**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 04 2024 31 03 2025
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Common Ground Collective
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1181481
**Charity's principal address** c/o Emmaus Chartered Accountants 377-399 London Road Camberley Surrey
**Postcode GU15 3HL**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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2|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Valerie Hunt||||
||Carole Blunden-
Lee||||
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
CIO - Foundation How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by trustees Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
The charity Common Ground Collective is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), incorporated and registered as a charity on 8 January 2019. The charity is governed under its constitution. The trustees oversee the charity, and the day-to-day management of the charity is performed by the Charity workshop facilitator. The workshop facilitator books venues, markets the charity services to the public, teaches at workshops during the year and arranges for other artists to teach at workshops. The workshop facilitator also fulfils the role of marketing and fund-raising co ordinator for the charity. There is a child protection policy in place and DBS checks are done prior to commencement of employment or trusteeship and checks are carried out again in line with statutory requirements.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) YOUNG PEOPLE AND DISABLED PEOPLE. (2) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF **Summary of the objects of the** DISABLED PEOPLE. (3) TO ADVANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF **charity set out in its** THE PUBLIC SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE **governing document** PURPOSES (IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME SELECT.
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The Common Ground Collective is a community-focused arts charity that provides inclusive, creative workshops to support wellbeing, connection, and personal growth. The charity works primarily with adults who may experience social isolation, additional needs, or barriers to accessing creative opportunities. Through activities such as pottery, drawing, painting, and nature-based making, The Common Ground Collective creates safe, supportive spaces where individuals can express themselves creatively, build confidence, and develop a sense of belonging and purpose.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** During 2025, The Common Ground Collective successfully delivered **achievements of the charity** weekly evening art workshops at Frimhurst Enterprises for young people **during the year** referred by SENCOs from Tomlinscote, Collingwood, Kings and Charters schools. The programme primarily supported teenagers experiencing mental health challenges, providing a safe, consistent, and creative environment outside of the school day.
The workshops enabled participants to build confidence, develop practical artistic skills, and form positive peer relationships, many of which extended beyond the sessions themselves. Regular attendance fostered a strong sense of community, routine, and belonging, helping young people to feel seen, supported, and empowered. Feedback from participants and referring schools highlighted improved self-esteem, emotional expression, and engagement, demonstrating the positive impact of creative practice on wellbeing and social connection.
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## **Section E Financial review**
It is the policy of the Charity to aim for 3 months of expenditure is in the **Brief statement of the** bank at all times, working towards 6 months. **charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
/ You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Signature**
## _Val Hunt_
**Full name** Val Hunt **Position (Trustee) Date: 27[th] January 2026**
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Charity Name No (if any)
The Common Ground Collective 1181481
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/04/2024 31/03/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations 3,250 - - 3,250 1,793
Charitable Activities 1,697 - - 1,697 1,279
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Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 4,947 ] - - 4,947 3,072
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 4,947 - - 4,947 3,072
A3 Payments
Charitable Activities 6,686 - - 6,686 3,526
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Sub total [ 6,686 ] - - 6,686 3,526
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments [ 6,686 ] - - 6,686 3,526
Net of receipts/(payments) - 1,739 - - - 1,739 - 454
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 3,223 - - 3,223 -
Cash funds this year end 1,484 - - 1,484 - 454
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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**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|_Carole Blunden-Lee_
Signature
_Valerie Hunt_
**Details**
**Details**
Cash held
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,484**
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**1,484**
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name
Valerie Hunt
Carole Blunden-Lee|**Endowment**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
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Date of
approval
27/01/2026
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