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The notes form part of these financial statements
The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 March 2020
Basis of measurement and preparation
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During the reporting period, GiGL provided full or part-time employment for 12 members of staff (10.8 fte). We recruited a part-time Systems Manager (0.8 fte) to lead work on investing in our data systems to further improve our core datasets and related outputs for our stakeholders. We also recruited a full time Planning Research Officer to undertake our ‘Biodiversity Evidence – Better Outcomes for Planning’ project, a year-long project funded by the Greater London Authority.Our capacity to work with volunteers in the office was still limited by desk availability, so our focus for the year was mostly on our ongoing ‘London Bird Records’ project, set up a few years ago to mobilise hand-written bird records from file cards on behalf of London Natural History Society. Between April 2019 and March 2020 we had over 2300 registered volunteers for the project and they created over 12,400 individual entries with 2326 in November 2019 alone. As a result, the LNHS’ archive for 1970-71 was completed and the resulting records were shared with LNHS and uploaded to our database to improve our data holdings for our stakeholders.Between the 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2020 4 Board Meetings were held (BM025 to BM028). The main agenda items included stakeholder mapping, skillset analysis, board KPIs and our draft business plan. We continued to hold weekly team meetings where the agenda was set by team members and the roles of chair and note-taker taken on by each GiGL officer in turn to develop experience in these areas. The CEO and Managers also met each week to discuss business activitiesGiGL remained committed to providing staff time to the work of key national organisations including the National Forum for Biological Recording, the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres, National Biodiversity Network Trust, and the Recorder 6 Steering GroupDemand from organisations for annual service level agreements remained stable at 33 – HS2 was the only partner to terminate their contract as they no longer required access to our services. During this period, 23 London Boroughs were partners.We delivered ‘free’ services per our commitments as a community interest company to several national, regional and local voluntary organisations, including London Natural History Society, the Wildlife Gardening Forum, Barbican Wildlife Garden and Citizen Zoo. We also provided data and advice to over 40 students.We uploaded over 764,000 species records from 462 surveys, and continued the improvement of core datasets through the work of our database officer, whose role was funded through the reinvestment of profits to benefit our stakeholders.
GiGL’s stakeholders include public, private and voluntary sector organisations with local, regional and national remits. These stakeholders require access to GiGL services to inform their work in London that has the potential to affect the natural environment. Other stakeholder groups include students, researchers and members of the public, who are seeking to better understand and or appreciate London’s natural environment.GiGL’s Advisory Panel, made up of nearly 30 people representing GiGL stakeholder groups met 3 times during the financial year and discussed topics including our new set of factsheets for stakeholders, our focused work on improving the evidence base of London Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation, and stakeholder mapping.We ran our second ‘London Recorders Day’ in partnership with Field Studies Council and the Natural History Museum. The event was held at the Museum and was attended by over 160 people who are involved in recording nature in Greater London, a significant increase on the attendance in 2018. Speakers included representatives of the Metropolitan Police, and London Wildlife Trust, and the keynote address was delivered by wildlife illustrator Carim Nahaboo We held a ‘lunch and learn’ meeting for our funding partners in March 2020 that was well attended and offered the chance to learn more about our work and how to get the best of a service level agreement with us. GiGL published two newsletters during the reporting period, and the 1000+ subscribers are able to provide feedback to us via the ‘leave a comment’ function at the bottom of each article. Over the past year (measured at time of writing the annual report) we have continued to focus on improving our reach via various social media platforms. We have:- Increased the number of followers on Twitter from 2948 to 3071, and sent nearly 400 Tweets providing insights into what we do and sharing news from our stakeholders - Increased the number of page likes on Facebook from 342 to 377- Increased the number of company page followers on LinkedIn from 135 to 208. During the course of 2019/20 GiGL statistics were used in various articles relating to London becoming the world’s first National Park City, including a description of our work in The Independent.
The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £77,608There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
14 October 2020
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Amanda Rudd
Status: Director