2021-12-31-accounts

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From 1[st] January 2021 To 31[st] December 2021 Charity name: Bedfordshire Bee Keepers Association Charity registration number: 1184466

Objectives and Activities

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Summary of the Para 1.17 The objective of Beds BKA is to preserve the
purposes of the charity honeybee by furthering the craft of beekeeping
as set out in its and educating the public of the benefit of bees in
governing document the environment.
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Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document Para 1.17 The objective of Beds BKA is to preserve the honeybee by furthering the craft of beekeeping and educating the public of the benefit of bees in the environment.
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 association provides public benefit by training beekeepers and providing information to the public about beekeeping, honey bees, other pollinators and their importance to the environment via talks, leaflets and displays. This is achieved through the following activities:  Providing training courses on beekeeping for members and non-members to learn or improve their knowledge of the craft.  Participating in local craft events and shows; trustees and other members attend to explain the importance of honeybees (and other pollinators) for human and wild life.  Holding an annual Honey Festival where the public can meet beekeepers, be shown hive products and beekeeping equipment and attend talks on bees and their benefits to the environment.  Giving talks to local groups.  Organising talks by expert speakers  Contact with the local media  Involving children through visits to schools The association provides a free public service for:  dealing with honey bee swarms  giving advice about swarms  giving advice about solitary and bumble bee nests

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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	The trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.

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Policy on grant making Para 1.38
Policy on social investment including program Para 1.38
related investment
Contribution made by volunteers Para 1.38
Other
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Achievements and Performance

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Summary of the main achievements of the charity, 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	The Association had a successful and active year in 2021 despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: 1) Membershipin 2021 increased to 567 (2020: 548). 2) Support for beekeeping research.Continued support was provided for honey bee research via the project known as 'Eastern Region Research Studentship' (EARS). This is directly sponsoring a PhD Student at Newcastle University to carry out research into why chronic bee paralysis virus is becoming more of an issue. We intend to increase financial support for a Phd student in the Eastern Associations Research Studentship (EARS) from £1500 to £2000 pa, starting in autumn 2022. 3) Successful beginners course. An online training experience will not suit everyone but it was considered very important to meet the needs of potential new beekeepers as widely as possible, including those who had lost out the previous year when the pandemic ended their training courses halfway through. In the event, an innovative online version of the Beginners Course attracted over 50 participants. Presentations on key topics were enhanced by photographs, on-location videos, and artwork, all produced in-house. Sessions were recorded so that students could re-visit them in their own time or join the course late. 83% rated the course as “Excellent” with many stating that it “Exceeded Expectations”. Students were assigned to mentors wherever possible for some practical introduction to beekeeping in the apiaries of experienced members who kindly volunteered their services.

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4) Training for Improvers and more established beekeepers . Regrettably, the ongoing pandemic curtailed this area which is best suited to practical and in-person training. 5) Outside events. These play an important part of our outreach to the public. In 2021, the pandemic situation resulted in no organisations able to host public events in the first half of the year and only a few in the second half. We did manage a stand at Taste Bedford in September and Bromham Mill Christmas Fayre in December. These attracted considerable public interest and enabled dissemination of information on bees to a wide cross-section of adults and children. 6) Public Talks and School Visits Two schools in Luton received “visits”, with the beekeeper on Zoom and using a pre-recorded talk that included footage of another beekeeper opening a hive. A short presentation was given to farmers at an online Bedfordshire NFU meeting. Other members gave an outdoor talk about bees to allotment holders on-site, to Haversham Village School and via Zoom to a school in Liverpool. 7) Autumn and winter talks on bees and beekeeping were held online via zoom. These free talks were publicised via EventBrite and were open to members and public alike. 8) Swarm Services to the Public. Members provided a swarm capture and swarrn placement service for the public. 10) Preserving the Honey Bee . Our District Advisors continued to support members with any beekeeping issues or problems helping to ensure appropriate management and health of members bees. Our bulk purchase scheme provides members with the opportunity to obtain beekeeping supplies locally at a reasonable price thereby helping members to care for the bees in their charge. Our annual Honey Show, judged by independent judges, helps to maintain and improve beekeeping standards by competition. Run as a virtual event due to the pandemic, this year the Show included 2 new categories specifically aimed at children in order to increase children’s awareness of the importance of bees. The Show results are publicly viewable on the Association website as a further interest to the public. The weather had a particularly big impact on our bees this year, with some hives in possible danger of starvation in the Spring, and just two periods when the nectar really came in (three if the ivy is counted). Queen rearing was especially difficult with periods of poor weather resulting in failed or imperfect mating. Sudden queenlessness remained a concern, with a whole host of issues that included delayed or poor mating, queens going drone-laying or suddenly disappearing. We had the first report for many years of foulbrood disease within Bedfordshire, European Foulbrood (EFB) in the countryside north of Luton. Our seasonal Bee Inspector Peter Folge will be checking the situation carefully for us in 2022. A sample from a “sentinel apiary” just to the south of Luton, sent to the National Bee Unit (NBU), tested negative for Small Hive Beetle.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41
Other

Financial Review

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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 See attached accounts for 2021
financial position at the
end of the period
Statement explaining Para 1.22 The association policy is to hold target reserves
the policy for holding equivalent to one year’s running costs plus an
reserves stating why appropriate amount to finance the potential
they are held establishment of a beekeeping centre (subject to
a 10% tolerance either way). The amounts
agreed were GBP 11,300 and GBP 18,000
respectively making a total of GBP 29,300.
Amount of reserves Para 1.22 GBP 30,575. This is at the reserves target
held
Reasons for holding Para 1.22 N/A
zero reserves
Details of fund Para 1.24 None
materially in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 None
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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The charity’s principal sources of
funds (including any fundraising)
Para 1.47
Investment policy and objectives Para 1.46
including any social investment
policy adopted
A description of the principal risks Para 1.46
facing the charity
Other
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Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Constitution
How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)	Para 1.25	Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
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	Trustees are elected by members at the AGM; one third of elected trustees must retire at each AGM. At other times, the members or the charity trustees may appoint a new charity trustee as an addition or to fill a vacancy; this trustee must retire at the next AGM.

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Policies and procedures Para 1.51
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees
The charity’s organisational Para 1.51
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works
Relationship with any related Para 1.51
parties
Other
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Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Bedfordshire Bee Keepers Association
Other name the charity uses	Beds BKA
Registered charity number	1184466
Charity’s principal address	30 High Street, Haversham, Milton Keynes, MK19 7DX

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Names of the charity trustees who managed the charity in 2021

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Dates acted if Name of person (or body)
Trustee name Office (if any) not for whole entitled to appoint trustee (if
year any)
1 Matt Alabaster Bedford Apiarist
2 David Chapman NE Beds District Advisor
3 Fiona Cook Honey Show Secretary
4 Anne Cross Dunstable District Advisor
Biggleswade District
5 Richard Dowsett
Advisor
6 Jeremy Freedman
Facebook Chatpage 1/1/21 – 1/12/21
7 Steve Gale
Manager
8 Karen Glasse Kempston District Advisor
9 David Goodridge
10 Colin Hall Chair
11 Chris Higham Treasurer
Christopher Assets Manager
12
Jenkins
13 Caroline Jordan Ampthill District Advisor
14 Rosemary Long Membership Secretary
15 Caroline Luxford Health & Safety Officer
Publicity and Outdoor
16 John Macdougall
Events
17 Richard Medcalf 1/1/21 – 7/7/21
18 Mike Niemann Stockwood Apiarist
19 Chris Saunders
20 Ray Smith NW Beds District Advisor
21 Wally Thrale Sandy District Advisor
22 Jennie Tysom Safeguarding Officer
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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

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Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets 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

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Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

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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) John Rankin Macdougall Neil Blakemore Position Assistant Secretary Treasurer (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date 27[th] October 2022

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BEDFORDSHIRE BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION PROFITILOSS 2021 Actual Budg&t Actual to 31st De￿mbar 21 2021 GBP Full Year 2021 GBP Full Year 2020 GBP REVENUE Subscriptions Bulk purchase scheme Training Events Apiary Sales Don8lions Interest eamed Magazines Other revenue Total revenue 5,572 22,390 4,530 50 2,929 97 5,334 22,732 1,950 250 1,533 123 21 673 5,542 25,752 530 1,287 138 21 673 761 36,332 32,616 33.943 COSTS Bulk purchase schemo margin % 21,172 5.4% 20,903 8,0% 24.504 4.8% EXPENSES Subscriptions Print & Post Committee Events Training Apiary Insurance Donations Bank charges Depreciation Magazines Total expenses 422 2,021 519 178 125 1,183 3,974 1,500 293 925 608 11,748 290 1.895 632 1.555 1.937 231 1.806 1,500 145 850 673 11.514 565 1,895 639 170 937 575 1.806 1.500 161 868 541 9,657 surplusl{deliclll 3,412 199 1218} BALANCE SHEET 2021 GBP 3.003 30,470 2.922 1.418 11,313} 36,500 2020 GBP 3,708 27,723 1,957 2,882 13,1821 33,088 ASSETS Fbxad Assets Cash Stock Debtors Creditors Total REPRESENTED BY Surplu8 blf Profitl(lossl for p8riod 33,088 3,412 33,306 -218 Total 36,500 33,088

Independent examiner's report on the accounts Report to the trustees1 members of Bedford5hire Beekeepers Association on accounts for the twelve months to December 2021 as set out on page 2 of this report. Respective responslbilities of trustees and examiner The chariws trustees consider than an audit is not required for this year lunder section 43121 of the Charities Act 1993 Ithe Artll and that an independent examination is needed. It 15 my responsibility to Examine the accounts (under sections 43 of the Act). To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission lunder section 4317llbl of the Act), and To state whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of independent examiner'5 report My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a revlew of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from us as trustees concernlng any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit. and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair, view and the report Is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. Independent examiner's statement In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements: to keep accounting records In accordance with settion 41 of the Act, and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act have not been met; or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed,. A/f Date.. DS-OZ -Zoa Name: Professional qualification or body: Address: Disclosures: None to report