**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:** 2024-2025
**Charity Name:** Eternal Benefits
**Registered Charity Number:** 1085814 **| Company Number:** 0410969
|**Objectves and Actvites**|**Objectves and Actvites**|
|---|---|
|**Summary of the purposes of**
**Eternal Benefts**|To beneft the residents of Hull by providing actvites and facilites in the
interests of social welfare, relief of poverty and social inclusion without
distncton of gender, sexual orientaton, race or of politcal, religious or other
opinions with the objectve of improving the conditons of life for the residents
and to work out in practce positve, holistc encouragement of the Christan
faith.|
|**Summary of the main**
**actvites in relaton to the**
**purposes for the public**
**beneft, in partcular the**
**actvites, projects or**
**services identfed in the**
**accounts**|**Community Centre**
**Community Café**ofering low-cost healthy meals with a 'pay as you like'
opton to help relieve food deprivaton and isolaton. This is open to
anyone but primarily it is used by the elderly, unemployed, disabled, and
migrant communites. We further ofer 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.
**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 ofers training opportunites 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 actvites, thereby enabling our objectve.
**Essental Furniture & Swap Shop**
We run a ‘not for proft’ community enterprise that collects, donates and
redistributes recycled furniture. This is strictly on “donatons only” basis.
It is run by our Furniture Manager who gets 70% of furniture/swap shop
income reimbursement.
The essental furniture and swap shop enables people who are in
situatons of great need such as refugees, victms of domestc violence,
families on low incomes and many others to receive essental 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 essental for them for
something they consider essental. This profoundly breaks cycles of
deprivaton, providing essental house hold furniture, reducing debt
while creatng a sense of personal contributon, investment, and self-
worth.
**Elderly Club**
Our elderly group meet weekly to build relatonships, overcome isolaton
and improve life quality physically and mentally. We provide a varied
weekly programme of actvites 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**
We had our usual full day Christmas extravaganza were children and
families could visit Santa and obtain lots of stockingfllers andpresents|
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|**Trustees’ Annua**|**l Report**
**Eternal Benefits**
104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS
T:01482805525 | E:respecteb@gmail.com
CharityNo: 1085814|CompanyNo: 4109691|
|---|---|
||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 eatng while teaching new skills. It
provides a space for community vegetable growing for children, young
people, adults from diferent backgrounds and the elderly reducing food
poverty, teaching citzenship skills and social inclusion.
**EB Samaritan’s Purse (Good Neighbour Fund)**
We ofer emergency fnancial and food help to those in extreme difculty
or hardship i.e., house fre, escaping domestc violence, burglary.
Reducingcycles of fnancialpoverty.|
|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 beneft. The guidance helped shape the new objectve above**
**and afects both the planning of new actvites and the maintenance of existng**
**ones.**|
|**Achievement and Performance**|**Achievement and Performance**|
|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity during the year.|The charity has consistently provided services and actvites 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-ofenders, and
those dealing with addicton or mental health challenges.
This support has been delivered through several highly efectve initatves. We
run a popular over-60s club, assistng 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 contnues to provide fresh produce, which is used by
the community.
We successfully organised and delivered a series of Family Fun Nights during the
summer, featuring actvites such as a bouncy castle, barbeque, sports, and
karaoke. These events were designed to foster community engagement and
strengthen social connectons among local residents.
Our Christmas Extravaganza was another major success, drawing a large
atendance. The food larder contnues 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.|
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|**Achievement and Performance**|**Achievement and Performance**|
|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|See 2024 – 2025 Accounts|
|Statement explaining the
policy forholding reserves
stating why they are held.|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.
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.|
|Amountof 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 Artcles of Associaton|
|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 moretrustees|Trustees are appointed by existng trustees|
|**Reference and Administratve Details**|**Reference and Administratve Details**|
|---|---|
|Charityname|Eternal Benefts|
|Other name the charity
uses|Eternal Benefts Ltd|
|Registered charity
number|1085814|
|Charity’s principal
address|104 – 106 The Quadrant
Hull
HU6 8NS|
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T:01482805525 | E:respecteb@gmail.com
Charity No: 1085814 | Company No: 4109691|
104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS
T:01482805525 | E:respecteb@gmail.com
Charity No: 1085814 | Company No: 4109691|
104-106 The Quadrant, Hull, HU6 8NS
T:01482805525 | E:respecteb@gmail.com
Charity No: 1085814 | Company No: 4109691|
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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)|
|Andrew Michael Dorton|Chair of Trustee|N/A|N/A|
|Lynn Warelow|Trustee|N/A|N/A|
|Hazel Briton|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 Briton|Trustee|N/A|N/A|
|Judith Ann Loughlin|Trustee|N/A|N/A|
|Joan Peacock|Trustee|N/A|N/A|
|Name of trustees holding ttle 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 Briton|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**|
|---|---|
|~~Descripton 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 segregaton
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|N/A|
## **Declarations**
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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
**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)
|Full name(s)|Hazel Brittain|Andrew Dorton|
|---|---|---|
||||
|Position (eg Secretary,|Trustee|Chair of Trustees|
|Chair, etc)|||
||||
|Date|19thJune 2025||
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## **Eternal Benefits Statement of Financial Activities**
Year Ending 31 March 2025
Registered Charity No 1085814 Registered Company No 04109691
|Unrestricted Restricted
Total
Receipts
Grants
5000
29720
**34720**
Donations and Sponsors
20102
**20102**
Swopshop
10745
**10745**
Furniture
8660
**8660**
Cafe
3632
**3632**
Larder
2839
**2839**
Rent
12944
**12944**
Motor
4660
**4660**
Gift Aid
1024
**1024**
Events
2661
**2661**
Buggy
0
**0**
Over 60s
3724
**3724**
Refunds etc
723
**723**
76714
29720
**106434**|2023-2024
15880
17425
13556
2512
2151
2734
13853
3750
0
102
160
4208
859|
|---|---|
||77188|
|Payments|Wages|34337|25122|**59459**|65024|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Volunteer Expenses|0|1474|**1474**|865|
||Good Neighbor|1000||**1000**|0|
||Utilities|10764||**10764**|8296|
||Motor|7479||**7479**|4741|
||Community Garden|30||**30**|249|
||Swopshop|38||**38**|0|
||Over 60s|3779||**3779**|4863|
||Expenses|557||**557**|2847|
||Cafe|2423||**2423**|2712|
||Cooks|1120||**1120**||
||Larder|0|3404|**3404**|3625|
||Admin|980||**980**|1059|
||4 Bentley Grove|2300|2500|**4800**|4800|
||Events|1831|720|**2551**||
||Happy Women|14|710|**724**||
||Building|1642||**1642**|1942|
||Donations|525||**525**||
||Misc|347||**347**||
||Paypal Fees|72||**72**|46|
||Team|101||**101**||
||Depreciation|9715||**9715**||
79056 33930 **112985** 101068
Surplus/Deficit
-2342 -4210 -6552 -23880
# **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
> **Report to the Eternal Benefits Limited trustees/directors/ members of On accounts for the year** 31 March 2025 **ended**
> **Charity no.** 1085814 Company no.: 04109691
**Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended **31 / 03 /2025** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity’s trustees of the Company (who are also the directors of the **basis of report** company for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”). Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). In carrying out my examination, I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act..
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that: • accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; or • the accounts do not accord with such records; or • the accounts do not comply with relevant accounting requirements under section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 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; or •the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS102).
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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Date:** 15[th] September 2025 **Signed: Name:** John Porter
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**IER**
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
Nil
**Address:** 165 Newland Park
Hull HU5 2DX
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**IER**