## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: 01/10/20 Period start date To: 30/09/21 Period end date** **Charity name: FRIENDS OF RIDLEY PARK** **Charity registration number: 1177588** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Friends of Ridley Park was set up to:**
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**help the inhabitants of Blyth and**
**its surrounding area by providing**
**or assisting in the provision of**
**facilities for recreation and other**
**leisure time occupation.**
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**improve the conditions of life for**
**the inhabitants in the area of**
**benefit by the preservation,**
**promotion, support, assistance**
**and improvement of Ridley Park.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Nature activities:**
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**Bug hotel**
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**Wildlife photos**
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**Bird screen maintenance**
**Gardening/park assistance:**
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**Tree project**
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**Hedging planted**
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**Light gardening**
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**Litter picking**
**Heritage:**
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**COVID-19 commemoration plaque**
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**Bill & Ben mascots**
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**FORP CONNECT**
**Fundraising for park entrance project**
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**One Lottery**
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**Easy Fundraising**
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**Amazon Smile**
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**Public donations**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have observed the**
**Commission’s statutory guidance on**
**public benefit to improve facilities and**
**activities within Ridley Park.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers have spent 500 hours this**
**year working on the park entrance**
**project. Weekly tasks amount to 20**
**hours of volunteer time.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The activities of Friends of Ridley Park**
**were once again impacted by COVID-19**
**and restricted to outdoors.**
**During this financial year FORP received**
**the grant of £15000 which is ringfenced**
**for the park entrance project. A further**
**grant of £5000 was secured, payable**
**once the balance of funding for the park**
**entrance project is achieved. This**
**project will substantially enhance and**
**promote the park to the community. The**
**group continue to fundraise for this**
**project.**
**Due to restricted income, most of the**
**achievements this year relied on**
**volunteer time and minimal or no**
**financial input from Friends of Ridley**
**Park:**
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**Free hedging from NCC tree**
**planting scheme.**
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**Bench painting, using the local**
**Probation service and materials**
**from the County Council. This**
**improves park seating for the**
**general public.**
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**FORP CONNECT – 51 digital**
**editions of newsletter produced**
**to help charity trustees stay in**
**touch, especially those with**
**underlying health conditions,**
**living alone and socially isolated.**| ||**This is valuable archive material**| |---|---| ||**of FORP during COVID-19.**| |•|**Bug hotel was completed and**| ||**installed by members with**| ||**information panel designed by**| ||**FORP.**| |•|**ZOOM Pro licence was donated,**| ||**enabling monthly meetings and**| ||**AGM to take place. It also allowed**| ||**members to work remotely to**| ||**review our policies and**| ||**procedures.**| |•|**Tree project: two specimen trees**| ||**were planted, one of which has a**| ||**dedication plaque to COVID-19**| |•|**Bill & Ben scrapbook of photos**| ||**and timeline was produced. FORP**| ||**members took them on park**| ||**outings and joined in the town**| ||**carnival parade.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Due to COVID 19, all expenditure has**
**been kept to a minimum as our income**
**stream from use of the pavilion has**
**stopped.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Friends of Ridley Park aim to hold £1000**
**in reserves as this will ensure we can**
**cover our Public Liability insurance**
**costs.**| |Amountof reservesheld|Para 1.22|**£1000.00**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO)**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Appointed by Charity Trustees of Friends**
**of Ridley Park**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Safeguarding Policy**
**GDPR Policy**
**Health & Safety Policy**
**Equal Opportunities Policy**
**Volunteer Policy**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Friends of Ridley Park| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1177588| |Charity’s principal address|4 Park View
Blyth
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Fiona Gibson|Chair|2018-present|Trustees of Friends of Ridley
Park| ||Gerald Wallace|Vice Chair|2018-present|Trustees of Friends of Ridley
Park| ||Stuart Olley|Assistant Secretary|2018-present|Trustees of Friends of Ridley
Park| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Fiona Mary Gibson|| ||
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