## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01/04/2024 Period start date To 31/03/2025 Period end date**
**Charity name: FRIENDS OF BOLEHILL WOOD Charity registration number: 1203979**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The objects of the CIO are, for the public**
**benefit of the local community, the**
**conservation of the environment of**
**Bolehill Wood, Sheffield S8, in particular**
**but not exclusively by (a) promoting good**
**woodland management (b) opposing any**
**detrimental use (c) raising funds to buy**
**any available part of Bolehill Wood to**
**manage it on behalf of the local**
**community (d) advancing the education**
**of the local community regarding local**
**conservation and wildlife.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Main activities:**
-
**Submitting Local Green Space**
**Designation Application to Local**
**Authority**
-
**Registered as Ancient Woodland**
-
**Raised awareness of woodland**
**and wildlife amongst local**
**community**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**They have had regard to the guidance**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Drafting of submission documents to**
**Local Authority and other bodies – see**
**achievements and performance below**|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**First year of operating as a charity.**
**Significant achievements include:**
-
**Submitting Local Green Space**
**Designation Application to Local**
**Authority**
-
**Registered as Ancient Woodland**
-
**Raised awareness of woodland**
**and wildlife amongst local**
**community**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**No objectives set**|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Reserves at 31st March 2025:**
**£12,496.61**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves held with intention of**
**attempting to buy woodland (or portions**
**thereof) if and when they become**
**available**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£12,496.61**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No uncertainties at present**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Personal Donations**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**No risks facing charity. Risks around**
**stated aims in line with general**
**conservation risks.**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**N/A**|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Memorandum and articles of**
**association**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Volunteer based.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Induction – reading articles of**
**association**
**Training- none**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Trustees with chair, secretary and**
**treasurer**
**Members (non-paid)**
**Quarterly committee meetings – open to**
**trustees and all members – for decision**
**making**
**Annual AGM with members**|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A**|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|**FRIENDS OF BOLEHILL WOOD**|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|**N/A**|
|Registered charity number|**1203979**|
|Charity’s principal address|**15A COBNAR AVENUE**
**SHEFFIELD**
**S8 8RL**|
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Penelope Dembo**|N/A||Whole Year||N/A|
||**Christopher**
**Robinson**|N/A||Whole Year||N/A|
||**Nicola Eastburn**|N/A||Whole Year||N/A|
||**Jennifer Marsden-**
**Lambert**|N/A||Whole Year||N/A|
||**Robin Scott**|N/A||Whole Year||N/A|
||**Kathleen Jordan**|N/A||Whole Year||N/A|
||**Pauline Zelaieta**|N/A||Whole Year||N/A|
||**Matthew Falconer**|N/A||Whole Year||N/A|
||Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
**N/A**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name**
**Dates acted if not for whole year**
**N/A**||||||
||**Director name**||||||
||**N/A**||||||
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||**Trustee name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**||||
||**N/A**||||||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|**No assets held in this capacity**|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|**N/A**|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|**N/A**|
**Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**N/A**|||
|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
|**N/A**|||
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **N/A**
## **Other optional information**
## **N/A**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc) **
**Date**||Penny Dembo|
|---|---|---|
||CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON|PENELOPE DEMBO|
||
TREASURER|CHAIR|
||20thNovember 2024||
||20thNovember 2024||