ROTHERFIELD MILLENNIUM GREEN TRUST CIO 2025 ANNUAL REPORT
MISSION STATEMENT (UNCHANGED)
TO LOOK AFTER AND IMPROVE THE GREEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE AND NATURE AND TO ENGAGE WITH THE SERVED COMMUNITY
ADMINISTRATIVE/LEGAL
LAND REGISTRATION OF OUR LAND OWNERSHIP TITLE AS A CIO AT THE LAND REGISTRY IS STILL PENDING WITH AN ESTIMATE FOR COMPLETION SOMETIME IN 2027.
THE DISLOCATION TO “FRIENDS’” STANDING ORDERS CAUSED BY CHANGING FROM BARCLAYS TO CAFBANK WAS FULLY RESOLVED THANKS TO PAINSTAKING TRACKING BY NORMA TIMMERMANS AND PHIL ROWCLIFFE.
ANDREW GILL & CHRIS EDWARDS WERE APPOINTED NEW TRUSTEES IN NOVEMBER 2025 BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TRUSTEES TO ELEVEN.
THERE WERE 100 “FRIENDS” AT YEAR END
ACTIVITIES AND ACTIONS DURING 2025
REGULAR MONITORING OF THE GREEN WAS UNDERTAKEN BY THE ROTA OF VOLUNTEER WARDENS
SUPPLEMENTED BY A 2 TRUSTEE HEALTH AND SAFETY WALK AROUND AHEAD EACH BIMONTHLY TRUSTEE MEETING.
THERE 6 TRUSTEE COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
MONTHLY WORK PARTIES OF BETWEEN 10 AND 20 VOLUNTEERS , ORGANISED BY CHRIS KNATT, UNDERTOOK BOARDWALK AND PATH MAINTENANCE AND GENERAL TIDYING.
THE WESTERN RED CEDAR LOGS CONTINUED TO BE RECYCLED BY BEING SPLIT AND USED AROUND THE GREEN.
THE CIO ASSUMED THE RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE PARISH COUNCIL FOR CLIPPING THE GREEN SIDE OF THE TWITTEN HEDGE
3 MORE RECYCLED PLASTIC BENCHES WERE PURCHASED AND INSTALLED IN THE FORMAL AREA. THE BEYOND-REPAIR WOODEN BENCHES THEY REPLACED BEING CONVERTED INTO SUCH THINGS AS A COMPOST BIN. A FURTHER RECYCLED BENCH WAS DONATED
THE HERITAGE APPLE TREES WERE PRUNED BY VOLUNTEERS IN THE SPRING UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF ANDREW FERMOR.
THERE WAS A BUMPER HARVEST IN SEPTEMBER, DESPITE THE SUMMER-LONG COMMUNITY PICKING OF THE REACHABLE FRUIT. THE APPLES WERE TAKEN FOR JUICING.
THE FOREST SCHOOL CONTINUED IN WEEKLY TERM TIME USE
WALTER AKEHURST’S CATTLE ATE THE GRASS ON THE GREEN FROM MAY TO OCTOBER
ROTHERFIELD AND MARK CROSS BONFIRE SOCIETY SUMMER FAIR WAS HELD ON THE GREEN IN JULY.
PROGRESSING THE 5 YEAR PLAN A FURTHER SECTION OF THE OVERGROWN HEDGE ALONGSIDE THE ORCHARD WAS LAID IN ORDER TO ALLOW BETTER AIRFLOW THROUGH THE APPLE TREES WHILST PRESERVING A VISUAL SCREEN AND WILD LIFE HAVEN BETWEEN ORCHARD AND UPPER SPRINGFIELD
THE BIRD BOXES ON THE GREEN WERE CHECKED AND EMPTIED AT THE END OF THE YEAR AS USUAL ONE OF WHICH CONTAINED A DORMOUSE NEST
STEPHEN HALL (chair of trustees) JULY 2026
ROTHERFIELD MILLENNIUM GREEN TRUST CIO Registèred Charity No. 1208064 STATEMENTOF RECEIPTSAND PAYMENTS Year ended.. 31st December 2025 RMfjTand RMGTCIO RMGTCIO Notes 2025 2024 Receipts Sub5cription5 Donations Grant5 Giftaid 8ank interest Other Total Recelpts 3,618 2,828 3,9)6 549 500 781 771 332 705 8,254 270 250 6,256 Payments New Equipment Equipment maintenance Maintenance of Green Insurance Printing & reproduction 1.283 1,636 313 1.842 714 332 203 570 20 28 189 5,S47 1.226 768 139 164 574 Dog-related expenses Bank charges Posiage Other Total Payment5 61 19 338 4,571 Excess of re¢elpts over payments lor the year 3.683 409 B8lan¢e brought forward alance corrled forward 16,347 20,030 15,938 16,347 Current Assets.. CAF Bank Current Acct CAF 8ank fjold Acrt 729 19,301 20,030 576 15,771 16,347 Represented by.. Capital reserve Maintenance and improvements fund 13.030 20,030 16,347 16,347 Prepared by.. Exarnined by.. Philip Rowcliffe Jerern ord
ROTHERFIELD MILiENN1UMGREE14TRU CIO Reiistered ChailtyNo. 1208064 STATEMENTOF RECEIPTSANDPAYMENTS NOTESTO ACCOUNTS Yearendert.. 31st December1015 RMGT and RMGTCIO 2024 RMGrcio 2025 Note i tsn 30th April 2024. The Rothetheld MillenniumGreen Trust CIO I"flMGTCIO" ChariryCommis510D No. 12080641 was reg15tered bythe Charity Commi55ion to replace entire operètionsolthe Rotherfield Millennium Green Tru5tl"RMGT' Charity Commission no. 10722671. Aprrfoval was received fromthÈ Chantycptnmissionon 3rd5eprernber 2024 totran5fer RMGfs assets and undÈrtakln8 into RMGTCIO Noie 2 Numberof Fr4end5" of theTru5t'. IOD 153 Average Substription per Frie.. £36.18 25.53 Note a owtionswere reived from.. S&5 Evan5 Cuckoo Line 5rore P. Turner R&M BÈrwick 21 75 RÈ.. Late P.Hopkir Corner 2Y J Lockyer Benevity (Nousheh ParI51 RDtherNeld W.1. io) 170 Rotherfield eonfire Sodety RE.. teA. Holmwood orher 329 220 549 2.828 Note4 GrtTrt5 were received from.. RothErfieldTru51 SW Notè5 Otherlncome.. Aprle iuicesale5 VI1¥e Falrmiscsales 523 182 75 705 250 NQtè6 New Equlpment". Slgna8* & di¥l4y Lw)ard Benche5 644 1,283 1,283 992 1.636 riote 7 alntÈnanteolGretn (major item51'. Tree works 540 1.740 102 Other 727 1.226 1.842 Not•8 Other.. Ape1vicn8, ttlIn8ad labellin8 New life ring for pond Land RE8i5try 237 189 30 70 338 189