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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 05 2024 **To** 30 04 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by** BAGW **Registered charity number (if any)** 1175777
Benchmark at Grinham's Wood
**Charity's principal address** Cairnbank, West End, Horncliffe, Berwick upon Tweed,
Northumberland
**Postcode TD15 2XN**
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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**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) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by members Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
In the year in question the charity started to develop further its activities. You **may choose** to include While progress in the year was limited, since then activity has grown and additional information, where the charity has recruited additional trustees in the year 2025/26. relevant, about:
- 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**
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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**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)**|The objects of the charity are:
3.1 to promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of Horncliffe and the
surrounding areas the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure
time occupation for the public at large in the interests of social welfare
and with the object of improving the condition of life of the said
inhabitants; and
3.2 to promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection
and improvement of the physical and natural environment.
and to carry out these purposes through establishing and thereafter
conserving and protecting a community wood, its wildlife, flora and fauna
to be known as Grinham's Wood at Horncliffe, for the benefit of the
public.|
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||The charity has substantially developed its plans over the last two years
establishing five initial phases to its project and commencing delivery of
those. The five initial phases are:-
Phase One - Woodland and Wildlife
Phase Two - Commemorative Benches
Phase Three - Fishing Shiel Memorial
Phase Four - Fishing Coble Memorial
Phase Five - Stalwarts Wood
It is anticipated that these will benefit the public by delivering
environmental and wildlife benefits and community benefits,
remembering members of the community who went to war and many of
whose families have a continuing connection with the village of Horncliffe.
Of these, progress on the ground has been made with Phases One, Two
and Three and progress continues on those Phases together with
Phases Four and Five. Grinham's Wood is planted and in 2025/26
substantial restoration works have been carried out to a riverside fishing
shiel. Initial work on the installation of commemorative benches is
progressing with sites being identified and materials being ordered.
Research continues into the families to be commemorated by those
benches.
In progressing the project, the trustees have had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit and consider that
public benefit is delivered by all of the activities of the charity.
A website has been established athttps://www.bagw.co.uk/. Fund
raising towards the completion of the project has also progressed and the
charity is very grateful to all those individuals, trusts and foundations and
others who have supported the project. It is also grateful to those
landowners through which paths run who have permitted the charity to
instal benches etc. The trustees are very encouraged by the progress
now being made.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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The charity continues to develop plans for certain further phased activity in pursuit of its charitable objectives. Its concentration remains on the Five Phases for the meantime.
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
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Section D Achievements and erformance p See above. The charity's main achievements in the year were:- **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** 1. planning of the project including establishment of the Five Phases; **during the year** 2. budgeting and commencing fund raising towards to delivery of the Five Phases; and 3. developing the plan for implementation of the Five Phases. Substantial progress was made and the work done in the year has led to further substantial progress in 2025/26. The fruits of the planning, fundraising and development work done in the year is now manifest on the ground and in other activities carried on by the charity.
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## Section D Achievements and erformance p
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity is currently in a delivery phase and seeks to have sufficient reserves to deliver each phase of its project as that phase commences. The charity will in due course establish a reserves policy aimed at the maintenance and renewal of the benches and related infrastructure being installed by the charity.
**Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
In the year the charity's principal source of funds was donations by You **may choose** to include friends and other individuals. Since the year end fundraising has additional information, where developed with a number of trusts and foundations and others making relevant about: grants to the charity for which it is very grateful. There was no material • the charity’s principal expenditure in the year, but since the year end the charity has sources of funds (including commenced expenditure on the delivery of the five phases identified any fundraising); above.
- 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**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Adrian Bell **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 17-Feb-2026 | 17:56 GMT
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|**Benchmark at Grinham's Wood**||**1175777**||
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|**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**
01.05.24|**To**|30.04.25||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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Donations|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Donation(General Public)|**1,288**||**-**||**-**||**1,288**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**1,288**||**-**||**-**||**1,288**||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**
Cash at bank
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,288**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,288**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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