## **Hillside Heroes 1194129 Annual Report for the year ending 31 March 2024** 

## **Aims and Purposes** 

Hillside Heroes is a community group operating in Pendle, Lancashire, seeking to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity and heritage assets. 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

The main focus of attention over the last 12 months continues to be the establishment of a Local Nature Reserve in the countryside between Colne and Nelson in the 14 ha of grasslands and woods know as Gib Hill, for the benefit of the natural environment and local community.  Hillside Heroes has been eagerly awaiting a promised meeting with Pendle Council to discuss the management of the Local Nature Reserve, and how the charity can assist in this.  A very positive initial meeting finally happened post year end. 

Activities on the ground continued to include some basic maintenance of the Gib Hill site, including regular litter picking and footpath maintenance work with the Council. 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

After years of lobbying by the charity and local residents, it was fantastic to learn that Natural England has listed Gib Hill (or Gibb Hill) as a Local Nature Reserve, declared as at 21/04/2023. 

Financial activities have been limited with small donations to match the limited outgoings. Hillside Heroes expect to soon be involved with the search for volunteers to help with environmental improvement projects and to undertake fund raising and grant applications to support such projects; and establishing educational projects with local schools and other community groups. Hillside Heroes is on the lookout for other local opportunities to further its Charitable Objectives. 

## **Volunteers** 

Hillside Heroes would like to thank all volunteers who have helped the charity with this year’s achievements, and we could not operate without them. 

**Signed:** 


**Name:** Andrew Ashworth 

**Position:** Chairman (Interim) 

**Date:** 31 October 2024 



||**Hillside Heroes**|**Hillside Heroes**|**Hillside Heroes**|**Hillside Heroes**|**Hillside Heroes**|**No:**<br>~~**1194129**~~|**No:**<br>~~**1194129**~~||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||01/04/2023||**To**||31/03/2024|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**99**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**99**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment**<br>**sales, (see table).**||||||||||
|None|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_**|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**99**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Raisingfunds|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**99**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**99**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|None|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Totalpayments_**|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**99**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**0**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**-**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**75**||**-**||**-**||**75**||**75**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**75**||**-**||**-**||**75**||**75**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at bank||||**75**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**75**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||||||Andrew Ashworth||||28/10/2024|
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