**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 4 2025 31 3 2026
**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**
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 tidied our community rock snake. We have pruned overhanging branches and brambles, swept up leaf litter from the car park, cleared brambles, planted 2,000 crocus bulbs, (and weren’t they fantastic in February and March,) and added more bulbs to our two tulip hearts. We also started a wildlife hedge along the path behind the church, added more fruit trees to our orchard and of course, our biggest project two benches and slate in the Sensory Garden and two benches and two large planters at the shops. We also encouraged the council to dig the pnd deeper, with better slopes, all paid for by Froglife. The list is endless.
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 2026
**TAR**
5
**Friends of Great Berry 1200401 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2025 31/03/2026
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**384**
**20**
**404**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**404**
**-**
**-**
**117**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**117**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**117**
**287**
**-**
**-**
**287**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,125**
**1,125**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,125**
**1,512**
**1,370**
**864**
**1,160**
**313**
**41**
**100**
**-**
**5,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,360**
**- 4,235**
**-**
**-**
**- 4,235**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,125**
**384**
**20**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,529**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,529**
**1,512**
**1,370**
**864**
**1,160**
**117**
**313**
**41**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**5,477**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,477**
**- 3,948**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Grants
Just Giving||||||**-**|
||**384**|||||**-**|
|Interest from SavingAccount|**20**|||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**404**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
|Benches|**-**|||||**-**|
|Benches install|**-**|||||**-**|
|Raised beds|||||||
|Plants|||||||
|Sundries|**117**||||||
|Soil/Soil improvers/labour|||||||
|Tools||||||**-**|
|Landscaping|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**117**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
||**287**|**- 4,235**|**-**|**- 3,948**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**287**|**- 4,235**|**-**|**- 3,948**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
11/06/2026
1
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**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**
**Julie Hills**
Signature
**Ann Allen**
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**57**
**-**
**2,035**
**-**
**3**
**-**
**2,095**
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
**41**
Restricted
**900**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**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)**|
||||**-**|
||||**35**|
||||**600**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
||||25/04/2026|
||||25/04/2026|
||||11/06/2026|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)