## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date
Period end date
Day Month Year 9 8 2024
Day Month Year 8 8 2025
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Hedgerley Wood Trust [HWT]
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1153322
**Charity's principal address** Hedgerley Wood House
Red Lane Chinnor, Oxon **Postcode OX394BW**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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Type of adviser Name Address
Expert on education, Simon Maxwell 20 West Drive, Brighton, BN2 0GD
climate, global
development
Expert on Healthcare Dr Ros Taylor c/o the Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted
Expert on education, Christopher Robertson 37 Staverton Road, London, NW2 5EY
psychology, climate
Expert on education, Dr Joe Smith The Geography Discipline, Open University,
global development Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
n/a
## **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)
How the charity is constituted
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Unanimous appointment by the HWT board Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
The founding trustees have had 18 years’ experience running a worldwide non-profit NGO network, and are able now to apply that expertise as appropriate to the much smaller charity that is HWT.
New trustees are provided with a trustee handbook and required to complete Declaration of Eligibility and Declaration of Interests. HWT has also developed a Complaints Policy, Reserves Policy, Privacy Policy, and Legitimate Interest Assessment (GDPR).
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN WORLDWIDE PROBLEMS RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) DISEASE, **Summary of the objects of the** HUNGER, POVERTY, THE NEED FOR EDUCATION, THE IMPACT ON **charity set out in its** HEALTH OF INEQUALITY, AND THE PROTECTION OF THE PHYSICAL **governing document** AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
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.
IN YEAR 11 HWT AGAIN ACHIEVED ALL OBJECTIVES: HOSTED REGULAR **Summary of the main** MEETINGS AT THE ONECLIMATE CENTRE WITH FILM SCREENINGS AND **activities undertaken for the** DISCUSSIONS WITH EXPERTS. TOPICS INCLUDED HEAT PUMPS, **public benefit in relation to** WILDLIFE PROTECTION AND REGENERATIVE FARMING. OUR MYCELIUM **these objects (include within** MAP ACHIEVED MAJOR PROGRESS WITH SUPORT FROM OXFORDSHIRE **this section the statutory** COUNTY COUNCIL, VERSIONING THE MAP ON THEIR CLIMATE WEBSITE **declaration that trustees have** AND SHOWCASING A FURTHER 200 ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS. **had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity** Details of HWT’s work are included on our website www.hedgerleywood.org. **Commission on public benefit)** 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)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking; policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The Trust not only focuses on increasing public knowledge by doing the work as detailed above, but also by widely disseminating the useful results of the work done. 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.
## **Section E Financial review**
In 2018, HWT adopted a reserves policy outlining purpose, governance, **Brief statement of the** and determination of reserves. **charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit**
**Further financial review details (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
The principal source of funds has been fees and donations for documentary-making.
These funds have enabled the Trust to carry out the work as detailed above.
- 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**
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Signature(s)
Full name(s) William Finnegan
Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair
etc)
Date
15 December 2025
5 March 2012
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Charity Name No (if any)
Hedgerley Wood Trust 1153322
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 09/08/2024 08/08/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations 672 - - 672 624
Charitable activities 20,000 - - 20,000 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 20,672 ] - - 20,672 624
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 20,672 - - 20,672 624
A3 Payments
Support costs 13,933 - - 13,933 9,924
Activities undertaken directly 4,460 - - 4,460 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 18,393 ] - - 18,393 9,924
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments [ 18,393 ] - - 18,393 9,924
Net of receipts/(payments) 2,279 - - 2,279 - 9,300
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 8,070 - - 8,070 17,370
Cash funds this year end 10,349 - - 10,349 8,070
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Cooperative Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**10,349**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,349**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
William Finnegan|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
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||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
05/12/2025|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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