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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||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** **TAR** ## **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** 2 March **2012** **TAR** |**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._**| 3 March **2012** **TAR** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** |You**may choose**to include
further statements, where
relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme
related investment;
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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** **TAR** ## **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** 5 March **2012** **TAR** 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.** 6 March **2012** **TAR** **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 7 March **2012** **TAR** **Charity Name No (if any) Fathoms Free 1192613** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** |**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 £** |**A1 Receipts**
**Personal Donations**
**5,623**
**Company ./ Sponsor Donations**
**8,513**
**Sales of items in web shop**
**71**
**HMRC Gift Aid Payments**
**1,753**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,960**
NONE
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**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 15,960**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**-**
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**-**|**5,623**
**8,513**
**71**
**1,753**
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**15,960**
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**15,960**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**11,875**| |||||**10,186**| |||||**449**| |||||**790**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**23,300**| |||||| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**|**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**|**-**
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**-**|**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 1 |**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 2 ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** ## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |**Details**
NONE|**to nearest £**
**-**
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**-**|**to nearest £**
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**-**|**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| |NONE|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Details**
NONE|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |NONE||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |**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)**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
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**-**|**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 3 ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |**Details**
None
Signature|**-**
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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 4