## The Wakefield Peregrine Project
Charity number 1187885
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025
The Wakefield Peregrine Project
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 3|
|Receipts and payments account|4|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|5|
|Notes to the accounts|6 to 7|
## **Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## The Wakefield Peregrine Project
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position** Colin Booker Chair Francis Hickenbottom Treasurer Michael Rose Rebecca Bailey Craig Schofield **Charity number** 1187885 Registered in England and Wales **Registered and principal address Bankers** Ashtree House Co-operative Bank Little Hemsworth 1 Balloon Street Hemsworth Manchester Pontefract M60 4EP WF9 4BH
## **Accountants**
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 11 February 2020 and is governed by a constitution.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the trustees at a duly convened meeting.
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## The Wakefield Peregrine Project
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
To promote, for the benefit of the public, the study and support of peregrine falcons within the Wakefield district and surrounding area.
## **The charity's main activities**
The charity maintains a nestbox and three cameras on Wakefield Cathedral. Video from two cameras is streamed to the internet. The charity also arranges viewing days, when members of the public can see the peregrines and learn more about the species and the problems it faces.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular on environment, conservation and heritage.
## **Achievements and performance**
The peregrines did not breed on the cathedral in 2025, so the charity took the opportunity to replace the nestbox with a new and more durable box. The live streams were interrupted during the replacement period but the service has been restored ready for 2026.
## **Financial review**
The net payments for the year were £1,178, all of which was unrestricted funds.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £1,883.
The reserves policy is as follows:
a) The Lower Limit will be £2,000. This being the minimum amount considered necessary to cover the maintenance of equipment and the running costs of the charity for 2 years.
b) The Upper Limit will be £5,000. Any amounts above this can, at the trustees discretion, be transferred to a deposit account for use on the charity’s projects.
Approved by the board of trustees on 07/02/2026
Colin Booker (Trustee)
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## The Wakefield Peregrine Project Receipts and payments account
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
|Notes
2025
Total
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
1,159
**Total receipts**
1,159
**Payments**
Line rental
481
Streaming
145
Equipment
960
Website
398
Maintenance
183
Accountancy
170
Donation
-
**Total payments**
2,337
**Net receipts / (payments)**
(1,178)
**Fund balances brought forward**
3,061
**Fund balances carried forward**
1,883|2024
Total
funds
£
1,118
1,118
480
147
-
59
-
170
50
906
212
2,849
3,061|
|---|---|
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## The Wakefield Peregrine Project Statement of assets and liabilities
## as at 31 December 2025
|as at 31 December 2025
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
**Total cash funds**|2025
Total
£
1,883
1,883|2024
Total
£
3,061
3,061|
|---|---|---|
## **Assets retained for the charity's own use**
Nest box
|**Liabilities**
Accruals|2025
£
170
170|
|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 07/02/2026
Colin Booker (Trustee)
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## The Wakefield Peregrine Project
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## The Wakefield Peregrine Project
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**2 Grants and donations**
Charities Aid Foundation
Other donations|2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
1,159
1,159|2025
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-|2025
Total
funds
£
-
1,159
1,159|2024
Total
funds
£
568
550
1,118|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **3 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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