## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.04.2024 Period start date To date** ## **31.03.2025 Period end** **Charity name: Manor Fields Association** ## **Charity registration number: 1168830** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To promote, for the benefit of the**
**inhabitants of Chesterfield and the**
**surrounding area, the provision of**
**facilities for recreation or other leisure-**
**time activities of individuals who may**
**have need of such facilities by reason of**
**their youth, age, infirmity or disablement,**
**financial hardship of social and economic**
**circumstances or for the public at large in**
**the interests of social welfare and with**
**the objective of improving the conditions**
**of life for the said inhabitants.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Maintaining and improving ex-school**
**playing fields for public benefit – mowing**
**grass, managing margins, managing**
**trees and hedgerows, improving the**
**biodiversity of the fields and providing**
**seats and benches for the general public**
**using the fields.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference| |---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38| |Policy on social investment|Para 1.38| |including program related|| |investment|| Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**During the period 1.4.24-31.3.25 the**
**charity maintained Manor Fields –**
**arranging for grass mowing, hedge**
**cutting, and long grass cutting and**
**removal. The trees were regularly**
**monitored and work done where required**
**by a qualified tree surgeon.**
**A bench and two animal carvings were**
**erected in one of the copses on the fields**
**in late summer. Two working parties**
**were held - one in the autumn to tackle**
**brambles and ensure french drains were**
**kept in good condition, the second in the**
**spring of 2025 to prune apple trees.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** 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||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**In this period, although payments**
**exceeded receipts we had enough**
**reserve to retain a healthy financial**
**balance.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Our policy is that our reserve should be**
**at least double our annual expenditure ie**
**to have two years’ outgoings in reserve.**
**The amount needed for this is kept under**
**review as annual expenditure changes.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Our annual expenditure is currently**
**around £1,500, therefore we keep a**
**minimum of £3,000 as a reserve to cover**
**variations in income.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Election at AGM**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Manor Fields Association| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1168830| |Charity’s principal address|12 Ashgate Avenue
Chesterfield
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Angela Fookes|Chair||| ||Peter Passmore|Secretary||| ||Chris Hill|Treasurer||| ||Brendon Weager|||| ||Edward Brooks|||| ||Helen Rowan|||| ||Mark Taylor|||| ||Jan Bird|||| ||Kristen O’Gorman|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Angela Mary Fookes ~~ee ee~~ Chair **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** ~~[=]~~ 28.12.25 ~~PO~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~ CHARITY COMMISSIO FOR ENGLANO AND WALE IR-tyJO o Atr Lb 4 fv£goci ItriorKI Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the perlod from 0104-L To ection A Receipts and pay-ments Unrestrlcted lunds Restslclad funds Endowment lunds Total lunds Last yoar totho noar•8t to th• nMre$t £ to the Mare•t£ tothB Mar••t £ to tho Mar¢8t£ Al Recel ts zzo JIL Sub total(Gross income forAR) A2 Assel and Investment gales. Sub total A3Pa iTr)eiits L) L)fF I F CU Sub total 4 Asset and Inveglment urchases see lable Sub total Total payments Net ofreceipts/ts¥aymentsJ A5 Transfers between lunds A6 Cash lunds last year end Cash funds this year end dt£a CCXX Rl accounts (SS) OE40112024 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrlcl•d Re8trfct•d lundj fund8 to ne•r••t£ Endowmont funds t• Nare•l £ aEegoflC to n••r•st£ B1 Cash fund8 Iq Total cash funds l•w•o ￿1n¢￿ twth rthpl8 Ir￿ •cccwnt(bl} Unrestrlct•d fund• to n•w••t £ R•8trfctsd fund• Endowffl•nt fund• to n••mt £ to nMr••t £ F￿d to t*thl¢h ••¥•t b•lotsq• C¥rr•nt v•lu• loptlonall Co•t {opllon*l) 83 Inv••tm•nt aM•t• Fund to *thlch I￿•1 b•lon Curnnt v•lu• {•ptlon•ll Cort Iwoonall 84 Ass•ts r•taln•d for th• charfty'• own u8• Fund to whleh Il•blllty r•l•t Amoum du• Wh•n du• lopllon411 B5 Llabllltl•s Signed by one or N¥0 tru$té6s on behall Signature Prlnt Name Date of approval A trJ4EL& hiilli 7 fvoQE5 2<è.11.E CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 0610112024