**REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 248577**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND**
**UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **FOR**
## **CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
Andorran Limited
6 Manor Park Business Centre Mackenzie Way Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9TX
## **CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
## **CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
|||**Page**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Reference and Administrative Details**||1||
|**Report of the Trustees**|2|to|3|
|**Independent Examiner's Report**||4||
|**Statement of Financial Activities**||5||
|**Statement of Financial Position**||6||
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|7|to|12|
## **CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
**TRUSTEES** Professor P M Broadfoot CBE Chair D J Brooke J C Oxley Mrs M Chalk D Croft C Evers A Smith S Smith B Brown (appointed 3.11.21) **PRINCIPAL ADDRESS** Community House College Green Gloucester Gloucestershire GL1 2LZ **REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER** 248577 **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER** Andorran Limited 6 Manor Park Business Centre Mackenzie Way Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9TX
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## **CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2021. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
To promote and encourage, for the benefit of the public, the improvement and protection of the Gloucestershire countryside and its towns and villages, and the better development of the rural environment, and to act upon any matters affecting the planning, improvement and protection of the countryside and landscape.
## **Public benefit**
In planning the charity's activities for the year the trustees kept in mind the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit.
## **ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE**
## **Charitable activities**
In promoting and encouraging 'the improvement and protection of the Gloucestershire countryside', the charity achieved its aims in five broad areas. We have:
- Had a major input into the process of creating local plans by the seven planning authorities in the county. Each planning authority has a plan in place or subject to review.
- Examined many planning applications. This is an essential part of our day-to-day work, and we make strong representations where our objectives are affected. Our main concern lies in applications for major housing development but we have examined a range of other planning applications too. We also held two successful planning seminars for Town and Parish Councils.
- Worked closely with other organisations to promote our charitable objectives - through the Local Nature Partnership, Cotswolds Conservation Board, Friends of the Cotswolds, The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, The ReWild Project, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, The Ramblers and CPRE's South West Regional Group.
- Employed a Marketing Manager to help raise our profile through social media and improve our communications with members and volunteers.
- Developed our social media platforms to increase followers and promote our work more widely.
- Raised income through trusts, grants, fund-raising events, and donations
- Continued our annual CPRE Gloucestershire Awards. The Award scheme celebrates projects that have brought outstanding benefits to Gloucestershire's environment, people and local communities. We made five such Awards in 2021.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Investment policy and objectives**
There are no restrictions on the charity's policy to invest. Management of the investment portfolio is carried out by M&G Investments on a discretionary basis against a very clear strategy to achieve balanced growth commensurate with funding needs in low and medium risk investments.
## **Reserves policy**
The Trustees aim to maintain reserves in unrestricted funds at a level that equates to twelve months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The Trustees consider that this level will provide sufficient funds to cover fixed and governance costs. At the end of the year, our unrestricted reserves were in excess of the level required to provide this cover.
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## **CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **FUTURE PLANS**
Our activity is guided by a Branch Plan that we review annually. Future activity will develop our main areas of expertise, particularly in the area of environmental planning but the Plan also highlights the need to:
- Expand our campaigning work on countryside matters, working with others when many voices would make a greater difference.
- Promote our messages with greater vigour to the wider public.
- Increase our efforts to recruit and retain supporters: we are a membership organisation and our success depends on enthusiastic followers.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust and constitutes an unincorporated charity.
A move to incorporation as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) was approved by the Charity Commission right at the end of the reporting year.
## **Risk management**
The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 7 April 2022 and signed on its behalf by:
J C Oxley - Trustee
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Campaign to Protect Rural England Gloucestershire**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of Campaign to Protect Rural England Gloucestershire (the Trust) for the year ended 31 December 2021.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
R F Downes FCA Andorran Limited 6 Manor Park Business Centre Mackenzie Way Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9TX
Date: .............................................
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## **CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
|||31.12.21|31.12.20|
|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted|Total|
|||funds|funds|
||Notes|£|£|
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**||||
|Donations and legacies|2|32,738|29,645|
|Investment income|3|4,202|4,101|
|**Total**||36,940|33,746|
|**EXPENDITURE ON**||||
|**Charitable activities**|4|||
|Charitable Activities||63,681|62,744|
|Net gains/(losses) on investments||23,164|(23,394)|
|**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**||(3,577)|(52,392)|
|**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**||||
|**Total funds brought forward**||271,210|323,602|
|**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**||267,633|271,210|
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION 31 DECEMBER 2021**
|31.12.21
Unrestricted
funds
Notes
£
**FIXED ASSETS**
Investments
8
276,913
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
9
4,998
Cash at bank
22,000
26,998
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
10
(31,082)
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
(4,084)
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
272,829
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due after more than one year
11
(5,196)
**NET ASSETS**
267,633
**FUNDS**
13
Unrestricted funds
267,633
**TOTAL FUNDS**
267,633|31.12.20
Total
funds
£
283,749
5,131
350
5,481
(11,374)
(5,893)
277,856
(6,646)
271,210
271,210
271,210|
|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 7 April 2022 and were signed on its behalf by:
J C Oxley - Trustee
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND GLOUCESTERSHIRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, with the exception of investments which are included at market value, as modified by the revaluation of certain assets.
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## **2.**
## **DONATIONS AND LEGACIES**
||31.12.21|31.12.20|
|---|---|---|
||£|£|
|Donations|10,314|7,486|
|Subscriptions|22,424|22,159|
||32,738|29,645|
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## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **3. INVESTMENT INCOME**
|**3.**|**INVESTMENT INCOME**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||31.12.21|31.12.20|
||||£|£|
||Investment income||3,178|3,004|
||Deposit account interest||1,024|1,097|
||||4,202|4,101|
|**4.**|**CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS**||||
|||Direct|Support||
|||Costs (see|costs (see||
|||note 5)|note 6)|Totals|
|||£|£|£|
||Charitable Activities|60,965|2,716|63,681|
|**5.**|**DIRECT COSTS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**||||
||||31.12.21|31.12.20|
||||£|£|
||Rent and service charge||4,045|3,467|
||Insurance||541|864|
||Postage and telephone||1,371|576|
||Printing and stationery||2,824|7,895|
||Travel and meetings||774|1,040|
||Subscriptions||191|91|
||Publishing||2,101|2,121|
||Public relations||3,917|1,257|
||Merchandise||1,170|-|
||Awards scheme||1,291|1,940|
||Planning consultancy||100|363|
||Severn Vision Project||3,926|2,500|
||Director & staff costs||38,119|34,468|
||Recruitment & Training||595|2,400|
||||60,965|58,982|
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## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **6. SUPPORT COSTS**
|**SUPPORT COSTS**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|||Governance||
||Finance|costs|Totals|
||£|£|£|
|Charitable Activities|232|2,484|2,716|
## **7. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 December 2021 nor for the year ended 31 December 2020.
## **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 December 2021 nor for the year ended 31 December 2020.
## **8. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS**
|**FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS**||
|---|---|
||Listed|
||investments|
||£|
|**MARKET VALUE**||
|At 1 January 2021|283,749|
|Disposals|(30,000)|
|Revaluations|23,164|
|At 31 December 2021|276,913|
|**NET BOOK VALUE**||
|At 31 December 2021|276,913|
|At 31 December 2020|283,749|
|There were no investment assets outside the UK.||
|Cost or valuation at 31 December 2021 is represented by:||
||Listed|
||investments|
||£|
|Valuation in 2021|276,913|
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## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
|**9.**
**DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
Other debtors
**10.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
Bank loans and overdrafts (see note 12)
Other creditors
**11.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR**
Bank loans (see note 12)
**12.**
**LOANS**
An analysis of the maturity of loans is given below:
Amounts falling due within one year on demand:
Bank loans
Amounts falling between one and two years:
Bank loans - 1-2 years
Amounts falling due between two and five years:
Bank loans - 2-5 years
**13.**
**MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
At 1.1.21
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
31,210
Fighting fund
100,000
Partnership fund
50,000
Development fund
50,000
Districts fund
30,000
Training fund
10,000
271,210
**TOTAL FUNDS**
271,210|31.12.21
£
4,998
31.12.21
£
1,450
29,632
31,082
31.12.21
£
5,196
31.12.21
£
1,450
1,450
3,746
Net
movement
in funds
£
(3,577)
-
-
-
-
-
(3,577)
(3,577)|31.12.20
£
5,131
31.12.20
£
604
10,770
11,374
31.12.20
£
6,646
31.12.20
£
604
1,450
5,196
At
31.12.21
£
27,633
100,000
50,000
50,000
30,000
10,000|
|---|---|---|
|||267,633|
|||267,633|
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## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **13. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued**
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
||Incoming|Resources|Gains and|Movement|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||resources|expended|losses|in funds|
||£|£|£|£|
|**Unrestricted funds**|||||
|General fund|36,940|(63,681)|23,164|(3,577)|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|36,940|(63,681)|23,164|(3,577)|
## **Comparatives for movement in funds**
|**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
Fighting fund
Partnership fund
Development fund
Districts fund
Training fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**|At 1.1.20
£
83,602
100,000
50,000
50,000
30,000
10,000
323,602
323,602|Net
movement
in funds
£
(52,392)
-
-
-
-
-
(52,392)
(52,392)|At
31.12.20
£
31,210
100,000
50,000
50,000
30,000
10,000|
|---|---|---|---|
||||271,210|
||||271,210|
Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
||Incoming|Resources|Gains and|Movement|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||resources|expended|losses|in funds|
||£|£|£|£|
|**Unrestricted funds**|||||
|General fund|33,746|(62,744)|(23,394)|(52,392)|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|33,746|(62,744)|(23,394)|(52,392)|
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## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **14. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 December 2021.
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