## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 15 July 2024 **To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1162075
And Sow to Grow
**Charity's principal address** And Sow to Grow
Reading’s Lane Stanton **Postcode IP31 2FH**
## **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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||V. Stuart|Chair|Whole|ASTG|
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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**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
|**Forest Schools**|Tina Chapman|Activities Suffolk|
|**DM wood management**|Dave Harding|DM arboriculture|
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## **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
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Trust
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
By fellow trustees upon application
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
Child/vulnerable people protection Equal opportunities Health & Safety Charity constitution
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Work with local community groups and schools as well as local and regional charities/councils
- training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational Our main concern is A. retention of trustees structure and any wider B. Lack of funding to continue our niche offer network with which the charity C. Loss of building through vandalism works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
Working with students with disabilities to develop skills and confidence to move to self-employment. We also work with schools to encourage grow your own fruit and veg, local colleges and community The woods are used for people with end-of-life illness to spend time and people from care homes are also welcomed to spend time here either sitting and enjoying the views or doing a spot of gardening.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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To provide free or subsidised training and experiences in woodland school/ forest school activities including foraging, den building and craft activities.
We also have events and social get togethers for many older local community members in a woodland setting.
**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)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
We were delighted to receive the sum of £2000 from the A. Williams charity based in Bury St Edmunds to help replace the old roof and make good an existing building as an outdoor education/event space.
We also had a delightful circus event here for many of our students who learnt many new skills and had fun too.
The Summer saw a number of community events leaning towards the older residents of the area.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
The reserves are kept in a treasurer account with two signatures. It can **Brief statement of the** only be used for projects or running costs agreed by the trustees. **charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **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**
We are seeking another trustee, perhaps two, to stabilise the charity organisation from falling to three members.
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Allan
**Full name(s)** Allan Scott-Davies **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc)**
**Date** 26/12/2025
March **2012**
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|**And Sow to Grow**|**And Sow to Grow**|**And Sow to Grow**|**No (if any)**|
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period**
**from**|15/07/2024
Period start date|**To**|31/03/2025
Period end date|
**CC16a**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**24**
**12**
**168**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,204**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,204**
**51**
**120**
**200**
**668**
**41**
**1,052**
**51**
**891**
**40**
**3,115**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,115**
**- 911**
**-**
**3,531**
**2,620**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**24**
**12**
**168**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,204**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,204**
**51**
**120**
**200**
**668**
**41**
**1,052**
**51**
**891**
**40**
**3,115**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,115**
**- 911**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|ourse fee|**24**||||||
|course fee|**12**||||||
|refund|**168**||||||
|A Wiliams Charity|**2,000**||||||
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,204**|||||**-**|
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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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|Electric BG|**51**|||||**-**|
|Lakeland Ltd|**120**|||||**-**|
|Pumpout|**200**|||||**-**|
|Digger hire|**668**|||||**-**|
|Electric BG|**41**|||||**-**|
|Roofingsheets|**1,052**|||||**-**|
|Electric BG|**51**|||||**-**|
|Clarkes of Walsham|**891**|||||**-**|
|Electric BG|**40**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**3,115**|||||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
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||**- 911**|**-**|**-**|**- 911**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**3,531**|**-**|**-**|**3,531**||**-**|
||**2,620**|**-**|**-**|**2,620**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
26/12/2025
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**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**|Signature
Allan
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,620**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,620**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
A Scott-Davies|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
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||||OK|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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approval|
||Allan|A Scott-Davies|26/12/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
26/12/2025
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