## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
BACK TO BASICS CIO
**Charity name Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1176426 **Charity's principal address** 108 BEWDLEY ROAD
POSTPAC KIDDERMINSTER **Postcode DY11 6RL**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
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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) CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
APPOINTED
(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.
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THROUGHOUT 2024 – 2025, OUR FOCUS HAS BEEN ON DISTRIBUTION OF SEED PACKS, SOIL AND CONTAINERS TO TEACH THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY THE FULL CYCLE OF FOOD TO FORK.
WE HAVE HELD WORKSHOPS ON THE DIFFERENCES IN ORGANIC AND PERMACULTURE FARMING COMPARED TO MODERN CONVENTIONAL METHODS.
THIS PERIOD HAS INTRODUCED VARIOUS AI METHODS AND HOW THE EMERGING AI CAN BE USED TO ASSIST WITH MONITORING LEVELS IN SOIL AND PLANT HEALTH FOR MORE EFFICIENT FARMING.
**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)**
WE HAVE WORKED WITH LOCAL SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITIES TO INTRODUCE MICRO:BITS FOR OBSERVATING DEMONSTRATABLE, INSTANT RESULTS TO ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC AND SHOW HOW TRADITIONAL FARMING CAN CO-EXIST WITH THE LATEST AND MODERN TECHNOLOGIES.
WE HAVE CONTINUED TO EDUCATE VIA WORKSHOPS UP AND DOWN THE UK AT VARIOUS VILLAGE HALLS, CHURCHES AND COMMUNITY GATHERINGS.
**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.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
THE MAIN ACHIEVEMENT THIS YEAR HAS BEEN TO CONTINUE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DIGITAL APP TO BETTER ENGAGE WITH THE YOUNGER GENERATION TO CONTINUE SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE OF SEEDS, VARIOUS FOODS AND THEIR NUTRITIONAL BENEFIT. WE ARE EXPLORING AI INTEGRATION IN THE EARLIER VERSION OF THE APP IN ORDER TO MAKE IDENTIFICATION OF SEEDS, PLANTS AND THEIR BENEFITS EASIER TO ACCESS.
WE HAVE CONTINUED WORKING WITH SCHOOLS TO ENGAGE CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS WITH NUTRITIONAL INVALUABLE INFORMATION. WE HAVE HAD VERY POSITIVE FEEDBACK WITH HOW MUCH INFORMATION HAS BEEN TAKEN IN WHEN IT IS UNDERSTOOD WITH HOW THE KNOWLEDGE CAN BE APPLIED. CORPORATE EVENTS TEACHING EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS HOW VARIOUS INTAKES COULD IMPACT OUTPUTS AND TEAMWORK. THIS HAS ACHIEVED VERY POSITIVE FEEDBACK AND RESULTS, OFTEN RESULTING IN PHASE 2 AND 3 TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING THOSE RESULTS.
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## **Section E Financial review**
THE CHARITY TRUSTEES HAS EXAMINED AND AGREED THAT AT THIS **Brief statement of the** STAGE, THERE WILL BE A 10% OF INCOME KEPT 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)** CHAN NGO **Full name(s)** KWOK-HO TANG **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** TREASURER CHAIR **etc)** 5
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