## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: 01/04/23 (Period start date) To: 31/03/24 (Period end date) Charity name: Cuttlefish Conservation Initiative (CCI)** **Charity registration number:1197622** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The purpose of CCI is- To advance**
**conservation for the public benefit of**
**cuttlefish in the United Kingdom,**
**European and international waters**
**through education, promoting and**
**disseminating research into such**
**conservation and seeking to achieve their**
**sustainable management.**| |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|
**CCI has undertaken continuous work to**
**engage the public of our purpose and our**
**work through social media engagement,**
**outreach events and networking.**
**Outreach events with SCUBA diving**
**clubs and university students have**
**increased public awareness of the issues**
**facing cuttlefish and the work CCI are**
**doing/plan to do. Through educational**
**social media posts, CCI have aimed to**
**engage as many people as possible with**
**the organisation.**
**CCI has developed relationships with**
**research institutes including the Marine**
**Biological Association and University of**
**Plymouth, with a strong focus on**
**carrying out research to fill knowledge**
**gaps of the current science, and to**
**advance the sustainability of the**
**cuttlefish fishery with the intent on**
**promoting and disseminating the**
**research into education for the wider**
**public.**
**CCI has continued to collect citizen**
**science data, in the form of SCUBA diver**
**cuttlefish sightings, a project known as**
**“Project Sepia”. This has resulted in**
**engagement from coastal communities**
**and provided the public the opportunity**
**to become involved in collecting vital**| |||**data to map the spatial and temporal**
**distribution of the common cuttlefish.**| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**When planning our activities for the year,**
**trustees and volunteers of CCI have**
**considered the Charity Commission's**
**guidance on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Policy on social investment including program related investment Contribution made by volunteers ## **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|**Over the reporting period, CCI presented**
**at several outreach events, to highlight**
**the issues facing cuttlefish and raise**
**awareness of CCI. This included**
**presenting to University of Plymouth MSc**
**Marine Conservation students and**
**planning the next series of workshops**
**funded by the SeaChangers grant.**
**Alongside this, CCI continued our**
**cuttlefish logging project, called “Project**
**Sepia”, aimed at collecting citizen**
**science data from scuba diver cuttlefish**
**sightings.**
**CCI also continued relationships with the**
**Marine Biological Association, in the aim**
**of developing research projects utilising**
**the MBAs laboratory facilities.**
**CCI also maintained a website and active**
**and growing social media platform**
**(Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn) and**| **networked with other marine conservation organisations and researchers.** **This year, CCI also launched a merch platform through TeeMill which produces branded CCI clothing, mugs and stickers.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |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|**As a charity in its early years the financial**
**position of CCI within the reporting**
**period was limited. An initial opening**
**balance of £8 (unrestricted funds) was**
**achieved from donations in the previous**
**year. A donation of £500 (unrestricted**
**funds) was received from a fundraising**
**event completed by a supporter, in return**
**we returned a CCI t-shirt and card,**
**costing the charity £20. £500 (restricted**
**funds) was also received from the**
**organisation SeaChangers to develop**
**Project Sepia and run workshops during**
**the 2024 calendar year. The website**
**domain and platform were re-purchased**
**for £157 and our monthly TeeMill**
**subscription was initiated at £40 total.**
**CCI finished the reporting period with**
**£325 of unrestricted funds and £500 of**
**restricted funds from Seachangers for**
**use in the 2024 calendar year.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**As a newly established charity, CCI has**
**not had any means to develop a reserve**
**over the reporting period. CCI plans to**
**consider the need to develop a reserves**
**policy, and funding opportunities and**
**donations increase.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A see above.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**As a newly established charity, CCI has**
**not had any means to develop a reserve,**
**however, as stated above, this is a policy**| |||**that CCI plan to address within the next**
**reporting period.**| |---|---|---| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A- no funds are materially in deficit.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A- as a newly established charity there**
**have been no uncertainties about CCI**
**continuing within the reporting period.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**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|
**Principal sources of funds for the**
**reporting period were a large fundraising**
**donation from a single event and grant**
**funding from SeaChangers.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO) foundation constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |
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|**Apart from the first charity trustees [who**
**will serve for a period of 2 years], every**
**trustee must be appointed [for a term of**
**[three] years] by a resolution passed at a**
**properly convened meeting of the charity**
**trustees.**
**In selecting individuals for appointment**
**as charity trustees, the charity trustees**
**must have regard to the skills, knowledge**
**and experience needed for the effective**
**administration of the CIO.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **N/A** Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees **N/A** The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works **N/A** Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties **N/A** Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**Cuttlefish Conservation Initiative**| |---|---| |
Other name the charity uses|**CCI**| |Registered charity number|**1197622**| |Charity’s principal address|**31 SOUTH VIEW TERRACE**
**PLYMOUTH**
**PL4 9DQ**| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**
**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---| ||**Dr Thomas**
**Wynter Davies**|**N/A**|
**Whole year**
**N/A**| ||**Dr Granville Paul**
**Naylor**|**N/A**|**Whole year**
**N/A**| ||**Mrs Alix Marie**
**Harvey**|**N/A**|**Whole year**
**N/A**| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year N/A N/A N/A** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|**N/A- no assets held in this capacity**| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|**N/A**| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|**N/A**| ## **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**||| |**N/A**|**N/A**|**N/A**| |||| |||| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** N/A ## **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) Bethan Follis** **Full name(s)** Bethan Follis **Position (eg** Head of Operations **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 31/01/2025 **----- Start of picture text -----**
Cuttlefish Conservation Initiative (CCI) 1197622
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**Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/04/23 31/03/24 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**534**
Seachangers Grant
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**534**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 534**
**A3 Payments**
Fundrasier thankyou
**20**
TeeMill subscription
**40**
Website domain annual subscription
**157**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**534**
Seachangers Grant
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**534**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 534**
**A3 Payments**
Fundrasier thankyou
**20**
TeeMill subscription
**40**
Website domain annual subscription
**157**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**534**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,034**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,034**
**20**
**40**
**157**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||| |Fundrasier thankyou|**20**|**-**|**-**|**20**|**-**| |TeeMill subscription|**40**|**-**|**-**|**40**|**-**| |Website domain annual subscription|**157**|**-**|**-**|**157**|**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 01/31/2025 1 ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**217**||**-**||**-**||**217**||**-**| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**217**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**217**|||||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**317**||||**500**||||**-**|||||**817**||||||| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**8**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**8**||||**-**||| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**325**||||**500**||||**-**|||||**825**||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Donations
Seachangers Grant
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**325**
**-**
**-**
**325**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**500**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 01/31/2025 2 |**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| ||**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||||**-**|||**-**| ## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 01/31/2025 3 ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |||||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**| |**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**| |||||**-**||| |||||**-**||| |||||**-**||| |||||**-**||| |||||**-**||| |Signature|Print Name
Paul Naylor
Thomas Davies|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| ||Paul Naylor|31/01/25| ||Thomas Davies|**31/01/25**| CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 01/31/2025 4