## **The Black Mountains Land Use Partnership CIO**
**Annual Report and Financial statements For the 16 months ending 31[st] March 2025**
**Registered Charity Number 1206012**
**The Black Mountains Land Use Partnership CIO**
## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT**
For the 16 months ending 31[st] March 2025
## **Introduction**
The trustees are pleased to present their annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the period from 1[st] December 2023 to 31[st] March 2025.
## **Reference and Administrative Details of the Charity, its Trustees and Advisors**
Charity Name The Black Mountains Land Use Partnership Registered Charity Number 1206012 Address Glanusk Estate Office Glanusk Estate Crickhowell Powys NP8 1LP Trustees Philip Stocker Chair and first charity trustee Iain Paterson First charity trustee Harry Legge-Bourke First charity trustee Dorian Thomas First charity trustee Jeffrey Gwillim First charity trustee Sian Davies First charity trustee Bankers Lloyds Bank plc 98 Victoria Street London SW1E 5JL
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**The Black Mountains Land Use Partnership CIO**
**TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT** For the 16 months ending 31[st] March 2025
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## How the charity is constituted
The Black Mountains Land Use Partnership is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, Foundation Model. The only voting members are the charity Trustees. We have adopted the Charity Commission Model Constitution to ensure that we comply with the Charities Act 2022 and the General Regulations. This helps us to ensure that we
- reflect recommended best practice; and
- are legally compliant.
## Appointment of Trustees
Trustees are appointed for their individual knowledge, experience and skills that are considered essential to ensure the charity’s effective administration and its continued sustainability, growth and development. Trustees are appointed by the Board of Trustees in a properly convened meeting.
There must be no fewer than three nor more than twelve trustees. At all times there should be an equal number of trustees appointed from each of the three categories, namely Unassociated, Landowner or Grazier.
## Additional Governance
There are Associate Members of the charity which the trustees have called the Support Group. The role of the Support Group is governed by a Terms of Reference which lays out how the Group interacts with, and informs decisions of, the trustees.
The trustees and all members of the Support Group are expected to adhere to the Code of Behaviour which has been drawn up and approved by the Board of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees has approved the policy for the handling of the personal data of all members of the Support Group and which follow the GDPR guidelines.
A Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) is in place with the statutory bodies (Natural Resources Body for Wales, Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water, Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority). The MOU sets out a framework through which the statutory bodies seek to enhance the delivery of mutual objectives by sharing knowledge and information and to work cooperatively and in collaboration in conserving, protecting and enhancing the sustainable management of the Black Mountains for the benefit of its environs, communities and visitors.
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**The Black Mountains Land Use Partnership CIO**
## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT**
For the 16 months ending 31[st] March 2025
## **Objects**
The object of the CIO is to promote the conservation, protection and enhancement of the Black Mountains (the mountain range within South and East Wales and West England) and surrounding areas for the public benefit by:
- Advancing the public and local communities’ awareness and understanding of conservation and preservation of the Black Mountains region;
- Promoting technological advances in eco and agricultural farming practices;
- Conducting research into conservation and land management and by disseminating such useful research to the general public, farmers and graziers; and
- Collaborating with national bodies and other relevant stakeholders to ensure long term conservation of the Black Mountains for the benefit of future generations.
## **Activities**
There were three meetings of the Trustees held during the sixteen month period to 31[st] March 2025. Two of these meetings were held with representatives from the statutory bodies being present.
The Trustees have put in place the foundations for the administration of the charity and have made initial enquiries about possible funding opportunities. They have also discussed the ranking of the various projects that are needed in order to complete the objects of the charity.
The Trustees have set up a Visitor Management Committee with the particular remit to liaise with both those who are organising events over the Black Mountains and the statutory bodies in order to make sure that any possible damage to the environment due to heavy usage is kept to an absolute minimum.
## Statement of Public Benefit
No project activity was undertaken.
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**The Black Mountains Land Use Partnership CIO**
## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT**
For the 16 months ending 31[st] March 2025
## **Statement of Trustees Responsibilities**
The charity trustees are responsible for preparing a trustees’ annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards.
The charity trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of incoming resources and application of resources. In preparing financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The charity trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Approved by the Trustees on 29[th] July 2025 and signed on their behalf by:**
## **Phil Stocker, Chairman**
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**Charity Name No (if any) The Black Mountains Land Use Partnership 1206012 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1st December 2023 31st March 2025
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
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**816**
**288**
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**1 104**
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**1 104**
**- 1 104**
**10 534**
**9 430**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
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**funds**
**to the nearest £**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
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**816**
**288**
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**1 104**
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**1 104**
**- 1 104**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
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**816**
**288**
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**-**
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**1 104**
**-**
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**-**
**1 104**
**- 1 104**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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|Insurance|**816**|||||**-**|
|Publicityand Communications|**288**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**1 104**|||||**-**|
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|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
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||**10 534**|**-**|**-**|**10 534**||**-**|
||**9 430**|**-**|**-**|**9 430**||**-**|
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