**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 04 2024 31 03 2025 **From To**
Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Gresford Allotment and Recreational Trust
**Other names charity is known by** - **Registered charity number (if any)** 1196261
**Charity's principal address** 8 Stancliffe Avenue
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Marford
Wrexham
Postcode LL12 8LP
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
Gresford Community Council as Trustee since 12 August 2021
**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution. Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity Trustee selection methods trustees. (eg. appointed by, elected by) In selecting individuals for appointment as appointed charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
The Charity has been setup by Gresford Community Council as trustees to facility You **may choose** to include the purchase of the land currently used for allotments from the existing owner and additional information, where landlord of the allotment land. relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
Once the land is purchased the organisational structures and relevant documents, policies and procedures will be created as required.
- 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**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of Gresford, Marford and the surrounding area the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time **Summary of the objects of the** occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, **charity set out in its governing** age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic **document** circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of life of the said inhabitants.
The Charity has been set up to progress with the purchase of the allotment **Summary of the main activities** property from the current Landlord and property owner and the purchase is in **undertaken for the public benefit** progress subject to contract. **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)**
The Charity intends to progress to set up the organisational structure and You **may choose** to include further relevant documents, policies and procedures as required once the purchase of statements, where relevant, about: the allotment land has taken place.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
The Charity has nothing to report. **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## **Section E Financial review**
The Charity has nothing to report
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
**Further financial review details (Optional information)**
The Charity has nothing to report. 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**
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
The Charity has nothing to report.
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**ned** **on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|**rustees**|**rustees**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Signature(s)**
B Blackmore
X
Cllr Beryl Blackmore
Cllr Janet Holmes
**Full name(s) Cllr Beryl Blackmore**
**Cllr Janet Holmes**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
Chair of Gresford Community
Council
Chair of Gresford Community
Council Finance Committee
**Date** ___ 14___/01 /2026
___ ___/01 /2026|B Blackmore
X|||
||Cllr Beryl Blackmore
Cllr Janet Holmes|||
|||Chair of Gresford Community
Council
Chair of Gresford Community
Council Finance Committee||
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Approved by Full Council 8 January 2026 (260108GCCFull137.a)iv) as Trustees of the Gresford Allotment and Recreational Trust.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Approved by Full Council as Trustees of the Charity on 8 January 2026 (260108GCCFull137.a)iv.**
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Charity Name No (if any) CC16a
Gresford Allotment and Recreational Trust 1196261
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period from Period start date To Period end
01/04/2024 31/03/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted funds Endowment Total Last year
£ £ £ £ £
A1 Receipts
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for - - - - -
AR)
A2 Asset and investment
sales, (see table).
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts - - - - -
A3 Payments
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
A4 Asset and investment
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments - - - - -
Net of receipts/(payments) - - - - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end - - - - -
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories Details Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
£ £ £
B1 Cash funds Nil - - -
Total cash funds - - -
(agree balances with receipts and OK OK OK
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
Details £ £ £
B2 Other monetary assets None - - -
Details Fund to which Cost Current value
asset belongs (optional) (optional)
B3 Investment assets None None - -
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Details Fund to which Cost Current value
asset belongs (optional) (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the None None - -
charity’s own use - -
Details Fund to which Amount When due
liability relates due (optional)
(optional)
B5 Liabilities None None -
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Date of approval
__ __ day of January 2026
Cllr J Holmes - please sign above
Chair of Finance of Gresford Community Council
__ __ day of January 2026
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**Cllr Beryl Blackmore - please sign above Chair of Gresford Community Council**