## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 6th April 2022 5th April 2023 **To** **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1195533 **Charity's principal address** c/o Rutland Nursery Lyndon Road, Manton Oakham **Postcode LE15 8RN** The Gordon Rowley Foundation ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Graham John Charles|Chairman||| ||Colin Charles Walker|||| ||Peter Arthurs|||| ||Paul Hoxey|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser 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** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted ‘Foundation’ model constitution (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by the trustees Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** The affairs of the CIO are managed by its trustees who serve for 3 years You **may choose** to include and may stand for re-election by the other trustees. additional information, where Additional trustees can be appointed to join the management team so long relevant, about: as they have the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. - 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** Our object is to advance the education for the public benefit in the subject of cacti and other succulent plants, their history, botany and cultivation. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** **TAR** March **2012** 2 Improving knowledge of succulent plants through the cultivation of a collection of documented plants designed to support learning, conservation activities and the teaching of practical horticultural, cultivation and propagation skills, to be made available to interested members of the public; Maintaining a library of botanical books and other material relating to cacti and other succulent plants accumulated by the late British botanist Gordon Rowley to be made available as an in-person and online educational resource; **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)** Establishing a Botanical Centre to house the library and accommodate other educational activities including, but not limited to, lectures, permanent and temporary exhibitions, plant displays, shows and study meetings. The trustees are fully conversant with the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Before the Foundation can start operations, a building is needed to house the library and the plant collection as well as to undertake the activities described above. During this period a suitable site was identified and a pre-planning application was made. The response meant that we had to find a different location which was done and the final planning application will be made in the next financial year. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** The majority of the cash assets will be used to buy land, build and equip **Brief statement of the** the botanical centre. **charity’s policy on reserves** We will only retain sufficient funds to keep the library up to date and run the charitable activities listed above. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** Funds will be raised from some activities for which participants will pay a You **may choose** to include reasonable fee and also from the sale of surplus books and plants. additional information, where We will also invite donations from visitors and supporters. relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Graham John Charles **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 28th December 2023 **TAR** March **2012** 5 TAR March 2012 **Charity Name No (if any) The Gordon Rowley Foundation 1195533 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 6th April 2022 5th April 2023 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**4,721**
**31**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,752**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,752**
**1,440**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,440**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,440**
**3,312**
**741,199**
**744,511**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,721**
**31**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,752**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,752**
**1,440**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**1,440**
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**1,440**

**3,312**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,721**
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**4,752**
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**-**
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**4,752**
**1,440**
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**-**
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**1,440**
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**1,440**

**3,312**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Bank Interest|**4,721**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**4,721**||**-**| |Donated book sales|**31**|||**31**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**4,752**|||**4,752**||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
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**A3 Payments**||||||| ||||**-**|**4,752**||**-**| |||||||| |Storage of books and materials|**1,440**||**-**
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**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
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**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| ||||**-**|**1,440**||**-**| |||||||| ||**3,312**|**-**|**-**|
**3,312**||**-**| |||**-**|**-**
**-**|||**-**| ||**741,199**|**-**||**741,199**||**-**| ||**744,511**|**-**|**-**|**744,511**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 28-11-23 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Library of books and associated material
Held in bank account 31611682
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**744,511**
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**-**
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**744,511**
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OK
OK
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
unrestricted
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name
Graham Charles|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Graham Charles|28th Dec. 2023| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 28-11-23