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## 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** C/O New County Hall Treyew Road Truro, Cornwall, **Postcode TR1 3AY**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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2
3
4
5
6
7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Hugh St Aubyn|Chairperson|||
||Deborah Bowden||||
||GittyAnkers||||
||Gill Pipkin|Ex-Officio|||
||Emma Browning|Ex-Officio|||
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## **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 five trustees consisting of three independent appointed trustees and two nominated ex-officio trustees. The Charity remains entirely independent from the Cornwall National Landscape (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** To build and maintain an Environment Landscape Fund (ELF) – a **undertaken for the public** delegated grant scheme that supports local communities, organisations **benefit in relation to these** and small businesses to deliver conservation and enhancement projects **objects (include within this** for the benefit of the Cornwall AONB. **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 benefit)** light of planned activities.
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
- You **may choose** to include During this fiscal year little activity took place regarding grant making, fund further statements, where raising or volunteering due to the Trust continuing to rebuild after Covid relevant, about: 19. policy on grantmaking; In the upcoming year the Trust will seek to recruit more Trustees in
- policy programme related accordance with our Constitution and develop more funding opportunities. investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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|Section D|Achievements andperformance|
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|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|The Cornwall AONB Trust was first registered with the Charity
Commission in April 2017.
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 Cornwall National Landscape
(AONB) Management Plan, 2022 - 2027.|
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|**Section E Financial review**||
|**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit**
**Further financial review details**
You**may choose**to include
additional information, where
relevant about:
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.||
||The Trust was largely rebuilding activity during this fiscal year due to the
ongoing effects of the Covid 19 lockdown on the charitable sector.
However, some activity was undertaken with a view to restoring the usual
activities.
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 purposes of the Trust.|
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||**(Optional information)**|
||The principal funding source for this period was Cornwall Council
although a few small donations were also received. In accordance with
the aims and objectives of the Trust, project support was granted to
support projects through the Trust’s Environment Landscape Fund.
The Trust intends to increase project funding in accordance with the
Cornwall AONB Management Plan 2022 – 2027 in the upcoming year.
Likewise, the Trust’s objectives are to increase fundraising through
donations and registering for Gift Aid with HMRC.|
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|**Section F**|**Other optional information**|
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signedon behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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## **Signature**
**Full name** Hugh St Aubyn **Position** Chairperson **Date** 31 January 2024
**Signature Full name** Melodie Manners **Position** Secretariat **Date** 31 January 2024
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||**Charity Name**
**Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Trust**
**1**|**Charity Name**
**Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Trust**
**1**|**Charity Name**
**Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Trust**
**1**|**No (if any)**
**172467**|**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01.02.2022|**To**|Period end date
31.01.2023||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|11,155
10,512
**21,666**
-
-
**-**
**21,666**
**62**
**2,447**
**-**
**2,509**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,509**
**19,158**
**-**
**-**
**19,158**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
|**to the nearest £**
-
-
-
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|OpeningBalance|11,155||-|||
|Donations|10,512||-|10,512|7,305|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**21,666**
||**-**|**10,512**|**7,305**|
|||-
-
**-**||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales**||||||
||-||-|-||
||-||-|-|-|
|**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||
|||**-**|**-**||**7,305**|
|||||||
|Bank Charges|**62**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**62**|**-**|
|Project Support Funding|**2,447**||**-**|**2,447**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**2,509**||**-**|**2,509**|**-**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
|||**-**|**-**|**2,509**|**-**|
|||||||
||**19,158**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**2,509**|**7,305**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**19,158**||**-**|**2,509**|**7,305**|
## **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**
HSBC Cash Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
|**to nearest £**
**19,158**
**-**
**-**
**19,158**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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|||||Date of
approval|
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