## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 Jan 2020 **To** 31 Dec 2020
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by** ELT **Registered charity number (if any)** 1158032
The Ecological Land Trust
|**Charity's principal address**|
Unit 204, Brighton Eco Centre|
Unit 204, Brighton Eco Centre|
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||39-41 Surrey Street||
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||**Postcode**|**BN1 3PB**|
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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(if any)**|
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||Leonard Beighton|Chair||Board of Trustees|
||Alex BeggLawrie||To Sept 30th2020||
||Oliver Rodker||||
||Holger Westphely||From Oct 30 2020||
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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**
**TAR**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
- Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
CIO Deed
Trust
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by Trustee Board Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
The Ecological Land Trust has a relationship with the Ecological Land You **may choose** to include Cooperative and raises funds for environmental conservation work on the additional information, where cooperative’s small farm sites. 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 trust also receives funds on behalf of the Ecological Land Cooperative. These are held in the Ecological Land Trust’s bank account until they are drawn down by the cooperative. This year, £2,500 was drawn down to pay for an ecological survey at our Arlington site.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
- The objects of the CIO are:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
- To promote sustainable development (as defined in public benefit clause 30) for the benefit of the public by:
- a. the preservation, conservation and the protection of the environment and the prudent use of resources;
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- b. the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic development and regeneration.
- To advance the education of the public in subjects relating to sustainable development and the protection, enhancement and rehabilitation of the environment and to promote study and research in such subjects provided that the useful results of such study are disseminated to the public at large.
The Ecological Land Trust has been engaged in supporting the charitable work of the Ecological Land Cooperative to conserve and protect the natural environment, in the form of an ecological baseline survey on an Ecological Land Cooperative smallholding site.
**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)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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This year the trust has been successful in attracting funding to support the work of the Ecological Land Cooperative.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
We have been successful in raising funding for ecological surveys, conservation work, tree planting and biodiversity enhancement and we carried out work across our sites in 2020 to plant trees and create new habitats. The main expenditure in 2020 was for an ecological baseline survey at Martinsfield, Arlington.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
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## **Section E Financial review**
The charity does not seek to hold funds in reserve at this time.
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
n/a
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- 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**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
Sonia Sinanan
**Full name(s)** Sonia Sinanan **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc)**
**Date** 20/10/21
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||**Ecological Land Trust**|**Ecological Land Trust**|**Ecological Land Trust**|**Ecological Land Trust**|**Ecological Land Trust**|**1158032**|**1158032**|**1158032**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**||01/01/2020||**To**||31/12/2020|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**361.00**||**21,000**||**-**||**21,361.00**||**3,082**|
|Grants|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,500**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**361.00**||**21,000.00**||**-**||**21,361.00**||**5,582.00**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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|Hosting (office)|**-**|||||||||
|Ecological Survey|||||||||**-**|
|Planning project|||||||||**15,000**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**15,000**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**0.00**||||||||**0.00**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**15000.00**|
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||**361.00**||||||||**-9418.00**|
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||**361.00**||||||||**6012.00**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
25/10/2021
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**|In Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**3,873**
**-**
**3873.00**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**21,000**
**-**
**21000.00**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||Leonard Beighton
Signature
Oli Rodker
**Details**
**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Oli Rodker
Leonard Beighton||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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approval|
||Oli Rodker||Oli Rodker||||20/10/2021|
||Leonard Beighton||Leonard Beighton||||20/10/2021|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
25/10/2021
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