## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] September 2024 to 31[st] August 2025**
**Charity name: Friends of Priestfield Arboretum (FoPA)**
## **Charity registration number: 1191183**
## **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 protect, preserve and enhance the**
**collection of rare and interesting**
**specimen trees at the privately owned**
**Priestfield Arboretum, Stony Lane, Little**
**Kingshill, Bucks replacing and adding to**
**them as appropriate.**|
|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|**Work parties to maintain the site and**
**collection of trees.**
**Open days to enable members of the**
**public to enjoy and learn about the**
**collection of trees.**
**Produce a guidebook for members**
**describing the history of the arboretum**
**and listing the specimen trees.**
**Maintain a list of members.**
**Collect membership subscriptions to**
**support the work of the CIO.**
**Produce quarterly newsletters.**
**Maintain a web site.**
**Arrange liability insurance.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment
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Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **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|**FoPA have continued to maintain the**
**site and collections of trees.**
**We held two open weekends with over**
**150 visitors attending each weekend.**
**Regular visits have been made to the**
**arboretum by the Little Kingshill Forest**
**Schools group.**
**Site maintenance has continued with**
**significant clearance of invasive Laurel**
**and Holly trees and removal of bramble.**
**Several specimens, mostly pines, have**
**died, due to disease or previous dry**
**summers. A number of new specimens**
**has been added to the collection.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
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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|**£12,961**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held in case needed for**
**tree felling or other urgent problems**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1,500**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**|
**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|
**Membership subscriptions**
**Open days and sale of guidebooks**
**Other organised visits**
**Donations**|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Weather, in particular wind, rain, and**
**drought, plus the risk of fire in dry**
**spells**|
|Other|||
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|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|**Volunteers who are elected at the**
**annual general meeting**|
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|**Friends of Priestfield Arboretum**|
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|Other name the charity uses|None|
|Registered charity number|1191183|
|Charity’s principal address|Treguth
Windsor Lane
Little Kingshill
Bucks
HP16 0DP|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Ian Brown|||AGM|
||Liz Murray-Leslie|||AGM|
||MaryWyatt|||AGM|
||Paul Heath|||AGM|
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity
Name and objects of the None charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for None 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
## **Other optional information**
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## **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)** Ian Phillip Brown
**Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)**
**Date** 21/01/26
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