# **Cuckmere Haven SOS**
# **Charity's principal address: The Sanctuary, Winton Street, Alfriston, East Sussex, BN26 5UL**
**Charity Commission Registration Number 1161529**
## **Trustees' Annual Report**
# **For the year ended 31 December 2022**
**Names of the charity trustees who managed the charity:**
**Trustee name Office** Professor Michael Davies Chair Daniel de Belder Rodney Castleden MA MSC (Oxon) Crispin Freeman FCA Sir Alan Moses Charles Peck
## **Structure, governance and management**
The Charity’s governing document is its constitution adopted 5 May 2015, and it is constituted as a charitable incorporated organisation. New trustees may be appointed to serve for a term of two years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. Each of the trustees shall retire at the end of their term of appointment but shall be eligible for re-appointment.
The trustees review the skills and competencies required for the board of trustees, and where a requirement is identified they initiate a recruitment process. New trustees receive training from the existing trustees. There is no formal training programme.
The charity holds its bank account with Barclays Bank Plc, and has a donation facility with CAF Donate.
Regular trustee meetings are held, and the trustees met eight times during the year.
## **Objectives and activities**
To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment of the Cuckmere Haven west beach and cliffs.
When planning and carrying out their activities, the charity trustees have complied with the duty in section 4 of the 2011 Charities Act, to have due regard to Public Benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission.
The trustees held discussions with various planning consultants resulting in the appointment of Whaleback Ltd, a chartered town planning consultancy, to co-ordinate the assembly of the necessary reports and designs to enable a fresh planning application to be submitted for a scheme to protect the eastern end of the Cuckmere Haven west beach and cliffs.
The charity advanced £1,200 to Celebrate Cuckmere to fund initial expenses for their fundraising event held in September. This was subsequently refunded to the charity. Celebrate Cuckmere was a great success and we received a vital donation from them of £10,000 in January 2023.
The charity’s website continued to attract donations from the public.
# **Cuckmere Haven SOS Charity number 1161529 Trustees' Annual Report For the year ended 31 December 2022**
# **Continued**
## **Achievements and performance**
The website has been maintained which has details of the history of the Cuckmere Haven area, the erosion problems, and an outline of the proposals for the protection of the west beach and cliffs. It includes a donation facility through CAF Donate. Donations during the year, including gift aid, were £4,267. In addition Seaford Town Council kindly made a grant to the charity of £146 from donations from the general public in the collecting box at Seaford Head Barn.
The charity incurred £391 on publicity and £144 on website maintenance. In accordance with section 189 of the Charities Act 2011 the charity purchased trustee indemnity insurance £592.
The surplus for the year was £3,123, which was added to the charity’s reserve.
No trustee received any remuneration.
## **Financial review**
It is the reserves policy of the charity that funds will be built up to finance the protection scheme for the Cuckmere Haven west beach and cliffs. This is a large project and it is anticipated it will take time to achieve the necessary funding. At 31 December 2022 the charity held £56,144 in reserve for this purpose.
## **Declaration**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
**Signature**
> **Full name Professor Michael Davies**
> **Position Chair**
> **Date 5 July 2023**
## **Cuckmere Haven SOS**
## **Charity number 1161529**
## **Receipts & Payments Accounts For Year to 31 December 2022**
|**Receipts and**
**payments**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**|**Designated**
**funds**
**£**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
|
**Receipts**
Donations - non-gift aid
Donations - gift-aided
Gift aid tax recovery
Event receipts
Grants
Other receipts
**Total Receipts**
**Payments**
Conservation
Fundraising
Publicity
Website
Postage, stationery, computer
Donation platform commission
Insurance
Bank charges
**Total Payments**
**_Net of_**
**_receipts/(payments)_**
Transfers between funds
Cash funds last year end
**_Cash funds this period_**
**_end_**||||
||**2,983**|**0**|**0**
**2,983**|
||**1,029**|**0**|**0**
**1,029**|
||**255**|**0**|**0**
**255**|
||**1,200**|**0**|**0**
**1,200**|
||**146**|**0**|**0**
**146**|
||**1**|**0**|**0**
**1**|
||**5,614**||**0**
**5,614**|
|||||
|||||
||**0**|**0**|**0**
**0**|
||**1,200**|**0**|**0**
**1,200**|
||**391**|**0**|**0**
**391**|
||**144**|**0**|**0**
**144**|
||**0**|**0**|**0**
**0**|
||**53**|**0**|**0**
**53**|
||**592**|**0**|**0**
**592**|
||**111**|**0**|**0**
**111**|
||**2,491**
**3,123**
**0**
**53,021**|**0**
**0**
**0**
**0**|**0**
**2,491**|
||||**0**
**3,123**
**0**
**0**
**0**
**53,021**|
||**56,144**|**0**|**0**
**56,144**|
|||||
|
**Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Designated**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**Cash funds**
**Bank account**
**56,144**
**0**||||
## **Signed on behalf of all the trustees on 5 July 2023**
## **Professor Michael Davies**
## **Cuckmere Haven SOS Charity number 1161529 For Year to 31 December 2022**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## _**Charity information**_
Cuckmere Haven SOS is a charitable incorporated organisation set up to meet the charitable objectives detailed in the Trustees' Report.
## **1.1 Accounting convention**
The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis.