Pang Valley Flood Forum
Trustees Report to 31[st] March 2025
Trustees: Kay Lacey (Chairman) Piers Allison(Vice Chair) Stephen Billyeald (Treasurer) Brian Connorton Ben Mitchell Stephen Davis
It has been another busy year for the Pang Valley Flood Forum, in part due to the flooding experienced in the winter of 2024/2025.
Meetings:
PVFF held three online meetings via Microsoft Teams in the 12 month period (April 2024, October 2024 and Jan 2025) attended by representatives from the Pang villages as well as from the three RMAs (Risk Management Authority). Actions within the Flood Risk Management Plan (FRMP) were updated at the meeting. Details of the FRMP and associated actions can be found on the PVFF website www.floodalleviation.uk as well as more information in the minutes for each meeting. Our AGM was held on the 14[th] November 2024 as an in person meeting.
PVFF hosted Teams meetings in May 2024 for the Swallowfield Flood Resilience Group and in September 2024 with the A417 Future Flood Resilience group . These meetings were requested by the two organisations as they wished to learn more about our dashboard, website, ways of working and various NFM projects etc.
Other Activities:
Talks
Over the year we gave talks to Pangbourne and Whitchurch Sustainability Group (PAWS) and Tidmarsh Parish Council . We also gave presentations on our experience of delivering an NFM project at the Cirencester Waterways Conference (June 2024), presented on the National Consortium of Societal Resilience webinar (November 2024) and at the Building Communities Together Community Forum at West Berkshire Council offices (November 2024). We also presented about our work to the South Chilterns Catchment Partnership members (Jan 2025).
In October 2024 the Chair took part in the live Media Briefing on Flooding at West Berkshire Council offices and was interviewed on BBC South Today tv programme. She also gave two interviews on Radio Berkshire live.
Education
In June, for the fifth year running, the PVFF had a stand at the Englefield Schools Countryside Day. This is held over two days on the Englefield Estate. We talked to some 500 schoolchildren from a number of different primary schools about the risks associated with flooding, the dangers hidden in flood water and the benefits of natural flood management.
Stakeholder Groups
PVFF are a key stakeholder in the Pang Flagship Chalkstream Restoration Partnership and have attended regular monthly meetings since its inauguration in Jan 2022. PVFF are now a member of the Steering Group .
PVFF are also a member of the South Chilterns Catchment Partnership .
Other
On 26th November 2024 we ran a Flood Insurance Presentation and Q&A at Pangbourne Village Hall. Flood Re talked to local residents about how their scheme worked, and Fernco and PVFF both had stands with samples of Flood Resilience products.
This event was attended by some 40 residents from across Berkshire and beyond.
In Jul 2024 we took part in a workshop organised by Manchester University and commissioned by the Environment Agency . The EA wanted to understand how they could improve their methods of working with voluntary organisations.
Kay Lacey (Chairman) for and on behalf of the Trustees of PVFF 22nd Sept 2025
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| For the period from |
Period start date 01/04/2024 |
To | Period end date 31/03/2025 |
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| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 1,000 1,000 1,000 58 9 156 101 324 324 676 1,372 2,048 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - 9,103 9,103 |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ - 1,000 1,000 1,000 - 58 9 - - - - 156 101 - 324 324 676 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Grants | - | ||||||
| Donations | 1,000 | 647 | |||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
1,000 |
647 | |||||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 647 | |||||||
| Marketing | 282 | ||||||
| Travel, hotel & subsistence | 58 | 81 | |||||
| Stationery,postage, telephone | 9 | 73 | |||||
| Training | - | ||||||
| Legal fees | - | ||||||
| Habitat survey | - | ||||||
| Contract work | - | ||||||
| Insurance | 156 | 156 | |||||
| Other | 101 | 209 | |||||
| Meetings | - | ||||||
| **Sub total ** | 324 | 801 | |||||
| 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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| 801 | |||||||
| 676 | - | - | 676 | - 154 | |||
| - | - | - | |||||
| 1,372 | 9,103 | - | 10,475 | 10,629 | |||
| 2,048 | 9,103 | - | 11,151 | 10,475 |
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 |
Details Total cash funds Bank account COIF investment funds Signature |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 1,151 897 9,103 - - 2,048 9,103 Print Name Mrs KayLacey Stephen Billyeald |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| Date of approval |
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| Mrs KayLacey | |||
| Stephen Billyeald |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
06/12/2025
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