Wildlife in Ascot Annual Report for the Charity Commission For the year 2021
This year’s activities were less affected by the Covid pandemic. However we did not carry out any indoor group activities.
We had two online talks this year in January and February. One on badgers and the other on the potential impacts of climate change on wildlife.
We continued with our conservation and recording work and were able to invite supporters to join us again. This year we maintained the local wildflower beds, recorded trees, monitored our local “kingfisher flyway” pond, carried out conservation work at our local SANG, and a primary school wildlife garden and recorded flowering wildflowers at a local wildlife site.
In the summer we dug a pond in the woodland at a local wildlife site and in the autumn we planted whips of alder buckthorn and hawthorn around the grassland area at the SANG to provide scrub for wildlife and nesting birds in the future. We also took part in the FreshWater Watch Thames WaterBlitz taking and analysing samples of water from our local waterways along our green corridors which flow into the River Thames.
We had 300 copies of our A5 wildlife booklets, written last year, printed and have given away and sold around 200 copies over the year including copies for the classes at a local primary school. We sold copies from our stand at Silwood Bugs, Birds and Beasts day where we also spoke with local residents about our wildlife and had a range of gardening for wildlife leaflets for people to take. They are also in stock at a local store in Sunninghill village.
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR-ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2021;
| y/e 31Dec | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General; | Specific; | TOTAL; | 2020; | |||||||
| Income; | £2,774.86 | £0.00 | £2,774.86 | £884.07 | ||||||
| Expenditure; | £612.25 | £0.00 | £612.25 | £177.55 | ||||||
| Net income; | £2,162.61 | £0.00 | £2,162.61 | £706.52 | ||||||
| Reconciliation of funds; | ||||||||||
| Brought forward | £6,581.59 | £0.00 | £6,581.59 | £5,875.07 | ||||||
| Carried forward | £8,744.20 | £0.00 | £8,744.20 | £6,581.59 |
| BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2021; | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current Assets; | |||||||
| Stock | £318.26 | £105.00 | |||||
| Bank | £8,403.81 | £6,418.64 | |||||
| Petty cash | £72.13 | £107.95 | |||||
| £8,794.20 | £6,631.59 | ||||||
| Current Liabilities; | |||||||
| Creditor | £50.00 | £50.00 | |||||
| Net Current Assets | £8,744.20 | £6,581.59 | |||||
| Funds of the Charity; | |||||||
| Restricted (specific) | £0.00 | £0.00 | |||||
| Unrestricted (general) | £8,744.20 | £6,581.59 | |||||
| £8,744.20 | £6,581.59 | ||||||
Prepared by Malcolm Hawkes 14/03/2022 Reviewed by Michelle Margetts 08/06/2022