## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 April 2023 Period start date To 31 March 2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Friends of Morden Recreation Ground**
## **Charity registration number: 1204348**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE
PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR
RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE
TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS
OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE
OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE
CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE
INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF
BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT
EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PRESERVATION,
PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE
AND IMPROVEMENT OF MORDEN
RECREATION GROUND, MERTON.|
|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|The main activity has been to maintain a
Facebook community of people who use
the Rec, The page has been usedto
publicise local events and services, including
consultations by the Council and the police,
find lost pets and children’s toys, connect with
others to play tennis and football.
Volunteers also took part in litter picking on
four occasions, removing over two skips of
rubbish and 3,000 aluminium cans. Planting
activities included 3 traditional trees, 450
mixed bulbs, ornamental grasses and flowering
plants.
The other activity for the year was securing
£80,000 from the Civic Pride fund to improve
the footpath on one side of the Rec, making a
better surface for pushchairs and bicycles, and
to make a new path from Green Lane through
the copse into the Rec.|
|||The Friends have also started consulting with
park users about the development of the old
putting green area into a community garden.
Advocacy with the Council and contractors
resulted in the restoration of a hedge for local
residents next to the park, and the installation
of a new rubbish bin, as well as the removal of
approximately 15 skips of fly tipping from The
Spinney.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have followed the Charity**
**Commission guidance on public benefit.**|
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**A bank account has been set up in**
**preparation for fundraising, but has not**
**been used as yet. The Civic Pride**
**funding was managed by the Green**
**Spaces team at the Council**|
|---|---|---|
## D **eclarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** A Harper **Full name(s)** Andrea Harper **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 23/01/2025