## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 06/04/2023 Period start date To 05/04/2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: FARMLAND BIRD AID NETWORK** ## **Charity registration number: 1192305** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To promote the conservation of farmland
bird species, particularly those in decline or
at risk of extinction, by working with local
communities and landowners, through
supplementary feeding, monitoring and
habitat restoration and conservation.| |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|
Increasing farmland bird numbers
and diversity for the benefit of
mankind

60 volunteers, farmers and
landowners working together on a
local initiative.

Monthly surveys and end of year
annual survey submitted to British
Ornithological data collection
website| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All trustees are given the Public
Benefit Requirement documents
PB1 and 2. Trustees have complied with
their duty to have due regard to the
commission’s public benefit guidance when
exercising any powers or duties to which
the guidance is relevant.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Farmland Bird Aid Network receives funds
from the general public and small grant
bodies local to West Oxfordshire. Our
largest grant has been £1000 for two years.
As yet we do not have a policy on grant
making.| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Farmland Bird Aid Network has no
investments.| |||Farmland Bird Aid Network is run and| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|mostly funded by its volunteers. The
majority feed the birds on a weekly basis
from November to May every year. Some
count the birds at the 21 sites on a monthly
basis. Others collect the seed and deliver
to the sites.| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **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|Farmland Bird Aid Network have been able
to provide daily feeding during the ‘hungry
gap’ for farmland birds at 21 sites across
West Oxfordshire with 60 volunteers.
Monthly surveys and end of year annual
survey.
Maintained our website
https://farmlandbirdaidnetwork.org/
Continued to circulate a monthly newsletter
for volunteers and other interested
stakeholders. 12 monthly newsletters were
produced during the feeding period to 110
contacts.
Continued to work with the Northeast
Cotswolds Farmer Cluster and received free
bird feed under their sustainability project.
https://www.cotswoldfarmers.org/about
Attended the annual Wychwood Forest Fair
as a stallholder to help raise our profile and
increase numbers of volunteers and
interested landowners.|| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||Farmland Bird Aid Network continues to
feed farmland birds through the hungry gap
and to build our profile with local
communities and landowners. We now
have a strong relationship with the local
Northeast Cotswolds Farmer Cluster.| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||FBAN’s fundraising aim is to have enough
money to purchase seed for the seven
months of feeding each year. This has
been achieved.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||FBAN has no investments.| Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|FBAN has a balance of £3,501 at the end
of this financial year. Enough for a year’s
supply of birdseed for the following year.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|This year the Trustees have approved a
Reserves Policy which is to have enough
funds to cover enough bird seed for one
year. FBAN will aim to build this reserve
over five years.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Reserves held £377| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|No fund is in deficit| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
The principal source of funding are
donations, mainly from our volunteers plus
also funding received from local
foundations. FBAN have signed a contract
with Daylesford Organics who have agreed
to give 10% of their profit on a line of
chocolate eggs sold in their shops.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|FBAN has no investments| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|All funds are spent on bird seed and
storage. FBAN is low risk as all funds are
spent only if available. Amounts of seed
can be decreased to account for funds
available.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO Constitution 2020| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO Charitable 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|New trustees are appointed by current
trustees and are chosen with regard to
skills, knowledge and experience needed
for the effective administration of the CIO.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
Farmland Bird Aid Network has four
Trustees with varying lengths of term, and
with the option to renew the term once.
Next financial year the Board will begin the
search for at least two new Trustees.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|FBAN has four Trustees and 60 volunteers.
The Trustees meet three times a year and
are responsible for finding the funds for the
bird seed, organising the volunteers to feed
at the 21 sites and storing the seed. A
monthly newsletter provides information to
the volunteers and health and safety
advice.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|FBAN works informally with the Northeast
Cotswolds Farmer Cluster to support their
work feeding farmland birds under their
sustainability project.| |Other||FBAN gives its bird survey data to the
British Ornithological data collection
website| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|FARMLAND BIRD AID NETWORK| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|FBAN| |Registered charity number|1192305| |Charity’s principal address|DENE EDGE, LAUGHTON HILL
STONESFIELD
WITNEY
OX29 8DY| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||LOUISE SPICER|||ORIGINAL TRUSTEE| ||JANE ELLIS|CHAIR||APPOINTED BY BOARD| ||GENNY EARLY|||APPOINTED BY BOARD| ||HANNAH
BOURNE TAYLOR|||APPOINTED BY BOARD| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** N/A Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |N/A||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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 N/A ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** JANE ELLIS **Position (eg Secretary,** CHAIR **Chair, etc)** **Date** 13 September 2024 **FARMLAND BIRD AID NETWORK** **No (if any)** ## **Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** **CC16a** |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
6/4/2023|**To**
|Period end date
5/4/2024| |---|---|---|---| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |**A1 Receipts**||**to the nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**||||**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**||||**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**||||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Previousyear balance||**3,773**||||**-**||||**-**||||**3,773**||||**2,209**|| |Donations||**554**||||**-**||||**-**||||**554**||||**1,274**|| |Gift Aid Income||**21**||||**-**||||**-**||||**21**||||**142**|| |Interest||**7**||||**-**||||**-**||||**7**||||**5**|| |Grant||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**1,250**|| |||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |**Sub total**_(Gross income for AR)_||**4,355**
||||**-**||||**-**||||**4,355**||||**4,880**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**(see table).**||||||||||||||||||||| ||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||| ||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |**Sub total**|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**Total receipts **|||**4,355**||||**-**||||**-**||||**4,355**||||**4,880**|| ## **A3 Payments** |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Bank Account Fees
Insurance
Bird Seed
Storage Bins / Post
FARM Ed Anniversary|**60**||**-**||**-**||**60**||**72**| ||**140**||**-**||**-**||**140**||**140**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**882**| ||**54**||**-**||**-**||**54**||**13**| ||**600**||**-**||**-**||**600**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| 10/28/2024 1 |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |**Sub total 854**||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**854**||||**1,107**|| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |**Sub total -**|||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**Total payments 854**|||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**854**||||**1,107**|| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**Net of receipts/(payments) 3,501**||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**3,501**||||**3,773**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |**Cash funds this year end 3,501**||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**3,501**||||**3,773**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**3,501**
**-**
**-**
**3,501**
OK
**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| 10/28/2024 2 ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Details**
**Details**
Reserves
**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**377**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| 10/28/2024 3 ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees **-** |Signature|Print Name
Jane Ellis|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| ||Jane Ellis|13-Sep-24| |||| 10/28/2024 4