## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From:** 1 April 2022 **To:** 31 March 2023 **Charity name:** Natural Cambridgeshire **Charity registration number:** 1193040 ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Objectives and Activities**||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**From our Constitution, the object of Natural**
**Cambridgeshire is:**
For the public benefit, the preservation,
conservation and protection of the
environment in particular but not exclusively
by (a) the advancement of biological diversity,
and (b) the promotion of sustainable
development in Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough.
Sustainable development means ‘development
which meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs’.| |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|Advocacy for biodiversity and for the benefits
of biodiversity, including for public health and
well-being, climate adaptation, cleaner air,
improved water quality, healthier soils and
flood risk mitigation. Specifically, we:
• Appointed an additional member of staff to
augment advocacy capacity, specifically
with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Combined Authority, Cambridgeshire
County Council and our other local
authority partners and stakeholder
groupings.
• Convened and facilitated stakeholder
groups including for local authorities;
farmers and landowners, community
organisations and other organisations
working in the natural environment sector,
particularly in preparation for the
introduction of Biodiversity Net Gain and
the requirement to prepare a Local Nature
Recovery Strategy for Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough.| |||• Launched the Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Fund for Nature, with the
first call for projects in Autumn 2022 and
the first three beneficiary projects
identified in Spring 2023.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming whether
the trustees have had regard
to the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees as part of their commitment to the
organisation and their initial induction were
required to familiarise themselves with the
guidance issued by the Charity Commission on
public benefit. We are developing policies to
ensure that new trustees receive this guidance
as part of their induction process, and to
review annually these policies. Our secretary
trustee, Dr Roger Mitchell, ensures good
governancepractice is followed at all times.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|In 2022/23 Natural Cambridgeshire did not
make any grants on its own account; it
received £5,379 restricted income from which
NC distributed £3,000 in grant monies to FWAG
on behalf of Natural England.| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|n/a| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Much of the work of Natural Cambridgeshire to
date has been achieved by and through
volunteers, primarily trustees and advisors, all
of whose time, dedication and commitment is
much appreciated.
While we are not a direct delivery organisation,
and therefore not in the business of mobilising
conservation volunteers ourselves, it is
anticipated that future grantees will mobilise
the efforts of volunteers in their improvements
to green spaces within parishes, urban
communities and on other nature sites. We will
seek to ensure these efforts are fully
acknowledged and celebrated.| |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|• Continued to build momentum around the
six identified priority landscapes for
investment in nature recovery, the
associated benefits for human health and
wellbeing and other eco-system services.
• Identified the first three projects to benefit
from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Fund for Nature, the £1m Fund made
available by the Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Combined Authority to
accelerate Doubling Nature endeavours and
to stimulate innovative funding models for
nature projects.
• Convened and facilitated discussion Forums
(Policy and Planning Forum) for stakeholder
groups including local authorities,
environmental charities and community
organisations to engage with the themes of:
biodiversity, and its centrality to the future
health and prosperity of communities
across the county; and biodiversity net gain.
• In relation to the above, we have also
specifically worked with Natural England
and Cambridgeshire County Council to
familiarised district and city authorities and
parish councils, NGOs, farmers and other
landowners with the concept of Local
Nature Recovery Strategies, including the
development of Local Nature Recovery
Networks for their areas.
• Provided regular expert briefings
(Partnership Forum) to the broader nature
community on specialist subject areas
relating to nature, biodiversity and
landscape improvements.
• Collated and sent out a weekly news digest
of the latest international, national and
local research, news and events relating the
state of nature and the pressures of climate
change to over 600 contacts in the county.
• Membership of the Cambridgeshire &
Peterborough Climate Programme Board
and the input into the development of the
Cambridgeshire Peterborough Climate
Action Plan.| |---|---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising Para 1.41 activities against objectives set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|We appointed a Treasurer and gained grants
from local authorities, charities and one
corporate sponsor to cover running costs and
build up a surplus. Our main achievement was
to secure three years of revenue funding from
the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Combined Authority; 2022/23 was our first
claim against thatgrant.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|We created additional resources which we
developed to cover sustained running costs.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£43,436| |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
continuingas agoingconcern|Para 1.23|At present time, the charity’s running costs
depend on gaining grants from local authorities
to continue its work.| ## **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|Local Authorities, including Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Combined Authority
Environmental charities
One corporate sponsor| |---|---|---| |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|• Failure to attract income for ongoing
running costs.
• Reputational risk.
• Initiating projects which are not fully
funded.
• Key staff – for the reporting period the
organisation employed two part-time
officers, the second of which joined in
September 2022. While at the time of
writing there are two part-time officers
equating to 1.4 FTE, the workload remains
considerable.| |Other||| **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|The charity’s governing document is its
constitution, which sets out how it will operate
as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
(Foundation Model).| |How is the charity constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|The charity is constituted as a 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|In this, the CIO’s second full year, in addition to
the first trustees who were those individuals
who founded the charity and who met with the
requirements of the organisation’s pre-CIO
Terms of Reference as representing the
identified sectors and organisations, we
appointed four new trustees, one of whom
resigned. New trustees were appointed on the
basis of the skills, knowledge and subject
matter expertise they were able to bring to the
organisation in the fields of health, farming and
communities.| ## **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|Trustees when they were first appointed in the
formation of the CIO were asked to familiarise
themselves with the Charity Commission’s
guidance:
Charity trustee: what’s involved
Conflicts of interest: a guide for charity
trustees
For Local Authority nominees:
Councillors’guide: to a council’s role as charity
trustee| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|The generosity of local authorities and the
support of partner organisations has enabled
the trustees to retain one part-time co-
ordinator (0.6 FTE) who provides secretariat
support to facilitate the efficient running of the
organisation and its meetings and now a part-
time director (0.4 FTE). The day-to-day
business operations are overseen by an
Operations & Finance sub-committee of the
trustee board that report into the Board, and
programmes are steered by a working groups,
made up of relevant trustees and officers,
which also report to the Board.
While the charity itself is a convenor and
facilitator of networks and seen as a ‘key
nexus’ for the environment sector in
Cambridgeshire, it is also active in many other
networks within the county, including the
Universityof Cambridge’s Centre for Landscape| |||Regeneration, the Steering Group for the
development of a Local Nature Recovery
Strategy for the area, a member of the
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Climate
Programme Board, and Water Resources East.| |---|---|---| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|Nene Park Trust employ the two Natural
Cambridgeshire officers on behalf of
Natural Cambridgeshire and provide human
resources, payroll and book-keeping
services.| |Other||See ‘Natural Cambridgeshire - Report on
Activities 2022’ attached.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Natural Cambridgeshire| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|N/A| |Registered charitynumber|1193040| |Charity’s principal address|For the reporting period the charity’s principal address was:
c/o Athene Communications Ltd
25 Priestgate
Peterborough
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From December 2022, the charity’s principal address changed to:
c/o Nene Park Trust
Ham Farm House
Ham Lane
Peterborough
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Richard Astle|Chair|To 31 March 2023|Business Sector| ||Martin Baker|||Environmental Charity| ||Matthew Bullock|Treasurer|From June 2022|Independent| ||Matthew Bradbury|Vice-Chair|(absent from Jan 2023)|Country Park| ||Professor Carol
Brayne||From June 2022,
resigned September
2022|Independent| ||Major Tim
Breitmeyer DL|Chair (Interim)|From 31 March 2023|National Farmers Union/
County Landowners
Association| ||Rebecca Britton|||Business Sector| ||Tom Clarke||From June 2022|Independent| ||Cllr Pippa Heylings|||Local Authority| ||Professor Peter
Landshoff|||Independent/Partnership
Forum| ||Dr Roger Mitchell|Secretary||Independent/Partnership
Forum| ||Sarah Smith||Resigned December
2022|Environmental Charity| ||Rachel Steward||From June 2022|Independent| ||John Torlesse|||Environmental Charity| ||Hannah Phillips|||Environmental Charity| ||Rob Wise|||National Farmers Union/
Country Landowners
Association| ||Cllr Hilary Cox-
Condron||Resigned March 2023|Local Authority| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** None Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|| |---|---|---| |None||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets held
in this capacity|None| |---|---| |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)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Pamela Abbott and Helen Dye ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details N/A ## **Other optional information** None **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)** Dr Roger Mitchell **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc)** 17 December 2023 **Date** |NATURAL CAMBRIDGESHIRE|NATURAL CAMBRIDGESHIRE|NATURAL CAMBRIDGESHIRE|1193040||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Annual accounts for theperiod|||||| |Period start date|**01/04/2022**|
**To**|Period end
date|**31/03/2023**|| |**Section A**
**Statement of financial activities**
|**Section A**
**Statement of financial activities**
|**Section A**
**Statement of financial activities**
|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Recommended categories by**
**activity**
Guidance Note
**Incoming resources**
**Income and endowments from:**
Grants for Local Authorities
Various Donations
Community Projects - FPA
Great River Ouse Project
Other
**_Total_**
**Resources expended**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**|**Restricted**
**income**
**funds**
**£**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**|**Total funds**
**£**|**Prior year**
**funds**
**£**| ||70,000|-|-|70,000|33,850| ||5,500|-|-|5,500|5,000| ||-|2,380|-|2,380|16,267| ||-|3,000||3,000|5,808| ||-|-|-|-|-| ||~~75,500~~|~~5,380~~|~~-~~|~~80,880~~|~~60,925~~| ||||||| ## **Expenditure on:** |Advertisting
Accountancy
Office Costs - computers
Office Costs - Supplies
Office Costs - Telephone
Office Costs - Insurance
Salary Costs
Community Projects - FPA
Great River Ouse
Bank Charges and Interest
Entertainment
Subscriptions
**_Total_**
**_Reconciliation of funds:_**
Total funds brought forward
**_Total funds carried forward_**
**Net income/(expenditure) before investment**
**gains/(losses)**
Net gains/(losses) on investments
**Net income/(expenditure)**
**Extraordinary items**
**Transfers between funds**
**Other recognised gains/(losses):**
Gains and losses on revaluation of fixed assets for the charity’s own use
Other gains/(losses)
**_Net movement in funds_**|540|-|-|540|115| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||1,680|-|-|1,680|-| ||-|-|-|-|282| ||2,020|-|-|2,020|184| ||-|-|-|-|450| ||700|-|-|700|-| ||50,822|2,925|-|53,747|25,515| ||-|-|-|-|3,646| ||-|3,000|-|3,000|5,808| ||230|-|-|230|-| ||234|-|-|234|-| ||216|-|-|216|-| ||~~56,443~~|~~5,925~~|~~-~~|~~62,368~~|~~36,000~~| ||||||| ||||||| ||19,057|-
546|-|18,511|24,925| ||-|-|-|-|-| ||19,057|-
546|-|18,511|24,925| ||-|-|-|-|-| ||-|-|-|-|-| ||||||| ||-|-|-|-|-| ||-|-|-|-|-| ||~~19,057~~|~~-~~
546|-|~~18,511~~|~~24,925~~| ||||||| ||12,304|12,621|-|24,925|-| ||31,361|12,076|-|43,436|24,925| ## **Section B** ## **Balance sheet** **Unrestricted Restricted funds** **income funds Total this year Total last year** **£ £** **£ £** ## **Current assets** ## **Debtors - invoiced but not paid:** U&C Contribution to running costs Cambs CC Grant for FPA Community Project Natural Englad Grants for GOV Projects Peterborough City Council SSCL - Great River Ouse Project **Accrued income** Cambs CC Grant for FPA Community Project **Cash at bank** ## _**Total current assets**_ ||||-| |---|---|---|---| ||||-| |-|-|-|2,000| |-|-|-|5,000| |-|-|-|5,808| |5,000|-|5,000|-| |-|3,000|3,000|-| ||||| |-|2,925|2,925|-| |49,123|9,151|58,274|27,675| |54,123|15,076|69,199|40,483| ## **Current assets** |||||-| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||-| ||840|-|840|-| ||11,753||11,753|-| ||-|3,000|3,000|-| ||-|-|-|2,808| ||-|-|-|3,000| |||||| ||420|-|420|-| |||||| ||9,750|-|9,750|9,750| ||~~22,763~~|~~3,000~~|~~25,763~~|~~15,558~~| |||||| ||~~31,360~~|~~12,076~~|~~43,436~~|~~24,925~~| |||||| ||~~31,360~~|~~12,076~~|~~43,436~~|~~24,925~~| |||||| |||||| ||-|12,076|12,076|12,621| ||31,361|-|31,361|12,304| |||||| ||31,361|12,076|43,436|24,925| |||||| ||**Signature**|**Print**|**Name**|**Date of approval**| |||Roger Mitchell
Secretary||27 June 2023| |||||| |||||| ## **Creditors - invoiced but not paid:** Balancing Act Nene Park Trust Wildlife Trust NE Gov Project Expenditure - FWAG NE Gov Project Expenditure - Fieldsure **Accruals** Accountancy accrual ## **Deferred revenue** Lottery Nature Recovery Grant advance _**Total current liabilities**_ ## _**Total assets less current liabilities**_ ## _**Total net assets or liabilities**_ ## **Funds of the Charity** **Restricted income funds Unrestricted funds** _**Total funds**_ Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees **Section C** ## **Notes to the accounts** ## Note 1 **Basis of preparation** ## **1.1 Basis of accounting** These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated. The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014 and with the Charities Act 2011. ## **1.2 Incoming resources** All income is accounted for as soon as the Charity has entitlement to the income and there is a certainty of receipt. Resources received are allocated to Restricted Funds according to the limitations on their use specified by the donors or other providers. Funds received in the direct operation of the Charity are treated as unrestricted income funds. ## **1.3 Expenditure** All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been listed under headings that aggregate all the costs related to that activity. ## **1.4 Restricted funds** Restricted funds represent money that has been given to provide for specific activities and for no other purpose. ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Natural Cambridgeshire **members of On accounts for the year** 31st March 2023 **Charity no** 1193040 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 - 12 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the period ended 31 March 2023. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ |**Signed:**|**Date:**|03/11/2023| |---|---|---| |**Name:**|Rebecca Coles|| |**Relevant professional**|ACCA|| |**qualification(s) or body**||| **Oct 2018** **IER** 1 **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Address: Newton Hall, Town Street, Newton, CB22 7ZE
Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern
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(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of** No matters of concern were identified during the independent examination. **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **Oct 2018** **IER** 2