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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 February 2021 1 April 2022 **To**
01 February 2021 **From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Trust **Other names charity is known by** Cornwall AONB Trust **Registered charity number (if any)** 1172467
**Charity's principal address** Floor 4A, Pydar House, Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall, **Postcode TR1 1XU**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted**
**if not for**
**wholeyear**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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||Dr Robert Kirby-Harris|Chairperson|||
||Dr GaryCrossley|Trustee|||
||Hugh St Aubyn|Trustee|||
||Neil Slater|Trustee|||
||Gill Pipkin|Ex-Officio|||
||Emma Browning|Ex-Officio|||
## **Section B Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Foundation Model Constitution
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
Trustee selection methods[The Constitution of the Cornwall AONB Trust was amended in July 2018 – ] Clause 9 (3) ‘To increase the number of appointed trustees from 4 to a maximum of 8’. At a General Meeting of the Trustees held on the 18[th] July 2018, the Trustees, having carried out a skills audit, agreed to appoint additional trustees to increase the skills capacity of the Board of Trustees. The Governing Document has been amended accordingly to state that there can be six appointed trustees and two nominated trustees.
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## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
The Cornwall AONB Trust has six trustees consisting of four independent appointed trustees and two nominated ex-officio trustees. The Charity remains entirely independent from the Cornwall AONB Partnership in its daily activities.
- 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**
To promote the conservation, protection and enhancement of the physical and natural environment. Advance education in and around the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** To build and maintain an Environment Landscape Fund (ELF) – a delegated grant scheme that supports local communities, organisations **public benefit in relation to** and small businesses to deliver conservation and enhancement projects **these objects (include within** for the benefit of the Cornwall AONB. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained **had regard to the guidance** within the Charity Commissions General Guidance on public benefit in **issued by the Charity** relation to reviewing the Cornwall AONB Trust’s aims and objectives in **Commission on public** light of planned activities. **benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include During this fiscal year little activity took place regarding grant making, further statements, where fund raising or volunteering due to emerging from Covid 19 Lockdown. relevant, about: In the upcoming year the Trust will seek to recruit more Trustees in • policy on grant making; accordance with our Constitution.
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance The Cornwall AONB Trust was first registered with the Charity **Summary of the main** Commission in April 2017. **achievements of the charity during the year** Trustees meet monthly to review the work of the Trust and to ensure it remains focussed in its aims and objectives. The Trust will continue to support a variety of community activities for the benefit of the public. The Trust is committed to supporting a wide range of initiatives through the Environment Landscape Fund by offering grants of up to £500 which help facilitate projects which fall within the AONB Management Plan, 2022 - 2027.
**Section E Financial review** In emerging from the Covid 19 lockdown period, during which the Trust **Brief statement of the** was largely dormant, the Trust activities during this fiscal year have been **charity’s policy on reserves** limited although some fundraising activities have now again been undertaken although some activity was undertaken with a view to restoring usual activities in accordance with stated objectives. The Trust expects to continue expanding and improving fundraising implementing new programmes with the recruitment of new Trustees. The months of February and March 2021 have been included in this reporting as they were previously accidentally omitted. The previous filing should have been for Y/E 1 April 2021 but was only calculated through 31 January 2021. The extent of this oversight on our Financial Statements for this two month period is exactly £7,000 donation from Cornwall Council and £10 in Bank Charges. We have included these amounts in our current CC16a Form submitted with this report. The cause of this oversight was that the Trust did not have a Treasurer Trustee during this time. A Treasurer Trustee was appointed in July 2022 who will compile these documents going forward during the term of their appointment. The net surplus recorded for this financial period was directly applied to facilitate the Trust’s Environment Landscape Fund. Applications for grant funding are received at regular intervals to support a range of projects in line with the stated purposes of the Trust. **Details of any funds materially** There are no funds in deficit. **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** The principal funding source for this period was Cornwall Council You **may choose** to include although a few small donations were also received. In accordance with additional information, where the aims and objectives of the Trust, project support was granted to relevant about: support two projects through the Trust’s Environment Landscape Fund. • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including The Trust intends to increase project funding in accordance with the any fundraising); Cornwall AONB Management Plan 2022 – 2027 in the upcoming year. • how expenditure has Likewise, the Trust’s objectives are to increase fundraising through donations and registering for Gift Aid with HMRC. supported the key objectives of the charity; • investment policy and objectives including any
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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**
|**Signature**
**Full name**
**Position**
**Date**
**Signature**
**Full name**
**Position**
**Date**||
|---|---|
||Hugh St Aubyn|
||Chairperson|
||31 January 2023|
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||Margaret A Green
Treasurer Trustee
31 January 2023|
||Margaret A Green|
||Treasurer Trustee|
||31 January 2023|
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**Charity Name N Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Trust 1**
## **Receipts and payments acco**
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
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to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Opening Balance 4,650 - -
Donations 11,873 - -
- -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 16,523 - -
A2 Asset and investment sales
- - -
- - -
Sub total [ - ] - -
Total receipts 16,523 - -
A3 Payments
Bank Charges 20 - -
Project Support Funding 520 - -
- - -
Sub total [ 540 ] - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total [ - ] - -
Total payments 540 - -
Net of receipts/(payments) 15,983 - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - -
Cash funds this year end 15,983 - -
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of th**
**Categories**
## **B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
## **B3 Investment assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
**Unrestricted Details funds to nearest £** HSBC Cash Account **15,983 - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **15,983** (agree balances with receipts and payments OK account(s)) **Unrestricted funds Details to nearest £ - - Fund to which Details asset belongs Fund to which Details asset belongs Fund to which Details liability relates**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature Print N Meg Green, Trea Hugh St Aubyn
**o (if any) 172467**
## **ounts**
## **CC16a**
Period end date
Apr 1, 22
## **Total funds**
## **Last year**
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Date of
Name
approval
asurer Trustee Jan 31, 23
, Chairperson Jan 31, 23
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