## Trustees' Annual Report Apr 2024 – Mar 2025
## Objects of the Charity
1. To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment of the woodlands and surrounding area of Uddens & Cannon Hill Plantations.
2. For the benefit of the inhabitants of East Dorset, to provide or assist the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare with the object of improving their conditions of life for the inhabitants of the area of benefit in particular but not exclusively by the preservation, promotion, support, assistance and improvement of the woodlands and surrounding area of Uddens & Cannon Hill Plantations.
## Activities
199 volunteers completed 925 hours of work over 25 recorded volunteer task days.
A decrease of 358 volunteer hours on the previous year, as unfortunately we had to cancel 3 of our key winter task days due to weather warnings for strong winds. We always take safety very seriously, so this was a necessary precaution.
This still gave us the 2nd highest annual numbers and is a reflection on the success of our new monthly weekday (Last Wednesday of the month) volunteer task day, led by Paul and Francis.
This year we have extended our area of operations to include the adjoining SSSI Whitesheet Hill, an important mire and heathland site. Our two task days there included our best attended day of the year when we had 18 volunteers.
Four more days were spent on our Dorset Peat Partnership completing the prep work prior to the contractors starting.
As in previous years tasks included maintaining the tumuli heritage features, managing invasive Himalayan balsam, Rhododendron & Bracken, restoring picnic benches and progressing our heathland restoration project on Elford Heath.
## Income and Expenditure
Opening balance - £3,542
Donations of £646 were gratefully received towards our “dog splash” project.
We were delighted to spend £1,476 on forestry first aid and power tool courses benefiting 16 of our volunteers, thanks to funding from the Dorset Peat Partnership.
The closing balance includes additional funding from the DPP to cover costs on tools and training from the previous financial year.
It was decided that a £2,500 contingency fund will be held in the recently opened savings account.
Closing balance was £4,811
## AGM & Trustees
The AGM was held in March at Highmead Farm where we received an update on the peat restoration project by Grace Herve from the Dorset Peat Partnership.
It was agreed that future AGM’s would be held in April to enable the previous year’s results to be reviewed in a more timely manner
Mrs Jean Loader and Mr Jeffrey Maple retired as trustees this year.
We thank them both for their service over the years.
Mr Mick Felton was elected as a trustee.
Current Trustees -
Mr Andy Hartstone, Mr Mick Felton, Mr Paul James, Mr Scott Whibley (Chair)
**Charity Name No (if any) Friends of Uddens & Cannon Hill Woodlands 1174302 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date **To** Period end date **from** 1st April 2024 31st March 2025 **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Endowment Restricted funds Total funds Last year funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts**
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Balance Carried Forward||-|--|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**3,542-**|||**-**|**9,136-**||
|Membership/Donations - Online||**-**|**903-**|||**-**|**646-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,549-**|||**-**|**--**||
|Membership/Donations - Cheques||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|Online referrals (Easyfundraising/Smile)||**-**|**85-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**85-**|||**-**|**116-**||
|Bench Sponsorship||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**798-**||
|HMRC Gift Aid||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|Grants / Funding||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,995-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,995-**|||**-**|**5,251-**||
|||**-**|**988-**|||**-**|**2,641-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**7,171-**|||**-**|**15,301-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||||||||||||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**|||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**table).**|||||||||||||||||||||
|**Nil**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|**_Sub total_**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
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|**_Total receipts_ **||**-**|**988-**|||**-**|**2,641-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**7,171-**|||**-**|**15,301-**||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||||
|memberships / Land registry search||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|Tools & PPE||**-**|**16-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**16-**|||**-**|**8,282-**||
|Timber / Consumables||**-**|**197-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**197-**|||**-**|**1,755-**||
|Trailer Maintenance||**-**|**176-**|||**-**|**24-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**200-**|||**-**|**344-**||
|Insurance Premium||**-**|**434-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**434-**|||**-**|**339-**||
|AGM Hall Hire / meeting costs / Transport|||||||||||||||||||||
|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**301-**||
|Volunteer Task Catering||**-**|**37-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**37-**|||**-**|**92-**||
|Web Hosting||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**14-**||
|Training Courses||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,476-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,476-**|||**-**|**1,490-**||
|**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**860-**|||**-**|**1,500-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,360-**|||**-**|**12,617-**||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**|||||||||||||||||||||
|**(see table)**|||||||||||||||||||||
|**Nil**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||||
|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||||
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|**_Total payments_**||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,360-**|||**-**|**12,617-**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**7,171-**|||**-**|**15,301-**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**4,811-**|||**-**|**2,684-**||
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
1/24/2026
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
1/24/2026
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