**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 April 2020 31 March 2021
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Dane Bank Green Space CIO
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1189904
**Charity's principal address** 30 Windermere Avenue
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30 Windermere Avenue|
30 Windermere Avenue|
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|Denton||
|Manchester||
|**Postcode**|**M34 2EN**|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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2
3
4
5
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7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Robert John Rutt|Chair|||
||Josie Hamnett|Treasurer|||
||Katherine Clare
MaryMcLoughlin|Trustee|||
||Amanda Claire
Jones|Trustee|||
||Colin Stuart
Ingham|Trustee|||
||Daniel McKay|Trustee|||
||Moira Kerr Hanson|Trustee|||
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
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|NONE||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser **
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser **
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser **
**Name**
**Address**|
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|**NONE**|||
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
**TAR**
March **2012**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
- To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity, environmental awareness and wildlife protection.
- To advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.
**TAR**
March **2012**
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At the start of the financial year (April 2020) the Charity’s status was as follows:
- An application for formal registration had been submitted to the Charity Commission and a decision was pending.
- A 25 year lease on two areas of open land (1.2 hectares) owned by Tameside MBC had been agreed in principle but not concluded.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
- Local residents had been consulted on an outline design solution to improve the two sites to be leased to the Charity. The proposals were extremely well received generating widespread support from residents, ward councillors and our local MP.
- The Big Lottery had approved a Development Grant of £15,233 to begin site improvements but further funding was required to initiate a coherent first phase of investment.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
**TAR**
March **2012**
3
Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Throughout the year, activities and meetings were severely constrained by Covid-19 restrictions and all business processes were protracted. Nevertheless, there was significant progress made to promote and develop our charity purposes for public benefit. These included:
- Formal registration with the Charity Commission, secured in June 2020 and the inaugural meeting of Trustees took place early the following month.
- A Co-op Bank Charity account activated in August and HMRC registration completed the following month.
- A funding bid submitted to the Postcode Local Trust and a grant of £17,314 secured in November to help the costs of Phase 1 site improvements, reported in the local press and communicated locally via Facebook.
- A design solution for Phase 1 improvements commissioned from Groundwork Greater Manchester and a planning application for Phase 1 submitted to Tameside MBC in January 2022.
- Assignment of underleases to local community groups agreed in principle and collaborative working with them to ensure that they met charitable objectives. By March 2021 the following groups were seeking to conclude subleases:
- Dane Bank Green Space Community Group
- Dane Bank Angling Club Tameside’s People 4 Wildlife Kids Go Wild Forest School
**TAR**
March **2012**
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
The Charity has received funding for specified improvement projects on **Brief statement of the** the Sites leased from Tameside MBC. All other financial contributions **charity’s policy on reserves** and donations are held in a Cooperative Community Bank Account until Trustees approve expenditure.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
## **Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Robert John Rutt Josie Hamnett **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc)**[Chair ] **Date** 14 January 2022
**TAR**
March **2012**
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Dane Bank Green Space CIO No (if any)
1189904
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/04/2020 31/03/2021
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donation 10 - - 10 -
15,233 - 15,233 -
National Lottery Community Fund Grant
Post Code Local Trust Grant 17,314 - 17,314 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
10 32,547 - 32,557 -
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 10 32,547 - 32,557 -
A3 Payments
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments - - - - -
Net of receipts/(payments) 10 32,547 - 32,557 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end 10 32,547 - 32,557 -
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
14/01/2022
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## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**10**
**32,547**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10**
**32,547**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**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
Robert Rutt (Chair)
Josie Hamnett (Treasurer)|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
14/01/2022
14/01/2022|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
14/01/2022
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Dane Bank Green Space CIO **On accounts for the year** March 2021 **Charity no** 1189904 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 and 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2021. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
- **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
- _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Date:** 14/01/2022
**Signed: Name:** Mark Andrew Astley **Relevant professional** Head of Service, National Anti-Fraud Network, Tameside MBC **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Oct 2018**
1
**IER**
**Address:** Tameside One, Market Place Ashton Under Lyne, Tameside OL6 6BH
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
N/A
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**