## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Period start date To Period end date** ## **Charity name:** ## **Charity registration number:** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE**
**THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE**
**ARCHAEOLOGY AND ASSOCIATED**
**NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTH**
**PENNINES AND ADJACENT AREAS IN**
**PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY,**
**BY:**
**(A) ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO TAKE**
**PART IN LOCAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGS.**
**(B) PROVIDING TRAINING**
**OPPORTUNITIES IN BASIC**
**ARCHAEOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES.**
**(C) STIMULATING INTEREST FROM THE LOCAL**
**COMMUNITY AND WIDER COMMUNITIES IN**
**THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF THE SOUTH**
**PENNINES AND ADJACENT AREAS BY**
**ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION, RESEARCH,**
**FIELD WALKING, TALKS AND OTHER METHODS**| |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|**Another busy and successful year as**
**evidenced by the current membership of**
**76. During the year we undertook 7**
**history walks, 7 talks on relevant**
**subjects, 7 local visits (up to 20 mile**
**radius) and 3 coach trips further afield.**| |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 paid close attention**
**the Charity Commission with regards to**
**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 Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**Our work in promoting the heritage of the**
**area to the local population has been**
**instrumental in improving the mental**
**health of many people. It has also been**
**helpful in reducing social isolation. Many**
**more local people are now aware of their**
**rich and varied heritage.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |||| Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**With 33% increase in unreserved funds it**
**has also been a successful year**
**financially.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We reserve £1000 for future overheads,**
**we also reserve grants for archaeological**
**digs to comply with the equirements of**
**the grants.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1000 + £386**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**none**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |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:||**none**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**n/a**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**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|**By agreement with all the exiting trustees**
**ona majority voting system.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |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|South Pennine Archaeology Group (SPAG)| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|none| |Registered charity number|1187093| |Charity’s principal address|11Hurst Crescent
Rossendale
BB4 7SX| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Barbara Smith|Chair||| ||Roger Grimshaw|Treasurer||| ||Chris Ainsworth||1.6.23|| ||Sarah Codd|||| ||Richard Matthews|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name none** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**none**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|none| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|n/a| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|n/a| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |**none**||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **n/a** ## **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Roger Grimshaw|Barbara Anne Smith| ||
Treasurer|Chair| ||4.9.24
**Date**4.9.24|| ||4.9.24|| |Opening Balance
01.03.23
Income
Expenditure
Closing Balance 29.2.24
inc *Reserved Funds
RESERVED FUNDS
Grant Income
Grants spent
*Reserved Funds
Unreserved Funds|2143.94
5743.64
4,639.56
3248.02
900.00
513.94
386.06
2861.96| |---|---| *Reserved funds are grants which must be spent o the archaeological digs