**To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1 4 2024 31 3 2025 **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
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3
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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** 1 **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** 2 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. **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** In the past 12 months we have picked up numerous bags of litter, planted hundreds of bulbs, plants and herbs, lots of donated plants and started a community rock snake. We have pruned overhanging branches and brambles, swept up leaf litter from the car park, cleared brambles, two tulip hearts. That was all physical hard work. In addition we've used our brains and raised £2,452, nearly which will allow us to install our second conversation bench and planter, and the benches in the Sensory Garden. We’re also going to get some funding from Tesco in July (£500, £1,000 or £1,500). Unfortunately we haven't had a visits from the Youth Offending team or the Community Payback team this year. Bureaucratic changes !. We have laughed, groaned, raged, and once again, made two more things – friends and “a difference”. **TAR** 4 ## **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 2025 **TAR** 5 ||**Friends of Great Berry**|**Friends of Great Berry**|**Friends of Great Berry**|**Friends of Great Berry**|**Friends of Great Berry**|**1200401**|**1200401**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01/04/2024||**To**|Period end date
31/03/2025||| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**114**
**217**
**331**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**331**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**114**
**217**
**250**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**2,581**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,581**
**-**
**335**
**78**
**183**
**16**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**612**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**612**
**1,969**||**Last year**
**to the nearest**
**£**| |Great Berry Residents Association
Justgiving
Basildon Round Table
Basildon Council|||||**-**
**-**
**250**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**2,250**|**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**114**||**-**| |||||||**217**||**-**| |||||||**250**||**-**| |||||||**2,000**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**-**|||||**2,581**||**-**| ||||||**-**
**-**
**-**|||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||| ||||||**2,250**|**2,581**||**-**| |||||||||| |||||||**-**||**-**| |plants
landscapeing
tools
sundries|16
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16**
**- 16**
**-**
**-**
**- 16**||335
78
183
**-**
**596**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**596**
**- 265**
**-**
**-**
**- 265**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**335**||**-**| |||||||**78**||**-**| |||||||**183**||**-**| |||||||**16**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**16**|||||**612**||**-**| |||||||||| |**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_**||||||||| ||||||**-**|**612**||**-**| |||||||||| ||**- 16**||**- 265**||**2,250**|**1,969**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**- 16**||**- 265**||**2,250**|**1,969**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 11/06/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
Current
Savings
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
Tools and Equipment
Tools and Equipment from previous year
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~Agreement~~
Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Restricted
Restricted
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**72**
**5,969**
**-**
**6,041**
~~Agreement~~
Error
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**180**
**720**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**
| |||||~~Agreement~~
Error| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**170**| |||||**500**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Date of Signature Print Name approval Ann Allen Ann Allen ~~2 11/06/2026~~ CCXX R2 accounts (SS) ~~11/06/2026~~ Julie Hills Julie Hills CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 11/06/2026 3