## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From Period start date 01/04/2020 To 31/03/21 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Kent Downs Trust**
## **Charity registration number: 1184737**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 Official purposes of the Kent Downs
purposes of the charity Trust:
as set out in its 1. To promote for the benefit of the
governing document public the conservation, protection
and improvement of the physical,
natural and cultural environment of
the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty (AONB) and its setting
in particular but not exclusively by:
I. Carrying out work to improve the
landscape, environment and built
heritage;
Ii. Supporting traditional skills and
promoting all arts inspired by the Kent
Downs AONB and its setting.
2. To advance the education of the
public in particular in the
conservation, protection and
enhancement of the physical,
scientific, natural and cultural
environment of the Kent Downs AONB
and its setting.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and The Trust continued its establishment
1.19
activities in relation to phase work by commissioning
those purposes for the research work into how to most
public benefit, in successfully embed Diversity and
particular, the activities, Inclusion into its future activities. The
projects or services Sheffield Environment Trust was
identified in the employed to carry out a Phase one
accounts. research study contacting many Kent
partners who might work with the
Kent Downs Trust to enable a diverse
audience to access and appreciate
the Kent Downs landscape. This would
then lead to a more detailed
assessment of need and opportunity
and a final report later in 2021.
Statement confirming Para 1.18 The Trustees have had regard to the
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have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public beneft||guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public beneft. The
main activity has been to research
how best to meet the needs of new
and diverse audiences who might
beneft from its activities in the
future.||
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
The Trust continued its establishment
phase work by commissioning
research work into how to most
Summary of the main successfully embed Diversity and
Para 1.20
achievements of the Inclusion into its future activities. The
charity, identifying the Sheffield Environment Trust was
difference the charity’s employed to carry out a Phase one
work has made to the research study contacting many Kent
circumstances of its partners who might work with the
beneficiaries and any Kent Downs Trust to enable a diverse
wider benefits to society audience to access and appreciate
as a whole. the Kent Downs landscape. This would
then lead to a more detailed
assessment of need and opportunity
and a final report later in 2021.
Besides communication with diverse
partner organisations, there has been
no direct action on the ground in this
period, in part due to the pandemic.
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The Trust started to gather important information about how best to work with partners and how to ensure future benefits are open to the widest audience possible, aiming to breakdown barriers to accessing the Kent Downs landscape, for new groups.
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 The KDT has received income from
financial position at the grant sources enabling its continued
end of the period establishment phase. Small amounts
of spend have been achieved with
more of this grant to be spent
2021/22 and 2022/23.
Statement explaining Para 1.22 The reserve held is a grant to enable
the policy for holding the continuing establishment phase of
reserves stating why the Trust. The next area of work will
they are held be to enable development of a
financial strategy and secure footing
for future activities.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £14 627.73
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22
reserves
Details of fund materially Para 1.24
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 N/a
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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The charity’s principal sources of funds Para 1.47 (including any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the Para 1.46 principal risks facing the charity Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 CIO
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25
Appointed charity trustees
methods including
details of any (a) Apart from the first
constitutional provisions
charity trustees, every
e.g. election to post or
appointed trustee must
name of any person or
be appointed for a term
body entitled to appoint
of three years by a
one or more trustees resolution passed at a
properly convened
meeting of the charity
trustees.
(b) Trustees will be
nominated in line with
the trustee recruitment
policy, in selecting
individuals for
appointment as
appointed charity
trustees, the charity
trustees must have
regard to the skills,
knowledge and
experience needed for
the effective
administration of the
CIO.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure Para 1.51 and any wider network with which the charity works
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Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Kent Downs Trust
Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity 1184737
number
Charity’s principal Kent Downs AONB Unit
address West Barn
Penstock Hall Farm
Brabourne
Ashford
Kent TN25 5LL
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Caroline Arnold
2 Nick Johannsen
3 Paul Bristow
4 Vincent Rapley
5 Richard Haynes
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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
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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 None aside from grant money (financial reserve) 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)**
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Type of Name Address
adviser
Admini Sally Evans West Barn, Penstock Hall Farm
strative
support
Admini Lisa Monk-Jones West Barn, Penstock Hall Farm
strative
support
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **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)** Nick Johannsen **Full name(s)** Caroline Arnold **Position (eg** Chair of Trustees Ex Officio Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 28/01/2022
|**Statement Date**|**Details**|**Paid out**|
|---|---|---|
|12/30/2019|Account opened|£ -|
|01/02/2020|No transactions|£ -|
|03/31/2020|Balance at Year End 2019/20|£ -|
|05/01/2020|Opening balance|£ -|
|05/01/2020|Payment from KCC|£ -|
||Gross interest|£ -|
|06/01/2020|Charges on account|-£ 0.20|
||Gross interest|£ -|
|07/01/2020|Gross interest|£ -|
|08/01/2020|Gross interest|£ -|
|09/01/2020|Gross interest|£ -|
|10/01/2020|Gross interest|£ -|
|11/02/2020|Gross interest|£ -|
|12/01/2020|Payment to Shefeld EMC Invoice 1 M Ayamba|-£ 3,937.50|
|||-£ 3,937.70|
|**Paid in**|**Balance**|
|---|---|
|£|- £ -|
|£|- £ -|
|£|- £ -|
|£|- £ -|
|£ 18,560.00 £ 18,560.00||
|£|0.08 £ 18,560.08|
|£|- £ 18,559.88|
|£|0.78 £ 18,560.66|
|£|0.76 £ 18,561.42|
|£|0.79 £ 18,562.21|
|£|0.78 £ 18,562.99|
|£|0.77 £ 18,563.76|
|£|0.78 £ 18,564.54|
|£|0.69 £ 14,627.73|
£ 18,565.43