2022-12-01-accounts - Fathoms Free

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	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
	From	Period start date				T o	Period end date
		02	12		2021		01	12		2022

Section A		Reference and administration details

	Charity name			FATHOMS FREE

Other names charity is known by				N/A

Registered charity number(if any)				1196183

Charity's principal address				16 LOWER CLICKER ROAD,
				MENHENIOT
				LISKEARD
				Postcode					PL14 3PJ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
John Kent	Chair of Trustees
Julian Collison	Treasurer
Luke Bullus	DivingOfficer
Eleanor Speirs	Secretary
















Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

1 March 2012

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser	Name Address	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

Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed on initial creation of charity - any changes by election Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

Written Risk assessments in place for diving activities and boat You may choose to include usage with site and conditions specific risk assessments completed additional information, where at each event. relevant, about: All personnel suitably trained and qualified for the activities they are engaged in. ● policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; ● the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; ● relationship with any related parties; ● trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

To preserve and improve the marine environment around the coast Summary of the objects of the of the United Kingdom & to to conserve, relieve the suffering of and charity set out in its promote the bio-diversity of marine wildlife with the use of volunteer governing document divers and surface supporters by, but not limited to: 1. Locating, documenting, retrieving and responsibly disposing of Abandoned, Discarded and Lost Fishing Gear (also known as Ghost Gear), releasing and where possible returning entrapped marine wildlife to its natural habitat. 2. Locating, documenting, retrieving and responsibly disposing of

March 2012

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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)	underwater, floating and coastal marine litter, focussing on but not limited to Marine Plastics 3. Supporting the local resident population, the significant coastal tourism industry and the resident fishing communities by minimising the litter and ghost gear hazards to make the beaches and coastal seas a safer place to enjoy and minimising unnecessary damage to local fish stocks killed by ghost gear. 4. Collecting and distributing data on the distribution, nature and quantity of marine litter and ghost fishing gear and its environmental impacts 5. Spreading awareness of the presence of underwater marine litter and ghost fishing gear along with the environmental threats it poses 6. Educating water users and the public so as to reduce the input of debris to the sea
	*Our activities for the reporting period can be summarised into three* *categories.* 1. *Retrieval - Retrieving matter from the sea which shouldn’t be* *there, this is our raison d’etre. This was most often done by diving* *but there was a significant quantity of recovery from beaches.* 2. *Awareness - We took multiple opportunities to inform the* *public of the very serious matter of ghost nets and marine litter. This* *was done by talks, meeting the public at awareness events, social* *media and mainstream media eg. TV news. If we can educate people* *to prevent marine pollution then it makes our retrieval job less* *arduous. A little known fact is that 75% of marine litter starts on land* *as street litter, reaching the sea via drains and rivers.* 3. *Maintenance, training and fund raising - These activities are* *the enabler for the 2 above. The divers become maintenance* *personnel or teachers/students for these activities. The maintenance* *work covered work on; our dive RHIB Casper with engine service &* *electrical upgrades , Caspers trailer received a full rebuild of brakes* *and suspension units to keep it safe, the pickup truck received* *servicing and a new towbar as the original had suffered from* *frequent salt water contact, updates to the navigation equipment* *including the new Navionics ‘relief shading’ and a significant* *amount of search and recovery gear.* *One of our core team has attended a specialist dive course and she* *will then train the rest of the team with her new skills. Our fund-* *raising is dependent upon our exposure in various media forms,* *without funds no recoveries would take place. We have a website* *and an integral shop. Many of the goods in the shop are made by* *our volunteers from recovered ghost nets and ropes.*

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)

underwater, floating and coastal marine litter, focussing on but not
limited to Marine Plastics
3. Supporting the local resident population, the significant coastal
tourism industry and the resident fishing communities by
minimising the litter and ghost gear hazards to make the beaches
and coastal seas a safer place to enjoy and minimising unnecessary
damage to local fish stocks killed by ghost gear.
4. Collecting and distributing data on the distribution, nature and
quantity of marine litter and ghost fishing gear and its environmental
impacts
5. Spreading awareness of the presence of underwater marine litter
and ghost fishing gear along with the environmental threats it poses
6. Educating water users and the public so as to reduce the input of
debris to the sea

Our activities for the reporting period can be summarised into three
categories.
1.
Retrieval - Retrieving matter from the sea which shouldn’t be
there, this is our raison d’etre. This was most often done by diving
but there was a significant quantity of recovery from beaches.
2.
Awareness - We took multiple opportunities to inform the
public of the very serious matter of ghost nets and marine litter. This
was done by talks, meeting the public at awareness events, social
media and mainstream media eg. TV news. If we can educate people
to prevent marine pollution then it makes our retrieval job less
arduous. A little known fact is that 75% of marine litter starts on land
as street litter, reaching the sea via drains and rivers.
3.
Maintenance, training and fund raising - These activities are
the enabler for the 2 above. The divers become maintenance
personnel or teachers/students for these activities. The maintenance
work covered work on; our dive RHIB Casper with engine service &
electrical upgrades , Caspers trailer received a full rebuild of brakes
and suspension units to keep it safe, the pickup truck received
servicing and a new towbar as the original had suffered from
frequent salt water contact, updates to the navigation equipment
including the new Navionics ‘relief shading’ and a significant
amount of search and recovery gear.
One of our core team has attended a specialist dive course and she
will then train the rest of the team with her new skills. Our fund-
raising is dependent upon our exposure in various media forms,
without funds no recoveries would take place. We have a website
and an integral shop. Many of the goods in the shop are made by
our volunteers from recovered ghost nets and ropes.

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Youmay chooseto include further statements, where relevant, about: ● policy on grantmaking; ● policy programme related investment; ● contribution made by volunteers.	All persons engaged with Fathoms Free are volunteers ,including the trustees who all have full time careers and run the charity in their spare time. The charity has no paid staff, contractors or consultants.

Section D Achievements and performance

4 March 2012

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Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Last year the Fathoms Free team recovered 1905 kg of marine debris from the seas around Devon and Cornwall. This activity took 4896 man hours, in direct effort. This recovery was accomplished during 9 dives and 2 beach recoveries.

During the same year 6 awareness events were undertaken, this comprised 2 TV news items, 2 awareness events, one self made video and an announcement about a coalition with similar organisations in the UK.

Fathoms Free are a founding member of the UK Ghost Gear Coalition along with Sea Shepherd UK, Ghost Diving UK and Neptunes Army or Rubbish Collectors (NARC).

This will improve the effectiveness of all the members with the ability to share information, resources and best practice.

A direct of this has been the supply on long term loan of a much larger twin-engined Humber Ocean Pro RHIB from Sea Shepherd, ‘Shadow’ enabling us to carry more divers to a greater amount of locations and carry more recovered ghost gear. Shadow will work as flagship alongside our smaller RHIB Casper for the foreseeable future.

The boat trailer was attended to with a weekend working party to replace wheels, bearings and brakes. The boat had a new fuel tank installed and navionics chart software upgraded during another weekend working party.

A new storage location for the two boats, pickup truck and events trailer was secured which has hardstandings rather than grass and is far more secure.

Our funding has been secured for the forthcoming year by donations from both personal and corporate donors and the sale of goods in our online shop. This was augmented over the christmas period when a Crowdfunding campaign secured match funding from the Cornwall Council Grow Nature Fund.

Section E Financial review

March 2012

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T he charity does not currently have a policy on reserves since it Brief statement of the was created from very humble beginnings. The trustees realise that charity’s policy on reserves the charity is growing and whilst at the moment it is in a comfortable financial position, the trustees will during the next financial year develop a reserves policy in order to prepare for unexpected and schedules repairs or replacement to key assets, namely the boats (Casper & Shadow) and pickup truck Details of any funds materially There are no funds in deficit in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information) The charity, in common with others operating in the same You may choose to include conservation arena, does not receive any government funding and additional information, where relies on the generous donation of members of the public and relevant about: corporate donors. ● the charity’s principal The charity does not currently have an investment policy - monies sources of funds (including any raised are used to fund ghost gear recoveries including charter boat fundraising); hire where necessary, fuel and maintenance of charity assets and ● how expenditure has maintaining a balance available for repairs as and when necessary. The funds of the charities are fairly modest, having raised £15960 in supported the key objectives of the last reporting year (2nd December 2021 - 1st December 2022). the charity; ● investment policy and Of these £5623 were raised by personal donations, £8513 by corporate donation (including match funding), £1753 from Gift Aid objectives including any ethical and £71 from the online shop. investment policy adopted. Expenditure for the year was £15747 with the largest expense being £6257 on boat, trailer and truck maintenance (a significant increase on last year down to now running two vessels) , followed by £2475 on the charter of hardboats for some larger recoveries. Now we have Shadow it is expected that Hardbpat charter will be far reduced in the next year. All expenditure has been directly connected to the ongoing objects of the charity, particularly the ghost gear recovery and the accounts show a balanced sheet with a very small surplus adding to the charities operating funds of £213

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

March 2012

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Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Julian Collison Full name(s) John Kent Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Chair Treasurer Date 19/09/2022

March 2012

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Charity Name No (if any) Fathoms Free 1192613

Receipts and payments accounts

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For the period from	Period start date 02/12/2021	To	Period end date 01/12/2022

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 £

- - - - - - - - - - - - -	- - - - - - - - - - - - -	5,623 8,513 71 1,753 - - - - 15,960 - - - 15,960
			11,875
			10,186
			449
			790
			-
			-
			-
			-
			23,300


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			-

-	-	15,960	23,300

A3 Payments Boat, Truck & Trailer Storage 1,395 Hardboat charter 2,475 Insurance & Vehicle Tax 1,776 Truck & Boat repair & upgrades 6,257	A3 Payments Boat, Truck & Trailer Storage 1,395 Hardboat charter 2,475 Insurance & Vehicle Tax 1,776 Truck & Boat repair & upgrades 6,257	- - - -	- - - -	1,395 2,475 1,776 6,257
Boat, Truck & Trailer Storage	1,395	-	-	1,395	820
Hardboat charter	2,475	-	-	2,475	1,800
Insurance & Vehicle Tax	1,776	-	-	1,776	1,718
Truck & Boat repair & upgrades	6,257	-	-	6,257	2,054

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

09/19/2023

Fuel	1,469	-	-	1,469	487
Gear recovery equipment	1,903	-	-	1,903	847
Charity admin(website etc)	472	-	-	472	541
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
*Sub total*	15,747	-	-	15,747	8,267

A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
NONE	-		-		-	-
	-		-		-	-
*Sub total*	-		-		-	-	-

**Total payments **	15,747		-		-	15,747	8,267

**Net of receipts/(payments) **	213	-		-		213	15,033
A5 Transfers between funds	-	-		-		-	-
A6 Cash funds last year end	19,719	-		-		19,719	1,301
**Cash funds this year end **	19,931	-		-		19,931	16,334

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories B1 Cash funds	Details NatWest Bank Account Soldo prepaid debit card balance PayPal Account *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	to nearest £ 18,313 1,618 - 19,931 OK Unrestricted funds Unrestricted funds	to nearest £ - - - - OK Restricted funds Restricted funds	to nearest £ Endowment funds
				-
				-
				-
				-
				OK
				Endowment funds

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

09/19/2023

B2 Other monetary assets

B3 Investment assets

B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use

Details NONE	to nearest £ - - - - - -	to nearest £ - - - - - -	to nearest £
NONE	-	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-
	-	-	-

Details NONE	Cost (optional) - - - - -	Current value (optional)
NONE	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
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Details Mitsubishi L200 Pickup Truck Twin axle van trailer Gazebo & display equipment Ghost gear recovery equipment 6.5m Humber RHIB with engine,trailer & electronics	Unrestricted Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - -	Current value (optional)
6.5m Humber RHIB with engine,trailer & electronics	Unrestricted	-	14,000
Mitsubishi L200 Pickup Truck		-	7,000
Twin axle van trailer		-	1,000
Gazebo & display equipment		-	2,500
Ghost gear recovery equipment		-	5,000
		-	-
		-	-
		-	-
		-	-

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

09/19/2023

B5 Liabilities

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Details None Signature	- - - - - Print Name Julian Collison (Treasure) John Kent (Chair) Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional)	When due (optional)





		Date of approval
	Julian Collison (Treasure)	19/09/2023
	John Kent (Chair)	19/09/2023

CCXX R4 accounts (SS)

09/19/2023