Docusign Envelope ID: AB492D9F-F62B-882F-804B-3DBAF6847BE0 ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 January 2025 To 31 December 2025** **Charity name: Friends of Finchley Way Open Space** **Charity registration number: 1192844** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1.**
**To promote for the benefit of the public**
**the conservation, protection and**
**improvement of the physical and natural**
**environment by reinstating, protecting**
**and enhancing the habitats and**
**increasing the biodiversity of Finchley**
**Way Open Space that has been**
**neglected.**
**2.**
**To advance the education of the public in**
**Finchley in the conservation, protection**
**and improvement of the physical and**
**natural environment.**| |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|**Landscaping, planting and maintenance of**
**site.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**We have regard to the guidance given by the**
**Charity Commission on public benefit.**
**The charity works with the landowner**
**(London Borough of Barnet Borough**
**Council) to make the site safely accessible**
**and attractive to people in the local area**
**bearing in mind that the objective is to**
**create a wildlife area in part of the site.**| Docusign Envelope ID: AB492D9F-F62B-882F-804B-3DBAF6847BE0 ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The charity does not make grants**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The charity does not make financial**
**investments of any kind**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Work is carried out by volunteers, including**
**all administration, website, fundraising and**
**work on the site. Some of these volunteers**
**are also trustees. In addition to the 11**
**trustees in the year we have had 20 other**
**volunteers.**
**Contractors are employed for specialist**
**tasks that cannot be undertaken with hand**
**tools.**| |Other||| Docusign Envelope ID: AB492D9F-F62B-882F-804B-3DBAF6847BE0 ## **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|**This year we focused on maintaining and**
**improving the work already done.**
**The annual consultation conducted in the**
**autumn showed that respondents value the**
**area as somewhere quiet and peaceful to**
**walk and sit.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Given the limited resources and the small**
**size of the site (approximately 1.8 acres),**
**objectives are set by identifying small scale**
**projects.**
**The two main objectives set for 2025 was to**
**develop and maintain the improvements**
**already made to the site and to recruit new**
**trustees to replace those standing down due**
**to term limits. These objectives were**
**achieved.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We have not needed to fundraise this year**
**as no new projects were undertaken and we**
**have sufficient funds to complete our set**
**objectives.**
**The charity receives small and medium**
**sized donations from time to time from local**
**residents and businesses, which is enough**
**to cover the overheads of the website,**
**additional planting, tool replacement, etc.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**The charity does not make investments.**| |Other||| Docusign Envelope ID: AB492D9F-F62B-882F-804B-3DBAF6847BE0 ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of the year the charity had**
**£4208.62 held as cash in the bank and no**
**other assets.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The size of the reserve in the current**
**account is set at £300, which will be**
**reviewed at the AGM in April 2026. This is**
**three month’s estimated running costs.**
**There is no change from last year.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**At least £300.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Given the level of cash in the bank, future**
**plans and likely future income from various**
**sources, the trustees are confident that the**
**charity remains a going concern.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|**Barnet Council owns the land. The charity’s**
**funds in the year have come from local**
**residents and businesses.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**We have a detailed risk assessment and**
**mitigation table. The main risks are:**
**GDPR breach; vandalism; and deteriorating**
**relations with those living around the site**
**and volunteers.**| |Other||| Docusign Envelope ID: AB492D9F-F62B-882F-804B-3DBAF6847BE0 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation,**
**Foundation Model**| |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|**Anyone can apply to join the Board of**
**Trustees at any time. Any trustee has the**
**right to ask the Board to invite an individual**
**with specific skills and interests to join the**
**Board at any Board meeting, subject to the**
**constitution limit of 12 trustees. Trustees**
**have the final say on who joins the Board.**
**Secret online ballots are used with existing**
**trustees on decisions on renewals and new**
**Board members. A simple majority is**
**sufficient for election. While some trustees**
**have not voted, none have voted against or**
**formally abstained.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|**New trustees are provided with a copy of the**
**constitution, the latest minutes and**
**statement of accounts before their first**
**Board meeting. They are referred to the**
**significant amount of information that is on**
**the website atwww.fofwos.org**
**The Executive Committee sends relevant**
**documents to those who express and**
**interest and interview them according to a**
**set protocol, also giving more information**
**about the charity and answering any**
**questions at that interview.**
**New trustees are able to contact the Chair,**
**Treasurer or Deputy Chair or any other**
**trustee, for additional support on an ad hoc**
**basis.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity is governed by its Board of**
**Trustees. There is an Executive Committee**
**comprised of the Chair, Deputy Chair and**
**Treasurer. The Board has delegated much**
**of the day-to day running and decision-**
**making to this group but all financial**
**decisions are referred to the full Board – by**
**correspondence if a Board meeting is not**
**imminent. Generally, a budget is set for**
**each project and the Executive Committee**
**manages the project within this limit.**
**Subcommittees are established as needed**
**for specific projects.**
**Subcommittees are allocated set a budget**
**for each project by the full Board. Within**| Docusign Envelope ID: AB492D9F-F62B-882F-804B-3DBAF6847BE0 |||**this they have leeway to make spending**
**decisions.**
**The charity is also an active member of the**
**Barnet Green Spaces Network, which is**
**affiliated to the London Friends of Green**
**Spaces Network.**| |---|---|---| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**The land is owned by the London Borough**
**of Barnet and the trustees work closely with**
**the Greenspaces Team at Barnet on plans**
**for the site. The Council team is responsible**
**for mowing the grass and maintaining the**
**trees on the site.**
**Additional funding for projects has been**
**awarded by a Council Committee for**
**specific projects.**| |Other||**The charity has the following polices in**
**place:**
**a. Internal charity financial controls policy**
**and procedures**
**b. Safeguarding policy and procedures**
**c. Financial**
**reserves**
**policy**
**and**
**procedures**
**d. Complaint’s policy and procedures,**
**within the safeguarding policy**
**e. Internal risk management policy and**
**procedures**
**f.**
**Trustee**
**expenses**
**policy**
**and**
**procedures**
**g. Trustee conflicts of interest policy and**
**procedures**
**h. Bullying and harassment policy and**
**procedures, within the safeguarding**
**policy**
**i.**
**Social media policy and procedures**
**j.**
**Serious incidents policy and procedures**
**The trustees do not believe that DBS checks**
**are necessary as volunteers work in groups**
**in an open space.**
**No serious incidents occurred.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**Friends of Finchley Way Open Space**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**N/A**| |Registered charity number|**1192844**| |
Charity’s principal address|5 Finchley Way, London N3 1AG| Docusign Envelope ID: AB492D9F-F62B-882F-804B-3DBAF6847BE0 ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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13|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Suzanne King**|**Chair**|Until 16thDecember
2025|| ||**Nick Dimant**|**Deputy Chair**||| ||**Karen Goodman**|**Treasurer**||| ||**Richard**
**Bartholomew**||Until 16thDecember
2025|| ||**Simon Dukes**|||| ||**Arlette Garcia**|||| ||**Ross Houston**|||| ||**Samuel Levy**||Until 16thDecember
2025|| ||**Hilda De Souza**|**Membership**
**Secretary**|Until 19thOctober 2025|| ||**Pourus Panthakee**||From 29thOctober 2025|| ||**Peter Fielding**||From 10thOctober 2025|| ||**George Karaolis**||From 22ndApril 2025|| – 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 held in
this capacity|N/A| |---|---| |Name and objects of the charity on
whose behalf the assets are held
and how this falls within the
custodian charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements for safe
custody and segregation of such
assets from the charity’s own
assets|N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |**N/A**||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |No staff||| Docusign Envelope ID: AB492D9F-F62B-882F-804B-3DBAF6847BE0 ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signed** **on behalf of the**
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**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|**charitys trustees**|**charitys trustees**| |---|---|---| |||| ||Karen Goodman|Nick Dimant| ||
Treasurer|Chair| ||12thMay 2026|| ||12thMay 2026|| |**FoFWOS Accounts 2025**
Summary|||| |---|---|---|---| ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total| |Cashpositon at start ofyear|£3,792.63|£0.00|£3,792.63| |Expenses incurred,notpaidyet|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00| |Accountngbalance at start ofyear|£3,792.63|£0.00|£3,792.63| ||||| |Income during year|£977.53|£0.00|£977.53| |Expenses incurred during year|£561.54|£0.00|£561.54| |Transfer to Unrestricted|||£0.00| |Overall balance|**£4,208.62**|**£0.00**|**£4,208.62**| ## **FoFWOS Accounts 2025** ## **Summary** |**Summary**|||| |---|---|---|---| ||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**| |Cashpositon at start ofyear|£3,792.63|£0.00|£3,792.63| |Expensespaid|£561.54|£0.00|£561.54| |Income during year|£977.53|£0.00|£977.53| |Transfer to Unrestricted|||£0.00| |Cashpositon|£4,208.62|£0.00|**£4,208.62**| ## **FoFWOS Income 2025** |**Date**|**Who**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**| |---|---|---|---| |1/2/2025|London Borough Barnet - Tree Labels|£84.40|| |1/14/2025|UK Online Giving|£2.58|| |1/29/2025|Payroll Giving-Benevity|£150.00|| |3/3/2025|PayPal - Gif Aid|£37.50|| |3/31/2025|Private Donaton|£50.00|| |7/1/2025|UK Online Giving|£2.17|| |9/24/2025|Private Donaton|£50.00|| |10/2/2025|UK Online Giving|£2.48|| |11/10/2025|CompanyDonaton|£500.00|| |12/8/2025|PayPal Donaton|£98.40|| ||||| ||||| |**Total**|**£977.53**|**£977.53**|**£0.00**| |**FoFWOS Expenses 2025**|**FoFWOS Expenses 2025**|**Unrestricted**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted - other**|**Restricted - other**|**Restricted -**|**Restricted -**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Date**|**Descripton**|**Refunded/**
**Paid**|**Not Paid**|**Refunded/**
**Paid**|**Not Paid**|**Refunded/**
**Paid**|**Not Paid**| |5/6/2025|Ryan Best - Tree work|£120.00|||||| |5/24/2025|Tesco - Volunteer Week|£23.95|||||| |5/27/2025|Ryan Best - Tree work|£40.00|||||| |6/5/2025|WIX -Domain Renewal for 5years|£75.96|||||| |6/13/2025|B &Q- Seceteurs|£27.98|||||| |11/20/2025|RHS Order - Plants|£132.05|||||| |11/20/2025|Howard Nurseries - Plants|£117.42|||||| |11/25/2025|Meadowmania - Seeds|£24.18|||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| |**TOTAL**||**£561.54**|**£0.00**|**£0.00**|**£0.00**|**£0.00**|**£0.00**| ## **Donations 2025** |**Date**|**Private Donatons**|**Gif aid collected**|**Company donaton**|**Payroll Giving**|**PayPal Donatons**|**UK Online Giving**|**Grants**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |14 January2025||||||£2.58|| |29 January2025||||£150.00|||| |03 March 2025|||||£37.50||| |31 March 2025|£50.00||||||| |01 July2025||||||£2.17|| |24 September 2025|£50.00||||||| |02 October 2025||||||£2.48|| |10 November 2025|||£500.00||||| |08 December 2025|||||£98.40||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| |**Total**|**£100.00**|**£0.00**|**£500.00**|**£150.00**|**£135.90**|**£7.23**|**£0.00**| ||||**Grand Total**
**£893.13**||||| ||||**Grand Total**|**£893.13**|||| ## **Budget for 2025** |**Budget for 2025**|**Budget for 2025**|**Budget for 2025**|**Budget for 2025**| |---|---|---|---| |**Used**
**Remaining**|||| |**Reserve**|£300.00|£0.00|£300.00| |**Tools**|£150.00|£27.98|£122.02| |**WIX**|£200.00|£75.96|£124.04| |**Volunteers Event**|£75.00|£23.95|£51.05| |**Bulbs & Plantng**|£500.00|£433.65|£66.35| |**Total**|£1,225.00|£561.54|£663.46|