camps were delivered at local schools in the Summer and again during Autumn halfterm. The Coronavirus Omicron variant hit in early December which meant FGR Community’s Children’s Christmas party had to be cancelled but the Trust still ensured the 35 children under the HAF programme who were due to attend this received food parcels and were later invited to a match and issued free food vouchers.

As we began to exit from Covid restrictions, the soccer camps were up and running again and FGR Community were delighted to be able to provide Free School Meal (FSM) places in

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addition to those places allocated by the district council through HAF. Across all holidays including half terms, both traditional soccer camps and activity days were laid on and 198 free places were offered in addition to the designated HAF places only offered during the longer holidays at Summer, Christmas and Easter.

The children also got to meet FGR’s Scholar Academy players and several of the FGR Community’s young Ambassadors who helped support the delivery of the two-day camp session at the May half term, meaning they were able to interact with young and inspiring role models.

FGR Community were able to take the FGR ambassadors to the Carabao Cup game against Brentford and paid for their tickets so that they could attend the Bristol Rovers match, which was a doubleheader with the men's and women’s teams playing consecutively; the first event of its kind and promoting inclusion and equality.

Health and wellbeing

Aim: To promote healthy behaviours, encouraging people to take responsibility for their own physical health and mental wellbeing.

FGR Community aimed to enhance people’s health and wellbeing through the delivery of a series of programmes and activities including:

Weekly Parkinson’s Dance sessions run at FGR for 12 unique participants, which was extended to those adults and older persons living with MS and other life debilitating or progressive conditions by encompassing Stroud District Council’s ‘Better Balance ‘programme which was a group that were severely impeded by the pandemic.
Regular Talk Club sessions, designed for men to get together at FGR and talk about their feelings and meet others. In response to feedback from 6 regular attendees, this was changed from being a set sit-down session to more of a kick-about which proved more popular and allowed people to open up when they are ready and if they want to.
Helping create a Children and Young Person’s Working Group in the Trust’s local town, Nailsworth to better understand young people’s needs, as more mental health and loneliness issues are becoming apparent. This was a forum to share learning, work collaboratively and ensure appropriate provision was made for the more vulnerable households locally in every holiday, not just those funded by HAF.
Delivering the Trust’s Tackling Loneliness programme , in the form of handling referrals for ‘Befriending’ the elderly or vulnerable adults needing some contact and support by the Trust’s dedicated Community Wellbeing and Inclusion Coordinator. The team worked alongside Adult Social Care, Housing and Social Prescribing to help support the most vulnerable in our community.
Hosting monthly coffees and chats at the local Arkell Centre in conjunction with their local youth worker and providing opportunities for residents from two of Nailsworth and Minchinhampton’s Sheltered Housing groups to attend a matchday. This led to them realising the benefit of FGR Community and also helped with securing a Community Development Worker in the area (see below).

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Delivering vegan food to charities and local businesses, during the Christmas period, including fresh produce, matchday ingredients and activity bags to those who were due to attend the Christmas party and FSM pupils who had attended previous soccer camps. The Trust also gave FGR kit and gifts to the local HomeStart and KidsStuff operations and visited Gloucester Royal Children’s inpatient department and Allsorts Toy Library to deliver presents for children.
Any excess food and drink from matchdays or other community activities were redistributed to other users, participants and community organisations to minimise waste.

The Trust played an active role in helping determine the need for a Community Development Worker (CDW) for the district of Forest Green and Nailsworth to help address and support some of the challenging circumstances the community has been experiencing.

The Head of FGR Community led partnership funding applications for this role and successfully secured financial support for this post to be employed for three years, starting in late 2022. The Trust is grateful to its community partners, Adey and Parkers, who will be providing match funds to help pay for this role, along with the Clinical Commissioning Group, Stroud District Council, Gloucestershire County Council and Nailsworth Town Council.

Inclusion and cohesion .

Aim: To provide the opportunity for people and communities facing common barriers and to help support individuals with their self-esteem, self-worth and ability to tackle social issues.

FGR Community achieved this through:

Hosting a Football Festival in the summer, with the support of FGR’s Academy Scholars and funding from the Football Foundation, to help get football back on the agenda again after the pandemic and encourage more girls to be involved and active.
Meeting with the Gloucestershire Football Association to determine how more women and girls could play football which led to the Trust helping establish Barclay Girls Football Partnership Steering Group, aimed at encouraging schools to sign up for lunchtime and afterschool girls football sessions to help progress the women’s game. This group began hosting football sessions at some of the Trust’s Primary Stars Programme schools (see below) and local grassroots clubs, and actively took part in the FGR’s Women’s Team #LetGirlsPlay challenge in the summer.
Running weekly ‘ Wildcats’ sessions for girls aged 5-11 at Katherine Lady Berkeley’s School, in Wooten-Under-Edge.
Organising player visits and appearances; the Club’s Academy scholars regularly attended Nailsworth primary School (for reading) and the Women’s team attended Wootton Rovers’ training and supported the EFL’s Utilita Girl’s Cup, for which teams were selected but the local tournaments were cancelled due to covid restrictions.
Helping deliver the ‘ Read for Good’ partnership established to promote literacy and inclusion in-line with the National Literacy Programme and Premier League’s Growth and Development goals.

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Giving away more than 100 tickets per match throughout the EFL season to groups who would otherwise struggle to afford to attend a match including HAF recipients and Learning Together, who support autistic adults in the area.
400 Free shirts and matchday tickets for a child and accompanying adult were given away to year 3 students form Gloucestershire thanks to the support of FGR’s partners, Ecotricity and shirts and season tickets were offered to the Trust’s 102 FGR Ambassadors, thanks to the support of Community partner Grundon.

The FGR Community team ensured the local community were kept abreast of their collective achievements and opportunities for others to get involved by producing their Green Devil Magazine, published four times in the year and distributed to schools, care homes, Independent Living and other community settings and on matchdays in hard-copy form and shared widely electronically.

Education and Employability

Aim: To educate, motivate and inspire people to learn of opportunities through the power of sport to help them fulfil their potential and consider their impact on their wider community and the environment.

A key feature of FGR Community’s delivery work is the Premier League Primary Stars programme designed to provide in-school learning, to inspire children to learn, be active and develop important life skills. The aim is to work with children’s teachers to deliver fun, educational sessions across a range of curriculum subjects within local partner schools.

The Trust’s focus to-date has been on inspiring girls and boys aged 5 – 11 in the classroom, the playground and on the sports field. Teaching materials cover subjects such as PE, PSHE, English and Maths, and focusing on areas including teamwork and problem solving. Students can participate in competitions ranging from national football tournaments to creative writing and reading interventions for reluctant readers, as well as engaging in education activations and social action projects.

The Trust employed two new causal community coaches early in the year to help the Programmes Delivery Manager with expanding the PLPS programme. This included working with:

Sapperton Church of England Primary School in Cirencester, for two school two terms, including Physical Education and teacher support)
Avening Primary school in Tetbury, with their social action; ‘Be Kind’, anti-bullying programme, which rippled out to the village’s Community café
Stroud High School (Secondary) providing support with their PE and after school Fixtures
Nailsworth Primary School in Gloucestershire, involving pupils reading with the FGR Academy scholars, to help with reading and their aim to develop them as good role models
- Katharine Lady Berkely’s School in Wooten-Under-Edge support with inclusion
The FGR Community team have also engaged with Kempsford Church of England Primary School in Gloucestershire and Beech Green Primary School in Quedgeley, Gloucestershire.

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The most frequently requested support from schools is for FGR Community to support schools’ PHSE lessons which reflects the need to support mental, as well as physical, wellbeing and reinforce positive behaviours and values.

FGR Community is unique in running a FGR Ambassadors and Ambassador Alumni programme . The Trust’s Primary and Secondary school Ambassador Programme engaged with 102 ambassadors and 63 schools, with three of these being outside of Gloucestershire in this reporting period. This reach is higher than the previous year, most likely because the Covid pandemic was not viewed as a risk, with 72 Ambassadors (50 schools) signed up in 2020-21.

As well as promoting FGR’s activities, FGR Ambassadors engage their schools and communities, promoting the club’s environmental ethos and sustainability messages and are committed to environmental activism as much as supporting their team on the pitch.

Ambassadors continued to receive regular newsletters, with updates, ideas, resources and support for their schooling, health and wellbeing and ways of integrating with the community to help them build their self-esteem and identify their skills and capabilities.

The Trust entered it’s fantastic FGR Ambassadors into the EFL Community Club of the Year, where we were runner-up in the South West category.

FGR Community and the Green Britain Foundation’s Ministry of Eco Education Lead Educator worked at the request of the Premier League Charitable Fund to produce a new set of Primary Stars learning modules based on sustainability and the environment. The team produced four modules focussing on Energy, Transport, Food and making room for Nature for launch in September 2022.

These resources were shaped to fit with the existing Primary Stars programmes, available to over 18,500 school registered as PLPS schools. This has served as a great way to embed environmental sustainability into a wide network of schools with each signposted to the Ministry of Eco Education for additional teaching resources, as needed.

In support of helping more young people , the Head of FGR Community completed mentor scheme training, the Trust offered two Duke of Edinburgh Students volunteering roles on matchdays, alongside the ambassadors who are regular volunteers, and took on a work placement in the Summer, put two students through their UEFA C badge and supported three Kickstarter roles.

Future Plans:

In the coming year FGR Community plans to:

Further expand the women and girl’s offer.
Increase delivery in both local primary and secondary schools and support those further afield through an online offer.
Continue to expand the Delivery of the Premier League Primary Stars programme in the local community using the hook of football,
Implement the Premier League Kicks programme aimed at inspiring young people to achieve their potential and improve their wellbeing and to discover positive pathways

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and life skills with access to weekly football and multi-sports, mentors, and education workshops.

Re-establish on-site educational visits and food projects.
Recruit a Community Development Worker for Forest Green and Nailsworth.
Further support care homes and independent living with activities that promote social inclusion, physical and mental wellbeing, and environmental awareness.

The trustees have also commissioned a review of FGR Community’s reach and impact, structure and governance by an external consultant, recommended by the EFL Trust, to ensure it continues to be relevant and beneficial to the immediate and wider community and interdependencies within its sphere of influence are working collaboratively and maximising funding opportunities to bring about positive change within the community. The Board has taken this decision to invest in this process while the reserves of the charity are higher than previous years, to plan ahead. This will include a restructure as a result of the former CEO of FGR Community having stood down in September 2022.

Governance

Objective : to ensure the operations of the Foundation/Trust are run efficiently and effectively,

Throughout the year, comprehensive reviews of the operations and financial performance of the Green Britain Foundation, including the FGR Community Trust, have been overseen by the designated Trustee responsible for Governance, to include quarterly Operations and Finance Review Meetings and Board Meetings. All meetings are minuted and available for review.

Careful evaluation and review of all necessary procedures and policies have continued to be undertaken.

Future Plans

The trustees have commissioned a review of FGR Community’s reach and impact, structure and governance by an external consultant, recommended by the EFL Trust, to ensure it continues to be relevant and beneficial to the immediate and wider community and interdependencies within its sphere of influence are working collaboratively and maximising funding opportunities to bring about positive change within the community.

Community Benefit Funding

Aim: to promote ways people can reduce their environmental impact and administer community grants within the vicinity of Ecotricity energy generation projects to support initiatives that achieve this.

During the year, the trustees have approved grants to be issued to the community of Alveston, South Bristol, linked to an installation of wind turbines within their area, and with all projects scrutinised and accepted as being in compliant with our Green Britain Foundation ‘objects’.

The following grant was issued:

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Jubilee Hall, Alveston Management Committee - £3,500 to purchase and fit heavy weight thermal curtains to help draft proof the Jubilee Hall windows. The Green Britain Foundation provided partial funds towards the full cost (£5,000 including VAT) of the curtains and fitting these. The aim of these funds was to attempt to deliver a warmer environment and more efficient use of energy within the Hall for users and avoiding an increase of the carbon footprint of the Hall. Feedback from the community in relation to this project has been very positive.

Additional Grants issued

A Greener Festival - £12,000 to support the development of tools and help fund some of the costs of the team’s time and expertise to help green up festivals and the wider entertainment industry and reduce their environmental impact, including evaluating the energy they use, the food they offer, and the mode of transport encouraged and made available to event participants and delegates,

Red Horse Foundation – £800 was donated by FGR Community and received from one of the Community Trust’s partners, Candriam Kid’s Fund, to enable a young person affected by a family bereavement to continue to receive equine therapy, in-line with the Trust’s Health and Wellbeing strand of work.

In all cases grant applications are completed by the community representatives, which are then reviewed by the trustees – and evaluated against the charitable activities and the impact they will have to public benefit.

The trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission's guidance for public benefit in managing the decisions and activities of the charity.

The trustees are satisfied that these documents meet the needs of the charity, now and into the future.

Financial review

The charity's financial position at the end of the year ended 30th April 2022

The financial position of the charity as at 30th April 2022 and comparatives for the prior period, as more fully detailed in the accounts, can be summarised as follows:

Net movement in funds Funds Brought Forward Funds Carried Forward	Unrestricted Funds £ Restricted Funds £ Total Funds 2022 £ 194,099 144,111 338,210 (112,356) 5,288 (107,068) 81,743 149,399 231,142	Unrestricted Funds £ Restricted Funds £ Total Funds 2021 £ (8,558) (3,529) (12,087)
		(103,798) 8,817 (94,981)
		(112,356) 5,288 (107,068)

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

Financial review of the position at the reporting date, 30[th] April 2022

The trustees consider the financial performance by the charity to be sound, as at 30[th] April 2022 on the basis of the above figures.

Policies on reserves

In the trustees’ view, the reserves should provide the charity with adequate financial stability and the means for it to meet its charitable objectives for the near future.

The trustees propose to hold total reserves of typically £36,702, which is estimated to be equivalent to its three months operational expenditure and have done so having regard to its manner of operation of likely funding streams. The reserves for the year-ending 30 April 2022 were £81,743. This value is above the reserves policy stated, the trustees intend to increase the charitable operations over the coming years to address this surplus.

The trustees review the amount of reserves that are required to ensure that they are adequate to fulfil the charity’s continuing obligations on a quarterly basis at their trustee board meetings.

The Trustees are content that reserves are at a satisfactory level given the size, scope and risks to the charity at the current time. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern and have no uncertainties other than managed risks about this.

Availability and adequacy of assets of each of the funds

The board of trustees is satisfied that the charity's assets in each fund are available and adequate to fulfil its obligations in respect of each fund.

Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities

The trustees (who are also directors of Green Britain Foundation for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report (incorporating the strategic report and directors’ report) and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102: The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

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

select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently.
observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP.
make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements, and

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

SMALL COMPANY PROVISIONS

The financial statements have been prepared implementing the Statement of Recommended Practice for Accounting and Reporting by Charities (FRS102) and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard 102.

The annual report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions for small companies under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

This report was approved by the board of trustees on 27[th] January 2023.

Signed on behalf of the Board

…………………………………. Dale Vince OBE Trustee

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Green Britain Foundation (‘the Company’)

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 30 April 2022.

Responsibilities and basis of report

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

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

Independent examiner’s statement

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

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

accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
the accounts do not accord with those records; or 3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

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.

Joshua Kingston BSc ACA Burton Sweet Limited Chartered Accountants The Clock Tower 5 Farleigh Court Old Weston Road Flax Bourton Bristol BS48 1UR

Date: 27[th] January 2023

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Including Income and Expenditure Account)

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

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Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2022 2021
£ £ £ £
Note
Income from:
Donations and legacies 2 158,324 293,760 452,084 134,719
Reserves from Green Britain 15 88,645 - 88,645 -
Centre
Total income 246,969 293,760 540,729 134,719
Expenditure on:
Raising funds 3 210 4,731 4,941 1,452
Charitable activities 4 19,788 177,790 197,578 145,354
Total expenditure 19,998 182,521 202,519 146,806
Net income/(expenditure) 6 226,971 111,239 338,210 (12,087)
Transfer between funds (32,872) 32,872 - -
Net movement in funds 194,099 144,111 338,210 (12,087)
Total funds brought forward 11 (112,356) 5,288 (107,068) (94,981)
Total funds carried forward 11 81,743 149,399 231,142 (107,068)
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The charity has no recognised gains or losses other than the results for the year as set out above.

All of the activities of the charity are classed as continuing.

The notes on pages 21 to 29 form part of these financial statements See note 7 for comparative statement of financial activities figures.

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

BALANCE SHEET

AS AT 30 APRIL 2022

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AS AT 30 APRIL 2022 Company number: 08121843
2022 2021
Note £ £
Current assets
Debtors 9 25,484 119,877
Cash at bank 286,658 123,597
312,142 243,474
Creditors : Amounts falling due
within one year 10 (81,000) (350,542)
Net Current Assets 231,142 (107,068)
Net assets 231,142 (107,068)
Funds
Restricted funds 12 149,399 5,288
Unrestricted funds 12 81,743 (112,356)
231,142 (107,068)
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For the year ended 30 April 2022 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors responsibilities

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the period in question in accordance with section 476,

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.

These financial statements were approved by the trustees on 27th January 2023 and are signed on their behalf by:

……………….. Dale Vince OBE Chair of Trustees

The notes on pages 21 to 29 form part of these financial statements

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

CASH FLOW STATEMENT

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

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YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022 Company number: 08121843
2022 2021
Note £ £
Net cash flow from operating activities 14 163,061 25,259
Net cash flow for the year 163,061 25,259
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year 123,597 98,338
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year 286,658 123,597
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Charity law prohibits the use of net cash inflows on any endowed or other restricted fund to offset net cash outflows on any fund outside its own objects, except on special authority.

In practice, this restriction has not had any effect on cash flows for the year.

The notes on pages 21 to 29 form part of these financial statements

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

1 Accounting policies

a) Accounting convention

The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued in October 2019 and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006 and UK Generally Accepted Practice as it applies from 1 January 2019.

The Charity is a public benefit entity as defined under FRS102.

The financial statements are prepared on the going concern basis. The trustees consider this an appropriate basis upon which to prepare the statements as detailed in note 15.

b) Income

Income is accounted for on a receivable basis. Income from donations is included in income when these are receivable, except as follows:

i) When donors specify that donations given to the charity must be used in future accounting periods, the income is deferred until those periods;

ii) When donors impose conditions which have to be fulfilled before the charity becomes entitled to use such income, the income is deferred until the pre-conditions have been met.

c) Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised in the period in which they are incurred. Expenditure includes attributable VAT which cannot be recovered.

Raising funds includes those costs incurred in seeking voluntary contributions.

Charitable activities costs include all expenditure directly related to the objects of the charitable company.

Grants payable are charged in the year when the offer is conveyed to the recipient.

Governance costs include the costs of governance arrangements which relate to the general running of the charitable company as opposed to the direct management functions inherent in generating funds. This includes such items as external scrutiny, legal advice for trustees and costs associated with constitutional and statutory matters.

d) Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objects at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

e) Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered.

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

1 Accounting policies (continued)

f) Bank

Cash at bank includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

g) Creditors

Creditors are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

2 Donations

Donations from: Corporate organisations Government bodies Public bodies Charities and trusts Individuals Prior year comparative (restated) Donations from: Corporate organisations Government bodies Public bodies Charities and trusts Expenditure on: Raising funds Catering supplies Football equipment Game Signage Training facilities	Unrestricted Funds £ - 210 - - 210	Unrestricted Funds £ 150,101 - 625 7,598 - 158,324 Unrestricted Funds £ 500 9,495 275 - 10,270 Restricted Funds £ 3,038 910 - 783 4,731	Restricted Funds £ 249,228 23,530 19,458 - 1,544 293,760 Restricted Funds £ 3,000 1,500 3,465 116,484 124,449 Total Funds 2022 £ 3,038 1,120 - 783 4,941	Total Funds 2022 £ 399,329 23,530 20,083 7,598 1,544 452,084 Total Funds 2021 £ 3,500 10,995 3,740 116,484 134,719 Total Funds 2021 £ 1,282 - 170 - 1,452

3 Expenditure on: Raising funds

In the prior year, all the income from raising funds was restricted.

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

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4 Expenditure on: Charitable activities
Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds
Funds Funds 2022
£ £ £
-
Grants payable 15,500 15,500
-
Wages and salaries 103,676 103,676
Other staff costs - 5,992 5,992
Marketing 17,064 5,257 22,321
Legal and professional fees 3,680 36,809 40,489
Premises insurance - 791 791
Event costs - 4,532 4,532
Utilities costs - 702 702
-
Postage and stationery 1,169 1,169
Bank charges 32 - 32
Bad debts written off (5,636) 3,362 (2,274)
-
Sundry expenses 1,342 1,342
Governance costs 3,306 - 3,306
19,788 177,790 197,578
Prior year comparative Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds
Funds Funds 2021
£ £ £
-
Grants payable 4,500 4,500
-
Wages and salaries 88,053 88,053
Other staff costs - 19,961 19,961
Marketing - 762 762
Legal and professional fees 2,185 9,137 11,322
Rent and rates - 68 68
Event costs - 237 237
Utilities costs - 594 594
Postage and stationery 135 3,877 4,012
-
Sundry expenses 13,890 13,890
Governance costs 1,955 - 1,955
18,165 127,189 145,354
The grants payable were all to institutions and are listed below; 2022 2021
£ £
Iron Acton Floral Group - 500
-
Sustainable Thornbury 4,000
-
Alveston Community Fund 3,500
A Greener Festival Ltd 12,000 -
15,500 4,500
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GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

5 Staff costs and numbers

The aggregate staff costs were:

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|||| |---|---|---| |2022|2021| |£|£| |Wages and salaries|91,924|73,500| |Social Security costs|7,567|6,574| |Pension costs|4,185|7,979| |103,676|88,053|

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No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 in the current or prior year.

The average number of employees during the year was 6 (2021: 3).

Key management personnel are considered to be the trustees and the Head of FGR Community. The total employee benefits received by key management personnel was £18,968 (2021: Nil)

Other than as disclosed in note 16, no remuneration directly or indirectly out of the funds of the charitable company was either paid or payable for the current or prior period to any trustee or to any person or persons known to be connected with any of them.

No expenses were paid to trustees during the current or previous period.

6 Net income/(expenditure)

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|||| |---|---|---| |2022|2021| |Net income is stated after charging:|£|£| |Independent examiner's remuneration| |- current year fee|1,176|1,075| |- accounts preparation|924|845|

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GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

7 Comparative Statement of Financial Activities

Income from: Donations and legacies Total income Expenditure on: Raising funds Charitable activities Total expenditure Net income/(expenditure) Transfer between funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward	Unrestricted Funds £ 10,270 10,270 - 18,165 18,165 (7,895) (663) (103,798) (112,356)	Restricted Funds £ 124,449 124,449 1,452 127,189 128,641 (4,192) 663 8,817 5,288	Total Funds 2021 £ 134,719 134,719 1,452 145,354 146,806 (12,087) - (94,981) (107,068)

8 Investments

Green Britain Centre

The investment in Green Britain Centre Limited was acquired at nil cost.

Green Britain Foundation is the sole member of Green Britain Centre Limited, a company limited by guarantee. By virtue of being the sole member, Green Britain Centre Limited is the wholly owned subsidiary of Green Britain Foundation.

For the year ended 30 April 2022 Green Britain Centre Limited recorded a loss for the financial year of £88,645 (2021: loss of £16,978).

At 30 April 2022 Green Britain Centre Limited held members' funds of £Nil (2021: £88,645).

FGR Community

The investment in FGR Community was acquired at nil cost.

Green Britain Foundation is the sole member of FGR Community, a company limited by guarantee. By virtue of being the sole member, FGR Community is the wholly owned subsidiary of Green Britain Foundation.

FGR Community was dormant with no activity going through the company for the year ended 30 April 2022 (2021: £Nil).

At 30 April 2022 FGR Community held no members' funds (2021: £Nil).

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

9 Debtors

Trade debtors Amounts due from trading subsidiary VAT Creditors : Amounts falling due within one year Trade creditors Accruals and deferred income Other creditors	2022 £ 25,484 - - 25,484 2022 £ 5,301 2,100 73,599 81,000	2021 £ 30,744 85,868 3,265 119,877 2021 £ 22,300 171,174 157,068 350,542

10 Creditors : Amounts falling due within one year

11 Movement in funds

Restricted funds FGR Community The Football Association Ministry of Eco Education Red Horse Foundation A Greener Festival Unrestricted funds General funds Alveston Community Benefit	£ 4,463 - 825 - - - 5,288 (112,356) (107,068) At 1 May 2021	Income £ 281,860 6,900 - 5,000 - - 293,760 246,969 540,729	Expenditure £ (141,149) (3,500) - (25,072) (800) (12,000) (182,521) (19,998) (202,519)	Transfers £ - - - 20,072 800 12,000 32,872 (32,872) -	£ 145,174 3,400 825 - - - 149,399 81,743 231,142 At 30 April 2022

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

11 Movement in funds (Continued)

Restricted Fund Descriptions

FGR Community

Funds within the GBF which are restricted for FGR Community are restricted according to our funder stipulations, for the delivery of our programmatic work and for the core running costs of our activities.

Alveston Community Benefit

Funds within the GBF for our ‘Community Benefit’ donation programme are allocated strictly for the issue of grants to the Alveston Community. Grant applications are called for on an annual basis. All applications and projects are reviewed and approved by the Board of Trustees, with funds issued annually, as deemed in-line with the GBF’s charitable aims.

The Football Association

Funds received from the Football Association and are restricted to football related expenditure, such as matchday catering supplies.

Ministry of Eco Education

The Ministry of Eco Education was established in the Summer of 2021 with the aim of greening up the school curriculum. Initial activities have included mapping the environmental education landscape and compiling free resources from over 160 organisations to create over 50 series of lessons housed on a bespoke website, framed around broad enquiry questions. In addition and Education Lead supports each school with the implementation of these resources. The Green Britain Foundation is funding this programme to advance the education and learning of young people from primary (and soon Secondary) schools, to help them become Young Green Britons, able to have agency in changing the way we live for the better.

Red Horse Foundation

The Red Horse Foundation was the recipient of £800 from the Green Britain Foundation, through its wholly owned subsidiary FGR Community. Funds donated by the Community Trust’s partner Candriam were donated to this Foundation to enable one young person affected by a family bereavement to continue to receive equine therapy, in-line with the Trust’s Health and Wellbeing strand of work within the Community.

A Greener Festival

This organisation received £12,000 from the Green Britain Foundation to support the development of tools and help fund some of the costs of their team’s time and expertise to help green up festivals and other outdoor events.

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

11 Movement in funds (Continued)

Prior year comparative

Income £ £ Restricted funds FGR Community 4,980 122,449 3,837 - The Football Association - 2,000 8,817 124,449 Unrestricted funds General funds (103,798) 10,270 (94,981) 134,719 Analysis of net assets between funds As at 30 April 2022 Restricted funds Unrestricted funds General funds Prior year comparative As at 30 April 2021 Restricted funds Unrestricted funds General funds At 1 May 2020 Alveston Community Benefit	Expenditure £ (122,966) (4,500) (1,175) (128,641) (18,165) (146,806)	Transfers £ - 663 - 663 (663) - £ 149,399 81,743 231,142 £ 5,288 (112,356) (107,068) Other Net assets Other Net assets	£ 4,463 - 825 5,288 (112,356) (107,068) £ 149,399 81,743 231,142 £ 5,288 (112,356) (107,068) At 30 April 2021 Total Funds Total Funds

12 Analysis of net assets between funds

13 Company Limited by guarantee

The company is limited by guarantee and, as such, has no issued share capital. In the event of the company being wound up the liability of the members is limited to £1 each.

GREEN BRITAIN FOUNDATION

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2022

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

Statement of Financial Activities: Net movement in funds Increase in creditors: current liabilities (Increase) / decrease in debtors Net cash flow from operating activities	2022 £ 338,210 (269,542) 94,393 163,061	2021 £ (12,087) 107,425 (70,079) 25,259

15 Going concern

Free reserves are positive, and expenditure was significantly less than income for 2022. Therefore, the trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties surrounding going concern.

After the closure of Green Britain Centre on 14 June 2018, the remaining funds of £88,645 held within the Green Britain Centre (company number 04069987) have since been transferred to Green Britain Foundation, hence the improved financial position in 2022.

At 30 April 2022 Green Britain Centre Limited held members' funds of £Nil (2021: £88,645).

The Trustees, in assessing going concern have considered that of £81,000 (2021: £350,542) total creditors owed by Green Britain Foundation, £57,069 (2021: £326,322) is owed to related parties.

16 Related party transactions

Helen Taylor, a trustee, is a director and majority share holder of One Blue Marble who invoices for the provision of services (2022: £11,651, 2021: 7,637). One Blue Marble manages the governance of The Green Britain Foundation and supports the operational running of the charity's wholly owned subsidiary - entitled FGR Community. This is permitted under the governing document (Articles of Association) for the Charity.