## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From** 06 Apr 2020 **To** 05 Apr 2021 ## Section A Reference and administration details |**Charity name**
**Other names charity is known by**
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**Charity's principal address**|
KESCRG|
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Kescrg Canal Restoration Group|| ||
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||RoySutton|||| ||Mark Richardson|||| ||Edward Walker|||| ||Ian Williamson|||| ||Stephen Davis|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address** ## **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 - (eg. trust deed, constitution) > [Constitution ] How the charity is constituted[Charitably Incorporated Organisation ] - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the (eg. appointed by, elected by) charity trustees - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Organisation** : KESCRG exists to coordinate volunteer working parties to aid Canal restoration projects generally but not exclusively around the south of England. These working parties run broadly one weekend a month. The working parties are organised by the KESCRG working Committee, drawn from the body of volunteers, which comprises both trustees and nontrustees. Our body of volunteers is around 40 individuals over the year, with each working party attracting 10-20 people. ## **Relationships:** KESCRG works closely other canal charities and trusts to coordinate and identify opportunities to contribute voluntary effort to suitable restoration projects. ## **Risks:** KESCRG volunteers work on construction sites, consequently KESCRG operates a full Health and Safety Policy including Risk Assessments and Method Statements covering our operations. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To promote the restoration, conservation, maintenance and protection of **Summary of the objects of the** canals and waterways within the UK for the use and benefit of the public **charity set out in its** in particular but not exclusively through the provision of work parties and **governing document** voluntary labour to undertake physical restoration and maintenance in conjunction with waterways societies and other organisations. **TAR** March **2012** 2 In this period KESCRG were unable to organise any weekend working parties due to the Covid-19 situation. We were able to organise a single day in December working with the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust (charity 2267719), maintaining the canal towpath as a public amenity in the Wantage area. We confirm the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. **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)** Due to the Covid-19 lockdown, Kescrg were unable to run any residential working parties during the reporting period. We were able to organise a single day on the Wilts and Berks canal in December 2020, installing a safety fence alongside a collapsing wharf wall on the towpath to improve the safety of the area for the general public. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** The Working party was as follows: 5[th] December 2020, Fence installation near Wantage on the Wilts and Berks canal to protect members of the public walking the towpath from a collapsing wharf wall. . **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** ## **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** KESCRG maintains a reserve sufficient to cover insurance for its operations for 1 year **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **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); KESCRG’s principal sources of funding for this period was a contribution from the 100 Club associated with the group. KESCRG’s principal out going is the Insurance required to support our activities on construction sites and to protect our equipment. - 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** ## **Section G Declaration** **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 Williamson Edward Walker **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Trustee ] Trustee **Date** 28th September 2021 **TAR** March **2012** 5 |**Kescrg**|||**1165205**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|06-Apr-20|**To**|05-Apr-21|| **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** |Donations||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |IWA raffle - share ofproceeds||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||| |100 Club||**2,000**||**-**|||**-**|||**2,000**||| |Contibutions from volunteers towards food
costs||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,737**| |Sale of assets||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,050**| |||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_||**2,000**||**-**|||**-**|||**2,000**||**2,787**| |||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||| |**(see table).**||||||||||||| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| ||**_Total receipts_**|**2,000**|||**-**|||**-**||**2,000**||**2,787**| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||| |Food and refreshments for volunteers||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,282**| |Insurance||**749**||**-**|||**-**|||**749**||**735**| |Fuel||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**134**| |Tools and equipment||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**325**| |Subscriptions||**54**||**-**|||**-**|||**54**||**54**| |Goodspurchased for|resale|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||| |Publicityand website||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**79**| |Other||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**_Sub total_ **|**803**||**-**|||**-**|||**803**||**2,609**| |||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||| |**purchases, (see**|**table)**|||||||||||| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| ||**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**||**803**|||**-**|||**-**||**803**||**2,609**| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**1,197**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,197**||**178**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**7,770**|||**-**||**-**|||**7,770**||**7,592**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**||**8,967**|||**-**|||**-**||**8,967**||**7,770**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 19/10/2021 1 ## **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**
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Stephen Davis|**Endowment**
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