## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 09 August 2023 **To** 08 August 2024 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Hedgerley Wood Trust **Other names charity is known by** > **Registered charity number (if any)** 1153322 **Charity's principal address** Hedgerley Wood House Red Lane Chinnor, Oxon **Postcode OX39 4BW** ~~ee~~ **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Peter Armstrong [Founding trustee] N/A HWT board 2 Anuradha Vittachi [Founding trustee] N/A HWT board 3 Emma Chown N/A HWT board 4 Florence Miller N/A HWT board 5 William Finnegan Chair N/A HWT board 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~==~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |Expert on education,
climate, global
development|Simon Maxwell|20 West Drive, Brighton, BN2 0GD| |Expert on Healthcare|Dr Ros Taylor|c/o the Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted| |Expert on education,
psychology, climate|Christopher
Robertson|37 Staverton Road, London, NW2 5EY| |Expert on education,
global development|Dr Joe Smith|The Geography Discipline, Open University, Milton
Keynes, MK7 6AA| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** CIO – Foundation registered 09 Aug 2013 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Unanimous appointment by the HWT board Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** The founding trustees have had 18 years’ experience running a worldwide You **may choose** to include non-profit NGO network, and are able now to apply that expertise as additional information, where appropriate to the much smaller charity that is HWT. relevant, about: • policies and procedures New trustees are provided with a trustee handbook and required to adopted for the induction and complete Declaration of Eligibility and Declaration of Interests. HWT has also developed a Complaints Policy, Reserves Policy, Privacy Policy, and training of trustees; Legitimate Interest Assessment (GDPR). - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN WORLDWIDE
PROBLEMS RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIETY AND THE
ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) DISEASE,
HUNGER, POVERTY, THE NEED FOR EDUCATION, THE IMPACT ON
HEALTH OF INEQUALITY, AND THE PROTECTION OF THE PHYSICAL
AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.| |---|---| ||In Year 10, HWT has once more achieved all its learning objectives_:_enabling the
public, and/or relevant professionals interfacing with the public, to deepen
their knowledge, understanding and skills of topics outlined in our mission
statement. We
hosted regular meetings at new OneClimate Centre (film screenings, hybrid
discussions using Zoom for experts); created and showcased new
documentaries; created 4 WhatsApp groups to promote community
environmental action; supported local orgs including the Council with films &
demonstrations; created the Mycelium Map showcasing environmental groups
and their events.
Details of HWT’s work are included on our website www.hedgerleywood.org.
The trustees have discussed and had regard to the guidance on public benefit
issued by the Charity Commission.| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 Volunteers supported our work in every sense, in particular through helping to prepare for and host events and providing input to and spreading awareness about the Mycelium Map. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance The Trust not only focuses on increasing public knowledge by doing the work as **Summary of the main** detailed above, but also by widely disseminating the useful results of the work **achievements of the charity** done. **during the year** • As a matter of course, the Trust publishes the work on its website; enables its partners to do so on their websites; disseminates these outputs via our social media networks [e,g, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube], and encourages our partners to do the same. The educational value of HWT’s projects has been ensured in 3 ways: 1. HWT delivers projects for and with established charities and other organisations with the capacity to ensure the educational value of the materials being developed. The Trust’s work has received enthusiastic endorsements from all the organisations it has worked with. There are frequent repeat requests. 2. HWT has a panel of advisers with recognised expertise in areas of academic enquiry relevant to the work of the Trust, and the necessary knowledge, experience and gravitas. Trustees have consulted in-depth with our advisor Dr Ros Taylor. 3. The founding trustees have decades of public education experience themselves, covering both school-based and digital education: • Peter Armstrong was a distinguished senior executive at the BBC, producing and commissioning award-winning documentaries raising public awareness and knowledge about global development, and is winner of the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award for interactivity. • Anuradha Vittachi is a qualified teacher (PGCE, University of Oxford) carrying through those pedagogic practices in her work as an author, lecturer, TV documentary-maker and award-winning digital editor, using media to serve public education on global development. March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** In 2018, HWT adopted a reserves policy outlining purpose, governance, **Brief statement of the** and determination of reserves. At the Winter 2018 Board Meeting, the **charity’s policy on reserves** HWT board agreed unanimously to keep £4,000 in reserve. **Details of any funds materially in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** The principal source of funds has been donations raised at our events. You **may choose** to include additional information, where These funds have enabled the Trust to carry out the work as detailed relevant about: above. • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); • how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; • investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ~~_~~ **Section F Other optional information** The Trustees are pleased to be able to report that Trust’s objectives, pertaining to the work and to the finances needed to support that work, have been so successfully achieved in this year. **Section G Declaration** ~~_~~ **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Full name(s)** William Finnegan **TAR** 6 March **2012** March **2012** 6 **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 05/07/2025 March **2012** **TAR** 7 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO ANO WALES Hedgerley Wood Trust 1103322 Receipts and pa ments accounts CC16a For the perl