## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 29 October 2020 to 31 October 2021** ## **Charity name: The Oakham Canal Green Corridor Project** ## **Charity registration number: 1192074** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To promote, for the benefit of the**
**inhabitants of Rutland and the**
**surrounding area, the provision of an**
**outdoor park facility based upon the**
**remains of the Oakham Canal for**
**recreation or other leisure time**
**occupation of individuals who have**
**need of such facilities by reason of their**
**youth, age, infirmity or disablement,**
**financial hardship or social and**
**economic circumstances or the public**
**at large in the interests of social welfare**
**and with the object of improving the**
**condition of life of the said inhabitants.**| |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|**The Oakham Canal Green Corridor**
**Project has continued to work with**
**landowners and the local authority to**
**formalise and improve access to the**
**canal corridor between the Springfield**
**housing estate and the Oakham**
**Enterprise Park. The Project is receiving**
**full support from Rutland County**
**Council.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The Oakham Canal Green Corridor**
**Project has not made any grants and is**
**unlikely to do so unless the recipient**
**will use the grant monies to undertake**
**work which is in furtherance of our**
**purpose. If such circumstances arose**
**we would undertake appropriate due**| |||**diligence before agreeing to make any**
**grant.**| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not applicable.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers have given their time freely.**
**There have been no monetary**
**contributions by volunteers.**| |Other||**Not applicable.**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**The Oakham Canal Green Corridor**
**Project was successful in reaching**
**agreement with the Trustees of St. John**
**and St. Anne to acquire permissive**
**public access rights to previously**
**informal footpaths which had developed**
**along the western banks of the canal.**
**Together with a range of organisations**
**and local volunteers the Project has**
**carried out extensive works to cut back**
**overgrown vegetation, widening**
**footpaths throughout the canal corridor.**
**We have installed new access steps at**
**the northern end of the project area,**
**providing improved public access.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising Para 1.41 activities against objectives set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Oakham Canal Green Corridor**
**Project is in a solvent position. There is**
**no set timescale for completing all of**
**the work that we would like to do.**
**Funds will be raised for each separate**
**project or even each stage of a project.**
**We will not spend money on projects (or**
**project stages) unless we have already**
**secured the funding for the project (or**
**stage).**
**Funding largely takes the form of grant**
**income and donations received.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves will generally relate to grant**
**income and donations received which**
**have not yet been utilised.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£6,316.69 **| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Reserves will generally relate to grant**
**income and donations received which**
**have not yet been utilised.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No such concerns.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal Para 1.47 sources of funds (including any fundraising) The charity’s principal Para 1.47 sources of funds (including any fundraising) Investment policy and Para 1.46 objectives including any social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Foundation Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Chartered Incorporated Organisation**| |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|**When selecting new Trustees the**
**existing Trustees will take into account**
**the relevant skills, relevant knowledge**
**and relevant experience they have for**
**the role they are to take. Additionally,**
**the existing Trustees seek to promote**
**diversity in the Trustee Board and this**
**will also be taken into account.**
**Every new Trustee is appointed by a**
**resolution passed at a properly**
**convened meeting of the existing**
**Trustees.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Para 1.51 Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees Para 1.51 The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works Para 1.51 Relationship with any related parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**The Oakham Canal Green Corridor Project**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|**1192074**| |Charity’s principal address|**10C Mill Street, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6EA**| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Martin John Ball**|||| ||**Gary Christian**
**Berridge **|||| ||**Neil Anthony Broad**|||| ||**Paul John Cundy**||**From 28 September**
**2021**|| ||**Paul Robert Dadford**|||| ||**James Thomas**
**Mulvany**|||| ||**Stephanie Jane Ross**|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **None** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **Not applicable** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for **Not applicable** 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 **Not applicable** ## **Other optional information** **Local environmental company Ecology Resources has kindly supported The Oakham Canal Green Corridor Project carrying out a number of surveys to identify plant and animal species. Their work will help us to form long term maintenance strategies which will enhance existing habitats and diversity.** **The Project supported the national Great Big Green Week with a work party creating habitat piles from previously cut and fallen branches.** **The Project site was visited by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust and the Environment Agency who are fully supportive of the Project’s environmental aims.** **The Trustees have engaged widely in the community. Students from Oakham School helped design our logo and generate fundraising ideas. They also attended a work party cutting back vegetation to improve public access. Melton Round Table and soldiers from the Royal Logistic Corps supported the construction of new access steps.** The Project Manager ran a series of guided walks over the summer months, and provided a talk to a local Brownie group• generating over £250 in donations. The Project has recruitod a number of volunteer Rangers who will be active along the canal corridor trimming vègetstion. engaging wlth th8 public, and reporting Issues. Thè Oakham Canal Green Corridor Project website and Facebook page have been Instrumental in engaging with the local community and have g8nerated a considerable amount of interest in ourwork. Our growing list of supporters and community volunteers initiated the sèarch for a Volunteer Manager and the Project welcomes new Trustee Paul Cundy who has agreed to take on thls role. Tho Project has been featured on local radlo (Rutland and Stamford Sound and 102 Th8 Eye) and our work has been filmed for an episodè of the BBC'S Escapo to the Country. Ourwork has been supported by a grant of £3,350 from the Healthy Rutland Grant Schème as well a corporate donation from Trivandi Limited whose staff ralsèd £4,778, the latter (In part) being used to purchase tools and equipment to support our ongoing maintonan¢o a¢tivitio$. Our work has made the footpaths along the canal corridor more accessible to the goneral public and wa hava angaged the local communlty In malntalnlng and uslng thls beautiful green space. Declarations The trustees doclaro that they havo approved the trustees, report above. Signed on behalf of tho charlty's trustees Slgnature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chalr, otc) Nell A Broad Martln ohn Ball Trustee Trustse Date 26 January 2022 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGiAND AND WALES Recei tsand ments accounts CC16a To 31l1cQ￿2l Section A Receipts and payments U￿•￿trIct•d T¢)t•l fund• L••ty• A1 RKel ts Vdur*ary AR) 4832 T.I A3Pa ent• Sub to¢•i Sub tst 6.317 AS TransfgTr belw¢on fund• A6 C￿h funds last y#ar￿1 Cash funds this y•ar•nd 6317 CCXX R1 accounts ISSI 24101r2tr22 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted funth Re•trSct•d tunds to wrest£ Endowment funds to k*arn8t £ B1 C¥oh fvnds 1A70 WAJth(•}I Endowmtrnt fund• t)etails to F￿xI towh*h C¥rv•rbt v•1 n•1 Fund tOT*hkh Cury•nt *MIu• Details C••t B4 A••ets r•t*ln•d for th• ¢h¥rlty'• own u80 FurMI tOTwh*fv Details BS Llablllll•• SbJned by or* {* Iwo tnJ5te8s on behawof all thè li￿188 Date of SvJnabJre Paul Dalf￿1 CCXX R2 attwnts ISS) 24101r2022