## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 5 November 2021 to 31 March 2023** ## **Charity name: The Wild Carp Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 1196426** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The objectives of the Wild Carp Trust**
**are:**
**1)**
**To promote for the benefit of the**
**public the conservation and protection**
**of the oldest strains of carp in the UK.**
**2)**
**To advance the education of the**
**public in the conservation, protection,**
**history and importance of the oldest**
**carp strains.**
**These strains are defined as the original**
**species wild carp (considered**
**Vulnerable to Extinction by the**
**International Union for Conservation of**
**Nature) and the feral descendants of**
**carp introduced to waters in England**
**and Wales before 1850 where evidence –**
**in the form of historic record or fish**
**phenotype – suggests that they have**
**since avoided crossbreeding with more**
**modern strains of carp.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The Wild Carp Trust has achieved its**
**charitable objectives during this first**
**period of operation, with associated**
**costs as follows:**
**Promoting the conservation and**
**protection of the oldest strains of carp in**
**the UK**
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**Led by example, conserving the**
**Pant y Llyn strain of wild carp via**
**egg and fry collection (Zero cost)**
•
**Creation of wildcarptrust.org**
**website (£252)**
•
**Attendance at two angling**
**exhibitions (BFFI and the National**
**Vintage Tackle Fair) (£120)**
•
**Distributed 100 qty promotional**
**badges (£70)**| |||•
**Creation and management of**
**social media accounts on**
**Instagram and Facebook (Zero**
**cost)**
•
**Our trustees were interviewed on**
**two podcasts (Zero cost)**
**Advancing education with regards to the**
**conservation, protection, history and**
**importance of the oldest carp strains.**
•
**Publication of a 100-page annual**
**journal. (Cost deferred to next**
**period.)**
•
**Creation of an educational film on**
**YouTube, shared at fish**
**conservation symposium hosted**
**by the Wild Trout Trust. (Zero**
**cost)**
•
**Writing 3 x magazine articles**
**(Zero cost)**
•
**Published an information leaflet**
**(£50)**| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees confirm that we have given**
**due regard to the guidance issued by**
**the Charity Commission on public**
**benefit. Our activities have benefitted**
**8,920 people:**
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**2,200 exhibition attendees**
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**2,100 website visitors**
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**1,300 symposium attendees**
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**1,400 magazine readers**
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**900 social media followers**
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**820 YouTube viewers**
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**200 journal readers**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**None**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**None**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The Wild Carp Trust relies entirely on**
**volunteers. In this period, 9 volunteers**
**(including the 8 trustees) contributed a**
**total of 1,570 hours to enable the Wild**
**Carp Trust to achieve its objectives, as**
**follows:**| |||•
**Wild carp egg and fry collection,**
**transportation and fry rearing:**
**650 hours**
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**Creation of website, including**
**writing content: 160 hours**
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**Creation, publication and**
**distribution of annual journal: 160**
**hours**
•
**Attendance at exhibitions: 64**
**hours**
•
**Writing magazine articles and**
**being interviewed for podcasts:**
**16 hours**
•
**Creation of educational film: 120**
**hours**
•
**Administration of social media**
**accounts: 300 hours**
•
**Planning, reporting, attending**
**meetings: 100 hours**
**The Trustees would like to give special**
**mention to the hours and expertise**
**volunteered by Trustees Andy Roberts,**
**Peter Whipp and Nigel Hudson, who**
**contributed more than half of the total**
**volunteer hours during this period.**| |---|---|---| |Other||**During this period, the £800 annual**
**lease of our conservation pool was**
**covered directly by our Trustees rather**
**than being recorded in the accounts.**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Further to the achievements mentioned**
**above, the Trustees note the importance**
**of the hands-on work we have done to**
**conserve one of the UK’s oldest and**
**most famous strains of heritage carp.**
**Publicity surrounding this success**
**correlated with donations we received.**
**In leading by example, we generated**
**significant public support that will**
**further assist the charity in achieving its**
**objectives during the next period.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**The Wild Carp Trust achieved all of its**
**charitable objectives, as detailed above.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Income: £1,620**
**Expenditure: £442**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held in anticipation of**
**paying the annual lease of our**
**conservation pool, publishing the**
**annual journal, and as a fund to**
**conserve further strains of carp when**
**the opportunity arises.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Cash reserves of £1,178 held at the end**
**of the period.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A The Wild Carp Trust is in a strong**
**position to grow and deliver further**
**benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Funding was exclusively from**
**donations. As stated above, there was a**
**direct correlation between publicity**
**surrounding our hands-on conservation**
**work and the volume and size of**
**donations received.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Investment during this period was**
**principally in the website, which is our**
**main promotional and educational tool.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The charity’s success is reliant on a**
**small group of people. Further**
**volunteers and a network of expert**
**advisers and contractors is required to**
**mitigate this risk.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO)**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Selected and appointed by the trustees.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The Wild Carp Trust is not part of an**
**umbrella organisation or affiliated with a**
**wider network.**
**Our structure is:**
•
**President: John Bailey**
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**Vice Presidents: Dr Bruno**
**Broughton, Alan Lewis BEM**
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**Trustees:**
`o` **Chair: Nigel Hudson**
`o` **Vice Chair: Andy Roberts**
`o` **Treasurer: Matthew Neal**
`o` **Secretary: Tony Protheroe**
`o` **Fishery Liaison: Peter**
**Whipp**
`o` **Landowner relations:**
**Steven Murgatroyd**
`o` **Social Media: Matt Tanner**
`o` **Filmmaking: Stu Harris**
•
**Committee**
`o` **As trustees above plus**
**Ralph Ridler (fundraising)**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Wild Carp Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|(None)| |Registered charity number|1196426| |Charity’s principal address|2 Mareilian Avenue
Marford
Wrexham
Clwyd
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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 (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Nigel Hudson|Chair||| ||Andrew Roberts|Vice Chair||| ||Matthew Neal|Treasurer|Resigned 18.8.22|| ||Matthew Tanner||Resigned 6.12.22|| ||Stuart Harris|||| ||Peter Whipp|||| ||William Protheroe||Resigned 6.12.22|| ||Steven Murgatroyd|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|Annual lease of conservation pool known as Cowslip Pool.| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|Held by Nigel Hudson on behalf of the Wild Carp Trust| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|Lease held by Nigel Hudson and Steven Murgatroyd, to be
transferred to the Wild Carp Trust during the next period.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |**Fishery**
**Management**
**and fish**
**rearing**|Ben Cornick|5 Star Fisheries, South Kirkby, Pontefract WF9
3JP| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **N/A** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Nigel Ernest Hudson|Andrew Paul Roberts| ||
Chair|| ||31 March 2024|| ||31 March 2024||