## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 15 June 2023 To 14 June 2024 Charity name: Flight Free UK** ## **Charity registration number: 1199328** ## **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 the charity is the
advancement of education in environmental
protection by promoting and increasing
individual and collective knowledge of the
contribution of aviation to climate change
and promoting alternative means of low-
carbon transport with the aim of helping to
mitigate the harmful effects of greenhouse
gas emissions on the environment.| |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|Our main activities are 1) running an annual
pledge campaign to invite people to pledge
to take a year off from flying, 2)
communicating via our website and social
media about the adverse impacts of flying
and the benefits of alternative models of
leisure travel, and 3) providing speakers for
the media and for green groups and events,
and running our own series of events, which
bring together speakers on a variety of
aviation and travel related topics.| |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 had regard to the
guidance on public benefit. They are
satisfied that the activities of Flight Free UK
benefit the public through increased
awareness of the environmental harm of
aviation, and do not themselves cause any
harm.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference N/A Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **----- Start of picture text -----**
N/A
Para 1.38
Policy on social investment
including program related
investment
A changing team of up to ten volunteers give
Para 1.38 eight hours each per week. Activities include
Contribution made by fundraising, social media, admin, podcast
volunteers production, content generation and
organising events. Interns develop their
digital skills and their knowledge of
sustainability. For some this volunteering is
stepping stone to a career in sustainable
transport or climate work.
Other
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## **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|The charity has continued to reach new
audiences both on social media, traditional
media and in person, building a community o
people who are talking about and taking
action on their aviation emissions. We have
collaborated with similar organisations with
related purposes. For example this year we
joined the Climate Coalition and took part in
their Great Big Green Week. A parliamentary
petition to ban domestic flights where rail
alternatives exist achieved over 10,000
signatures and received a response from the
government. We took part in an event for
MPs to ask them to call for no net airport
expansion, consistent with the advice of the
Climate Change Committee, and joined (and
spoke at) the protest against Farnborough
airport expansion. The Director gave
evidence at the Planning Hearing for
Gatwick’s Northern Runway Project and
appeared on BBC News to talk about the
production and use of biofuels in aviation.
The charity engaged in positive
reinforcement by handing out leaflets to
Eurostar passengers at St Pancras Station
thanking them for not flying.
Our events programme included online publi
information events about the value of taking
individual action, SAF (sustainable aviation
fuel), and how to travel long-haul without
flying, and one in-person event in
Cambridge. Attendance = 2,900.
Our social media following increased from
18,000 to 21,500| |---|---|---| ## **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|Our annual fundraiser raised £12,332 agains
a target of £10,000. An increased emphasis
on asking for support, especially regular
giving, has born fruit, putting the charity on a
more stable footing. Income from regular
donors increased from about £230 a month
in 2022-23 to an average of £811 a month in
2023-24. The number of regular donors
increased from 17 to 35 by June 2024.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not applicable.| Other ## **Financial Review** |**inancial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The balance at the end of 2023-24 is over
£16,000, a great improvement on the
balance at the end of last year which was
less than £5,000. However this was partly
achieved by reducing the staff number to
one, which increases risks to our operations| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Trustees have decided to hold zero
reserves.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Zero| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|The charity has not been in existence for
long enough to accumulate reserves.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|
Para 1.23|With a bigger base of regular donors, the
trustees have increased confidence that the
charity will continue as a going concern.| ## **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|Supporter donations together with the sale o
tickets to our events are the main sources of
funds. A small grant from a charitable trust
and a partnership with Byway Travel (a flight
free travel agency) provided further funding.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Not applicable.| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The risk register identifies the following as
significant risks even after mitigating action:
1. Funding risks leading to the charity being
unable to cover its monthly costs.
2. Losing the Director and being unable to
replace her due to inadequate funding.| |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|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled t
appoint one or more trustees|o
Para 1.25|New trustees are found, selected and
appointed by the trustees.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|Training is provided via documentation and
online meetings with professionals in the
charity sector.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|All management and strategic responsibility
lies with the Director. Her decisions are
reviewed and approved, where necessary, b
the Trustees. The Trustees meet four times
year and keep in touch online. Volunteers ar
managed by the Director. The Director is line
managed by the Chair.| |Relationship with any related
parties|
Para 1.51|The charity works with other charities, NGOs
and companies that share our aims or work
in the same or similar areas. These other
organisations are based in the UK, Europe
and beyond.| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Flight Free UK| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1199328| ||Charity’s principal address
125 High Oak Road
Ware
Herts
SG12 7PA| |---|---| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1
2
3
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20|James
Frecknall|Chair||| ||Maggie
Robertson|Deputy Chair||| ||Lenny Sayers|||| ||Steve
Westlake||From May 2024|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| 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 None 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 info** Anna Hughes, Director ## **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** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** James Frecknall **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** 15.01.2024 ||**Flight Free UK**|**Flight Free UK**|**Flight Free UK**|**Flight Free UK**|**Flight Free UK**|**1199328**|**1199328**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||15 June 2023||||14 June 2024||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Fundraising|**24,849**||**-**||**-**||**24,849**||**16,263**| |Gift Aid|**3,251**||**-**||**-**||**3,251**||| |Grants|**2,000**||**-**||**-**||**2,000**||**1,500**| |Partnerships|**310**||**-**||**-**||**310**||**-**| |Interest|**17**||**-**||**-**||**17**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**30,427**||**-**||**-**||**30,427**||**17,763**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|
**30,427**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**30,427**||**17,763**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Staff hours|**12,399**||**-**||**-**||**12,399**||**20,289**| |Campaign expenditure|**3,114**||**-**||**-**||**3,114**||**4,416**| |Administration|**781**||**-**||**-**||**781**||**4,387**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|
**16,294**||**-**||**-**||**16,294**||**29,092**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|
**16,294**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**16,294**||**29,092**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**14,133**||**-**||**-**||**14,133**||**-**
**11,329**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**2,201**||**-**||**-**||**2,201**||**13,978**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**16,335**||**-**||**-**||**16,335**||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Bank balance||||**16,335**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 03/01/2025 1 ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**16,335**||**-**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| ||||||Margaret Robertson||||15 January 2025| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| Signature CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 03/01/2025 2 ## CHARITY COMMISSION Independent examiner's FOR ENGLAND AND WALES report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees/ FLIGHT FREE UK members of On accounts for the year 14 June 2024 ended Set out on pages CC16a Templated Used Charity no 1199328 (if any) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 14 June 2024. ## Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material * matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: • accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or • the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): ißvvftLeS Address: Date: IER 1 October 2018 Section B Disclosure ||||Only
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