## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 01 April 2022 **Period start date To** 31st March 2023 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** Sustainable Nitrogen Foundation
**Charity registration number:** 1180511
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|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
accounts.|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.|
|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 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.|
## **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|The Foundation prepared proposals and
applied for grant funding for research
projects in the following countries:
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. The Trustees engaged
and met with representatives of the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation and UK Aid. An
application was submitted to the Earthshot
Prize.
A scientific publication was prepared by
representatives of the Foundation and the
UK National Physical Laboratory, and
Manchester and Nottingham Universities on
the use of NanoSIMs microscopy to
examine_in planta_nitrogen fixation. The
results demonstrate that fixed nitrogen
derived from the nitrogen-fixing bacteria
_Gluconacetobacter diazotropicus_colonised
maize, preferentially targeting leaf
chloroplasts. This is a significant
achievement and a global scientific first.|
## **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|
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Income: £152.00
Expenditure: £579.00
Total Net Assets: £3,766.00|
|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
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|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.|
## **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||
|Other|||
## **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
IP25 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 (if**
**any)**|
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3
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6
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8
9
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1
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0|Edward
Cocking|Trustee|Founder|Foundation
Board|
||David Dent|Trustee &
Chair|Founder|Foundation
Board|
||Mungo Park|Trustee|Acted for full
year|Foundation
Board|
||Oyinkanasola
Bishi|Trustee|Acted for full
year|Foundation
Board|
||Rebecca de
Souza|Trustee|Acted for full
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**
## **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
## **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) Full name(s)** David Roy Dent
**Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 20th December 2023
||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||
||||1st April 2022||||31st March 2023||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||
|Book Sales|**26**||**-**||**-**||**26**||
|Donations|**120**||**-**||**-**||**120**||
|Project Income|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|IBank Account nterest|**6**||**-**||**-**||**6**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**152**||**-**||**-**||**152**||
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|
**152**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**152**||
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Bank Fees|**72**||**-**||**-**||**72**||
|Website running costs|**120**||**-**||**-**||**120**||
|Fundraising|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Legal Advice|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Insurance|**387**||**-**||**-**||**387**||
|Travel Expenses|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**579**||**-**||**-**||**579**||
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|
**579**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**579**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**-**
**427**||**-**||**-**||**-**
**427**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**4,193**||**-**||**-**||**4,193**||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**3,766**||**-**||**-**||**3,766**||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|Donations and Book Sales||||**3,766**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
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||**_Total cash funds_**||||**3,766**||**-**||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||
||||||DAVID DENT||||
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|||**Last year**||
|||**to the nearest £**||
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|||**19**||
|||**-**||
|||**1,236**||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
|||**1,255**||
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|||**- 0**||
|||**- 0**||
|||||
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|||**1,255**||
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|||**96**||
|||**30**||
|||**236**||
|||**840**||
|||**387**||
|||**89**||
|||||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
|||**1,678**||
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|||**- 0**||
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|||**1,678**||
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||**-**|
**423**||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
||**-**|
**423**||
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|||**Endowment**||
|||**funds**||
|||**to nearest £**||
|||**-**||
|||**-**||
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**-** OK **Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)**
## Date of approval
20/12/23
CCXX R4 accounts (SS)
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