## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** BACK TO BASICS CIO **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1176426 **Charity's principal address** 61 Bridge Street KINGTON Herefordshire **Postcode HR5 3DJ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||GAVIN LONG|||| |||KWOK-HO TANG|||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| |||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**|**Name**
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**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) CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) APPOINTED Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where 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** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILLHEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE IN SANDWELL AND THE UK; BY PROVIDING FACILITIES TO TEACH SKILLS ON EFFECTIVE FARMING AND: PROVIDING GRANTS TO ASSIST THOSE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO TAKE PART IN SUCH ACTIVITIES. March **2012** **TAR** 2 THE YEAR OF 2020 TO DATE HAS BEEN CHALLENGING IN REGARDS TO THE CURRENT PANDEMIC. WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO HOST ANY TALKS OR ASSIST, IN PERSON, IN WAYS WHICH WOULD HAVE GIVEN US GOVERNANCE CLEARANCE TO DO SO. INSTEAD, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON DIFFERENT STRATEGIES AND UNDERTAKEN MANY ZOOM MEETINGS WITH CHURCH GROUPS IN ORDER TO SEE HOW WE COULD IMPLEMENT DIFFERENT ECO-FRIENDLY MEASURES ONTO THEIR GROUNDS. WE HAVE CONTINUED TALKS WITH LOCAL FARMERS BY WAY OF INTRODUCING HERITAGE SEEDS WITH SEEDBANKS WHICH WE BUILT UP **Summary of the main** GREAT CONNECTIONS WITH. **activities undertaken for the** WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPLORING WAYS ONLINE, BY WAY OF VIDEOS, ON **public benefit in relation to** HOW TO CONVEY THE MEESAGE ACROSS OF VARIOUS WAYS TO **these objects (include within** IMPLEMENT PERMACULTURE STYLE GARDENING IN SMALLER SPACES. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** WE DID NOT PROVIDE GRANTS AS WE HAVE NOT GENERATED ENOUGH **had regard to the guidance** MONEY IN ORDER TO DO SO BUT OUR TALKS WERE FUNDED FROM THE **issued by the Charity** DONATIONS WE RECEIVED SO ALL OF THE TALKS WE PROVIDED WERE **Commission on public** FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC. **benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 ## Section D Achievements and performance THIS YEAR, THE LOCAL WEATHER OF STORMS, FROST AND RAINFALL **Summary of the main** HAS DISRUPTED THE GROWING SEASON SO WE ARE CURRENTLY **achievements of the charity** FOCUSSED ON EXPLORING METHODS WHICH WOULD BE PRACTICABLE **during the year** FOR UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER. WE HAVE CONTINUED TO SUPPORT THE CENTRES WHICH WE SET UP FOR MICROGREENS LAST YEAR AND HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE SEEDS TO VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS WHO SUPPORT THE EDUCATING OF GROWING YOUR OWN AND THE BENEFITS TO ONESELF'S MENTAL HEALTH. WE HAVE CONTINUED TO WORK WITH FOODBANKS IN PROVIDING THOSE WHO HAVE STRUGGLED TO REACH FOOD, AS WELL AS FARMERS WHO STRUGGLED TO FIND PURCHASERS FOR THEIR PROCUCE WHILST RESTAURANTS, AND VARIOUS OUTLETS CONTINUED TO STAY CLOSED THROUGHOUT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** THE CHARITY TRUSTEES HAS EXAMINED AND AGREED THAT AT THIS **Brief statement of the** STAGE, THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT FOR RESERVES. AS THE **charity’s policy on reserves** ORGANISATION GROWS TO ESTABLISH ANY ASSETS, THIS POLICY WILL BE RE-EXAMINED. **Details of any funds materially** NO FUNDS MATERIALLY IN DEFICIT **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** - 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. ## **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)** KWOK-HO TANG **Full name(s)** GAVIN LONG **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** TREASURER **etc)** March **2012** **TAR** 5 Date 12105121 CHAIR TAR Maich 2012