**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 August 2021 to 31 December 2022** ## **Reference and Administrative details** |**Charity name**|Ride Bristol| |---|---| |**Registered charity**
**number**|1191199| |**Charity’s principal**
**address**|12B Flax Bourton Road
Failand
Bristol
BS8 3UW| ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Summary of the**
**purposes of the charity**
**as set out in its**
**governing document**|The object of the CIO is: the promotion of community
participation in healthy recreation in Bristol and the
surrounding area by providing opportunities and facilities
to participate in off road cycling through the construction
and maintenance of safe cycle trails which protect the
integrity of the physical and natural environment and
encourage responsible cycling.| |---|---| |**Statement confirming**
**whether the trustees**
**have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the**
**Charity Commission on**
**public benefit**|The Trustees have complied with the duty in section 17 of
the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to public benefit
guidance published by the Commission| ## **Achievements and Performance** |**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**|Ride Bristol was registered as a charity on 8 September
2020 and our first year was a challenging year due to the
onset of COVID lockdown restrictions which limited the
activities that we could perform.
The focus of our first year was establishing the charity and
a large proportion of the basic leg work has now been| |---|---| |**wider benefits to society**
**as a whole and 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.**|done. As a charity we have started to build relationships
with the key landowners in the Bristol area and by the end
of the financial year we were in a position to perform
regular trail maintenance days.
The hard work from the current financial year came to
fruition in the second half of 2021. Some of the main
achievements for the remainder of 2021 have been
●
We hosted our first dig day in August 2021 and by
the end of 2021 we had hosted 10 dig sessions with
128 people volunteering.
●
In conjunction with Stif Mountain Bikes we
refurbished the bottom half of the SuperNova trail
which opened in December 2021. In late 2022 we
then completed the top half of the SuperNova trail
●
We have completed Ad Hoc repairs on the Nova Trail
in Ashton Court.
●
We took on responsibility for managing trails at 50
Acre managed by Forestry England
The trail network repaired by Ride Bristol is free to access
by the public and is frequently used by a range of cyclist
from first time to experienced riders| |---|---| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**|| |---|---| |**Review of the charity’s**
**financial position at the**
**end of the period**|At the end of the financial period the charity held £12,423
(2021: £11,225) in the bank and made a small surplus of
£1,199 for the full year| |**Statement explaining**
**the policy for holding**
**reserves stating why**
**they are held**|The trustees aim to maintain reserves in unrestricted funds
at a level that will allow sufficient funds to be available to
respond to charitable activities as they arise.| |**Amount of reserves held**|The balance held as unrestricted funds at the yearend was
£12,423| |**Explanation of any**
**uncertainties about the**
**charity continuing as a**
**going concern**|There are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as
a going concern| **Structure, Governance and Management** |**Type of governing**
**document**|Ride Bristol is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
established by a constitution dated 8 September 2020. It
was registered as a charity on 8 September 2020, charity
number 1191199.| |---|---| |**How is the charity**
**constituted?**|| |**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**|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.
In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees,
the charity trustees must have regard to the skills,
knowledge and experience needed for the effective
administration of the CIO.| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---|---| |1|James Cleeton||Appointed 8 September 2020, Resigned
2 February 2022| |2|Nolan Price||Appointed 8 September 2020, Resigned
26 April 2022| |3|Adam Coupland|Treasurer|Appointed 8 September 2020| |4|Tim Knowles||Appointed 8 September 2020| |5|Oliver Cain||Appointed 8 September 2020| |6|Christopher Leeks||Appointed 8 September 2020| |7|Samuel Burrough||Appointed 8 September 2020| |8|Patrick Tumilty||Appointed 8 September 2020, Resigned
29 May 2021| |9|Fiona Wilson||Appointed 8 September 2020, Resigned
30 July 2021| |10|Claire Sharpe||Appointed 9 February 2022, Resigned 17
October 2022| |11|James Adamson||Appointed 19 October 2022| |12|Hywel Jones||Appointed 19 October 2022| |13|Henry Easterbrook||Appointed 19 October 2022| ## **Declarations** The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees ## A Co�p���d Adam Coupland, Treasurer Date 16 August 2023 **Ride Bristol CIO Receipts and payments accounts for the period 1 August 2021 to 31 December 2022** ## **Receipts and Payments** ||**1 August 2021 to 31**
**December 2022**|**1 August 2021 to 31**
**December 2022**|**1 August 2021 to 31**
**December 2022**||**8 September 2020 to 31**
**July 2021**|**8 September 2020 to 31**
**July 2021**|**8 September 2020 to 31**
**July 2021**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Unrestrict
ed Funds
£|Restricted
Funds
£|Total
Funds
£||Unrestrict
ed Funds
£|Restricted
Funds
£|Total
Funds
£| |**Receipts**|||||||| |Donations|16,491|-|16,491||11,581|-|11,581| |Gift Aid|750|-|750||206|-|206| |Other Income|746|-|746||11|-|11| |**Total Receipts**|**17,987**|**-**|**17,987**||**11,798**|**-**|**11,798**| ||||||||| |**Payments**|||||||| |Trail Maintenance and
Development|15,838|-|15,838||167|-|167| |Banking and Card Fees|145|-|145||46|-|46| |Training|300|-|300||360|-|360| |Other Expenditure|506|-|506||-|-|-| |**Total Payments**|**16,789**|**-**|**16,789**||**573**|**-**|**573**| ||||||||| |**Net Surplus**|**1,198**|**-**|**1,198**||**11,225**|**-**|**11,225**| ||||||||| |**Reconciliation of Funds**|||||||| |Cash funds brought
forward|**11,225**|**-**|**11,225**||**-**|**-**|**-**| |Cash funds carried
forward|**12,423**|**-**|**12,423**||**11,225**|**-**|**11,225**| **Ride Bristol CIO Receipts and payments accounts for the period 1 August 2021 to 31 December 2022** ## **Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**the period**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||31 December 2022||||31 July 2021||| ||Unrestrict
ed Funds
£|Restricted
Funds
£|Total
Funds
£||Unrestrict
ed Funds
£|Restricted
Funds
£|Total
Funds
£| |**Cash funds**|||||||| |Cash in bank|12,423|-|12,423||11,225|-|11,225| |**Total cash funds**|**12,423**|**-**|**12,423**||**11,225**|**-**|**11,225**| Approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by ## A Co�p���d Adam Coupland, Treasurer Date 16 August 2023