## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 January 2022 Period start date** **To 31 December 2022 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 50 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|**However, there have been three main**
**activities in 2022:**
**•**
**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 and 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. Disco Soup was a success at**
**Cottenham Primary School. The stand**
**and the demonstrations at the Fen Edge**
**Festival were also popular. We have**
**also published a book of climate friendly**
**recipes and about 100 have been sold.**
**•**
**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 cleanup working parties.** ## **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||**Not applicable**| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the
charity’s
financial position
at the end of the
period|Para
1.21||**The funds**
**£2,459.89**|**held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
£
£
£
£
394.00
0
0
394.00
0
0
222.28
222.28
394.00
0
222.28
616.28
394.80
0
1,271.50
1,666.30
0
3,395.95
0
3,395.95
-0.80
-3395.95
-1,049.22
-4,445.97
667.76
3,841.32
2,396.78
6,905.86
666.96
445.37
1,347.56
2,459.89|**held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
£
£
£
£
394.00
0
0
394.00
0
0
222.28
222.28
394.00
0
222.28
616.28
394.80
0
1,271.50
1,666.30
0
3,395.95
0
3,395.95
-0.80
-3395.95
-1,049.22
-4,445.97
667.76
3,841.32
2,396.78
6,905.86
666.96
445.37
1,347.56
2,459.89|**held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
£
£
£
£
394.00
0
0
394.00
0
0
222.28
222.28
394.00
0
222.28
616.28
394.80
0
1,271.50
1,666.30
0
3,395.95
0
3,395.95
-0.80
-3395.95
-1,049.22
-4,445.97
667.76
3,841.32
2,396.78
6,905.86
666.96
445.37
1,347.56
2,459.89|**held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
£
£
£
£
394.00
0
0
394.00
0
0
222.28
222.28
394.00
0
222.28
616.28
394.80
0
1,271.50
1,666.30
0
3,395.95
0
3,395.95
-0.80
-3395.95
-1,049.22
-4,445.97
667.76
3,841.32
2,396.78
6,905.86
666.96
445.37
1,347.56
2,459.89| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**|**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**|**Total**
**funds**| ||||**_Receipts_**|£|£|£|£| ||||Grants|394.00|0|0|394.00| ||||Sales of
recipe
book|0|0|222.28|222.28| ||||Sub-total|394.00|0|222.28|616.28| ||||**_Payments_**||||| ||||Running
costs|394.80|0|1,271.50|1,666.30| ||||Return of
grant|0|3,395.95|0|3,395.95| ||||**Net cash**
**funds for**
**year**|-0.80|-3395.95|-1,049.22|-4,445.97| ||||Cash
funds
from last
year|667.76|3,841.32|2,396.78|6,905.86| ||||**Cash**
**funds at**
**year end**|666.96|445.37|1,347.56|2,459.89| |Statement
explaining the
policy for
holding reserves|Para
1.22||**We hold cash reserves to allow expenditure to**
**forward into subsequent years.**||||**be carried**| |stating why they
are held||| |---|---|---| |Amount of
reserves held|Para
1.22|**The total funds carried forward into 2023 were £2,459.89**| |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 where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Grant funding**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |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
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**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|| ||14/4/2023|| ||14/4/2023|| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES SUstaInab￿Cotte￿haM CIO No Illanyl Receipts and pa ments accounts CC16a For the peiiLxI from 01aan- To 31-Dof-22 Section A Receipts and payrnents Restricted lunds- Cottenttam Connected Unrèstricted funds Reslricted funds- Eco Eats Total fund5 La51 year tothe nearE5t£ to the ne4wt£ to the n¢are￿£ to ther*arest£ A1 Rettei FECA grant Local Connection FLJnd grant5 CambYidg8shiie Comtnunithcs FourEdatilln 260.DD 200.00 4.S97.QO 4,015. Donation5 1t9.83 rant 144.00 144.00 22Z.2 Saloof rgcipe books 222.28 total(Gross income for AR) 394tio 616.28 B,731.83 A2 A55et and investrnent sales, Sub tota 3XOO 222.28 616.28 8.731A3 A3Pa ments 167.110 157.OD 120.C 15.00 14Q.00 2.90 242.56 Hall hlre 120.00 528.00 15.10 FECA membÈtshlp Hall hire litter pKk Vvebsits DO￿9￿ & publKty mat2ri&1s Piinting Ir¢cipe book) 15.00 140.00 82.80 711.ofj 711.QO R¢paymènt Cam Foundation grant geshire munites 3,395.95 S.D62.25 Sub total 394.&0 439&95 1,271.50 A4 Asset and Investment rchas Fuinitu￿for Sunday Sttlals 4,203.24 2É?.07 4,464.31 Sub total 394.BO 3,395.95 1271.$0 4062.25 ,681.47 Net of receipts/(paymgnts) A5 Transfers betsyeen funds A6 C35h fund5 last year end Cash funds this yoar ond 0.80 3,395.9 1,049.2 4,445.97 3,050J8 667.76 3.841.32 2,3%.78 1,347.56 6,905.86 2,459.89 3P55.60 6,SX)5.86 CCXX R1 ￿Ount$ ISSI 12104rJK3 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrict fund5 Resliicled funds- Cottenham rmnnAe.twl ton&7restt Restricted fund$- E¢0 Eats Categories Details earest£ to ngar•Bt£ B1 Cashfunds Cutr8ntoc¢ourt 666.96 321.74 1,123.46 Cash 123.63 214.10 Total cash funds 666.96 445.37 1,347.56 14gt*balance6 recthp16 and paymerts a￿0￿￿(3)1 OK Unrestrlcted funds OK Restricted funds- Cottenham r.nnnpr.twl to nearest£ OK Rostrlct•d funds- Eco Detalls toneare5t£ to m¢are$t£ Furtd Iowhith asset bel Costloptionall CurrentvaluÈ D*tall$ 83 Invostmont assets Fund towhich Asset bebn CutteMtvaluÈ Vtr)Aal Detai15 C05tlopkna B4 Assets retained for the charity's own use Fund ￿Which ielates An￿u￿t￿￿e tional When d￿e tkin Details BS Liabilities Signed by one ortw0tsl￿tees on behalf of all thetlUSte65 Date ol ova Signatvre Print Name ewrt Catherine Bur li CCXX R2 4ccounls ISSI