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2021-03-31-accounts

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 04 20120 31 03 2021

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

Willderland Farm

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1182071 Charity's principal address 4 Ramsey Road Ely Postcode CB7 4RL

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Sam Hurst Secretary
2 Lewis Crowder
3 Rebecca Taylor
Johnathan
4
Griffiths-Reeve
Michelle
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Griffiths-Reeve
6 Peter Lennard
7 Andrew Dunlop
8 Megan Parry
9 Graham Andrews
10 Dinah Northfield
11 Will Birkin Chair
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year N/A

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address N/A

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Charitable Incorporated Organisation Constitution Type of governing document

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Proposed by existing trustees and appointed at trustee meetings. 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:

We are becoming an accredited Care Farm with Social Farms and Gardens https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/. We have drafted Codes of Practice for their review. Once approved they will be available from our website www.willderland.com. All trustees and

Section C Objectives and activities

Relief of those in need

We will be relieving the needs of people with learning disabilities, autism, or mental health problems, by providing access to calm, natural setting, within which they can participate in farming activities.

Education

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

To advance the education of the public in the subject of horticulture, animal husbandry, and the natural environment.

Advancement of Environmental Protection or Improvement

To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection, and improvement of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity and providing opportunities to participate in the enhancement of habitats and species surveys.

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All trustees have read the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

The installation of infrastructure funded through are LEADER grant has been the main focus of activity. We kept all volunteering activities paused, due to concerns that the site was not Covid safe.

Infrastructure installed included: a shipping container, tractor, troughs, camera traps, trailer, picnic bench, chicken run, disabled access toilet, solar panel, ecogrid walkways, disabled Summary of the main access compost toilet, water containers, chicken coop, field activities undertaken for shelter, and a timber lodge. the public benefit in relation to these objects We have developed Codes of Practice to ensure we operate to (include within this the Social Farms and Gardens accredited standard. section the statutory declaration that trustees We hope to have sourced livestock in the autumn of 2021 and to have had regard to the reopen fully in the spring of 2022. Open days for potential guidance issued by the volunteers are tentatively planned for the autumn of 2021, Charity Commission on depending upon the government’s Covid-19 policy. public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Obtaining infrastructure funded through a LEADER Grant to enable us to operate as a Care Farm.

Instillation of a remotely controlled security system.

Continuing support from the RSPB, who provide us with seed and advice to better care for our breeding turtle doves.

Working with East Cambridgeshire Highways to have planings applied to half of the track that leads to the site, to improve its surface for driving.

Working towards becoming only the 2[nd] accredited Care Farm in Cambridgeshire.

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Section E Financial review

Willlderland Farm CIO trustees ensure that grant funding is Brief statement of the applied in accordance with the terms of the grant funding charity’s policy on agreement. The trustees also obtain donations and loans to reserves cover on-going expenses.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

We are funded through donations and grants, and will continue You may choose to include to be. We received £28,161 from the LEADER grant this financial additional information, year in order to fund the remaining infrastructure for the farm. where relevant about:  the charity’s principal All expenditure is made to help us achieve our charitable sources of funds objectives. (including any fundraising);

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Will Birkin Sam Hurst Full name(s)[Will Birkin] Sam Hurst Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 18/07/2021

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Willderland Farm CIO

1182071

Receipts and payments accounts For the period 4/1/2020 To from

4/1/2020 3/31/2021

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds

Total funds

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to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations 2,824 - - 2,824
Grants 28,161 - 28,161
Loans 6,000 - - 6,000
- - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
8,824 28,161 - 36,985
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 8,824 28,161 - 36,985
A3 Payments
Sundries and consumables 775 - 775
Insurance 1,107 - - 1,107
Loan repayment 15,400 - - 15,400
Repairs and maintenance 1,026 - - 1,026
Equipment 270 4,320 - 4,590
Vehicles - 6,682 - 6,682
Disbled access toilet - 2,500 2,500
Ecogrid - 8,052 8,052
Shelter and lodge 1,370 6,607 7,977
Security system 1,774 - 1,774
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-
Sub total [ 21,722 ] 28,161 - 49,883
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 21,722 28,161 - 49,883
Net of receipts/(payments) - 12,898 - - - 12,898
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 15,128 - - 15,128
Cash funds this year end 2,230 - - 2,230
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Unrestricted Restricted
Categories Details funds funds
B1 Cash funds Bank account Total cash funds to nearest £
2,230
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2,230


to nearest £
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-
-
-
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))		 OK OK
Unrestricted Restricted
funds funds
B2 Other monetary assets Details to nearest £
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-
-
-
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to nearest £
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-
-
-
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B3 Investment assets Details Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost (optional)
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-
-
-
-
B4 Assets retained for the Details Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost (optional)
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charity’s own use






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-
-
-
-
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B5 Liabilities Details
Loans		 Unrestricted
Fund to which
liability relates



6,000
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-
-
-
Amount due
(optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees		 Signature Print Name
SAM HURST SAM HURST
WILL BIRKIN WILL BIRKIN

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Last year

to the nearest £

-

-

-

-

Endowment funds

to nearest £ - - - -

OK

Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -

Current value (optional) - - - - -

Current value (optional)

-

When due (optional) < 1 year Date of approval

31.10.21 31.10.21

Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Willderland Farm CIO

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Willderland Farm CIO (the CIO) for the year ended 31 March 2021.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the CIO’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: I R Newman

Name: IAN NEWMAN ACA

Address: 13 Preston Grove, Faversham, Kent

Date: 31 October 2021