**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 4 2022 31 3 2023
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by** FoGB **Registered charity number (if any)** 1200401
Friends of Great Berry
**0Charity's principal address** 6 West Hook **0** Langdon Hills Essex **Postcode SS16 6SR**
## **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)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Ann Allen|Chair|||
||Julie Hills|Treasurer|||
||Victoria Jackson|Secretary|||
||LesleyTabner||||
||Donna Rodriguez||||
||CareyTheobald||||
**TAR**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
For the benefit of the inhabitants of Great Berry and the surrounding area (“the area of benefit”) to provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare with the object of improving their conditions of life for the inhabitants of the area of benefit in particular but not exclusively by the conservation, promotion, support, assistance and improvement of Great Berry Open Space.
**TAR**
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Planting, watering, weeding, pruning the flower beds and associated areas withing Great Berry Open Space.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
We have picked up numerous bags of litter, planted a couple of hundred bulbs, many plants and herbs and 12 fruit trees - by the shops and around the Open Space.
We have pruned overhanging branches and brambles, swept up leaf litter from the car park, cleared brambles from some areas and replanted with flowers.
That was all physical hard work. In addition we've used our brains and raised £16, 848.82p, and spent most of it, and will have spent the rest by our grant deadlines of end of May 2023.
Only one of our major spending projects was completed by the end of our financial and reporting date, the conversation bench, but I think it has been well used, and is a great asset to our Open Space.
I’m so looking forward to next year’s report, when I'm confident we will have finished another two projects and started on some more.
We did, of course, get the pond dug out, with the help of the Community Payback team under the supervision of Steve, so thank you to them. We have also had a great deal of work done by the Youth Offending team and their supervisor Paul.
We have laughed, groaned, raged, and made two more things – friends and “a difference”.
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
No policy **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit**
## **Section F Other optional information**
None
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
> **Signature(s) Ann Allen Julie Hills** Julie Hills **Full name(s)** Ann Allen **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 13 April 2026
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||**Friends of Great Berry**|**Friends of Great Berry**|**Friends of Great Berry**|**Friends of Great Berry**|**1200401**|**1200401**|**1200401**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**||01/04/2022
Period start date|**To**||31/03/2023
Period end date|||
||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**72**
**10,000**
**246**
**926**
**1,800**
**1,000**
**2,000**
**5**
**16,049**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,049**
**474**
**72**
**248**
**1,971**
**688**
**5,790**
**83**
**385**
**-**
**9,711**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,711**
**6,338**
**-**
**-**
**6,338**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**72**
**10,000**
**246**
**926**
**1,800**
**804**
**2,000**
**30**
**5**
**Cross Add Error**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**#VALUE!**
**948**
**72**
**248**
**1,971**
**688**
**5,790**
**83**
**385**
**-**
**10,185**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,185**
**#VALUE!**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|RotaryClub donation|||**72**|||||**-**|
|National LotteryGrant|||**10,000**|||||**-**|
|Ford community grant|||**246**|||||**-**|
|Basildon Active Grant|||**926**|||||**-**|
|Bas Council Grant|||**1,800**|||||**-**|
|Groupon Grant|**804**|||||||**-**|
|Tesco Grant|||**1,000**||||||
|Essex Community+ Uplift|||**2,000**|||||**-**|
|Donation|**30**||||||||
|Justgiving|||**5**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**834**||**16,049**|||||**-**|
||**-**
**-**
**-**
**834**
**474**
**-**
**474**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**474**
**360**
**-**
**-**
**360**||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|||||||||**-**|
||||||||||
|Plants|**474**|||||||**-**|
|Hi Viz vests||||||||**-**|
|Tools||||||||**-**|
|Landscaping||||||||**-**|
|Bench||||||||**-**|
|Animal Trail||||||||**-**|
|Almond Tree||||||||**-**|
|Sundries||||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**474**|||||||**-**|
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||
||**-**||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||
|||||||||**-**|
||||||||||
||**360**||**6,338**|**-**||
**#VALUE!**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**360**||**6,338**|**-**||
**#VALUE!**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
11/06/2026
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Julie Hills**
Signature
**Ann Allen**
**Details**
Current
Savings
Cash
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Tools and equipment|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**2,350**
**-**
**4,521**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,871**
Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Restricted
**248**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Ann Allen
Julie Hills|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**200**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
||**Ann Allen**|Ann Allen||
||**Julie Hills**|Julie Hills||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
11/06/2026
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