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Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements For the year ending 31 March 2024

Contents

Trustees Report...........................................................................................................................2 Independent Examiner’s Report ...............................................................................................22 Statement of Financial Activity..................................................................................................23 Balance Sheet..............................................................................................................................24 Notes to Financial Statements...................................................................................................25

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Bethnal Green Nature Reserve 2024 Annual Report

The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust (BGNRT) was officially registered as a charity (1166648) in April 2016. The objectives of the charity are to promote, for public benefit, the preservation and care of the flora, fauna, and fungi of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve as a site of ecological, educational, and cultural interest—both locally and beyond. Our work focuses on enhancing biodiversity, fostering learning, improving health, supporting the arts, encouraging participation, and facilitating research.

Governance

Trustees : Sajida Malik (Chair), Gwen Wright (Treasurer), Bryony Harris (Secretary), Adelaide Bannerman, Oliver Grazebrook.

The 2024 site team included:

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We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the incredible volunteers who show up each week to care for the Reserve and one another. Your dedication is foundational for the site to thrive ecologically and socially.

Charitable Objectives and Policy Review

In 2023 and early 2024, the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve began an internal review of its governance structures and policies with the generous support of Law Works and the legal team at Inmarsat.

This review has focused on making policies more accessible by simplifying language and removing outdated systems that no longer serve our evolving organisation. The Board and site team has also developed new policies, including an anti-racism policy, fundraising and recruitment policies, service-level agreements for site partner organisations, and an expanded keyholder handbook. To ensure transparency, all governing documents are published on the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve website.

Additionally, the Board reassessed the Reserve’s constitution and charitable objectives. Proposed updates include emphasising our commitment to community health, biodiversity, and advocating for the non-human populations that depend on the Reserve—flora, fungi, and fauna. Key changes to governance include limiting Trustees to two terms of service and enhancing the vetting and recruitment process. The Board can also now agree to appoint Trustees at any meeting throughout the year rather than just at the AGM as before. These updates were approved by the Trustees at the 2023 AGM (and again by written resolution in 2024) and ratified by the Charity Commission in 2024.

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Site Manager’s Report By Edward Simpson

Volunteers

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve is supported by a dedicated group of volunteers. Since January, we have hosted 40 volunteering sessions with an average of 12 participants per session, amounting to approximately 960 volunteer hours.

This year, we introduced a streamlined sign-up process, making it easier for people to volunteer and for us to manage sessions efficiently. A total of 151 new volunteers registered, with many attending multiple sessions. This led to the addition of 27 new site caretakers, who provide essential care for the site outside of formal sessions. Key volunteer achievements this year include:

These are just a few examples of the ongoing efforts by our volunteers to sustain and enhance the Reserve.

Grow Wild Initiative

In April, we received funding from Kew Gardens’ Grow Wild initiative to establish a new hedgerow and pond at the Bethnal Green Ecology Garden (also known as the James Middleton Food Hub).

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This project involved:

These efforts aim to enhance the ecology of the Food Garden and strengthen the connection between it and the Nature Reserve, benefiting both wildlife and the community for years to come.

Future Plans

Looking ahead to 2025, we will continue to build on this year’s work. Key projects include:

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Phytology Medicine Garden

Reflections by Izzy Johnston, Community Gardener in Residence

This has been my inaugural year as Community Gardener in Residence. Since June, we have focused on assessing the garden ecosystem, refining volunteer sessions, and planning a new structure for the Medicine Garden, an Apothecary Shed. Two community planning sessions shaped

our vision for this, repurposing an old writer’s hut that had become disused. Volunteer sessions have increasingly integrated foraging storytelling, and as hands-on activities. We have incorporated more gardening-adjacent activities such as medicine making and wildcrafting. Additionally, I’ve been working on a guide to help visitors identify herbs and use the Medicine Garden independently.

Achievements in 2024

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Aspirations for 2025

The site team role generously was supported by Trustshouse & Awards for All.

Education & Learning

Our Partners and Programmes

In 2024, we were proud to collaborate with Rangers Kindergarten, Stephen Hawking School, and Columbia Road Primary School. In addition, we hosted our own outdoor learning sessions under the banner of Forest Fridays throughout the year.

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Forest Fridays

by Ingrid Chen

Forest Friday is a free, after-school nature club for families with school-aged children. Sessions run every Friday during term time, weather permitting, from 4pm - 5:30pm. We welcome families rain or shine, except in cases of thunder, lightning, or high winds. Our aim is to introduce families to the Nature Reserve, offering opportunities to learn about, care for, and enjoy the woodland. This engagement fosters a sense of connection with nature and promotes the well-being benefits of spending time outdoors.

Our approach is not a typical Forest School model—if such a thing exists. Instead, we think of children and their families as budding ecologists and site caretakers. Activities often involve helping the reserve thrive, such as watering the fungi farm ( Mycelium Alley ), spreading woodchip to benefit invertebrates, or learning the names of the many trees living in our woodlands. Participants are always given a choice in line with Forest School principals, with plenty of time for games and free play. Our philosophy is simple: by looking after the woods, we ensure everyone can enjoy them.

2024 Highlights

We began the year with a February Fun Day during the half-term holiday, funded by the final part of the Postcode Society Trust grant and additional support from the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust (BGNRT). From Easter onwards, we resumed the regular after-school format, supplemented by a holiday taster day and participation in multiple community events locally. These included activities within the Reserve, on Middleton Green, and at the Food Growing Hub, creating a kind of “mini Forest Friday roadshow.”

A particularly memorable highlight was our Halloween event, which proved very popular with local families—a wonderful way to mark the shorter days and beginning of winter.

We continue to focus on engaging local families, especially those from nearby estates, and

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are refining our approach to best serve residents’ needs. Running sessions as a drop-in club has been particularly effective, offering flexibility that better suits family schedules. To support this model, we typically have a team of three staff drawn from a pool of four regular Forest School Leaders. In addition, we were delighted to host a visiting Forest School Leader (Eden, who runs Forest School in Hackney) and hope to organise a reciprocal visit soon. One of our regular parents is currently training to become a Forest School Leader, and we look forward to potentially welcoming her into our team in 2025.

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In August, we received exciting news: funding from Children in Need and the Skinners’ Foundation will support our work for the next three years. This has enabled us to undertake strategic planning and continue expanding our reach locally.

This autumn has been particularly busy, with 64 children and four babies or toddlers attending Forest Friday . Almost half were new participants this term. After the clocks go back, we pause our after-school sessions due to the early darkness, instead joining the Nature Reserve’s Saturday openings before closing for winter in December.

We are ever grateful to the Trustees, our site team, and our dedicated volunteers, who make it possible to welcome local families to the Reserve.

Forest Friday is generously supported by Postcode Society Trust, Children In Need, Skinners Foundation & London Brough of Tower Hamlets.

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Partner Highlights

Stephen Hawking School holds outdoor learning sessions at the Nature Reserve every Wednesday from 9am to 1pm. The school, located just across the road, provides education for children aged 2–11 with profound, multiple, and severe learning, health, and care needs. In 2024, the school introduced weekly nature connection sessions, focusing on growing and caring for herbs and vegetables in our new food garden—the Bethnal Green Ecology Garden . The garden includes a bespoke raised bed, making it accessible to wheelchair and mobility device users. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Stephen Hawking School in 2025.

Rangers Kindergarten

By Jo Gilks

Rangers Kindergarten, a local early year’s education provider specialising in outdoor learning for children aged 2–8, runs sessions every Monday and Tuesday from 9am to 2pm at the Reserve. These sessions aim to foster a deep connection to the natural world and build children’s confidence in outdoor environments.

Highlights of 2024

This year has been an exciting one. We’ve bid farewell to children moving on to school or relocating, while also welcoming new participants, including home-educated children. Our focus remains on connecting children to the Nature Reserve, its plants, and its non-human inhabitants, encouraging them to grow into stewards of their local environment. One highlight was the continuation of the London Children’s Forest – Forest from Seed project. The children explored different tree species in the Reserve, learning about their features, uses, and ecological roles. They collected seeds, planted them, and cared for them in the medicinal herb garden’s cold frame over winter. In spring, these seedlings were moved to a rodent-proof nursery at Rangers Kindergarten.

This autumn, the trees were transferred to a dedicated nursery bed at the new Bethnal Green Ecology Garden. These saplings will eventually form a new children’s forest,

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benefitting future generations of all species. Through stories, songs, crafts, games, and guided nature exploration, we’ve continued to follow the seasonal “wheel of the year,” helping children understand how various elements of the environment work together. Sustainability has been a recurring theme, with activities such as herbal tea-making, crafting conker soap, and making cherry plum pie and blackberry jam. Looking forward, we are excited to welcome new children, staff, and trainees while nurturing our baby trees until they are ready to be planted in their permanent homes.

Mobile Apothecary

In 2024, the Mobile Apothecary continued to deliver high-quality, plant-based remedies to the residents of Bethnal Green. Our street service operated from 7pm – 8pm on the last Sunday of each month, stationed outside Bethnal Green tube station. We serve alongside our long-term partner Refugee Community Kitchen (RCK) , who provided hot vegetarian meals weekly.

On average, served around 30+ people per session, with 70% of attendees being regular visitors. The consistency of the service enabled locals to build meaningful relationships with both the street service team and the remedies we provide. This year, we offered products such as: Good Skin Balm, Decongestant Rub, Muscle & Joint Rub, Immune Support Vinegar, Cough Syrup, Hand Sanitiser, Epsom Salts Deodorant.

In 2024, we continued to have our products family are formally tested at Oxford Bioscience. This ensures our products do what is says on the tin. This process guides us when describing the benefits or possible risks (counter indicators, potential irritants etc) when enjoying the remedies. All this information is available upon request.

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In addition to the street service, our volunteer team held quarterly medicine-making workshops at a nearby community centre. Many of the fresh herbs used were sourced from the Phytology Medicine Garden and local shops along Bethnal Green Road.

This year, we also organised a visioning day with our core team and extended community to gather feedback and explore ways to evolve the service. The focus remains on creating meaningful connections and fostering mutual care within the neighbourhood. Looking ahead to 2025, the Mobile Apothecary will continue its monthly medicine-making workshops and street distributions, ensuring we meet the community’s needs.

The Mobile Apothecary is generously supported by Trustshouse, Lush, and the Hollybush & Teasdale Tenants & Residents Association.

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Healing Justice London – Art therapy with Roah K

In the summer of 2024 Healing Justice London and Art Psychotherapist, Roah K, for Palestinian, Sudanese, and Congolese Communities + Racialised Allies. The sessions engaged in communal artmaking, embodiment exercises, and creative healing practices to foster connection, sustainable movement building, and honour existence as resistance.

Cultural Programming 2024

Our cultural programme evolved significantly in 2024, with the Board shaping a decentralised system for selecting and commissioning activities at the Reserve. This process prioritises projects that are useful and aligned with the Reserve’s values and charitable objectives: uplifting and celebrating ecology, intergenerational learning, and community health. Here are some highlights from the year:

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Kupala Festival x ЗБІРКА x ШЩЦ

On 23 June 2024, the Kupala Festival returned to the Reserve for its fifth year, celebrating midsummer and nature’s peak flourishing. Inspired by pre-Christian traditions observed in Northern and Eastern Europe, this year’s event was co-curated with ЗБІРКА and ШЩЦ , featuring participatory art workshops and music. The festival welcomed over 300 attendees, with all tick sale profits donated to SEEDS for Ukraine , a charity supporting families in Ukraine to grow food in their private gardens.

Programme Highlights :

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A Dance of Death – Obon Performance

In honour of Obon, the Japanese ceremony commemorating ancestral spirits, Masumi Saito and Nissa Nishikawa activated the Reserve with a dance performance exploring the connection between soil, sky, and the poetic body. The evening concluded with tea from the medicinal garden and a fireside dialogue with the artists.

Qi Gong with Orakle Apothecary (aka bones tan jones)

Throughout autumn and winter, bones tan jones facilitated accessible Qi Gong sessions beneath the Reserve’s canopy. Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese energy movement practice, suitable for all abilities and bodies. These sessions introduced foundational movements, theories, and concepts, focusing on the soft strength and playful movements central to Qi Gong’s health benefits. bones, an artist, composer, and vocalist of mixed Chinese, Malaysian and Welsh heritage, has been facilitating radical martial arts spaces since 2016 and studying Qi Gong since 2018.

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Community Ecologies Programme

The 2024 Community Ecologies Programme was a stakeholder-led initiative of weekly experimental walks, talks, and workshops exploring the Reserve. Designed and led by those who care for the space, the programme engaged participants with themes such as:

These sessions were free and advertised via DIY posters across our neighbouring estates. In 2025, we aim to expand on this success by holding community-led sessions every Saturday from May to December, building a cultural programme based in local knowledge, skill exchange and curiosity.

The Community Ecologies programme is generously supported Chapman Trust & The Nineveh Trust.

2024 Partner Organisations

Misery

Over 2024, misery continued a residency at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, offering the beloved programme: ‘misery medicine: plant magic’ . misery is a mental health community and sober rave based in London and led by and for queer, trans, intersex, black people and people of colour (QTIBPOC).

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Through a series of outdoor, communal and nature-centred gatherings for QTIBPOC, participants came together at the Reserve, connected with each other and the natural world.

misery hosted monthly sessions between February - May, and then again from September - December. Each session centred on honesty, rest, collaboration and conversations about our ecologies, herbs and food, all through shared cultural wisdoms and queerness.

Across the year, misery offered a huge range of activities at the gatherings. These included: communal cooking, bread-making, feasting, weaving, eco-poetry, singing, incense-making and painting with plant dyes. The programme also continued to respond to land-based colonial genocides across the world in Palestine, Sudan.

Photos courtesy of Misery.

Praxis

Praxis is an award-winning human rights charity that has been advocating for migrant rights since 1983. They provide advice, support, and campaign for migrants and refugees in the UK to live with safety, dignity, and respect.

From summer 2024, Praxis hosted weekly health and wellbeing sessions for their men’s group, The GIANTS , within the Nature Reserve. The Reserve provided a peaceful and safe

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space for participants to build social connections while engaging with the medicine garden and wider site ecologies.

Mission Practice

In 2024, our local GP surgery, Mission Practice , continued its weekly site care sessions, which included watering the medicine garden and maintaining the mushroom farm. Facilitated by the Social Prescribing team, these activities encouraged staff to nurture both the Nature Reserve and one another during the warmer months.

In September 2024, Mission Practice began a residency in the newly established Bethnal Green Ecology Garden. This initiative provides a dedicated food-growing space for patients experiencing isolation, fostering community connection and wellbeing through growing food in a thriving community garden.

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Bethnal Green Ecology Garden (formerly James Middleton House Food Hub)

In 2023, the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve initiated a community consultation to establish a food-growing hub opposite the Nature Reserve. This collaborative project with the Hollybush & Teesdale Tenants and Residents Association (TRA) aims to provide residents with space and resources to grow food locally while promoting ecologically diverse land care practices. The site, located at Middleton and Clarkson Streets, was granted a five-year lease by Tower Hamlets Homes. Development continues with support from the TRA and dedicated volunteers.

Project Overview

The Bethnal Green Ecology Garden (BGEG) champions urban ecology, community food growing, and biodiversity. It addresses critical issues such as food security, habitat loss, and social disconnection with the natural world. Guided by the Tower Hamlets Biodiversity Action Plan, the garden incorporates wilding initiatives to enhance biodiversity, pest control, and ecological balance while creating a thriving green space for residents and wildlife.

Summary of Activities

Stage 1: Site Preparation (May–June 2024)

The site was cleared of old planters, fences, and rubbish. Residents contributed to the design, ensuring the garden met community needs and accessibility standards.

Stage 2: Infrastructure Development

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Twenty-five raised beds were constructed—one per household, with additional communal beds for schools and community groups. A garden handbook and community agreement outlined shared guidelines, while weekly onboarding sessions introduced new growers to the space.

Stage 3: Ecology and Biodiversity Enhancements

Features such as ponds, swales, glasshouses, bird boxes, and hedgerows were incorporated to create habitats for wildlife. Scheduled for completion by winter 2024/25, these efforts aim to boost biodiversity and encourage ecological engagement among residents.

Achievements

The project has transformed a neglected site into a vibrant community garden, now a hub for community learning, recreation, and social connection. Residents of all ages, from children to seniors, actively participate in maintaining and enjoying the space. The initiative has fostered pride, community spirit, and an inclusive environment while supporting urban biodiversity.

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Community Events

Looking Ahead

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As the project nears completion, the Bethnal Green Ecology Garden is set to become a sustainable urban green space, supporting biodiversity while strengthening community connections. It serves as a model for future urban ecology initiatives.

This project was generously supported by the Mayor of London, Groundwork, Tower Hamlets (formerly Tower Hamlets Homes), London Catalyst, Rank Foundation, RBG Kew & Benefactor Group.

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve – Aims & Aspirations 2025

1. Develop a Site Management Plan

Co-design a management plan for both the Nature Reserve and Food Garden, prioritising local community access, wellbeing and biodiversity in every decision.

  1. Better understand the impacts of climate change locally

  2. Foster greater collective understanding of how climate change will affect our communities’ mental and physical health.

3. Enhance Learning and Cultural Programmes

Create and refine learning and cultural initiatives that are relevant and meaningful for local residents, emphasising the Reserve’s role as a vital intergenerational community asset.

Trustees' Report for the Financial Year Ending 2023/2024

This report was approved by the Trustees at the 2024 Annual General Meeting held on 7th December 2024 and signed by:

Sajida Malik

Chair, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust Charity No. 1166648

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Independent Examiner’s report to the Trustees of Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust I report to the Trustees on my examination of the accounts of Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust (the Charity) for the year ended 31 March 2024.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the Trustees of the Charity (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (the 2006 Act).

Having satisfied myself that the financial statements of the Charity are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of the Charity’s financial statements carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act). In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

  2. financial statements do not accord with those records; or

  3. the financial statements do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

  4. the financial statements have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Hakim Oreagba

4 Hertford Walk London DA17 5JW

3 December 2024

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Charity Name: Bethnal Green CharityNo 1166648
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Annual accounts for theperiod
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Note 1 Basis of preparation

1.1 Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.

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The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102.*

1.2 Going concern

If there are material uncertainties related to events or conditions that cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, please provide the following details or state "Not applicable", if appropriate:

An explanation as to those factors that The trustees are of the view that unrestricted reserves to support the conclusion that the charity is a fund charitable activities are adequate to continue in going concern; operational existence for the foreseeable future and is therefore a going concern

1.3 Change of accounting policy

The accounts present a true and fair view and no changes have been made to the accounting policies adopted in note { }.

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1.4 Changes to accounting estimates

No changes to accounting estimates have occurred in the reporting period (3.46 FRS102 SO RP).

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1.5 Material prior year errors

No material prior year error have been identified in the reporting period (3.47 FRS102 SO RP).

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Note 2 Accounting policies

2.2 INCOME

Recognition of income
Grants with performance
conditions
2.4 ASSET S
2.3 EXPENDIT URE AND LIABILIT IES
Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost
categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, eg allocating property
costs by floor areas, or per capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by
their usage.
Support costs have been allocated between governance costs and other support.
Governance costs comprise all costs involving public accountability of the charity and
its compliance with regulation and good practice.
The charity has creditors which are measured at settlement amounts less any trade
discounts
Support costs
Where there are no conditions attaching to the grant that enables the donor charity to
realistically avoid the commitment, a liability for the full funding obligation must be
recognised.
The charity has incurred expenditure on support costs.
Liability recognition
Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or
constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources and the amount of
the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.
Grants payable without
performance conditions
Provisions for liabilities
A liability is measured on recognition at its historical cost and then subsequently
measured at the best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation at the
reporting date
Basic financial
instruments
Governance and
support costs
Creditors
In the case of performance related grants, income must only be recognised to the
extent that the charity has provided the specified goods or services as entitlement to
the grant only occurs when the performance related conditions are met (5.16 FRS 102
SO RP).
Debtors
Offsetting
Grants and donations
Deferred income
No material item of deferred income has been included in the accounts.
Government grants
The charity has received government grants in the reporting period
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:
!the charity becomes entitled to the resources;
!it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources;
!the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the general income
recognition criteria are met (5.10 to 5.12 FRS102 SO RP).
There has been no offsetting of assets and liabilities, or income and expenses, unless
required or permitted by the FRS 102 SO RP or FRS 102.
The charity accounts for basic financial instruments on initial recognition as per
paragraph 10.7 FRS102 SO RP. Subsequent measurement is as per paragraphs
11.17 to 11.19, FRS102 SO RP.
Where the charity gives a grant with conditions for its payment being a specific level
of service or output to be provided, such grants are only recognised in the SoFA once
the recipient of the grant has provided the specified service or output.
Debtors (including trade debtors and loans receivable) are measured on initial
recognition at settlement amount after any trade discounts or amount advanced by
the charity. Subsequently, they are measured at the cash or other consideration
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Note 3 Income

Note 3 Income
Analysis of income Unrestricte
d funds
Restricted
income
funds
Endowmen
t funds
Total funds
Prior year
£
£
Donations
and
legacies:		 Donations and gifts - - - - -
General grants provided by
government/other charities		 - 36,178 - 36,178 65,658
Total - 36,178 - 36,178 65,658
Charitable
activ ities:
Charitable activities 5,743 - - 5,743 5,088
Donations 2,724 - - 2,724 -
Total 8,467 - - 8,467 5,088
Total - - - - -
TO TAL INCO ME 8,467 36,178 - 44,645 70,746

Note 4 Expenditure

Note 4 Expenditure
Analysis
Expenditure on charitable activ ities:		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
income
funds
Total funds
Unrestricte
d funds
Restricted
income
funds
Total funds
£
This year
Last year
Freelance Fees - - - - - -
Professional fees 918 - 918 300 - 300
Project Costs 6,964 34,991 41,955 32,833 58,650 91,483
O ther - Materials - -
Total expenditure on charitable
activ ities		 7,882 34,991 42,873 33,133 58,650 91,783
Other
Insurance 1,170 - 1,170 1,170 - 1,170
Bank Charges 60 60 72 72
Maintenance 1,137 1,137 972 972
- -
Total other expenditure 2,367 - 2,367 2,214 - 2,214
TOTAL EXPENDITURE 10,249 34,991 45,240 35,347 58,650 93,997

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Note 5 Debtors and prepayments

5.1 Analysis of debtors

Trade debtors
Prepayments and accrued income		 This year
£		 Last year
£
- -
100.0 4,900.0
O ther debtors - -
Total 100.0 4,900.0

Note 6 Creditors and accruals

6.1 Analysis of creditors

6.1 Analysis of creditors
Amounts falling due
within one year		 Amounts falling due
after more than one year
Accruals and deferred income This year
£		 Last year
£		 This year
£		 Last year
£
40,435 25,936 - -
Total 40,435 25,936 - -

6.2 Deferred income

6.2 Deferred income
Please explain the reasons why income is
deferred.		 This year Last year
£15,635 - Groundwork
£5,000 - London Catalyst
£10,000 - Garfield Weston
£2,000 - Chapman Trust
£4,800 - Tower Hamlet
Homes
£3,000 - Rank Foundation		 £10,000 from Charities
Trust
£15,635 - Groundwork
Movement in deferred income account
Balance at the start of the reporting period
Amounts added in current period
Amounts released to income from prev ious periods		 This year
£		 Last year
£
25,636 30,000
24,799 15,636
(10,000) (20,000)
Balance at the end of the reporting period 40,435 25,636

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Note 7 Cash at bank and in hand

Note 7 Cash at bank and in hand
Cash at bank and on hand Thisyear Lastyear
£ £
71,101 51,997
Total 71,101 51,997

Note 8 Charity funds

Note 8 Charity funds Note 8 Charity funds Note 8 Charity funds Note 8 Charity funds Note 8 Charity funds Note 8 Charity funds Note 8 Charity funds Note 8 Charity funds
8.1 Details of material funds held and movements during the CURRENT reporting period
Fund names Type PE,
EE R or
**UR ***		 Purpose and
Restrictions		 Fund
balances
brought
forward		 Income Expenditure Transfers Fund
balances
carried
forward
£ £ £ £ £
Charities Trust R E cclesiasticalAward - 10,000 (3,700) 6,300
Awards for All R E cology/Garden 1,892 9,000 (3,746) - 7,146
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation R - 8,000 (4,680) - 3,320
Tower Hill Trust R O utdoor Classroom - 4,900 (899) - 4,001
Timberland R National Park 2,400 4,278 (6,678) - -
ArtsCouncil E ngland R We Speak in Tongues 2,237 - (2,237) - -
Raines Foundation R Forest Friday 819 - (819) - -
Postcode Society R Forest Friday 13,656 - (12,232) - 1,424
SHE D UR Myceliumproject 1,859 - - 1,859
Foyle Foundation UR Gardenproject 2,539 - (2,539) -
O ther unrestricted income UR Charitable activities 1,085 8,467 (3,236) 6,316
TRIO DO S BANK UK UR Shed 4,474 - (4,474) -
-
Total Funds as per balance sheet 30,961
 44,645 (45,240) - 30,366
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Note 27 Charity funds

Note 27 Charity funds Note 27 Charity funds Note 27 Charity funds Note 27 Charity funds Note 27 Charity funds Note 27 Charity funds Note 27 Charity funds Note 27 Charity funds
8.2 Details of material funds held and movements during the PREVIOUS reporting period
Fund names Type PE, EE
**R or UR ***
Purpose and
Restrictions		 Fund
balances
brought
forward
£		 Income
£		 Expenditure
£		 Transfers
£		 Fund
balances
carried
forward
£
Timberland R 4,800 (2,400) - 2,400
ArtsCouncil E ngland R 22,476 3,798 (24,037) - 2,237
Raines Foundation R 10,000 (9,181) - 819
Awards for All R Gardenproject 7,203 10,000 (15,311) 1,892
NinevehTrust R 1,702 - (1,702) -
Postcode Society R 932 17,060 (4,336) 13,656
Cityof London R 1,683 (1,683) -
SHE D UR Myceliumproject 15,000 (13,141) - 1,859
Foyle Foundation UR Gardenproject 5,000 (2,461) - 2,539
O ther unrestricted income UR Charitable activities 2,114 5,088 (6,117) - 1,085
TRIO DO S BANK UK UR Shed 18,102 (13,628) - 4,474
Other funds (balancing figure) N/a N/a - - - - -
Total Funds as per balance sheet 54,212 70,746 (93,997) - 30,961
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