## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 January 2024 Period start date** **To 31 December 2024 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;**
**Encouraging biodiversity and nature**
**recovery; Reducing single-use plastic**
**(through awareness raising, liaison with**
**residents, schools and groups and**
**supported by Surfers Against Sewage)**| |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|**Main activities in 2024:**
**•**
**Taking a leading role in**
**Cottenham Parish Council’s Climate and**
**Ecological Emergency Working Group,**
**•**
**Continuing to advocate for more**
**sustainable diets and reduced food**
**waste as part of the Eco Eats project.**
**•**
**Supporting nature and**
**biodiversity in Cottenham through the**
**activities of the Nature Recovery group.**
**•**
**Running our first ‘Swish’ – an**
**exchange of quality used clothes.**
**•**
**Holding a Mass Unwrap at the**
**Co-op in June to draw attention to the**
**level of unnecessary plastic packaging**
**on grocery items.**
**•**
**Running the reusable cup**
**scheme at the 2024 Fen Edge**
**•**
**Continuing to provide free**
**thermal imaging surveys to**
**householders using a camera borrowed**
**from Cambridge Carbon Footprint**
**•**
**Conducting two village litter**
**picks (April and November)**
**•**
**Supporting Cottenham Repair**
**Café which takes place every few**
**months.**| **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**
**£3,736.57**|**held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
£
£
£
£
2,472.98
0
0
2,472.98
29.61
0
0
29.61
2,502.59
0
0
2,502.59
633.49
0
424.39
1057.98
1,869.10
0
-424.39
1,444.61
269.10
0
-269.10
0
433.93
445.37
1,4.12.56
2,291.86
2,572.13
445.37
719.07
3,736.57|**held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
£
£
£
£
2,472.98
0
0
2,472.98
29.61
0
0
29.61
2,502.59
0
0
2,502.59
633.49
0
424.39
1057.98
1,869.10
0
-424.39
1,444.61
269.10
0
-269.10
0
433.93
445.37
1,4.12.56
2,291.86
2,572.13
445.37
719.07
3,736.57|**held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
£
£
£
£
2,472.98
0
0
2,472.98
29.61
0
0
29.61
2,502.59
0
0
2,502.59
633.49
0
424.39
1057.98
1,869.10
0
-424.39
1,444.61
269.10
0
-269.10
0
433.93
445.37
1,4.12.56
2,291.86
2,572.13
445.37
719.07
3,736.57|**held at the end of the financial year totalled**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**
**Total**
**funds**
£
£
£
£
2,472.98
0
0
2,472.98
29.61
0
0
29.61
2,502.59
0
0
2,502.59
633.49
0
424.39
1057.98
1,869.10
0
-424.39
1,444.61
269.10
0
-269.10
0
433.93
445.37
1,4.12.56
2,291.86
2,572.13
445.37
719.07
3,736.57| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted:**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**|**Restricted:**
**Eco Eats**|**Total**
**funds**| ||||**_Receipts_**|£|£|£|£| ||||Grants &
donations|2,472.98|0|0|2,472.98| ||||Sales of
recipe
book|29.61|0|0|29.61| ||||Sub-total|2,502.59|0|0|2,502.59| ||||**_Payments_**||||| ||||Running
costs|633.49|0|424.39|1057.98| ||||**Net cash**
**funds for**
**year**|1,869.10|0|-424.39|1,444.61| ||||Transfer
between
funds|269.10|0|-269.10|0| ||||Cash
funds
from last
year|433.93|445.37|1,4.12.56|2,291.86| ||||**Cash**
**funds at**
**year end**|2,572.13|445.37|719.07|3,736.57| ||||||||| |Statement
explaining the
policy for
holding
reserves
stating why
they are held|Para
1.22||**We hold cash reserves to allow expenditure to be**
**forward into subsequent years.**||||**carried**| |Amount of
reserves held|Para
1.22||**The total funds carried forward into 2025 were £3,736.57**||||| |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|Para
1.23||**Not applicable.**||||| about the charity continuing as a going concern ## **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|**Grants**| |---|---|---| |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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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||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)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **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)** Christine Jane Ward **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair (at end of 2024) **Chair, etc) Date** 19/5/2025 **Sustainable Cottenham CIO No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01-Jan-24 31-Dec-24 **To from** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**250**
**1,875**
**87**
**160**
**101**
**30**
**2,503**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,503**
**157**
**59**
**15**
**83**
**94**
**130**
**-**
**87**
**10**
**633**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**633**
**1,869**
**269**
**434**
**2,572**|**Restricted**
**funds -**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**445**
**445**|**Restricted**
**funds - Eco**
**Eats**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**250**
**1,875**
**87**
**160**
**101**
**30**
**-**
**-**
**2,503**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,503**
**157**
**59**
**15**
**83**
**94**
**194**
**299**
**87**
**70**
**1,058**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,058**
**1,445**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |FECAgrant|**250**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**250**||**-**| |Local Connection Fundgrants|**1,875**|||**1,875**||**-**| |Employee Volunteering grant|**87**|||**87**||**-**| |Parish Council Grant|**160**|||**160**||**160**| |Donations|**101**|||**101**||**-**| |Sale of recipe books|**30**|||**30**||**65**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,503**|||**2,503**||**225**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| ||||**-**|**2,503**||**225**| |||||||| |Insurance|**157**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**65**
**299**
**-**
**60**
**424**|**157**||**157**| |SumUpterminal|**59**|||**59**||**-**| |FECA membership|**15**|||**15**||**15**| |Hall hire litterpick|**83**|||**83**||**138**| |Website|**94**|||**94**||**83**| |Design &publicitymaterials|**130**|||**194**||**-**| |Grants|**-**|||**299**||**-**| |Mulch(claimed from Emp. Vol.)|**87**|||**87**||**-**| |Payment for events|**10**|||**70**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**633**|||**1,058**||**393**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| ||||**424**|**1,058**||**393**| |||||||| ||**1,869**|**-**|**- 424**|**1,445**||**- 168**| ||**269**|**-**|**- 269**
**1,413**|**-**||**-**| ||**434**|**445**||**2,292**||**2,460**| ||**2,572**|**445**|**719**|**3,737**||**2,292**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 08/05/2025 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**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Current account
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds -**
**Cottenham**
**Connected**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,514**
**445**
**58**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,572**
**445**
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
Christine Ward|**Restricted**
**funds - Eco**
**Eats**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**719**| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||**719**| ||||OK| ||||**Restricted**
**funds - Eco**
**Eats**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Christine Ward|| ||2||08/05/2025|