## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 6 June 2024 Period start date To 5 June 2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: The woodpecker project** ## **Charity registration number: 1204232** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Raise awareness around mental health**
**and train mental health first aiders in**
**gyms and communities around the UK.**
**Create a support network for our trained**
**MHFA’s**| |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|**We successfully trained seven Mental**
**Health First Aiders (MHFA). We expanded**
**last year’s “Do What It Takes” campaign**
**— originally focused on education**
**around the signs and symptoms of poor**
**mental health — into a long**‑**term suicide**
**prevention programme, which has been**
**highly successful in reaching a wider**
**awareness audience.**
**We also created additional video**
**resources to provide support and**
**information on social media, encouraging**
**people to join our support community. In**
**addition, we hosted a public awareness**
**event at a local cinema, which was**
**attended by more than 120 members of**
**the public.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes the trustees have reviewed the**
**guidance and are pleased with the**
**charity’s**
**activities toward public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making 1 |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**This year, the charity welcomed three**
**volunteers who supported social media,**
**administration, and event delivery across**
**eight events over a six**‑**month period.**
**Their involvement at public events**
**strengthened our community**
**engagement, allowing us to speak with**
**more people about mental health**
**awareness.**
**Our social media and admin volunteers**
**assisted with monitoring accounts,**
**posting awareness videos, and managing**
**follow**‑**up outreach after events. All**
**volunteers agreed to our volunteer policy**
**and were excellent representatives of the**
**charity’s ethos.**| |Other||| ## **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|**Attracted 24 applications for MHFA**
**training — double last year’s interest —**
**and successfully trained 7 new Mental**
**Health First Aiders, significantly**
**strengthening our community support**
**capacity.**
**- The London2Paris challenge amplified**
**our reach to 150,000 people (five times**
**our usual audience) and generated**
**£11,500 in vital fundraising, dramatically**
**increasing visibility and engagement.**
**- Delivered an online challenge that**
**mobilised 25 participants to actively**
**fundraise or champion mental health**
**awareness, expanding our grassroots**
**advocacy.**
**- Produced a powerful mental health**
**awareness video campaign sharing an**
**individual’s lived experience. The cinema**
**screening drew 120 attendees, raised**
**£7,500, and the campaign’s wider release**
**reached 300,000 viewers — our largest**
**audience to date.**
**- Our growing public presence prompted**
**multiple individuals to seek help through**
**our social media channels. We were able**
**to guide each person toward appropriate**| 2 **----- Start of picture text -----**
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objectives set
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activities against objectives Para 1.41
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Investment performance Para 1.41
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3 ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of the period the charity had a**
**balance of £27,325 and nothing was**
**owed.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**As the charity operates with low**
**overheads, our policy states that we will**
**maintain reserves sufficient to cover six**
**months of operational costs. This**
**ensures we can continue delivering our**
**charitable objectives without interruption**
**and provides adequate time to secure**
**additional fundraising if needed.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**The period opened with a reserve of**
**£6,325 and will maintain a reserve of**
**£10,000 for the year.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A - No Material Deficit**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| 4 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||The charity is governed by a board
of trustees.| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Charity constitution.| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO with no view for corporate expansion.| |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|Trustees are nominated by a board
member, and chosen via interview.
Trustees must have the right skills and
expertise to lead the charity effectively
and the application and interview are
evidence based. The applicant must pass
a unanimous vote for successful election
as a trustee. Trustees are
reviewed/re-elected every three years.| ## **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|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Woodpecker Project| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charity number|1204232| |Charity’s principal address|12 Foxley Lane, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 3AB| 5 ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of**
**person (or**
**body)**
**entitled to**
**appoint**
**trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Amanda Wyman|Chair|Appointed 22/08/2024|| ||Oliver Bullen|||| ||Ben Pirt||Appointed 07/08/2025|| ||Ben Butler||Appointed 12/06/2025|| ||Charles Mears||August 7th 2023 -
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**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| ||||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** 7 ## **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)** Amanda Wyman **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 05/05/2026 8 **CC16a** **Charity No (if any) Name THE WOODEPECKER PROJECT 1204232** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the** Period **To** Period end date **period** start date **from** 06/06/202 05/06/202 4 5 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A**
**Receipts and**
**payments**|**Section A**
**Receipts and**
**payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Unrestricte**
**d funds**

**to the nearest**
**£**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**31,924**
CAF
**2,527**
Other
**1,101**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross_
_income for AR)_
**35,552**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table). **
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**35,552**
**A3 Payments**
Operational Costs
IncludingStaffing
**5,916**
Events
**2,297**
Awareness and
Marketing
**4,818**||**Restricte**
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**-**
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**nt funds**
**to the**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**31,924**
**2,527**
**1,101**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,552**
**-**
**-**
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**5,916**
**2,297**
**4,818**|**Last year**
**to the**
**nearest £**| ||||||**9,326**| ||||||**262**| ||||||**23**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**9,612**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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IncludingStaffing|**5,916**||||**242**| |Events|**2,297**||||**105**| |Awareness and
Marketing|**4,818**||||**1,590**| ||||||9| |MHFA Training|MHFA Training||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**1,521**|||**-**|||**-**||**1,521**||**1,350**|| |||**-**|||||||||||| ||||||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**||||||||||||| |||**14,552**|||**-**|||**-**||**14,552**||**3,287**|| ||||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and**|||||||||||||| |**investment**|||||||||||||| |**purchases, (see**|||||||||||||| |**table)**|||||||||||||| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| ||**_Sub total_**||||||||||||| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||||||||| |**_Total_**|**_payments_**|**15,147**||**-**|||**-**|||**15,147**||**4,410**|| ||||||||||||||| ||**_Net of_**||||||||||||| |**_receipts/(paymen_**||**21,000**|||**-**|||**-**||**21,000**||**5,201**|| ||**_ts)_**||||||||||||| |**A5 Transfers**|||||||||||||| |**between**|**funds**|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash**|**funds last**||||||||||||| |**year end**||**6,325**|||**-**|||**-**||**6,325**||**-**|| |**_Cash funds this_**|||||||||||||| ||**_year end_**|**27,325**|||**-**|||**-**||**27,325**||**5,201**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Categories Details Unrestrict Restricte Endowme ed funds d funds nt funds to nearest £ to nearest to nearest £ £ 27,325 - - - - - - - -** _**Total cash**_ **27,325 - -** _**fund** s_ (agree balances with receipts and Agreement OK OK payments account(s)) Error ## **B1 Cash funds** 10 **----- Start of picture text -----**
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approval| |---|---|---| ||Amanda
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Report to the trustees/ Charity Name
members of
The Woodpecker Project
On accounts for the year 5 June 2025 Charity no 1204232
ended (if any)
Set out on pages 9 - 12
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity
(“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/06/2025 .
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As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the **Responsibilities and basis of** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the **report** Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 13 ## **Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Date: 7 May 2026
Signed:
Name: P M Landergan
Relevant professional ICAEW Member 7643305 (FCA
qualification(s) or body (if
any):
Address: Landergan & Co Ltd
26 Burney Street
London, SE10 8EX
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## **Section B Disclosure** > [Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, ] Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 14 **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 15