## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 01 April 2021 **Period start date To** 31st March 2022 **Period end date**
## **Charity name: Sustainable Nitrogen Foundation**
## **Charity registration number: 1180511**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance environmental protection or
improvement for the benefit of the public by
carrying out scientific research into
biological nitrogen fixation and publishing
the useful results, with a few to securing
outcomes in the mitigation of greenhouse
gas emissions and water pollution derived
from nitrogen fertilisers in agriculture.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
|Para 1.17 and
1.19|For the period the Trustees have sought
grant funding and donations for research
projects to expand the development,
formulation, production and use of biological
nitrogen fixation in small holder agricultural
production.|
|~~accounts~~
Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
|Para 1.18|The Trustees have at all times had full
regard to the Charity Commission guidance
on public benefit and have made decisions
consistent with the objects and purposes of
the Foundation.|
|~~benefit~~|||
## **Additional information (optional)**
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SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment
No contribution made during the period 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 Foundation prepared proposals and
applied for grant funding for research
projects in the following countries:
Botswana, Mauritius, Senegal, Gabon,
Kenya and Rwanda. All the proposals
involved collaboration with local partners.
Funding was sought for each project and
included applications to private donors, and
public organisations including the Mauritian
Research and Innovation Council.
Collaboration with the UNDP Cultiv@te
Programme involved funding to cover
project development costs for a
collaborative research project to assess
biological nitrogen fixation in cassava,
maize and tomatoes with the Gabon
Agriculture and Forest Research Institute.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Income: £1,255.13
Expenditure: 1,678.28
Total Net Assets: £4,192.80|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22||
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|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|The Charity is a ‘going concern’|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Grant funding and revenues from book
sales of the book entitled ‘Fixed on
Nitrogen’.|
|---|---|---|
|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
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|---|---|---|
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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
|Para 1.25|Trustees were selected and appointed in
accordance with the Foundation’s Policy for
recruitment and appointment of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees is responsible for
review, selection and appointing by majority
vote of all Trustees.|
|~~trustees~~|||
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|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||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Sustainable Nitrogen Foundation|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1181105|
|Charity’s principal address|Cutbush House, White Hall Lane, Saham Toney, Norfolk UK
IP15 7HB|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8|Edward
|Trustee|Founder|~~**(if any)**~~
Foundation Board|
||~~Cocking~~
Alan Burbidge|Trustee|Founder|Foundation Board|
||David Dent|Trustee & Chair|Founder|Foundation Board|
||Gary Devine|Trustee|Acted for the year|Foundation Board|
||Rebecca de
|Trustee|Acted for the year|Foundation Board|
||~~Souza~~
Oyinkansola
|Trustee|Acted for the year|Foundation Board|
||~~Bishi~~
Mungo Park|Trustee|Acted for the year|Foundation Board|
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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**||
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|**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
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## **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) Full name(s)** David Roy Dent
**Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 13/01/23
**N 11**
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Charity Name N
Sustainable Nitrogen Foundation
Receipts and payments acco
For the period
To
from 1st April 2021
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Book Sales 19 - -
Project income UNDP 1,236 - -
Donations - - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 1,255 - -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - -
- - -
Sub total [ - ] - -
Total receipts 1,255 - -
A3 Payments
Bank Fees 96 - -
Website 30 - -
Fund Raising 236 - -
Legal Advice 840 - -
Insurance 387 - -
Travel expenses 89 - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Sub total 1,678 - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total payments 1,678 - -
Net of receipts/(payments) - 423 - -
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## **Receipts and payments acco**
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A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 4,616 - -
Cash funds this year end 4,193 - -
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of
Unrestricted
Categories Details funds
to nearest £
B1 Cash funds Donations and book sales 4,193
-
-
Total cash funds 4,193
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s)) OK
Unrestricted
funds
Details to nearest £
-
B2 Other monetary assets
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
Details asset belongs
B3 Investment assets
Fund to which
Details asset belongs
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
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## **Fund to which Details liability relates**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on Signature Print N behalf of all the trustees DAVID D
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180511
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Period end date
31st March 2022
Total funds Last year
to the nearest £ to the nearest £
19 14
1,236 -
- 3,500
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
1,255 3,514
-
- -
- -
1,255 3,514
96 48
30 1,750
236 -
840 -
387 -
89 -
- -
- -
- -
1,678 1,798
-
-
- -
1,678 1,798
- 423 1,716
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4,616 -
4,193 1,716
the period
Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
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the period
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funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
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Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
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- -
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Current value
Cost (optional)
(optional)
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Cost (optional)
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**Amount due When due (optional) (optional) - - - - -** Date of Name approval DENT 25/1/23