## **Charity Trustees Annual Report**
**Charity Name** : Project Planet Earth
**Charity Registration Number** : 1204914
**Year Ended** : 26/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
**Date of Report** : 25 th June 2025
## **Table of Contents**
1. Introduction
2. Objectives and Activities
## 3. Achievements and Performance
4. Financial Review
5. Structure, Governance, and Management
6. Future Plans
7. Acknowledgments
## **1. Introduction**
The trustees present their annual report and the accounts of Project Planet Earth for the year ending 31/08/2024. This report provides a summary of our activities, achievements, and financial position, demonstrating our commitment to transparency and accountability in relation to our charitable objectives.
## **2. Objectives and Activities**
Project Planet Earth has been established to help decrease plastic pollution in the environment and raise awareness on the subject.
We provide free school talks and school collaborations to raise awareness of plastic pollution and to inspire children and their families to make changes that benefit the environment.
We organise and collaborate on beach clean events to directly remove plastic from beaches. This action has direct environmental benefit and helps build awareness of plastic pollution and promotes engagement with local communities.
We support our ambassadors to maintain a social media presence as a way of maintaining public awareness of plastic pollution and helping to build a community of support for people making lifestyle changes that decrease plastic pollution.
We promote and support events that highlight ocean health and actions needed to reduce harmful plastic uses.
In pursuit of these objectives, we carried out the following activities
during the year:
**School events** : we delivered 15 school talks and collaborations. These included assembly presentations and eco project events
**Beach Cleans:** we completed 28 beach cleans and removed 1328kg of plastic. We collaborate with a local recycling business and donate sorted recyclable plastic to them. We engaged with over 129 volunteers from the general public who joined our beach cleaning .
**Awareness Events** : we participated in 12 community events; including presenting at a film festival, running stalls at community festivals and supporting local community litter picking and talks.
**Social media activity** : we have launched our website which has been supported entirely by donations of time and expertise. Our social media presence is linked to our instagram account where our founding member has above 8000 followers.
## **3. Achievements and Performance**
During our first year as a charity we have achieved significant milestones:
- 1) Becoming a charity : We have been a group of individuals all doing our own things to decrease plastic pollution. Now we are working as a team with a strategy and organisation in place to try sustain and harness our energy. Helping connect with, and build a wider community of environmentally conscious and active citizens has been an important shift in focus for us.
- 2) Connecting with so many of our local schools. Our founding ambassador Oly Rush has a unique ability to inspire others to get active in reducing plastic pollution. The feedback from schools has been fantastic. Children have been inspired, have engaged in their school eco projects and families have frequently then joined some of our local beach cleaning activities.
- 3) Sustaining beach cleans: This could quickly become a thankless overwhelming activity given the endless nature of marine plastic pollution. By linking our beach cleans with social interactions and celebrating the positive action we have helped sustain this activity. We are particularly pleased to have had over 129 members of the public join us and from one particular site at Chapmans pool we have removed over a tonne of plastic in one year.
## **4. Financial Review**
Summary of Financial Performance:
Total Income was £17 961 : Corporate donations £2800 , grants £2780, fundraising events £10 171.86, Speaker engagements £2210
Total Expenditure was £ 6603.91: Our main spends have been £3268.71 funding our sole employee at present to do school talks including time and travel expenses. £1368.86 on equipment needed for festival events. We have recorded as a spend £1773.43 which we paid to a charity healthy seas. This was a 50 % share of all donations received from a sea swim challenge. The event was advertised with explicit information about a 50 % share of any donations going to health seas as it was a joint event. We recorded all donations from that event as our income and hence recording the 50% share as a paid expense.
Our detailed accounts are included in appendix 1 .
Net Assets: Our charity has no net assets.
Financial Reserves Policy: The charity aims to maintain a reserve of £2000 to cover expected costs around administration and IT systems .
## **5. Structure, Governance, and Management**
The charity is governed by a board of trustees who were appointed during the year 2023.
Our trustees during the 2023- 2024 period were:
- 1) Cathy Lewis
- 2) Nicholas Baker
- 3) Rebekah Harris
- 4) Stuart Purcell
The charity operates under a constitution that guides decision-making, supported by our policies and procedures. Our governing document outlines our working practices and regular meetings are held to ensure effective governance and compliance.
Our guiding principles are to ensure full transparency of all activities and finances and to harness a volunteering spirit in all our activities.
We are meticulous in ensuring there are no personal gains for trustees and no vested interest being forwarded by trustees.
We have developed risk policies for our beach clean events and activities at community festivals.
All school work done by our ambassadors is done alongside teachers at school premises in school time and approved by head teachers.
## **6. Future Plans**
We are looking forward to:
- 1) Consolidating our governance and operating procedures so that our charity can manage expanded activities.
- 2) Enhancing our school offer: we want to help several local schools expand their eco hub activities. We have had initial consultations with deputy heads at 2 schools and the potential is there for exciting projects.
- 3) Local collaborations for monthly beach cleans.
- 4) Financial Sustainability: Focus on enhancing fundraising strategies to secure future income.
## **7. Acknowledgments**
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to our volunteers, ambassadors and community partners. We are indebted to several larger charities who continue to promote awareness and actions at a national and international level.
## **Conclusion**
As trustees of Project Planet Earth, we remain committed to our mission and are dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of governance
and accountability. We thank all our supporters for their contributions and look forward to another year of service and impact.
## **Signature of Chair of Trustees**
**I confirm that all current trustees have read and approved this**
**report .**
____ _____________________
Stuart Purcell
Chair of Trustees 26th June 2025
|**Date Description**
**Outgoings**
**In**
9
1/9/2023 Donations Brought Forward
5,556.67
9
27/9/2023 Donations
9.46
9
29/9/2023 Donations
48.30
10
3/10/2023 Donations
96.85
10
04/10/2023 Donations
9.46
10
17/10/2023 Donations
11.4
10
30/10/2023 Oly Consultancy
447.04
11
28/11/2023 Oly Consultancy
480
12
20/12/2023 GOOGLE
4.6
12
21/12/2023 Oly Consultancy
213
1
8/1/2024 GOOGLE
7.71
2
5/2/2024 Oly Consultancy
446.24
2
5/2/2024 HEALTHY SEAS
1773.43
2
5/2/2024 INTRA BANK ACCOUNT TRANSFER
2360.12
2
07/02/2024 ADMIN
10
2
07/02/2024 ADMIN
9.2
2
07/02/2024 ADMIN
0.6
3
7/3/2024 ADMIN
9
Surplus / Def
7/3/2024 ADMIN
9.2
1
18/1/2024 PLANET WIMBORNE CI PWCIC GREEN
FESTIV
75.00
1
25/1/2024 PAYPAL CODE 4193
0.01
2
5/2/2024 INTRA BANK ACCOUNT TRANSFER
2,360.12
2
7/2/2024 3171 TEEMILL TECH
32.42
2
19/2/2024 3171 TEEMILL TECH
29.58
3
11/3/2024 Oliver Rush PPE
219.75
3
14/3/2024 GOOGLE GG103I9TL2
0.34
3
21/3/2024 CAF24031821319CF 24031821319CF
385.60
3
21/3/2024 ADYEN N.V. TX39884212900XT DB
502.38
3
22/3/2024 ADYEN N.V. TX39912556500XT DC
154.60
4
9/4/2024 CAF2404042007CF 2404042007CF
10.00
4
11/4/2024 Oliver Rush march
213.00
4
16/4/2024 3171 TEEMILL TECH
187.56
4
16/4/2024 ADYEN N.V. TX40401871800XT DZ
96.85
4
22/4/2024 ADYEN N.V. TX40524472100XT 1F
4.60
4
23/4/2024 The Sturminster Ma WI DONATION
60.00
4
29/4/2024 HARRIS R K Worth Night
150.00|**BA 1**
5,556.67
5,566.13
5,614.43
5,711.28
5,720.74
5,732.14
5,285.10
4,805.10
4,800.50
4,587.50
4,579.79
4,133.55
2,360.12
-
10.00
0.80
0.20
9.20
-
|**BA2**
75.00
75.01
2,435.13
2,402.71
2,373.13
2,153.38
2,153.72
2,539.32
3,041.70
3,196.30
3,206.30
2,993.30
2,805.74
2,902.59
2,907.19
2,967.19
3,117.19|**INTRA**
**BANK TRANSFERS**
-2360.12
2,360.12
|
|---|---|---|---|
|5
5
5
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
8
8
8
8
8
8|3/5/2024 ADYEN N.V. TX40792034100XT 1S
19.17
8/5/2024 Green Folk Ltd charity donation
1,000.00
10/5/2024 PAYPAL PPWDL5RTJ22223B374
972.51
14/5/2024 Oliver Rush April Invoice
283.50
3/6/2024 Cooporative Grant
500.00
17/6/2024 Oliver Rush May Invoice
240.55
18/6/2024 Eco Label - litter pickers
50.98
19/6/2024 Circular - litter pickers
150.00
19/6/2024 Waterhaul - litter pickers
340.51
26/6/2024 Freemasons Cheque
400.00
1/7/2024 Annual Insurance - Greenwood
184.95
3/7/2024 Yarrells
2,000.00
3/7/2024 Go Fund Me and Paypal
448.23
5/7/2024 Oly invoice costs
447.75
16/7/2024 Invoice 8395: Tent Walls
412.80
17/7/2024 Donation MSP Capital
1,000.00
18/7/2024 Donation Green Folk
400.00
29/7/2024 Tshirts: Swanage Festival
165.01
1/8/2024 Oly invoice costs
277.88
7/8/2024 Go Fund Me and Paypal
28.88
16/8/2024 Lush Grant
2,280.00
20/8/2024 Gofundme
8.49
22/8/2024 Gofundme
38.59
30/8/2024 PayPal
1,694.82|
|3,136.36
4,136.36
5,108.87
4,825.37
5,325.37
5,084.82
5,033.84
4,883.84
4,543.33
4,943.33
4,758.38
6,758.38
7,206.61
6,758.86
6,346.06
7,346.06
7,746.06
7,581.05
7,303.17
7,332.05
9,612.05
9,620.54
9,659.13
11,353.95|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||11,353.95|-|
||||||
|**Income**
**Income**
**Income**
**Income**
**Grants**
**Talks**
**Events**
**Corporate**
5,556.67
9.46
48.30
96.85
9.46
11.40
75.00
385.60
502.38
154.60
10.00
96.85
4.60
60.00
150.00|**Expenses**
**Expenses**
**Healthy Seas Expenses**
**Invoices: Oly /**
**Photography**
**Kit**
**Sundry**
447.04
480
4.6
213
7.71
446.24
1773.43
-10
9.2
0.6
-9
9.2
(0.01)
32.42
29.58
219.75
(0.34)
213.00
187.56|
|---|---|
|19.17
1,000.00
972.51
500.00
400.00
2,000.00
448.23
1,000.00
400.00
28.88
2280
8.49
38.59
1,694.82|283.50
240.55
50.98
150.00
340.51
184.95
447.75
412.80
165.01
277.88|
|---|---|
|2,780.00
2,210.00
10,171.86
2,800.00|3,268.71
1,368.86
1,773.43
196.91|
|||
|**Month**
**Income**
Grants
Talks
Events
Corporate
**Total Income**
**Outgoings**
Oly consultancy
Kit
Healthy Seas
Sundry
**Surplus / Deficit**|**Sept**
**Oct**
**Nov**
**Dec**
**Jan**
**Feb**
**Mar**
**April**
**9**
**10**
**11**
**12**
**1**
**2**
**3**
**4**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
210
5,614
118
-
-
75
-
1,043
111
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|
||5,614
118
-
-
75
-
1,043
321|
||-
447
480
213
-
446
220
213
-
-
-
-
-
62
-
188
-
-
-
-
-
1,773
-
-
-
-
-
4.60
7.70
(0.20)
(9.34)
-|
||-
447
480
218
8
2,281
210
401|
|||
||5,614
(329)
(480)
(218)
67
(2,281)
832
(79)|
|**May**||**Jun**||**Jul**||**Aug**||**Total**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**5**||**6**||**7**||**8**||||
||-||500||-||2,280|2,780|||
||-||-||2,000||-|2,210|||
||992||-||448||1,771|10,172|||
||1,000||400||1,400||-|2,800|||
||1,992||900||3,848||4,051|17,962|-||
||284||241||448||278|3,269|||
||-||541||578||-|1,369|||
||-||-||-||-|1,773|||
||-||-||185||-|188|||
||284||782||1,211||278|6,599|-||
||||||||||||
||1,708||118||2,638||3,773|11,363||9|