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2025-12-31-accounts

Charity no. 1182217

Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation (operating as Your Park Bristol and Bath)

Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025

Your Park Bristol and Bath

Contents

For the year ended 31 December 2025
Page
Reference and administrative details 1
Report of the trustees
Objectives and activities 2
Achievements and performance 3
Financial review 7
Plans for the future 9
Structure, governance and management 10
Statement of responsibilities of trustees 12
Independent examiner’s report 13
Statement of financial activities 14
Balance sheet 15
Notes to the financial statements 16

Your Park Bristol and Bath

Reference and administrative details

For the year ended 31 December 2025

Charity number 1182217
Registered office and Engine Shed
operational address Approach Road
Temple Meads
Bristol
BS1 6QH
Trustees The trustees who served during the year and up to the date of this report
were as follows:
Rob Acton-Campbell Chair
Clare Hanley-Theare
Tony Hickman Appointed 24 July 2025
Helen Hobbs
Roy Kareem Resigned 11 December 2025
Anna Little
Colin Matthews Appointed 6 May 2025
Bankers CAF Bank Ltd
25 Kings Hill Avenue
Kings Hill
West Malling
Kent
ME19 4JQ
Independent examiners Godfrey Wilson Limited
Chartered accountants and statutory auditors
5th Floor Mariner House
62 Prince Street
Bristol
BS1 4QD

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

The trustees present their annual report and financial statements for year ended 31 December 2025. Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and they and the annual report comply with Your Park Bristol and Bath's governing documentation and applicable law.

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Your Park Bristol and Bath’s charitable objects, as set out in its constitution, are to:

Our strategy

This is a crucial time for our urban parks. Their importance for communities and nature has never been higher, but due to continued cuts to Council budgets, they are in decline with satisfaction with parks declining and inequality in access to green space likely increasing as a result.

In 2025 we have continued to deliver against our 2023-2026 strategy that aims to ensure parks fulfil their full potential for Bristol and Bath’s communities; all with the vision of ensuring that everyone can access parks and their transformational wellbeing benefits.

Our vision

Everyone can access parks and their transformative health and wellbeing benefits.

Your Park Bristol & Bath is a locally based charity that uses Bristol and Bath’s parks to deliver positive social change through three key themes:

Defra reported that the NHS could save £2.1 billion every year if everyone used parks regularly. Using the adapted Bragg and Leck model (2017), we seek to enable everyone to use parks regularly to enjoy the associated health and wellbeing benefits.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

Your Park Bristol & Bath’s defined "Area of Benefit" is “the administrative areas of Bristol City Council, Bath and North East Somerset Council, North Somerset Council and South Gloucestershire Council, and such other areas as the Trustees may from time to time determine".

However, to date Your Park Bristol and Bath has focused its activities on the cities of Bristol and Bath.

Your Park Bristol and Bath will not take over the ownership or management of parks but identifies projects and partnerships that will help everyone experience the benefits of these parks and green spaces, improving and enhancing them.

Public benefit

The Trustees have complied with their duty to have regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission in accordance with the Charities Act 2011, and they have referred to it when carrying out the Foundation’s charitable purposes.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

Our impact in 2025

In 2025, we continued to strengthen parks as places where people and nature can thrive, focusing on communities facing the biggest barriers to access, health and nature. We combined community development, practical habitat management and volunteering with targeted health and inclusion programmes, working across Bristol and Bath and partnering with local groups to make change that lasts:

In 2025 we generated £7,077,379 in social value with £15.02 of benefits for every £1 invested (estimate based on programme delivery spend and calculated using recognised methodologies).

Across all our projects, we worked in 58 parks . 909 volunteers gave 3,826 hours to make 144,509m² of habitat improvements and support our community projects - we are hugely appreciative of their support .

We also strengthened lived experience leadership by recruiting and inducting 9 members to Your Park, Your Say (Experts by Lived Experience) and recruiting a trustee with lived experience to cochair the group.

Health - improving wellbeing through parks

Roots to Wellbeing provides nature-based group support for people experiencing poor mental health, isolation and wider barriers, using local parks as safe, welcoming spaces. In 2025 we received 178 referrals and 103 people attended at least one session.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

What we delivered

Who we reached

What changed for people

Participants reported:

Roots participants also reported mental health improvements, including 82% feeling happier with an average 2.5 point increase in happiness (ONS4). Anxiety measures showed 76% feeling less anxious with an average 1.2 point decrease , and when removing the cohort where the measure was not working as intended, 93% felt less anxious with an average 3 point decrease (ONS4).

Project development and learning

During 2025, core delivery continued until the end of September, when National Lottery funding for the core programme ended, and we paused delivery at some sites while seeking new funding. Alongside core delivery, we piloted and developed new strands including a parent focused programme for parents of SEND children and a pilot in Lawrence Hill and Newtown working with Arabic-speaking women, delivered in partnership with Sadaga, applying learning around outreach, trust building and promotion.

Wild and Well supported community connection and engagement in priority neighbourhoods. In South Bristol, the project delivered community activities and events engaging 161 people (including 157 participants through engagement activity), supported infrastructure improvements and enabled small grants and practical support for local groups. We worked with local community groups to improve access to and information about the Dundry Slopes funded by Natural England. In Lawrence Hill, the project spent time doing outreach work and built new relationships with 13 community organisations and delivered community activities engaging 45 people .

In Lawrence Hill and Newtown, we focused on outreach and relationship building around Urban Park, supporting a community event engaging around 45 people , and developing connections that fed directly into inclusive Roots delivery with Sadaga.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

The programme of family friendly events that we delivered in South Bristol and Lawrence Hill engaged 281 people, 25% from ethnic minority backgrounds and 11% identified as Disabled.

Access - co-creating changes that make parks usable for more people

Through Parks4All and with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, we worked alongside Disabled people and carers to identify barriers in parks and agree practical solutions. In 2025 we:

The programme partnered with 124 disabled people and carers in total and all the learning from each park helped us to improve our toolkit that will be published in 2026.

To build our understanding of the reasons certain communities are not using parks, we partnered with the University of Bath to complete new social inclusion research focused on global majority communities in Bristol. We hosted focus groups and co-design workshops in the areas of highest deprivation across the city to talk to people who do not use their local parks. The academic paper was published in the Journal of Urban Sustainability and we launched the public facing report in January 2026.

Nature and community – improving parks and building community through volunteering, skills and habitat work

We improved parks for wildlife and people by combining regular conservation volunteering, targeted community activity and practical habitat management. In Bristol, we focused delivery in parts of South Bristol where communities experience higher deprivation and lower satisfaction with parks, using a hands on approach that built local skills, supported community led action and delivered visible improvements on the ground:

Activities improved habitats and created routes into long term volunteering. We ran weekly and monthly conservation sessions, plus Saturday sessions to include people who cannot attend during the week. Practical conservation tasks included meadow and grassland management, orchard management, scything, bramble bashing and coppicing, helping sites work better for wildlife and visitors.

We also supported community groups to strengthen their ability to care for parks. With our guidance, Mix and Match Gardening Group secured external funding to grow their food growing work and involve more local residents. We worked with Vision BAME CIC to create local opportunities for residents to build gardening skills and take ownership in their parks.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

Environmental outputs reported this year included:

We built inclusion into delivery through accessible, family friendly activity days with the Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership, with activities such as bug hotel style butterfly sculptures, wildflower seed bomb making and herb propagation. We also created meaningful work experience for post 16 students with ASD at Venturers’ Academy, supporting young people to learn practical skills such as planting, seed sowing, weeding and bulb planting while contributing to their local park.

This work combined practical habitat improvements with community resilience. For example, we supported local groups to secure resources and sustain activity, and we created accessible, meaningful work experience opportunities for young people with additional needs.

In September we welcomed 70 park volunteers to the Trinity Centre in Bristol for a morning exploring how to support more nature and community connection in parks. Speakers covered habitat enhancement, community cohesion, getting things done in parks and attendees made commitments for how they will support more nature in their parks.

In Bath, the year marked a shift from habitat creation to habitat maintenance, as WECA funded habitats established and became more biodiverse. With one staff member working two days per week, Bath Activator focused on maintaining high quality delivery through regular Bee Active volunteering and ongoing support to Friends groups:

Bee Active sessions covered a wide range of practical tasks, including meadow and grassland management, wildflower sowing and seed saving, formal bedding replanting, additional habitat features (such as bee hotels and hibernacula), dead wood features, tree and shrub planting, bulb planting and pond maintenance.

Environmental reporting for Bath Activator included:

We supported 8 Friends groups with technical guidance, tools and habitat management expertise, and we collaborated with partners including the Forest of Avon Orchard Project and Bathscape Landscape Partnership, including a joint volunteer networking event. We also worked closely with B&NES Parks Department staff to maintain standards, manage safety and align volunteer activity with council objectives.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

Income generation with impact - Team Days

Our Team Days social enterprise generated unrestricted income and delivered practical improvements in parks through corporate volunteering. In 2025 we:

Corporate volunteers supported practical conservation and park improvement work across Bristol and Bath, including orchard and woodland maintenance, wildflower meadow and bulb planting, hedgerow and fruit tree planting and the removal of invasive species such as laurel, rhododendron and Himalayan balsam. They also helped improve park access and quality through tasks such as path clearance and resurfacing, litter picking, stream cleaning, step building and planting sensory garden beds, delivering tangible improvements for both wildlife and local communities.

Feedback also showed clear wellbeing and engagement benefits for participants, with 100% reporting they felt better for taking part, 100% saying they would return and 78% reporting gaining new skills.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

In 2025 our expenditure at £531,155 remained steady as we continued to deliver projects, spending grants secured in 2024 (£571,779 in 2024). With funds for some of our 2025 work being secured in advance the charity’s income declined, raising £330,612 (£636,887 in 2024).

Notable success in the increase in free reserves which have increased to £21,609, from £11,019 in 2024, a rise of 96%.

This clearly demonstrates that the focus on strengthening unrestricted income streams is paying off. We recognise the need to continue this approach to further meet our reserves goal and achieve a more balanced income portfolio.

The ongoing cost-of-living crisis and global instability has led to prudent decisions to invest in strengthening unrestricted sources to sustain a growing level of income and outputs and ensure we can continue to deliver a high level of impact for years to come.

As an independent charity we rely on voluntary contributions to deliver work for public benefit. As such our team and Trustees thank all our supporters for their incredible support in 2025. We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to the following for their significant support this financial year:

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

Unrestricted income

We have continued to make the most of our success in trusts and foundation fundraising to support our core costs through our Full Cost Recovery system which clarifies the real cost of service delivery. This has continued to be successful with around £60,000 of overheads relating to projects funded through restricted grants.

We took the decision to prudently invest in unrestricted income streams in 2025 by focusing on developing corporate fundraising. This has resulted in a significant uplift in unrestricted income from £63,269 in 2024, to £83,108 in 2025, representing 25% of total income. The trustees thank Amber Fisher, our Head of Fundraising for her work.

Our social enterprise, Team Days - through which we provide wellbeing and team building days for corporates - raised £16,569 through bookings and supported corporate partnership income of £19,000.

We received £1,850 from our Park Companions (our monthly donors). We are greatly appreciative of their long-term support.

Our lottery raised £443. We also received a number of grants from trusts and foundations totalling £24,500.

Our CEO was part of the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance Ambassador programme, sitting on the Why Weight? Steering Group and claiming time totalling £1,200.

Finally, we have taken the opportunity to make the most of high interest rates by holding funds received for grant delivery in an easy access savings account, accruing £4,177.

Restricted income

Our restricted income has decreased by 57% as we secured several large multi-year restricted grants from trusts and foundations in 2023 and 2024.

Health

Roots to Wellbeing continued to be funded by the final draw down of our Reaching Communities grant received in 2024. In 2025 we secured a number of grants from government bodies as well as trusts and foundations. 11 grants of £10,000 and under came from charitable trusts. We also secured £20,000 from BNSSG CCG to reach people out of employment. Smaller pilots of Roots to Wellbeing were supported by Hillfields Community Garden, West of England Combined Authority and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Our Wild & Well project continued to be funded by Bristol City Council’s Health Innovation Fund.

Access

The majority of our Parks4All project has been funded by the first draw down of our Heritage Lottery Fund grant received in September 2024. In 2025 we secured a new grant from Bristol City Council to complete an access assessment and create an exemplar park for accessibility in Bristol.

Natural England supported our work to make the Dundry Slopes more accessible.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

Nature

A part of our ongoing multi-year grants we received funding from West of England Mayoral Combined Authority for our work in Bath. We also secured new grants including £19,588 from National Lottery Community Fund’s Awards for All Environment Fund.

Our multi-year project in Bristol received £58,048 from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, our final payments for this project. We secured a new grant from Bristol Airport Community Fund to be spent on the Dundry Slopes and funding to engage diverse communities and Friends of Groups in making parks more nature rich across Bristol.

Decrease in income

In 2024, due to securing a few significant grants and for one off projects, we delivered a £64,127 restricted surplus which strengthened our restricted project balances and ensured that all work progressed as planned. This year we have spent this surplus of restricted income as expected and there has been less restricted income. The shortfall was comfortably covered by our existing restricted funds, which were £123,326 at the end of 2025.

Our plan to further strengthen our financial position includes securing multi-year funding for our core programmes (including Roots to Wellbeing for which a six figure grant decision is outstanding), expanding corporate partnerships to secure unrestricted income, and maintaining full cost recovery in all new grants. We have a strong pipeline and are investing in trust fundraising to mitigate risk and enable new income stream developments.

Reserves policy

It is the Trustees’ long-term aim to build up a balance of free reserves (net current assets) which equates to 4 months’ operational costs (around £40,000). This will be held to smooth out fluctuations in cash flow, meet emergencies and allow Your Park Bristol and Bath to maintain its financial sustainability. The balance of free reserves at the end of 2025 was £21,609 (2024: £11,019). The trustees are aware of the need to keep close control on operational costs and monitor cash-flow and financial risks while the charity's reserves are increased over the medium-term.

Risk management

The Trustees have examined the major strategic and operational risks which Your Park Bristol and Bath may face, and they have established systems which enable regular reports to be produced so that the necessary steps can be taken to minimise these risks.

The Board of Trustees are satisfied with the performance of the charity during the accounting period and the position at 31st December 2025 and consider that the Your Park Bristol and Bath is in a reasonable position to continue its activities during the coming year, and that the charity’s assets are adequate to fulfil its obligations.

Volunteers

The Board of Trustees would like to thank all our volunteers for their support over the year. Without them we would not have been able to complete our work and have impact for Bristol and Bath’s communities.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

2026 will bring a year of renewed purpose with a strategy refresh setting our priorities to 2030. We are not expecting drastic changes to our priorities and direction. As a result our core programmes will continue as usual.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

In January 2026 we received confirmation of three-year funding for Roots to Wellbeing in four parks across Bristol and Bath reaching over 100 people per year.

Our Parks4All project will continue to improve access to parks for Disabled people and carers, while our work with global majority communities will develop following the launch of our research in January.

Several large grants end in April 2026 so we will pause our community development work to allow time to secure the long term funding needed to work alongside communities effectively.

Cost-of-living crisis and global uncertainty

The Trustees have considered the impact that the continuing cost-of-living crisis and external environment (including global insecurity) will have on Your Park Bristol and Bath’s current and future financial position. Your Park Bristol & Bath is taking the following steps to mitigate the threats posed to the organisation:

Council budgets

Parks are not a statutory service and past cuts to Council budgets have seen money available for the management and maintenance of parks in Bristol and Bath decrease year on year. While there were no further cuts to the budget for parks in either city for 2026/27, future funding remains uncertain. The Trustees have considered the possible impact that this will have on Your Park Bristol and Bath’s current and future financial position. Your Park Bristol & Bath continues to take steps to mitigate the threats that reductions in Council spending may pose to the organisation:

Going concern

The Trustees consider that Your Park Bristol and Bath will continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from the date on which these financial statements are approved for the following reasons:

The Trustees therefore consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of preparation of the accounts, as detailed in note 1 to the financial statements.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Your Park Bristol and Bath is the working name of the Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation, a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO).

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

Your Park Bristol and Bath is governed by a board of trustees who have overall responsibility for the governance, regulatory obligations and management of the foundation. The board of trustees seeks to ensure the best interest of stakeholders in all management decisions.

A board of trustees have been appointed based on their expertise and experience in areas relating to the strategic management of the organisation.

At the May 2025 meeting, the trustees approved the establishment of a lived experience reference group, Your Park, Your Say. The group forms a new part of the governance structure of the charity, without decision making powers, but in place to inform the work of the trustees and staff team ensuring lived experience of barriers to parks is embedded in all decision making.

Your Park, Your Say is co-chaired by Colin Matthews who was formally elected as a Trustee at the May meeting, bringing his lived experience to the board.

Tony Hickman also joined our team as a new trustee in mid 2025, Tony has long experience of running commercial activities in parks in the Bath area. Sadly, Roy Kareem had to stand down as he moved to live in Spain.

At year end the board of trustees was led by a Chair with four other board members. The Board will look to recruit further members during 2026, it is recognised that we particularly need someone with HR skills, we also aim to increase the diversity of the board and to ensure a good geographical spread across our area of operations.

Rob Acton-Campbell, one of our founding trustees, remains as Chair.

The board of trustees work to a framework structure to cover regulatory, financial and stakeholder obligations.

The Charity’s relationship with the Local Authorities of Bristol City Council and Bath and North East Somerset Council is set out in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was agreed in January 2020. In February 2025 all Parties agreed to extend the period of the MoU on the same terms so that it will run through to February 2030. The MoU established a Steering Group with representatives of all three Parties that meet regularly through the year to ensure that all Parties are aware of the other’s plans in respect of parks.

At the end of 2025 our services are delivered by an operational, part-time team of 14. The team includes the Chief Executive, Head of Fundraising, Programme Manager, Finance Assistant, and project delivery team organised by theme; nature, health and access.

The team work from home with shared office space / hot desks rented in central Bristol as required. This enables to team to come together regularly to share ideas and discuss challenges.

The reporting structure includes the staff team reporting into the Chief Executive.

The Chief Executive reports directly to the Chair and Board of Trustees. The performance review of the Chief Executive is undertaken by the Chair of Trustees.

The resources required to run a successful charity includes office equipment, such as IT and general office equipment which has been provided from funds from Your Park Bristol and Bath.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 December 2025

The Charity holds appropriate insurance, including public liability insurance, to cover its activities.

FUNDRAISING PRACTICES

Your Park Bristol and Bath received no complaints regarding our fundraising practices.

STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES

The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102: The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and the incoming resources and application of resources, including the net income or expenditure, of the charity for the year. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charity's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Members of the charity guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charity in the event of winding up. The trustees are members of the charity but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in the charity.

Independent examiners

Godfrey Wilson Limited were re-appointed as independent examiners to the charity during the year and have expressed their willingness to continue in that capacity.

Approved by the trustees on 14 May 2026 and signed on their behalf by

Mr R Acton-Campbell - Chair

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Independent examiner's report

To the trustees of

Your Park Bristol and Bath

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Bristol and Bath Parks Foundation (the CIO) for the year ended 31 December 2025, which are set out on pages 14 to 26.

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

Since the CIO’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), which is one of the listed bodies.

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.

William Guy Blake

Date: 14 May 2026 William Guy Blake ACA Member of the ICAEW Godfrey Wilson Limited Chartered accountants and statutory auditors 5th Floor Mariner House 62 Prince Street Bristol BS1 4QD

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Statement of financial activities

For the year ended 31 December 2025

Note
Income from:
Donations
3
Charitable activities
4
Other trading income
5
Investment income
Total income
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
7
Net income / (expenditure)
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
9
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Restricted Unrestricted
£
£
247,504
42,162
-
20,200
-
16,569
-
4,177
247,504
83,108
-
59,949
458,887
12,319
458,887
72,268
(211,383)
10,840
250
(250)
(211,133)
10,590
334,459
11,019
123,326
21,609		 2025
Total
£
289,666
20,200
16,569
4,177
330,612
59,949
471,206
531,155
(200,543)
-
(200,543)
345,478
144,935		 2024
Total
£
599,320
18,644
13,771
5,152
636,887
82,502
489,277
571,779
65,108
-
65,108
280,370
345,478

All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in note 15 to the accounts.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Balance sheet

As at 31 December 2025

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2025 2024
Note £ £ £
Current assets
Debtors 12 23,108 50,413
Cash at bank and in hand 152,664 319,768
175,772 370,181
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due within 1 year 13 (30,837) (24,703)
Net current assets 144,935 345,478
Net assets 14 144,935 345,478
Funds 15
Restricted funds 123,326 334,459
Unrestricted funds
General funds 21,609 11,019
Total charity funds 144,935 345,478
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Approved by the trustees on 14 May 2026 and signed on their behalf by

Mr R Acton-Campbell - Chair

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

1. Accounting policies

a) General information and basis of preparation

Your Park Bristol and Bath is Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered in England and Wales. The registered office address is Engine Shed, Approach Road, Temple Meads, Bristol, BS1 6QH.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities in preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

Your Park Bristol and Bath meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note.

b) Going concern basis of accounting

The accounts have been prepared on the assumption that the charity is able to continue as a going concern, which the trustees consider appropriate having regard to the current level of unrestricted reserves, and cash balances at the signing date. The trustees are ensuring that all projects are being costed on a full cost recovery basis. Although the free reserves are low, the charity’s restricted funds cover all planned significant activities and operating costs. For these reasons, the trustees consider that the charity has sufficient cash reserves to continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from the date on which these financial statements are approved.

c) Income

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Income from the government and other grants, whether 'capital' grants or 'revenue' grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred.

d) Funds accounting

Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of the charity. Designated funds are unrestricted funds of the charity which the trustees have decided at their discretion to set aside to use for a specific purpose. Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charity's work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.

e) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

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Your Park Bristol and Bath

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

1. Accounting policies (continued)

f) Allocation of support and governance costs

2025 2024
Raising funds 16.1% 18.3%
Charitable activities 83.9% 81.7%

g) Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.

h) Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

i) Creditors

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

j) Pension costs

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme for its employees. There are no further liabilities other than that already recognised in the SOFA.

k) Accounting estimates and key judgements

In the application of the charity's accounting policies, the trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and underlying assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods.

There are no sources of estimation uncertainty that have a significant effect on the amounts recognised in the financial statements.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

2. Prior period comparatives: statement of financial activities

Income from:
Donations
Charitable activities
Other trading activities
Investment income
Total income
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net income and net movement in funds
3.
Income from donations
Grants
Donations from corporates
Donations from individuals
Prior period comparative
Grants
Donations from corporates
Donations from individuals		 Restricted
£
£
573,618
25,702
-
18,644
-
13,771
-
5,152
573,618
63,269
20,214
62,288
489,277
-
509,491
62,288
64,127
981
Restricted
£
£
247,504
24,500
-
4,366
-
13,296
247,504
42,162
Restricted
£
£
571,118
14,983
2,500
-
-
10,719
573,618
25,702
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted		 2024
Total
£
599,320
18,644
13,771
5,152
636,887
82,502
489,277
571,779
65,108
2025
Total
£
272,004
4,366
13,296
289,666
2024
Total
£
586,101
2,500
10,719
599,320

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

4. Income from charitable activities

Corporate partnership agreements
Other		 2025
Total
£
19,000
1,200
20,200		 2024
Total
£
18,000
644
18,644

In the current and prior periods all income from charitable activities was unrestricted.

5. Income from other trading activities

Team days 2025
Total
£
16,569		 2024
Total
£
13,771

In the current and prior periods all income from other trading activities was unrestricted.

6. Government grants

Bristol City Council
Bath and North East Somerset Council
Department of Work and Pensions
National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Heritage Fund
Natural England
NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG
West of England Combined Authority
The charity has received the following total grants from governmental
organisations:		 2025
Total
£
117,093
-
888
19,588
-
10,000
20,000
47,285
214,854		 2024
Total
£
25,625
96,841
-
149,147
123,988
10,000
-
56,850
462,451

There are no unfulfilled conditions or contingencies attaching to these grants in either period.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

7. Total expenditure

Raising
funds
£
Staff costs (note 10)
46,704
Fundraising services
-
Communications and publicity
-
Grants payable (note 8)
-
Project costs
-
Office costs and other expenses
-
Accountancy
-
Training and conference expenses
-
Recruitment costs
-
Bank charges
-
Insurance
-
Sub-total
46,704
Allocation of support and governance costs
13,245
Total expenditure
59,949
Total governance costs were £3,871 (2024: £3,600).
Prior period comparative
Raising
funds
£
Staff costs (note 10)
47,042
Fundraising services
22,947
Communications and publicity
-
Grants payable (note 8)
-
Project costs
-
Office costs and other expenses
-
Accountancy
-
Training and conference expenses
-
Recruitment costs
-
Bank charges
-
Insurance
-
Sub-total
69,989
Allocation of support and governance costs
12,513
Total expenditure
82,502		 Charitable
activities
£
£
244,157
42,857
-
-
18,424
-
750
-
138,637
-
-
26,676
-
3,612
-
6,594
-
1,632
-
60
-
1,052
401,968
82,483
69,238
(82,483)
471,206
-
Charitable
activities
£
£
210,414
33,527
-
-
30,220
-
2,250
-
190,422
-
-
20,483
-
3,456
-
5,393
-
4,584
-
81
-
960
433,306
68,484
55,971
(68,484)
489,277
-
Support and
governance
costs
Support and
governance
costs		 2025
Total
£
333,718
-
18,424
750
138,637
26,676
3,612
6,594
1,632
60
1,052
531,155
-
531,155
2024
Total
£
290,983
22,947
30,220
2,250
190,422
20,483
3,456
5,393
4,584
81
960
571,779
-
571,779

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

8. Grants payable During the current year: 1 grant was awarded to 1 institution as part of the Love Your Park community grant scheme (2024: 3 grants to 3 institutions).

Grants payable to institutions:
Northern Slopes Initiative
Stepping Sistas
We Are More Afterschool Club
Friends of Cottle Road		 2025
£
-
-
-
750
750		 2024
£
750
750
750
-
2,250

9. Net movement in funds This is stated after charging:

Trustees' remuneration
Trustees' reimbursed expenses
Independent examiner's remuneration:
Independent examination (excluding VAT)		 2025
£
Nil
Nil
2,350		 2024
£
Nil
Nil
2,200

10. Staff costs and numbers

Staff costs were as follows:

Salaries and wages
Social security costs
Pension costs
Freelance staff		 2025
£
233,710
13,667
4,330
82,011
333,718		 2024
£
224,552
12,738
4,469
49,224
290,983

No employee earned more than £60,000 during the current period or prior period.

The key management personnel of the charity comprise the Trustees and the Foundation Director. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel were £50,210 (2024: £48,233).

Average head count
Average number of full time equivalents during the year		 2025
No.
12.1
7.3		 2024
No.
11.3
7.0

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

11. Taxation

The charity is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for charitable purposes.

12. Debtors

Trade debtors
Prepayments
Other debtors
Accrued income		 2025
£
15,942
5,793
1,373
-
23,108		 2024
£
22,635
963
-
26,815
50,413

13. Creditors: amounts due within 1 year

Trade creditors
Accruals
Tax and social security
Other creditors
Deferred income
Analysis of net assets between funds
Current assets
Current liabilities
Net assets at 31 December 2025
Prior year comparative
Current assets
Current liabilities
Net assets at 31 December 2024		 £
143,274
(19,948)
123,326
£
354,299
(19,840)
334,459
Restricted
funds
Restricted
funds		 2025
£
16,752
2,820
8,719
976
1,570
30,837
£
32,498
(10,889)
21,609
£
15,882
(4,863)
11,019
General
funds
General
funds		 2024
£
21,994
2,640
-
69
-
24,703
Total
funds
£
175,772
(30,837)
144,935
Total
funds
£
370,181
(24,703)
345,478

14. Analysis of net assets between funds

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

15. Movements in funds
Restricted funds
Bath Activator
Bath RtW
Brickfields Park
Bristol Activator
Bristol Exemplar PAA
Bristol RtW
CLPAA
College Green
Green Recovery
H&W Community Grant
Nature Trail
Royal Victoria Ponds
RtW - Ethnicity pilot
RtW - Hillfields
RtW - Parenting
Volunteer Support
Wild and Well
Total restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 At 1
January
2025
£
(16,485)
1,232
26,943
26,715
-
112,475
133,750
657
-
18,605
(3,115)
3,250
17,870
4,323
-
(250)
8,489
334,459
11,019
11,019
345,478		 Income
£
£
61,526
(27,810)
-
-
-
(19,663)
39,234
(82,876)
15,000
(3,500)
52,901
(117,604)
3,345
(106,945)
-
(657)
7,250
(7,165)
-
(16,634)
10,000
(5,867)
-
-
-
(10,381)
14,106
(16,371)
7,347
(7,347)
-
-
36,795
(36,067)
247,504
(458,887)
83,108
(72,268)
83,108
(72,268)
330,612
(531,155)
Expenditure		 £
-
(1,232)
-
26,814
-
(25,582)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
250
-
250
(250)
(250)
-
Transfers
between
funds		 £
17,231
-
7,280
9,887
11,500
22,190
30,150
-
85
1,971
1,018
3,250
7,489
2,058
-
-
9,217
123,326
21,609
21,609
144,935
At 31
December
2025

Transfers between funds

In the year, £26,814 was transferred from the Bristol RtW fund to the Bristol Activator fund after a review of project budgets showed that this amount had been incorrectly allocated in a previous year.

The Bath RtW project was completed in the previous year, with funds transferred to the Bristol RtW fund in line with the funding terms.

The Volunteer Support project was completed in the previous year. £250 was transferred from unrestricted funds to offset the overspend and close this fund.

Purposes of restricted funds

Bath Activator

The Bath Activator programme transforms Bath’s parks for nature by supporting local Friends of Park Groups and running weekly volunteer activities to create and enhance habitats like meadows and ponds.

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For the year ended 31 December 2025

15. Movements in funds (continued) Purposes of restricted funds (continued)

Bath RtW

The Bath Roots to Wellbeing project expands our Green Social Prescribing project into Bath and North East Somerset, delivering weekly green care opportunities for people struggling with their mental health at Brickfields Park. We receive referrals from health, local service providers and self-referrals.

Brickfields Park

Brickfields Park project has delivered park improvements identified by consulting with local young people, specifically teenage girls, and has introduced new swings, balance bars and seating areas.

Bristol Activator

The Bristol Activator programme transforms Bristol’s parks for nature by supporting local Friends of Park Groups and running regular volunteer activities to create and enhance habitats and improve parks.

Bristol Exemplar PAA

Bristol Exemplar Park project is a consultation with disabled people and carers to make a plan to improve one park in Bristol with significant funding from Bristol City Council.

Bristol RtW

The Bristol Roots to Wellbeing is our Green Social Prescribing project in Bristol, delivering weekly green care opportunities for people struggling with their mental health in 3 parks. We receive referrals from health, local service providers and self-referrals.

CLPAA

We are developing the UK’s first community led process for disabled people and unpaid carers to assess the accessibility of their local park, develop plans and make improvements. We are running a programme of inclusive activities across Bristol and Bath.

College Green

The fund was established through a crowdfund to repair the damage caused to College Green during BYS4C strike on 28th February 2020. It is now a partnership project between Hargreaves Lansdown and Your Park Bristol & Bath to continually enhance and maintain new habitats that support more nature.

Green Recovery

We delivered a programme of family friendly activities for communities not using parks over the summer holidays. We also ran an event for Friends of Park Groups in Bristol.

H&W Community Grant

We are holding and administering funds on behalf of two community groups; Friends of Withywood Park and Spacemakers, who have consulted with the local community and are making practical improvements to their parks.

Nature Trail

This fund is to consult and develop a community generated idea to connect several green spaces in South Bristol, to the Dundry slopes through an active travel nature trail.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

15. Movements in funds (continued) Purposes of restricted funds (continued)

Royal Victoria Ponds

This fund is reserved for future projects similar to the guided sensory walk we developed at Sydney Gardens in Bath in 2023.

RtW - Ethnicity pilot

We have secured funding to develop our Green Social Prescribing project, Roots to Wellbeing, for visibly minority ethnic groups living in the Newtown and Lawrence Hill areas of Bristol.

RtW - Hillfields

We have secured funding to run Roots to Wellbeing at Hillfields Community Garden.

RtW - Parenting

We have secured funding to develop our Green Social Prescribing project, Roots to Wellbeing, for parents living in South Bristol.

Volunteer Support

We bring together local groups, organisations and individuals in Hartcliffe, Withywood and Stockwood to open parks for health. Through a network approach we build relationships and provide support so that the number of opportunities for local people to use their park increases.

Wild and Well

This fund is used to bring together community members, groups, organisations and health agencies to explore how to get people in key areas of Bristol using their local parks more.

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 December 2025

15. Movements in funds (continued)
Prior year comparative
At 1
January
2024
£
Restricted funds
Bath Activator
13,379
Bath Roots to Wellbeing
1,854
Brickfields Park
71,919
Bristol Activator
32,582
Bristol RtW
108,913
CLPAA
6,139
College Green
1,575
EDP
312
H&W Community Grant
-
Nature Trail
-
Royal Victoria Ponds
3,250
RtW - Ethnicity pilot
-
RtW - Hillfields
-
Vol Award
5,000
Volunteer Support
875
Wild and Well
24,534
Total restricted funds
270,332
Unrestricted funds
General funds
10,038
Total unrestricted funds
10,038
Total funds
280,370		 Income
£
£
62,686
(92,550)
3,358
(3,980)
-
(44,976)
75,527
(81,394)
181,591
(178,029)
166,488
(38,877)
2,500
(3,418)
4,811
(5,123)
27,605
(9,000)
-
(3,115)
-
-
19,870
(2,000)
6,807
(2,484)
580
(5,580)
-
(1,125)
21,795
(37,840)
573,618
(509,491)
63,269
(62,288)
63,269
(62,288)
636,887
(571,779)
Expenditure		 £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Transfers
between
funds		 £
(16,485)
1,232
26,943
26,715
112,475
133,750
657
-
18,605
(3,115)
3,250
17,870
4,323
-
(250)
8,489
334,459
11,019
11,019
345,478
At 31
December
2024

16. Related party transactions

There were no related party transactions during the current year. The total aggregate unrestricted donations to the charity from 1 trustee during the prior year was £590.

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