## **CHAIRMANS REPORT 2024 - 2025**
During the 24–25 fiscal year, our charity continued operating from Dukes House in central Slough, which remained a functional base despite the building’s dilapidations.
The food share operation ran smoothly overall, with the collections of surplus food coming from local sources including, Waitrose, Coop, Tesco, M&S Foodstores, Lidl, Gate Gourmet railway supplies, Costa and many others.
Our teams of multi-faith volunteer packers (a different faith each night) continued to regularly support us by sorting and packing our delivery van, driven by different volunteers each morning, to local charities, a homeless hostel, homeless day centre, two YMCA’s and a few churches. We also had a small team of daytime volunteers who were collecting furniture etc and delivering to homeless guests given a room by Slough Council, Macmillan Cancer charity and The Prisoner Release Scheme.
We operated out of St Joseph’s Church in Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross for the preparation of soup, tea and sandwiches, which were then delivered to approximately 200 homeless guests in London every Monday throughout the year, by a rota of volunteers. We are grateful to have a loyal and invaluable team who have been preparing these food parcels from St Josephs for many years.
We were also grateful to receive Harvest Festival food donations from three local schools, St Josephs Primary, Maltmans Green and Thorpe House, which we were able to pass on to those in need.
Our fundraising event this year was a charity Dawn Walk held at Dorney Lake. The event was sponsored by British Airways and Hamptons and was attended by approx 100 early morning walkers, raising just over £25,000, for which we were very grateful.
We continued to work closely with Slough Borough Councils Rough Sleeper Team, providing support the Council cannot offer to guests who are ineligible for financial assistance, in addition to exploring additional ways to help meet the growing needs of Slough’s increasing homeless population.
We accepted an invitation to participate in the British Airways Better World Sustainability Fair hosting a stall to showcase our charity to BA staff by sharing flyers and branded pens. The event generated strong engagement, with many staff choosing to use their charity allowance to support us.
At Christmas, in addition to the London Run Street party, we hosted a Christmas lunch for the local homeless at Slough Football Club. Grateful thanks went to SFC for hosting the venue, BA, Bidfoods and Costa coffee for their food donations and Lord Barbers who gave their time providing haircuts and shaves to the homeless guests.
- We remain a fully volunteer run charity with no paid staff and no external funding, relying entirely on the dedication of our incredible volunteers — without them, we simply wouldn’t exist. Our significant cost is maintaining our vehicles, which are essential to delivering our services.
And as such, the Trustees remain grateful to all our donors who kept us afloat this year, including British Airways, Allied Irish Bank, British Land (for providing rent free premises), St Joseph’s Priory (for allowing us to use their premises over many years to prepare for our Monday run to London) plus our many other individual donors. Thank you.
Every Trustee plays an active, hands-on role in the day-to-day running of the charity, and we remain deeply grateful to our volunteers for their time, dedication, and tireless commitment to supporting the most vulnerable and marginalised people in our community.
On behalf of London and Slough Charitable Trust, by order of the Trustees
Malcolm Johnstone Chairman
www.londonsloughcharitabletrust.org
admin@thesloughandsloughrun.org
London and Slough Charitable Trust is a UK registered charity, number 1000331
London and Slough Charitable Trust Reg Charity 1000331
## **Income and Expenditure Account y/e 31st March 2025**
||2025|2024|
|---|---|---|
|**Income**|||
|Donations|19132|32296|
|Fundraiser|25813|0|
|Bank Interest Recd|101|0|
|**Total Income**|**45046**|**32296**|
|**Expenditure**|||
|Fundraiser costs|6570|0|
|Food and Supplies|312|84|
|Website and Advertising|971|425|
|Vehicle Running Costs|||
|Insurance|4728|5887|
|Fuel/Repairs/Road Tax/Sundry|12229|14240|
|Depreciation|8748|10970|
|Haulage|2000|0|
|Temporary Accom|218|278|
|Homeless Support|0|20430|
|St Josephs Hall|0|1800|
|Dukes House|1929|1236|
|Slough Council|0|0|
|Just Giving Fees|216|216|
|General Insurance|1138|984|
|Telephone|0|200|
|Travel|415|0|
|Training|200|0|
|Global|0|0|
|Legal Fees|1500|0|
|Bank Fee|240|110|
|Sundry Expenses|939|2519|
|Depn Portacabin|613|613|
|**Total Expenditure**|**42966**|**59992**|
|Excess of Income over Expenditure
Excess of Expenditure over Income
Balance brought forward
Balance carried forward|2080
N/A
87851
**89931**|N/A
-27696
115547|
|---|---|---|
|||**87851**|
## **Balance Sheet at 31st March 2025**
|Motor Vehicles at cost
Less Depn
Equipment at cost
Less Depn
Portacabin at cost
Less Depn
Prepayments
Bank Accounts
Current Metro
Current Coop
Deposit Coop
Total Assets
Less accrual/creditors||69790
50838
**18952**
3200
1920
**1280**
7360
1226
**6134**
0
0
**0**
11997
3323
49101
**64421**
**90787**
856
**89931**||69790
42090
**27700**
3200
1280
**1920**
7360
613
**6747**
4597
29100
**33697**
116133
1107
0
**117240**|69790
42090|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**27700**
3200
1280
**1920**
7360
613
**6747**
4597
29100|
|||||**187304**
99453||
|||||**87851**||
|||||||
’ – Independent Examiner s Report London & Slough Charitable Trust (was The London & Slough Run)
> [st] March 2025, which was prepared by the Hon. Treasurer.
These show Income of £45,046, Expenditure of £42,966, and Net Assets of £89,931.
I have examined those books and records, which I considered necessary to carry out the review and where appropriate have received explanations of transactions.
In my opinion, the financial statements give a true and fair view of the organisation’s affairs as at 31[st] March 2025 and its income and expenditure for the year ended on that date.
Orla Walsh
27th January 2026