2022-12-31-accounts - Friends Of Westgate Parks

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date

Period end date

Day 01 Month 01 Year 2021 From To

Day 31 Month 12 Year 2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Friends of Westgate Parks FOWP

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any)1178364

Charity's principal address 21 Whitehall Gardens

Canterbury

Postcode CT2 8BD

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Terence Westgate	Chairman
	Michael Pocock	Secretary
	Richard Vane- Wright	Treasurer
	Colette Baumbank
	Michael Walter
	Peter Blackett
	Ida Linfield
	Jake Weekes

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 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) Appointment by Trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

FOWP has a Management Committee consisting of the Trustees and
You may choose to include elected members elected at the Annual General Meeting.
additional information, where relevant, about: Memorandum of Understanding with Canterbury City Council 15-11-2018
policies and procedures adopted for the induction and FOWP works closely with Anna Bell “Anna Outdoors” for educational training of trustees; activities and Lauren Baker of Our Stour for conservation tasks.
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

To preserve protect and improve the Westgate Parks in Canterbury as a place of historic and ecological interest and beauty; 2. To promote conservation of the natural plant and animal life of the Summary of the objects of the Parks; charity set out in its 3. To advance the education of the public including school children in the governing document subjects of natural history and geography, and by research into the biodiversity, geomorphology and archaeology within the Parks.

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Charity Commission Guidance Notes on Public Benefit (PB1, PB2 and PB 3) have been circulated to, and read by, all of FOWPs’ Trustees. FOWP exercises due regard to this guidance in undertaking its duties and day-today activities. The two aspects of Public Benefit’ have been fulfilled to achieve compliance with the guidance i.e. that the public (to include Canterbury and District residents in general, children attending Primary schools, students attending Secondary schools and Colleges in Canterbury and District and tourists visiting Canterbury are included in the target groups for FOWP.; and that actualbenefit(value) is provided by the work undertaken by FOWP for thepublicthat it serves. Trustees derive no personal benefit from work or activities undertaken by **Summary of the main** FOWP. **activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to** FOWP operates within theWestgate Parks` consisting of Westgate these objects (include within Gardens, Toddler’s Cove, Tannery Field and Bingley Island. this section the statutory Membership of FOWP is open to any resident of Canterbury and District. declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

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

Objective 1. - preservation, protection and enhancement of the Parks Tasks carried out by FoWP volunteers:

With the Physic Garden trustees and volunteers continued working on the raised beds to remove weeds and replace medicinal herbs and plants that have been lost. Also work has continued on the long bed next to the raised beds to improve the planting.
New information boards (which retained an image from the original ceramic signs) were installed at the beginning of 2022.

Objective 2.- promotion of wildlife conservation

Under the Memorandum of Understanding with Canterbury City Council in November 2018 the conservation tasks have been undertaken this year by Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership and FoWP volunteers under the leadership of Lauren Baker or Anna Bell. The following tasks have been completed in 2022:

In October the Tannery Field was mowed and raked by Trustees and volunteers. Towards the end of the year Trustee Michael Walter organised an extension of the wildflower meadow on the other side of the pathway with the help of Canterbury College students who did much of the work in removing turf so that seeds could subsequently be sown.

Lauren Baker also organised monthly riverfly surveys from January to October. and

Objective 3 – advancement of education and research

Lauren Baker organised school visits from three Primary Schools and altogether 290 school children were involved in river dipping and other educational activities.

Lauren Baker also organised an information stand on 15[th] August with information on the River Stour and its wildlife which engaged with 135 people.

Weekly bird counts took place over the entire Westgate Parks area.

Archaeology -

Natural history - Weekly bird counts of the entire Westgate Parks area were carried out by Trustee Michael Walter. The text and images for an information panel for Bingley Island Nature Reserve were completed and the panel was manufactured and installed with joint funding from Friends of Westgate Parks and a Kent County Council grant.

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Section E Financial review

FoWP constantly monitors its financial obligations and outgoings. These Brief statement of the are reported to the Trustees monthly, and at each meeting. Expenditure is charity’s policy on reserves carefully managed to ensure that sufficient reserves are maintained to cover all financial commitments.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

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) Full name(s) Michael Pocock Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Secretary etc)

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Dat 0510512022 TAR Maich 2012

	Charity Name Friends of Westgate Parks	Charity Name Friends of Westgate Parks	Charity Name Friends of Westgate Parks	No (if any) 1178364	CC16a
	For the period from	Period start date 1.1.22	To	Period end date 31.12.22

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Donations 778 Grants - Booklet sales 147 Easter trail 484 - - - 1,409 - - Sub total - Total receipts 1,409 A3 Payments Physicgarden - CAT archaeology Signs 1,315 Mural Insurance 98 Research Easter trail 190 Website 480 Admin 194 Sub total 2,277 - - Sub total - Total payments 2,277 Net of receipts/(payments) - 868 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 6,472 Cash funds this year end 5,604 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ *Sub total*(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)		to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds	to the nearest £ Endowment funds	Total funds to the nearest £ 778 - 147 484 - - - - 1,409 - - - 1,409 - - 1,315 - 98 - 190 480 194 2,277 - - - 2,277 - 868 - 6,472 5,604	Last year to the nearest £
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				6,472	7,850
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Details Details Details Details Details Signature *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	to nearest £ to nearest £ 5,604 - - - - 5,604 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Michael Pocock Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional)	to nearest £ Endowment funds
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			Date of approval
		Michael Pocock	26-052023