## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From** Period start date **To** Period end date 01 04 2023 31 03 2024
## 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**
2 Jockey Lane
Bristol
**Postcode BS5 8NZ**
## **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 Jo Chamberlain Chair Appointed 01/09/23 Board of Trustees 2 Lucy Sablan
- 3 Clare Fussell
- 4 Lei – Ray Yuting
- 5 Tim Barnett Treasurer
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **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)
How the charity is constituted
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- (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**
- raising awareness and understanding of Christian beliefs and practices,
- carrying out religious devotional acts,
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- contributing towards a better society, for example by promoting social cohesion and social capital, - 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 - modelling and promoting sustainable practices and engagement with gardening and the outdoors, - other activities (such as advancing education) which may also be charitable.
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contributing towards a better society, for example by
promoting social cohesion and social capital,
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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
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modelling and promoting sustainable practices and
engagement with gardening and the outdoors,
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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)**|Our main public gatherings are:
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Sundays 3pm-5pm
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Thursdays 1pm-3pm
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We also have one off online gatherings at different times throughout the
year.
When planning our activities for the year, the trustees have considered the
Commission’s guidance on public benefit, and, in particular, the specific
guidance on charities for the advancement of religion and conservation.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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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
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## Section D Achievements and erformance p
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## **Hazelnut Bristol**
- **Hazelnut Church Bristol**
Hazelnut Community Bristol has been meeting for worship in the garden/churchyard of St Anne’s, Bristol, since March 2023
This year we have continued to deepen our rhythms of Christian spirituality. Over the summer Bryony is leading a series of talks on rhythm of life.
- Gardening basics course
- Growing in our new location
- Giving food to coexist community kitchen
- Growing through local people and Hong Kongers
- Joint collaboration with St. Anne’s
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## **Safeguarding**
We have been pleased to have Jon Davies 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.
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## **Conservation**
This spring we carried out a audit of our water usage. We are having an outside tap installed. We have also applied for a grant for more water butts to be installed to reduce our tap water usage.
We have created two vertical growing spaces to show how to grow in small spaces as well as create fun areas for kids
We created a new composting area and hope to create more of our own soil. We have also applied for a grant for a hot composter unit in order to encourage more neighbourhood waste turned into soil.
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## **Community engagement**
This year we created a seed library that is a mixture of British Heirloom seeds and seeds the represent local cultures. Many seeds have been given out in order to equip and encourage local growers.
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## Section D Achievements and erformance p
We have had many open days including the launch of our seed library, harvest, Christmas around the fire, summer garden day, and a concert. Through these events alone we have had over 600 people attend.
## - **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.
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## **Collaboration**
We have continued to be a Partner in Action with A Rocha which has been an amazing collaboration with another conservation charity.
We have been able to collaborate with St. Anne’s not only through use of their garden. We have also had joint events and John has preached at their church.
## **Network**
## - **Hazelnut Community**
A large piece of work for this year has been relaunching the network. Now called Hazelnut Community, it is designed to support churches in creating eco congregations on their land in order to deepen worship, welcome their community, and combat climate breakdown.
Through this project we have redone the website, hired 3 content creators at 4 hours a week each. Created new resources that churches can use. Have just launched in May we have 4 churches signed up with many more about to sign up. Our aim is for 30 churches to sign up within the next year.
## - **Hosting/ speaking**
We have begun to have wider influence through speaking engagements. we have spoken at many different churches and eco gatherings.
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Section E
Financial review
Hazelnut maintains reserves equivalent to 3 months operating costs,
£5000
Brfef statement of the
charity's pollcy on roserves
Details of any funds matsrially
in deficlt
Further financial rev1 dotalls {Optlonal Inforniatlon)
You may choose to indude
additional infomiation, where
relevant about:
the charity's principal
sources of funds (including any
fundraising).,
how experKJiture 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 trusteès, report above.
Slgned on bohalf of the charlty's trustsos
Slgnaturels)
Full name($)
Jo Chamberlain
Posltlon (og Secrntary, Chalr. etc)
Chair
Dato
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**Hazelnut Community Farm 1195745 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2023 31/03/2024
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**6 204**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6 204**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6 204**
**8 049**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8 049**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8 049**
**- 1 845**
**-**
**10 945**
**9 100**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**6 500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6 500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6 500**
**12 061**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12 061**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12 061**
**- 5 561**
**-**
**14 905**
**9 344**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12 704**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**12 704**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12 704**
**20 110**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20 110**
**-**
**-**
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**20 110**
**- 7 406**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12 704**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12 704**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12 704**
**20 110**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20 110**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20 110**
**- 7 406**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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|VoluntaryReceipts|**6 204**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**6 204**|||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
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|Costs of Charitable Activities|**8 049**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**8 049**|||||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
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||**- 1 845**|**- 5 561**|**-**|**- 7 406**||**-**|
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||**10 945**|**14 905**|**-**|**25 850**||**-**|
||**9 100**|**9 344**|**-**|**18 444**||**-**|
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|**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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**9 100**
**9 344**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9 100**
**9 344**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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Print Name
Tim Barnett|**Endowment**
**funds**
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|||Tim Barnett|14/06/2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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