## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 January 2021 Period start date** **To 31 December 2021 Period end date** **Charity name: Sustainable Cottenham Charity registration number: 1188763** ## **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 public**
**in and around the civil parish of**
**Cottenham Cambridgeshire:**
**(1) the advancement of education in the**
**subject of sustainable living in**
**particular, but not exclusively, by**
**raising awareness of the issues**
**associated with sustainable resource**
**use**
**(2) the advancement of education in the**
**conservation, protection and**
**improvement of the environment, in**
**particular but not exclusively by**
**encouraging the prudent use of natural**
**resources, reducing pollution and**
**raising awareness of environmental**
**issues.**| |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|**Advocating more sustainable diets and**
**reduced food waste through the Eco**
**Eats project in association with**
**Cambridge Sustainable Food; Reducing**
**single-use plastic (through awareness**
**raising, liaison with residents, schools**
**and groups and supported by Surfers**
**Against Sewage); encouraging social**
**sustainability through the fostering of**
**Cottenham Connected.**| |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 had regard to**
**the Charity Commission’s guidance on**
**public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Not applicable**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not applicable**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**We operate entirely by volunteer input.**
**During the period we had 40 members**
**actively involved through committee**
**membership, contributing to website**
**content, Facebook posts, articles for**
**local newsletters and general planning,**
**liaison and admin.**| |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|**COVID-19 restrictions have been in**
**force since Sustainable Cottenham was**
**converted to a charity and this has**
**limited what it has been able to achieve.**
**However, there have been four main**
**activities in 2021:**
**•**
**advocating more sustainable**
**diets and reduced food waste.**
**Sustainable Cottenham was awarded a**
**South Cambridgeshire District Council**
**(SCDC) Zero Carbon Communities grant**
**in 2020 to hold an Eco Eats festival in**
**association with Cambridge Sustainable**
**Food. Plans had to change because of**
**COVID but we were able to adapt the**
**project and held our first live Eco Eats**
**event in September 2021 at Cottenham**
**Allotments and Pavilion. The weather**
**was summery and over 180 adults and**
**children took part in a wide range of**
**things veggie and fruity. It demonstrated**
**what could be achieved by collaboration**
**with similar-minded village groups and**
**businesses: Fen End Farm, Bushel Box**
**Farm Shop, Willingham, Cottenham**
**Community Allotment, Cottenham WI**
**and The Co-op supermarket. Eco Eats**
**has been further supported indirectly by**
**a grant from the SCDC ZCC fund (2021)**
**to Cambridge Sustainable Food to**
**enable them to deliver additional**
**activities in Cottenham in 2022.**
**•**
**encouraging social sustainability**
**through the fostering of Cottenham**
**Connected, an initiative led by youth**
**worker Andrea Cowley which aims to**| **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||| |---|---|---|---| |reduce social isolation through inter-| |generational social events and| |activities. Because many of the| |participants are elderly and the events| |need to be held inside, these activities| |were particularly disrupted by COVID| |restrictions. However, we were able to| |restart them in September 2021 and held| |3 monthly Sunday Socials before| |Omicron forced their suspension until| |further notice. Approximately 30 – 40| |people aged between 4 and 90 attended| |each Sunday Social during autumn| |2021. The main funding was from| |Cambridge Community Foundation’s| |(CCF’s) Cultivate Fund plus the Local| |Connections Fund for comfortable| |chairs, tables and games and| |equipment.| |•|supporting nature and| |biodiversity in Cottenham through the| |activities of the Nature Recovery group.| |Volunteers have sown a wildflower mini-| |meadow on the village green, helped| |create a pond on a field on Histon Road| |and improved woodland management at| |Fen Reeves wood. Achievements have| |been greatly helped through| |collaboration with Cottenham Parish| |Council and the New Life on the Old| |West project.| |•|reducing single-use plastic| |(through awareness raising, liaison with| |residents, schools and groups and| |supported by our participation in| |campaigns by Surfers Against Sewage).| |We were proud to appoint our first| |Plastic Free Business Champion: Fen| |End Farm. In addition, Sustainable| |Cottenham has organised twice-yearly| |village litter picks and cycle-path clean-| |up working parties. We carried out a| |brand audit after the summer litter pick| |and the biggest ‘culprits’ were Red Bull,| |Lucozade|and|Coca|Cola.| **----- End of picture text -----**
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **----- Start of picture text -----**
||| |---|---| |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|Not applicable| **----- End of picture text -----**
## **Financial Review** |Review of the
charity’s
financial
position at the
end of the
period|Para
1.21||**The funds held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**£6,905.86**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
**_Receipts_**
£
£
£
£
Grants
0
8612.00
8612.00
Donations
0
76.50
43.33
119.83
Sub-total
0
8688.50
43.33
8731.83
**_Payments_**
Running
costs
167.56
708.05
341.55
1217.16
Furniture
&
equipment
0
4464.31
0
4464.31
**Net cash**
**funds for**
**year**
-167.56
3516.14
-298.22
3050.36
Cash funds
from last
year
835.32
325.18
2695.00
3855.50
**Cash**
**funds at**
**year end**
667.76
3841.32
2396.78
6905.86|**The funds held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**£6,905.86**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
**_Receipts_**
£
£
£
£
Grants
0
8612.00
8612.00
Donations
0
76.50
43.33
119.83
Sub-total
0
8688.50
43.33
8731.83
**_Payments_**
Running
costs
167.56
708.05
341.55
1217.16
Furniture
&
equipment
0
4464.31
0
4464.31
**Net cash**
**funds for**
**year**
-167.56
3516.14
-298.22
3050.36
Cash funds
from last
year
835.32
325.18
2695.00
3855.50
**Cash**
**funds at**
**year end**
667.76
3841.32
2396.78
6905.86|**The funds held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**£6,905.86**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
**_Receipts_**
£
£
£
£
Grants
0
8612.00
8612.00
Donations
0
76.50
43.33
119.83
Sub-total
0
8688.50
43.33
8731.83
**_Payments_**
Running
costs
167.56
708.05
341.55
1217.16
Furniture
&
equipment
0
4464.31
0
4464.31
**Net cash**
**funds for**
**year**
-167.56
3516.14
-298.22
3050.36
Cash funds
from last
year
835.32
325.18
2695.00
3855.50
**Cash**
**funds at**
**year end**
667.76
3841.32
2396.78
6905.86|**The funds held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**£6,905.86**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
**_Receipts_**
£
£
£
£
Grants
0
8612.00
8612.00
Donations
0
76.50
43.33
119.83
Sub-total
0
8688.50
43.33
8731.83
**_Payments_**
Running
costs
167.56
708.05
341.55
1217.16
Furniture
&
equipment
0
4464.31
0
4464.31
**Net cash**
**funds for**
**year**
-167.56
3516.14
-298.22
3050.36
Cash funds
from last
year
835.32
325.18
2695.00
3855.50
**Cash**
**funds at**
**year end**
667.76
3841.32
2396.78
6905.86|**The funds held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**£6,905.86**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
**_Receipts_**
£
£
£
£
Grants
0
8612.00
8612.00
Donations
0
76.50
43.33
119.83
Sub-total
0
8688.50
43.33
8731.83
**_Payments_**
Running
costs
167.56
708.05
341.55
1217.16
Furniture
&
equipment
0
4464.31
0
4464.31
**Net cash**
**funds for**
**year**
-167.56
3516.14
-298.22
3050.36
Cash funds
from last
year
835.32
325.18
2695.00
3855.50
**Cash**
**funds at**
**year end**
667.76
3841.32
2396.78
6905.86| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**|**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**|**Total**
**funds**| ||||**_Receipts_**|£|£|£|£| ||||Grants|0|8612.00||8612.00| ||||Donations|0|76.50|43.33|119.83| ||||Sub-total|0|8688.50|43.33|8731.83| ||||**_Payments_**||||| ||||Running
costs|167.56|708.05|341.55|1217.16| ||||Furniture
&
equipment|0|4464.31|0|4464.31| ||||**Net cash**
**funds for**
**year**|-167.56|3516.14|-298.22|3050.36| ||||Cash funds
from last
year|835.32|325.18|2695.00|3855.50| ||||**Cash**
**funds at**
**year end**|667.76|3841.32|2396.78|6905.86| |Statement
explaining the
policy for
holding
reserves stating
why they are
held|Para
1.22||**We hold cash reserves to allow expenditure to be carried**
**forward into subsequent years.**||||| |Amount of
reserves held|Para
1.22||**The total funds carried forward into 2022 were £6,905.86**||||| |Reasons for
holding zero
reserves|Para
1.22||**Not applicable.**||||| |Details of fund
materially in
deficit|Para
1.24||**Not applicable.**||||| |Explanation of
any
uncertainties
about the
charity
continuing as a
going concern|Para
1.23||**Not applicable.**||||| |**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|**Grant funding**| |Investment policy and
objectives includingany||| social investment policy Para 1.46 adopted A description of the principal risks facing the charity Para 1.46 Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution for a CIO with voting**
**members other than its charity trustees**
**– using Charity Commission model**
**constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |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|**As per Clause 13 option 1 of the CIO**
**model constitution Trustees are**
**appointed by the membership and retire**
**by rotation.**| **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|**Not applicable**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Sustainable Cottenham liaises with**
**Surfers Against Sewage and Cambridge**
**Sustainable Food but has no financial**
**affiliation with them.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**Not applicable**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Sustainable Cottenham| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Not applicable| |Registered charity number|1188763| |Charity’s principal address|11 Margett Street
Cottenham
Cambridge
CB24 8QY| ||| **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 (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Christine Ward|Chair|Since formation 25/3/20|| ||Jane Heath|Co-Secretary|Since formation 25/3/20|| ||Justin Hiscock|Co-Secretary|Since formation 25/3/20|| ||Catherine Burch|Treasurer|Since formation 25/3/20|| ||VickyLacey||8/11/21|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Not applicable** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**Not applicable**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets Not applicable held in this capacity Name and objects of the Not applicable charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Not applicable safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **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 ## **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Christine Jane Ward|| ||
Chair|| ||22/3/2022|| ||22/3/2022|| |**Sustainable Cottenham CIO**||**No (if any)**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||**CC16a**| |01-Jan-21
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|31-Dec-21|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**

**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**92.56**
**60.00**
**15.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**167.56**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**167.56**
**- 167.56**
**-**
**835.32**
**667.76**|**Restricted**
**funds -**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**4,597.00**
**4,015.00**
**76.50**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,688.50**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,688.50**
**150.00**
**384.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**89.00**
**85.05**
**-**
**708.05**
**4,203.24**
**261.07**
**4,464.31**
**5,172.36**
**3,516.14**
**-**
**325.18**
**3,841.32**|**Restricted**
**funds - Eco**
**Eats**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**43.33**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43.33**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43.33**
**-**
**84.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**257.55**
**-**
**-**
**341.55**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**341.55**
**- 298.22**
**-**
**2,695.00**
**2,396.78**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**4,597.00**
**4,015.00**
**119.83**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,731.83**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,731.83**
**242.56**
**528.00**
**15.00**
**-**
**-**
**346.55**
**-**
**85.05**
**-**
**1,217.16**
**4,203.24**
**261.07**
**4,464.31**
**5,681.47**
**3,050.36**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |FECAgrant|**-**|||||**300.00**| |Local Connection Fundgrants|**-**|||||**-**| |Cambridgeshire Communities Foundation
grant|**-**|||||**-**| |Donations|**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**-**|||||**300.00**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**300.00**| |||||||| |
Insurance|**92.56**|||||**242.56**| |Hall hire|**60.00**|||||**-**| |FECA membership|**15.00**|||||**-**| |Hall hire litterpick|**-**|||||**-**| |Website||||||**82.80**| |Design &publicitymaterials|**-**|||||**125.00**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |Refreshments|**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**167.56**|||||**450.36**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |
Furniture for SundaySocials|**-**|||||**-**| |Games & equipment|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**450.36**| |||||||| ||**- 167.56**|**3,516.14**|**- 298.22**|**3,050.36**||**- 150.36**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**835.32**|**325.18**|**2,695.00**|**3,855.50**||**-**| ||**667.76**|**3,841.32**|**2,396.78**|**6,905.86**||**3,855.50**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 01/03/2022 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**
|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Current account
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature

_Catherine Burch_|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds -**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**667.76**
**3,717.69**
**-**
**123.63**
**-**
**-**
**667.76**
**3,841.32**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds -**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Catherine Burch|**Restricted**
**funds - Eco**
**Eats**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**2,396.78**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**2,396.78**| ||||OK| ||||**Restricted**
**funds - Eco**
**Eats**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||_Catherine Burch_|Catherine Burch|_16 /03/2022_| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) ~~01/03/2022~~ ~~2~~