## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT for 2021** ## 1. Reporting Period |**From**|01/01/2021| |---|---| |**To**|31/12/2021| ## 2. Reference & Administrative Details |**Charity name**|Ride Mendips| |---|---| |**Registered charity number**|1188609| |**Charity’s principal address**|Meadow View,
Round Oak Road,
Cheddar.
BS27 3BN| ## 3. Objectives & Activities |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity as set out in its**
**governing document**|The objects of the CIO are for the public benefit on the Mendip
Hills and the surrounding areas, to promote community
participation in healthy recreation and 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.**|Protect existing and pursue the opening of new rights of way for
off road cyclists.
Construct and maintain sustainable cycling facilities & trails to a
high standard.
Act as an information and communication point for local off road
cyclists.
Promote a code of conduct among the off road cycling
community.
Promote the importance of off road cycling to other user groups
and organisations.| |**Statement confirming**
**whether the trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit**|The trustees have paid due regard to the Charity Commission’s
guidance on public benefit at all relevant times.| 1 ## 4. Achievements & Performance |**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.**|In 2021 Ride Mendips focussed on two main projects for the
benefit of the local community:
Rowberrow Warren Bike Trails:
In 2021 Ride Mendips managed to restore all the mountain
biking trails in Rowberrow Warren following significant. Damage
due to tree feeling that occurred in late 2020. This included a
complete rebuild of the Pig Pen & Christmas Jumper as well as
significant rework to Twins, Lumps and Bumps and Thee Chippy.
By the summer of 2021 all trails were restored thanks to
approximately 10 dig sessions.
Cheddar Pump Track:
In 2021 Ride Mendips managed to secure the remaining funds to
build the pump track. This included an award of £35,000 from
the British Cycling Places to Ride Fund and an award of all stone
and asphalt worth over £40,000 from Hanson. Although
submitted by Ride Mendips the BC award was paid directly to
Cheddar Parish Council. Ride Mendips also secured an additional
£10,000 form the HPC fund and £2,500 from Sedgemoor District
Council. Unfortunately, the project was delayed after discovering
that Bristol Water held a covenant for a culvert that ran under
the site of the track. As a consequence, we had to locate and
alternative site and gain new planning permission. After a
comprehensive process we finally managed to gain planning for
the new site in the Autumn and signed an agreement with the
Parish Council for the works to begin in early 2022.| |---|---| |**Contribution made by**
**volunteers.**|Volunteers make a significant contribution to the achievement of
Ride Mendips objectives. All dig sessions are led by Ride Mendips
committee members but are mostly made up of volunteers who
want to assist with the building and maintenance of trails.| ## 5. Structure, Governance & Management |**Type of governing document**|Constitution| |---|---| |**How is the charity**
**constituted?**|Foundation CIO| |**Trustee selection methods**
**including details of any**
**constitutionalprovisions e.g. **|Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be
appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened
meetingof the charitytrustees. In selectingindividuals for| 2 |**election to post or name of**
**any person or body entitled to**
**appoint one or more trustees**|appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have
regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the
effective administration of the CIO.
Additional Eligibility Checks:
(1) Register of persons removed as trustees of a charity.
(2) Register of disqualified directors.| |---|---| |**The charity’s organisational**
**structure and any wider**
**network with which the**
**charity works**|In addition to the Trustees Ride Mendips has a committee of
members who are consulted with regards the activities of the
charity. The committee is made up of volunteers supporting
delivery of the charity's objectives, beneficiaries of Ride Mendips
activities such as local cycling groups and representatives from
charities with similar objectives including British Cycling.| ## 6. Trustee Committee Members |**Trustee Name**|**Position**| |---|---| |Grant Stephen Garge|Chairman| |Samuel Aaron Lees|Treasurer| |Matthew John Latham|Secretary| |Jonathan Howkins|Trustee| |Colin Michael Baker|Trustee| |Stuart Aron Beauchemin|Trustee| |Matthew James Coxhead|Trustee| ## 7. Non Trustee Committee Members |**Advisor Name**|**Position**| |---|---| |Adam Clutterbuck|Communications Officer| ## 8. Financial Review |8. Financial Review|| |---|---| |**Review of the charity’s**
**financial position at the end of**
**the period**|Ride Mendips received a number of funding grants in 2021 to
support the Cheddar Pump Track Project. Some of these were
paid upfront and held in reserves whilst others were held until
the commencement of the project due in early 2022.| |**Statement explaining the**
**policy for holding reserves**
**stating why they are held**|The majority of funds raised by Ride Mendips are restricted in
relation to the Cheddar Pump Track. Both income and
expenditures in relation to other activities are minimal with| 3 ||objectives achieved primarily through the support of volunteers.
Reserves are therefore held at a level that ensures the
availability of sundry items to support trail building and
associated signage.| |---|---| |**Amount of reserves held**|£41,731| |**Reasons for holding zero**
**reserves**|Not applicable.| |**Details of fund materially in**
**deficit**|Not applicable.| |**Explanation of any**
**uncertainties about the**
**charity continuing as a going**
**concern**|Not applicable.| ## 9. Funds Held As Custodian Trustees On Behalf Of Others |Description of the assets held
in this capacity|Not applicable.| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|Not applicable.| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|Not applicable.| ## 10.Declarations The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees |The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.|The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.| |---|---| |Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees|| |Signature(s)|Grant Garge| |Full name(s)|Grant Garge| |Position|Chairman| |Date|20/10/2022| 4 ||**Ride Mendips**|**Ride Mendips**|**Ride Mendips**|**Ride Mendips**|**Ride Mendips**|**1188609**|**1188609**||**CC16a**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||| ||||1-1-21||||31/12/2021|||| |||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |Sedgemoor district council|**-**||**2,500**||**-**||**2,500**||**2,500**|| |Donations|**1,341**||**-**||**-**||**1,341**||**417**|| |Interest Recieved|**2**||**-**||**-**||**2**||**1**|| |Petruth Paddocks|**1,500**||**-**||**-**||**1,500**||**-**|| |National Grid|**-**||**20,000**||**-**||**20,000**||**-**|| |HinkleyPoint|**-**||**10,000**||**-**||**10,000**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|**2,843**||**32,500**||**-**||**35,343**||**2,918**|| |||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**2,843**||**32,500**||**-**||**35,343**||**2,918**|| |||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Professional Fees - Planning|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**487**|| |Professional Fees - Subscriptions|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**99**|| |Advertisingandpromotions|**250**||**-**||**-**||**250**||**260**|| |Signage|**166**||**-**||**-**||**166**||**62**|| |General & Administration Expenses|**304**||**-**||**-**||**304**||**-**|| |Training|**390**||**-**||**-**||**390**||**-**|| |Bank Charges|**5**||**-**||**-**||**5**||**-**|| ||**0**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**1,115**||**-**||**-**||**1,115**||**908**|| |||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**
**table)**||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_**|**1,115**||**-**||**-**||**1,115**||**908**|| |||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**1,728**||**32,500**||**- **||**34,228**||**2,010**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**5,589**||**1,914**||**-**||**7,503**||**5,493**|| |
**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**7,317**||**34,414**||**-**||**41,731**||**7,503**|| |||||||||||1| |||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets**|**and liabilities at the end of**||||**the period**|||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B1 Cash funds**|Bank Account||||**6,699**||**34,414**||**-**|| ||PayPal Account||||**618**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||1||||**-**||**-**||~~23/06/202~~
**-**|| |||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets**|**and liabilities**||**at the end of the period**|||||||| ||||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**|| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**funds**||||**funds**|| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B1 Cash funds**|Bank Account||||**6,699**||**34,414**||**-**|| ||PayPal Account||||**618**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**|| ||||||**funds**||||**funds**|| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|||1||||||~~23/06/202~~1|| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own**
**use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the
trustees|
Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**7,317**||**34,414**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts andpayments account(s))||||||||OK| 2 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 23/06/2021 Independent examlnels reportto the trustees of Rlde Mendlps CIO I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Ride Mendips CIO for the year ended 31st Detrmber 2021. Responslbllltles and basls of report A5 the charity trustees you are fesponsible for the p￿paratIOn of the accounts In accordan￿ with the ￿qUIreMentS of the Charities Act 20111'the A¢t'l. I report in respect of my examlnation of the Trust's accounts carried out under sertlon 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed the dlrections. guidance & checkllst published given by the Charity Commisslon Independent examlner's statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination 8iving me cause to belleve that In any material respect: l. accounting records were not kept in respert of the Charity as reqUI￿d by sectlon 130of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord wlth those records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to whlch attention should be drawn in thi5 report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Name: (Ll ) (ThWI. Relevant professional qualiflcatlon or membership of professional bodies lif any): NIA Address: