## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 2024/25** ## **From 9 April 2024 To 8 April 2025** ## **Charity name: Friends of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley** ## **Charity registration number: 1163812** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To discover, enjoy and protect the**
**Clwydian Range and Dee Valley National**
**Landscape (Area of Outstanding Natural**
**Beauty).**
**To assist in safeguarding and improving**
**its amenities for the benefit of the**
**public, either alone or in co-operation**
**with others with the same or related**
**objectives.**| |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|**Visits, walks and lectures of wide**
**ranging interest and of direct relevance**
**to the Charity’s purposes, including**
**archaeology, natural history, local**
**history and culture – as well as pure**
**enjoyment of the landscape and**
**countryside. We also produce regular**
**newsletters to keep our membership**
**fully informed. We have our own**
**website. We are active members of the**
**Alliance of Welsh Designated**
**Landscapes.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All Trustees are aware of Charity**
**Commission guidance on public benefit.**
**Periodic information from the CC is**
**circulated to Trustees.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The Charity considers grant making on**
**a case by case basis, with small grants**
**made in approved cases where the**
**purposes of the Charity are**
**demonstrated.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |||| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**All our Trustees are volunteers and the**
**executive functions of the Charity are**
**mainly carried out by them.**| |Other||**Our budget enables us to support the**
**Trustees with a self-employed part time**
**member of staff (5 Hours per week)**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**Regular visits talks and lectures on**
**matters relevant to the protected**
**landscape of the Clwydian Range and**
**Dee Valley.**
**Bilingual newsletter (‘Views’) which**
**gives up to date information about**
**developments and initiatives regarding**
**the National Landscape.**
**A membership of circa 250 – the Charity**
**keeps them up to date and gives them**
**an opportunity to closely identify with**
**the landscape, its biodiversity, ecology**
**and culture.**
**The Charity has supported Welsh**
**Government’s proposal to create a**
**National Park in North East Wales and**
**has provided information to members**
**about this development.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Satisfactory and secure – see Annual**
**Accounts in separate document.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**No separate reserve account. The**
**Charity has an agreed policy that it will**
**always hold at least £3000 in its**
**account to meet unforeseen**
**contingencies.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |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: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Our main source of funding is members’**
**subscriptions – deliberately set at a**
**modest sum of £10 (£12 if not paying by**
**direct debit) to encourage membership.**
**We received a grant of £3360 from the**
**National Landscape’s Sustainable**
**Development Fund to support the**
**employment of our part time member of**
**staff.**
**We are registered for Gift Aid.**
**The Charity remains a shareholder in**
**the Corwen Electricity Cooperative on**
**behalf of the National Landscape. The**
**donated asset comprised 4,000 shares**
**with a nominal value of £1. Dividends**
**have been received.**
**We have held a donation which the**
**National Landscape has been unable to**
**accept and ensured that this has been**
**spent in accordance with Charity**
**objectives and those of the donor.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |||**There are no current risks. However, if**
**the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**were to become a substantial part of the**
**proposed national park in North East**
**Wales, the Charity’s role would need to**
**be adapted to account for this. Its**
**underlying objectives would remain the**
**same.**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|**CIO model constitution**| |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|**Approved by members at the AGM.**
**Existing Trustees identify new**
**appointees who demonstrate a**
**commitment to the Charity’s purposes.**
**We are currently seeking to recruit new**
**trustees, with the aim of reducing the**
**age profile of the cohort to safeguard**
**future endeavour.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The Charity works through its**
**Committee of Trustees which meets on**
**a regular basis.**
**The Charity is a member of the Alliance**
**of Welsh Designated Landscapes.**
**We are members of both Denbighshire**
**and Flintshire Voluntary Services**
**Councils and have access to**
**appropriate advice.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**We work closely with the management**
**and staff of the Clwydian Range and Dee**
**Valley National Landscape (aka AONB) –**
**a statutory body charged with caring for**
**this nationally designated landscape.**
**We receive support and advice from the**
**full time team whilst maintaining full**
**independence.**| |||| Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Friends of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1163812| |Charity’s principal address|Loggerheads Country Park
Loggerheads
Denbighshire
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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 (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Martyn Holland|Chair||| ||Nicholas Ward|Treasurer &
MembershipSec.||| ||John Roberts|General Secretary||| ||Dr Christine Evans|||| ||Dr Rajan Madhok|||| ||Julie Masters|||| ||Prof. Robert Moore|||| ||Helen Roberts|||| ||Michael Skuse|||| ||Michael Smart|||| ||David Smith|||| ||Pauline Smith||Resigned February 25
due to work
commitments|| ||Ronald Williams|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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|Small unspent residual amount of memorial donation held
on behalf of the National Landscape to be spent on
conservation work at Moel Famau. Discussions ongoing.| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|See above| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|Separately noted in the accounts. Close contact
maintained with donor.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **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)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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)** John Ivor Roberts **Full name(s)** Martyn Holland **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair General Secretary **Chair, etc) Date** 4th February 2026 |**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Friends of Clwydian Range & Dee Valley**|||**1163812**||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
09/04/2024|**To**|Period end date
08/04/2025||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,081**
**433**
**412**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**

**2,926**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,926**
**382**
**232**
**1,360**
**279**
**-**
**300**
**-**
**160**
**85**
**2,798**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,798**
**128**
**-**
**11,659**
**11,787**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**625**
**625**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,081**
**433**
**412**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,286**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,286**
**382**
**232**
**4,720**
**279**
**-**
**300**
**-**
**160**
**85**
**6,158**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,158**
**128**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Subscriptions / donations from members|**2,081**|||||**-**| |Share interest from Corwen Electricity|**433**|||||**-**| |Gift Aid|**412**|||||**-**| |Grant from Sustainable Dev. fund|**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**2,926**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |
1. Printing, postage,stationary|**382**|||||**-**| |2. Event expenses|**232**|||||**-**| |3. Admin assistant|**1,360**|||||**-**| |4. Web hosting& IT fees|**279**|||||**-**| |5. Public liabilityinsurance|**-**|||||**-**| |6. Prizes,donations, projects|**300**|||||**-**| |7. Translation|**-**|||||**-**| |8. Membershipof other organisations|**160**|||||**-**| |9. Miscellaneous|**85**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**2,798**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| ||**128**|**-**|**-**|**128**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**11,659**|**625**|**-**|**12,284**||**-**| ||**11,787**|**625**|**-**|**12,412**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 02/02/2026 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,788**
**625**
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**funds**
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Martyn Holland
Nick Ward|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| |||Martyn Holland|30/01/2026| |||Nick Ward|30/01/2026| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 02/02/2026 2