New Street CENTRE Promoting Well-being for Older People Annual Report 2024-2025 The Café has continued to provide a much-needed place for isolated elderly people to come to to socialise as well as to enjoy a warm welcome space to eat cooked breakfasts and home cooked community lunches. The success of the Café is down to our Community Chef Annie Cleaver and her dedicated team of volunteer helpers who help to run the café and the community lunche5. We have recruited and trained several new volunteers throughout the year to join our established team, and we continue to look for new volunteers to help with a variety of tasks, including delivering cooked lunches out to people in the community, who are unable to come In to the Centre due to health reasoiis. We have been greatly helped in July 2024 by funding secured through an application to the National Lottery Awards for All scheme. We were awarded £20,000 over two years to help fund our Café Chef hours, running the kitchen, recruiting and supporting a team of volunteers, and advertising the Café and Community Lunches to elderly people in the local communlty. We have continued to work in partnership with c.ummins who provide us with a team of volunteers every other week to help with the community lunch, and who help us with fund- raising and DIY support too. We are hoping that a recent application submitted through the Cummins partnership with DDWF to cover refurbishment of the New Street kitchen will be successful. We continue to open our doors to local organisations that are able to offer information and services to elderly people, and invite clubs to share the hall and run at the same time as the café is open, such as the Knit and Natter and Horizon Art and Crafts group. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Trustees for all they have done in helpin8 support the Café, and in particular to Karen Whitcombe for examining our accounts. Carella Davies Chair November 2025
New Street CAFE Promoting Well-belng for Older People NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS 2024 - 2025 General Overview The accounts for the New street Di3y Centre run from l April 2024 to 31 March 2025, were finalised in October 2025 ready for presentatinn to the AGM on 28th November 2025. This year the café has benefitted from increased day to day sales as well as more income generated from lunches. However. we will need to review nilr charges regularly to ensure we cover these food and consumable cost creases. Overall, the cafe ended the year with a surplus of £17,448. howp.ver it must be noted that this surplu5 was largely attributed to the £20,000 Community Grant awarded by the National Lottery. Should this not have been received, despite having higher income from cafe sales compared to the prior year, the café would have been in a deficit position. Key Comments The following comments should be viewed in line with the statement of accounts. The quality of the financial records continues to improve: both in maintaining receipts and tracking sales through the till. and the POS system for people paying by credit card. This allows for easier reconciliatlons and greater confidence in the results, thank you to 311 involved in this area. During 2024/25 a revised menu was introduced together with some increases to prices to help keep up with inflation costs. Despite minor price increases this doesn't appear to have been detrimental to the amount of usage the café has seen. The carry forward bank balance remains healthy thanks to the Awards for All fvnding from the National Lottery. with £23.750 on hand at the financial year end. Recommendations We will need to review menu prices in 2025-2026 to ensure we keep up with inflation costs and continue to monitor prices on an annual basis to ensure the café costs are being covered to ensure it remains self-fundin8. We will need to explore new ways of fund-raising to increase our income during 2025-2026. including applying for grants where possible.
NEW STREET DAY CENTRE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT Balance of Funds As at 31 March 2025 Bank - opening balance (adjusted) Cash - opening balance 6,302 6,302 Add: Income for the period Les5: Accounts receivable 34,640 34,640 40,941 Less . Expensed for the period Add . Accrued expenses 17,191 17,191 23,750 Supported by: Bank- closing balance Less . Unpresented cheque 23,750 23,750 Cash - closing balance 23,750 Accounts Prepared by: Date: Karen Whitcombe (ACMA}
NEW STREET DAY CENTRE CAFÉ STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT Income and Expenditure Summary From 01104124 to 31103125 2024/25 2023/24 Income Salesnakings Donations Grants Café lunches Other Income Total Income for the period 14,540 100 20,OCK) 10,982 129 728 375 12,214 Expenditure Food & Consumables Cleaning Bank Charges Gifts/Prizes Kitchen supplies Management Fee Rent Travel Other 1,341 23 95 3,381 200 9,440 5,520 13 12,540 3,12U 21 248 Total Expenditure for the period 17,191 18.802 Net Surplus/{Deficit) 17.adg 6.588 Accounts Prepared by: Date: Karen Whitcombe (ACMA)