## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 6th April 2024 To: 5[th] April 2025 Charity name: CLIMATE ACTION HUB EXETER Charity registration number: 1198667**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The object of the CIO is the advancement**
**of environmental protection or**
**Improvement thereof.**|
|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|**Identify other local non-profit**
**organisations with common ground and**
**invite them to share resources with us.**
**To this end we will endeavour to obtain**
**resources, such as premises which may**
**be used for public outreach, training,**
**meetings etc.**
**Engage with the general public with a**
**view to ascertaining the general level of**
**awareness of the ecological and**
**environmental crisis and invite**
**participation.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have all received and read**
**the guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers
|Other||**The Charity name became “PULSE” with**
**a working name of “Climate Action Hub**
**Exeter” as before, in order to align more**
**closely with ECoE, a non profit energy**
**organisation, with whom we proposed to**
**partner with (see below)**|
|---|---|---|
|**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||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other||In the early part of this financial year we were
approached by Exeter Community Energy (ECoE)
with a view to forming a mutually advantageous
partnership. ECoE are a philanthropic
organisation and theyhad obtainedgrants|
dependent on them becoming a charity. We were a charity looking for premises but could not afford to pay the substantial rents demanded. They had the funding and also wanted premises - and were able to pay for those premises. We (our charity, specifically our chair person) did a lot of the work in finding and evaluating several premises. Eventually, a suitable premises was located (20 Queen Street Exeter). After several months of indecision, and much needed repair work in the building, ECoE were given advice that they needed a specific kind of charity that was allowed to do a specific kind of business - which Pulse/CAHE could not do under the regulations applicable to our charity. Also Pulse/CAHE could not convert to the type of charity now required. Work now proceeded to extricate Pulse/CAHE from the involvement with ECoE , the agents renting the property on Queen Street and to calculate the balance of the funding (line of credit) which needed to be returned to ECoE. ECoE had deposited a substantial sum of money into our account in order to pay for legal fees, repair work, utilities et cetera on the property. This explanation is given so that anyone examining our accounts can be satisfied that the larger than normal sums in our account can be properly accounted for. A substantial sum remains in our bank account, which will be returned to ECoE as soon as ECoE have assumed responsibility for all the outstanding liabilities that we assumed on their behalf.
## **Financial Review**
Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 financial position at the end of the period Statement explaining the Para 1.22 policy for holding reserves stating why they are held Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 reserves Details of fund materially in Para 1.24 deficit Explanation of any Para 1.23 uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern
|**Additional information (optional)**
Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatements|**Additional information (optional)**
Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatements|whererelevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed,royalcharter)|Para 1.25||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO Community Interest 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|**By invitation from existing Trustees and**
**verification via meeting of existing**
**Trustees**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|---|---|---|
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|**CLIMATE ACTION HUB EXETER**|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|**1198667**|
|Charity’s principal address|**ENGLAND**|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Christopher Hugh
Wood|Chairman|3 years from April 2022||
||Robert Masding|Treasurer
(from July2023)|3 years from April 2022||
||Maia Thomas||3years from April 2022||
||Maurice Spurway||From 19-07-23 to
19-07-26||
||Andrew Extance||From 16-10-24 to
16-10-27||
||Jennifer Cook||From 16-10-24 to
16-10-27||
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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
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
**Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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Signature(s)
Full name(s)
Christopher Hugh Wood Robert Norton Masding
Position (eg Secretary,
Chair, etc) Chair Person Treasurer
Date
5 [th] June 2025
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This Trustee Annual Report was approved at a meeting of the Trustees on 5[th] June 2025.
All Trustees were present, with the exception of Jennifer Cook – who had been circulated with a copy beforehand.
Andy Extance and Maia Thomas were present on ZOOM.
**PULSE/CLIMATE ACTION HUB - EXETER - Balance Sheet 05/04/2025**
|**Assets**
_Assets_
£0.00
_Current Assets_
£0.00
_Cash a/c_
£161.54
_SumUp_
£0.00
_COOP Bank_
£42,097.57
_Savings Account_
£0.00
**Total Assets**
**£42,259.11**|**Liabilities**|
|---|---|
||_Liabilities_
£0.00
_CWood Expenses_
£0.00
_ECOE Credit A/C_
-£38,065.57
_Loans to CAHE/Pulse_
£0.00|
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||**Total Liabilities**
**£38,065.57**|
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||**Equity**|
||**Retained Earnings**
**£4,247.38**|
||**Total Equity**
**£4,247.38**|
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||**Total Liabilities &**
**Equity**
**£42,312.95**|