**Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
## **TRANSITION BOURNEMOUTH**
**Registered in England and Wales as Charity Number 1183648**
## **Annual Report for the period ending 31 March 2024**
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## **Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
Report of the trustees for the period ending 31 March 2024.
The trustees are pleased to present their annual Trustees’ report together with the financial statements of the charity for the period ending 31 March 2024. The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, and are prepared in accordance with the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice.
## Chair’s Statement
FY23/24 has been a quieter time for many of our projects due to the departure or unavailability of volunteer project leaders. However, our flagship project, Bournemouth Repair Cafe, has seen very positive developments towards the end of this period, gaining new volunteers and branching out into new venues, allowing us to serve a wider community. Our events have been well received for their welcoming atmosphere, and we continue to reduce landfill waste and save people money by helping them to repair their faulty belongings. They also function as a networking point for people to share ideas about how to live more sustainably and relevant local information.
Our trustee team remains unchanged. Transition Bournemouth would like to thank all our hardworking trustees and volunteers, without whom we would not be able to function.
As we head into the new financial year, we will concentrate on growing the Repair Café. There is a great deal of enthusiasm from the public for this project, and by expanding our team of volunteers, bank of fixing volunteers, and range of venues, we hope to reach as many people in the conurbation as possible and become a hub for learning about repair skills and waste reduction.
Pete Allen, Chairperson, Transition Bournemouth, Registered charity 1183648.
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**Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
## Our Purposes and Activities
Our charitable purposes are the promotion of conservation, protection and improvement of the natural environment, and the prudent use of natural resources for the benefit of the people of Bournemouth and the surrounding area.
We aim to achieve this by
- a. Advancing education and awareness of climate change, resource scarcity, peak oil, energy saving, and economic resilience;
- b. Promoting individual and organisational commitment to a reduction in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions.
Our vision is to help steer Bournemouth to a sustainable, low-carbon future where our community and wildlife thrives without costing the earth.
The approach the trustees have taken in support of our vision for this year is to continue with those that remain active of the grass-roots projects we had in place at the time of becoming a Charity (30[th] May 2019) and to consolidate our policies and practices. Our projects are the main means through which we achieve our aims and objectives. However, this year only one has remained active due to unavailability of project leaders.
- The Repair Café promotes the prudent use of natural resources.
The Trustees have had due regard to the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit. We endeavour to encourage all in our community to take part in our activities.
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## **Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
## Repair Café
Our Bournemouth Repair Café project continued to run through 23/24. We held 4 Repair Café events during this period and our team of volunteer fixers worked on 79 items in total, 29 of which were successfully fixed, saving 53kg from going to landfill. Many others were partially fixed or we were able to advise, e.g. on replacement parts that were needed. The Repair Café events were run at multiple venues around the Bournemouth and Poole area, including a successful turn in a neighbourhood we have not operated in before, allowing for members of the public to attend whichever event they it most convenient to travel to. We have expanded our project leadership from an individual to a team, sharing the load and preventing burnout, and we grew our team of volunteer fixers to include additional capability for repairing electrical items & textiles. We are feeling very hopeful about the next year.
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**Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
## Slades Farm Community Garden
to con�nue running structured sessions here due to not having a leader for the project. We thank Theresa for leading the project for so long, and so expertly. We will con�nue to seek new volunteers and hope to find someone who is willing and able to take on the responsibility for the community garden.
## Our volunteers
Transition Bournemouth is involved in the community and relies on voluntary help. Volunteers help run all our projects and make them fun. We wish to thank our volunteers for their support and encouragement. We also give thanks to Community Action Network, who help us with recruitment of volunteers, general support, and use of their postal address.
## Plans for the future
## **Plans for 24-25**
To continue supporting our existing projects:
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- Repair Café: this is planned to continue into 23-24.
We also plan to recruit additional trustees as a basis for expanding our sustainable project portfolio and for developing our longer term vision.
## Reference and administrative details
## **Reference**
Charity Number: 1183648
Registered Address: c/o Community Action Network, Beech House, 28-30 Wimborne Rd, Poole BH15 2BU
## **Our trustees**
The minimum number of Trustees is three, and the maximum twelve.
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**Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
|**Trustee Name**|**Role**|**Start Date**|**End Date**|**Reason for leaving**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Pete Allen|Chair/Treasurer|30/05/2019|||
|Mike Hodges|Treasurer|30/05/2019|21/10/2021|Workload issues|
|Theresa McManus||30/05/2019|30/11/2022|Family commitments|
|Jennie Allen||30/05/2019|02/05/2021|Parental commitments|
|Kim Boughey||30/05/2019|30/11/2022|Personal/Health|
|Kirsten Juniper||30/03/2020|||
|Martha Searle||30/05/2019|04/01/2020|Planned to leave the area|
|Harriett Ricketts||21/10/2020|06/09/2021|Workload issues|
|Graham Brown|Secretary|30/03/2023|||
None of our trustees receive remuneration or other benefit from their work with the charity.
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## **Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
## **Our advisers**
Governance, policy, funding, general support and advice: Community Action Network Banking: The Cooperative Bank Plc, P.O. Box 101, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP
## **Governing Document**
Transition Bournemouth is registered with the Charities Commission (England and Wales) as a charitable Incorporated Organisation. Our full governing document is available on request.
## **Governance**
Trustee appointment: at the first AGM, all trustees will retire, and thereafter at every AGM one third of the trustees will retire according to the length of time the position has been held. The appointment of the trustees at the AGM will be made by all members present.
## **AGM**
A minimum of 14 days notice is given for the AGM, with the documents sent out including the annual statement of accounts and trustees’ annual report, and details of people standing for election or re-election as a trustee.
## **Trustee Meetings**
The trustees meet quarterly, including a public AGM.
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**Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
## Financial Review
## **Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements**
The charity trustees are responsible for preparing a trustees’ annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and the group and hence 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 charitable company’s website.
## **Statement as to disclosure to our auditors**
In so far as the trustees are aware at the time of approving our trustees’ annual report:
- there is no relevant information, being information needed by the auditor in connection with preparing their report, of which the group’s auditor is unaware, and
- the trustees, having made enquiries of fellow directors and the group’s auditor that they ought to have individually taken, have each taken all steps that he/she is obliged to take to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the auditor is aware of that information.
By order of the board of trustees
P Allen (Chair)
27/09/21
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## **Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
## Reserves Policy
The majority of our donations are to Transition Bournemouth and so are unreserved. However, in some instances donations are made to a specific project and so are treated as reserved for that project. Similarly, if a grant has been awarded for a particular project, then those funds are treated as reserved for that project.
## Financial Position at Year End
This year our income came from donations to the Repair Café project which has become our flagship project. We have not had many items of great expenditure, so assuming our projects generally break-even in future, and with its current assets, Transition Bournemouth can continue for at least the next 5 years.
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**Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
## **Notes on the accounts**
## **1 Accounting Policies**
## a) Basis of Preparation
Transition Bournemouth is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. It is not also set up as a trading company. The charity makes less than the current threshold, allowing the trustees the choice of Receipts and Payments accounting or Accrual accounting. The trustees have elected to use the Receipts and Payments accounting approach.
Transition Bournemouth was started in 2009 by a small group of people who were committed environmentalists inspired by the positivity of the Transition movement and saw it as a better way to engage with people. We knew from experience that the old ‘doom and gloom’ approach foretelling apocalyptic consequences if we don’t change our ways wasn’t proving effective in inspiring behaviour changes towards more sustainable living. The transition movement offered a new and more positive approach looking at creating an attractive vision of a sustainable future and positive achievable ways of making a succession of small changes that ultimately add up to a big difference. The group became a Charitable Association in 2011 and slowly grew its following and its project portfolio. In 2018 the group decided to change the legal structure to minimise financial risks and to become a CIO. The assets, financial and otherwise, transferred directly from the Charitable Association to the CIO. There was no change made to our bank account, held with the Co-op. The amount transferred was £6,266.23.
When Transition Bournemouth became a CIO on 30 May 2019, the new constitution moved the accounting year for the organisation to 1[st] April – 31[st] March. The present accounts are for our fourth year of being a CIO and are from 01-April 2022 – 31 March 2023.
## b) Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis
Each project is largely self-sustaining with outgoings generally being matched by income. On this basis, and on the strength of our reserves, the trustees consider the charity a going concern for at least the next 12 – 24 months.
## c) Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of 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 projects being undertaken by the charity.
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## **Transition Bournemouth - Annual Report for the period ending 31/03/2024**
g) 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
## h) Tangible fixed assets
Individual fixed assets are capitalised at cost and are depreciated
over their estimated useful economic lives on a straight line basis at 25% as these are largely tools for our projects and some marketing materials.
## i) Employees and Pensions
The charity does not employ any staff.
## **2 Legal status of the Charity**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation since 30 May 2019. There is no liability to trustees in respect of the charity being wound up.
## **3 Financial Performance of the Charity**
The financial performance of the charity is largely made up of the performance of its projects.
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||**To**
**31/03/2024**
**Transition Bournemouth**
**1183648**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**01/04/2023**
**For the period from**|**To**
**31/03/2024**
**Transition Bournemouth**
**1183648**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**01/04/2023**
**For the period from**|**To**
**31/03/2024**
**Transition Bournemouth**
**1183648**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**01/04/2023**
**For the period from**|**To**
**31/03/2024**
**Transition Bournemouth**
**1183648**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**01/04/2023**
**For the period from**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,984**
**-**
**-**
**195**
**-**
**506**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,847**
**-**
**-**|
|**A1 Receipts**
General
- Grant income
- Donations
- Sales
- Previous funds
Repair Café Project
- Grant income
- Sales
- Donations
- Misc
- Previous funds
Slades Garden Project (resting)
- Grant income
- Sales
- Donations
- Previous funds
Food Coop (ceased)
- Sales
**_Sub total_**
_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**
**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**
General
- operations
- marketing
- volunteer expenses
- volunteer training|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,286**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,286**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,286**
**234**
**-**
**4**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**506**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,847**
**-**
**-**
**2,353**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,353**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,286**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**506**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,847**
**-**
**-**
**6,638**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,638**
**234**
**-**
**4**
**-**||
||||||**7,532**
**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**7,532**
**147**
**-**
**50**
**-**|
|Repair Café Project
- operations
- marketing
- room hire
- volunteer expenses
- volunteer training
Slades Garden Project (resting)
- operations
- room hire
- volunteer expenses
- volunteer training|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5**
**-**
**188**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5**
**-**
**188**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**47**
**-**
**250**
**-**
**-**
**399**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**_Sub total_**
**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**(see table)**
**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**238**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**238**|**193**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**193**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**431**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**431**|**893**
**-**
**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**893**|
||**4,048**|**2,160**|**-**|**6,207**|**6,639**|
||**-**
**-**
**4,048**|**-**
**-**
**2,160**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|
|||||**6,207**|**6,639**
should equal closing balances|
should equal closing balances closing balance £x MATCHED difference
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**4,048**
**-**
**-**
**4,048**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,160**
**-**
**-**
**2,160**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
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Fund to which Current value
Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional)
Count on Me event materials Count on Me 412 82
Repair Café tools Repair Café 720 303
Slades Farm tools Slades Farm 436 89
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Details liability relates (optional) (optional)
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P Allen Pete Allen (Chair) 31/01/2024
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## **B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees