## **New Leaf Alresford**
Report of the trustees for the year ending 31 March 2023.
The Trustees present their annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023.
## **Our Aims**
New Leaf Alresford was registered as a CIO on the 4[th] March 2020 and this is the Trustees second annual report.
The charity operates under the New Leaf Alresford Constitution dated 3[rd] March 2020 to comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
The objects of the charity are to promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by the provision of information and guidance and improving environmental awareness and promoting sustainable living.
New Leaf Alresford aims to provide local information and advice, to help the community to adopt the positive changes needed to tackle climate change, promote sustainability and protect our environment through the New Leaf Website: www.newleafalresford.org and Facebook group. We participate locally on projects which tackle climate change, increase recycling and boost biodiversity.
## **Our Objectives**
Our objectives are set to reflect our aims of promoting sustainability and recycling, tackling climate change and boosting biodiversity.
Our objectives for the year included:
To continue its work and to grow and develop its membership and links with other community groups.
The charity will continue to support the verges management pilot in Alresford.
Reducing waste and increasing recycling locally.
Promoting greener, more sustainable living.
## **Review of Activities and Achievement**
## **To Grow and Develop New Leaf Membership**
In November 2022 we held our first social gathering to provide our supporters the opportunity to come along, meet other members, discuss topics and plan projects. The event has become an established monthly meeting called the New Leaf Natter which is held on the second Thursday of the month.
## **Community Awareness, New Leaf Website and Social Media**
The charity continues to maintain and update the charity’s website providing information as well as add new posts, which are promoted through social media, to encourage people to visit the website. These included informative posts for Food Waste Action Week, Global Recycling Day, No Mow May, The Big Plastic Count, Save Every Drop, local events, and relevant news.
New Leaf Trustees presented to the Lydia Group - a local group which meets monthly.
The charity participated on the organising committee for the Queens Platinum Jubilee “Party in the Park” event which was a free event attended by approximately 2000 local people. The charity's contribution was to ensure that wherever possible the event was sustainable and the impact on the environment was kept to a minimum. As part of this we supplied our reusable plastic cups on a deposit scheme. In addition the charity had a stall at the event which raised awareness of the group.
In September 2022, New Leaf Alresford had a stall at the Alresford Agricultural Show. The stall provided games and educational material relating to reducing your carbon footprint, waste and recycling, home energy and gardening for wildlife.
In the Autumn of 2022 the charity produced a flyer with information promoting solar energy for businesses, offering information on the benefits and the support available. Approximately 30 businesses on Alresford’s industrial estate were visited in person and provided with the information.
## **Reusable Plastic Cups**
The charity received approximately 2000 unwanted Alresford Music Festival branded reusable plastic cups. The charity is now operating a cup
hire scheme which generates some income and reduces single plastic consumption. The cups were used at the Jubilee ‘Party in the Park’ event, The Alresford Show, and Petersfield Eco Fair.
## **Thermal Camera Loan Scheme**
In December 2022, New Alresford Town Council purchased a thermal imaging camera to help Alresford residents reduce their carbon emissions and winter fuel bills.
The camera allows residents to identify areas of heat loss in their homes, so that they can do something about it. Examples include installing additional insulation, draught excluders, radiator reflectors, thermal curtains, double or triple glazing.
The council donated the camera to New Leaf Alresford, and the charity administers the loan scheme for the town. In the first 3 months of 2023 approximately 15 local residents borrowed the camera.
## **Biodiversity and Verges Management**
Following on from New Leaf Alresford working with other local groups interested in the management of roadside verges and our participation in the consultation on the District’s Biodiversity Action Plan in September 2020 where we asked for changes in verge management to be included in the plan, Alresford was selected for a pilot scheme which will see the number of cuts for roadside verges reduced with two verge locations being allocated for 2 cuts per annum. The charity continued to support the pilot throughout the year providing information to the community as well as carrying out photographic surveys.
## **Future Plans**
The charity plans to continue its work and to grow and develop its membership and links with other community groups.
The charity will support the verges management pilot in Alresford.
The charity plans to apply for a grant to allow it to undertake community planting projects.
## **Our Finances**
The charity received a donation for presenting to another community group and a personal donation from a supporter to cover the pitch fee to attend The Alresford Show.
The charity also made a small profit from fundraising activities and also hiring ‘reusable plastic cups’ to other groups, at The Alresford Show and the Alresford Queens Platinum Jubilee events.
## **Charity Trustees**
The New Leaf Alresford charity has 3 Trustees:
## **Chair**
Imogen Oxley
## **Secretary**
Samantha Dalling
## **Treasurer**
Mark Tubb
**Contact Details Email:** enquires@newleafalresford.org **Website** : www.newleafalresford.org **Registered Charity Number** : 1188343
||**Charity Name**
**New Leaf Alresford**|**Charity Name**
**New Leaf Alresford**|**Charity Name**
**New Leaf Alresford**|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
4/1/2022|**To**
|Period end date
3/31/2023||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**
Cuphire
**773**
Donation
Public eventprofits
**208**
Speakingevent donations
**45**
Grants
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,026**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 1,026**
**A3 Payments**
Insurance
**157**
Forum Website Hosting
**173**
Promotional material
**117**
Cup hire-deposit returns
**-**
Show fees
**-**
Gardening equipment
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 447**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 447**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 579**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**93**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 672**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**185**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**285**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**285**
**-**
**185**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**285**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**285**
**-**
**-**
**124**
**124**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**958**
**100**
**208**
**45**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,311**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,311**
**157**
**173**
**117**
**185**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**732**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**732**
**579**
**-**
**217**
**796**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**958**||
|||||**100**|**142**|
|||||**208**|**43**|
|||||**45**|**50**|
|||||**-**|**562**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**1,311**|**797**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**|**1,311**|**797**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**157**|**157**|
|||||**173**|**143**|
|||||**117**|**-**|
|||||**185**|**-**|
|||||**100**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**280**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**732**|**580**|
|||||||
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||||**-**|**732**|**580**|
|||||||
|||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**579**|**217**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**124**||**217**|**-**|
|||**124**||**796**|**217**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Residual of community planting grant
Cash in bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**124**
**671**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**671**
**124**
Agreement Error
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
S Dalling
I Oxley
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||S Dalling|7/2/2023|
|||I Oxley|7/2/2023|
|5/23/2022|S Dalling (Lydia Grp)|45|
|---|---|---|
|6/8/2023|Jubilee Picnic|134.5|
|6/17/2022|Donation paypal (Karl)|101.35|
|7/22/2022|Bisset Reuasable cups|82.5|
|9/1/2022|Globe - reusable cups|£875|
|9/12/2022|Alresford show profits|72.3|
|4/21/2022|Forum INV 753|172.5|
|---|---|---|
|5/31/2022|Sarsen Press|70|
|6/10/2022|The Alresford Show|100|
|8/25/2022|UK Flyers|46.8|
|9/6/2022|Deposit rtn Globe (Cup Rental)|184.85|
|1/25/2023|Insurance|157|