## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] January 2020 Period start date To 31[st] December 2020 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Bridgend County Allotment Association** ## **Charity registration number:1189388** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Benefit the residents of Bridgend County**
**Borough by providing Allotment Facilities**
**in the interest of social welfare,**
**recreational leisuretime with the objective**
**of improving wellbeing for the local**
**community**| |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|**Activities this year include centralising**
**document management, creation of**
**standardised processes and procedures**
**offering fairness to all our members.**
**Actively promote ourselves on Social**
**Media as such acting as a central contact**
**point for Allotment availability enquiries.**
**Form a funding role to actively seek out**
**local and County funding for our**
**allotment sites.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All Trustees have been kept informed of**
**all communications and guidance issued**
**by the Charities Commission**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **N/A** Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers **N/A** 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 achievements include creating a**
**stable group of Trustees to fulfil our**
**objectives, with nominated volunteers to**
**manage various activities on behalf of the**
**membership, specifically a funding**
**officer who has secured local funding for**
**one site from a Windfarm Trust. 4 sites**
**are actively improving access for**
**schools/disabled members communal**
**gardening areas.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**As above local funding for 1 site**
**achieved.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Negotiations for further funding in 2021**
**are progressing.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Income
£2,013.78
Expenditure
£1,372.11| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**All unspent monies held are for the**
**upkeep, maintenance and emergency**
**requirements of each site.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| |**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|**Rents collected for the upkeep and**
**maintenance of the sites for the benefit of**
**our members.**
**Windfarm Trust.**
**Bridgend County Borough Council**
**Funding Projects.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**None**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**10 year Management Agreement with**
**Bridgend County Borough Council.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**Nominated/proposed and duly elected by**
**existing Trustees and members in**
**attendance.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|**Charity Commissions constitution and**
**introduction to all policies and**
**procedures required to carry out their**
**roles to include mentoring from existing**
**Trustees.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**9 Trustees plus 1 co-opted member, all of**
**which are BCAA representatives at each**
**of our sites taking care of day-to-day**
**management.**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**All members of National Allotment**
**Society (NAS), Bridgend Association**
**Voluntary Organisations (BAVO)**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Bridgend County Allotment Association| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|BCAA| |Registered charity number|1189388| |Charity’s principal address|**7 Wigan Terrace**
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**Bridgend**
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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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||GerryBall|Chair.||| ||Anne Coles|Secretary||| ||Phil Archer|Treasurer||| ||John Jones|||| ||Lynne Parsons|||| ||George Davis|||| ||Nigel Ray|||| ||Mark Jones|||| ||Keith Grey|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets Nil held in this capacity Name and objects of the Nil charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Nil 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 ## **N/A** ## **Other optional information** ## **N/A** ## **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Gerry Ball|Anne Coles| ||
Chair.|Secretary| ||26thOctober 2021|| ||26thOctober 2021||