## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 29 November 2023 To** ## **31 March 2025** **Charity name: Acton Field Trust** ## **Charity registration number:** ## **1208011** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To manage the field which is registered**
**at HM Land Registry under Title No**
**SK 265123.**| |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|**A meeting with Suffolk Wildlife Trust to**
**establish a management plan. Creation**
**of a path and cutting back of hedges.**
**Plans for plank seats, a photography**
**cradle and a sign giving ownership and**
**contact details. A website has been**
**created. Committee meetings publicised**
**and open to the public.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Acton Parish Council is sole Trustee. It**
**is aware of the guidance and has taken**
**it into account when making decisions**
**to which the guidance is relevant.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The management committee entirely**
**consists of volunteers and there are**
**opportunities for community**
**volunteering on the site.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**The purpose of the charity is to maintain**
**a meadow for the support of wildlife and**
**as an amenity for the residents of Acton**
**Parish and potential visitors to the**
**parish.**
**The Summary of Main Activities above**
**lists the main achievements of the first**
**accounting period. Plans for the future**
**include addition of educational**
**information boards.**
**If left to itself the field would become a**
**wood. To avoid this there are plans to**
**remove many saplings, and brambles**
**currently growing close to neighbouring**
**properties.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Cash to a value of £4,524 and**
**investments to a value of £90,788.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Aim to generate adequate income to**
**fund annual spending needs while**
**maintaining real value of financial**
**investments.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£95,312**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not applicable.**| ## **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|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Terms of Reference agreed by Acton**
**Parish Council October 2023 (minute**
**23/10 10(ii)).**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated association.**| |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|**Acton Parish Council is sole Trustee of**
**Acton Field Trust.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Acton Field Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1208011| |Charity’s principal address|I High Street, Acton, Suffolk, CO10 0AN.| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Acton Parish
Council|1 High Street, Acton,
Suffolk, CO10 0AN||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Nicholas Antill Roberta Caradine Eleanore Clark Carol Dyer John Gibbens Christine Johnson Stephen le Grys Katie McSweeney Graham Round** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |**Acton Parish Council**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets Not applicable. held in this capacity Name and objects of the Not applicable. charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Not applicable. safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** |**Acton**|**Field Trust**|||**1208011**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For**|**the period**
**from**|29 11 2023|**To**|31 03 2025|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**100,743**
**1,518**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**

**102,261**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**102,261**
**325**
**80**
**5,485**
**28**
**60**
**760**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,737**
**91,000**
**-**
**91,000**
**97,737**
**4,524**
**-**
**-**
**4,524**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**100,743**
**1,518**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**102,261**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**102,261**
**325**
**80**
**5,485**
**28**
**60**
**760**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,737**
**91,000**
**-**
**91,000**
**97,737**
**4,524**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations|**100,743**|||||**-**| |Dividends|**1,518**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**102,261**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |
Insurance|**325**|||||**-**| |Clerical|**80**|||||**-**| |Legal|**5,485**|||||**-**| |Environment Agency|**28**|||||**-**| |Bank Charges|**60**|||||**-**| |Maintenance|**760**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**6,737**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |
**Investment Purchases**|**91,000**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**91,000**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| ||**4,524**|**-**|**-**|**4,524**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**4,524**|**-**|**-**|**4,524**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 07/08/2025 1 **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Cazenove Charity Equity Income Fund
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,524**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,524**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Unrestricted**
**91,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**90,788**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 07/08/2025 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Soction A Independent Examiner's Report R•port to tho tru8te• mom￿r8 of Acton Fièld Trust On accounts for the ymr and 29 November 2023 to 31 March 2025 Charlty no 1208011 Set out on pag•• On• •r￿ Two I report to th8 twst888 on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('the Trust.) for the period 8nded 3110312025. R••pon•lbllltlo• and AS the chanty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation ba818 of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charilies Act 2011 ('th8 Acf). I report in respect of my examination of the Tru8t's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charrty Commission under section 14515)Ib) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than thal disclosed below ') in conn8Ction with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord WFth the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection wrth the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please dele18 th8 words in the brack81s rfthey do not 8ppIy. Ind•p•ndont •xamln•rf8 •tatsm•nt Slgn•d: Date: N•m•: Cc¥L R•levant profe8slonal quallficatlon(81 or body (If any): F.L. Address: sp o o IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of Charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Glve her• brief detall8 01 any Items that the •xamln•r w18h•8 to d18cl￿O. IER Octob•r 2018