## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/04/2024 Period start date To 31/03/2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Freely Fruity**
## **Charity registration number: 1190266**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To relieve poverty amongst individuals in
food poverty through growing fruit trees
and edible plants and distributing them to
food banks.|
|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|Purchase and propagation of fruit trees.
Acquisition of fruit plants and bushes.
Including all relevant material and tools
required to plant them into the community.|
|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 followed guidance
issued by the charity commission on public
benefit. All of our projects directly and
indirectly benefit local communities.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|We do not currently make grants to other
charities.|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|We currently do not have any social
investment or program related investment.|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Our charity is wholly run by volunteers. No
financial or other compensation is provided
to volunteers. They help in projects freely
and are of incredible importance to our
values.|
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|We planted 5 additional community
orchards (120 fruit trees) on public land;
which will provide local residents with free
fruit for many years to come.
We went in and planted fruit trees into 5
additional local schools. Training and
demonstrations were also provided to
improve the children’s knowledge.
Constructed 3 community gardens to assist
residents in growing sustainable food their
communities.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|£4,096 in credit in accounts.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity sets a minimum of £5,000 to
ensure we are able to carry out our function
in the community for 1 year.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£4,096 included in figure above|
|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:|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Freely Fruity currently relies on grants form
other organisations and donations from the
public.|
|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|The principal risk facing the charity is
funding ceasing. We have recruited
additional volunteers to ensure this doesn’t
happen.|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||N/A|
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|Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Full constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?|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|Apart from the first charity trustees, every
trustee must be appointed [for a term of
[three] years] by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the charity
trustees.|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|The charity trustees will make available to
each new charity trustee, on or before his
or her first appointment:
(a) a copy of the current version of this
constitution; and
(b) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’
Annual Report and statement of accounts.|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|N/A|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|N/A|
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Freely Fruity|
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|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1190266|
|Charity’s principal address|4 Sindlesham Farm Cottages
Mill Lane
Wokingham
RG41 5DH|
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||Matthew Knight||||
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– 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
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
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**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
N/A
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**N/A**
## **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**|||
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||Ryan Simpson|Matthew James Knight|
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Chair|Trustee|
||08/07/2025||
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## **FREELY FRUITY CIO**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCORPORATING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT**
||**Unrestricted £**|**Restricted £**|**Total Funds £**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**BALANCE CARRIED FORWARD 31 MARCH 2024**|||**6,069.97**|
|**INCOMING RESOURCES (Donations & Grants)**||||
|Reading Lottery Ticket Sales|118.50||118.50|
|Interest Acrued On Capital|49.13||49.13|
|Local Giving Grant|1,002.24||1,002.24|
|Mangopay S.A. MGP Crowdfunder Ltd|606.00||606.00|
|Berkshire Community Foundation|10,000.00||10,000.00|
|Chapman Charity Trust|2,000.00||2,000.00|
|Charities Trust CP15825|3,500.00||3,500.00|
|Neighbourly|500.00||500.00|
|Wokingham Borough Council|2,325.94||2,325.94|
|Shinfield Parish Council|1,000.00||1,000.00|
|Groundwork UK|1,800.00||1,800.00|
|EW Beard Ltd|510.00||510.00|
|Donations (Cash)|202.42||202.42|
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|**TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES**|**23,614.23**||**23,614.23**|
|**RESOURCES EXPENDED (Charitable Activities)**||||
|Charity Account Fees|16.00||16.00|
|Insurance (Ecclesiastical)|296.04||296.04|
|Frank P Matthews|2,404.00||2,404.00|
|The Caledonian Tree Co Ltd|2,131.20||2,131.20|
|British Hardwood Tree Nursery Ltd|387.55||387.55|
|Farol Machines Ltd|7,560.00||7,560.00|
|Fruit Advisory Services Team|342.49||342.49|
|Local Giving Fees|180.00||180.00|
|P Thomas Farming|5,808.00||5,808.00|
|Mapac Group Ltd|742.74||742.74|
|Shaw Munster Ltd|103.56||103.56|
|Timber, Tools, Sheds and consumables|5,046.68||5,046.68|
|The Heritage Fruit Tree Company|569.65||569.65|
|**TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**|**25,587.91**||**25,587.91**|
|**NET INCOME / EXPENDITURE**|**(1,973.68)**||**(1,973.68)**|
|**BALANCE CARRIED FORWARD 31 MARCH 2025**|**4,096.29**||**4,096.29**|