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2022-07-27-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

From Period start date To Period end date Day 28 Month JULY Year 2021 Day 27 Month JULY Year 2022

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1176426

BACK TO BASICS CIO N/A

Charity's principal address 61 BRIDGE STREET KINGTON HEREFORDSHIRE Postcode HR5 3DJ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Dates acted if not for whole Trustee name Office (if any) year appoint trustee (if any)

1 GAVIN LONG

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

1 March 2012

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Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

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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, ILL HEALTH, 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.

2 March 2012

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BETWEEN JULY 2021 AND JULY 2022, WE HAVE CONTINUED TO BUILD OUR WORKSHOPS, ENRICHING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S MENTAL WELLBEING, SOCIALISING SKILLS AND UPSKILLING BY WAYS OF LEARNING SOMETHING DIFFERENT. WE HAVE INTRODUCED WORKSHOPS GOING RIGHT BACK TO BASICS, SUCH AS LISTENING WORKSHOPS, TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOPS, SILENT WORKSHOPS, READING CLUBS AND HAVE MORE RECENTLY BEEN EXPLORING THE OPTION OF A MEMBERSHIP SCHEME IN ORDER TO EXPAND THE REACH OF THOSE WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM OUT WORKSHOPS. Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public WE HAVE ON-BOARDED A VARIETY OF LOCAL CRAFTSMEN WHO benefit in relation to these HAVE STRUGGLED WITH THEIR SMALL BUSINESSES DURING objects (include within this COVID-19 AND HAVE TURNED THEIR SKILLS INTO WORKSHOPS, TO section the statutory WHICH, MANY HAVE BENEFITED FROM. declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance REGARDING THE FARMING ASPECTS OF OUR CHARITY, WE HAVE issued by the Charity CONTINUED TO WORK WITH A SMALL HANDFUL OF ALLOTMENTS Commission on public benefit) AND UNUSED GARDEN SPACES OF THOSE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES TO CONTINUE GROWING FOODS USING PERMACULTURE TECHNIQUES AND PROVIDING THAT SPACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME AND TOUCH, SEE, TASTE AND FEEL AS AN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ACTIVITY.

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3 March 2012

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Section D Achievements and performance

ON-BOARDING SMALLER BUSINESS OWNERS AS VOLUNTEERS Summary of the main TO OUR WORKSHOPS AND CONTINUING TO BUILD OUR REACH achievements of the charity SO MORE CAN BENEFIT FROM THE RESULTS OF BELONGING TO A during the year GREAT COMMUNITY WHO ARE EACH WILLING TO LEARN FROM EACH OTHER, AS WELL AS TEACH OTHER WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW SO THUS A SENSE OF PRIDE, MOTIVATION AND ACCOMPLISHMENT IS ACHIEVED FROM ALL PARTIES INVOLVED.

4 March 2012

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Section E Financial review

THE CHARITY TRUSTEES HAS EXAMINED AND AGREED THAT AT Brief statement of the THIS STAGE, THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT FOR RESERVES. AS charity’s policy on reserves THE ORGANISATION GROWS TO ESTABLISH ANY ASSETS, THIS POLICY WILL BE RE-EXAMINED.

Details of any funds materially NO FUNDS MATERIALLY IN DEFECIT. in deficit

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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, etc) TREASURER CHAIR Date 18/05/2023

5 March 2012

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