## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/01/2022 To 31/12/2022** **Charity name: Necton Area Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 1187430** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|•
To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of
Necton and the surrounding area the provision of
facilities for recreation or other leisure time
occupation of individuals who have need of such
facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or
disablement, financial hardship or social and
economic circumstances or for the public at large in
the interests of social welfare and with the object of
improving the condition of life of the said
inhabitants.
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To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in
the interests of social welfare for recreation or other
leisure time occupation of individuals who have
need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age,
infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social
circumstances with the object of improving their
conditions of life.| |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|Our main focus this year continues to be the
transformation of an overgrown parcel of parish council
owned land into a community woodland for the benefit
of the village of Necton. Our fundraising activities have
raised finances specifically for this project and other
green initiatives. Our website, blog and social media
channels aim to provide the community with timely
updates on the project.
We have also undertaken some community volunteer
gardening, planting trees.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit.|Para 1.18|We confirm that we have read guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public benefit and believe we
have acted in accordance with such guidance.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|We do not make grants to other
organisations/individuals.| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Not applicable at present.| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|During 2022, we had support from ten local residents
across a number of volunteer work sessions.| ## **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|We continued to develop the community woodland to
make it an open green space. Opening is scheduled
for summer 2023.
Main benefits of this project:
•
Better environmental habitat for wildlife
•
Community engagement on the project
•
External funding secured to develop the site.
Further information on this project:
https://www.nectonareatrust.org/kett-s-hill-woodland-
project| ## **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
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|We operate on a cash accounting basis. We have no
outstanding liabilities.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Our policy is to hold sufficient funds to maintain our
administrative costs. We have no physical assets to
consider.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|A cash reserve of £1,000.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None.| |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 where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|During 2022, principal sources were fundraising and
donations.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|No investments.| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|No risks facing the charity.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution based on the Charity Commission
‘foundation’model.| |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|5-year term off office. Appointment by decision of
current trustees. New trustees received a copy of
constitution, Annual Report and accounts, plus access
to previous minutes. No external body has entitlement
to appoint trustees.| ## **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|Necton Area Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|1187430| |Charity’s principal address|6 Brackenwoods, Necton. Swaffham
Norfolk
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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 (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||PhilipHayton|Chairman||N/A| ||Gabrielle Joyce|Treasurer||N/A| ||Paul Young|Trustee||N/A| ||Fraser Bateman|Trustee||N/A| ||Edith Alice Spain|Minutes Secretary||N/A| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets held in this
capacity|N/A| |---|---| |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**||| |||| |||| |**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)** Gabrielle Joyce **Full name(s)** Gabrielle Joyce **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 10 March 2023 **Necton Area Trust** **1187430** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** **For the period** 01/01/2022 31/12/2022 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**130**
**1,305**
**170**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,605**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,605**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**358**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**358**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**358**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**358**
**130**
**1,305**
**170**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,963**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,963**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Grants|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**358**|**2,253**| |Donations|**130**|||**130**|**681**| |Fundraising|**1,305**|||**1,305**|**226**| |Giftaid|**170**|||**170**|**356**| ||**-**|||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**1,605**|||**1,963**|**3,516**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||**-**|||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**|**-**| |**_Total receipts_**|||||| ||**1,605**|**358**|**-**|**1,963**|**3,516**| ## **A3 Payments** |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||| |Insurance|||**358**|||**-**|||**358**||**339**| |Marlpitproject costs|**-**||**2,324**|||**-**|||**2,324**||**1,697**| |Villagegreening projects|**110**||**-**|||**-**|||**110**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**110**||**2,682**|||**-**|||**2,792**||**2,036**| ||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||| ||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**110**||**2,682**||||**-**||**2,792**||**2,036**| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**1,495**||**- 2,324**||||**-**||**- 829**||**1,480**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 11**||**11**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**2,101**||**2,313**|||**-**|||**4,414**||**-**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**3,585**||**-**|**0**|||**-**||**3,585**||**1,480**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|Cash in bank
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**3,585**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Cash in bank||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**|Signature
GabrielleJoyce
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**3,585**| |---|---|---| |||Gabrielle Joyce| ||||