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||Trustee name|Office (ifany)||Dates acted ifnot for whole<br>ear|Name <br>to a|ofperson (or body) entitled<br>oint trustee<br>ifan|ofperson (or body) entitled<br>oint trustee<br>ifan|
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||Peter Axe|Deputy Chair||||||
||James Berry|Treasurer||||||
||Nigel Blackmore|Membership|Officer|||||
||Stephanie<br>Boyd|Education<br>lead||||||
||Peter Chamberlain|Collection boxes||||||
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|7|Alee Dyson|Chair||||||
|8|Brenda Purkiss|Arts 8 Culture|lead|||||
|10|Jill Trend|Meeting Secretary||||||
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|Summary<br>ofthe main<br>achievements<br>ofthe charity<br>during the year|Summary<br>ofthe main<br>achievements<br>ofthe charity<br>during the year|Summary<br>ofthe main<br>achievements<br>ofthe charity<br>during the year|The financial<br>year 2021-22 was the first for 3years when Rock Road<br>Library was fully open, following<br>the lifting of COVID restrictions.<br>Unfortunately,<br>for most ofthe year interior library meeting spaces<br>throughout<br>Cambridgeshire<br>were capped at 20% of normal occupancy,|
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||||which meant that most of our events had to take place outdoors. As a|
||||result, the library gardens were even more appreciated<br>than ever.|
||||The trustees decided to invest<br>in a two-year<br>planned<br>programme<br>for the|
||||gardens,<br>planting<br>trees and shrubs<br>and creating a functional<br>area with|
||||new compost bins and a shed<br>full oftools. The garden has already|
||||shown<br>improvement<br>from the mulching<br>(for two successive winters)<br>with|
||||large quantities<br>of mushroom<br>compost - this has greatly<br>improved<br>the soil|
||||and will make the plants more resistant<br>to our increasingly<br>dry summers.|
||||A tree to mark the Platinum<br>Jubilee, a Sorbus pseudohupehensis<br>'Pink|
||||Pagoda', has now been planted<br>at the back ofthe garden, as part ofthe|
||||Queen's Green Canopy<br>initiative.<br>It has lovely autumn<br>colour and|
||||stunning<br>pink berries which we hope library visitors as well as the native|
||||wildlife<br>will enjoy!|
||||We commissioned<br>Rowan —an art centre and charity for adults with|
||||learning<br>difficulties<br>-to produce a new notice board, which was installed|
||||next to the front entrance.|
||||Two well attended<br>events took place in the back garden<br>during<br>October|
||||2021 —Apple Day, which was joyous for adults and children<br>alike —and|
||||Halloween<br>"Tricks and Treats", which was dark and spooky with some|
||||amazing<br>costumes.|
||||We celebrated<br>Christmas<br>with a wreath-making<br>workshop,<br>followed<br>by|
||||three decorated<br>Christmas<br>trees to brighten<br>up the front ofthe library and|
||||an illuminated<br>window<br>display,<br>part ofthe Rock Road Advent street|
||||calendar.|
||||May 2022 was a busy month. Our annual<br>Plant Sale and Kid's Fun was|
||||our most successful<br>fund-raising<br>event ever, generating<br>2925. Also that|
||||month,<br>the Friends'<br>textile group created a stunning<br>new wall hanging|
||||titled "Protect our Earth" which<br>is now on display<br>in the Cherry<br>Hinton|
||||library.|
||||Two very different events took place in June. The first was a popular|
||||coffee morning<br>in the library garden to celebrate the Queen's<br>Platinum|
||||Jubilee. The second was Green Queen Edith's: the introduction<br>ofa|
||||series ofevents<br>in collaboration<br>with the Queen<br>Edith's Community|
||||Forum to explore what we can all do to reduce our impact on the climate.|
||||We opened a photographic<br>exhibition<br>in July by local resident Justin|
||||Perkins entitled "The Pandemic<br>Paradox". This showed the strangeness|
||||ofthe pandemic<br>from a very different<br>perspective<br>with, for example,|
||||images of an empty<br>Kings Cross station at what would<br>normally<br>have|
||||been rush hour and empty<br>punts on the river Cam on a spring evening.|
||||We were delighted<br>to welcome Jane Wilson-Howarth<br>as our 4'"Writer-in-|
||||Residence.<br>Her inaugural<br>talk was an illustrated<br>presentation<br>in|
||||September<br>about the years she spent<br>in Nepal. Soon after that she|
||||launched<br>a fun, flash fiction competition<br>on the Halloween<br>theme, open to|
||||writers of all ages.|





|Briefstatement<br>ofthe<br>charity's<br>policy on reserves|Briefstatement<br>ofthe<br>charity's<br>policy on reserves|The charity's<br>policy is to (a) ensure that restricted<br>reserves<br>fully cover<br>future spending<br>commitments<br>and (b) maintain<br>an unrestricted<br>reserve <br>at least f1,000 in order to meet fluctuations<br>in receipts and payments.|of<br>At|
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|||30September 2022 we had accumulated<br>F5,785 in our bank accounts,||
|||partly because of spending<br>delays due to extended<br>library closure and||
|||partly because ofsucces fund raising. The trustees<br>have agreed to<br>budget spending<br>off8,323 in 2022-23, the highest<br>figure for6years. The||
|||main categories are: community<br>garden<br>E2,000, fundraising<br>and events||
|||E2,000, newspapers<br>F1,173,story time E1,000 and interior decoration||
|||F1,000.||
|Details ofany funds|materially|||
|in deficit||||
|Further financial<br>review details||(Optional<br>information)||
|You may choose to <br>additional<br>information,|include<br>where|Our principal sources offunds are grants,<br>fundraising,<br>membership<br>subscriptions<br>and donations.||
|relevant<br>about:<br>~<br>the charity's<br>principal||Over the years, much of our expenditure<br>has "seeded" substantial<br>grants<br>which have transformed<br>community<br>facilities<br>in both the library and its||
|sources offunds|(including|garden.||
|any fundraising);||||
|how expenditure|has|Our day-to day expenditure<br>funds:||
|supported<br>the key objectives<br>ofthe charity;||~<br>Library events (e.g. Film Club, Open Studios, Children's<br>Writing<br>Competition)||
|~<br>investment<br>policy|and|~<br>The provision<br>of newspapers<br>(no longer provided<br>by the County||
|objectives<br>including<br>any||Council)||
|ethical investment<br>adopted.|policy|~<br>Equipment<br>for the library and garden||





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