**Rooting for Andover annual report for the period to 30th April 2023**
## **Objectives, governance and structure**
Rooting for Andover supports allotments and community gardens in the Test Valley area. We hold regular volunteer days at our main garden at Poppy Park next to the Augusta Park Community centre. Throughout the year, we hold a variety of community events in the garden which are advertised on social media. We are open to all and everyone is welcome.
We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation set up using the Charity Commission’s Foundation Governing document. We have three trustees and appointments of trustees follows the model process set out in our governing document. Our charitable aims are described in the same document and can be viewed on the Charity Commission site. Broadly we aim to provide, for public benefit, facilities for community gardens for all members of the community in the Test Valley. We also aim to provide opportunities for learning about sustainable horticulture and community gardening. We provide a great place for people to meet, to enjoy green spaces and to enhance their knowledge and understanding of all aspects of horticulture as well as contributing free surplus food to those in the local community who might need it. The trustees are fully aware and always seek to comply with the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
This first report only covers the period from registration as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in October 2022 to the end of the financial year on 30th April 2023. Rooting for Andover was previously a charitable not for profit company limited by guarantee (Rooting for Andover Ltd). Residual assets of Rooting for Andover Ltd were transferred to the CIO during this period.
## **Achievements and performance**
Our very successful and well attended bi and tri weekly volunteer sessions were well supported. We had a ‘raised bed workshop’, undertook some local fruit tree planting and ran a hugely well attended Easter event which attracted crowds of local residents.
Thanks to the earlier work with volunteers from the local Round Table, we completed works on our wonderful pond and saw a definite increase in wildlife as a result.
We installed new benches so that we had a better social and learning space for some of our more formal activities.
All of our activities during this period were either free or required only a small token payment as we understood the financial pressure many families were under. Estimating how many beneficiaries we have is difficult but our popular events often attract hundreds of residents and our Facebook group where we share information has over 600 members.
We worked extensively with the NHS on a successful ‘Healthy Andover’ project and attended their public events with various planting activities which were popular with adults and children alike.
Several local Councillors were welcomed to our garden and we are grateful both to them, officers of Test Valley Borough Council and the local Community Centre for their help and support.
We are also grateful to a grant received from Gamma Aviation during this period.
The Charity’s events were advertised on our website which is currently https://rootingforandover.org.uk as well as our Facebook page.
## **Finance**
We normally strive to achieve around 6 months reserves which the trustees feel is a safe margin given our annual costs. Most of the funding we receive is related to project work but we aim to have between £900-£1000 in reserves which is our best current estimate
of our 6 month running costs. At the end of the financial year, the charity was in a strong financial position and is a going concern.
Administrative information
Rooting For Andover ((Charity Registration 1200827) has three Trustees at present; Mr Michael Parker (Chair), Mrs Vicki Cunningham (Secretary) and Mrs Maureen Treadwell (Treasurer). The postal address for correspondence is as follows: 21 Livia Close SP10 5QR. The contact email for the charity is info@rootingforandover.org
Submitted by Maureen Treadwell (Treasurer) following approval by :
Michael Parker (Chair)
Vicki Cunningham (Secretary)
**Rooting for Andover No (if any)**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 27.10.2022 30.04.2023
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**
Grants restricted
**-**
Grants unrestricted
**1,500**
Plant sales
**198**
**-**
**2,690**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,388**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 4,388**
**A3 Payments**
Events
Garden Sundries
**429**
Grant items
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 429**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 429**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 3,959**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 3,959**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
Transferred in from Rooting for Anodver
Ltd
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**1,946**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,946**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,946**
**183**
**-**
**619**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**802**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**802**
**1,144**
**-**
**-**
**1,144**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**|**1,946**|
|||**-**|**1,500**|
|||**-**|**198**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**2,690**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**6,334**|
|||||
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||||
|||**-**|**6,334**|
|||||
|||**-**|**183**|
|||**-**|**429**|
|||**-**|**619**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**1,231**|
|||||
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||||
|||**-**|**1,231**|
|||||
||**1,144**|**-**|**5,103**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**1,144**|**-**|**5,103**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
5,103
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Garden equipment
**Details**
Signature
M Treadwell
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**3,157**
**-**
**-**
**3,157**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Transferred from
~~R4A Ltd~~
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**1,144**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**1,144**|
||||OK|
||||**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Cost (optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Cost (optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Amount due (optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||Print Name|
||M Treadwell|Maureen Treadwell||
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## **Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -**
OK **Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) 500 - - - - - - - -**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval 3/20/2024