## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 10th September 2019 To 9[th ] September 2020**
**Charity name: Trees For Derby**
**Charity registration number: 1185054**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes|
Para 1.17|**To promote the conservation,**|
|of the charity as set out in||**protection and improvement of the**|
|its governing document||**physical and natural environment for**|
|||**the public benefit, by planting trees**|
|||**in the city of Derby and surrounding**|
|||**area, to mitigate the effects of**|
|||**climate change. To advance**|
|||**education of the public in the above.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Our main activities have been to**
**encourage volunteers of all ages to**|
|those purposes for the||**participate in planting and nurturing**|
|public benefit, in||**trees and protecting the local**|
|particular, the activities,||**environment. We have been active in**|
|projects or services||**developing a tree planting strategy in**|
|identified in the accounts.||**partnership with Derby City Council,**|
|||**University of Derby, local schools**|
|||**and businesses.**|
|Statement confirming|Para 1.18|**The above have been carried out in**|
|whether the trustees have||**compliance with Trees for Derby’s**|
|had regard to the||**duty to have due regard for the**|
|guidance issued by the||**Commission’s public benefit**|
|Charity Commission on||**guidance.**|
|public benefit|||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference
Para 1.38
Policy on grant making
Para 1.38
Policy on social investment including program related
investment
||||||**The charity aims to include**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Para|1.38|**volunteers in various ways including**|
|Contribution|made|by|||**acting as a local co-ordinator for**|
|volunteers|||||**wards of the city, by identifying sites**|
||||||**and assisting organisation of**|
||||||**planting events. Volunteers are also**|
||||||**encouraged to assist with planting**|
||||||**trees. However due to Covid issues,**|
||||||**some planting events with**|
||||||**volunteers were cancelled in 2020.**|
||||||**The charity has set out a Covid**|
||||||**planting policy to deal with future**|
||||||**events.**|
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference
**The charity has developed a wide volunteer base of over 250 people of all ages. Many of whom have created new** Summary of the main Para 1.20 **plantations with us, improving the local environment** achievements of the charity, identifying the **The charity has planted approximately** difference the charity’s **6000 trees in the first season on 8** work has made to the **different sites around the city including** circumstances of its **1 primary school (with the aid of school** beneficiaries and any **children as part of a learning** wider benefits to society **experience).** as a whole. **Some sites have fared relatively well with reasonable growth and yields observed at the end of the summer period. The feedback from residents has been good where received. However, some sites have fared poorly under the various hot and dry spells of the spring and summer of 2020. As a result, the group have identified some improvements in planting technique to improve future yields.**
**Future sites have also been identified and recorded to explore the potential for planting. Sites for planting have largely been Council owned although the charity is not restricted to using such**
**land and is actively seeking**
**Relationships have been made with external bodies for collaboration of various means including Derby City Council, Derby Homes, University of Derby ,Derby Green Spaces, Friends of Derby Parks.**
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against|Para 1.41|
|---|---|
|objectives set||
|Performance of fundraising|Para 1.41|
|activities against objectives||
|set||
|Investment performance|Para 1.41|
|against objectives||
|Other||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s|Para 1.21|**See attached end of year accounts.**|
|financial position at the|||
|end of the period||**These show that at the 31st July 2020**|
|||**the account has a balance of**|
|||**£2,542.95**|
|Statement explaining the|Para 1.22|**None**|
|policy for holding reserves|||
|stating why they are held|||
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**None**|
|Reasons for holding zero|Para 1.22|**None**|
|reserves|||
|Details of fund materially|Para 1.24|**None**|
|in deficit|||
|Explanation of any|Para 1.23|**None**|
|uncertainties about the|||
|charity continuing as a|||
going concem
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|||**Fundraising in order to be able to**|
|---|---|---|
|||**provide resource for events, site**|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds|Para 1.47|**maintenance and resources such as**
**tools and trees has been carried out**|
|(including any fundraising)||**in the form of a request for donations**|
|||**from the public, members and**|
|||**enquiries to local businesses. This**|
|||**has provided small donations per the**|
|||**charity accounts, also some items**|
|||**such as gloves, secateurs and**|
|||**spades, all of which was gratefully**|
|||**received.**|
|||**Further tools were received on loan**|
|||**from the City Council Parks**|
|||**Department**|
|||**Trees were sourced from two main**|
|||**parties: The Woodlands Trust**|
|||**provided trees, canes and spirals**|
|||**free of charge following application**|
|||**for the “community tree packs”.**|
|||**Further trees, canes and spirals were**|
|||**provided free of charge from the**|
|||**TCV, “I dig trees” scheme.**|
|Investment policy and|Para 1.46||
|---|---|---|
|objectives including any|||
|social investment policy|||
|adopted|||
|||**Weather affecting yield of planting.**|
|||**Availability of land for planting.**|
|A description of the|Para 1.46|**Availability of funds in the form of**|
|principal risks facing the||**donations or grants, for activities.**|
|charity||**Availability of volunteers for planting**|
|||**events.**|
## Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
Description of charity’s trusts: Type of governing Para 1.25 **Constitution adopted 29 July 2019** document (trust deed, royal charter) How is the charity Para 1.25 **CIO** constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO) Trustee selection Para 1.25 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
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **None**
Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees
The charity’s Para 1.51 organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works
Relationship with any Para 1.51 related parties
||**Future Plans:**|
|---|---|
|Other|**The coming year will see the**|
||**development of a city-wide**|
||**programme of tree planting by**|
||**volunteer helpers, with special**|
||**encouragement to young people to**|
||**improve the environment and**|
||**become involved in activities geared**|
||**to addressing climate change**|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name Tree For Derby
|Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity
number
1185054
Charity’s principal
address
19 Thornhill Road
Derby
DE22 3LX
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**
**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**
1
Joe Naitta
2
Adam Link
Sept 2019 – May
2020
3
Kathryn Ball
Secretary
4
Alyson Lee
Treasurer
5
Reg Hand
Chair
6
Gemma Hurley
Sept 2019 – May
2020
7
Richard Simkins
May 2020 -
8
Helen Hitchcock
May 2020 -
9
10
11|Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity
number
1185054
Charity’s principal
address
19 Thornhill Road
Derby
DE22 3LX
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**
**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**
1
Joe Naitta
2
Adam Link
Sept 2019 – May
2020
3
Kathryn Ball
Secretary
4
Alyson Lee
Treasurer
5
Reg Hand
Chair
6
Gemma Hurley
Sept 2019 – May
2020
7
Richard Simkins
May 2020 -
8
Helen Hitchcock
May 2020 -
9
10
11|Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity
number
1185054
Charity’s principal
address
19 Thornhill Road
Derby
DE22 3LX
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**
**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**
1
Joe Naitta
2
Adam Link
Sept 2019 – May
2020
3
Kathryn Ball
Secretary
4
Alyson Lee
Treasurer
5
Reg Hand
Chair
6
Gemma Hurley
Sept 2019 – May
2020
7
Richard Simkins
May 2020 -
8
Helen Hitchcock
May 2020 -
9
10
11|Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity
number
1185054
Charity’s principal
address
19 Thornhill Road
Derby
DE22 3LX
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**
**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**
1
Joe Naitta
2
Adam Link
Sept 2019 – May
2020
3
Kathryn Ball
Secretary
4
Alyson Lee
Treasurer
5
Reg Hand
Chair
6
Gemma Hurley
Sept 2019 – May
2020
7
Richard Simkins
May 2020 -
8
Helen Hitchcock
May 2020 -
9
10
11|Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity
number
1185054
Charity’s principal
address
19 Thornhill Road
Derby
DE22 3LX
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**
**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**
1
Joe Naitta
2
Adam Link
Sept 2019 – May
2020
3
Kathryn Ball
Secretary
4
Alyson Lee
Treasurer
5
Reg Hand
Chair
6
Gemma Hurley
Sept 2019 – May
2020
7
Richard Simkins
May 2020 -
8
Helen Hitchcock
May 2020 -
9
10
11|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**|
||Joe Naitta||||
||Adam Link||Sept 2019 – May
2020||
||Kathryn Ball|Secretary|||
||Alyson Lee|Treasurer|||
||Reg Hand|Chair|||
||Gemma Hurley||Sept 2019 – May
2020||
||Richard Simkins||May 2020 -||
||Helen Hitchcock||May 2020 -||
||||||
||||||
||||||
12
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 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 adviser Name Address**
**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) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date**
## **Trees for Derby Accounts for Year Ending 31st July 2020**
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Income 2019 - 2020
Donations £2,612.06
Misc. (account tests) £1.01
Total Income £2,613.07
Expenditure
Labels & Stickers £70.12
Total Expenditure £70.12
Excess of income over expenditure £2,542.95
Cash Reconcilliation Opening Balance £0.00
Plus surplus £2,542.95
Closing Balance £2,542.95
Represented by Coop Current Account £2,542.95
Total £2,542.95
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Signed
Date:
**Trees for Derby Accounts for Year Ending 31st July 2020**
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