**To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 13 June 2024 5 April 2025 **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Climate Change Gardening **Other names charity is known by** CCG **Registered charity number (if any)** 1208653 **Charity's principal address** Cowslip Pightle, Burton End, Haverhill, Suffolk **Postcode** CB9 9AF ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Clive Boase|Chair|n/a|n/a| ||David Arnold|Treasurer|n/a|n/a| ||Sue Boase||n/a|n/a| ||David Wright||n/a|n/a| ||Sharka Baxter||n/a|n/a| ||Jim Paine||13 Jun ‘24 to 28 Jun ‘24|n/a| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |n/a|| ||| ||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |n/a||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Climate Change Gardening is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, How the charity is constituted following the Foundation model. (eg. trust, association, company) New trustees are appointed by election by the other trustees. Trustee selection methods - (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. Trustees meet approx. monthly on Zoom, with 10 meetings in the period covered by this report. All meetings have agendas, and are minuted. In addition to their general responsibilities, individual trustees are also allocated specific roles such as fund-raising, event planning, publicity etc. Key documents are held on a shared drive to which all trustees have access. Being new, the charity does not yet have a full suite of policies. However, we are planning to have our key policies in place before the end of this year. The charity does not have formal links with any other organisations. However, it has informal contact with a range of other environmental and gardening organisations, has been invited to deliver presentations to them, and has attended some meetings. The charity has initially benefitted from local authority funding. However, trustees are aware that possible changes in the political composition of local government, may close that opportunity. To mitigate this risk, the - charity is seeking funding from non governmental organisations. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The object of the CIO is to promote the conservation of the natural environment by providing the public and in particular gardeners, with **Summary of the objects of the** information about climate science, and by encouraging them to adopt **charity set out in its** measures to prevent or reduce the impact of climate change, through **governing document** gardening. March **2012** **TAR** 2 In planning the charity’s activities and outreach work, the trustees have given due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. The charity: - Provides a website containing extensive information and guidance on how to manage gardens to help mitigate the climate and biodiversity crises. Access to all information is free of charge. **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)** - Delivers talks, presentations and workshops to community groups, such as gardening clubs, public libraries and wildlife groups, on how to manage gardens to help mitigate the climate and biodiversity crises. The charity does not charge a fee for this, although in some instances it receives a donation. Many of these talks are free to the public, or are free to club members. - Takes our stand to events such as gardening fairs, local authority events, residents’ groups etc, where we engage with attendees about how their gardens can help mitigate climate change. Some events are free to the public, whereas organisers of other events charge an admission fee. - Distributes a regular, free of charge digital newsletter via Mailchimp, containing news and information relating to gardening, climate change and wildlife. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Most of the charity’s work is currently done by the trustees. However, we have been seeking volunteers to help support our activities, and now have several volunteers who provide valuable assistance, either on our stand, or in terms of administrative work. We continue to seek more volunteers. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: We have informal but productive relationships with other environmental and community groups locally, for example we are regularly invited to talk to groups at public libraries, to attend relevant local government meetings in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, and to attend meetings of other charities. - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** We applied for and were awarded funding from South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Zero Carbon Communities fund. This allowed us to purchase items such as a gazebo and microscopes, that enabled us to create an engaging stand for use at events. We have taken our stand to 11 events such as gardening fairs, and given 9 presentations to various community groups. Through this outreach work, we have engaged face-to-face with c.1000 individual gardeners. The charity’s talks and presentations were entirely by invitation from the organisers, indicating that the charity has already created a significant ‘profile’ in its own topic area. We conduct surveys of attendees at our presentations to community groups, to gauge how many are intending to make changes as a result of what they’ve heard. Of those that responded to the surveys, 77% intended to make at least one change to their gardening practice to help mitigate climate change. The numbers of visitors to the charity’s website (which went live in May 2024) is steadily increasing and has so far reached about 1700. Through our outreach activities, we have been gradually increasing the size of our mailing list, currently about 350 addresses, to which we distribute our newsletter. This is sent out several times/yr via Mailchimp. In addition to our 5 trustees, we have also recruited help from several volunteers. These primarily help on our stand at events, but have also helped with some administrative work. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** The charity’s policy is to keep six-month’s running costs as a reserve, in case of a shortfall in funding. **Details of any funds materially** No funds are in deficit. **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** In Aug 2024 we opened a CCG bank account, with the Coop Bank. You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: Climate Change Gardening’s funding has come from: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); A £2400.00 grant from South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Zero Carbon Communities scheme. This was received in Sept 2024, and had to be fully spent or re-paid within 12 months. - Donations of £356.00 received from gardening clubs, for having given talks about climate change gardening at their club meetings. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; This income has been essential in enabling us to acquire the capital items required to run our outreach programme. Going forward, unless we are involved in more ambitious projects, we will be primarily seeking running costs. - investment policy and items required to run our outreach programme. Going forward, unless we objectives including any are involved in more ambitious projects, we will be primarily seeking ethical investment policy running costs. adopted. In addition, the charity’s website is donated free of charge by 101 Ltd. ## **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) Full name(s)** Clive Boase **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 18 Dec 2025 March **2012** **TAR** 5 ||**Climate Change Gardening**|**Climate Change Gardening**|**Climate Change Gardening**|**1208653**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||| ||**For the period**
**from**|13.Jun.24|**To**|05-Apr-25|| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
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**to the nearest £**| |S. Cambs ZCCgrant|**-**|**2,400**|**-**|**2,400**|**-**| |Donations forgivingtalks|**356**|**-**|**-**|**356**|**-**| |Misc donations|**59**|**-**|**-**|**59**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
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**415**|**2,400**|**-**|**2,815**|**-**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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**A3 Payments**|||||| ||**415**|**2,400**|**-**|**2,815**|**-**| ||||||| |Stand items (Gazebo, microscopes,
furniture,screen)|**17**|**1,360**|**-**|**1,377**|**-**| |Revenue costs (postage, printing, travel,
room hire etc)|**182**|**156**|**-**|**338**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**200**|**1,516**|**-**|**1,715**|**-**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||| ||**200**|**1,516**|**-**|**1,715**|**-**| ||||||| ||**215**|**884**|**-**|
**1,100**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**296**|**-**|**-**|**296**|**-**| ||**511**|**884**|**-**|**1,396**|**-**| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**Endowment**
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**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
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**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|| ||Custom gazebo|
Restricted|**750**|**-**| ||Microscopes|Restricted|**220**|**-**| ||Screen, tables & other stand items|Restricted|**250**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||**Details**|**Fund to which**
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approval| |||Clive|Boase|18-Dec-25| ||~~1~~|David|Wright|18-Dec-25| CCXX R1 accounts (SS)