Friends of Barnet Environment Centre CIO Charity no. 1165515
Annual Report: September 2021 - August 2022
The aim of the Friends of Barnet Environment Centre is to advance the education of school age children and of the public in natural history and nature conservation, welcoming a wide diversity of visitors and enabling them to gain a positive attitude, lasting interest in and an appreciation of the natural environment. We also aim to maintain and develop the ecological and educational value of the Byng Road nature reserve in Barnet.
2021/2022 has been an extremely busy year. Our educational work has ‘taken off’ again and we have welcomed about 1400 school age children to the site to carry out National curriculum, GCSE, BTEC and A Level work. We were fully booked for the summer term 2022 and we already have bookings for summer term 2023 as well as for Autumn 2022. We appointed Charlotte Ellinas as our new Environmental Education Manager in March to teach on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, while Robyn Stern covered Thursdays. We were also very fortunate to engage the services of Mel Goodwin, a recently retired teacher, to cover any days Charlotte and Robyn were unable to manage. Following a plea locally for volunteers to help with setting up and clearing up on teaching days, we have welcomed several new volunteers to this team and we would like to thank all of them for their hard work ~~.~~
As usual, our excellent volunteers have kept the Nature Reserve safe and looking good for all our visitors and several major projects have been completed. Our Monday afternoon volunteer working party continued throughout the pandemic and we have recently restarted our first Sunday of the month working party and we continued with our occasional Make A Difference Days, so the Reserve has been kept tidy and in very good condition. The new chestnut fence has been put in along the south path beside the meadow, work has started on the area immediately north of the service yard and work has also started on the covered workshop; the large water butt has been in place for some months now and has proved invaluable for replenishing the teaching ponds. The Tree Trail is now complete and was widely used at our July Open Afternoon. A raised bed has been set up by the pollinator patch and this is part of the Sensory Trail. The attenuation ponds have been drained but we are waiting for permission from LBB to fill them in and plant the small orchard and flower meadow.
We held a very successful Open Day in July, with tours of the new Tree Trail, activities for children and teas and cakes. Over 200 people attended and our series of ‘mini Open Afternoons’ attracted a further 150 visitors. We held Open House in September 2021 and June 2022; over 300 people looked around the site and many leaflets were distributed. So, all in all, there has been the start of a good recovery but, as ever, we are not ‘resting on our laurels’ and the next year is likely to be at least as busy as this one. Keep an eye on our website, including an Autumn Open Afternoon, half term activities for children and our ever popular Quiz evening in early February, 2023. We look forward to seeing members of our local community at some of these activities and thank them for continued support.
Friends of Barnet Environment Centre charity no 1165515 www.fobec.org.uk info@fobec.org.uk www.facebook.com/barnetenvironmentcentre
| fncome&Expe | nditureAcc | ountfortheYe | arto31Ma | reh202 | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urreshicted | Restricted | Year | ended | Yearended | |
| Education | 31143120223u03t202r | ||||
| Projects | |||||
| f, | f | f | f | ||
| INCOME | |||||
| TheHadley Trust | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||
| SchoolvisitsCentre-led | 5,340 | 5,340 | 72 | ||
| Memberships | 1,066 | 1,066 | 690 | ||
| Events/Fundraising | 153 | 153 | |||
| Donations | 3,459 | 3,459 | 301 | ||
| GifrAid | 196 | 196 | 132 | ||
| Interestinsavings acc | 6 | 6 | ll | ||
| CompensationNatWest | 440 | 440 | |||
| 100660 | 10,000 | 20,660 | n,zle | ||
| EXPENDITURE | |||||
| Insurance | 408 | 408 | 351 | ||
| Reserve maintenance | 1,918 | 1,919 | 723 | ||
| Buildingmaintenance | 35 | 35 | |||
| Licence&Service fee | 584 | 584 | 2,201 | ||
| Office,photocopying&printing | 70 | 70 | 46 | ||
| Vol.support&fraining | 223 | 223 | 21 | ||
| Events/Fundraising | |||||
| Misc.,publicity,IT,bank fee | 259 | 259 | 65 | ||
| Environmental Education | 2,729 | 2,729 | 8,400 | ||
| Classroom supplies | 170 | ||||
| Phoneforschoolbookings | _u, | 30 | |||
| Schoolrefirud | 495 | ||||
| Totalexpenditure | 2,505 | 3,lU | 62w | 12,508 | |
| NET SURPLUS/(DEFrCrT) | |||||
| FORYEAR | 8,155 | 6,218 |
14,373 | (1.302) |
| 2022 | 2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | f | |||
| CURRENTASSETS | ||||
| Cashfloat | 2l | 21 | ||
| CAFmainbankaccount | 21,795 | 19,929 | ||
| CAFsavingsbankaccotrnt | 38,084 | 7557R | ||
| Fundstransfer:f,12,500frommainaccountto | savings | account | ||
| CURRENTLIABILITMS | ||||
| TOTALASSETS | _____4if3g_ | |||
| REPRESENTEDBY Fundsbrought forward at1stApril2021 |
-:,BgL 4s,528 |
46,830 | ||
| Netsurplusfortheperiodto3lMarch2D22 | 14,372 | (1,302) | ||
| TOTAL | 42q9 | __1129_ | ||
| Note1:Analysisoffunds | Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | |
| Balancebroughtforwardat1Apil212l Netsurplus/(deficit)forthe yearto31March |
2( | 47,248 8,155 |
(1,120) 6,218 |
45,528 14,372 |
| Balancecarriedfona.ardto1Apnl2022 | 55,403 | 4,499 | __*__seBgg_ |