## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/07/2021 Period start date To 30/06/2022 Period end date**
## **Charity name: The Farmschool**
## **Charity registration number:1161991**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The Farmschool is a charity dedicated**
**to promoting and advancing awareness**
**in everyone but particularly 10-18 year**
**old school children of where their food**
**comes from, how it is produced and**
**how farmers preserve the environment**|
|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|**Delivering a programme for Key Stage 4**
**(14-16 year old students) to help bring to**
**life the topics of provenance, food**
**labelling, assurance standards, primary**
**production and sustainability.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes they have**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We apply for grants when required to**
**help us deliver specific programmes.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The majority of our beneficiaries have**
**never visited a farm before. We**
**endeavour to enrich their lives through**
**experiencing and exploring the role of**
**the countryside**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Our qualified beekeepers deliver our bee**
**programme. Trustee and Chair Ian**
**Pigott is present to oversee each visit.**
**All of our administration is delivered by**
**a volunteer**|
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|**Due to schools still climbing out of**
**covid and the challenges of staffing**
**school visits our numbers we down.**
**However we are excited and optimistic**
**for the coming year.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Very successful. More impactful**
**delivery. Advising others of the**
**imprtance of the space within which our**
**charity operates. Reconnecting young**
**people with the outdoors, food and**
**farming**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**None**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Stronger than expected as few**
**programmes were delivered due to**
**covid.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves have been held as we are still**
**planning on rolling out the trifecta and**
**training programmes postponed in the**
**past two years in the coming year.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**40958**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|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|**Schools uncertain and reluctant to**
**commit to programmes this year.**
**reduced staff due to reduced demand**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25||
|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|**Expertise in food trends, retail, and**
**agriculture.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**The Trustees have been kept updated of**
**the challenges facing the Charity in the**
**wake of Covid.**|
|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||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Farmschool|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1161991|
|Charity’s principal address|The Farmschool
Annables Farm
Kinsbourne Green
Harpenden
Herts|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Susan Siddall||||
||Victoria Harris||||
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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
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **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**|
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|**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) Full name(s)** Ian Pigott **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 29/04/23
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Charity Name No (if any)
The Farmschool 1161991
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 7/1/2021 6/30/2022
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
school receipts 730 - - 730
- - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 730 - - 730 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total receipts 730 - - 730 -
A3 Payments
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments - - - - -
Net of receipts/(payments) 730 - - 730 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 25,228 15,000 - 40,228 27,254
Cash funds this year end 25,958 15,000 - 40,958 40,288
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
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||**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|**B1**|**Cash funds**|**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**25,309**
**-**
**-**
**25,228**
Agreement Error|**to nearest £**
**15,000**
**-**
**-**
**15,000**
OK|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK|
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
||||**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|||**Details**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
**Details**
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
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|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**|**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**||
|**charity’s own use**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**|**When due**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**|**liability relates**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|**(optional)**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print|Name|Date of
approval||
|||ian|Pigott|28.04.23||