## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.06.2024 (Period start date) To 31.05.2025 (Period end date) Charity name: THE SOCIETY FOR ARCHAEAL BIOLOGY** **Charity registration number: 1199363** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|**The objective of the society for**
**archaeal biology is to create a**
**community platform for researchers**
**studying archaea. For the general**
**public, the charity provides a**
**directory of experts within the**
**archaeal field and assist public**
**education. The charity aims to**
**become a long-term informational**
**resource for both senior and early**
**career researchers and a community**
**forum encouraging the free**
**exchange of information/protocols**
**and thus drive the archaea field**
**forward.**| |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|**Developing, maintaining, and**
**populatingwww.archaea.bio**
**– a**
**website for sharing protocols and**
**finding collaborators in the field of**
**archaeal biology.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para 1.18|**We, the trustees of The Society for**
**Archaeal Biology hereby affirm that**
**in the preparation of this Trustees'**
**Annual Report, we have diligently**
**considered and taken into account**
**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|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Not applicable. The society does not**
**provide grants.**| |||| |---|---|---| |Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not applicable. The society does not**
**invest.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**We would like to thank scientific**
**supporters, who are helping us**
**populate and review the protocols on**
**www.archaea.bio**
**.**| |Other||| ## **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 Society for Archaeal Biology has**
**continued to develop the online**
**platform archaea.bio and has**
**successfully completed first phase**
**development of the peer review**
**process for assessing submitted**
**protocols for quality. The first**
**protocols to have undergone the**
**complete review process are now**
**live on the website and freely**
**accessible for anyone to whom they**
**are of interest.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of Para 1.41 fundraising activities against objectives set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|**We, the trustees of The Society for**
**Archaeal Biology hereby affirm that**
**in the preparation of this Trustees'**
**Annual Report, we have diligently**
**considered the financial position of**
**the charity and are certain that it can**
**continue to operate for at least 2**
**more years without further**
**fundraising.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held to cover the**
**ongoing maintenance of**
**www.archaea.bio**
**and mail services.**
**These amount to just under**
**€1,600.00 per year.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£2,775.06**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**| |Details of fund materially
in deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23|**Not applicable**| ## **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|
**Donation from Frontiers Media SA.**
**This is a scientific publisher looking**
**to support the academic community**
**researching archaeal biology.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy|Para 1.46|| adopted A description of the Para 1.46 principal risks facing the charity 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|Early career scientists in the field of
archaeal biology.| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |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 The Society for Archaeal Biology Other name the charity Not applicable uses Registered charity number 1199363 |Charity’s principal address|Lytchett House| |---|---| ||13 Freeland Park| ||Wareham Road| ||Poole| ||Dorset| ||BH16 6FA| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**for whole year**|**Name of**
**person (or**
**body) entitled**
**to appoint**
**trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason Risa|Chair||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| ||Dr Marleen van
Wolferen|||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| ||Dr Joshua
Norman Hamm|||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| ||Dr Alice Cezanne|||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| ||Dr Solenne
Ithurbide|||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| ||Dr Thomas
Thompson|||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| ||Dr Nika Pende|||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| ||Dr Arthur
Charles-Orszag|||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| ||Dr Megha Patro|||Dr Gabriel
Tarrason
Risa| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| 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 Not applicable held in this capacity Name and objects of the Not applicable charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements Not applicable 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** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Gabriel Tarrason Risa **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** 29.03.2026 **Charity Name No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01.06.2024 31.05.2025 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Existingcash funds
**4,335**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,335**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 4,335**
**A3 Payments**
Web management service - Atomic Ant Ltd **1,440**
Mail and address service - UK Postbox Ltd
**120**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 1,560**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 1,560**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 2,775**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 2,775**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
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**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
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**funds**|**to the nearest £**
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**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,335**
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**-**
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**4,335**
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**4,335**
**1,440**
**120**
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**1,560**
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**1,560**
**2,775**
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**2,775**|**Last year**
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**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
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behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
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Signature
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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Print Name
Gabriel Tarrason Risa
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**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| |||Gabriel Tarrason Risa|29.03.2026| |||||