|**Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve**
**269535**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period from**
01-Apr-20
**To**
31-M|**Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve**|**Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve**|**Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve**|**Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve**|**Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve**|**269535**|||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period from**||01-Apr-20||**To**|31-M|ar-21|||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations & Legacies
**95,538**
Membership Subscriptions
**24,774**
Trading Receipts
**469**
Events
**-**
Rental Income
**1,000**
Sundry Income
**1,457**
Interest Received
**1,804**
**-**|||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**3,694**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**99,232**
**24,774**
**469**
**-**
**1,000**
**1,457**
**1,804**
**-**||**Last year**
**to the nearest**
**£**|
|Donations & Legacies|**95,538**||**3,694**||**-**||**99,232**||**68,174**|
|Membership Subscriptions|**24,774**||**-**||**-**||**24,774**||**25,693**|
|Trading Receipts|**469**||**-**||**-**||**469**||**18,657**|
|Events|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**991**|
|Rental Income|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**1,000**|
|Sundry Income|**1,457**||**-**||**-**||**1,457**||**551**|
|Interest Received|**1,804**||**-**||**-**||**1,804**||**4,787**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**125,042**||**3,694**||**-**||**128,736**||**119,853**|
||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**|||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||**125,042**||**3,694**||**-**||**128,736**||**119,853**|
||**11,590**
**100,000**
**31,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,218**
**1,946**
**1,260**
**343**||**-**
**6,194**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**11,590**
**106,194**
**31,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,218**
**1,946**
**1,260**
**343**|||
|Reserve Projects|**11,590**||**-**||**-**||**11,590**||**4,750**|
|Discovery Centre Project|**100,000**||**6,194**||**-**||**106,194**||**316,974**|
|Warden Salary Contribution|**31,000**||**-**||**-**||**31,000**||**31,000**|
|Warden Accomodation Contribution|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,750**|
|Cost of Traded Goods|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**6,474**|
|Cost of Events|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**711**|
|Newsletter Costs|**2,218**||**-**||**-**||**2,218**||**2,414**|
|Insurances|**1,946**||**-**||**-**||**1,946**||**-**|
|Legal & Professional|**1,260**||**-**||**-**||**1,260**||**3,026**|
|Sundry Expenses|**343**||**-**||**-**||**343**||**1,178**|
|**_Sub total_**|**148,357**||**6,194**||**-**||**154,551**||**369,277**|
||
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**|||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**(see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **||||||||||
||**148,357**||**6,194**||**-**||**154,551**||**369,277**|
|||||||||||
||**-**
**23,315**||**-**
**2,500**||**-**||**-**
**25,815**||**-**
**249,424**|
||**-**|
|**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**231,041**||**7,500**||**-**||**238,541**||**487,965**|
||**207,726**||**5,000**||**-**||**212,726**||**238,541**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**
**B1 Cash funds**
Bank Current Account
Paypal & Cash
Deposit Accounts
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
Trading Stock
Prepayments
**Details**
**B3 Investment assets**
**Details**
**Details**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Freehold Property
**B5 Liabilities**
Accruals
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**19,464**
**525**
**187,737**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**5,000**
**-**||**funds**
**to nearest £**
**Endowment**|
||**19,464**||**5,000**||**-**|
||**525**||**-**||**-**|
||**187,737**||||**-**|
||**207,726**||**5,000**||**-**|
||OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**4,555**
**327**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Unrestricted
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
Unrestricted
Print Name||OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**1,090**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
ell
an||OK|
||||||**funds**
**to nearest £**
**Endowment**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**500,000**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||**< 1 year**|
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||||||Date of
approval|
||Michael John Russ||ell||24/01/2022|
||Clifford Hugh De||an||24/01/2022|
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## Trustees' Annual Report for the period
||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|From|01|04|2020|To|31|03|2021|
## Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 269535
|Charity's principal address|School House, Coastguard Lane|School House, Coastguard Lane|
|---|---|---|
||Fairlight||
||East Sussex||
||Postcode|TN35 4AB|
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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14|Trustee name|Office (if any)|Dates acted if not for whole
year|Name of person (or body) entitled to
appoint trustee (if any)|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Mr C H Dean|Chairman|||
||Mr A J L Barnes|Vice Chairman|||
||Mr J E Trowell|Secretary|||
||Mr M J Russell|Treasurer|||
||Mr J Willsher||||
||Mr P F Bonham||||
||Ms S Morgan||||
||Mrs C Emmitt||||
||Mr P E Jones||||
||Mr J Baker||||
||Mrs L M Wren||20/8/2020 to 31/3/2021||
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15 16 17 18 19 20
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
## Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
## Section B Structure, governance and management
## Description of the charity’s trusts
Trust Deed, referred to as a constitution Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Unincorporated association How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by existing Board of Trustees, appointments ratified and Trustee selection methods reappointments confirmed by The Charity’s members at the Annual (eg. appointed by, elected by) General Meeting
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## 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.
## Section C
Section C Objectives and activities The objects of The Charity shall be to further the charitable purposes of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, including assisting the management of The Summary of the objects of the Reserve through voluntary work and contributions, fundraising by way of charity set out in its governing subscription and activities, organising local publicity for The Reserve, document recruiting members to support The Reserve, co-operating with relevant local bodies and authorities and taking any other measures considered to be in the interests of The Reserve.
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The activities organised by the Charity and the facilities introduced or improved as a result of financial or other assistance provided by the Charity enhance the public’s appreciation and enjoyment of the nature reserve in particular and wildlife and wild places in general.
Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit
In line with the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, The Charity regularly reviews its objectives and achievements in order to ensure that the guidelines are complied with.
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)
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
Construction work on the new Rye Harbour Discovery Centre, which Summary of the main began in March 2019, continued throughout the year and the building achievements of the charity was essentially complete by the year-end. However ongoing Covid-19 during the year related restrictions prevented its opening to the public until May 2021. Previously-unforeseen expenditure on a new services trench increased the project cost significantly during the year and in the light of this The Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve made a further contribution towards the project of £100,000 during the year. Whilst the Discovery Centre is a Sussex Wildlife Trust project in the first instance, the Friends have been major donors and remain closely involved in the development and the future operation of the Centre. The Friends made a contribution of £31,000 towards the salaries of nature reserve staff in line with previous years, and contributed a further £11,590 to fund the replacement of one of the Reserve’s vehicles. Due to Covid-19 lockdown measures and other related restrictions, no visitor facilities were provided on the Reserve during the year. As a result The Friends were in receipt of no income from retail activities during the year. This has however had no material effect on the Charity’s income, its cash reserves or its ability to continue to fulfil its objectives.
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## Section E
## Financial review
The charity will endeavour to maintain reserves for the following Brief statement of the charity’s purposes and in the following sums: policy on reserves (a) As a provision against falling regular income an amount equating to six months’ regular outgoings, currently assessed at: £20,000 (b) As a provision for future unknown and unspecified capital projects around Rye Harbour Nature Reserve: £80,000 and in addition to this: (c) Any amounts of restricted income currently not expended on its specified purpose. (d) In terms of expenditure, the charity will always endeavour to ensure that its regular outgoings are restricted to an amount covered by regular income. Nature Reserve projects will be funded from reserves from time to time as approved by the trustees on a case-by-case basis. Details of any funds materially in None deficit
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## Further financial review details (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## 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)
Michael John Russell Full name(s)[Clifford Hugh Dean ] Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chairman Treasurer etc)
Date 24 January 2022
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## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of**
## **Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve**
## **For the Accounts Year Ended 31 March 2021**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve for the year ended 31 March 2021.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees 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 Trustee’s accounts (which comprise the receipts and payments accounts and statement of assets and liabilities) carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 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.
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.
## S.R. Sampson BFP FCA FCIE DChA
For and on behalf of Ashdown Hurrey Auditors Limited
20 Havelock Road
Hastings
East Sussex TN34 1BP
Date: 26 January 2022
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