Trustees’ Annual Report
Eternal Benefits 104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS T:01482805525 | E: respecteb@gmail.com Charity No: 1085814 | Company No: 4109691
Trustees Annual Report for the period: 2022-2023
Charity Name: Eternal Benefits
Registered Charity Number: 1085814 | Company Number: 0410969
| Objectives and Activities | Objectives and Activities |
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| Summary of the purposes of Eternal Benefits |
To benefit the residents of Hull by providing activities and facilities in the interests of social welfare, relief of poverty and social inclusion without distinction of gender, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents and to work out in practice positive, holistic encouragement of the Christian faith. |
| Summary of the main activities in relation to the purposes for the public benefit, in particular the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts |
Community Centre • Community Caféoffering low-cost healthy meals with a 'pay as you like' option to help relieve food deprivation and isolation. This is open to anyone but primarily it is used by the elderly, unemployed, disabled, and migrant communities. We further offer a 10-unit computer suite and telephone systems to help the community access support or signposted agencies such as the job centre, doctors, social and welfare services. • Community Kitchenenabling our community and other community groups to cook in a safe and controlled environment. This is aimed at relieving poverty and operates in the interests of social welfare. It is used by children, young people, the elderly, migrant communities and traveling communities. We teach food hygiene and healthy cooking to all ages. • Unemployment training. • Volunteer Program. We run a volunteer program enabling members of our community to serve the community in which they live. This teaches life skills and offers training opportunities to the long term unemployed as well as giving local pensioners, those who are disabled and those not in work an opportunity to serve the community they live in. Our volunteers help run all our activities, thereby enabling our objective. Essential Furniture & Swap Shop • We run a ‘not for profit’ community enterprise that collects, donates and redistributes recycled furniture. Over the last few months this has been reduced due to not having a furniture manager in position. • The essential furniture and swap shop enables people who are in situations of great need such as refugees, victims of domestic violence, families on low incomes and many others to receive essential items of furniture. We have a referral system enabling us to donate to people in need. We also encourage those in need to alleviate their poverty by giving volunteer hours or swapping something not essential for them for something they consider essential. This profoundly breaks cycles of deprivation, providing essential house hold furniture, reducing debt while creating a sense of personal contribution, investment, and self- worth. Elderly Club • Our elderly group meet weekly to build relationships, overcome isolation and improve life quality physically and mentally. We provide a varied weekly programme of activities andprovide transport for those who |
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| struggle to walk. We have provided 6-day trips, a couple of events, provided 2-course meals each Friday lunch, and given out up to 60 seasonal food parcels at Harvest and Christmas. Children & Youth Groups • Children and Youth Group activities were not active within the financial year Summer Family Fun Night • No Family Fun Nights for the year Community Events • We had our usual full day Christmas extravaganza were children and families could visit Santa and obtain lots of stocking fillers and presents at extremely low cost. This is a fundraising event to raise funds to purchase some Christmas goodies for up to 60 elderly residents in our community. Community Garden • The Community Garden and Seed to Supper project serves to break food poverty and encourage healthy eating while teaching new skills. It provides a space for community vegetable growing for children, young people, adults from different backgrounds and the elderly reducing food poverty, teaching citizenship skills and social inclusion. The community garden ran some children’s activities throughout the summer school holidays. EB Samaritan’s Purse (Good Neighbour Fund) • We offer emergency financial and food help to those in extreme difficulty or hardship i.e., house fire, escaping domestic violence, burglary. Reducingcycles of financialpoverty. |
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| Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. |
The trustees have used the guidance issued by the charity commission regarding public benefit. The guidance helped shape the new objective above and affects both the planning of new activities and the maintenance of existing ones. |
| Achievement and Performance | Achievement and Performance |
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| Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year. |
The charity has continued to provide services and activities which help the residents in the estates of north Hull. Every week the charity has worked with children and young people, the elderly, families living in poverty, the long term unemployed, asylum seekers and refugees, homeless people, ex-offenders and those struggling with drug problems and mental health issues. This has been achieved through several highly effective activities. Children and young people have met more sporadically in smaller groups. We have run an increasingly popular over 60’s club helping and assisting over 50 people, we run a drop in café, community kitchen employment training alongside the furniture and a swap shop enterprise for people in hardship. The ‘seed to supper’ program is going well. We continue to harvest the food from the garden and is used by people within the community. Our most popular event this year was our family fun night. This was carried out over 10 weeks of the summer and gathered between 80 - 150 people per week. The event enabled our communitytogather reducingisolation and |
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discrimination. During the event we ran sports programs, singing performances and creative art sessions, we had a BBQ and bouncy castles. The family fun night has been held in a park notorious for crime. The event has seen a reduction in crime through these diversionary activities.
Continuing through some covid-19 concerns we continue to assess how we can best serve our community during this difficult period. The food larder is now open 3 days a week with a delivery service of food parcels to those who are selfisolating or shielding.
Achievement and Performance
| Achievement and Performance | Achievement and Performance |
|---|---|
| Review of the charity’s financial position at the end ofthe period |
See 2022 – 2023 Accounts |
| Statement explaining the policy forholding reserves stating why they are held. |
Eternal Benefits reserve policy aims to hold an operation reserve of between three and six months. This is monitored by the Charity Manager and the Trustees. The reserve is accounted for in the charity ledger and held in the charities main Santander bank account. |
| Amount of reserves held | 3 Months |
| Reasons for holding zero reserves |
N/A |
| Details of fund materially indeficit |
N/A |
| Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern |
N/A |
| Structure, Governance and Management | Structure, Governance and Management |
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| Type of governing document |
Memorandum and Articles of Association |
| How is the charity constituted? |
Limited Company |
| Trustee selection methods includingdetails of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees |
Trustees are appointed by existing trustees |
Reference and Administrative Details
| Charityname | Eternal Benefits |
|---|---|
| Other name the charity | Eternal Benefits Ltd |
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| uses | uses | |||
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| Registered charity number |
1085814 | |||
| Charity’s principal address |
104 – 106 The Quadrant Hull HU6 8NS |
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| Names of the Charity Trustees who manage the charity | ||||
Trustee name |
Office (if any) |
Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) |
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| Andrew Michael Dorton | Chair of Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Lynn Warelow | Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Hazel Britton | Trustee | Adopted 12.08.21 | N/A | |
| Joan Peacock | Trustee | Adopted 03.10.2022 | N/A | |
| Judith Ann Loughlin | Trustee | Adopted 09.02.2023 | ||
| Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved | ||||
| Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) |
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| Andrew Michael Dorton | Chair of Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Lynn Warelow | Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Hazel Britton | Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Judith Ann Loughlin | Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Joan Peacock | Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Name of trustees holding title to | property belonging to the charity | |||
| Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) |
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| Andrew Michael Dorton | Chair of Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Lynn Warelow | Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Hazel Britton | Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Judith Ann Loughlin | Trustee | N/A | N/A | |
| Joan Peacock | Trustee | N/A | N/A |
| Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others | Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others |
|---|---|
| ~~Description of the assets~~ held in this capacity. |
~~N/A~~ |
| Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this |
N/A |
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Eternal Benefits 104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS T:01482805525 | E: respecteb@gmail.com Charity No: 1085814 | Company No: 4109691
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|Trustees’ Annua|Eternal Benefits
104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS
T:01482805525 | E:respecteb@gmail.com
CharityNo: 1085814|CompanyNo: 4109691
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charity’s objects||
|Details of arrangements for
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Declarations
The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors
Signature(s)
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Full name(s) Hazel Brittain Andrew Dorton
Position (eg Secretary, Trustee Chair of Trustees
Chair, etc)
Date 10 [th] October 2023
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Receipts and Payments Accounts for Eternal Benefits
Year Ending 31 March 2023
Registered Charity No 1085814 Registered Company No 04109691
| Receipts Grants Donations and Sponsors Swopshop Furniture Cafe Larder Rent Tuck Minibus Gift Aid Events Buggy Over 60s Refunds Payments Wages Volunteer Expenses Good Neighbor Utilities Minibus Community Garden Swopshop Over 60s Expenses Cafe Larder Admin Youth Events Building Equipment Buggy Misc Paypal Fees Team Surplus/Deficit Statement of Assets and Liabilities Cash at Bank and in Hand Fixed Asset - Building |
Unrestricted Restricted Total 33940 33940 23764 23764 11593 11593 310 310 3331 3331 2521 2521 15292 15292 0 0 2884 2884 4880 4880 1920 1920 220 220 3121 3121 2477 2477 106253 0 106253 49436 49436 1410 1410 0 0 7116 7116 27510 27510 135 135 0 0 4465 4465 1465 1465 2792 2792 3255 3255 1007 1007 0 2948 2948 11278 11278 108 108 70 70 61 61 69 69 21 21 113147 0 113147 -6893 0 -6893 100702 100702 65000 65000 |
2021-2022 21300 32814 19344 12717 1742 1835 9687 509 932 7247 787 220 594 71 |
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| 109799 | ||
| 54080 480 1076 7606 3170 340 24 778 743 2079 2816 2058 896 99 10673 997 0 116 68 191 |
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| 88288 | ||
| 21511 107595 65000 |
This report has been accepted by the Trustees on the 7th December 2023 at the Business General Meeting.
Signatures:
Andrew Dorton Chair
Hazel Brittain Trustee
Independent Examiners Report to the Trustees of Eternal Benefits Limited
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Eternal Benefits Limited (the charity) for the year ending 31 March 2023.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the charity, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the Act.
Independent examiner’s statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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the accounts do not accord with those records; or
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the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Name: John Albert Porter
Address: 165, Newland Park
East Yorkshire HU5 2DX
Date: 14[th] July 2023