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2024-06-30-accounts

OUR ONLY WORLD

ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED

30 JUNE 2024

CONTENTS
Trustees Report
Independent Examiners Report
Income and Expenditure Account
Notes to the Accounts		 PAGE
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Trustees Mark Robinson (Chair) Christina Robinson (Treasurer) Kathy Alford (Trustee) Elizabeth Boon (Trustee) Janet Deane (Trustee)

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OUR ONLY WORLD

TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30[th] June 2024

Our Only World first started their activities in July 2018. We became a Registered Charity in February 2019. Registered No. 1182056.

Our main aim is to promote marine conservation, specifically reducing marine plastic pollution. We have had a successful year with our four projects.

Our water refill station project has progressed, we have sold a further 8 units this financial year. We hope to attract more customers from further afield and are helped by being listed by Sea-Changers as an approved supplier. They offer customers grants toward the cost of the unit. We continue to work with local designers, plumbing, roto moulders and steel engineering companies. Our Cornwall Council grant has finished; however, we were awarded a private donation of £35,000 and separately a £10,000 grant towards our core costs.

Our Harbour walls project was inspired by Living Sea Walls Australia. The main aim of this project is to increase marine biodiversity. The first site at Plymouth has been installed in August 2023 and we have now completed Mevagissey, and Falmouth. We have funding for Newquay, Port Isaac, and Padstow.

The children’s book is designed to educate on the issue of plastic pollution. The unique selling point is it is ‘written by children for children.’ We have now an edition with widgit signs showing our commitment to inclusivity. We also have a new book about plastic pollution on land, all produced by Beth Boon one of our trustees.

Looking forward, our overheads are increasing as we are growing. We are incurring greater costs for website, marketing and social media. Despite this, we aim to fund further marine conservation projects in the future.

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OUR ONLY WORLD
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT
FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 30th JUNE 2024
30/06/2024 30/06/2023
£ £
INCOME
GRANTS AND DONATIONS
Donations 1 35,858 8,786
seAlive tiles 2 18,500 27,500
Garfield Weston Grant 3 10,000 -
Cornwall Council Grant : Aquataps 4 5,024 33,858
National Gridgrant 5 3,820 -
Enterprise Development fund 6 3,100 26,900
SALES INCOME
Sale of Aquataps 7 19,100 12,192
Sale of Books 8 162 1,288
HMRC - Gift Aid - 644
TOTAL INCOME 95,564 111,168
EXPENDITURE
seAlive tiles 9 25,829 4,886
Aquataps 10 11,260 80,366
Prototype 1 11 6,761 -
Prototype 2 12 4,183 -
Aquataps - specific sites 13 1,914 4,389
National Grid expenditure 14 2,345 -
Web site/social media 15 6,345 9,344
Songexpenses 16 1,535 5,283
Childrens book 17 1,475 1,772
Miscellaneous 18 1,218 2,600
Insurance 765 783
Grants awarded 19 750 1,450
TOTAL EXPENSES 64,380 110,874
NET INCOME FOR THE PERIOD 31,184 294
ASSETS REPRESENTED BY:
Balance at bank at 30th June 2023 55,572 43,278
Final Repayment of Loan 20 12,000
-		 12,000
Net Income for theperiod 31,184 294
Balance at bank at 30th June 2024 21 74,756 55,572
ALLOCATION OF AVAILABLE FUNDS
Restricted funds
seAlive tiles 26,761 32,615
Aqua tap 3,402 5,316
Song 535 2,070
Garfield Weston core cost fund 6,433
Total Restricted Funds 37,132 40,001
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted funds 37,624 3,571
Loan - 12,000
Total funds at 30th June 2024 74,756 55,572

The Notes to the Accounts on Page 4 form part of these accounts.

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OUR ONLY WORLD

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE 12 MONTHS TO 30/6/24

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

These accounts have been prepared on the receipts and payments basis.

  1. We received a large donation from a Trust fund. This has helped us to seed fund more water refill stations, assisting sites in Essex, Weston super Mare and Penzance.

  2. Funding for our seAlive tiles has allowed us to embark on the planning stage of Newquay and Padstow harbours.

  3. We have been successful in a grant of £10,000 for our core costs from Garfield Weston. This is for our social media costs, insurance, and travel.

  4. The final payment of £2,053 from the Community Infrastructure Levy Fund with Cornwall Council was received. Overall, this enabled us to site 13 units in total with this grant.

  5. We received funds of £3820 to link STEM subjects to our seAlive project. We have organised two public events in conjunction with Plymouth University and we have another planned in the National Aquarium in July 2024

  6. This is the final payment for our EDP grant.

  7. We sold 8 Aqua taps.

  8. This is the sale of our Yikesy book. Although the charity does not make any profit from this project at present, we feel it’s vital to reach school children and this book is one of the ways we can do this.

  9. This is the cost of the tiles and installation in Mevagissey, tiles for Port Isaac and our informational video.

  10. This is the manufacturing cost of our Aqua taps.

  11. We are at the final stage of testing our new prototype. We aim to replace the bulk of the stainless steel in our floor mounted unit with recycled plastic. This has the benefit of reducing its cost and carbon footprint.

  12. We have reached the prototype stage of a new mobile unit. This has to go for WRAS testing i.e. public water quality testing. Then we can start to market the unit.

  13. This cost is the cost of siting units where we were holding specific funds designated for that purpose.

  14. The cost to date of connecting our seAlive project to STEM (science, technology, engineering maths) subjects. The bulk of this is a purchase of a small 3D printer, to show engineering links.

  15. Approximately 4 months of this cost has been covered by our Garfield Weston grant in note 3.

  16. Cost of our song project, for the final costs or our UK song and video and two videos in Mexico and USA.

  17. We have produced two children’s books, one has widgit signs for children who don’t read text, and the other is about marine plastic pollution on land.

  18. Miscellaneous costs include subscriptions, travel, and service of one of our Wadebridge units.

  19. The charity has donated to marine life surveys in Cornwall.

  20. The charity has repaid the private loan of £12,000.

  21. This is our bank balance at 30/6/24.

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