**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 April 2024 **To** 31 March 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Nature and Community
**Other names charity is known by** none
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1203361
|**red charity number (if any)**|1203361|1203361|
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|**Charity's principal address**|
Acacia Cottage, Midway||
||Chalford Hill||
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||**Postcode**GL6 8EN||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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**
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**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **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 regeneration;
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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 2025 represented only the first full financial year of operation. 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 period, the charity undertook small-scale habitat creation and restoration work, including removal of overgrown vegetation, opening areas of bare ground and sowing British native wildflower seeds for a school nature area in Gloucestershire. Further work was undertaken by Trustees to monitor the establishment of previously planted British native trees, help maintain a woodland outdoor learning area used by local school children, and to collate local biodiversity data to inform conservation planning and decision-making across the Parish.
**Summary of the main** woodland outdoor learning area used by local school children, and to collate **activities undertaken for the** local biodiversity data to inform conservation planning and decision-making **public benefit in relation to** across the Parish. **these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** The charity provided a small grant to a community enterprise, in the rural **had regard to the guidance** village of Kelle in the Zinder region of Niger, to buy a press for the sustainable **issued by the Charity** extraction of oil from the seeds of the _Balanites aegyptiaca_ tree. The **Commission on public** community seeks to conserve these important trees that provide habitat for **benefit)** wildlife as well as shade and forage for livestock, while generating additional income for people.
## **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 performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
During 2024-25 we:
- Raised £1,610 meeting the modest expectations of Trustees during the first full year of the Charity’s existence.
- Undertook habitat creation and restoration work across a hectare of previously species poor amenity grassland in Gloucestershire.
- Sowed seeds of over 50 species of British native wildflowers.
- Monitored establishment of over 400 previously planted British native trees.
- Collated data on the biodiversity of Chalford Parish in Gloucestershire, UK.
- Helped with the maintenance of a woodland outdoor learning facility used by 180 primary school children.
- Provided a grant for a community sustainability enterprise in rural Niger for the purchase of a press for the extraction of oil from the seeds of _Balanites aegyptiaca_ trees.
Relying entirely on the time of Trustees and modest financial resources, these outcomes were in line with the Charity’s expectations for 2024-25.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Trustees have a reserves policy as a contingency against unforeseen or unexpected needs. As a new, small charity with no fixed overheads, Trustees agreed to retain a nominal amount of £500 for this purpose, which we believe is a reasonable and proportional sum at this stage. In addition, Trustees agreed to set aside £1,250 for planned commitments that may not be met through future income alone, 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)**
Tim Woodfine **Full name(s)** Toby Ford **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Treasurer **etc) Date** 06/01/2026
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|**Nature and Community**||**1203361**|||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|1st April 2024
Period start date
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|31st March 2025
Period end date|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,610**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,610**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,610**
**2,872**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,872**
**-**
**-**
**2,872**
**- 1,262**
**-**
**2,520**
**1,258**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,610**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,610**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,610**
**2,872**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,872**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,872**
**- 1,262**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**1,610**|||||**-**|
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|~~**_Sub total_**~~~~_(Gross income for_~~
_AR)_|
**1,610**|||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
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Charitable activities|**2,872**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**2,872**|||||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
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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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||**- 1,262**|**-**|**-**|**- 1,262**||**-**|
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||**2,520**|**-**|**-**|**2,520**||**-**|
||**1,258**|**-**|**-**|**1,258**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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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**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Cash at Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,758**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,758**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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**-**
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Print Name
T. Woodfine|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
06/01/2026
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