**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:** 2023-2024 **Charity Name:** Eternal Benefits **Registered Charity Number:** 1085814 **| Company Number:** 0410969 ## **Objectives and Activities** |**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
practicepositive,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**
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**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.
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**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**
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We run a ‘not for profit’ community enterprise that collects, donates and
redistributes recycled furniture. In the last half of the financial year, it was
managed by a volunteer. There was no furniture manager in position.
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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**
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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 and provide transport for those who
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.
**Community Events**
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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.
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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)**
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We offer emergency financial and food help to those in extreme difficulty
or hardship i.e., house fire, escaping domestic violence, burglary. Reducing
cycles 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**|**Achievement and Performance**|**Achievement and Performance**| |---|---|---| ||Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity during the year.|The charity has consistently provided services and activities that support residents
in the estates of north Hull. Each week, it has worked with a diverse range of
people, including the elderly, families facing poverty, the long-term unemployed,
asylum seekers, refugees, homeless individuals, ex-offenders, and those dealing
with addiction or mental health challenges.
This support has been delivered through several highly effective initiatives. We run
a popular over-60s club, assisting over 50 people, as well as the Happy Women’s
Club, which focuses on mental health, employability and language classes. We
operate a drop-in café and community kitchen and provide employment training.
We also manage a furniture and swap shop enterprise for those in need. The
garden continues to provide fresh produce, which is used by the community.
This year, we hosted an International Day, where members of the community
showcased their cultures through clothing, music, and food. Our Christmas
Extravaganza was another major success, drawing a large attendance. The food
larder continues to operate three days a week, and over the past year, we have
seen a growing number of families and individuals relying on our services.| ## **Achievement and Performance** |**Achievement and Performance**|**Achievement and Performance**| |---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end ofthe period|See 2023 – 2024 Accounts| |Statement explaining the
policy forholding
reserves stating why they
areheld.|a) The reserve policy of Eternal Benefits is to hold £20,000 for the
repair and maintenance of the building in recognition of the fact that
the building is quite old.| Eternal Benefits Trustees Annual Report 2023 - 2024 Page **2** of **5** **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’ Annua**|**_Eternal Benefits_**
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**l Report**| |---|---| ||b) The reserve policy of Eternal Benefits is to hold £25,000 three
months of expenditure plus a further three months staff costs to allow
the charity to adapt to any changes in the income or expenditure.| |Amount of reservesheld|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**|**Reference and Administrative Details**|**Reference and Administrative Details**|**Reference and Administrative Details**|**Reference and Administrative Details**| |---|---|---|---|---| |Charityname||Eternal Benefits||| |Other name the charity
uses||Eternal Benefits Ltd||| |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| Eternal Benefits Trustees Annual Report 2023 - 2024 Page **3** of **5** **Trustees’ Annual Report** _**Eternal Benefits**_ 104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS T:01482805525 | E: respecteb@gmail.com Charity No: 1085814 | Company No: 4109691 |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**|**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
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A| |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.** Eternal Benefits Trustees Annual Report 2023 - 2024 Page **4** of **5** **Trustees’ Annual Report** _**Eternal Benefits**_ 104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS T:01482805525 | E: respecteb@gmail.com Charity No: 1085814 | Company No: 4109691 Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors Signature(s) **----- Start of picture text -----**
Full name(s) Hazel Brittain Andrew Dorton
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Chair, etc)
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Eternal Benefits Trustees Annual Report 2023 - 2024 Page **5** of **5** Receipts and Payments Accounts for Eternal Benefits Year Ending 31 March 2024 Registered Charity No 1085814 Registered Company No 04109691 Unrestricted Restricted Total 5480 10400 15880 17425 17425 13556 13556 2512 2512 2151 2151 2734 2734 2022-2023 33940 23764 11593 310 3331 2521 Rec8ipts Grants Donations & Sponsors Swopshop Furniture Cafe Larder -TT.11 Rent Minibus Gift Aid Events Buggy Over 60s Refunds etc 13853 3750 13853 3750 15292 2884 4880 1920 220 3121 2477 106253 102 160 4208 859 66788 102 160 4208 859 77188 10400 Payments Wages Volunteer Exp8nses Good Neighbor Utilities Minibus Community Garden Swopshop Over 60s Expenses Cafe Larder Admin 4 Bentley Grove Events Building Equipment Buggy Misc Paypal Fees Team 65024 865 65024 865 49436 1410 8296 4741 249 8296 4741 249 7116 27510 135 4863 2847 2712 3625 1059 4800 4863 2847 2712 3625 1059 4800 4465 1465 2792 3255 1007 2948 11278 108 70 61 69 21 113147 1942 1942 46 46 101068 101068 SurpluslDeficit -34280 10400 -23880 -6894 ststement of Assets and Llabllltles Cash at Bank and in Hand including Designated Funds Redundancy & closure Building repairs Fixed Asset - Building 66111 10710 76821 107595 25000 20000 65000 65000 65000 Signatures Chair of Trustees Trustee Independent Examiner Date: **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 2024. ## **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 Hull East Yorkshire HU5 2DX Date: 29[th] May 2024