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2021-05-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 09 09 2020 31 05 2021

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1191222 Charity's principal address c/o Lambeth Landscapes Carlisle Lane London Postcode SE1 7LE

Archbishop’s Park Community Trust

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
year		 Name of person (or body) entitled
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Helen Lees
Tim Hollins
Matthew Brownlee
David Tootill

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

Type of governing document

Constitution

How the charity is constituted

Trust

Trustee selection methods

Appointed by existing trustees

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

a) To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment of Archbishop’s Park. b) To advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in Archbishop’s Park c) To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people in North Lambeth who are socially excluded on the grounds of unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; homelessness, or discrimination.

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Please note that although we have not formally undertaken work during the period of this return under the new charity of Archbishop’s Park Community Trust, we have undertaken the following work under our former status as a unincorporated voluntary group which falls within our agreed objectives and activities as a charity.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment of Archbishop’s Park. Through the efforts of our volunteers, NHS referrals (mental health) and students from Roots and Shoots (FE college supporting barriers to learning), we have continued to improve a number of formal gardens by planting a variety of plants, bulbs and cuttings plus undertaking general gardening maintenance. We maintained an orchard and apiary to support wildlife and a pond containing a variety of habitats. During COVID we worked with our volunteers and students to make bird and bat boxes which were installed into a new garden we created by the Carlisle Lane entrance. To improve wildlife we commissioned a new bird bath and potting table. To introduce a variety of planting species and colour, several hanging baskets and containers were seasonally upgraded around the park.

To advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in Archbishop’s Park We ran 40 gardening club sessions welcoming local residents and volunteers, using 3 gardening therapists to teach people about growing seeds, transplanting and tendering gardens, growing fruit and vegetables, plus ran over 40 art/nature workshops using plants to create designs on cloth and clay plus created an eco-friendly dye garden. The plants were then used to dye wool and the resulting blanket was exhibited. Froglife ran a number of educational sessions with the Root’s students teaching them about looking after amphibians and helped us undertake our annual pond maintenance.

This year we ran weekly training sessions for students at Roots and Shoots during term time and had 6 referrals from NHS South London and Maudsley. We planted a large cotoneaster hedge along the railings at Lambeth Palace Road which is particularly congested with cars. This was done to reduce carbon emissions and to educate participants about the “ super benefits” of particular plants.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people in North Lambeth who are socially excluded on the grounds of unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; homelessness, or discrimination.

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We promoted social inclusion by widely advertising our club in the park, via fliers, our website, NHS projects across Lambeth, Thames Reach (homeless) social prescribing teams and volunteers. We wrote articles for a variety of circulars including those promoting well-being and volunteering.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

We transferred our legal status from an unincorporated associated to charitable status with two dedicated bank accounts current and savings which took considerable time as the banks were overwhelmed during COVID. For fundraising we have set up a campaign site called Gardens for Well-Being to optimise donations which attracted gift aid.

The 40 weekly gardening club sessions supported 50 local residents and volunteers from the local estates and houses around Lambeth and Southwark. We also attracted a further 380 plus local people who “dropped in” to look at our project whilst in the park.

Through additional teacher support from Roots and Shoots, we supported an additional 5 students dealing with barriers to learning based at Roots and Shoots (10 in total).

The activities above attracted further interest from local employers who offered a total of 8 volunteering days which provided a further 392 hours of support.

This year we won two London awards (Gold for London in Bloom and were a finalist in the London Mayor’s Community Champions during COVID) plus achieved another national Green Flag award. The blanket created from the natural dyes grown in the park was exhibited by the textile department at Morley College to show the power of plants in nature.

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Section E Financial review

Any extra monies e.g donations will be held in the reserve account until Brief statement of the needed. charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

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Further financial review details (Optional information)

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We are currently funded by the Community Fund (Lottery).

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) Helen Lees

Full name(s) Helen Barbara Lees Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 19/10/21

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