Trustees Annual Report
To year end 31[st] March 2024
The Purpose of What Next
To raise public awareness and provide opportunities for public engagement in issues relating to the climate and ecological emergency through a diverse range of events, activities and projects.
The Objects of What Next
To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in the Borough of Waverley for the public benefit of its residents and the wider community by raising awareness and providing information on climate and ecological issues, working collaboratively with other environmental groups, and educating the public, local business and other local bodies on the impact and mitigation of, as well as adaptation to, climate and ecological changes.
to have regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit. What Next seeks to raise awareness in residents of Godalming and, where feasible, throughout Waverley of the urgent challenges we are facing with respect to the climate and ecological emergency. Our inten@on is to engage and educate residents, encouraging them to take ac@on in mi@ga@ng and adap@ng to the climate and ecological emergency. We also work with local groups and public sector organisa@ons, including the Godalming Climate Forum, Godalming Library, Godalming Town Council, Waverley Borough Council, local schools and colleges.
Structure and Opera;on
As a micro-charity, we have no formal opera@onal structure. The Chair of Trustees, Dr. David Faraday, has undertaken the administra@on of the charity and, with the assistance of other trustees and members, co-ordinates / manages the charity’s volunteers as required. Specific events and ac@vi@es are ini@ated, organised and managed by individual volunteers, in consulta@on with the trustees; they draw upon the charity’s volunteer and support base to run these ac@vi@es.
For the last twelve months the charity has been opera@ng on a ‘pop-up’ using facili@es and hiring venues from other community groups / public bodies as the need arises. This has proven to be a successful and sustainable model, and has been a catalyst for developing strong links with other community groups and service providers. What Next volunteers meet on a weekly basis in Godalming Library and work with Surrey County Council librarians to organise our Library of Things; storage for our items is provided by Waverley Brough Council and Godalming Town Council provided our display cabinet. We hire facili@es for our regular Climate Club from the Godalming Old People’s Welfare Associa@on and we have organised events in the Godalming Museum.
Summary of Ac;vi;es
In the last 12 months, What Next has undertaken the following ac@vi@es:
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Art Exhibi*on exhibi@on).
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Climate Ac*on Workshops : face-to-face and on-line for the general public (6 workshops).
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• Climate Acon Negoa*on Workshops : for local schools and colleges (5 workshops).
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Climate Club : fortnightly sessions open to the public with a shared ‘planetarian supper’ and a discussion based around a specific environmental theme (21 mee@ngs).
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Eco-theatre Group : wri@ng original scripts, and crea@ng characters and costumes for themed street theatre and puppet shows (~12 regular crea@ve sessions).
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HEAT Project : as part of the Home Energy Advice Taskforce , co-ordinated by Zero Carbon Guildford, our volunteers conduct home energy advice surveys for residents of Waverley Borough (76 surveys between December 2023 and March 2024).
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Library of Things : launched in October 2023 our library now has more than 160 members with 50 items to borrow. We are based in Godalming Library with storage provided by Waverley Borough Council (on-going, throughout the year).
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Planetarian Food Project : promo@ng healthy, sustainable diets, grow your own and waste processing (21 suppers).
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‘Rubbish’ Puppet Theatre : last year’s show, ‘If I Had A Hammer’ , promo@ng our Library of Things, was performed in our street theatre puppet stage made en@rely from waste materials (7 performances).
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What Next Wednesdays : weekly ecosupport sessions, open to the public and now hosted in Godalming Library (weekly sessions throughout the year, with some breaks).
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What Next Lounge / Stall : public outreach on Godalming High Street and at local events / fes@vals (5 events).
The What Next Lounge & Puppet Theatre
Notable achievements over the last year include the following:
Our Climate Club , which has been mee@ng fortnightly since December 2021[1] , has con@nued to be an enduring and inspiring ac@vity. These public events act as support, advice and educa@onal forums and cover a wide range of topics. There is also a strong community element to these mee@ngs, par@cipants bring and share food which is prepared on the principles of a ‘planetarian’ diet (see above) and the discussions are facilitated to ensure that all par@cipants have the opportunity to contribute. Here are the topics we have addressed over the last year:
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What crisis? How to approach the doubters or those who are simply confused
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Sharing and Swapping Ideas and Resources for a Becer World
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Crea@ng Icons for our Climate Ac@on Interac@ve Game
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Water Health and Climate Challenges
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Toxic Turf
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Fund Raising
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Energy Survey Project
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Bread: a sustainable staple in a Planetarian Diet
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An audience with a town Councillor
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Climate Comedy
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Climate Games
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What next from What Next in 2024?
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‘Earth Sprites Emerging’ Art Project
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Sustainable Travel
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An Audience with a Waverley Borough Councillor
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Climate Grief
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Climate Songs for Eco-busking
An Audience with a Waverley Borough Councillor at Climate Club Rieks Drijver from What Next interviewing Cllr Steve Williams, Environment PorNolio Holder for Waverley
We have con@nued running our Climate Ac*on Workshops for the general public and we collaborated with Climate Ar*culate[2] to run workshops at the Schools Climate Assembly[3] in October 2023. The public workshops have acracted a wide-range of individuals from the climate curious to climate ac@vists, many of whom would have lee the workshops with an enhanced understanding of what is most impacful in mi@ga@ng climate change. At the climate assembly we jointly ran six workshops for more than 300 school children, these workshops focussed achieving net-zero by 2050.
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We have also con@nued to run our Climate Acon Negoa*on Workshops for local school and college students in collabora@on with Waverley Borough Council who provide the council chambers as the venue for these nego@a@ons. In the last year, more than 120 students have par@cipated, and we were delighted to have local councillors join us at these events.
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examples of individuals changing their behaviour or being inspired to influence others have been shared with us anecdotally. We have also been asked to run addi@onal workshops for other groups both within Waverley and beyond.
In October 2023, we launched our Library of Things . This is a collabora@ve project with Godalming Library providing ‘front-of-house’ service, issuing and collec@ng items, Waverley Borough Council providing storage for our items and What Next volunteers organising the actual library, including on-line booking and stock management, transfers of items and The Mayor of Godalming, the Chair of Surrey County Council maintenance / PAT tes@ng. As of and the Mayor of Waverley Borough Council at the launch of March 2024, we have 50 items in our Library of Things our library, 90% of which have been donated by local residents. We now have 160+ members who have engaged in 43 loans with 44% of our items being borrowed at least once. We are also grateful to Godalming Town Council for providing funds for our display cabinet, Surrey County Council for providing funding to purchase new ‘high-use’[4] items and our friends in Mayen[5] who donated funds for our Food Dehydrator which is now available to borrow. There are no fees or deposits required to join our library of things and members can borrow items at no charge. We have seen a steady and sustained level of engagement from the local community over the first six months and have received many posi@ve comments from members of the public concerning this project. There is a clear public benefit in the provision of this service and it aligns strongly with our stated objec@ves (see above).
The Mayor of Godalming, the Chair of Surrey County Council and the Mayor of Waverley Borough Council at the launch of our Library of Things
A Thermal Image of a Waverley Property
As part of a project originated and co-ordinated by our friends at Zero Carbon Guildford, volunteers from What Next took part in the HEAT (Home Energy Advice Taskforce) Project . Eleven of our volunteers were trained as home energy surveyors, the training included the use of thermal imaging cameras for helping to assess energy loss. Between December 2023 and the end of March 2024, these volunteers conducted 76 surveys for residents across Waverley. Aeer each survey, residents received a detailed report with recommenda@ons for reducing their energy consump@on, a cross-culng public benefit helping with cost of living and carbon reduc@on.
4 Carpet Cleaner, Pressure Washer, Steam Mop 5 Godalming’s Twin Town in Germany
Finally, as last year, the ac@vi@es of the Ecotheatre Group cannot go unmen@oned. The group created their ‘Rubbish’ Puppet Theatre in 2022, a puppet theatre made (almost) en@rely of discarded objects and materials, and last year’s produc@on of ‘If I Had A Hammer’ was wricen specifically to promote the launch of the Library of Things. The group gave public performances at the Rotary Spring Fair in May, at the Godalming Museum in June and at the Godalming Green Gala in August, acrac@ng audiences of children,
parents and grand-parents, as well as the curious and concerned. This group provides a unique plaform for entertaining, informing and influencing the residents of Godalming.
Financial Summary (to be updated post the AGM)
Over the last 12 months we have had a turnover of £7,531,96. We have received £4,209.23 in dona@ons, £1.190.82 in revenue and £1,728 in grant income; outgoings have totalled £4,440.21. We have £6831.53 in our bank account.
Our Reserves Policy is based on covering insurance costs maintaining our core ac@vity, the Climate Club, for a three-six month period; our reserve level is set at £1,500. The trustees are confident that the charity is in a good financial posi@on for the next financial year.
Governance
Reference and Administrave Informaon
The charity is registered with the Charity Commission under charity number 1196404. The Trustees of the charity are listed below. The registered office and address of the charity and the par@culars of the charity’s bankers are also listed below.
Governing Document
What Next is controlled by its governing document, which is its Cons@tu@on dated 25th November, 2021. The cons@tu@on has remained unchanged since it was approved. The Cons@tu@on is that of a Charitable Incorporated Organisa@on with vo@ng members other than its charity Trustees.
Governing Body
As the charity has no share capital, no Trustee or Director has any interest in any shares in the charity. The business of the charity is managed by the Trustees, including the Chair and the Treasurer.
Two trustees, David Faraday and Robert Oulton, stepped down and were duly re-elected as trustees in accordance with our cons@tu@on. A new trustee, Cinzia Fontana, was iden@fied and provisionally appointed subject to the relevant informa@on being submiced to and approved by the charity commission.
Membership of What Next is open to everyone; there is a one-@me membership fee of £1. Membership was extended free of charge to members of the What Next founding group, those individuals involved in the establishment of the charity, but not serving as trustees. Members can resign at any point. All members acending the AGM or other General Mee@ngs have a vote on the appointment of Trustees, the approval of the Trustees Annual Report and Accounts and any other macers arising at the AGM / GM that require a vote.
Charity Informa;on
Charity Name: What Next? Charity Number: 1196404 Registered Address: 7 Wood Road Godalming Surrey GU7 3NN Bankers: Metrobank plc, 35 - 37 North Street Guildford Surrey GU1 4TE Trustees: Dr. David Brian Foster Faraday (Chair) Dr. Robert Anthony Oulton Ms. Claire Maches Mr. Theodoricus (Rieks) Drijver Ms. Jacqueline Drijver-Ludlam Mr. Mark Bray-Parry (Treasurer)
Recruitment and Training of Trustees
Trustees are competent persons who through residence, occupa@on or employment or otherwise have specialist knowledge of the area of benefit. Members can nominate themselves for a Trustee role, Trustees are then voted in by members at the AGM.
Future Trustees will, upon appointment, be provided with an Induc@on pack which will cover:
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The obliga@ons of Trustees and the sub-commicee structure and terms of reference;
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The Cons@tu@on and any subsequent amendments made to it;
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accounts;
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Charity Commission Trustee literature; and,
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Future plans and objec@ves (as applicable).
Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilies in Relaon to the Financial Statements
accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accoun@ng Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accoun@ng Prac@ce).
The law applicable to chari@es in England and Wales requires the charity trustees to prepare financial statements for each period which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and applica@on of resources, of the charity for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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select suitable accoun@ng policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the applicable Chari@es SORP;
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make judgements and es@mates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable accoun@ng standards have been followed, subject to any material departures that must be disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
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inappropriate to presume that the charity will con@nue in opera@on.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accoun@ng records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any @me the financial posi@on of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Chari@es Act 2011, the applicable Chari@es (Accounts and Reports) Regula@ons, and the provisions of its cons@tu@on. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and taking reasonable steps for the preven@on and detec@on of fraud and other irregulari@es.
informa@on included on the charity’s website in accordance with legisla@on in the United Kingdom governing the prepara@on and dissemina@on of financial statements.
Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf by
David Faraday, Chair, 30 April 2024
– Trustees Annual General Meeting 10th April 2024 What Next? Annual Financial Report
Summary
What Next? balance is currently £6,831.53 with £534.12 allocated to the Library of Things.
Balance Sheet
Income and expenditure from the previously held AGM on 21/02/2023 to the 10th April is included below.
What Next? Balance Sheet:
Total Income: £7,531.96
Total Expenditure: -£4,440.21
Profit: £3,091.75
Income Statement – General
Income £7,531.96
Donation: £4,209.23 Gift Aid: £403.91 Revenue £1,190.82 Grant £1,728.00
Outgoing -£4,440.21
Equipment: -£1,927.93 Venue Hire: -£1,620.00 Insurance -£892.28
Mark Bray-Parry
What Next? Treasurer
12[th ] April 2024
Previous Balance £3,739.78 Current Balance £6,831.53 Italics indicate payment due but not included in current balance Allocated Future Balance (LoT)* £534.12
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| Description | Type | Date | Amount | Notes | |
| Givey | Donation | 13/3/2023 | £10.00 | ||
| Cheque '800012 | Venue Hire | 15/03/2023 | -£300.00 | Denningberg Centre | |
| Lindsay Parkin | Revenue | 03/04/2023 | £14.28 | ||
| Stripe | Revenue | 17/4/2023 | £1.54 | ||
| Surrey Climate Commission | Grant | 19/4/2023 | £878.00 | Library of Things | |
| Givey | Donation | 9/5/2023 | £250.00 | ||
| Cash | Donation | 9/5/2023 | £370.00 | Climate Club | |
| Mayor's Charity | Donation | 31/5/2023 | £2,043.18 | ||
| Cheque '800012 | Venue Hire | 1/6/2023 | -£300.00 | Denningberg Centre | |
| GTC Grant | Grant | 5/6/2023 | £850.00 | Library of Things | |
| Givey | Donation | 5/6/2023 | £10.00 | ||
| Rob Oulton | Donation | 20/6/2023 | £500.00 | Library of Things | |
| Cheque '800014 | Insurance | 6/9/2023 | -£425.95 | Owed to David (LoT) | |
| Equipment | -£899.00 | -£1,724.95 | |||
| Equipment | -£100.00 | ||||
| Equipment | -£300.00 | ||||
| Cash deposit | Donation | 15/10/2023 | £345.00 | ||
| Cash deposit | Donation | 15/10/2023 | £234.05 | Library of Things (Mayen) | |
| Cheque '800015 | Venue Hire | 19/10/2023 | -£660.00 | Denningberg Centre | |
| Givey | Donation | 30/10/2023 | £26.00 | ||
| Thomas Lashbrooke, Membership | Donation | 3/11/2023 | £10.00 | ||
| Cook H PLB, Membership | Donation | 22/11/2023 | £50.00 | ||
| Givey | Donation | 27/11/2023 | £20.00 | ||
| Givey | Donation | 11/12/2023 | £5.00 | ||
| HMRC (Gift Aid) | Gift Aid | 21/12/2023 | £403.91 | ||
| Cash Deposit | Donation | 16/1/2024 | £155.00 | ||
| Zero Carbon Guildford | Revenue | 26/1/2024 | £175.00 | Home Energy Surveys | |
| Zero Carbon Guildford | Revenue | 7/2/2024 | £275.00 | Home Energy Surveys | |
| Zero Carbon Guildford | Revenue | 16/2/2024 | £325.00 | Home Energy Surveys | |
| Cheque '800017 | Venue Hire | 1/3/2024 | -£360.00 | Denningberg Centre | |
| Cheque '800016 | Insurance | 7/3/2024 | -£466.33 | Owed to David (LoT) | |
| Equipment | -£249.99 | -£1,095.26 | |||
| Equipment | -£254.94 | ||||
| Equipment | -£124.00 | ||||
| Zero Carbon Guildford | Revenue | 13/3/2024 | £400.00 | Home Energy Surveys | |
| David Faraday - Transfer of Cash Do | nDonation | 15/3/2024 | £155.00 | ||
| Givey | Donation | 25/3/2024 | £25.00 | ||
| Givey | Donation | 2/4/2024 | £1.00 | ||
| Income £7,531.96 - Donation £4,209.23 56% Revenue £1,190.82 16% |
| Grant | £1,728.00 | 23% |
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| Gift Aid | £403.91 | 5% |
| Membership | £0.00 | 0% |
| Outgoing | £4,440.21 | |
| Utility | £0.00 | 0% |
| Equipment | £1,927.93 | 43% |
| Website | £0.00 | 0% |
| Venue Hire | £1,620.00 | 36% |
| Insurance | £892.28 | 20% |
| Library of Things |
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Description |
Type | Date | Amount | Notes | |
| GTC Grant | Grant | 5/6/2023 | £850.00 | Grant | |
| Rob Oulton | Donation | 19/04/2023 | £500.00 | Donation | |
| Surrey Climate Commission | Grant | 20/06/2023 | £878.00 | Grant | |
| Reading the Signs | Equipment | -£300.00 | Cheque issued 6/9/2023 | ||
| Amo Food Design Gazebo | Equipment | -£100.00 | |||
| Display Sense - Cabinet | Equipment | -£899.00 | |||
| Mayen | Donation | 20/06/2023 | £234.05 | Donation | |
| Pressure Washer & Steam Mop | Equipment | TBC | -£249.99 | Cheque issued 7/3/2024 | |
| Carpet Cleaner | Equipment | TBC | -£254.94 | ||
| Food Dehydrator | Equipment | TBC | -£124.00 | ||
| TOTAL REMAINI | N £534.12 |
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| Income £2,462.05 - Donation £734.05 30% Grant £1,728.00 70% Outgoing -£1,927.93 Equipment -£1,927.93 100% |
Regular Expenditures Monthly: -£42.50
| Description | Type | Frequency | Amount |
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| Hosting Renewal | Payment | Annual | -£54.00 |
| Domain Renewal | Payment | Annual | -£29.99 |
| Insurance | Payment | Annual | -£425.95 |
| David Faraday Payments -£2,820.21 |
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| Description | Type | Date | Amount |
| Insurance | Payment | Cheque issued 6/09/2023 |
-£425.95 |
| Display cabinet | Payment | -£899.00 | |
| Gazebo | Payment | -£100.00 | |
| Reading the Signs | Payment | -£300.00 | |
| Insurance (for 2024) | Payment | Cheque issued 7/03/2024 |
-£466.33 |
| LoT Carpet Cleaner / Steam Mop | Payment | -£249.99 | |
| LoT Pressure Washer | Payment | -£254.94 | |
| LoT Food Dehydrator | Payment | -£124.00 |