Lowberdale Farm
Annual Report for period 1[st] April 2022 to 31[st] March 2023
1. Charity Details
Lowberdale Farm – a Charitable Incorporated Organisation Charity Registration Number – 1180913
Address of Operation: Field House Farm, Hulme End, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 0HQ
Trustees:
Chair – Robert Sales Treasurer – Henry Rusch Rev Timothy Morris Andrew Brown Liz Hitch Dorothy Hawton Tamara Oates Fiona Goodyear
2. Governance and Management Structure
The existing group of trustees has remained stable over this period and have continued to meet circa six times a year to ensure the Charity meet regulatory requirements, is operating effectively and meeting its goals. The Board is supported by a secretary, Andrew Warren. The day to day management of the Care Farm continues to be carried out by Mark Lowe, an experienced teacher and farmer. Mark is assisted in his role by trained volunteers.
Work has also continued by the Board to ensure policies have been updated annually and procedures are in place for running programs on the farm.
3. Objectives, activities and achievements during the period
We ran a ‘Summer Shepherding School’ over with Summer holidays, in conjunction with ‘Carers Connecting SEN High Peak’. Young people attended for a half a day a week, over the 6 week period. We ran one group in the morning (9.30am till 12.00pm) and another group in the afternoon (2pm till 4.30pm). Young people attended in groups of 4 and were ranging in age from 12 to 16 year olds. Due to demand we also ran 2 sessions for a younger group of young people (8-10 year olds).
The program was advertised by ‘Carers Connecting SEN High Peak’, who collated appropriate referrals. The young people typically had challenges relating to social anxiety and low confidence resulting from ASD/ADHD type conditions.
During these sessions young people covered the following objectives:
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Basic sheep herding and handling
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Sheep and lamb health checks
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Health treatments – worming, foot trimming, foot bathing etc.
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Monitoring of growth, condition and weight
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Use of handling, shedding and weighing systems
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Selection of sheep for breeding and slaughter
The feedback from the parents was very positive, an example as shown in the example below:
‘Hi, my daughter has totally loved this ac5vity and by that I mean she’s gu:ed to be coming home! The staff at the farm are lovely and great with the children. The 2 1/2 hours a week isn’t long enough according to my daughter lol. We would definitely book this again even if there was a price increase to a:endees.
My daughter was very socially awkward the first 5me but the staff really supported her and helped her make new friends xx’
Due to the success of the Summer program it was decided to run a similar program in conjunction with ‘Carers Connecting SEN High Peak’ over the lambing period in April 2023 and again in the Summer of 2023.
5. Financial Review
The repor(ng period covers the year to 31st March 2023. The charity began with £8365 and ended the period with £7652. Income included dona(ons of £1750 from running shepherding courses for disadvantaged children, while costs were contained at £2463, including £628 rela(ng to the prior year. Focus is now very much on how best to generate income to support the Charity and the provision of our charitable objec(ves.
| Charity Name | Charity Name | Charity Name | Charity Name | Charity Name | No(if any) | No(if any) | CC16a | ||
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | |||||||||
| For the period from |
Period start date | To | Period end date | ||||||
| 1st April 2022 | 31st March 2023 | ||||||||
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||||
| Unrestricted funds |
Restricted funds | Endowment funds |
Total funds | Last year | |||||
| to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | |||||
| A1 Receipts | |||||||||
| Laptop 07-04-2021 | - | - | - | 300 | |||||
| HPP Donation 13-03-2022 | - | - | - | 5,000 | |||||
| Donations | - | - | - | ||||||
| Shepherding Course | 1,750 | - | - | 1,750 | |||||
| Easter Lambing | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Sub total_(Gross income for AR) _ | 1,750 |
- | - | 1,750 | 5,300 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| - 0 | - 0 | - 0 | - | ||||||
| - 0 | - 0 | - 0 | - | ||||||
| Sub total | - 0 |
- 0 | - 0 | - | - 0 | ||||
| **Total receipts ** | 1,750 |
- 0 | - 0 | 1,750 | 5,300 | ||||
| A3 Payments | |||||||||
| Premises | 1,200 | - | - | 1,200 | 1,200 | ||||
| Bank Chargers | 61 | - | - | 61 | 15 | ||||
| Leaflets 15-06-2021 | - | - | - | 35 | |||||
| IT | 51 | - | - | 51 | |||||
| Insurance | 523 | - | - | 523 | |||||
| Prior Year Costs | 628 | - | - | 628 | |||||
| Easter Sessions | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| **Sub total ** | 2,463 |
- | - | 2,463 | 1,250 | ||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases,(see table) |
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| - 0 | - 0 | - 0 | - | ||||||
| - 0 | - 0 | - 0 | - | ||||||
| **Sub total ** | - 0 |
- 0 | - 0 | - | - 0 | ||||
| **Totalpayments ** | 2,463 |
- 0 | - 0 | 2,463 | 1,250 | ||||
| **Net of receipts/(payments) ** | - 713 |
- | - | - 713 |
4,050 | ||||
| A5 Transfers between funds | - 0 | - | - | - | - | ||||
| A6 Cash funds lastyear end | 8,365 | - | - | 8,365 | 4,315 | ||||
| **Cash funds thisyear end ** | 7,652 |
- | - | 7,652 | 8,365 | ||||
| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | |||||||||
| Categories | Details | Unrestricted funds |
Restricted funds | Endowment funds |
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| to nearest £ | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | |||||||
| B1 Cash funds | Bank Balance 31-03-2023 | 7,652 | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | |||||||
| - | - | - | |||||||
| Total cash funds | 7,652 | - | - |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
06/02/2023
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Signature | Print Name | Date of approval | ||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
06/02/2023
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