## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** **From** Period start date **To** Period end date 01 04 2022 31 03 2023 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Hazelnut Community Farm **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1195745 **Charity's principal address** 9 Dorset Road Bristol **Postcode BS9 4BJ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 John White Chair Resigned 19/01/2023 2 Lucy Sablan Chair Appointed 19/01/2023 3 Clare Fussell 4 David Gould Board of Trustees 5 Tim Barnett Treasurer Board of Trustees 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 1 > March **2012** **TAR** ## **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 - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by Board of Trustees - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - 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** 1. to advance the Christian faith and understanding of its relevance to the environment in the United Kingdom and any part **Summary of the objects of the** of the world for the benefit of the public in accordance with the Basis **charity set out in its governing** of Faith by **document** 1. raising awareness and understanding of Christian beliefs and practices, 1. carrying out religious devotional acts, 2 > March **2012** **TAR** |1.
contributing towards a better society, for example by| |---| |promoting social cohesion and social capital,| |1.
carrying out, as a practical expression of religious beliefs,| |other activities (such as advancing education or conflict resolution,| |or relieving poverty), which may also be charitable;| |2.
to promote for the benefit of the public in the United| |Kingdom and any part of the world the conservation, protection,| |and improvement of the physical and natural environment by| |1.
modelling and promoting sustainable practices and| |engagement with gardening and the outdoors,| |1.
other activities (such as advancing education) which may also| |be charitable.| **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)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 3 > March **2012** **TAR** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: ● policy on grantmaking; ● policy programme related investment; ● contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance 4 > March **2012** **TAR** Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** ## **Hazelnut Bristol** ## - **Hazelnut Church Bristol** This year we have continued to deepen our rhythms of Christian spirituality examples include Easter in the garden and Slow Christmas. We are working on developing a yearly rhythm of worship. We have also started Grow and Explore to encourage our young people. Gigi Cheung has taken the lead and is doing a great job with 12 young people and 8 parents meeting monthly. In the autumn we hired Bryony Davis as our Community Growing Enabler she started just after Easter 2023. In the middle of March, we relocated to the garden at St. Anne’s Church in Eastern Bristol and have begun to develop the gourds whilst working with St. Anne’s Church. This year we also became a Bishop's Mission Order with the Diocese of Bristol in the Church of England. This allows us to have representation and support structures within the Church of England. ## - ## **Safeguarding** We have been pleased to have Jon Davis as our safeguarding officer at Hazelnut Bristol. Clare Fussell is our trustee with responsibilities for safeguarding. This year we have worked with the Diocese of Bristol to have an up-todate rigorous safeguarding policy. We have continued to put policies in place to encourage safeguarding best practice. Our Trustees have now all been DBS checked as well. We have a standing item regarding safeguarding at every trustee meeting. This year we have had no safeguarding issues. Next year we will aim to continue to develop robust policies. ## - **Conservation** We are pleased to have received an award of Gold eco church from A Rocha UK for our conservation work. Practically we have developed community gardens with vegetables, fruit, and pollinator-friendly flowers in Upper Horfield and Lockleaze. We used no chemicals of any kind. We also planted wheat in several locations in Bristol and we have planted 8 plum and apple trees in local schools. We had 2 foraging walks led by Steve England. We are also pleased to have hired Angus Lam as our Lead gardener. Angus works 4 hours a week as an independent contractor. > March **2012** 5 **TAR** Section D Achievements and performance ## - ## **Giving food** Over the last year we have given back to the community 50% of what we have grown. We gave to Vench, a charity well established in Lockleaze, that gives veg boxes and cooks meals for young people whilst not in term time. ## - **Community engagement** We had a local primary school come and plant in our Lockleaze location. We created murals in Lockleaze. In Eden Grove we had a community open day with 500 people in attendance. We had other events including the harvest festival, Christmas around the fire, and Christmas cookie party. ## - ## **Hong Kong** We have had a large number of families who have resettle from Hong Kong join our community. We have an average of 5 families come on a Sunday to our Church service with new families coming each week. ## - ## **Collaboration** We built a community garden for GKN Aerospace. We had over 1000 visitors to our sites this year. ## **Network** ## - ## **Conference** Our Sustaining Church conference had speakers from around the world on zoom. We had 200 people in attendance. ## - **Potting shed** In January we are starting Potting shed. A weekly program for Christian groups who want to start growing projects. Our first year has seen 20 groups sign up with an average weekly attendance of 28 people. These groups are across the UK. We are already seeing this ecumenical training. This year we ran two more courses and have now trained over 50 groups. ## - ## **Growing Collective** All of this is building a network called the Collective that encourages communities to engage creatively with agriculture, worship and climate emergency. The growing collective is now up to 30 different communities across the UK. We now have our first international partner Mudacretza from the Democratic Republic of the Congo 6 > March **2012** **TAR** Section D Achievements and performance ## - ## **Growing Course** We wrote a 6 weeks week course that is currently in beta testing. We plan to release this next year. ## - **Hosting/ speaking** We have begun to have wider influence through speaking engagements. we have spoken at: the diocese of Bristol environmental conference, a school in Bath, St. Barnabas Warmly, Keysham eco conference, Bow church in London, A Rocha retreat, Cres, St. Davids vocation weekend, Diocese of Wales Net Zero Day. > March **2012** 7 **TAR** **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** It is our intention, once we are established, to hold unrestricted reserves equivalent to at least 3 months costs in line with charity best practice **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where 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)** Lucy Sablan **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair 8 > March **2012** **TAR** Date 28109123 TAR March 2012 **Hazelnut Community Farm 1195745 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2022 31/03/2023 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**10,039**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,039**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,039**
**6,573**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,573**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,573**
**3,466**
**1,637**
**5,842**
**10,945**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,800**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,800**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,800**
**4,291**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,291**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,291**
**8,509**
**- 1,637**
**8,033**
**14,905**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**22,839**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,839**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,839**
**10,864**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,864**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,864**

**11,975**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**22,839**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,839**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,839**
**10,864**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,864**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,864**

**11,975**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |VoluntaryReceipts|**10,039**|||||**-**| |Gifted from loan - N Woodfield|**2,000**|||||**-**| |||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**12,039**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |Costs of Charitable Activities|**6,573**|||||**-**| |Loan repayment - N Woodfield|**2,000**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**8,573**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| ||**3,466**|**8,509**|**-**|
**11,975**||**-**| ||**1,637**|**- 1,637**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**5,842**|**8,033**|**-**|**13,875**||**-**| ||**10,945**|**14,905**|**-**|**25,850**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**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**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**10,945**
**14,905**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,945**
**14,905**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Tim Barnett|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Tim Barnett|28/09/2023| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2