1 ## **Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust Charity Number 1180729** **Annual Report** From 6/4/2022 to 5/4/2023 Principal Address: 3 Church Lane Langar Nottinghamshire NG13 9HG Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust, Trustees’ Report for the period ending 5[th] April 2023 2 ## **Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust** ## **Third Trustees’ Report For the period ending 5[th] April 2023** The Trustees present their report and receipts and payments accounts for the period of 6[th ] April 2022 to 5[th] April 2023. ## **Trustees** Mr Jason Richard Ernest Mordan, Chair Dr Glyn Stephan Green, Treasurer Dr Tamsin Victoria Alice McMillan, Secretary Mr Andrew Ashley Wimble ## **Structure, governance and management** The Trust was constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and registered with the Charity Commission on 16[th] November 2018. ## **Appointment of Trustees** The Trust has a policy for the recruitment of Trustees. Nominations are considered from any source, but any potential Trustee would be expected to bring specific skills and/or experience to the Trust. In selecting new Trustees, the Trust follows the guidance laid down by the Charity Commission. ## **Induction and training of Trustees** New Trustees are briefed on their legal obligations under Charity Law, the content of the Constitution of the Trust and recent trustees’ annual report and financial information of the Trust. ## **Volunteers** Volunteers, some who are members and others who are not, make a contribution to the Trust, including Trustees who devote many hours organising events for the benefit of our supporters, and contributing to its conservation work. ## **Risk management** Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust Trustees have assessed the major risks to which they believe the Trust is exposed and are satisfied that systems have been established to mitigate against them. The Trust has appropriate public liability insurance arranged through the national association: the Gardens Trust. ## **Public benefit** The Trustees of Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust accept the need to have regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit. They recognise that it is their responsibility to ensure that the benefits are realised in Nottinghamshire by promoting all Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust, Trustees’ Report for the period ending 5[th] April 2023 3 aspects of historic designed landscapes both within the membership of the Trust and the wider community. ## **Charitable objectives** To advance the education of the public on matters concerned with the heritage, protection, conservation and enhancement of historic parks, gardens and other designated landscapes of Nottinghamshire for the benefit of the general public and to promote research into the heritage of such parks, gardens and other designated landscapes of Nottinghamshire, ensuring the useful results of such research are disseminated to the public. ## **Main Activities** As a small group of volunteers, the Trust’s events-organising capacity is currently restricted. Until further volunteers can be recruited, we accept this limitation, organising only a small number of events ourselves, but achieving our charitable objectives by sharing invitations to other appropriate events (particularly from the Gardens Trust and other County Gardens Trusts [CGTs]) with our mailing list; being active on social media; and responding to planning applications in order to conserve historic parks, gardens and other designed landscapes. ## **Main achievements and performance** ## _Events_ - 14[th] July: a fascinating evening tour of University of Nottingham, University Park Campus (Millennium Garden, Highfields Walled Garden, renovated Edwardian Rock Garden, Jekyll Garden, and Hugh Stewart Hall). Paid £50 to Friends of Nottingham University Park for guided tour. Sold 8 tickets, making £40 (net loss of £10). - Garden historian David Marsh gave us an online talk on the evening of Thursday 6th October: ‘What makes our garden grow’ – a fun talk about fertiliser in historic gardens. He kindly waived a fee. Total sales £60 (our profit £50.40, after Eventbrite fees). - Planned a garden “Tour and Draw” with artist Jane Fredericks, at Holme Pierrepont Hall. Full day – tour and tuition - £30pp. Was planned for 15[th] July but had to be cancelled as too few bookings. Hope to run in 2024. - Started to plan a joint Heritage Open Day with the Friends of Wollaton Walled Garden, Wollaton Hall, for September 2023. - Investigated private landscapes for visits. - NGT Chair ran lime plastering workshops in 2 brick outbuildings at St Ann’s allotments with the Renewal Trust and some MA postgrad Nottingham Trent University students, starting 25[th] November. Ran two of the sessions as NGT, inviting the Friends of NGT, and making £500 for the Trust. - Started to plan some tree surveying in historic designed landscapes, possibly in collaboration with the Woodland Trust. Had a meeting with WT’s Louise Hackett to discuss this. - Matt Dolman, membership and engagement manager at Bromley House library, invited our members to attend their garden history online talks at a discounted rate. We passed this on to our mailing list. Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust, Trustees’ Report for the period ending 5[th] April 2023 4 ## _Support for conservation projects:_ - We continued to follow and advise on the conservation of the Arts and Crafts gardens at Nottingham Trent University’s Brackenhurst Campus. This included viewing their Conservation Management Plan and advising on a suitable contractor for repairs to the Rose Garden. ## _Other activities:_ - We’ve had a great deal of input into planning ‘Nottinghamshire’s Garden Story’ - a research and recording training project for new volunteers in Notts, instigated by the national Gardens Trust, under their ‘Volunteers Save Space!’ project, which is partfunded by Historic England. - We planned possible partnerships, including parks Friends groups, Inspire, for archive training sessions; and possible sites – preferably in levelling-up priority areas. - On 28[th] March, Trustees visited Ossington Hall, to discuss its potential as a research site. - Trustees visited Sutton Lawn, a public park in Sutton in Ashfield and liaised with the Mill Waters Ranger there. We subsequently, on 6[th] April, ran a joint, familyfriendly event with the GT to run introduce the site’s heritage to its users and to promote the project. - We started to plan a stall at a “Hands on Heritage” local history fair at Mansfield Library, on 13[th] May, to continue volunteer recruitment. - Trustees supported and attended a Japanese Gardens Day, organised by the Japanese Gardens Society, at Newstead Abbey on 10th July. Gave out some NGT leaflets and raised awareness of the Trust. - Liaised with Isle of Wight GT re their request for information about our HLF start-up grant. - Started to update NGT Policies, to include on website. - Set up an NGT Instagram account - Updated website with membership benefits ## _Planning consultations and conservation:_ - In collaboration with the national Gardens Trust, Nottinghamshire GT has responded (including ‘no comments’ responses) to approx. 8 planning applications/consultations which could affect Registered designed landscapes, as well as some affecting undesignated landscapes, including: - ➢ _Annesley Hall reconsultation_ FR3/4371 - ➢ _Annesley Arboretum_ - ➢ _Other work around Annesley_ – Local Plan related. - ➢ _Newark Castle Gardens (Grade II) -_ Newark and Sherwood DC want to reopen an access route at the Normal Gate, from Beast Market, to make a café etc space + new development against curtain wall, including a couple of unnecessary architectural embellishments. The ruins are v much part of the park. Scheme has had stage 1 pass from NLHF. - ➢ _Farms around Rufford Abbey_ – responded to two consultations, including re. a biogas-related development (silage clamp extension) – no comment. Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust, Trustees’ Report for the period ending 5[th] April 2023 5 - ➢ _Papplewick_ single storey extension - no comment. - ➢ Traveller’s site in Bassetlaw, on edge on undesignated parkland of _Haughton Hall_ (interesting landscape with duck decoy, moated site). - ➢ _Clumber Park_ Application to reinstate a number of pathways within the pleasure grounds. - ➢ _Brackenhurst, Southwell_ Proposal for new storage building in gardens - undesignated but on County HER. - This type of work is a major part of our contribution to the conservation of historic parks and gardens in the county and also supports the national Gardens Trust’s role as statutory consultee in relation to planning applications which affect the designed historic landscape. ## **Financial review** On 5th April 2023 the charity held bank balances totalling £2017, comprising £1687 in unrestricted funds and £330 in restricted funds. These unrestricted and restricted funds are held in order to maintain the activities of the charity. ## **Declaration** The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity's Trustees on 6[th] February 2024: Mr Jason Mordan (Chair) Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust, Trustees’ Report for the period ending 5[th] April 2023 **Charity Name No (if any) Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust 1180729** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 06/04/22 05/04/23 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**
Fundraisingevents
**590**
PayPal GivingFund UK
**9**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**600**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 600**
**A3 Payments**
Website
**-**
Insurance and membership
**-**
Event costs (speakers etc.)
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ -**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 600**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**1,417**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 2,017**
**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 £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**339**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**339**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**339**
**- 339**
**-**
**669**
**330**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**590**
**9**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**600**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**600**
**-**
**339**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**339**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**339**
**261**
**-**
**2,086**
**2,347**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**|**590**|**358**| |||**-**|**9**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**600**|**358**| |||||| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**600**|**358**| |||||| |||**-**|**-**|**97**| |||**-**|**339**|**318**| |||**-**|**-**|**50**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**339**|**465**| |||||| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**339**|**465**| |||||| ||**- 339**|**-**|**261**|**- 107**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**669**|**-**|**2,086**|**2,193**| ||**330**|**-**|**2,347**|**2,086**| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**
Co-operative Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Roller banners
**Details**
National Trust - 2019 Clumber event
Domain & Website (2022-24)
Friends of University Park
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||**2,017**
**-**
**-**
**2,017**|**330**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**330**|**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||Date of
approval| |||G S Green||04/03/24| ||||||