## **Trustees’ Report**
Mount Edgcumbe Cornish Bee Group Registered Charity No. 1177943 1st September 2020 - 31st August 2021
## **Introduction**
The period covered by this third Annual Report to the Charity Commission falls in the middle of the Covid Lockdown. The restrictions imposed during this time severely affected the success of the Mount Edgcumbe Cornish Bee Group in meeting its objectives with respect to community and educational events. However, since managed honey bees are regarded as livestock, conservation and pollination jobs continued to be carried out diligently with the five trustees being regarded as essential workers.
## **Funds**
All the income this year came from donations with the bulk coming from beekeepers who homed colonies raised from our native bee stock. The formal gardens at Mt Edgcumbe House and Country Park were closed to the public but the grounds were still open. Although visitors could not reach the apiary, there were still generous amounts placed in donation boxes around the site.
Since activities were confined to bee husbandry, expenditure was almost exclusively related to apiary equipment, consumables and maintenance. The trustees’ focus was on increasing stock so it was decided to invest in purchasing some newly designed BS Honey 2 in 1 nucleus boxes for raising young colonies. These required fewer worker bees to care for virgin queens during the mating process. They proved to be more effective than the usual standard 6-frame nucleus boxes.
At the end of the accounting period, funds had risen from £2,964 to £4,236 which could be used for other projects once Covid restrictions are lifted.
## **Conservation of the Native Honey Bee**
Due to travel restrictions, surplus colonies were only moved relatively short distances from Mt Edgcumbe. This was actually a positive aspect of our conservation programme since it accelerated the spread of Amm ( _Apis mellifera mellifera_ ) genetic material in the vicinity of the Rame peninsula.
By being able to concentrate on the bees and the apiary, the trustees were able to experiment more freely with queen-raising methods and increase skills of grafting live larvae to artificial cups. This should improve the rate of queen-rearing next season.
## **Summary**
The trustees are confident that the best use was made of the funds available and of the limited opportunities for the charity to develop during this reporting year. It is with renewed optimism that they approach the next stage and plan for future community and educational projects.
**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
## **Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date **To from**
Period start date Period end date **To** 1-Sep-20 31-Aug-21
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
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to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Membership - - - -
Grant - - - -
Donations 2,830 - - 2,830
Publicity - - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
2,830 - - 2,830
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 2,830 - - 2,830
A3 Payments
Insurance - - - -
Apiary equipment 679 - - 679
Apiary consumables 759 - - 759
Apiary maintenance 115 - - 115
PPE - - - -
Honey bottling materials - - - -
Publicity - - - -
Reporting meeting expenses - - - -
Parking 5 - - 5
Sub total [ 1,558 ] - - 1,558
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 1,558 - - 1,558
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,272 - - 1,272
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 2,964 - - 2,964
Cash funds this year end 4,236 - - 4,236
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash
Bank
Bank|**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**77**
**4,129**
**30**
**4,236**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances|with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK|OK||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||
|**charity’s own use**||||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Awaiting invoice
Apiary equipment
Apiary consumables||Unrestricted
Unrestricted
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|
|**-**
**942**
**773**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name||
||||Annette Quartly|||
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CC16a
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## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
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6
60
2,442
70
-
-
-
-
2,578
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**2,578**
**48 1,407 1,499 - 79 97 249 30 3,409**
**3,409 - 831 - 3,795 2,964**
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional)**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval 29-Sep-22