## **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**
**health**both 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].|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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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||
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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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.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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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|
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||Helena Davies|Chair|||
||Svava Bjarnason||||
||Doris Stubbs||||
||Alison Chrystal||||
||Frances Parkinson||||
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## – 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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