## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**From**|06|Apr|2024|**To**|05
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Kescrg Canal Restoration Group|| ||
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Elizabeth Williamson|||| ||Mark Richardson|||| ||Edward Walker||To 19thJan 2025|| ||Ian Williamson||To 19thJan 2025|| ||Stephen Davis|||| ||Adrian Crow|||| ||Robert Silverwood||From 19thJan 2025|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**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** 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 ## **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 30 individuals over the year, with each working party attracting up to 15 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. March **2012** **TAR** 2 In this period KESCRG organised 6 weekend working parties and provided the leadership team for a Waterway Recovery Group summer week-long Canal Camp. We also assisted the Wey and Arun Canal Trust with a publicity stand at the Surrey Hills Wood Fair to raise public awareness of the Canal Restoration activity in their local area. KESCRG volunteers contributed to the restoration objectives of the following partner charities: - The Wey and Arun Canal Trust (charity 265331) - • The Waterway Recovery Group, a subsidiary of The Inland Waterways Association (charity 212342) **Summary of the main** Waterways Association (charity 212342) **activities undertaken for the** • The Cotswold Canals Trust (charity 269721) • **public benefit in relation to** The Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Trust (charity 702429) **these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** The work parties contributed to 5 projects on 3 different navigations, with **had regard to the guidance** the objective of furthering the restoration and maintenance of the canals, **issued by the Charity** providing long-term improved environmental and recreational resources **Commission on public** for the general public. **benefit)** We confirm the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: Over the course of the reporting period KESCRG coordinated and contributed to 11 weekend working parties, and a week-long summer Canal Camp working holiday on behalf of the Waterway Recovery Group. Volunteer engagement for weekends is typically 10-15 volunteers and drawing from a pool of around 30 individuals. In total over the year we have provided around 2500 volunteer-hours to the various canal restoration projects. - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** The Working parties were as follows: |•|13/14thApril 2024 – Wey and Arun Canal. Bank protection work| |---|---| ||above Southlands lock| |•|11/12thMay 2024 – Cotswold Canals, brick work at Dock Lock| ||and John Robinson lock.| |•|8th/9thJune 2024 – Cotwold Canals, Weymoor bridge stream| ||diversion and preparations for WRG summer camp| |•|7th– 14thJuly 2024 – Wey and Arun Canal, WRG Summer camp.| ||Towpath and Bridleway upgrade and restoration at Bonfire| ||Hanger| |•|17th/18thAugust 2024 - Wey and Arun Canal, with NWPG and| ||local volunteers, completing works on Bonfire Handler towpath| |•|7th– 9thSept 2024 – Cotswold Canals, Weymoor bridge long| ||weekend with LondonWRG casting concrete walls for aqueduct| ||trough over brook| |•|5th/6thOctober 2024 – Cotswold Canals, removing scaffolding| ||from Blunder Lock and relocating to Pike Lock west of Stroud| |•|2nd/3rdNovember 2024 – Wey and Arun, joint with London WRG &| ||WRG Forestry, felling and clearing trees affected by Ash Dieback| ||below Brewhurst Lock| |•|7th/ 8thDecember 2024 – Wey and Arun, joint with London WRG| ||& WRG Forestry, felling and clearing trees affected by Ash| ||Dieback below Brewhurst Lock| |•|25th/26thJanuary 2025 – Cotswold Canals, joint with London| ||WRG & Forestry, clearing scrub on the offside from Newtown to| ||Pike locks west of Stroud| |•|1st/2ndMarch 2025 – Cotswold Canals, carpark gabions at Pike| ||Lock and scrub clearance on the offside at Blunder lock| |•|5th/6thApril 2025 – Lichfield and Hatherton Canals, joint with| ||London WRG, towpath work| March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the** KESCRG maintains a reserve sufficient to cover insurance for its **charity’s policy on reserves** 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); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; KESCRG’s principal sources of funding for this period were contributions towards subsistence from volunteers on working parties, and a contribution from our associated 100 club. KESCRG’s principal out going is the Insurance required to support our activities on construction sites and to protect our equipment, and providing food for our volunteers on dig weekends. - 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)** Stephen Davis Elizabeth Williamson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Trustee Trustee **Date** 30 Nov 2025 March **2012** **TAR** 5 |**Kescrg**
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**from**|6-Apr-24|**To**|5-Apr-25| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |Donations|||**3**||**-**|||**-**|||**3**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |100 Club|||**800**||**-**|||**-**|||**800**|| |Contibutions from volunteers towards food costs|||**803**||**-**|||**-**|||**803**|| |Sale of assets|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||**1,606**||**-**|||**-**|||**1,606**|| |||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||||||||| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||||| ||**_Total receipts_ **||**1,606**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,606**|| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||| |Food and refreshments for volunteers|||**667**||**-**|||**-**|||**667**|| |Insurance|||**821**||**-**|||**-**|||**821**|| |Fuel|||**80**||**-**|||**-**|||**80**|| |Tools and equipment|||**32**||**-**|||**-**|||**32**|| |Subscriptions|||**73**||**-**|||**-**|||**73**|| |First Aid|||**129**||**-**|||**-**|||**129**|| |Publicityand website|||**134**||**-**|||**-**|||**134**|| |Other|||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_ **||**1,936**||**-**|||**-**|||**1,936**|| |**A4**|**Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_ **||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||| ||**_Total payments_ **||**1,936**||**-**||**-**|||**1,936**|| ||||||||||||| ||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**- 330**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**330**|| |**A5**|**Transfers between funds**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|| |**A6**|**Cash funds last year end**||**7,690**||**-**||**-**|||**7,690**|| ||**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**7,360**||**-**||**-**|||**7,360**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
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