Penn & Tylers Green Residents Society

Objectives and activities The charity s overall aim is to better the quality of life for all the residents of the two Chiltern villages of Penn and Tylers Green including conserving the immediate green belt environment and area of outstanding natural beauty which attracts many visitors from other parts of the country particularly London The charity owns and directs the work of a pre-school for local children it has purchased and manages over 250 acres of woodland adjoining the villages Common Wood so as to be a benefit to the community for generations to come and has effected a legal transfer of part of this woodland to The Woodland Trust and immediately leased it back on a 299 year lease for a peppercorn rent and without altering the charity’s responsibility for directly managing the wood it continues to manage the smaller Millar Wood which it was bequeathed in 2007 it initiates action and activities to promote concern for and protection of a considerable local heritage particularly the designated village Conservation Area it underwrites the production of a local magazine Village Voice which serves inter alia as a fund raising vehicle for the charity and which is delivered to every home in the area of benefit it runs its own website www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk and associated Facebook and Instagram pages it promotes and supports with funds local community projects initiated by other local voluntary bodies and organisations, where these accord with the above charitable objects It also owns a local open green space The Greens at Coppice Farm Road which under provisions of the Commons Act 2006 relating to owners registration it has formally registered as village green This will enable local people to continue to use the land for their leisure and recreational pursuits as they have done for over 50 years Public benefit The trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities the charity should undertake. Activities The principal activities of the charity are as described in the charitable objects set out in Clause 3 of the Company s Memorandum of Association 3 The Charitys objects (the Objects) are to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the inhabitants of the villages of Penn and Tylers Green and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing to advance education; to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants; to promote high standards of planning and architecture in or affecting the area of benefit; to educate and stimulate discussion on matters relating to the history architecture natural history and geography of the area of benefit to secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of historic, architectural or public interest in or affecting the area of benefit, to secure protection, conservation and enhancement of the wildlife and countryside in or affecting the area of benefit