## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 June 2023 31 March 2024 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Nature and Community
**Other names charity is known by** none **Registered charity number (if any)** 1203361
**Charity's principal address** Acacia Cottage, Midway
Chalford Hill Stroud **Postcode** GL6 8EN
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity ’ s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Trustees Trustee selection methods
(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**
1. The preservation, conservation and the protection of the environment and the prudent use of resources for the public benefit, by;
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
- a) The provision of equipment or materials to support activities which help to restore degraded ecosystems, recover biodiversity, or promote sustainable use of natural resources;
b)
- the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic growth and
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regeneration;
c) making grants to organisations furthering similar preservation and conservation purposes. 2. To advance the education of the public in subjects relating to sustainable development and the protection, enhancement, and rehabilitation of the environment and,
3. To promote study and research in such subjects, providing the public with skills and knowledge to partake in sustainable development. Sustainable development means “ development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. ”
For context, Nature and Community is a new, small charity registered on 1[st] June 2023 and therefore the year ending 31[st] March 2024 represented the formative months of our activities. Trustees read and took into account Charity Commission guidance on public benefit when forming the charity and when considering its work and activities.
During this initial period, the charity undertook small-scale habitat creation and restoration work, provided school education materials on native wildlife and helped with the maintenance of a school woodland outdoor learning facility in Gloucestershire, UK.
**Summary of the main** The charity engaged with colleagues in international non-governmental **activities undertaken for the** organisation delivery partners to understand needs of local groups in Niger and **public benefit in relation to these objects (include within** Chad interested in ecological restoration, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. **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)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and erformance p
**Summary of the main** During our initial 9 months we: **achievements of the charity during the year**
- Fund raised £2,520. meeting the modest expectations of Trustees during this formative period.
- Planted 420 native trees (14 species) to create new scrub and woodland habitats and enhance biodiversity across a hectare of amenity grassland.
- Developed and provided education materials on British native wildlife to support a primary school nature club.
- Contributed to the maintenance of a woodland outdoor learning facility used by 180 primary school children.
- Developed policies and procedures to guide the charity ’ s future work, with particular attention to due diligence and complexities of supporting delivery partners in Africa.
The Charity plans to build on these modest beginnings in its second financial year.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the**
**charity ’ s policy on reserves**
Trustees adopted a reserves policy, (1) as a contingency against unforeseen or unexpected needs. As a new, small charity with no fixed overheads, Trustees agreed to set aside a nominal amount of £500 for this purpose, which we believe is a reasonable and proportional sum at this stage; and (2) to meet planned commitments that could not be met through initial fund raising or future income alone. Trustees agreed to set aside £1,500 for this purpose in accordance with the charity ’ s plans and with the expectation that these funds would be expended in the following financial year.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity ’ s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees ’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity ’ s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Toby Ford **Full name(s)** Tim Woodfine **Date** 20th January 2025
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|**Nature and Community**||**1203361**|||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
1st June 2023|**To**|Period end date
31st March 2024|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,520**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,520**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,520**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,520**
**-**
**-**
**2,520**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,520**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,520**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,520**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,520**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**2,520**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
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**2,520**|||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
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|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
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||**2,520**|**-**|**-**|**2,520**||**-**|
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||**2,520**|**-**|**-**|**2,520**||**-**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
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|**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**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash at Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,520**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,520**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Tim Woodfine
Toby Ford|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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