## 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 re￿ived 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..
Ap￿e1vic￿n8, ￿ttlIn8a￿d labellin8
New life ring for pond
Land RE8i5try
237
189
30
70
338
189