Love Trees Cornwall
Financial Statements
22 September 2020 to 31 December 2021
Registered Number: 1191424
LOVE TREES CORNWALL
Trustees annual report for the period ended 31 December 2021
| Charity Registration Number | 1191424 |
|---|---|
| Registered Office | 35 Fore Street |
| Newlyn | |
| PENZANCE | |
| TR18 5JP | |
| Trustees | Dr FA Jeffares Sekine |
| Revd DM Durkin LLB | |
| BA Williams ACCA | |
| Website | https://www.lovetreescornwall.org/ |
| Bankers | CAF Bank Limited |
| 25 Kings Hill Avenue | |
| Kings Hill | |
| WEST MALLING | |
| ME19 4JQ |
Organisation
The charity is administered by the Trustees and established by the Constitution dated 22 September 2020.
Objectives
The objective of the CIO is to advance the education of children and young people living in Cornwall, in the subjects of flora and fauna and in environmental protection, conservation and improvement in particular, but not exclusively, by the provision of annual awards for educational programmes and activities.
LOVE TREES CORNWALL
Annual Report of the Trustees for the period ended 31 December 2021
This is a small charity designed to help schools encourage environmental care. After the legal and banking preliminaries, the next stage was to establish a welcoming, easy to read and visually attractive website. We have tried to mix naturalistic and creative imagery to inspire any teachers, parents or young people visiting our environmental site, to encourage them and hopefully give them positive ideas to add to the physical world for future generations. Technology of course has many advantages, however if children aren't introduced physically to the growing environment, it becomes very difficult for them to understand how to protect it for the future.
The LTC website includes information on our first 'Tree Care Competition'. Open to all the schools in the area, this competition promotes Tree Care Diaries to link young people with seasonal change by focussing on trees, the backbone of the natural world. They can choose whatever means they prefer to promote present and future tree care - Ideas could include wild seed collection, propagating native trees, painting, and writing etc.
Art and science can be combined to reflect on trees keeping the air fresh and preventing erosion but also being things of beauty and grace in themselves, providing homes and shelter for so many other species, including ourselves, and enhancing mental health and wellbeing throughout the seasons.
Each school will enter their own video diary to inspire others. They will hand in their creative, Tree Centred, project in May 2022. The prize of £1,000 each to the winning entry will also promote the second Tree Care Competition in 2022/23. Ten schools have already entered this year, about half the schools in our area. Given the pressure teachers are under (with Covid etc.), this is a very good number of school entries. Initial feedback from teachers and others has been both complimentary and encouraging.
The long-term impact of these creative ideas will develop into a site for local schools and colleges to use to enhance their own environmental impact lessons, and make up for a dearth of safe, wild areas for forest school and nature study and many school fields have been sold off, remaining land is often flattened into non-green sports grounds, which may be good for physical health but can be detrimental to pupil well-being. There is an outline for this future green development on our website. The Educational Tree Centre which we aim to establish, should prove a useful haven with ever expanding building projects making varied, wild sites ever rarer.
We may also consider helping the creation of ‘Pocket Forests’, mini orchards and the like within or near schools, to teach environmental awareness.
As the charity will be funded almost exclusively by myself as chair, it will not be dependent on donations from other people or organisations, and it will be run with minimal costs.
If you wish to contact us for further information please email on enquiries@lovetreescornwall.org or visit our website www.lovetreescornwall.org
Dr FA Jeffares Sekine (Chair)
Date: 2 August 2022
LOVE TREES CORNWALL
Accounts for the period ended 31 December 2021
| Turnover Donations Expenditure on Website costs Bank charges Postage SURPLUS Represented by: Current Assets Cash at bank Cash in hand Total Assets |
254 88 4 |
Unrestricted funds 2021 2,650 346 |
Unrestricted funds 2021 2,650 346 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,258 46 |
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| 2,304 | |||
| 2021 2,304 |
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| 2,304 |
Dr FA Jeffares Sekine (Chair)
Revd DM Durkin (Secretary)
BA Williams (Treasurer)
Date: 2 August 2022