## **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**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Terence Westgate|Chairman|||
||Michael Pocock|Secretary|||
||Richard Vane-
Wright|Treasurer|||
||Colette Baumbank||||
||Michael Walter||||
||Peter Blackett||||
||Ida Linfield||||
||Jake Weekes||||
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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)**
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**Address**|**Name**
**Address**|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **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**
1. 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 actual `benefit` (value) is provided by the work undertaken by FOWP for the `public` that 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 the `Westgate 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:
1. 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.
2. 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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||**Charity Name**
**Friends of Westgate Parks**|**Charity Name**
**Friends of Westgate Parks**|**Charity Name**
**Friends of Westgate Parks**|**No (if any)**
1178364|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
1.1.22|**To**|Period end date
31.12.22||
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|**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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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**778**|**2,014**|
|||||**-**|**2,216**|
|||||**147**|**10**|
|||||**484**||
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|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
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|||||**1,409**|**4,240**|
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**-**|**-**||
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||||**-**|**1,409**|**4,240**|
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**2,074**|
|||||**-**|**1,115**|
|||||**1,315**|**1,560**|
|||||**-**|**720**|
|||||**98**|**99**|
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|||||**480**|**-**|
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|||||**2,277**|**5,618**|
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**-**|**-**||
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||||**-**|**2,277**|**5,618**|
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**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 868**|**- 1,378**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**6,472**|**7,850**|
|||**-**||**5,604**|**6,472**|
## **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**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Michael Pocock|26-052023|
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