## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 31 August 2020 **To** 31 March 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1191096
The Hurst Water Meadow Trust
**Charity's principal address** 11 Queen Street Dorchester-on-Thames Oxon **Postcode OX10 7HR**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Richard Farrant|Chairman|||
||Gillian Johnson|HonorarySecretary|||
||Michael Southon|Land/Volunteer Mgt|||
||John Metcalfe|Ecologist|||
||Graham Beland|Land/Tree Mgt|||
||Christopher Hill|Parish Councillor|||
||ShammyPuri|Eco-hydrology|||
||Louise Aukland|Education|||
||Christopher Smith|Project/Volunteer
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||Roger Seabrook|HonoraryTreasurer|||
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**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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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Charitable Incorporated Organisation constitution Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by the Trustees for a period of 3 years. Trustee selection methods The Dorchester Parish Council may nominate one trustee. (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**
1. To promote, for the public benefit, the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment of the Hurst Water Meadow and any other land acquired by the Trust, its terrestrial and aquatic life **Summary of the objects of the** and their habitats; 2. to advance the education of the public in the study and **charity set out in its** research of land owned or managed by the Trust and its conservation and the **governing document** dissemination of the useful results of such research; 3. to provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of the public at large with the object of improving their conditions of life.
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## **Main activities carried out by the Trust**
- The priority is the care and appropriate management of the land currently owned by the Trust, using volunteers and contractors as needed
- • Special attention is given to the creation of a ‘riparian wildlife corridor’ along the River Thame
- Provision of educational materials & facilities for school parties and other visitors to the meadows
## **Objectives for 2021-2022**
- **Summary of the main** • Implement a plan prepared by an independent consultant, to enhance **activities undertaken for the** biodiversity **public benefit in relation to** • Creation of permanent wetland areas in Old Bridge Meadow in cooperation with **these objects (include within** the Earth Trust and the Environment Agency as part of their ‘River of Life II’ project (delayed from 2020 because of COVID restrictions)
- **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** • Excavation of additional scrapes and deepened channels to improve the biodiversity of the Hurst Water Meadow through the creation of areas which
- **had regard to the guidance** retain rain and flood water for longer periods of the year (delayed from 2020
- **issued by the Charity** because of COVID restrictions)
- **Commission on public benefit)** • Study and monitor wildlife populations on the meadows
## **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.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
The Charity was set up in August 2020 to assume the assets and **Summary of the main** activities of the pre-existing Hurst Water Meadow Trust (Charity Number **achievements of the charity** 1050272). **during the year** No activities were undertaken in the current year. The Trust established a bank account with the CAF Bank using a loan from the pre-existing Hurst Water Meadow Trust.
The assets and activities were then transferred to the new CIO Trust on 1[st] April 2021.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The Trust maintains restricted funds when the donor stipulates how the income may be expended. Where there is a timing difference between when the income is received and spent, the balance will be held in reserves at the year end. Unrestricted funds are received with no stipulation from the donor as to how they can be used. The Trustees can designate these funds for specific purposes.
**Details of any funds materially** Not applicable **in deficit**
## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|_Roger Seabrook_|_Richard Farrant_|
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||Roger Seabrook|Richard Farrant|
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Hon. Treasurer|Chairman|
||14 November 2021||
||14 November 2021||
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**The Hurst Water Meadow Trust**
**No (if any) 1191096**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 31-Aug-20 31-Mar-21
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £**
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to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
1,000 - - 1,000
- - - -
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- - - -
1,000 - - 1,000
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 1,000 - - 1,000
A3 Payments
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
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Sub total [ - ] - - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments - - - -
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,000 - - 1,000
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - -
Cash funds this year end 1,000 - - 1,000
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|CAF Bank Account
**_Total cash funds_**||**to nearest £**
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**1,000**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||OK|OK||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||
|**charity’s own use**||||
|**-**
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|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Loan from Hurst Water Meadow Trust
(Charity Number 1050272)||Cash funds
**liability relates**|
|**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name||
||||Roger Seabrook|||
||||Richard Farrant|||
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## **to the nearest £**
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## **Endowment funds to nearest £**
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OK
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval