Unaudited Financial Statements Community Supporters For the year ended 30 June 2025 

Prepared by Olive Pine Accountancy Ltd 



## Contents 

- 3 Client Approval Statement 

- 4 Accountants' Report 

- 5 Profit and Loss 

- 6 Balance Sheet 

- 7 Notes to the Financial Statements 

- 8 Detailed Profit and Loss 

- 9 Detailed Profit and Loss 

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## Client Approval Statement 

## Community Supporters For the year ended 30 June 2025 

lynnlanglanI approve the financial statements which comprises the Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet and the related notes. I acknowledge my responsibility for the financial information, including the appropriateness of the applicable financial reporting framework as set out in the notes, and for providing [insert: Practice Name] with all information and explanations necessary for their compilation. 

## _lynnlanglands_ 

.................................................. 

[insert: Proprietor Name] 

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Accountants, Report
Community Supporters
Forthe year ended 30 June 2025
In order to assist you to lulfilyourdutles undertheCompaniesAct 2006, we have prepared foryourapproval the flnan¢lal
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## Profit and Loss 

## Community Supporters 

## For the year ended 30 June 2025 

|Proft and Loss<br>Community Supporters<br>For the year ended 30 June 2025|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||NOTES|2025|2024|2023|
|Turnover|||||
|Sales||80,632|84,235|32,169|
|Total turnover||80,632|84,235|32,169|
|Other income|||||
|Other operatng income||-|3,219|4,146|
|Total other income||-|3,219|4,146|
|Cost of raw materials and consumables|||||
|Purchases||71,188|1,745|2,685|
|Other charges|||||
|Premises costs||14,437|11,739|4,750|
|Administratve expenses||16,636|32,688|28,818|
|Finance charges||18|16|62|
|Legal and professional||-|3,438|-|
|Total other charges||31,091|47,880|33,629|
|Proft (loss) before taxaton||(21,647)|37,829|-|
|Proft (loss) afer taxaton||(21,647)|37,829|-|



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## Balance Sheet 

## Community Supporters As at 30 June 2025 

|Balance Sheet<br>Community Supporters<br>As at 30 June 2025||||
|---|---|---|---|
||NOTES|30 JUN 2025|30 JUN 2024|
|Current assets||||
|Debtors||43,217|64,864|
|Total current assets||43,217|64,864|
|Net current assets (liabilites)||43,217|64,864|
|Total assets less current liabilites||43,217|64,864|
|Accruals and deferred income||||
|Grants and Donatons unused||27,035|27,035|
|Total accruals and deferred income||27,035|27,035|
|Net Assets (liabilites)||16,182|37,829|
|Capital and reserves||||
|Proft and loss account||16,182|37,829|
|Totalequity||16,182|37,829|



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## Notes to the Financial Statements 

## Community Supporters 

## For the year ended 30 June 2025 

|Community Supporters<br>For the year ended 30 June 2025|||
|---|---|---|
||~~2025~~|~~2024~~|
|1. Debtors|||
|Debtors: amounts fallingdue within oneyear|||
|Cash at Bank|43,217|64,864|
|Total debtors: amounts falling due within one year|43,217|64,864|
|Total debtors|43,217|64,864|
||2025|2024|
|2. Accruals and deferred income|||
|Grants and Donatons unused|27,035|27,035|
|Total accruals and deferred income|27,035|27,035|
||2025|2024|
|3. Operatnglease commitments|||
|Due within one year|-|-|
|Due afer one year|-|-|
|Total operatng lease commitments|-|-|



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## Detailed Profit and Loss 

## Community Supporters 

## For the year ended 30 June 2025 

|Detailed Proft and Loss<br>Community Supporters<br>For the year ended 30 June 2025||||
|---|---|---|---|
||NOTES|2025|2024|
|Turnover||||
|Sales||80,632|84,235|
|Total turnover||80,632|84,235|
|Other income||||
|Other operatng income||-|3,219|
|Total other income||-|3,219|
|Cost of raw materials and consumables||||
|Purchases||71,188|1,745|
|Total cost of raw materials and consumables||71,188|1,745|
|Gross proft||9,444|82,490|
|Other charges||||
|Premisescosts||||
|Rent||14,016|11,616|
|Rates||-|122|
|Cleaning||421|-|
|Total premises costs||14,437|11,739|
|Administratve expenses||||
|Printng, postage and statonery||97|2,101|
|Computer sofware and maintenance||337|31|
|Subscriptons||566|216|
|Insurance||992|820|
|Repairs and maintenance||396|299|
|Sundry expenses||14,247|29,221|
|Total administratve expenses||16,636|32,688|
|Finance charges||||
|Bank charges||18|16|
|Total fnance charges||18|16|
|Legal andprofessional||||
|Legal and professional fees||-|3,438|
|Total legal and professional||-|3,438|
|Total other charges||31,091|47,880|
|Proft (loss) before taxaton||(21,647)|37,829|
|Proft (loss) afer taxaton||(21,647)|37,829|



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## Detailed Profit and Loss 

## Community Supporters 

## For the year ended 30 June 2025 

||NOTES|ALLOTMENT|BEACH GARDEN|BEXHILL SHOP|DONATIONS|EDUCATION AND<br>SKILLS|SCIENCE<br>PROGRAMME|SIDLEYSHOP|URBAN TREES|TOTAL|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Turnover|||||||||||
|Sales||2,210|45,883|6,903|604|20,075|-|4,956|-|80,632|
|Total turnover||2,210|45,883|6,903|604|20,075|-|4,956|-|80,632|
|Cost of sales|||||||||||
|Purchases||461|67,619|351|-|-|-|-|2,757|71,188|
|Total cost of sales||461|67,619|351|-|-|-|-|2,757|71,188|
|Gross proft||1,749|(21,736)|6,552|604|20,075|-|4,956|(2,757)|9,444|
|Premisescosts|||||||||||
|Rent||-|-|7,800|90|-|126|6,000|-|14,016|
|Cleaning||-|-|421|-|-|-|-|-|421|
|Total premises costs||-|-|8,221|90|-|126|6,000|-|14,437|
|Administratve expenses|||||||||||
|Printng, postage and statonery||-|-|5|-|6|87|-|-|97|
|Computer sofware and maintenance||-|-|-|130|207|-|-|-|337|
|Subscriptons||-|-|-|119|427|-|20|-|566|
|Insurance||-|-|93|-|899|-|-|-|992|
|Repairs and maintenance||-|-|-|-|-|-|396|-|396|
|Sundry expenses||492|-|3,855|105|7,566|2,203|26|-|14,247|
|Finance charges||-|-|-|18|-|-|-|-|18|
|Total administratve expenses||492|-|3,953|372|9,104|2,290|443|-|16,654|
|Net proft (loss)||1,257|(21,736)|(5,622)|143|10,971|(2,416)|(1,487)|(2,757)|(21,647)|



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**Trustees’ Annual Report** Period 1st July 2024 – 29[th] June 2025 


## **Charity Information** 

Charity Name: Community Supporters CiO 

Registered Charity number: 1195006 

Charities principle address: 37 Ninfield Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex 

Postcode: TN39 5AE 

**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|**Trustee Name**|**Ofce(if any)**|**Dates Acted**|
|---|---|---|
|Lynn Langlands|Chair|Fullyear|
|Peter Clarke||Fullyear|
|Richard Thomas||Fullyear|
|Abul Azad<br>|Signatory|Fullyear|
|Christne Madley|Co-opted||
|Chris Ashford|Co-opted||



**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members** Lindsay White - CEO 

**Structure,** Type of governing document: Constitution adopted 30th **governance,** June 2021 **and management** How the charity is constituted: CiO Foundation 

## **Additional Governance issues** 

Community Supporters is a Foundation CiO and therefore only the trustees are members and vice versa. The appointment of new trustees is completed during a set trustee meeting and all new trustees have a probationary period of 6 months. 

The day to day running of the charity is overseen by the Chief Executive Officer who reports back to the board of trustees at planned trustee meetings. 

The charity has the following policies and procedures in place: 



**Trustees’ Annual Report** Period 1st July 2024 – 29[th] June 2025 

- Acceptance and refusal of donations policy 


- Child protection & safeguarding policy 

- Complaints Procedure 

- Conflict of Interest policy 

- Data Protection GDPR policy 

- Environment & sustainability policy 

- Equality & diversity policy 

- Ethical Fundraising policy 

- Letting go of volunteers policy 

- Lone worker policy 

- Modern slavery & human trafficking statement 

- Privacy policy 

- Safeguarding vulnerable adults 

- Sickness and absence policy 

- Stress policy 

- Trustees board reserved powers 

- Volunteering policy 

Community Supporters aims to operate their various projects in partnerships with external groups and organisations where possible across their wider network. This means the charity maintains a strong network within the sector, but also maximise the potential the charity, external organisations, and project work has within the district and beyond. 

The charity objects are: Objectives 

To advance the education of the public in environmental protection and to provide forest school based activities in the natural environment. 

To promote the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment for the public benefit, in particular but not exclusively by the promotion of practical measures and encouragement of partnerships to reduce litter and improve the general environment of the local area. 

## **Summary of main activities undertaken in relation to the objects** 

Community Supporters has 2 main focus areas by which all other project work is undertaken. These focus areas are: 

- Education – The charity aims to offer a range of ways individuals can learn about nature and our environment. This could be through hands on workshops at the Eco Hub, talks, 




## **Trustees’ Annual Report** 

Period 1st July 2024 – 29[th] June 2025 

- forest/beach school, conferences, the Young Pollinators programme (which offers awards and certificates, work experience, and mentoring). 

- Infrastructure – The charity aims to be fully accessible in all it does, so where access is 

- currently limited the charity aims to finds ways to increase accessibility. This might be through creating physical access, digital access, communication, or other means. 

## **Achievements and performance** 

**Summer 2024** – This year the charity has been heavily focused on the Bexhill Beach Garden project, an accessible space on Bexhill beach. There was a big drive over the summer to meet the final fundraising goal to enable the building work to commence. 

Aside from the development of the Beach Garden project we have been as busy as ever with workshops, running 189 separate workshops over a 12-month period. These range from Beach school session, activities in the Young Pollinators Youth Hub, or workshops in the Eco Hub. 

The summer also saw our collaboration with the British Science Association and Sussex University’s Physics. Over a six-month period Community Supporters hosted events and activities for families and young people to learn about space and technology. The charity also attended events such as the Bexhill 100 and Bexhill Carnival. 

- **Autumn 2024** – In September spades first went in the ground to build the Bexhill Beach Garden. The event was celebrated with a photo shoot and was attended by the mayor and other dignitaries. The build was completed and opened to the public on November, with over 100 residents attending to soft opening. This just left the planting, artworks, seating and educational signage to be installed. 

- September also saw the charity begin it’s community allotment in Sidley. The space includes a compost area, shed, play shop and areas to grow fruits and vegetables. 

- The charity also pledged to become an Age Friendly Employer to boost the existing wellbeing programme for our volunteers. 

- In November our charity laid a wreath for remembrance Sunday. The wreath was laid by our oldest and youngest members of Young Pollinators. 

- The charity also co-hosted this years Oceans Symposium event again alongside the UNA Climate and Oceans. The event was attended by around 200 people and stall holders. 

**Winter 2024/25** – Winter saw the Young Pollinators programme introduce AQA Units certification for young people to work towards. Members can do activities and build knowledge leading to a certificate in line with GCSE knowledge. 

**Spring 2025** – Planting for the Beach Garden happened in earnest in the Spring of 2025 and in June 2025 the Beach Garden opened fully after the installation of the seating, planting and planters. The opening event was attended by many including the Lord-Lieutenant of East Sussex and Team GB tennis player Adam Field. 




**Trustees’ Annual Report** Period 1st July 2024 – 29[th] June 2025 

**Fundraising** – over the first 12 months of operation the charity has been successful in grant applications to 8 small and medium size grants. The charity set a fundraising target from grants of £30,000 for the year and achieved £29,160, the short fall was covered by public donations or charity reserves. The charity also managed to draw in unrestricted funds via public donations, workshop fees, and selling items through the Eco Hub (see financial report under donations for more details). 

**Financial expenditure –** the bulk of the funds secured have been used to cover project costs, mainly equipment, venue hire, and external facilitator costs. The biggest costs being those associated with the Bexhill Beach Garden project. 

## **Future Plans** 

The charity continues to work towards a positive response to the already submitted business plans for an outdoor education space at Broad Oak Park in Bexhill as this will go a long way to enabling the charity to reach its aims, as well as supporting Rother District Council and other organisations to reach their environmental targets. 

The charity also continues to work in partnership with the St Leonard’s Road Community Association to bring urban greening to Bexhill town centre. 

The charity is currently looking at other large impact projects such as a recycling centre an expanded Eco Hub, and registration to become a provider of formal qualifications via the Young Pollinators programme. 

The charity aims to be in a position to offer secure employment and work on the development of largescale and environmentally impactful projects, supporting both the needs of the community and our natural environment. 

## **Declaration** 

## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature (s)**|<br>_lmlanglands_|AKAzad|
|---|---|---|
|**Full Name (s)**|Lynn Moira Langlands|Abul Azad|
|**Positon**|Trustee|Trustee|
|**Date**|19/12/2025|27/01/2026|