Forest of Hearts Annual Report 2022 pl Forest Hearts ## **Table of Contents** |**3**
Introduction
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Our year in
numbers
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Tree planting
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Volunteers
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**15**|CSR
The Orchard
Great team
New Gardens
Room for the
soul
Welcombe Hills| |---|---| ||Thanks
Financials
Acknowledgements| ## **Introduction** 2022 has proven to be a successful year for Forest of Hearts, where we have been able to deliver more projects, in more places with a new team of enthusiastic and skilled people who really care about boosting biodiversity and improving wellbeing through creating gardens for good. **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** OUR YEAR IN NUMBERS 2022 FOREST OF HEARTS 192 2,057 Volunteer hours P2501 Volunteers Hours of Green Therapy 0535 kg of fruit picked & donated Community programmes run Linear metres of living wall installed 2,022 Trees planted More Barn Owl chicks Gardens created 12 1 67,000 People reached through social media Corporate partners Forest Hearts www.forestofhearts.com FOREST OF HEARTS Trustee Annual Report 2022 ## **We planted 2022 trees** We planted 2,022 trees in 2022 in a bid to build biodiversity, combat climate change and create green spaces in our local community. We planted oak, willow, alder, dog rose, hazel, hawthorn and blackthorn. We offer a variety of ways your company can get involved with us to plant trees as part of your Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitments or Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy. Whatever your aims, we'll work together to devise a mutually-beneficial partnership and plan that helps enhance your brand and helps meet your CSR and sustainability objectives. **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **2057 volunteer hours given** 192 volunteers gave 2,057 hours of their time to help our charity with a number of our horticultural and environmental projects to create positive change and improve their wellbeing.. We pay tribute to all our volunteers who give their time and energy so readily which means that we can do ore work to boost biodiversity and give back to local communities. **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **We held CSR team events** We worked with a number of corporate groups to build teams, boost biodiversity and give back to the local community. Some of the organisations we have worked with in 2022 are below. **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **We created an orchard** We welcomed The Hershey Company to our five-acre nature reserve just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon to create fruit tree guilds in our recently planted orchard area. The 11 employees joined us as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility and also wanted an event to encourage staff communication and teamwork as well as getting offsite to enjoy the outdoors and offer headspace from busy working days in the office. Their sustainability strategy outlines their intention to make a difference through investing in places where we live, employee engagement and volunteerism with their ‘shared goodness promise’ and we were so please they chose to volunteer with us. **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **We have a great team!** We have a wonderful team who manage the projects, plant the trees, run the events, maintain the gardens, keep up with social media and manage to have fun and give back at the same time. Thanks to the hard work of Tom Donnison, we helped spread the message of health and wellbeing, biodiversity and positive change through our social media channels by reaching over 56,000 people in 2021. **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **Five new gardens created** 5 gardens created to provide places of purpose to improve wellbeing, boost biodiversity, enhance volunteering opportunities and give back to the local community and NHS. Gardens were created at Stratford, Leamington and Warwick hospitals, Birmingham Road in Stratford and at The Dell for the Royal Shakespeare Company **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **Room for the Soul with RSC** OThe ‘Room for the Soul’ art instillation was a big hit which saw areas of The Dell transformed into a magical outdoor lounge where plants and flowers overwhelmed furniture. These ephemeral art pieces included portraits of our Green Therapy group who helped design the furniture fabrics during workshops with artist Faye Claridge over the past month. They also helped grow the plants used as part of their horticultural therapy sessions we run twice a week at Stratford-Upon-Avon hospital. The mood was set perfectly with folk music performed by our very own Luca FalcomerDawson. The talented local singer did 3 sets on the live stage in between poetry readings related to Shakespeare, the environment and memories of The Dell. **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **Welcombe Hills School** We enjoyed a successful community project for 15 individuals with mild to moderate learning difficulties from Welcombe Hills School in Stratford-Upon-Avon alongside ThinkForward. Over the 11 weeks we put on horticultural and environmental sessions in a number of locations in Stratford to help the group strengthen their town links for further volunteering and work opportunities. The sessions were also designed to improve their soft skills, communication, teamwork, independence and self-confidence, for which we saw a marked improvement in all these areas. As a collective, they helped make a big impact in the local community with many practical activities completed to benefit people, places and the environment. . **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **Thanks to our supporters** Thanks to all our supporters and funders who have helped us to continue and grow. **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **Financials** ## **FINANCIAL REVIEW** **BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE CHARITY’S POLICY ON RESERVES THE POLICY FOR HOLDING RESERVES IS TO HAVE AT LEAST 6 MONTHS RUNNING COSTS IN RESERVE** **DETAILS OF ANY FUNDS MATERIALLY IN DEFICIT : N/A** **THE CHARITY IS IN A STRONG POSITION WITH CASH IN THE BANK WHICH IS NEEDED TO DELIVER THE VARIOUS PROJECTS. WE ARE IN OUR EARLY YEARS AND ARE TAKING A PRUDENT VIEW OF OUR FINANCES.** **INCOME £180,253 EXPENDITURE £138,151 CASH FUNDS £107,182** **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** ## **Acknowledgements** We would like to thank the following people: Forest of Hearts team: Tom Donnison, Hes Bradley, Mark Drummond, Luca Falcomer-Dawson, Ann Johnson, Dan Joyce, Richard Edwards, Bruno Mason, Heather Osmond, Charlie Meredith-Owen, Chris Wooll, David Ball. Trustees and management team: Lani Dines, John Bill, Wil Hepworth, Hannah Train ## **Contact** **Carole Longden Forest of Hearts 15 Ensign, Westwood Way Coventry CV4 8JA 07774 424404 carolelongden@forestofhearts.com** **Trustee Annual Report 2022** **FOREST OF HEARTS** Recei ts and ments accounts CC16a For th• p•rlo Section A Receipts and payments ilnTo4trictod lunfjl• R￿￿¢11¢.1Cd Tot41 lundy Last A1 Re¢ 33 67,887 45.115 18.265 22, 10fy ross income or ARI 1102 1bJ.255 ssei a mI•6kn￿nI sales. tota Totslrvcdpts 100.253 A3Pa 106 .495 106 495 421 452 4J6 318 Adv￿￿1￿ 13228 rraY*l SEaT￿)nery& Re 1,026 1,JSI JB2 l- Co*5 oleSS￿Jr￿,. 701 1.214 359 S19 i.z 514 12,775 132 S￿￿ontr￿(l&￿S atAJns 1,151 47.215 8177$ Sub tolal 173 137.752 137.152 st. A4 Asset arbd Invostm•rrt nt lant an machi Sub total Totalpaym•nis 138.151 131,151 51.$ N•t olrocelpt¥payments? Afj Tr8nsters betWo¥n lund* Cash hJnd• la$t year •nd Cash fun*ts thls y••re*KI 42.1 42.101 lQ7.182 107.182 65,081 XRI •x%Mrta I ljx ID: o202846bf2018824eff3ec51150aOc2b72e6 •1 *•1¢ 14wil N•ii 11f1￿Tr th Joliii kllll Ckk ID •20:ts4ethrii)IIIiL'4vff.kM".41 l Ni•[K".'b?.W*7 I￿7 CHARITY (OMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Independent examlner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to th• trusteesl m•mbors of rort& 4 Heoils "sisl (knfv £01 On accounts forlhe y•ar ended Charity no (if any) l16068q set out on pag•$ I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity I'the Trust ) for the year ended 31 1 O lO£I. Responsiblllties and As the charity trustees of the Trust, YOU are re8ponslble for the preparation bas1* of report of the acGounts In accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 1.the Acf'l. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounls carried out under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed Ihe applicable Directions given by the Charlly Commisslon under section 14515)Ibl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention lother than that disclosed below ') in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect.. accountlng records were not k8Pt in accordance with sedlon 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord wlth tha accounting records I have no conc8rns and have coma across no other matters In ￿nneCtIOn wlth the examlnalion to which attention should be drawn in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the br8ckels if they do not apply. Date: Independent examlnerfs statement Slgn8d'. Name.. GHWS Relevant professlonal qualification(sl or body (If any): (If , ￿ClA Address: 4 LIckn)s OtX1￿ QLcKcUkcl Gq8 .751 October 2018 IER Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independenl examination of charily accounts.. directions and guidanGe for examiners). Glve here brief detalls of any Items that tho examinor wishes to d15close. October 2018 IER