## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1/4/2023 Period start date To Period end date 31/3/2024 Charity name: Northern Allotment, Leisure and Community Gardens** ## **Charity registration number: 1155968** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To further or benefit the residents of**
**Northern England without distinction of**
**sex, sexual orientation, race or of**
**political, religious or other opinions by**
**associating together the said residents**
**and the local authorities, voluntary and**
**other organisations in a common effort**
**to advance education and to provide**
**facilities in the interests of social**
**welfare for recreation leisure time**
**occupation with the objective of**
**improving the conditions of life for the**
**residents.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**We build, maintain and create**
**community gardens for public benefit.**
**We provide courses for gardening,**
**health and safety etc. We give advice etc**
**to similar entities.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes, trustees are informed of the**
**guidance when they join us.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We don’t grant**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**None**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38
Please note we
can’t type in the
area on the right->|**We rely fully on volunteers. The majority**
**are asylum seekers and refugees,**
**luckily 90% of these have worked on the**
**land in their own country or have**
**horticulture and agriculture experience.**
**Those who are not the above are**
**‘casual’ volunteers, they tend to turn up**
**sporadically.**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Community Gardens**
**We continue to aid other not-for-profit**
**community organisations in governance**
**issues, policy issues and general**
**management and organisational help,**
**this always based on community**
**gardens, allotments etc..**
**We have partnered with other not-for-**
**profit entities to extend our range and**
**geographical area.**
**We have continued on a project as a**
**result of the National Lottery grant for**
**‘Know your Neighbourhood’, this is**
**bringing more people into our flagship**
**property thus getting good networking**
**which in turn, hopefully, we will get**
**more volunteers.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**90% of these have been met, problems**
**were the current economic situation**
**have exacerbated the progress but we**
**will catch up in 2024-2025.**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We don’t fund-raise**| ||Para 1.41|**We don’t invest yet.**| Investment performance against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Within our forecast, just slightly less**
**due to the current economic situation.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Utility bills, office costs, insurances etc.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£4000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**No**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None at this time**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Grants**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Lack of volunteers and the current**
**economic situation.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**None**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees will be selected when and if we**
**need certain skills we do not have**
**already.**
**Only the current Trustees can**
**nominate/appoint new trustees, there no**
**other persons or bodies involved.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Luckily all our trustees have been**
**trustees or directors before, we only**
**have ongoing training as needs occur.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**We have many relationships with**
**entities that have a common interest to**
**us, need help from us or we need help**
**from them. We now have a group of**
**about 6 striving for climate control,**
**better open green spaces, educating on**
**agriculture and gardening etc.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Northern Allotment, Leisure and Community Gardens| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|None| |Registered charity number|1155968| |Charity’s principal address|48 Murrayfield, Sunderland, SR3 2EU
Registered address:
The Old rectory, The Broadway, Houghton le Spring DH4
4BB| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||David Banks|||| ||David Curtis|||| ||Lian Maltas|||| ||Laura Lynch|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the None charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for None 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**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **None** ## **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)**|**Signature(s)**| |---|---| |**Full name(s)**|**Full name(s)**David Banks| |**Position (eg Secretary,**|Trustee/Secretary| |**Chair, etc)**|| ||| |**Date**07/01/2025|07/01/2025| ||**Charity Name**|||||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Northern Allotment, Leisure and Community Gardens**|||||||**1155968**||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||||**CC16a**|| |**For the period**
**from**
~~ee~~|||01/04/2023
Period start date
~~ee~~||**To**
~~ee~~||||31/03/2024
Period end date|||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Endowment**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|| ||**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||| |The National Lottery Community Fund –
Know Your Neighbourhood Fund|**-**||**20,641**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**20,641**||**-**|| |The National LotteryCommunityFund|**-**||**9,100**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**9,100**||**15,000**|| |Donations|**183**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**183**|||| |Misc income|**389**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**389**||**874**|| |Othergrants|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**18,622**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**572**||**29,741**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**30,313**||**34,496**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**572**
**29,741**
**-**
**30,313**
**34,496**
~~——————~~||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||| |Website|**151**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**151**||**166**|| |RunningCosts|**3,477**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**3,477**||**1,845**|| |Admin,Postage, phone etc.|**160**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**160**||**2,034**|| |Capital equipment|**1,514**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,514**||**1,754**|| |Garden Projects|**12,066**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**12,066**||**19,343**|| |Volunteer costs|**262**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**262**||**324**|| |PettyCash/expenses|**2,279**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,279**||**1,533**|| |Session work/consultancy|**1,320**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,320**||**1,811**|| |Events|**10,827**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**10,827**||**1,233**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**32,056**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**32,056**||**30,043**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**32,056**
**-**
**-**
**32,056**
**30,043**
~~——————~~||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**- 31,484**
**29,741**
**- - 1,743**
**-**
**- -**
**9,918**
**- -**
**- 21,566**
**29,741**
**- 8,175**
~~===~~||||||**- - 1,743**
**- -**
**- -**
**- 8,175**
|**- - 1,743**
**- 8,175**
|**- - 1,743**
**4,453**
**-**
**-**
**9,918**
**-**
**- 8,175**
**4,453**
~~==>~~|||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 06/01/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**funds**||**funds**| ||**Details**|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
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**asset belongs**
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**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
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**asset belongs**
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**charity’s own use**|**-**
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behalf of all the trustees
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**-**
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Date of
approval
20/12/2024
Print Name
David Banks
Signature
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~~———~~|||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner s Report Roport to tho trust•￿1 m•mb•rn of Northern Allotrnent, Leisure and Community Gardens On accounts for th• year ended 31* March 2024 Charlty no (If any) 1155968 S•t out on pag8• (re￿rnbe, I report to the trustees on my examination of th8 acGount8 of th6 above charity fthe Trusf) for tho year ended R•8ponslbllltles and A8 the charlty trustees of the Trust, you are responslble for the preparation bas18 of rnport of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charltle8 Act 2011 fthe A￿). I report In re8ped of my examination crf the Tru8f8 accounts carrfed oul under 8eL*on 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examlnation, I have followed the applicable DireclK)n8 given by the Charity CoMmi￿10n under 88caion 145(5)(b) of tha Acl. I have completed my examination. I confim that no materlal matter8 have come to my attention (other than that di6c1088d below ') in connectlon with the examination whith gi￿ m• cau88 to bolleve that In, ary material Ind8pend?nt oxamlnerfs Statsmont aCc￿nting r•cord8 were ncrt ketA in accrydance with 8•Ctlon 130 of theAGtc th• accounts do ncl accord the accourfng records I have no with the e peru ncem8 and have c(xne ac¥og8 no othèr mattar8 In connectlon ion to whlch attention 8hould be drawn In order to enable ing of the accounts to be reached. 8 wvrds in the brackets rf they do not appty. Slgn•d: Nam•: Vemon Stevens Rolovant prof•8•lonal quallflcatlonls) or body ¢11 any): IFA (Retired) Addr•M: 6 Sllk8WOrth Hall Drive sunderla￿l SR3 2PG IER Octobor 2018 **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .