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|bjectiv|e|s|and A|ctivitie|s||
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||||||SORP reference||
|Summary||ofthe purposes|||Para 1.17|Topromote high standards
ofarchitecture,|
|ofthe charity as set out in||||||conservation,
planning,
design and use of|
|its governing|||document|||buildings
in Belsize and to promote the|
|||||||protection
and improvement
ofhistoric or|
|||||||public interest;|
|||||||Tapromote
high standards
in urban planning,|
|||||||infrastructure
and transport, the maintenance|
|||||||and improvement
ofstreets and public places,|
|||||||and the protection ofthe environment
in|
|||||||Belsize;|
|||||||Tafoster interest amangst the pubiic in Belsize|
|||||||and more generally
in the history ofthe area.|
|Summary
activities||ofthe main
in relation to those|||Para 1.17and
1.19|The Society's activities allow Society members
to contribute
views on ways that local public|
|purposes||for the public||||services might be improved,
and allow the|
|benefit,
in particular,
actlvNes, projects of
services identified
in||||the
the||Society toco-ordinate views on local planning
applications
and asappropriate
make
representations
to the local authority.
They|
|accounts.||||||allow the Society to participate
in projects|
|||||||designed to improve
local environmental|
|||||||conditions.|
|||||||The Society provides information
about local|
|||||||issues and activities through
quarterly|
|||||||newsletters,
two noticeboards
and a website.|
|||||||As the accounts show, a large proportion
of|
|||||||our annual
expenditure
goes towards|
|||||||printing/maintenance
in these areas.|
|Statement|confirming|Para 1.18|The Trustees have had regard to this guidance.|
|---|---|---|---|
|whether the trustees have||||
|had regard|tothe guidance|||
|issued by|the Charity|||
|Commission
on public||||
|benefit||||
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|||||SORP reference||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||The|Society is not a grant-giving
charity but, as||
|||||Para 1.38|an activity ancillary to its charitable||purposes,|
|Policy on|grant making||||it has been the charity's
practice from time to|||
||||||time to make donations that are in||accordance|
||||||with|the Society's general aims. Futf|details of|
||||||the|Society's Donations
Policy can be found on||
||||||its website www. beisize.org.uk|||
||||||N/A|||
|||||Para 1.38||||
|Policy on|social investment|||||||
|including|program||related|||||
|investment||||||||
||||||The|Society has no employees,
therefore||
|||||Para 1.38|almost all activities are undertaken||on a|
|Contribution||made|by||voluntary
basis. Specifically:|||
|volunteers||||||the Society publishes
a quarterly||
|||||||newsletter
which volunteers
from the||
|||||||membership
help to distribute;||
|||||||The Society's educational
events (for||
|||||||example guided
historical
walks|such as|
|||||||the one in 2021described
below) are led||
|||||||by volunteers||
|Other||||||||
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|chievements
and Perf|ormance||
|---|---|---|
||SORP reference||
|||As in 2020, 2021was a year affected|
|||significantly
by the pandemic,
but the year did|
|||see most ofthe Society's activities continuing|
|Summary
ofthe main
achievements
ofthe charity,
identifying
the difference the
charity's
work has made to
the circumsfances
of its
beneficiaries
and any wider|Para 1.20|more normally. Some are adapting to the new
ways ofworking: the Committee
have
resumed face-to-face meetings,
blending
with
an online option. The Society was able to hold
tts AGM an 7Ma~h 2021via Zaam, with
around 45 members
attending.|
|benefits|to|society|as|a||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|whole.|||||The Society was able to conduct a historic|
||||||walk in September 2021, led by a former|
||||||Chair. In November
we screened
a member's|
||||||illustrated
production,
'The Story of Moll|
||||||I0n~~s Belsize iiouses, usi'ng tihe opportunity|
||||||to celebrate a half-century
ofactivities
by the|
||||||Society and its predecessor
body. Oecember|
||||||saw us host a Society carol singing event|
||||||which raised a considerable
sum for the local|
||||||Marie Curie Hospice. Some events were|
||||||affected by the restrictions
on social|
||||||gatherings,
with the Society's usual summer|
||||||garden
party having to be cancelled.|
||||||Throughout
the year the Society's planning|
||||||team continued to look atapplications
for|
||||||planning
permission
made to Camden
Council|
||||||in the Belsize area, reviewing
about 39and|
||||||commenting
on 11.The year saw our planning|
||||||lead putting
in considerable
effort at an|
||||||appeal
by the developers
ofthe site at 100|
||||||Avenue Road, Swiss Cottage. The developers|
||||||were challenging
the Council's refusalto|
||||||reduce the obligations
around the provision of|
||||||affordable
housing. The Society appeared
as|
||||||an interested
party and provided
a submission|
||||||to the Planning
Inspector. The result was very|
||||||much as we had hoped, with the Inspector|
||||||upholding
the Council's decision.|
||||||The Society welcomed
a new committee|
||||||member to monitor local tree applications,|
||||||looking at 276applicati'ons
and commenting|
||||||on 28.There was also a positive dialogue
with|
||||||Camden
Council about how to celebrate the|
||||||Queen's
Platinum
Jubilee by planting trees in|
||||||the area. We met with the Council to discuss|
||||||the enforcement
ofits policies concerning|
||||||large developments.|
||||||The quarterly
newsletters
continued to be|
||||||produced,
with the 2021edition ofour|
||||||popular Tradesmen
You Can Trust pamphlet|
||||||accompanying
the August newsletter.
Issues|
||||||included
articles drawn from the Society|
||||||archives to celebrate 50years ofwork, as the|
||||||Society as it is currently
constituted
and as|
||||||formerly
Belsize Residents'
Association.
Hand|
||||||delivery was affected by restrictions
on one|
||||||occasion, and the newsletter
continued to be|
|u ma
choo|se|to include furt|her statements|where|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||N/A|
|Achievements||against|Para 1.41||
|objectives set|||||
|||||N/A|
|Performance||offundraising|||
|activities against objectives|||Para 1.41||
|set|||||
|||||N/A|
|Investment|performance||Para 1.41||
|against objectives|||||
|||||N/A|
|Other|||||
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|Review|ofthe charity's|Para 1.21|Income for|the period: f5,702|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|financial|position at the end||Expenditure|forthe period: f5,446|
|ofthe period|||||
||||Total cash|assets (Incli&ding reserves)' f16445|
|||||The Society has no non-cash assets.|The Society has no non-cash assets.|The Society has no non-cash assets.|The Society has no non-cash assets.|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Statement
explaining|the||Para 1.22|The Society holds cash||reserves|for use in the|
|policy for holding
reserves||||event of|its future involvement||in initiatives|
|stating
why they are|held|||involving|financial outlay which||could not be|
|||||covered|by the Society's annual||income|
|||||tiirougil|membership|Ices (about E5i000)||
|Amount
of reserves|held at||Para 1.22|f13,159.29||||
|the end ofthe
enod||||||||
|Reasons for holding|zero||Para 1.22|N/A||||
|reserves||||||||
|Details offund materially||in|Para 1.24|N/A||||
|deficit||||||||
|Explanation
of any|||Para 1.23|N/A||||
|uncertainties
about the||||||||
|charity continuing
as a||||||||
|oin
concern||||||||
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|u ma
choos|e to include furt|her statements|where relevant about:||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||The Society derives its annual
income from||
||||membership
fees (currently f10a year) and||
|The charity's
principal
sources offunds (including||Para 1.47|the occasional unsolicited
donation.
All fees
are paid by members
resident
locally, apart||
|any fundraising)|||from one paid by a member
resident
in the||
||||Republic of Ireland. There is no requirement|to|
||||live locally to be a member of the Society—||
||||anyone with an interest in the area is||
||||welcome. Also, there is no requirement
to be a||
||||member to attend our events, such as the||
||||historic walks. During 2021,44 new member||
||||households
joined the Society. At the end of||
||||the period the total paying membership
was||
||||543,with afurther 21 complimentary||
||||members.||
||||Membership
fees support the costs of||
||||producing
material
reporting
on the Society's||
||||activities (such as quarterly
newsletters)
and||
||||advertising
events (e.g.posters), as well as the||
||||maintenance
ofnoticeboards
and a website.||
||||In 2021the Society made its second claim to||
||||HMRC in respect ofits entitlement
under the||
||||current Gift Aid arrangements
(financial
return||
||||refers).||
||||Since becoming a charity
in November 2018||
||||the Society has not engaged
in any fundraising||
||||exercise.||
||||During the period
in question the Society has||
||||rece!ved no income from contracts or grant||
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|Description
ofcharity's||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|trusts:||||||
|Type ofgoverning|Para 1.25|Constitution||||
|document||||||
|How is the charity|Para 1.25|CIO||||
|constituted?||||||
|Trustee selection methods|Para 1.25|Four trustees||were in place during|this|
|including
details ofany||reporting
period, and an additional|||trustee|
|constitutional
provisions e.g.||was appointed||on 12May 2021.The||
|election to post. or name of||constitution|sets out that the founding|||
|any person or body entitled||(establishment||ofthe CIQj trustees|had to|
|to appoint one or more|resign and stand for re-election|at the|
|---|---|---|
|trustees|Society's first AGM (as occurred|in March|
||2020; all four were reappointed).|In the|
||future, the constitution
sets out|that a third of|
||the trustees should resign ahead|of each AGM.|
||They can be re-elected but nominations
from||
||those who wish to stand
will also be solicited||
||in the pre-AGM papers.||
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|u ma
c|hoo|s|e to i|nclude furt|her stateme|nts|where rele|van|van|t about:|t about:||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||Trustees|are||made aware ofthe||Charity|||
||||||||Commission's||||requirements
on,|and guidance|||
|Policies
adopted|and procedures
for the induction||||Para 1.51||for, trustees.
governance|||One trustee {responsible
matters)
is available to be||||for|
|and training||oftrustees|||||consulted||by others, and by members,|||||who|
||||||||have questions||||or concerns about propriety.||||
||||||||The day-to-day||||business ofthe Society|||is taken|
||||||||forward|by a committee
which includes||||||all the|
|The charity's
structure
and|||organisational
any wider||Psra 1.51||Trustees
plus some other members
appointed
at the AGM, The Trustees meet alone (i.e.||||||||
|network|with||which|the|||separately||from the committee)|||when|||
|charity works|||||||necessary||to consider trustee-specific||||matters.||
||||||||N/A||||||||
|Relationship|||with any||Para 1.51||||||||||
|related parties|||||||||||||||
||||||||N/A||||||||
|Other|||||||||||||||
|eferen|ce|and||Administrative||details|||||||||
|Charity|name||||The Belsize Society||||||||||
|Other name||the charity|||N/A||||||||||
|uses|||||||||||||||
|Registered||charity||number|1180842||||||||||
|Charity's|principal|||address|Flat1||||||||||
||||||20 Netherhall||Gardens||||||||
||||||London||||||||||
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||Trustee name|Office (ifany)|Dates acted ifnot
forwhole
ear|Dates acted ifnot
forwhole
ear|Name ofperson
a
oint trustee|Name ofperson
a
oint trustee|(or body} entitl
ifan|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|1|Prabhat Vaze|Chair|||N/A|||
||Anne Stevens|Membership|N/A|||||
|||Secretary||||||
|3|Neil Harris|Treasurer|N/A||N/A|||
|4|Michael Jampel|Governance|N/A||N/A|||
||Barbara Abraham|Trees|12.05.2021||N/A|||
||||onwards|||||
|10||||||||
|12||||||||
|16||||||||
|17||||||||
|19||||||||
|20||||||||
|Funds held as custodian|Funds held as custodian|trustees on behalf ofothers|
|---|---|---|
|Description
ofthe assets||N/A|
|held
in this capacity|||
|Name and objects ofthe||N/A|
|charity on whose behalf|the||
|assets are held and how|this||
|falls within the custodian|||
|charity's objects|||
|Details ofarrangements|for|N/A|
|safe custody and|||
|segregation
ofsuch assets|||
|from the charity's
own|||
|assets|||
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|Names|and addresses|ofadvisers
(Optional
informat|ion)|
|---|---|---|---|
|Type of|Name|Address||
|adviser||||
|N/A||||
|Name ofchief|executive or names ofsenior staff members||(Optional|
|information)||||
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|INCOIIIIE
SUBSCRIPTIONS
OVERSEASEXCESS
INTEREST
GIFTAID
DONATIONS (from members}
OTHER|2021
R5,200.00
RS.QQ
R47.94
R354.29
R95.00||2020
R5,330,00
R15.00
R89.79
R357.00
R1,45900|2019
R5,550.00
R5.00
R41.83
8115.00|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||RQ,QQ||R288.97|R5.00|
|TOTAL INCOME|||||
|||||R5„?16.53|
|EXPENDITURE|||||
|PROVISiONS FOR EVENTS
STATIONERY
PRINTING
PHOTOCOPIES
POSTAGE
GIFTS
HIRE OF ROOMS
SUBSCRIPTIQNS REFUNDED
WEBSITE
DONATIONS (see below )
ENTERTAiNMENT
INS' 'RANCE
NOTICEBQAROS (Inc. Printing)
OTHER (seebelow
)
TOTAL EXPENDITURE|R190.08
R88.19
R1,356.09
RQ.GO
R488.94
RG.OQ
R284,00
RQ.QQ
R110.40
R2,100.00
FO.QQ
R23'J.OQ
R1'I1.84
R485.00
R5~.54||R117.50
R92.07
R1,423.98
RO.QO
R21.72
RG.OG
R239,00
RQ.QQ
R283.40
R1,900.00
R150.00
R220.00
R70.80
R516.84
R5,015.29|R33.85
R344.00
R1,97?.73
RO.OQ
R409.61
RQ,OO
R239.00
RG.OO
R842 40
R1,050.00
RG,GO
R220 nO
R370.99
R380,00
R5,54?.38|
|SURPLUSI(DEFICIT} FORYEAR|||R2,482A?|R68AS|
|BALANCE SHEETAT:
BANK BALANCES
l ESSUNPAID DONATIONS|3'II12I202'I
R18,445.20
0|31I124620
R$8,188.51
RO.OO||31I12I2020
R13,708.04
RQ.QQ|
|TOTAL NETSAUNCE|R15,445.20|R18,158.5'I||R13,?08.04|
|REPRESENTED BY:|||||
|SURPI USAT START OF YEAR
SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) FOR YEAR|R16,188.51
R256.69|R13,?08.Q4
R2,4824?|||
|SURPLUS AT END OF YEAR|R18,445.20|R15,185.51|||
|"Donations
NBade in 2021|||||
|Betsize ubrary||Aileen Hammond|Flowers|R85.00|
|Royal Free Charity
The Winch|R400.00
R250.00|David Percy Event Costs
Carols Leader Fee||R250.00|
|Hive Centre|||||
|Chalk Farm Food Bank|R250.00||Total||
|Camden Age UK|R250.00||||
|Beislze Village Lights|R200.00||||
|C4WS Homeless
Project|R250.00||||
|Total|||||