ORGANISATION:

• Registered charity and unlimited association
• Run by a committee of elected trustees (currently10)
• Membership currently 990 and open to any individual or organisation interested in promoting the Charity. Membership is annual or lifetime

2020/21 ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Fund and help organise the Christmas Lights and Christmas Markets
• Run the Annual Duck Race in the summer
• Manage the communal grounds at Scalebor Park, maintain and improve the playing fields for junior football and cricket and maintain the pavilion.
• Assist with funding of several village organisations including the Scouts and Guides HQ, Library furniture, Walkers are Welcome, Love Burley, Unique.
• Funding and acquisition of new play equipment in the playground.
• Establishment of new Roundhouse Garden, communal herb gardens, vegetable garden and Village Green flower bed.
• Organising the litter picking initiative through the Wharfedale Wombles.
• New recycled plastic seats around the village for all to enjoy (inc Roundhouse)
• New village web site
• Quarterly newsletters.

FUTURE PLANS

• Carry on with our regular events, litter picking and maintenance of pavilion, gardens and raised beds, grounds, hanging baskets and tubs, and the village pond.

• Merger with Burley Educational Trust (completed on 19^th December) to provide specific funds in the village for educational purposes.
• Improve walking and access around the village for all abilities and ages including provision for more benches on the village perimeter.
• Install village information boards at the Station and near the Grange
• Continued support for the wellbeing and Men’s Shed initiatives
• Assist other village organisations with funding
• Assessment of options on youth provision.
• Pump track for the Recreation Ground

THANK YOU’S

• Fellow trustees of BWCT and BET
• All volunteers who have helped with various Trust activities and initiatives

and ensured that the Trust remains a vital part of Burley in Wharfedale village life.

• All other volunteers in the village during a difficult time for all.
• Other local organisations that have helped with events, activities and projects during the year
• Burley Parish Council, Coop, Shipley Community Chest and Waitrose
• Individual donors, businesses and our membership.

Anybody who I have forgotten.

Duncan Ault: Chair BWCT       January 2022