## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 05 04 2022 04 04 2023 **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** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**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 The Secchi Disk Foundation continued to expand the global reach **Summary of the main** of the Secchi Disk study this year including carrying out important **achievements of the charity during the year** updates to the online interface. 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** 21 November 2023 March **2012** **TAR** 7 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts On •¢¢ounts for the year Clorlty no (11 any) 1169399 tharlty (Ihe TnJ*f) the year erv*d R•sponslbllnles aTrd As Ihe ¢h¥ity tr￿lee8 of the TnJsL yw WE resp(ThtAe I{￿ prEpwation 2011 ￿. r *aicm 145 ol the 2011 Ad arxl my examwHtion. I Kler sed1￿ 14515){b) of Iha Ad. tr*ktor 28 94￿lIf￿alK￿q$) or body Ilf any): Sallash. C**from**|Period start date|**To**|Period end date|| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations
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Bank Interest
**57**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**57**
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**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 57**
**A3 Payments**
Software Development
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Bank Charges
**1**
IT Hardware
Publication Fees
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Software Licenses
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**_Sub total_ 1**
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**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 1**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 56**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**28,751**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 28,807**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
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**27,615**|**3,993**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**3,993**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Bank Depoosity Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
Paul Hart
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**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
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**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Paul Hart|11/21/2023| |||||