## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 05 04 2020 04 04 2021 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** The Secchi Disk Foundation **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1169399 Charity's principal address** Kiln Cottage Gnaton Yealmpton **Postcode PL8 2HU**
The Secchi Disk Foundation
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustees are to be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution Trustee selection methods passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting (eg. appointed by, elected by) individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. New trustees are given a copy of the current version of constitution together with a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
- You **may choose** to include additional information, where All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other relevant, about: benefits. • policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- • the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- • relationship with any related parties;
- • trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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To promote the conservation of the marine environment worldwide for the public benefit by engaging the public in scientific study and to facilitate **Summary of the objects of the** research of marine plankton and the food chain in order to advance **charity set out in its** collective knowledge and understanding of the marine ecosystem and to **governing document** maintain biodiversity for the public good. The focus of our activity is upon enabling the public in the scientific study of the marine plankton and the food web it supports for the public good. To that end, The Secchi Disk Foundation promotes scientific study by the general public and creates and distributes to the public free online tools and educational materials, and maintains websites and databases accessible freely by the public. The trustees declare that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the commission in exercising their powers or duties. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
The Secchi Disk Foundation received one grant this year from the **Summary of the main** Whirlwind Charitable Trust (WCT) (Grant No: 1200) to enable the **achievements of the charity** Foundation to fulfil its charitable objectives. The WCT grant was to **during the year** enable the payment of Open Access charges for the second scientific publication from the Secchi Disk study that was submitted for publication this year and is currently, under academic peer review. This year the Secchi Disk Foundation also funded the development of new Smartphone software for the Secchi Disk study, which was paid for by restricted funds from the WCT received in the preceding financial year. In this the Secchi Disk Foundation’s fourth, full year we continued our expansion to include more participants from different seafaring groups. As a result, the Foundation continues to engage the public to provide a greater understanding of the marine ecosystem for the public good.
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## **Section E Financial review**
- The Secchi Disk Foundation’s Trustees aim to maintain a financial
- **Brief statement of the** reserve to mitigate any one of the following: **charity’s policy on reserves** i) The risk of an unforeseen need for funds, e.g., an unexpected need to maintain services that the Foundation provides such as mobile apps, databases etc due to circumstances outside the Foundations control. This includes funds to cover unforeseen day-to-day operational costs. ii) Funds to enable the Secchi Disk Foundation to carry out work that cannot be met by future income alone, e.g., to promote the work of the Foundation or for a project that requires the Secchi Disk Foundation to provide ‘matched funding’. iii) To fund short-term deficits in a cash budget, e.g., money may need to be spent before a funding grant is received. iv) To provide secure funding for long-term resources provided by third parties that the Secchi Disk Foundation relies upon such as internet services, and other similar longer-term costs as the Trustees’ see fit.
- **Details of any funds materially** Not Applicable **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** Our only sources of funds this year have been grant income, donations
- You **may choose** to include and bank interest. A proportion of the income is held as unrestricted
- additional information, where funds both as designated funds for on-going project development costs
- relevant about: and as reserves to be spent as the trustees see fit.
- • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- • how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- • investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Paul J B Hart **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 2021-08-05
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Independent examiner's report on
the accounts
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Roport to the trusteesl
members of
The Secchi Disk Foundation
On accounts for the year
ended
04-04-2021
Charity no
(if any)
1169399
Set out on pagos
1and2
Respective
responsibilities of
trustees and examiner
The charty's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts.
The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year
nder section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 {'Ihe Charities Acl") and that an
independent examination is needed. tThe charity's gross income exceeded
£250.000 and l am qualified to undertake the examination by being a
qualffied member of Inamed body]l. Delete I l if not applicable.
11 is my responsibility to=
examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
lo follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (under section 145{51(b) of the Charities Act, and
to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions giv&n
examiner's statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the
accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of thé accounts
presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual
items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the
trustees conceming any such mattets. 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 'trua
and fair, view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the
statement below.
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**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:**
Berry Farm Bethany Saltash, Cornwall PL12 5DE
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.(E.g. accounting records have not been kept in accordance with s132 of the Charities’ Act 2011 and those accounts do not comply with the requirements of the 2008 Regulations setting out the form and content of charity accounts; any material expenditure or action which appears not to be in accordance with the trusts of the charity; any failure to be provided with information and explanations by any past or present trustee, officer or employee; and any material consistency between the accounts and the trustees’ annual report.)
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## **Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date Period end date
**For the period from**
**To**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donation 61 - - 61
Donation 49 - - 49
Donation 13 - - 13
Donation 2,000 - - 2,000
Bank interest 16 - - 16
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 2,139 - - 2,139
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 2,139 - - 2,139
A3 Payments
IT hardware 58 - - 58
IT hardware 170 - - 170
Software development - 1,000 - 1,000
Honorarium - - - -
Software development - - - -
Bank charges 1 - - 1
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 229 ] 1,000 - 1,229
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 229 1,000 - 1,229
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,910 - 1,000 - 910
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 28,072 1,000 - 29,072
Cash funds this year end 29,982 - - 29,982
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|**Section B Statement**|**of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|
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|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**|**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank deposit|account
**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**29,982**
**-**
**-**
**29,982**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||OK|OK|
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**|
|**charity’s own use**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name|
||||Paul J B Hart||
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CC16a
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**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
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388
2,000
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15
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2,403
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**2,403**
**7,500 1,000 1 - - - 8,501**
**8,501 - 6,098 - - - 6,098**
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -**
## OK
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**When due (optional)**
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Date of
approval
8/5/2021
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