TRANSITION TELFORD AGM CHAIRS REPORT 2021 – 2022
My thanks first of all to my fellow Trustees, Rob, David and Louise for their hard work and keeping me in check. Thanks also to everyone who comes to meetings or events or supports us in any way. A big thank you to our new Secretary, Laura. Our thanks to the Climate Action Hub for all their work with us and we support the vision and need for the Hub.
Also, thanks to Olga Mastela, PhD, Chair for Translation Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow for translating our leaflet into Polish.
We continue to see the effects of climate change and living with a global pandemic and it all makes Transition that much more relevant to me. What we do really matters. The need for a more sustainable world is more important than ever and we want to encourage & promote change – from the grassroots level.
We have tried to move our events around geographically this year to widen our profile. In September 2021 we had our Harvest Local at Wellington, a joint event with the Repair Café: their re-launch, thanks partly to a grant from the Transition network & the Lottery Fund. Very well received and we gave some produce to Wrekin View food bank via Nick Brooke of All Saints church.
February 2022 saw us at our Seed swap, this time at Hollinswood & Randlay neighbourhood centre. Was very popular, as was our display on community gardens and orchards. This year we are promoting community gardens and orchards as one of the actions of the T&W climate change plan.
April saw us at the Town Park as part of the St Georges Day event. Many leaflets given out, seeds given away and conversations were started.
May has seen the return of Grow Local to the GWC, as part of Small Woods Open Day and despite the rain, it was a success. Very many plants came, beyond our wildest expectations!
We continue our connections with the T&W Climate Change Partnership, the Plastic-free initiatives, Street Champions, and Carbon Watchers, the Climate Action Hub.
We support many more initiatives like the Repair Cafe and, the refill shops, the community food stores, the food waste enterprises. We sent seeds to the Street Allotment Guy, Shrewsbury, about 5 schools, another Transition Town.
An especial thanks goes to James as the IT person. He has done sterling work, despite ill health and limited time and energy. Thanks to his attending various meetings (more in his report) we have seen increased networking and raised our profile. Fiona has done a great job of keeping our Instagram account active.
This has directly led to linking up with Darren of Donnington Community Orchard, connecting with Clare from Lovelyland, and Aisha of STUWA.
Our thanks to Rob whose knowledge of energy related topics is far above my own and whose connections to GSX and SCAP are so valuable. I will let his report speak for itself. Also, to James with his continued interest & promotion of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, BikeIsBest. Dutch Cycling Embassy and Bicycle Dutch campaigns, as well as Futurebuild virtual events and podcasts. More info can be found online and on YouTube.
New opportunities have opened up this last year: we were invited to Wrekin college and took an assembly there and hope to continue links forged. We’ve connected with Shropshire Good Food Partnership, and are working with Jenny Roquette to develop a Grow local Initiative: “to develop a network of community gardens and orchards across Telford & Wrekin”.
We’ve also been invited to join a joint bid with Leegomery Community Centre and Small Woods to advance the community garden and establish a nature trail in the locality. More in the general meeting.
The Transition Network as a whole ran Transition Together /Together We Can in May 2022. We recommend watching some of the videos. They are inspiring, informative and show what other Transition Towns are doing. One thing that came across was than the need to respond to the concerns of the community. This means differing thing in different groups. There are too many to list here, but we were inspired to ask, could it work here? Go, listen be inspired yourselves!
They can be found on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzYHfM4__lhk89vbmcElnZnr0odv-GXTi
Our deepest sympathies go to Rachel and family on the death of Geoff, who most of us knew.
His work for Transition over the years has been much valued and we will miss him dearly.
LYNN MANN CHAIR TRANSITION TELFORD
Charity Name No (if any) Transition Town Telford 1166228 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 2021-04-01 2022-03-31
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ - 758 - - - - - - 758 - - - 758 325 146 167 15 36 134 20 - 843 - - - 843 - 85 - 3,491 3,407 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 35 - 119 - 2,500 - - - 2,654 - - - 2,654 - 2,654 - 2,654 - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ - 758 - - - - - - 758 - - - 758 325 181 167 134 36 2,500 134 20 - 3,497 - - - 3,497 - 2,739 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| SundryDonations | - | - - - - - - - - - |
- | 6 | ||
| Donations at events | 758 | 758 | 682 | |||
| Grant for Seed Swap | - | - | 300 | |||
| Grant for Repair Cafe | - | - | 2,500 | |||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
758 | 758 | 3,488 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| - | 758 | 3,488 | ||||
| Advertising | 325 | - - - - - - - - - |
325 | 40 | ||
| Insurance | 146 | 181 | 181 | |||
| MeetingExpenses | 167 | 167 | 144 | |||
| Cost of Events | 15 | 134 | 153 | |||
| Office Costs | 36 | 36 | 37 | |||
| Repair Cafe Project | 2,500 | - | ||||
| Grants Made | 134 | 134 | - | |||
| Equipment | 20 | 20 | - | |||
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| **Sub total ** | 843 | 3,497 | 555 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| 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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| - | 3,497 | 555 | ||||
| - 85 | - 2,654 | - | - 2,739 | 2,933 | ||
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| 3,491 | 2,654 | 6,146 | 3,214 | |||
| 3,407 | - | - | 3,407 | 6,147 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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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 Details Co-op Bank account Petty Cash Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Details |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 3,329 - 78 - - 3,407 - 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 |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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