Birmingham Tree People Charity Number: 1190536
{For Charitable Incorporated Organisation}
Trustees' Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
19[th] October 2022
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Reference & Administration Details
Charity name: Birmingham Tree People
Charity number: 1190536
Charity's operating address: 32 Somerset Road Handsworth Birmingham B20 2JD 46 Highfield Rd, Bromsgrove B61 7BD, UK
Previously:
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| Trustee Name | Office(if any) | Appointed | Retired | |
| 1 | Tonia Clark | Chair | 23 July 2020 | |
| 2 | Stephen Watson | Treasurer | 23 July 2020 | |
| 3 | Simon Needle | Trustee | 23 July 2020 | |
| 4 | Ian McDermott | Trustee | 23 July 2020 | 2 Feb 2022 |
| 5 | Brian Spratt | Trustee | 23 July 2020 | 4 Nov 2021 |
| 6 | Sarah Fulford | Trustee | 23 July 2020 | 21 Nov 2021 |
| 7 | Nina Griffiths | Trustee | 02 Feb 2021 | |
| 8 | Deanne Brettle | Trustee | 21 Oct 2021 |
Names & Addresses of Advisors
| Name | Address & Postcode | ||
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| Bank: | Lloyds Bank, Box | 1, BX1 | 1LT |
Structure, Governance & Management
Description of the Charity's Trusts
| Type of Governing Document: | Constitution |
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| How the Charity is Constituted: | Charitable Incorporated Organisation |
| Trustee Selection Methods: | Trustees are elected at the Annual General Meeting. Local people |
| who regularly attend BTP tree warden training are considered. | |
| How New Trustees are | Prospective trustees are asked to attend a meeting before they |
| Inducted and Trained: | commit. They meet with the Chair who explains the history and |
| the role of the charity. |
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Objectives & Activities
Summary of the Objects of the Charity as set out in its Governing Document
Birmingham Tree People aims to plant, promote and protect trees in Birmingham. We provide free monthly training and organise activities. We are also a registered training centre for the Skills Education Group Level 2 in Arboriculture.
Summary of the Main Activities Undertaken for the Public Benefit in Relation to the Charity's Objects
What the charity does: Education/training Environment/conservation/heritage.
Who the charity helps: The General Public/mankind.
How the charity helps: Provides Advocacy/advice/information.
Where the charity operates: Birmingham City.
Achievements & Performance
Statutory Declaration
The trustees declare that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the commission in exercising their powers or duties.
Summary of the Main Achievements of the Charity for the Year – Chair's Report
Since the first training session in Kings Heath Park House in 2016, Birmingham Tree People has grown in volunteer numbers and activities and in 2020 we decided to become a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
BTP support our aims: by training volunteer tree wardens to look after their local trees at free, monthly training sessions which became virtual in 2020. We were initially funded by the City Council to deliver these sessions, but when their funding ended we were successful in an Awards for All Lottery bid. We are privileged to have Ian MacDermott and Simon Needle as our principal trainers.
This year has seen our work increase and change as we came out of the pandemic and as more interest has been taken in trees as a mitigation for the climate emergency.
Our core purpose is to promote, plant and protect trees and this year we have done this by:
Training tree wardens - our monthly sessions were mainly online but from April 2022 more face to face sessions have been organised. They have covered tree biology, tree equity and pests and diseases, amongst many other topics.
Surveying street trees - our progress on this project continues and we now have 20 surveyors and have completed 700 trees. There have been many training sessions and on site sessions and we are now planning to survey all the newly planted street trees in Nechells ward. Every time a surveyor inspects trees they check the health of the tree and report back to the Council any problems. This has resulted in unstable or dead trees being removed. The inspections are being logged on TreePlotterTM which allows for analysis using many factors.
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Urban Forest Master Plan - The UFMP has been completed and launched to great acclaim with the Birmingham Cabinet Member invited to speak at the UN about the Plan. There was significant national publicity and awareness of our work was heightened among other tree professionals. The key performance indicators in the Plan will now be used to monitor the progress towards the goals outlined in the Plan.
Tree Planting - The tree committee of the Civic Trust, called Birmingham Trees for Life, has disbanded and their tree planting programme has moved over to Birmingham Tree People. We are in the planning stage for the November 22 to March 23 planting season. We are using the TreeplotterTM canopy tool to decide where to plant trees as it shows us the areas where there is tree inequity. The next stage is to ‘ground truth’ these areas to identify planting plots.
Level 2 Arboriculture - the first course is nearing completion and 8 students remain on the course. We are planning to start another course in April 2023 as it has been so successful.
City of Nature - we are a key partner in the City of Nature alliance which seeks to increase biodiversity and to help the city adapt to the climate emergency. We attend meetings and have run a training course for new tree wardens in Bordesley and Highgate. We are planning some family events for Autumn 2022.
Tree events - we have been part of numerous events during the year. We supported Ecofest at the Midlands Arts Centre in September, the Climate Protest in November and delivered a session at the West Midlands Combined Authority’s Greener Together Forum.
We have been sad to lose tree trustees this year, two due to pressure of work and one because of concerns about our membership of the Tree Council. We have been pleased to welcome Deanne Brettle as a new trustee this year.
The trustees held a planning meeting in November to devise a strategy for the year and we are gradually working towards this. Our goal is to employ some staff to give us the capacity to deliver on our objectives. We achieve an enormous amount due to the drive and dedication of our volunteer trustees; however, we cannot take this for granted.
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Financial Review
Brief Statement of the Charity's Policy on Reserves
The charity does not intend to build up reserves as there are no employees and no capital assets to maintain.
Details of Any Funds Materially in Deficit
None
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Statutory Notes to the Accounts
Particulars of Any Outstanding Guarantee Given by the CIO None
Particulars of Any Outstanding Debt
None
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Declaration
The Trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees' Report above. Signed on behalf of the Charity's Trustees
| Signature(s): | ||
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| Full Name(s): | Tonia Clark Stephen Watson |
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| Position(s): | Chair Treasurer |
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| Date: | 30thJan 2023 30thJan 2023 |
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Birmingham Tree People 1190536 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Thursday, April 01, 2021 To Thursday, March 31, 2022 from
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | ||||
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| A1 Receipts Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ |
to the nearest £ Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Birmingham CityCouncil | 14,500 3,000 20 600 1,778 - - |
- - - - - - - 9,000 - |
- - - - - - - - - - |
- - 14,500 3,000 20 - 600 1,778 9,000 - |
22,000 618 - 2,000 110 6 - 3,015 - 9,807 |
| Veolia | |||||
| itree survey | |||||
| Birmingham Trees for Life | |||||
| donations to Patchwork Meadow | |||||
| book sales | |||||
| donations to BTP | |||||
| Arb2 course fees | |||||
| TreePlotter | |||||
| Transfer of funds from predecessor organisation |
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 9,000 | - | 28,898 | 37,556 | |
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- - |
- - |
- | ||
| - | - | - | - | ||
| 9,000 | - | 28,898 | 37,556 | ||
| staffpayments | 10,462 - 300 600 - 1,200 567 147 373 578 175 108 - 960 420 348 231 |
- - 10,950 - - - - 9,000 - - - |
- - - - - - - - - - |
10,462 - 300 600 10,950 1,200 567 147 373 578 175 108 - 9,960 420 348 231 |
- 50 10,950 144 600 - - - - - - |
| Peter Ashton leaflet design | |||||
| Arb 2 tutor fees | |||||
| Arb 2 tutor fees | |||||
| TreeConomics | |||||
| M&A Treecare itree | |||||
| hi visjackets(through Sylvanus) | |||||
| Leaflets(through T Clark) | |||||
| Meadow in myGarden | |||||
| Skills Educ Group | |||||
| Tree Council | |||||
| Premises hire(SpringHousing) | |||||
| website service | |||||
| Treeplotter software | |||||
| accountancyfee | |||||
| insurance | |||||
| Patchwork Meadow | |||||
| Sub total | 16,469 | 19,950 | - | 36,419 | 11,744 |
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- - |
- - |
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| - | - | - | - | |
| 19,950 | - | 36,419 | 11,744 | |
| -10,950 | - | -7,521 | 25,812 | |
| - 14,762 |
- 11,050 |
- - |
- 25,812 |
- - |
| 18,191 | 100 | - | 18,291 | 25,812 |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Categories Details funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ Lloyds bank 18,191 100 -
B1 Cash funds
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
30/01/2023
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| Total cash funds | 18,191 | 100 | - | |||||
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| Details | liability relates | (optional) | (optional) | |||||
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Signature | Name | Date of approval |
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| Tonia Clark | 30/01/23 | |||||||
| Steve | Watson | |||||||
| 30/01/23 | ||||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
30/01/2023
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Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
| Report to the trustees/ members of On accounts for the period Set out on pages Responsibilities and basis of report Independent examiner's statement |
Birmingham Tree People | Birmingham Tree People | Birmingham Tree People |
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| From 01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022 |
Charity no (if any) | 11905366 | |
| Attached pages 1 to 8 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) |
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| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the period from 01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022. As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 1 accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 2 the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. |
| Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): |
30/01/2023 | |
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| Jasbir k Rai | ||
| ACMA |
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BVSC Accounting Services 138 Digbeth Birmingham B5 6DR
Address:
Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight 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 .
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