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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 03 November 2020 31 March 2022
**From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
HM Forage
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1192132
|**Charity's principal address**
|
4 Park Place||
|---|---|---|
||
Seer Green||
||Buckinghamshire||
||**Postcode**|**HP9 2FJ**|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any) **|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Howard Horace
Measham|Chair|||
||Graham Hawkes|Secretary and
Treasurer|||
||Oliver Binkiewicz-
Jones||Resigned 10thMay 2021||
||Timothy Kellam
James Greenwood||Appointed 17 September
2021||
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**|
|---|---|
|None||
|||
|||
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
||||
|**None**|||
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
None
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
CONSTITUTION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CHARITABLE INCORPORATED How the charity is constituted ORGANISATION (eg. trust, association, company) ELECTED BY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
As the charity’s gross income during this period is less than £25,000, the You **may choose** to include receipts and payments accounts included in this document have been prepared additional information, where by the Charity’s Secretary and have not been examined by an independent relevant, about: examiner. • policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Trustees meet at least 4 times a year and in addition communicate training of trustees; electronically.
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational Trustees are normally selected by recommendation and appointed by existing
- structure and any wider trustees
- network with which the charity works; The trustees contain members with a wide spread of experiences and expertise
- • relationship with any related relevant to the aims of the charity. parties; Trustees take on formal roles such as chair, secretary, and treasurer. They also
- • trustees’ consideration of advise on issues relevant to their field of expertise.
- major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the** The relief of poverty for the benefit in The Gambia, in particular but not **charity set out in its governing** exclusively by supplying drilling equipment needed to provide access to safe **document** and clean drinking water and improve sanitation and assist in the provision of education and training in local water management to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.
**Summary of the main activities** Despite being severely hampered by the Covid 19 Global Pandemic the **undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these** Charity has strived to develop since its incorporation. During this period Trustees have agreed the Charity’s branding and infrastructure for **objects (include within this** electronic communication is in place. **section the statutory declaration that trustees have** The first set of drilling equipment was ordered from the suppliers in **had regard to the guidance** early 2020 but due to The Pandemic it was not possibl to deliver it **issued by the Charity** during this period. **Commission on public benefit)** Travel to The Gambia has also been restricted due to The Pandemic. However, plans are in place for Trustees to visit the country in 2022.
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
None
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
|Section D|Achievements andperformance|
|---|---|
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**
|During this year Trustees have continued to develop the Charity’s infrastructure.
Domain addresses have been purchased, emails set up and a holding website
developed.
Drilling equipment was identified and prepared for delivery at a point in 2022
when Covid 19 restrictions have ceased.
Travel to The Gambia has also been restricted due to The Pandemic. However,
plans are inplace for Trustees to visit the countryin 2022.|
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## **Section E Financial review**
The Charity is currently developing and its policy is to use all the available funds **Brief statement of the charity’s** towards its objectives. The Trustees are aware of their duties and as the Charity **policy on reserves** grows a policy on reserves will mature.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit** NONE
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
None
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
In 2022 -23, HM Forage have plans to visit The Gambia to develop the infrastructure of the Charity in The Gambia. We will be looking to deliver the drilling equipment to the country and arranging for its storage. Communication will take place with individuals in The Gambia as we look to develop a local team to manage and operate the equipment once in situ.
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** GRAHAM HAWKES **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** SECRETARY **etc) Date** 05.01.2023
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HM Forage 1192132
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period 11/3/2020 3/31/2022
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations - 19,117 - 19,117
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- 19,117 - 19,117
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts - 19,117 - 19,117
A3 Payments
Drilling equipment deposit 8,117 ## - - 8,117
Bank fees 40 ## - - 40
IT Domain 157 ## - - 157
Logo 11 ## - - 11
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 8,325 ] - - 8,325
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 8,325 - - 8,325
Net of receipts/(payments) - 8,325 19,117 - 10,792
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - -
Cash funds this year end - 8,325 19,117 - 10,792
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**|**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|CAF Bank
Metro Bank|**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**
**9,960**
**832**
**-**
**10,792**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||Agreement Error|Agreement Error|
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|
||||**funds**|**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**|
|**charity’s own use**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name|
||||Graham Hawkes||
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**Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Current value (optional)**
**When due (optional)**
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Date of
approval
1/9/2023
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