## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

**Period start date Period end date From 20 Feb 2024 To 31 Mar 2025** 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

## **Charity name** 

The High Leasowes Trust 

**Other names charity is known by** 

None 

**Registered charity number (if any)** 1207101 

**Charity's principal address** 60 High Street Church Stretton 

## **Postcode SY6 6BY** 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

**Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled** 

- 1 Sandra Whitlock Chair 

- 2 William Dunne Vice-chair 3 John Rowlands Treasurer 4 Peter Whitlock Administrator 5 Cherril WilsonSecretary 10.12.24 onwards 6 Alison Jones 10.12.24 onwards 7 Chris Naylor 18.03.25 onwards 8 Graham Porter 18.03.25 onwards 9 Peter Carty Up to 27.11.24 

- 10 Steve Rooney Up to 02.09.24 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of adviser** 

**Name** 

**Address** 

## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Type of governing document Constitution - dated 08.02.2024 

- (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation with voting members other than its (eg. trust, association, company) charity trustees 

Trustee selection methods Elected from membership 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; 

- relationship with any related parties; 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 


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**Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** 

For the public benefit, to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment of the Strettons and their surrounding area by promoting biodiversity, in particular, but not exclusively by: 

acquiring, leasing and managing land containing diverse connected habitats rich in plants, trees and wildlife; 

maintaining and monitoring the site for the purpose of promoting biodiversity; 

and, facilitating public access to the site. 

With the help of volunteers we have: 

- Improved public access at our Watling Street kissing gate; where there was a slippery slope there are now steps. 

- Improved public access at kissing gates by adding hardcore to improve traction underfoot. 

- Installed interpretation boards at the main entrance and by the pond to aid visitors’ understanding of High Leasowes. 

- Installed 4 benches so that people can enjoy the meadows, views and birdsong. 

**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** 

- Conducted guided walks to encourage people to understand our management and the need to protect nature. 

- Together with our volunteers we have worked to encourage biodiversity through our management of High Leasowes, including: 

- Adding a pond to create new habitat for water-dwelling creatures. 

- Hedgerow restoration including hedge laying and replanting gaps and adding hedgerow trees. 

- Creating dead-hedges, which tidies away the brash whilst providing cover and habitat for a wide range of species. 

- • Tree planting. 

- Cutting the meadows late, thereby enabling more flowers to set seed, which will help floral diversity. 

- Sowing locally-gathered native seed such as yellow rattle, which reduces the vigour of the coarser grasses thereby allowing more flowers to thrive. 

- Installing 34 bird boxes, and surveying their use. 

The Trustees of The High Leasowes Trust have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charity Act 2006 to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Commission in exercising their powers or duty. 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

Almost 500 volunteer hours have been worked by our local community, including staff from Agilent of Church Stretton and iDEA of Longnor, and participants in Shropshire Wild Teams. 

We have worked effectively in partnership with local organisations such as the Parish Paths Partnership, Shropshire Wild Teams, Shropshire Wildlife Trust and the National Trust. 

We have renovated 50m of existing hedgerow and laid a further 30m of hedge. 

We have planted 250 trees; this will help to combat the increasing carbon in our atmosphere, while providing shade, improving air quality and creating an attractive woodland edge. 

All of our work has created opportunities for community engagement, through volunteering. 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** 

## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

No reserves policy. 


## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: 

- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); 

- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; 

- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. 

Prior to the establishment of The High Leasowes Trust (THLT) and our bank account becoming active, tools and equipment were purchased using money held in a ring-fenced account for THLT by Middle Marches Community Land Trust (MMCLT). This is not included in the expenditure shown in form CC16a. 

- When THLT had an active bank account MMCLT transferred half of the ring-fenced funds to THLT in January 2025; all subsequent expenses were paid from THLT’s account and are shown in the financial report. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature(s)**|Sandra Whitlock|Sandra Whitlock|Sandra Whitlock|Peter Whitlock|Peter Whitlock|Peter Whitlock||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|**Full name(s)**|Sandra Whitlock|||Peter Whitlock||||||
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|**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**||<br>Chair|||Administrator|||||
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|**Date**|||31.08.2025|||||||



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||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**The High Leasowes Trust**|||||**1207101**||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||||**To**|||||
||||20/02/2024||||31/03/2025|||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**2,048**||**-**||**-**||**2,048**||**-**|
|Grants|**- 0**||**3,064**||**-**||**3,064**||**-**|
|Gift Aid from High Leasowes purchase|**15,034**||**-**||**-**||**15,034**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**17,082**||**3,064**||**-**||**20,146**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**17,082**||**3,064**||**- 0**||**20,146**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|Insurance|**15**||||||**15**|||
|Room hire|**28**||**-**||**-**||**28**||**-**|
|Consumables|**47**||**-**||**-**||**47**||**-**|
|Sundries|**82**||||||**82**|||
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**172**||**-**||**-**||**172**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
|**Tools and equipment**|**48**||**565**||**- 0**||**613**|||
|**Repairs and maintenance**|**4,821**||**2,489**||**- 0**||**7,310**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**4,869**||**3,054**||**- 0**||**7,923**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total payments_ **|<br>**5,041**||**3,054**||**- 0**||**8,095**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|<br>**12,041**||**10**||**-**||**12,051**||**-**|
|<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **|<br>**12,041**||**10**||**-**||**12,051**||**-**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank account||||**12,051**||||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**12,051**||**-**||**-**|



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||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))||Agreement Error|Agreement Error|Agreement Error|Agreement Error|OK|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|Tools and equipment||||**Unrestricted**||**864**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
||G. J. Rowlands||||Gareth John Rowlands||||28/08/2025|
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