## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/05/2020 To 30/04/2021** **Charity name: Serenity Social & Therapeutic Horticulture** ## **Charity registration number: 1178564** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve sickness and promote and protect health within**
**Darlington and the surrounding area through the provision of**
**therapeutic horticulture to those with, or vulnerable to,**
**mental health problems and to protect physical health**
**through encouraging horticulture-related physical activity;**
**and**
**To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests**
**of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time**
**occupation of individuals resident in Darlington and the**
**surrounding area who have need of such facilities by reason**
**of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or**
**social circumstances with the object of improving their**
**conditions of life.**| |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|**Dr Satinder Sanghera spent the year**
**training to return to General Practice after**
**a period of ill health retirement. In doing**
**so, she was able to look to benefit the**
**charity in new ways whilst the charity**
**was unable to accept clients due to the**
**Pandemic preventing our vulnerable**
**clients from taking any risk with social**
**gatherings.**
**As a direct result of her training she**
**became aware of integrated care services**
**and a new department within this called**
**staff health and well-being. They**
**sign-post NHS staff to wellbeing**
**therapies. We explored this further and**
**decided to link in with this organisation**
**to provide support to clients once NHS**
**covid guidance allowed groups to gather**
**outside.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**yes we have regarded the guidance on**
**public benefit**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|**As already mentioned the pandemic**
**prevented us from being able to open our**
**charity due to restrictions on social**
**gatherings throughout a large part of**
**2020, coupled with the fact that our**
**existing client base were largely all**
**shielding.**
**However this time was well spent**
**gathering information to send the charity**
**in a new direction to help those NHS**
**Frontline staff whilst linking in with an**
**emerging new NHS organisation**
**purposely designed for this.**
**We also used this time to explore skilled**
**volunteers who could contribute to this**
**new service and sourced two excellent**
**mindfulness and greencare therapy**
**coaches as well as retaining an existing**
**excellent tai chi instructor.**
**This year was also spent revamping our**
**website and updating the profiles on our**
**volunteers.**
**Dr Sanghera also trained to volunteer to**
**help during the early stages of the**
**pandemic on the helplines and had**
**successful surgery which would**
**eventually allow her to then embark on a**
**training programme to re-enter general**
**practice**| ||**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||| ||||**as above**|| ||Achievements against|Para 1.41||| ||objectives set|||| ||||**as above**|| ||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|**we’re in a good position as have spent**
**less than £100 with a cash fund at year**
**end of nearly £6,000.00 in the charity**
**bank account**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**we plan to use these funds for the charity**
**work 2021/22**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**nil**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**our overheads are relatively low for this**
**year**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**nil**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**nil**| ## **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|**local grants**| |---|---|---| |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|**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|**Every charity trustee must be ordinarily resident within the**
**Darlington Local Authority District and its environs.**
**There must be at least three charity trustees. If the number**
**falls below this minimum, the remaining trustee or trustees**
**may act only to call a meeting of the charity trustees, or**
**appoint a new charity trustee, subject to the provisions of**
**Clause9(2). A charity trustee appointed under this clause shall**
**complete the term of office that would have been served by**
**the former trustee whose position they have**
**been appointed to fill.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Serenity social & therapeutic horticulture| |---|---| |
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SSTH| |Registered charitynumber|**1178564**| ||||| |---|---|---|---| ||Charity’s principal address|Woodside|| |||North Lane|| |||Killerby|| |||Darlington DL2 3UH|| ||||| ||||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||satinder sanghera|executive
director||| ||mike faulkner|secretary||| ||rita lawson|governance
officer||| ||sanjay patel|treasurer||| ||helen hobson|client support
officer||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name satinder sanghera** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**none**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|n/a| |---|---| |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)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **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**|**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Signature(s)**|||||| ||||||| |**Full name(s)**||Satinder Sanghera||Mike Faulkner|| ||||||| |**Position (eg**|Chair / Executive Director|||Secretary|| |**Secretary, Chair, etc)**|||||| |**Date**|30/2/21||||| CHARITY COMMISSIO FOR ENGLAND ANO WALE Sor•nity Social 8 Th•wJp•utic Hortkultur• 1178W Receipts and payments accounts CC16a F•rth¢ ￿riod from To 115r2020 301412021 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restrictèd funds Endowment funds T•tal tunds Last yea to the near•BtÉ ¢• th• bwr•*t£ to the n&west £ to th• nw•st£ A1 Reeal Donabons 165 165 2,4Q3 4QO R6$irici8d d￿atr)n$ Grants Re51rthd rants Sub totalfGmss inconye for AR) t05 6,771 A2 Asset and inve$tm•nt sal•s, S88 tsbl• . Sub total Total receipts 165 165 6.771 A3 Payments In$ufancs 08S Chqo*s 16 10 16 10 115 21 Consumab Sub total 71 1,1$3 A4 As$et artd inve$tm*nt purchases, (see table) Equipment Tools 6J9 Sub total 639 Total payments 71 71 1,791 Net of receipts/(payrnents) A5 Transfer5 b8tsve8n funds A6 Cash lunds last yèar •nd Cash funds thls yoarend 4.979 4.502 5.902 5,996 923 S.902 Section 8 Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted fvnds Restricted funds ErtdowTnent funds Categories Details to n4ai0si£ B1 Cash funds 4.S96 Total cash funds 4,596 1,4DO Unrestrithd fuftds Restricted funds Endowment funds Detaits to nearnst£ to nwaro51£ n•ar•st£ Fund towhi¢h aM•t b•bongs Details Si loptionAII Cutt•nt valu• loptsonall 83 Invostment assets Fund lo *thich Asset bel¢)n¥$ Curr*nt value Details costlo￿l￿all B4 Assets retalned for the charlty's own use T(KA Stue gh Ra￿d x 2 Trw Catenry Restricted Ch&tsx6 K¢tUe Recydng t¥n Gardw B ReStrthd Knederstrth x 2 sBcatW￿ x 4 BWJ Chairs x 12 FrHlg8 Unr8sirici8d Hose reel un￿s1n¢ted Posters x 2 Unrestnctal GazeLK) Untesincted Teapots x 2 CurfiTrJ equipm8ni Unrestncte¢J Fund towhich t￿Y v•l•t•s Arnouni du• {tiptionall Wh•n du• loptionall Details B5 Liabililigs Signed by ene (* two trustees on behaw of all the tru$tee5 SwJnature Print Name Date of approval Ll