## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period** **From: 1/4/24 Period start date** **To: 31/3/25 Period end date** **Charity name: Cornwall Rural Education and Skills Trust CIO (known as CREST)** **Charity registration number: 1204462** **Company number: NA** ## **Objectives and activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To promote the preservation of rural crafts
and skills for the public benefit, providing
and promoting the advancement of
education, instruction and training in all such
rural skills and crafts as the trustees in their
discretion consider worthy of promotion,
protection and preservation.| |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|ACTIVITIES:
•
Lantra Hedging courses –
Introductory, Foundation and
Intermediate courses
•
Stone Dressing Workshops
•
Enhanced Skills Hedging Workshops
•
Skills Consolidation Hedging Training
•
School Hedge Craft workshops
•
Taster and Practice Hedging
Activities
•
Work Experience Hedging Days
•
Final Assessment Days for Hedging
Craftspeople Trainees
•
Engagement Events at Agricultural,
Heritage and Horticultural Shows
•
Training Site Open Days
•
Engagement talks and lectures on
hedging and rural skills
•
Research work on hedging and
related rural skills to support the
development of training
•
Educational Hedge Value workshops| |||Please note: The majority of activities are
serviced as part of a funded partnership
agreement where the funds are handled by
the partner. This agreement ended 31/3/25.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity|Para 1.18|CREST Compliance Checklist states that:
_“Administration for appointing trustees_
_includes Trustee CVs, Fit and Proper Person_
_Declaration and Trustee Declaration forms.”_| |Commission on public benefit||The CREST Constitution states that every
new trustee receives an up-to-date copy of
the constitution which covers public benefit in
Section 6.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |

Policy on grant making


|

Para 1.38|NA| |

Policy on social investment
including program related
investment

|

Para 1.38|NA| NA Contribution made by Para 1.38 volunteers NA Other ## **Achievements and performance** |


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|
|CREST Project funded by Defra Farming in
Protected Landscapes (FiPL) hosted by
Cornwall Heritage Trust as grant holder with
CREST as the project delivery organisation

**Headlines from year 2**

-
During year 2, CREST trained 131
new trainees in hedging courses,
plus an additional 16 new trainees
who joined taster days, totaling
147 new trainees engaged in
Cornish hedging. This increased
our total number of individual
trainees for Cornish hedging
training from 68 (Year 1 total) to
215 individual trainees since
August 2023.
-
In year 2, there were 173 training
places used for Cornish hedging
training including Lantra
Introduction, Foundation and
intermediate courses, skills
consolidation days, work
experience days and a unique 2-
day introduction course for
Cornwall Wildlife Trust volunteers
which was not registered with
Lantra so that we could teach a
higher number of people.| |---|---|---|---| - Additional to this, there were 27 training places used on practice day events and 18 training places for stone carving. - 24% of the year 2 training places were used by women, 26% of all year 2 trainees were women. This is an improvement on Year 1 when the total of trainees who were women was 19%. - Of the 6 trainees progressing to become hedging trainers, 2 are women (33%). - In Year 2, 23 trainees progressed to their Intermediate Certificate and all but one of them passed. In year 1, we identified 30 trainees who were interested in becoming craftspeople of Cornish hedging. Of these, 16 have maintained interest and continued their training, an additional 11 trainees expressed an interest in becoming a craftsperson, many of which have completed their intermediate certificate and the rest intend to continue training in 2025. - The oldest trainee in year 2 was aged 82 and the youngest were aged 16. 14% of trainees were aged 16 - 25. 26% of trainees were aged 26-35 and this was proportionally the largest age group for year 2. 22% were aged 36 - 49, 24% were aged 50 - 64. 13% were over the age of 64. - 105 people have booked the 11 workshops in year 2 (9 of which have been delivered) - CREST delivered 2 school workshops, one for Godolphin school and one for a group of home schooled children. - CREST delivered 39 Cornish hedging training events adding up to 139 days of training in either Cornish hedging or stone carving. - 43 Bursary places were used in year 2. 20 of these were Volunteer bursaries used on Penwith Farms Introduction courses. 23 of these were either 50% or 100% Financial Hardship bursaries. - 32% of financial hardship bursaries were ‘50% bursaries’ and 68% were ‘100% bursaries’. - £5,222.50 of financial hardship bursaries were awarded and £3,600 for volunteer bursaries. - The majority of financial hardship bursaries (48%) were awarded to trainees aged 1525. A further 27% were awarded to trainees aged 2635. - The majority of volunteer bursary places were awarded to Cornwall Wildlife Trust (59%) and National Trust volunteers (32%). - The volunteers CREST trained give over 300 hours of volunteer time a month between them. **In year 2, CREST delivered:** - 5 work experience days (Penwith Farms) - 9 Hedge Value workshops so far with another 2 being booked. - 4 Penwith Farm surveys are imminent - 6 new Hedging trainers start their training package in Feb 2025 - We anticipate approximately 10 advanced certificate bookings **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

Achievements against
objectives set





|

Para 1.41


|Included in summary above| |---|---|---| |

Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set

|

Para 1.41|Included in summary above| |

Investment performance
against objectives

|

Para 1.41|NA| Other ## **Financial review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Bank accounts**
Lloyds account £3224.53
Paypal account £739.99
**Net assets £3946.53**| |---|---|---| |||**Beneficiaries - Net profit £3946.53**| |||**Total funds £3946.53**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|NA| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£2000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|NA| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|NA| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|NA
| **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|Grant funding
Membership
Sponsorship
Donations of craft build materials| |---|---|---| |

Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted
|

Para 1.46|NA| |

A description of the principal
risks facing the charity

|

Para 1.46|The success of the FiPL Cornish Hedging
project has generated more work than is
sustainable on a volunteer level and CREST
needs to source funding to support a paid
staff team to take the charity forwards
beyond FiPl funding and fulfil potential.| |
Other

||| ## **Structure, governance and management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25
|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?for example
limited company,
unincorporated association,
CIO|Para 1.25|CIO – Charitable Incorporated Organisation| |---|---|---| |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|**13.**

1.

**Appointment of charity trustees**
At the first annual general meeting of
the members of the CIO all the
charity trustees shall retire from
office;
2. At every subsequent annual general
meeting of the members of the CIO,
one-third of the charity trustees shall
retire from office. If the number of
charity trustees is not three or a
multiple of three, then the number
nearest to one-third shall retire from
office, but if there is only one charity
trustee, he or she shall retire;
3.

The charity trustees to retire by
rotation shall be those who have
been longest in office since their last
appointment or reappointment. If any
trustees were last appointed or
reappointed on the same day those
to retire shall (unless they otherwise
agree among themselves) be
determined by lot;
4.
The vacancies so arising may be
filled by the decision of the members
at the annual general meeting; any
vacancies not filled at the annual
general meeting may be filled as
provided in sub-clause (5) of this
clause;
5.

The members or the charity trustees
may at any time decide to appoint a
new charity trustee, whether in place
of a charity trustee who has retired or
been removed in accordance with
clause 15 (Retirement and removal
of charity trustees), or as an
additional charity trustee, provided
that the limit specified in clause 12(3)
on the number of charity trustees
would not as a result be exceeded;| 6. A person so appointed by the members of the CIO shall retire in accordance with the provisions of sub-clauses (2) and (3) of this clause. A person so appointed by the charity trustees shall retire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting after the date of his or her appointment, and shall not be counted for the purpose of determining which of the charity trustees is to retire by rotation at that meeting. |||6. A person so appointed by the members
of the CIO shall retire in accordance
with the provisions of sub-clauses (2)
and (3) of this clause. A person so
appointed by the charity trustees shall
retire at the conclusion of the next
annual general meeting after the date
of his or her appointment, and shall
not be counted for the purpose of
determining which of the charity
trustees is to retire by rotation at that
meeting.| |---|---|---| |||| |**Additional Information(optional)**||| |Policies
and
procedures
adopted for the induction
and trainingof trustees|Para 1.51|It is recommended that new Trustees read: The
essential trustee:what you need to know, what you
need to do(CC3)Gov.Uk(www.gov.uk)| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
networks with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The CREST main committee is a board of 7
Trustees which inlcude the foles of Chair and
Secretary, plus a Support Advisor from Cornwall
Council.
The committee also includes the roles of Training
Development Officer and Strategic Development
Officer.
The finance Committee consists of the Chair,
Secretary and an aditional appointed Trustee, as
agreed by the main committee and is subject to
terms of reference to the main committee. CREST
works closely with Cornwall Heritage Trust who
host the FiPL funded project and whose CEO
attends CREST Main committee meetings as
often as possible. CREST also works with The
National Trust, Cornwall Wildlife Trust (Upstream
Thinking Volunteers) and Cornwall National
Landscapes through hedging training course
deliveryand Education.| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|N/A| |Other||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Reference and administrative details** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |Trustee Name|Office (if any)|Dates acted if not
for wholeyear|Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee(if any)| |---|---|---|---| |Sara Davey|Chair|Whole Year|Approved byMain Committee| ||||Confirmed chair:
24/7/24|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Helen Bowkett|Secreatary
Strategcic
Development Officer||Whole year|Approved by Main Committee| |Andrew
Cockshaw|Trustee
Training Development
Officer||Whole year|Approved by Main Committee| |Helen Willett|Trustee||Whole Year|Approved byMain Committee| |Tim Scott-Ellis|Trustee||Appointed 24/7/24|Approved byMain Committee| |David Paton|Trustee||Whole Year|Approved by Main Committee| |Natalia Eeernsten|Trustee||Appointed 24/7/24|Approved by Main Committee| |||||| |Charityname||Cornwall Rural Education and Skills Trust CIO||| |Other name the charityuses||CREST||| |Registered charity number||1204462||| |Charity’s principal address||Woodside, Stennack ,Troon, Camborne, Cornwall, TR14 9JY||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|NA| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|NA| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|NA| **Additional information (optional)** **Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** Cornwall Ann Reynolds Kresen Kernow, Li,le Vauxhall, Redruth TR15 1AS Council Historic Environmental Records **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional information)** None **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **NA** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors** **Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (for example Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** CREST CIO Balance Sheet |Bank Accounts
Lloyds Account
3224.53
Paypal
739.99
Net Assets
Benefciaries
Net proft
3946.53
Total Funds|£
£3,946.53
£3,946.53
£3,946.53
£3,946.53| |---|---| Page 1of 1 CREST CIO |Income
Botany Workshop
90
Medicinal Plants Workshop
242.50
Geology Walk and Talk
395
Sketchbook Walk
120
Archaeology Walk and Talk
372.50
Medicine Making
120
Bodmin Geolology Walk
142.50
Bodmin Archaeology
485
Hedge-ucate!
390
Permaculture
480
Letter Cutting
1200
Wildlife Tracking
200
Lovelands Training
575
Memberships
400
Hedging Formers
180
Consolidation of Bank Accounts
£200
Expenses
Transfer to CHT
2225
Course booking refunds
45
Archaeology Walk fees
100
CREST trainer fees
275
Hedge-ucate fees
320
Lantra Annual Fee
744
Bank charges
73.57
Net proft|£
£5682.50
£3782.57
£1,899.93| |---|---| Page 1 of 1