**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**|
|---|---|
|**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 Café**offering 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 Kitchen**enabling 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.|
|---|---|
|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**|
|---|---|
|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**|
|---|---|
|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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## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
|uses|uses||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Registered charity
number||1085814|||
|Charity’s principal
address||104 – 106 The Quadrant
Hull
HU6 8NS|||
|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)|
|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)|
|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)|
|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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## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
|**Trustees’ Annua**|**_Eternal Benefits_**
104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS
T:01482805525 | E:respecteb@gmail.com
CharityNo: 1085814|CompanyNo: 4109691
**l Report**|
|---|---|
|falls within the custodian
charity’s objects||
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|N/A|
## **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)
**----- Start of picture text -----**
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|
|---|---|---|
|||109799|
|||54080
480
1076
7606
3170
340
24
778
743
2079
2816
2058
896
99
10673
997
0
116
68
191|
|||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:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. 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