## **APPENDIX 1** |
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|
**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Period start date||||Period end date||| ||Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year| |From|
1|9|24|To|
31|8|2025| Office of the Scottish **Charity Regulator** ## **Reference and administration details** **Charity name** The Maryculter Woodlands Trust **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC044224 Charity’s principal address** 4 Oldman Road Maryculter Aberdeenshire **Postcode: AB12 5BZ** **Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**1**
**2**
**3**
**4**
**5**
**6**
**7**
**8**
**9**
**10**|Ed Thorogood|Director (Chair)||MWT members| ||Inga Milne|Director (Events)||MWT members| ||Bill Caffyn|Director (Treasurer)||MWT members| ||Laura Wilks|Director (Publicity)||MWT members| ||David Brainwood|Director (Vice-Chair)||MWT members| ||Kees Witte|Director|From 26/1/26|MWT members| ||Matthew Blair|Director|From 26/1/26|MWT members| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Reference and administration details** **Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)** |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |Susan Astell|Whole of reporting period| |Nigel Astell|Whole of reporting period| ||| 1 ## **Structure, governance and management** |**Type of governing document**
**Trustee recruitment and appointment**|Constituted as a Two Tier Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
Constitution last amended in October 2017
Registered with OSCR on 26thAugust 2013| |---|---| ||Appointment and removal of Directors is in accordance with the SCIO
constitution. A Director is elected by members of the SCIO at an AGM and
can serve for up to three years without seeking re-election i.e. all
Directors, if they are still willing to serve, must seek re-election at least
once every 3 years but can be re-elected for consecutive terms.
Co-opting of up to two additional Directors (subject to a maximum of 7
Board Directors) requires majority agreement of the elected Directors and
all such co-opted Directors are obliged to stand-down no later than the
next AGM.| ||| |**Objectives and activities**|| |**Charitable purposes**
**Summary of the main activities**
**in relation to these objects**|| ||1) to advance environmental protection including preservation, sustainable
development, native habitat restoration and conservation of the natural
environment in the community woodlands at Maryculter, Aberdeenshire;
2) to advance the education of the wider community about the natural
history, environment, archaeological and cultural heritage of the
Maryculter woodlands
3) to manage Community land and associated assets in a sustainable
manner
4) to promote, develop and manage projects and initiatives for recreation
and leisure in the Maryculter woodlands| ||•
Executed wetland restoration (de-canalisation) project, our largest
environmental project to date. This project has been a major success
•
Installed new information boards & new fencing at the main entrance
•
We hosted a range of groups & organisations including Aberdeen
University School of Biological Sciences, Scotland’s Rural College
(SRUC) Aberdeen, Siemens Energy, ABB| ## **Achievements and performance** |**Summary of the main achievements of**
**the charity during the financial period**|Our main achievements were:
•
We raised £9,326 in the reporting period
•
We spent £18,139 including £11,100 on our wetland restoration (de-
canalisation) project & £4,467 on improving the main visitor entrance
(new fencing & new information boards)
•
Ran both monthly & weekly work parties for community members. The
main tasks performed in our community work parties were: planted
242 native trees, spread woodchip on selected paths, brashed along
drainage ditches, bashed gorse, installed deflection dams in wetland,
planted & seeded native species in wetland, felled trees damaged by
storm Amy (by hand), repaired stone bridge, maintained planted trees
•
Hired a chainsaw crew to clear trees damaged by storm Éowyn
•
Gave permission for a metal-detector survey. Finds have been related
to forestry, hunting (including with muskets) & wartime activities with
the home guard| |---|---| 2 ## **Financial review** |**Financial review**|| |---|---| |**Brief statement of the charity’s policy**
**on reserves**
**Details of any deficit**
**Donated facilities and services (if any)**|MWT maintains surplus funds (unrestricted) in order to:
•
Provide a contingency reserve for unplanned costs related to the
management of the wood e.g. recovery from storm damage,
repairs arising from careless acts by visitors, increased
maintenance from ever-increasing visitor numbers
•
Provide a contribution towards new projects in the wood where
only match-funding or limited grants are available, especially for
projects with extensive (multi-year) planning requirements.
This has led us to increase the desired level of surplus funds progressively
over the last few reporting periods. We also anticipate major expenditure
in the future as we plan within the next 5 years to replace the large
wooden bridge over the Crynoch Burn.| ||The deficit for the period was long-planned and was entirely due to the
delayed execution of our wetland project, having raised funds for the
project in previous periods.| ||| ## **Other optional information** 3 Declaration Sifftl on b•hall of thfr charl￿8 trust•• Signaturo1$1 Full nanwls) UIAL•hrt f/*rnEs aKf¥JV Positi￿ Ch•rD 06/(gC(26 Signatslrels) OSCR *¥71acc Full nwrnls) Poslllon le.& Ch•ifj Tr) * rt .2 sIgna￿￿(SI Full naM(*) /N6A LIAfy MILWE I Ho&oGooD Po8iti4)n Chalr) OIL8croK 14AIRmhhJ IL J5J2 ## **APPENDIX 2** |**APPENDIX 2**||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**The Maryculter Woodlands Trust**||||||||||Enter SC No. below| |||||||||||||**SC044224**| |||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period sta||rt date|||Period||end date||| ||||Day|Month||Year|**to**|Day|Mon|th|Year|| ||||**1**|**9**||**2024**||**31**|**8**||**2025**|| |||||||||||||| |**Section A Statement of**|**receipts and payments**|||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**|||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**
**current period**||**Total funds last**
**period**| ||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||| |Donations|**1,969**|||||||||**1,969**||**8,481 **| |Legacies||||||||||**-**||| |Grants|**7,132 **|||||||||**7,132 **||**315**| |Receiptsfrom fundraising activities|**-**|||||||||**-**||**-**| |Gross tradingreceipts|**-30**|||||||||**-30**||**180**| |Income from investments other than
land and buildings||||||||||**-**||| |Rentsfrom land & buildings|**255**|||||||||**255**||**277**| |Gross receipts from other charitable
activities||||||||||**-**||| |Other Income- HMRCinterest|**-**|||||||||**-**||**212**| |**_A1 Sub total_**|**9,326**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**9,326**||**9,465**| |||||||||||||| |**A2 Receipts from asset &**
**investment sales**||||||||||||| |Proceedsfromsale of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||| |Proceedsfromsale of investments||||||||||**-**||| |**_A2 Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|**9,326**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**9,326**||**9,465**| |||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities||||||||||**-**||| |Gross trading payments|**-**|||||||||**-**||**-**| |Investment management costs||||||||||**-**||| |Payments relating directly to charitable
activities|
**17,718**|||||||||**17,718**||**6,405**| |Grants and donations||||||||||**-**||| |Governance costs:||||||||||**-**||| |Audit / independent examination||||||||||**-**||| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||**-**||| |Legal costs||||||||||**-**||| |Other|**421**|||||||||**421**||**406**| |||||||||||**-**||| |**_A3 Sub total_ **|**18,139**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**18,139**||**6,811**| |||||||||||||| |**A4 Payments relating to asset and**
**investment movements**||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||| |Purchase of investments||||||||||**-**||| |**_A4 Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **|**18,139**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**18,139**||**6,811**| |||||||||||||| |**_Net receipts / (payments)_**|**8,813)**
**(**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**8,813)**
**(**||**2,654**| |||||||||||||| |**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||||| |**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**8,813)**
**(**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**8,813)**
**(**||**2,654**| 5 **SC044224** ## **Section B Statement of balances** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**|**Total current**
**period**|**Total last**
**period**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash and bank balances at start of year|||**38,005**||||**38,005**|**35,351**| ||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account|||**8,813)**
**(**||||**8,813)**
**(**|**2,654**| |||||||||**-**|| |||||||||**-**|| ||**Cash and bank balances at end of**
**year**|||**29,192**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**29,192**|**38,005**| ||(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|||-|
-|
-|
-|
-|
-| ||||||||||| ||**Details**|||||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Market valuation**|**Last year**| |||||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B2 Investments**|||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||**Total**|**-**|
**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Cost (if available)**|**Current value (if**
**available)**|**Last year**| ||||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B3 Other assets**|MWT - Purchase of Woodland||||Unres|tricted|**240,000**||**240,000**| ||||||||||| ||**_(NOTE: MWTpurchased woodland in D_**|||**_ecember 2015 at a _**|**_cost of £240,000. T_**|**_he sale and disposal of allor part _**||**_of the woodland i_**|**_s subject_**| ||**_to the restrictions imposed by the Cons_**|||**_titution of the MW_**|**_Tand is further subject to the prior approval of the Forestry Commissi_**||||**_on of _**| ||**_Scotland)_**||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |||||||**Total**|||| ||||||||**240,000**|**-**|**240,000**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**|||||**Fund to which l**|**iability relates**|**Amount due**|**Last year**| |||||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B4 Liabilities**||||||||**-**|**-**| |||||||||**-**|**-**| |||||||||**-**|**-**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||**Total**|**-**|**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**|||||**Fund to which l**|**iability relates**|**Amount due**
**(estimate)**|**Last year**| |||||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B5 Contingent liabilities**|||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||**Total**|**-**|
**-**| ||||||||||| |**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**|**Signature**|||||**Print Name**|||**Date of**
**approval**| |||||||EJThorogood|||16 May2026| ||||||||||| 6 **SC044224** ## **Additional analysis (1)** |||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Analysis of receipts and payments**||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| |**1 Donations**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total current**
**period**||**Total last**
**period**| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |HMRC Gift Aid Refund||**-**||||||||**-**||**3,586**| |K & H Witte||**-**||||||||**-**||**4,000**| |Other||**300**||||||||**300**||**895**| |PayPal account donations||**1,669**||||||||**1,669**||**-**| |**Total**||**1,969**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,969**||**8,481**| |||||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |**2 Grants**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
~~**funds**~~||**Restricted funds**||||||**Total current**
~~**period**~~||**Total last**
~~**period**~~| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |Meikle Carewe Wind Farm Community Fund||**1,500**||||||||**1,500**||**-**| |Aberdeenshire Council (Decanalisation Project)||**5,632**||||||||**5,632**||**-**| |The Tree Council||**-**||||||||**-**||**315**| |||||||||||**-**||| |**Total**||**7,132**||**-**||||||**7,132**||**315**| |||||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |**3 Gross receipts from other charitable activities**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total current**
**period**||**Total last**
**period**| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||**-**||| |**Total**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |||-||-||-||-||-||-| |||||||||||||| |**4 Payments relating directly to charitable activities**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total current**
**period**||**Total last**
**period**| |||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |Mulching & excavating||**383**||||||||**383**||**3,220**| |Community events and workshops||**225**||||||||**225**||**263**| |Tree & flower planting||**954**||||||||**954**||**315**| |Miscellaneous||**320**||||||||**320**||**-**| |Info boards||**603**||||||||**603**||**-**| |Administration||**293**||||||||**293**||**626**| |Tools & PPE||**125**||||||||**125**||**88**| |Decanalisation Project||**11,100**||||||||**11,100**||**1,000**| |Infrastructure/Tracks||**- 149**||||||||**- 149**||**893**| |Car Park fencing||**3,864**||||||||**3,864**||**-**| |||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**| |**Total**||**17,718**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**17,718**||**6,405**| |||||||||||||| |||-||-||-||-||-||-| 7 **SC044224** ## **Additional analysis (2)** |||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds**||||||||||||| |||**Maryculter**
**Woodland Trust**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 2 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 3 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 4 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**||||| |||||||||||**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds**||**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds last**
**period**| |**Receipts**||||||||||||| |Donations||**1,969**||||||||**1,969**||**8,481 **| |Other Income- HMRCinterest||**-**||||||||**-**||**212**| |Grants||**7,132**||||||||**7,132 **||**315**| |Receiptsfrom fundraising activities||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**| |Gross tradingreceipts||**- 30**||||||||**-30**||**180**| |Incomefrom investments otherthan land and buildings||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**| |Rentsfrom land & buildings||**255**||||||||**255**||**277**| |Gross receipts from other charitable activities||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**9,326**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**9,326**||**9,465**| |||||||||||-||| |**Receipts from asset & investment sales**||||||||||||| |Proceedsfromsale of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||| |Proceeds from sale of investments||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**||**9,326**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**9,326**||**9,465**| |||||||||||-||| |||||||||||||| |**Payments**||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**| |Gross trading payments||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**| |Investment management costs||||||||||**-**||| |Payments relating directly to charitable activities||**17,718**||||||||**17,718**||**6,405**| |Grants and donations||||||||||**-**||| |Governance costs:||||||||||**-**||| |Audit / independent examination||||||||||**-**||| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||**-**||| |Legal costs||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**| |Other||**421**||||||||**421**||**406**| |||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**18,139**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**18,139**||**6,811**| |||||||||||-||| |**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||| |Purchase of investments||||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||-||| |**_Totalpayments_**||**18,139**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**18,139**||**6,811**| |||||||||||-||| |**_Net receipts / (payments)_**||**8,813)**
**(**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**8,813)**
**(**||**2,654**| |||||||||||||| |**Transfers to / (from) funds**||||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||||| |**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**||**8,813)**
**(**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**8,813)**
**(**||**2,654**| |||||||||||-||| |||||||||||||| |**Nature andpurpose of funds**||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| 8 APPENDIX 3 OSCR kottish Chatty Regulator Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Report to the Charity narne tru8teeslmemberB of The Maryculter Woodland Tn*t R•gl8t•red charity SC044224 numbor On the accounts of the ¢harlty for th• pgrl¢xl PerFcAY stsrt date Month Period end date Month Augwt Year 2025 Set out on ￿ge# (rernembwbirthde tr* p4e befs rrfALbjrtix￿ sr￿1 Respective The chanty's trustees are reswnsibbe for the prepar*ion of the accounts in accordance respon$lbllltl¢s of with the tem￿ of the ChatÉties atxl Tnsslee Investsnent Iscodandl 2005 Act and the tru$tees and 8xamlnor Charibes Accounts IScotL4ndl Regulatbons 2006 las a￿Ended1. The charity trustees COns￿er that the audit requiremenl of Regulats"on 10(11 {dl of the Acc*unts Regulations does not appty. It is my resFonsibilty to examine the accL)unts as requiied under section 4411) Icl of the Act and to sL*e whether paitular matters have come to my attention. Ba$1$ of Indo￿nd¥n1 My examinat*Jn is carried out in aCCordar￿e with Regulation 11 of the 20[￿ Accounts 8xaminetrs $tstsmont Regulations. An examination include5 a review of the accounting records kept by the charty and a comparison of Ihe accounts presented with those records. 11 also includes consKler3tKJn of any unusual rtems or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the tnjstees ¢ortceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and. eonsequenlly. I do not express an audit opinkm on the VEW given by Ihe accounts. Independent examinerfs In the course of my exarNnatKsn, no matter has come to my attention lolher than that sLitement disclosed cffl the at*￿ed page"J whth gNes reasonab￿ cause to belwe that in any matsrial respect the requirenEnts'. to keep accounting records in a￿rdance with section 44111 lal of the 2005 Act and RegulatKJn 4 of the 20C6 Accounts ReguLatbons, and to prepare accounts wh￿h accord wrth the accounting record5 and compty with ReguL8t•)n 9 of the 20C6 A(xgJJnts RegUL8￿n$ have not been rrt or 2. to whth, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enab￿ a proper understan counts to be reached. sIgn￿r. Name: Relevant professional qualificationlsl or body F•iiow 0£ Chart•r•d Zost*tut• 0£ I4anag•llant Accounts lrnl Irf any): 07-IIAT-2026 Address: 3 OldAan Road 'P￿•s￿ ￿e￿the*1)rds in the iftrny do *. *￿rdS th) *. 2et tyAtW*m•ttW¥Wh￿th r￿￿t9 ywr thntb)n on the folbvmng page. ' OSCR will a￿EPt duital ortyp& sTr3natur45