Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
From Period start date 01/04/2022 To Period end date 31/03/2023
Charity name: NURTURENATURE
Charity registration number: 1182363
Objectives and Activities
| SORP reference | ||
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| Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document |
Para 1.17 | Nurturenature’s Charitable Purposes are: a) The advancement of healthboth mental and physical, for the public beneft, by providing access to and activities in a healing garden b) The relief of those in need by reason of health youth, age, ill health, disability, fnancial hardship or other disadvantage c) The promotion and advancement of education for the public beneft |
| Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts. |
Para 1.17 and 1.19 |
The object of the CIO is to be a healing garden that promotes health and well- being for individuals with chronic physical and/or mental illness and life- limiting conditions, To this end, the CIO will provide a healing garden for individuals principally but not exclusively in Shefeld, Barnsley and the wider South Yorkshire region. There is a wide body of evidence that time spent either passively or actively in nature/gardens has a benefcial efect on physical and mental health. For example, reports from large nationalorganisationsliketheKings |
| Fund, RHS and MIND confrm the beneft of gardens and gardening for physical and mental health and well being. Users will have the opportunity to simply sit in the garden which has been planted in line with good practice for healing gardens or participate more actively by gardening themselves or engaging in events taking place in the garden which will be in keeping with the CIO’s stated purposes of the advancement of health and relief of those in need by reason of ill health and/or disability. The CIO will provide, for the public beneft, space for mental rest and refection or horticultural or other activities promoting recuperation from symptoms of chronic ill health, including long COVID The promotion and advancement of education for the public beneft,is by organizing small scale workshops and courses, such as mindfulness courses, writing for health, propagation courses. Such activities may also include creative workshops in arts and crafts and other such activities organised by outside experts and practitioners on subjects and activities known to further enhance general well being, in chronically ill or disabled people as well as the general public maximising the beneft of participating in education by utilising the additional benefts of green care. |
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| Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit |
Para 1.18 | Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with [section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005] and [section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008]. |
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SORP reference No grants made Para 1.38 Policy on grant making No social investment Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment The local Rotary club with whom NurtureNature has close liaison has a small group of volunteers who help with Para 1.38 general garden maintenance on a Contribution made by weekly basis in the summer months. volunteers They are particularly committed to development of the woodland and meadow turf area and contributed a grant towards development of the meadow turf. Other
Achievements and Performance
SORP reference As the threat of Covid receded we were able to begin to plan events in the garden again. In September we had an open day and plant sale which raised money for the Summary of the main charity and was an opportunity for achievements of the charity, people to view progress in the garden identifying the difference the
| charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole. |
Para 1.20 | and experience the healing nature of the garden. Feedback from this was extremely positive with many comments on the calming nature of the garden. We also provided an open evening for a volunteer group based at a local stately home garden. On this occasion they were guided round the garden by our main gardener and myself. The group were a knowledgeable group interested in the planting and design of the garden and able to understand the particular way it had been designed as a healing garden. We managed to find dry stone wallers with experience in the traditional dry stone walling methods required to repair the walls by the meadow turf area and this work took place in the winter of 2022. Delay in finding a suitable waller to make safe the wall adjacent to the meadow turf area means that laying of the turf had to be delayed and will now be laid in spring 2024 instead of spring 2023. Events for summer 2023 were planned and booked including mindfulness for writing, art based workshops and a poetry reading. These will be reported on in next years annual report. |
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Achievements against objectives set |
Para 1.41 |
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| Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set |
Para 1.41 |
Investment performance against objectives Para 1.41 Other
Financial Review
| Financial Review | ||
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| Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period |
Para 1.21 | See financial statement |
| Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held |
Para 1.22 | |
| Amount of reserves held | Para 1.22 | |
| Reasons for holding zero reserves |
Para 1.22 | Not applicable |
| Details of fund materially in deficit |
Para 1.24 | Not applicable |
| Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern |
Para 1.23 |
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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) |
Para 1.47 |
Funding through plant sales is an important source of funds. Suitable grants are the other principle source of funding for events/garden development. The gardener is funded through a regular monthly donation. |
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| Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted |
Para 1.46 | |
| A description of the principal risks facing the charity |
Para 1.46 |
Other
Structure, Governance and Management
| Description of charity’s trusts: |
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| Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter) |
Para 1.25 | The charity is controlled by its governing document in the form of a constitution of an incorporated charity |
| How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO) |
Para 1.25 | Incorporated charity |
| Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees |
Para 1.25 | Nomination and election by existing trustees. |
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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees |
Para 1.51 |
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| The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works |
Para 1.51 | |
| Relationship with any related parties |
Para 1.51 |
Other
Reference and Administrative details
| Charity name | NUTURENATURE |
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| Other name the charity uses | NURTURENATURE Healing Garden |
| Registered charity number | 1182363 |
| Charity’s principal address | Station House Finkle Street Lane Wortley Sheffield S35 7DH |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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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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| Helena Davies | Chair | |||
| Svava Bjarnason | ||||
| Doris Stubbs | ||||
| Alison Chrystal | ||||
| Frances Parkinson | ||||
– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
Director name
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year
Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the assets Not applicable held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
Additional information (optional)
Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of Name Address adviser
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Exemptions from disclosure
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
Not applicable
Other optional information
Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s)
Full name(s) HELENA DAVIES
Position (eg Secretary, CHAIR Chair, etc)
Date
Nurture Nature
Financial Activities
April 2022 - March 2023
| TOTAL | |
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| Income | |
| Donations and legacies | 11,863.00 |
| Event Income | 0.00 |
| Plant Sales | 40.00 |
| Total Income | £11,903.00 |
| Cost of Sales | |
| Gardening Services | 11,570.00 |
| Plant Materials | 1,038.93 |
| Total Cost of Sales | £12,608.93 |
| TOTAL | £ -705.93 |
| Expenditures | |
| Depreciation | 1,837.00 |
| Insurances | 214.99 |
| Other Professional Services | 120.00 |
| Software | 292.80 |
| Total Expenditures | £2,464.79 |
| NET OPERATING INCOME | £ -3,170.72 |
| NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) | £ -3,170.72 |
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