
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From** 6th April 2020 **Period start date   To** April 5th 2021 **Period end date** 

**Charity name:** Be More Outdoors 

**Charity registration number:** 1155946 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|**For the public beneft to promote the**<br>**educa3on of adults, families and children**<br>**within a 100 mile radius in of Huddersfeld**<br>**through learning and play in natural spaces, by**<br>**ofering a range of ac3vi3es such as: Forest**<br>**Schools, BushcraB, Nature awareness, Green**<br>**woodwork and hor3culture/permaculture**|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|**Family Forest School, bushcraft and**<br>**outdoor sessions for families. Adult**<br>**green wood working sessions. School**<br>**curriculum sessions and after school**<br>**clubs, promoting nature awareness**|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|All the trustees if Be More Outdoors are<br>aware of the guidance and have taken it<br>into account when making decisions where<br>relevant|
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## **Additional information (optional)** 

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SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment 



|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|We have trustees who work behind the<br>scenes and also have regular<br>volunteers to assist in sessions and at<br>events|
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## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|We have run many Forest School sessions<br>in a variety of areas including<br>helping families from deprived areas. We<br>have children who attend<br>regularly. We are very integrated into our<br>local community and have<br>been central to helping many young people<br>with new skills and<br>confdence building|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||





Other

## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21||
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity aims to keep enough reserves<br>to fund our next project,<br>however as we work on a project to project<br>basis there is no need to<br>keep reserves and we choose to invest as<br>much as we can to expand our<br>offering|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£0**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|The Charity aims to keep enough reserves<br>to fund our next project,<br>however as we work on a project to project<br>basis there is no need to<br>keep reserves and we choose to invest as<br>much as we can to expand our<br>offering|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23||



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|(1) Apart from the frst charity trustees, every<br>trustee must be appointed for a term of one<br>year by a resolu;on passed at a properly<br>convened mee;ng of the charity trustees.<br>(2) In selec;ng individuals for appointment as<br>charity trustees, the charity trustees must have<br>regard to the skills, knowledge and experience<br>needed for the efec;ve administra;on of the<br>CIO.<br>(3) Anyone wishing to be considered for<br>trusteeship must have aGended three BMO<br>mee;ngs over the previous year (or less at the<br>discre;on of the trustees).|



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|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 



||Charity name<br>Be More Outdoors<br>Other name the charity uses<br>Registered charity number<br>1155946<br>Charity’s principal address<br>9 Kiln Hill<br>Slaithwaite<br>Huddersfield<br>HD7 5JS|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**<br>**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**<br>**entitled to appoint trustee**<br>**(if any)**|
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|1 <br>2 <br>3 <br>4 <br>5 <br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|Caitlin Warrior|Chair|||
||Jean Margetts||||
||Jonathan Are||||
||Emma Barnes||||
||Philippa Lee||||
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

## **Director name** 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

**Dates acted if not for whole year** 

**Trustee name** 



**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

Description of the assets held in this capacity 

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects 

Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 


## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of Name Address adviser** 

**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **Other optional information** 



**Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** C Warrior **Full name(s)** Caitlin Warrior **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)** 

**Date** 27th January 2022 



||**Be More Outdoors**|**Be More Outdoors**|**Be More Outdoors**|**Be More Outdoors**|**Be More Outdoors**|**1155946**|**1155946**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||6th April 2020||||5th April 2021|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations and Grants|||**22,712**||**-**||**22,712**||**14,000**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Session takings|**1,800**||**-**||**-**||**1,800**||**30,000**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Other Income|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**1,800**||**22,712**||**-**||**24,512**||**44,000**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total _**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
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|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**1,800**||**22,712**||**- 0**||**24,512**||**44,000**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Forest School|**- 0**||**15,265**||**-**||**15,265**||**45,780**|
|Materials|**- 0**||**7,447**||**-**||**7,447**||**-**|
|Rent|**300**||**-**||**-**||**300**||**-**|
|Insurance|**435**||**-**||**-**||**435**||**-**|
|Professional Fees|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Software|**130**||**-**||**-**||**130**||**-**|
|PayPal|**97**||**-**||**-**||**97**||**-**|
|Bookwhen|**228**||**-**||**-**||**228**||**-**|
|Bank charges|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**1,190**||**22,712**||**-**||**23,902**||**45,780**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**-0**||**-0**||**-0**||**-**||**- 0**|
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|**_Totalpayments_ **|<br>**1,190**||**22,712**||**- 0**||**23,902**||**45,780**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|<br>**610**||**-**||**-**||**610**||**-**<br>**1,780**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**3,846**||**-**||**-**||**3,846**|||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|<br>**4,456**||**-**||**-**||**4,456**||**-**<br>**1,780**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|||||**-**||**-**|||
||Cash Bank||||**5,104**||**-**|||
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||**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**||**5,104**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
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||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||Agreement Error||||OK|
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||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
||Caitlin Warrior||||Caitlin Warrior||||27/01/2022|
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