## ## ## ||||SORP reference|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Summary
the charity
governing||ofthe purposes of
as set out in its
document|Para 1.17|We exist to: 1.promote the conservation,
protection
and improvement
ofthe
environment,
including
Streatham
Common,
the Rookery and the Streatham
Memorial
Garden; 2.advance the education
ofthe| |||||public in the areas ofthe charity's
operation;
3.promote the provision ofsafe facilities,| |||||including
children*s
play areas, nature| |||||reserves, community
events and gardening| |||||spaces,
in the interests of social welfare.| |Summary
ofthe main
activities
in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit,
in particular,
the
activities, projects or services
identified
in the accounts.|||Para 1.17and
1.19|In 2022-23 FoSC's activities supported
the
purposes
above. Activity continued
gradually
to increase following the Covid-19 Pandemic
FoSC continued to work with Streatham
Common
Co-operative
(SCCoop) to raise
funds which have been/will
be spent on| |||||improvements
to the Rookery Garden e.g.| |||||purchase of plants.| |||||Fund raising
included
business
sponsorship.| |||||FoSC also worked
with Lambeth
Council on| |||||the wider Common,
discussing
requirements| |||||for maintenance
and other enhancements.| |||||The centre-piece of FoSC's efforts was| |||||intended
to be Wind Day for kite flying
in| |||||September,
but this was cancelled as a made
of respect following the death of HM the| |||||Queen.| |||||Other events included
open-air Shakespeare| |||||and a fun Dog Show.| |||||FoSC also ran a small number of natural| |||||history walks around the Common. Some| |||||were on its own account and some jointly| |||||with Lambeth
Council.| ||||||Conservation
volunteering
took place. There|Conservation
volunteering
took place. There| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||was work with SCCoop on horticulture
in the|| ||||||Rookery. Conservation
measures
were also|| ||||||undertaken
in the woods e.g. improving|| ||||||paths and efforts to reduce erosion. FoSC|| ||||||members
also contributed
to tree planting|to| ||||||reduce water logging.|| ||||||FoSC continued
to provide a regular|| ||||||newsletter,
Common
Knowledge,
to its|| ||||||members.|| |Statement||confirming||Para 1.18|The Trustees
have had regard to the public|| |whether|the trustees||have||benefit
in the activities above. Promoting|| |had regard||to the guidance|||improvements
to the Common
and Rookery|| |issued|by|the Charity|||is likely to enhance the public's
enjoyment|of| |Commission
on public
benefit.|||||those spaces. The Trustees see public
benefit as central to FoSC's
ur ose.|| |You ma|choose t|o include f|urther statements| |---|---|---|---| ||||SORP referee ce| |Policy on|grant making||Para 1.38| |Policy on|social investment||| |including|program|related|Para 1.38| |investment|||| |Contribution
made||by|| |volunteers|||Para 1.38| |Other|||| ## ||||||SORP referen ce|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Summary|of|the main||||o
has been able to support
new planting| |achievements|||of|the charity,||in the Rookery Garden and environmental| |identifying
the
charity's work|||difference the
has made to||Para 1.20|improvements,
especially
in the Streatham
Common woods.| |the circumstances||||of its||| |beneficiaries||and||any wider||lt has also engaged
Lambeth
Council to| |benefits to society as a||||||effect various repairs to the Common
which| |whole.||||||benefited
all users and helped protect its| |||||||Environment
e.g.a long standing
water leak| |||||||in the Rookery Garden.
It continues to| |||||||engage the Council on concerns such as the| |||||||future of the old car park, old road and| |||||||placement of large bins.| |||||||FoSC's trustees
and officers have reverted| |||||||to meeting
regularly
in person
following
the| |||||||Covid-19 Pandemic.| ## |You may choose to include|further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements
against||| |objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance
of fundraising||| |activities against objectives||| |set|Para 1.41|| |Investment
performance||| |against objectives||| ||Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## |Financia|Financia|Financia|l Review|l Review|l Review|l Review||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Review of|||the charity's|||||Para 1.21|Friends of Streatham
Common
is in a|| |financial
position
ofthe period|||||at|the end|||healthy
financial
position.
Itcan cover its
normal
running
expenses
from regular|| ||||||||||income such as membership
fees, which|are| ||||||||||adjusted
from time to time. Fundraising
is|| ||||||||||used to pay for improvements
to the|| ||||||||||Common
/ Rookery orto support
public|| ||||||||||events.|| |Statement|||explaining|||t e||Para .22|Unrestncte
eserves are
el
pnncipally|to| |policy for||holding reserves|||||||support
improvements
on the Common
and|| |stating|why|||they are||held|||to cover basic running
expenses.
Restricted|| ||||||||||Reserves arise are from donations
which|are| ||||||||||specifically
held to spend on projects with|| ||||||||||Streatham
Common
Co-operative|| ||||||||||(SCCoop)* in pursuit of shared purposes.|| ||||||||||These include
planting,
maintenance
and|| ||||||||||restoration
in the Rookery Garden. SCCoop|| ||||||||||will undertake
work on behalf ofthe Friends|| ||||||||||as active manager
of the Rookery.|| ||||||||||'SCCoop, full name Streatham
Common|| ||||||||||Community
Operations
Limited,
is an Industrial|| ||||||||||and Provident
Society for the Benefit of the|| ||||||||||Community
which
has an agreement
with|| ||||||||||Lambeth
Council to undertake
the management|| ||||||||||of, and gardening
in, the Rookery.|| |Amount|of||reserves|||held||Para 1.22|Total funds held at the year-end
were
f59873.|| |Reasons for||||holding||zero||Para 1.22|N/A|| |reserves||||||||||| |Details|of|fund materially|||||in|Para 124|N/A|| |deficit||||||||||| |Explanation||||of any||||Para 1.23|N/A|| |uncertainties||||about the||||||| |charity|continuing||||as|a going||||| |concern||||||||||| |The charity's
principal||In 2022-23 the|largest single source offunds| |---|---|---|---| |sources of funds (including||was a donation|off12,000from Douglas 8| |any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Gordon, estate|agents.| |Investment
policy and|||| |objectives including
any|||| |social investment
policy
adopted|Para 1.46||| |A description
ofthe principal|||| |risks facing the charity|||| ||Para 1.46||| |Other|||| ## |Description
of charity's|Description
of charity's||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |trusts:|||||| |Type of|governing
document||Para 1.25|Association
Constitution|| |How isthe charity|||Para 1.25|Charity Incorporated
Organisation|| |constituted?|||||| |Trustee|selection methods||Para 1.25|Trustees are elected by members
ofthe|| |including|details of any|||Friends of Streatham
Common at its Annual|| |constitutional
provisions||e.g.||General Meeting. The Trustees
may co-opt|| |election|to post or name|of||to fill vacancies,
but such appointments|must| |any person or body entitled||||be confirmed at the subsequent
AGM.|| |to appoint
one or more|||||| |trustees|||||| |Additional
information||(optional)|||| |You ma|choose to include further statements|||where relevant about:|| |Policies|and procedures||||| |adopted|for the induction|and|||| |training|oftrustees||Para 1.51||| |The charity's
organisational||||The Trustees
delegate
day to day|| |structure|and any wider|||responsibility
for FoSCto an executive|| |network|with which the|||committee.
Most ofthe trustees are active|| |charity works|||Para 1.51|members ofthe Committee.|| |||||As noted above, FoSC works closely with|| |Relationship
with any related||||Streatham
Common
Co-operative
(SCCoop)|| |parties|||Para 1.51|in pursuit
of shared objectives. SCCoop,|as| |||||manager ofthe Rookery Garden, undertakes|| |||||work on behalf ofthe Friends e.g. planting
and maintenance.
FoSC makes frequent|| |||||donations
to SCCoop in support ofthe|| |||||latter's work
in the Rookery and indeed the
majority of FoSC's spending
is through|| |||||SCCoop.|| |Other|||||| ## |Charity name||Friends of Streatham|Common|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Othernamethechari|uses|FoSCorthe Friends||| |Registered
charity|number|1166961||| |Charity's
principal|address|48 Strathbrook
Road,|Streatham,|London, SW163AY| ## ||Trustee name||ONce (ifany)|Dates
year|acted ifnot for whole||Name ofperson
body) entitled to
a
oint trustee|Name ofperson
body) entitled to
a
oint trustee|Name ofperson
body) entitled to
a
oint trustee|(or
ifa| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Tracey Jean Williamson||Chair||||AGM|||| ||Harriet Blacklay|||Retired 29 June 2022|||AGM|||| ||Nicholas Cattermole||Treasurer||||AGM|||| ||Caroline
Anne Hewitt||||||AGM|||| ||David Jonathan|Malley|Secretary||||AGM|||| ||Peter Newmark||||||AGM|||| ||Michael Robinson||||||AGM|||| ||Anne Hamilton|||Appointed
29 June 2022.|||AGM|||| |10|NB At the 2023 AGM on 28June, Tracey Williamson
Caroline
Hewitt was elected Chair. Nick Cattermole
aTrustee. Richard Payne was elected as a Trustee||||retired as Chair, continuing
as a Trustee.
retired as Treasurer,
but was re-elected as
and as Treasurer.
Anne Hamilton
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Fnends ofStraatham
Common|Receipts and
Fnends ofStraatham
Common|payments|payments|1166061
accounts|1166061
accounts|||CC16a| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||Forthe period|01-Apr-22||To||31tViar-23|||| ||||||||||from||||||||| ||||||~||~|~|~ r||||||||| ||||||||||Unrestricted
funds|Restricted
funds||Endowment
funds||Total|funds||Last year| ||||||||||to the nearest
s|tothe nearest R||to the nearest k||to the nearest t.|||to the nearest R| |A1 Recei|||||||||||||||||| |Mamba rshi|||||||||2744||||||2744||2921| |Events||||||||||||||||730|1 27| |Donations|||||||||1 529|25552|||||27|081|10 22| |Bank Interest|||||||||01|||||||01|| |Common|Knowi||e||||||||||||||| |Roundi|||||||||||||||||| ||to||ross )ncome||||r||5004|25552|||||30|646|23775| |A2 Asset|and|investment||||sales,|||||||||||| |(seetable).|||||||||||||||||| |||||Sub total|||||||||||||| ||||Total||receipts||||5,094|25,552|||||30,646||23,775| |A3 Payments
Environmental||Im|ovements||||||||||||||10049| |Event
Common|nses
Knowled||e||||||880|||||||880|1129
'I 003| |Insurance
Administration|||nses||||||729|||||||72$|| |Pa
al/WorldPa|||Char es||||||525|||||||525|805| |Donations|||||||||||||||||| |Roundi|||||||||||||||||| |||||||sub|total||3,1 6|||||||,3 0|13. 1| |A4 Asset|and|investment|||||||||||||||| |purchases,
(seetable)|||||||||||||||||| |||||Sub|||total||||||||||| ||||Total payments||||||3,126|44,194|||||47,320||13„917| |Net ofreceipts/(payments)|||||||||1,068||18,642||||16,674||0,858| |A5 Transfers||between||funds|||||||||||||| |A6 Cash|funds||last year|||end|||30,036||45,611||||76,547||66,680| |Cash t'unds this||||year|||end||32,0||26,060||||50,873||76,547| ||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||~||0|r|~|~||e|a|t ~||~
~|~|~ e|||| ||||||||||||Unrestricted||Restricted|||Endowment|| |||||||||||||funds||funds|||funds| ||||||||||||to|nearest f|to|nearest f||to|nearest f| |81Cash||funds||||Llloyds Bank||Current||Account||T,400|||||| |||||||Uloyds Bank||Deposit||Account||21,051||26,969|||| |||||||PayPel||||||4,161|||||| |||||||Cash|in Hand|||||272|||||| |||||||||||Total cash funds||32,904||26,969|||| ||||||||(agree balances||with|receipts and payments|||||||| |||||||||||scccunt(s))|||||||| ||||||||||||Unrestricted||Restricted|||Endowment|| ||||||||||||funds|||funds|||funds| |||||||Detaiis|||||to|nearest f|to|nearest f||to|nearestf| |82Other||monetary assets|||||||||||||||| |||||||Details|||||Fund towhich
asset baton s||G|t( ~|l)|Gunent value
o
a|| |83Investment||||assets|||||||||||||| ||||||||||||Fund towhich
asset belon s||Goat (optional)|||Current value|| |84Assets retained forthe|||||||||||||||||| |charity's||own use|||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||Fund towhich||Amount due|||When due|| |||||||Details|||||liabil|relates||tiona|||I| |85Uabilities|||||||||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf ofall the trustees||||||||Signature||||Print|Name|||Date of
a
roval|| ||||||||||||Caroline
Hewitt, Chair|||23-24|||| ||||||||||||Nick|Cattermole,|Treasurer,
22-23||||| |||||||Independent
Examiner's
Report on the| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||Accounts| |Report tothe|trustees/members|||of||Friends OfStreatham
Common| |On accounts for the year|||ended|||31"March 202$| |Setout on pages||||||1-3| |Respective responsibilities
and examiner|||oftrustees|||The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year
(under section 43(2) ofthe Charities Act 1993(the Act)) and that an| |||||||independent
examination
is needed. It is my responsibility
to:| |||||||~ examine the accounts (under section 43of the Act),| |||||||~tofollow the procedures
laid down in the General Directions given by| |||||||the Charity Commission
(under section 43(7)(b) ofthe Act), and| |||||||~tostate whether
particular
matters
have come to my attention.| |Basis ofindependent||examiner's||report||My examination
was carried out in accordance with the General
Directions given by the Charity Commission.
An examination
includes a
review ofthe accounting
records kept by the charity and a comparison of| |||||||the accounts presented
with those records. Italso includes consideration| |||||||of any unusual
items or disclosures
in the accounts, and seeking| |||||||explanations
from you as Trustees concerning
any such matters. The| |||||||procedures
undertaken
do not provide all the evidence that would be| |||||||required
in an audit, and consequently
no opinion
is given as to whether| |||||||the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to| |||||||those matters set out in the statement
below.| |Independent|examiner's||statement|||In the course ofmy examination,
no matter has come to my attention:| |||||||1.Which gives me reasonable
cause to believe that in, any material| |||||||respect, the requirements:| |||||||~to keep accounting
records in accordance with section 41ofthe Act;| |||||||and| |||||||~to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting
records and| |||||||comply
with the accounting
requirements
ofthe 1993Act| |||||||have not been met; or| |||||||2.Towhich,
in my opinion, attention
should be drawn
in order to enable| |||||||a proper understanding
ofthe accounts to be reached.| |Signed:||||||Date:
30'"January 2024| |Name:||||||Dr Kevin Riley| |Relevant professional||qualification(s)|||or|n/a| |body (ifany).||||||| |Address:||||||12Braxted Park| |||||||London| |||||||SW163DW| ||Only complete
ifthe examiner needs ta highlight
particular
problems| |---|---| |Give here brief details of issues that|As in previous years, a final copy ofthe Trustees'
Annual
Report was not| |the examiner wishes to disclose.|available at this time. The Accounts reviewed are those as seen by the| ||Trustees and as presented tothe Annual General Meeting.| ||The reasonableness
ofany significant
estimates orjudgments
that have| ||been made in preparing the Accounts has been assessed and accepted.| ||The Treasurer
has provided
all necessary documentation
in electronic and| ||physical form, supported
by face-to-face discussion.
I believe that
I have| ||been provided
with sufficient information
to be able to come to a| ||reasonable
view ofthe accounts.
In my view the accounts are consistent| ||with the available documentation
and soappear to offer a reasonable| ||view ofthe financial position ofthe Friends ofStreatham
Common.| ||At the beginning
gi end ofthe year Cash-In-Hand
is counted
&recorded| ||by the Treasurer. Of necessity,
I was unable to verify these figures.| ||However, the value ofE272 is consistent
with the Accounts and at the| ||same time not material.| ||It is noticeable that funds on deposit have been maintained
at E48,020| ||forthe last three years. This corresponds to 181'K of average expenditure| ||over this same period. It is perhaps worth reviewing
policy on the| ||appropriate
level offinancial
reserves requiring to be held.| ||Overall, general project activity has remained
steady, but at a lower level| ||than pre-Covid pandemic.
Unrestricted
receipts ofE5094are largely| ||unchanged
from the previous year's E5,123,but remain
well short ofthe| ||E9,169of pre-pandemic
2019-2020.Similarly, the expenditure
ofE3,126| ||on unrestricted
activities
in 2022-2023 was marginally
lower than the| ||figure ofE3,868for 2021-2022, but is still substantially
lower than the| ||E5,030Of2019-2020.Nevertheless,
in a worst-case scenario with no| ||future external funding,
it appears that the Charity would be able to| ||continue
raising sufficient funds tosupport
its core programme
of| ||Unrestricted
activities.| ||The use of Restricted
Funds for activities
in support ofthe charities'| ||objectives has substantially
increased
in the current year. Income forthe| ||current and past years in support ofactivities underpinned
by these funds| ||was E25,552,E18652,E27,288. Expenditure
from these funds was| ||E44,194,E10,049and E14,675 respectively.
Clearly, coinciding with the| ||termination
ofthe DgiG contract, opportunities
have been taken to| ||greatly increase the level offunding for qualifying
projects in the current| ||year.| ||Overall, there appears to have been no adverse change
in financial
risk| ||over the past year. However, there have recently been cases ofbanks| ||withdrawing
banking facilities from charities, causing them to be unable| ||to operate. This seems to have been due to issues relating to the| ||provision of up-to-date
information
on customer accounts as part of| ||banks' regulatory
obligations.
It would be prudent to confirm that all| ||relevant
and current information
is in place with Lloyds Bank, and to| ||consider whether,
under these circumstances,
the charity could continue| ||to operate its PayPal account as an emergency
current account, if| ||necessa|