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)