## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.04.2024 Period start date To 31.03.2025 Period end date Charity name: Arun Countryside Trust CIO** ## **Charity registration number:** 1180078 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To promote the conservation, protection**
**and improvement of the physical and**
**natural environment and promote**
**biological diversity in the parishes of**
**Walberton and Arundel and the**
**neighbourhood (the area of benefit) and**
**more generally in the district of Arun and**
**in the county of West Sussex. To**
**promote public understanding and**
**enjoyment of the physical and natural**
**environment and cultural heritage**
**of the area of benefit for current and**
**future generations.**| |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|**During this accounts period the charity**
**has seen no activity due to lack of**
**available volunteer time. The expenditure**
**in the accounts for the year is purely**
**website and insurance cost, met by**
**donations given by a trustee for that**
**purpose.**| |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 had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **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|| |||| 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|**The primary driver of volunteer activity in**
**the charity was to understand and**
**protect, conserve and enhance local**
**communities’ valued countryside in the**
**Arun area, particularly in the context of**
**the threat to it from National Highways’**
**A27 Arundel Bypass proposals.**
**Volunteers and trustees are coming to**
**the view following its cancellation that**
**the objectives of the charity in this**
**respect have been sufficiently achieved.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||**Volunteers have shifted their**
**commitment to other local environmental**
**initiatives concentrating more on**
**residential areas and their immediate**
**surrounds such as Greening Arundel.**
**Arun Countryside Trust trustees agreed**
**in January 2025 to transfer remaining**
**funds to a Sussex Wildlife Trust account**
**for similar purposes, close the bank**
**account and seek closure of the CIO.**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**See the accounts for the year ended 31**
**March 2025**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**To hold enough in reserves to continue**
**acting for two years: however, this**
**intention is under review, see previous**
**page.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£545**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**| **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**| |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|**By existing trustees**| **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|| |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|Arun Countryside Trust CIO| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Arun Countryside Trust, MAVES| |Registered charity number|1180078| |Charity’s principal address|Byne Cottage
Manley’s Hill
Storrington
Pulborough
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||TonyWhitbread|||| ||William Martin
Treves|||| ||Michael Guy
Tristram|||| ||Julia Caroline
Plumstead|||| ||Camilla Judith
Lambert|Chair||| ||Caroline Linda
Powell|||| ||David William
Macpherson|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 None held in this capacity Name and objects of the Not applicable charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Not applicable 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** |**Signature(s)**
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**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Michael Guy Tristram|| ||
Trustee|| ||15.12.2025|| ||15.12.2025|| |CHARITYCOMMISSION
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AR)||526||||547| ||A2Assetandinvestmentsales,||||||| |(seetable).||||||| |Sub|total|||||| |Totalreceipts||526|||526|547| |A3Payments||||||| |Mermbershipfees&subscriptions||||||| |insurance||12:|||126|157| |Consultantecologist||||||| ||Surveyfees:bats||||||| ||Surveyfees:other||||||| |Eventcosts||||||| |Website&ITcosts||390||||390| |Roomhire||||||| |Dormouseprojed costs||||||| |Subtotal||516|||516|547| |A4Assetandivestment||||||| |purchases, (see table)||||||| |Subtotal||||||| |Totalpayments||516|||516|547| |Netofreceipts/(payments)||10|||10|| |A5Transfers betweenfunds||||||| |A6Cashfundslastyearend||635|||535|535| |Cash funds this year end||645|||545|545| |SectionBStatement|ofassetsandliabilitiesattheendoftheperiod|ofassetsandliabilitiesattheendoftheperiod|ofassetsandliabilitiesattheendoftheperiod|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Categories|Details|Unrestricted
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funds| |B1Cashfunds||to nearest £|tonearest£|tonearest£| |||536||| |||Totalcashfunds
536||| ||(agreebalanceswthreceiptsandpayrnents|||| |||aCCOunt(s)||| |||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |||funds|funds|funds| ||Details|tonearest£|tonearest£|tonearest£| |B2Other monetary assets||||| ||Details|Fundtowhich
assetbelongs|Cost(optional)|Currentvalue
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behalfofalthetrustees||Signature
PrintName||Date of
approval| |||Mike Tristram
JuliaPlumstead||4/al2s|