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Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust Charity Number 1180729

Annual Report From 6/4/2024 to 5/4/2025

Principal Address: 3 Church Lane Langar Nottinghamshire NG13 9HG

Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust, Trustees’ Report for the period ending 5[th] April 2025

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Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust

Fourth Trustees’ Report For the period ending 5[th] April 2025

The Trustees present their report and receipts and payments accounts for the period of 6[th ] April 2024 to 5[th] April 2025.

Trustees

Mr Jason Richard Ernest Mordan, Chair Dr Glyn Stephan Green, Treasurer Mr Andrew Ashley Wimble Miss Emma Hancock

Other posts

Dr Tamsin Victoria Alice McMillan, Secretary

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.

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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 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 relatively 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; responding to planning applications in order to conserve historic parks, gardens and other designed landscapes; and, during this period, taking part in a research project for volunteers, organised with the Gardens Trust.

Main achievements and performance

Events

• No talks/visits for members this year, as we were well occupied in supporting the end of Nottinghamshire Gardens Story research project and the start of a new project at Sutton Lawn (see other activities, below).

• Prepped for upcoming visits in following months: Ossington Hall and Brackenhurst visits.

Support for other conservation/heritage activities:

• In support of Gardens Trust’s opposition to government consultation to remove it as a statutory consultee, NGT began liaison with Notts Labour MP Nadia Whittome, to see if she could support GT campaign.

• Our Chair gave a talk on Nottinghamshire’s historic parks and gardens to the Friends of Nottingham Archives, 5[th] April.

Other activities:

• We continued our involvement in ‘Nottinghamshire’s Garden Story’ – a joint research and recording training project for new volunteers in Notts, instigated by the national Gardens Trust, under their ‘Volunteers Save Space!’ project, which was part-funded by Historic England. We helped to support volunteers (which included one GT Trustee) as they carried out their research into the landscapes of Ossington Hall; Bestwood Country Park; London Road Cemetery, Newark; Clifton “Central” Flower Park; Rockley Memorial

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Park, Radcliffe on Trent; Norwood Park; Racecourse Recreation Ground, Mansfield; and Langar Hall. The project concluded in May and we organised an end of project celebration visit for the volunteers to Easton Walled Gardens on 21[st] April.

• Started to get involved in a sub-project of the NHLF-funded Mill Waters, Next Steps project: Sutton Lawn Landscapes and Living History Project, which is being run by the Gardens Trust, for Mill Waters.

• Supported the Gardens Trust’s project to examine ways in which the GT and county gardens trusts may work more closely together. This included responding to GT survey in January, Chair and Secretary attending CGT Chairs’ Meet Up in Birmingham, 25[th] March, and Secretary attending regional Meet Up in Birmingham, 1[st] March.

• Chair undertook first aid training.

Planning consultations and conservation:

• In collaboration with the national Gardens Trust, Nottinghamshire GT has responded (including ‘no comments’ responses) to approx. 20 planning applications/consultations which could affect Registered designed landscapes, as well as some affecting undesignated landscapes, including:

• ➢ Solar scheme at Thoresby Park (Grade I) and Clumber Park (Grade I):

• ➢ Topsoil removal at Stanford Hall (Grade II)

• ➢ Clifton Hall (Grade II)

• ➢ Annesley Hall (Grade II*)

• ➢ Rufford Abbey (Grade II)

• ➢ Newstead Abbey (Grade II*)

• ➢ Clifton Hall (Grade II) – Scoping request for gravel extraction.

• ➢ Brackenhurst, Southwell - undesignated but on County HER.

• Liaison with Nottingham City Council’s Conservation Officer and HE re plans for Bromley House’s non-registered Georgian courtyard garden.

• 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 2025 the charity held cash funds totalling £2334, comprising £2018 in unrestricted funds and £316 in restricted funds. These unrestricted and restricted funds are held in order to maintain the activities of the charity.

There were outstanding liabilities of £694, including £87 brought forward from the previous financial year.

Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity's Trustees on 23[rd] January 2026:

Mr Jason Mordan (Chair)

Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust, Trustees’ Report for the period ending 5[th] April 2025

Charity Name	No (if any)
Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust	1180729
Receipts and payments accounts			CC16a
06/04/24 For the period from Period start date	Period end date 05/04/25 To

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2,018 2,018	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 316 316	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -		Last year to the nearest £
PayPal GivingFund UK	-					1
GT Project Funding	-					325
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Sub total(Gross income for AR)	-					326
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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Total receipts A3 Payments
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**Sub total **	-					339
A4 Asset and investment purchases (see table)
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Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
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	2,018	316	-	2,334		2,347
	2,018	316	-	2,334		2,334

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

05/02/2026

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	the end of the period
Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B1 Cash funds	Signature Signed by G S Green (Trustee) Domain & Website (2022-24) Domain & Website (2024-26) Insurance and GT membership GT Project Event Details Details Details Details Co-operative Bank PayPal Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 2,008 316 10 - - - 2,018 316 OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) Restricted 87 Restricted 85 Unrestricted 369 Restricted 153 Print Name G S Green	Endowment funds to nearest £
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	Signed by G S Green (Trustee)	G S Green	22/01/26

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

05/02/2026

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