## **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
- 2 KWOK-HO-TANG 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
- 10 11 12 13 14
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- 19 20
## **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**
- 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, 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.
## **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.
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**
## **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, etc)** TREASURER CHAIR **Date** 18/05/2023
5 March **2012**
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