## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 05 04 2021 04 04 2022 **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by** The Secchi Disk Foundation > **Registered charity number (if any) 1169399 Charity's principal address** Kiln Cottage Gnaton Yealmpton **Postcode PL8 2HU** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Paul Hart|Chair||| ||AnthonyWates|||| ||Paul Housego|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **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** March **2012** **TAR** 2 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)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 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 March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**||The Secchi Disk Foundation received one grant this year from the
Whirlwind Charitable Trust (WCT) to enable the Foundation to fulfil
its charitable objectives. The WCT grant enabled the Foundation to
support the Secchi Disk study to update its smartphone mobile
application called Secchi.Throughout this year the Foundation
continued to support the expansion of the Secchi Disk study to include
more participants from different seafaring groups.The Foundation also
supported the publication of new citizen science output from the Secchi
Disk study in the scientific journal_Nature Scientific Reports_in a paper
titled “_Citizens and scientists collect comparable oceanographic data:_
_measurements of ocean transparency from the Secchi Disk study and_
_science programmes_” that is accessible for free from here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95029-z. As a result of its
activities, the Foundation continues to engage the public through citizen
science to provide a greater understanding of the marine ecosystem for
the public good.| |---|---|---| March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **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** March **2012** **TAR** 6 **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Paul Hart **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 16th August 2022 March **2012** **TAR** 7 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts R•port to the trustoesl members of ¥£ s£66Mr f￿NP￿rI0￿ On accounts for the year ended Charity no Ilf any) 116q 311 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (llhe Trusf) for the year ended O*/ a*/ lo ££ Responsibilities and As the charlty trust8es of th8 Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in acwrdanrR with the requirements of the Charities Ad 2011 (Ihe Acf). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)Ibl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in connection with the examinats'¢)n which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordan¢e with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Ind•pendent examIn•￿5 statomont I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable prO￿r understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Hease de18te Ihe b￿rdS in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: Namo: Relevant professlonal qualificationl8) or body (if any): Addre88: G£ Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
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A1 Receipts
Donations 61 7,000 - 7,061
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Bank Interest 10 - - 10
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Sub total (Gross income for AR) 71 7,000 - 7,071
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Total receipts 71 7,000 - 7,071
A3 Payments
IT hardware 487 - - 487
Software licenses 51 - - 51
Publication fees 1,776 - 1,776
Software development 763 - - 763
Bank charges 1 - - 1
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Sub total [ 1,302 ] 1,776 - 3,078
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Total payments 1,302 1,776 - 3,078
Net of receipts/(payments) - 1,231 5,224 - 3,993
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 29,982 - - 29,982
Cash funds this year end 28,751 5,224 - 33,975
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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**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**| |**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**|**funds**| |**B1 Cash funds**||**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**26,975**
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**26,975**|**to nearest £**
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**7,000**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||Agreement Error|Agreement Error| ||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**| ||||**funds**|**funds**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
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**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
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**-**| |**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
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**2,139** **228 - - 1,000 1 - - - - 1,229** **1,229 910 - - 910** **Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -** ## OK ## **Endowment funds** **to nearest £ - - - - - -** **Current value (optional)** **-** **Current value (optional)** **When due (optional)** Date of approval