Year ended 31st August 2025
Trustees Report
What an busy year it’s been! Our wonder team have continued to put in so much energy and passion into growing, strengthening, and celebrating our projects across the town , continuing to championing the message that everyone can make a difference for our environment. Every action matters, no matter how small, and our community has truly
embraced that spirit.
Our Go Wild patch has been transformed this year with generous support from Trowbridge Town Council helping us to fund a more accessible hogging pathway. We have continued to add rustic pathways to planting, clearing, and watching nature flourish, the space has become a haven for creativity, wildlife, and community joy. We were delighted to welcome local business Meiyume to the patch in September. Their 30 strong workforce helped us make great leaps of progress in clearing the dreaded docks and nettles, building compost bins, clearing and planting, and preparing the shipping container for our wonderful mural. We have lots of exciting plans for the coming year including a small community fruit orchard and building on local business support to see the project really come to
life.
The Repair Café continues to shine as one of our most heart-warming community projects. Each quarter our volunteers complete 30–50 repairs, saving treasures from landfill, reducing costs, and helping people discover new skills. Beyond the repairs, it’s become a wonderfully uplifting place where people gather to chat, learn, laugh, and
enjoy a cup of tea.
Trowbridge Library have continued to support and champion the Seed Library and it now has a permanent home amongst the books. Meanwhile, our devoted allotmenteers at the Grow Patch on Gloucester Road have kept the plot buzzing with life. They’ve teamed up with several local groups to help people reconnect with nature, grow what
brings them happiness, and experience the joy of gardening. Our party kits continue to be a hit, with lots of returning users helping to reduce single use waste and making celebrations more affordable. And amongst all that we have even found time to do the odd litter pick or two!
TECO is powered by a small but passionate team of volunteers, and in the year ahead we’re excited to grow our committee and volunteer base. More hands mean more energy, more ideas, and even stronger, more resilient projects for the future. It has been a true honour and joy to be part of TECO, and I am enormously grateful to everyone who has supported us this year. A very special, heartfelt thank-you to our incredible trustees who have all continued to give their time, energy and love year after year to help build TECO into the amazing community lead environmental group that it is
—Jen, Marie, Sonia, Will, Fran, Matt, Lucy, and John.
Zoë Newing-Moore – Chair
November 2025
Treasurer’s Report
TECO projects have remained consistent this year as we continue to strengthen our existing projects and deliver what is within our means in terms of volunteer time and funding.
Income:
o Membership income £35 this year. We will aim to rebuild this income as we work towards building our volunteers and members throughout 2026.
o Donations have been stable this year with £212 received. This was primarily as a result of donations at the Repair Café, as well as other engagement events.
o We received 1 grant this year: £3000 Trowbridge Town Council for accessible pathway in our Go Wild patch in Trowbridge Park
Expenditure:
o General unrestricted expenditure was £372 (£305 2023/24 ), slightly increased this year due to increased insurance premium and the introduction of banking fees by Lloyds.
o Restricted expenditure of £3,704 was made during the year on 6 ongoing projects.
TECO carries forward into 2025/26 an unrestricted balance of £381 (£507 2024/25), we will need to build on memberships and donations this year to ensure there is adequate funds to cover core costs in light of increases. 6 restricted balances totalling £1,791 will also be carried forward and spent during the year on ongoing project delivery. We will need to increase income for these projects this year through individual giving and/or grant funding,
especially to ensure ongoing delivery of our Repair Café and Go Wild.
November 2025
Trustees
Zoë Newing-Moore – Chair
Jen James – Vice-Chair
Lucy Taylor – Treasurer
William Stallard – Secretary
John Cudden – Membership secretary
Fran Morrison
Matt Callaway
Sonia Sansom
Marie Hillcoat
Annual Accounts
Notes to the Financial Statements
£381 – Unrestricted free reserves are the accumulated net result of the unrestricted operating fund of the organisation. The committee will consider any use for funds in excess of core costs.
£22 – The River Cleaning Equipment fund was started within the 20/21 year with a £500 private donation and £1,000 from Trowbridge Town Council to fund the purchase of litter picking equipment and essential safety equipment to allow the group to clean areas along the River Biss.
£129 – Grow, this fund will be used in the coming year on the project.
£57 – St James Trust awarded a grant of £450 in July 22 to deliver our Party Kits project, the majority of the grant was spent within the year to establish the project, remaining funds will ensure any lost equipment can be replaced and to cover printing costs for promotion and booking forms.
£607 – Blue Heart Campaign is a rewilding campaign contributed to by multiple funders. The balance carried forward will be spent during 25/26 on 2 major patches of land in Trowbridge Park and Gloucester Road allotments which have been given forward for rewilding.
£87 – Go Wild received a grant of £793 from Wiltshire Area Board to further develop the Go Wild patch in Trowbridge Park. £3000 was also received from Trowbridge Town Council and spent within the year.
£887– The Repair Café has been supported by multiple funders. The balance will be carried forward to ensure the project can continue into 2025/26.
Trowbridge Environmental Community 