2022-03-31-accounts - Wellgate Community Farm

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WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee)

Report and Unaudited Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

Charity Number: 1091729 Company Number: 04370324

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Company Information

Directors (Trustees)

Revd R K Gayler Mrs M Nathan Mr S Webb Miss V Geary Mr R Brown Mr R Gayler Ms C Rowley Mrs R Snell

Secretary

Mrs M Nathan

Accountants

N W Consultants Limited Suite 4, Peverel House The Green Hatfield Peverel Essex CM3 2JF

Bankers

The Co-operative Bank PLC PO Box 101 1 Balloon Street Manchester M60 4EP

Registered office

Wellgate Community Farm Collier Row Road Collier Row Romford RM5 2BH

Registered number 04370324

Charity number 1091729

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

Directors' Report (incorporating the Trustees' annual report)

The trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act, present their annual report for the year ended 31 March 2022 incorporating the Company information on page 1 and the financial statements on pages 13 to 19.

Structure Governance and Management

The charity is operated under the rules of its memorandum and articles of association incorporated 8 February 2002. It is a company limited by guarantee and therefore has no share capital.

Overall management of the charity is the responsibility of the directors who are elected and coopted under the terms of the memorandum and articles of association. Day to day project activity is managed and carried out by paid staff and volunteers.

Consent was obtained from the Registrar of Companies to dispense with the word "Limited" because of the Company's charitable status.

Directors (Trustees)

The following persons served as directors during the year:

Revd R K Gayler Mrs M Nathan Mr S Webb Miss V Geary Mr R Brown Mr R Gayler Ms C Rowley Mrs R Snell

Aims and organisation

The principal objects of the company are:

To promote the benefit of the community within East London and Essex, without distinction of sex, or of political, religious or other opinions by associating statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and the general public in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for those who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances.

To advance the education of the public at large, in agriculture, horticulture, home crafts, country life, protection and improvement of the natural environment through best environmental practices especially by encouraging reduction, re-use and recycling, and related subjects and in the principles of self-discipline and good citizenship and through their leisure time activities so that they develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities and grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and their conditions of life may be improved.

To promote among the public, humanity and morality by advancing education in the care and consideration for all animals, particularly animals in need of care and protection so that the public and particularly the younger members thereof will learn greater awareness of and appreciation for such animals.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

Directors' Report (incorporating the Trustees' annual report)

To provide education and training for persons who have need of such facilities by reason of their age, youth, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances, so as to prepare them for any trade, occupation or service and thereby advance them in life to enable them to earn their own livelihood.

To relieve physically or mentally handicapped or disabled or deprived persons by the provision, as remedial, recreational or therapeutic activity, of facilities, including horse and pony riding and gardening, subject, where appropriate, to the consent of the medical advisors of all such persons.

Activities

The Farm exists to provide a focus for community activity creating opportunities for people to grow, make a positive contribution and promote social cohesion through education, training, therapy and recreation.

Summary of the main achievements during the period

In planning our activities for the year, the trustees kept in mind the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit at the directors' meetings. 2022 is our Ruby anniversary and the year will be filled with celebrations. We have invited our community to support us in any way they can, whether it is offering 40 hours of voluntary work on the farm, giving £40 (£1 per year for each year we have been open), considering giving regularly and allowing us to benefit from gift aid, encouraging their place of work to support us by raising £400 or by publicising our farm through social media and conversation.

We will have lots of attractions including animal encounters, demonstrations, have a go marquee, spinning and wool craft display, stalls and side shows and other activities, plus there will be a BBQ and refreshments.

Over the last 40 years, the Farm has developed to meet the needs of the community. Many of the services the Farm provides focus on supporting people, particularly those who are disadvantaged. Wellgate Community Farm has continued to provide a safe and inclusive place where members of the local community, regardless of their background, age, or ability, can come and either enjoy or contribute and help look after farm animals and gardens in a unique and safe green space. This complements our Borough's priority of Participation and Engagement where residents are empowered and enabled to participate in the community where they can flourish.

The proposed development of the sustainable housing around the neighbouring site started, but the farm has got no timeline for when the project will kick off at the farm site. If the development is fully implemented it will involve the farm obtaining more land and new buildings whilst losing a strip of the existing site. Phase one, the building of the first 14 houses including show homes has begun but due to the pandemic and unforeseen circumstances, the project has encountered delays. This phase has taken significantly longer than expected and therefore the development schedule has altered again with no projected date possible. This is an exciting venture that has the potential to refresh current resources, increase capacity and expand our services.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

Directors' Report (incorporating the Trustees' annual report)

Community Involvement

This year, Wellgate Community Farm continued to follow Governement guidelines of not socialising indoors except with same household or support bubble. We opened back to visitors in June 2021 after careful planning by Trustees and members of staff. Our visitors were able to book online and were allowed to meet outdoors, including in our gardens, in groups of six people or two households. We managed to reach out to 9425 people interested in coming for visits or purchasing farm produce and compost. We had over 591 families attending with a family of 2-6 people. We have seen a steady flow of visitors, with far more people attending our events including day activity sessions. As we continued to support our community, we engaged more online using our Facebook page, Instagram, Google feedback page and our website.

We received some fantastic online positive feedback, encouragement and requests for information from the community including:

Lovely small farm. Very friendly staff and a fun way to spend time with the family. Kids were able to pet the guinea pig, interact with all the other animals and play at the small play area. We love dropping by whenever we have time.

The staff here are lovely and the animals are well cared for; they also run a little farmers programme, which is amazing for the children and allows them to learn what it means to take care of the animals.

A great small farm totally run by volunteers and a small amount of staff. Free entry. Great events. Really friendly and a great community vibe. Is not commercial at all. Small shop where you can get eggs, tea, coffee etc. Always worth leaving a small donation and/or paying £1 for some animal food. A fantastic open space.

We successfully applied for Covid Discretionary Grants from LBBD that enabled us to stay open and continue to operate in a safe environment meeting all health and safety guidelines. We applied for the Jack Petchey Branching Out grant to enable volunteers to attend while being supervised by staff in a Covid compliance environment.

We also organised and led a supported volunteering scheme for 30 people funded by the Provident Social Impact Fund provided to us through the London Community Foundation.

This project enabled individuals who are not in education, employment, or training to attend during weekdays. We extended the age range for participants to include those slightly older who struggle with unemployment and isolation.

The Farm was awarded a grant by the Tesco Bags of Help program that supported vulnerable groups as part of our COVID-19 emergency response in supporting our local community.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

Directors' Report (incorporating the Trustees' annual report)

We continued to run the Jack Petchey Give Something Back enabling the Farm to run a youth volunteering project for young people to volunteer and give back to their local community.

We continued to run the Jack Petchey Silver Achievement Award Scheme thanks to the hard work of our young farmers' club leaders and members of staff. This scheme enables the Farm to celebrate the achievement of our young volunteers as well as receive additional funding which goes towards much needed equipment to run the club and the farm as a whole.

Due to the closure during the pandemic, our allotment site was inaccessible and over grown. We successfully applied for a grant from Big Local Dragons Den, to employ a member of staff for a year. The member of staff will continue with the allocation of plots to residents’ community groups, individuals and local schools as well as run community workshops to help new gardeners get started and gain confidence.

The grant we applied for in 2019 from Awards for all/National Lottery Community Fund enabled us to plan and hold the Halloween and Visit Santa events in October and December respectively. We applied for grants from LBBD NCIL, Essex Youth Trust and Nineveh Trust-These funding tranches will enable the farm to replace our very old rabbit shed, which is no longer fit for purpose. We applied to LBBD for Planning permission for the new rabbit shed, which was granted. Work has already started but all quotes, received prior to the pandemic have gone much higher although we still hope this will be completed in 2022

Our horsebox, which was 16 years old, had degraded so much that it required ongoing repairs, which the farm could no longer afford. From 25 October 2021, the London-wide Ultra-Low Emissions Zone extended to within 5 miles of the Farm. The next extension will include our area. In January 2021, we took the Horsebox off the road and registered it SORN. We then applied for grants from CLA Charitable Trust, and Clothworkers to go towards the purchase of a new horsebox We were successful with the CLA Charitable Trust but we are still waiting the outcome from Clothworkers.

The Spinning Club, which used to meet on Thursdays, was severely impacted by the pandemic and we are now looking for spinners to join the club.

The shop, which is a point of contact for our community, was closed for most of year. The Farm managed to partially re-open the shop from September 2021, selling Farm eggs. We managed to set up a PayPal click and cluck online shop for egg and farm produce buying where the community was able to safely purchase and collect items in a Covid compliant way.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

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Educational and Training activities

The farm's popular educational mobile service was highly impacted by the pandemic and partially resumed in June 2021 with the farm visiting eight educational settings from early years to key stage two. Educational visits to the farm saw four early years to Key Stage 2 School groups come to the farm for educational activity sessions.

Four local schools attended from June 2021 weekly during term time with groups of SEND students for educational and work experience activities.

The mobile farm attended three local events including; the local church, Marks Gate Fun Day event and Epping Town show, which were open to the public.

We took nine Hatch Packs (incubator hires) to schools and nurseries, enabling children to experience incubating, hatching and caring for chicks. The farm hosted two children's parties when guidelines allowed.

The farm was able to carry out Farmer for a Day activity sessions in October 2021 and February 2022 half terms again reaching out to our young residents. This enabled the farm not only to increase visitor numbers to our Green Space but also to educate the young people and empower them with agricultural skills.

All these activities have enabled the farm to reach many young people and adults who were impacted by isolation and pandemic difficulties.

For many years, the farm has enabled Oak View School to hold weekly volunteering sessions for ten young people aged 13-19 years with severe and profound learning difficulties, physical disabilities and some within the autistic spectrum.

Several schools including; Eastbrook Comprehensive; Little Heath; Riverside and the Princes Trust have also referred pupils, who struggle to stay in main school education for the full week, to benefit from volunteering sessions.

This year we welcomed individuals with similar difficulties who are in the transition stage but require support to either volunteer or visit the farm. We are grateful for the Borough’s independent living services who have worked with us to enable these individuals to enjoy a better life and experience an outdoor environment.

We restarted our weekend Young Farmers' Club, which now has 45 active members and 6 team leaders supported by staff and volunteers. During the farm sessions, club members are trained in animal care, food growing and the natural environment. This club helps to teach team-working skills whilst enabling young people to grow in confidence. The young people go on trips, help with farm events and compete at the London Harvest Festival. Many young people show case their learned skills during our events including animal encounters and Wellgate summer show events.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

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The farm continues to deliver animal care qualifications as part of our Hands On Partnership with Lambourne End Centre. Our Hands on Alternative Education project is for secondary school age students who for many reasons are struggling in mainstream education. They work towards level one and two City and Guilds qualifications in Land Based Studies attending one to three days a week.

We had 40 attending with eight getting their first certificates, some are ready to sit for their tests and the rest have passed with distinctions. Five of these do not do written tests as they are significantly challenged; others joined late and will do their tests later. We work with the referral schools on coordinating the course making sure students get the best support. All students are scoring highly with a pass mark of over 80% as awarded by City and Guilds.

The Hands On participants include young people with a range of backgrounds including referrals from PRU's and home-schooled young people. Many of these young people are referred to the Farm as they are struggling with mainstream education for a variety of reasons including low confidence, special educational needs, behavioural difficulties, low attendance and as young people in care. However, some do opt to participate as they have an interest in a future career in the animal industry.

The farm resumed the provision of work experience for secondary schools from June 2021 reaching several schools including Dagenham Park, Drapers Academy, Eastbrook Comprehensive, Chadwell Heath Academy, Eastbury Community School, Trinity School, Robert Clack, Sydney Russell, The Erkenwald Centre, Jo Richardson School and All Saints. Forty secondary and tertiary level students completed placements of between one and three weeks in the academic year. This includes 19 who have Special Educational Needs and/or disabilities. Feedback from schools and referral agencies have told us that there are very few places where SEND students can gain work experience.

Quote from 2021 work experience feedback. “It is fun and you can learn many future skills” “I think other people should do it because it keeps them active”

The farm offered 10 college placements from further educational colleges including Barking and Dagenham College, Writtle and Capel Manor. The pupils are mostly from the London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, and Havering.

Quote from 2021 work placement feedback. “Working here has positively impacted my experience at college as I feel I have developed my knowledge enough to be prepared for second year”

Volunteering

As soon as the Farm was able to accept volunteers, we contacted the referrals organisations including DABDuk, BEP, Sycamore Trust, NELFT Goodmayes Hospital and their community Mental Health team, YMCA Thames Gateway, Havering Volunteer Service, Mind, Richmond Fellowship, The Cocoon, Brookside Adolescent Unit and the Young Peoples Home Treatment Team at Goodmayes Hospital.

Some of these young people we have been able to take on as volunteers but we are currently limited as to the amount of support we can give. In addition, we have young people who self-refer, having left education without a plan and looking for a place to feel useful. Many of these young people lack ambition, confidence and skills. Some have learning difficulties, disabilities and struggle with their mental wellbeing.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

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We have started to engage with The Youth Futures Foundation, which is committed to-Equipping young people from diverse backgrounds to access and progress in work -Removing structural and systemic barriers to employment and progression

The farm welcomed 49 new volunteers and offered on average 100 volunteering places per month with volunteers participating in farm duties including gardening, farmyard, farm shop and general administration.

We were able to offer seven supported volunteering opportunities for those who are faced with various disabilities including speech and mobility.

In addition to the Young Farmers Club, 10 youngsters have undertaken their Duke of Edinburgh Awards at the farm during the weekends.

Fundraising Events

This year we did not hold our popular events including Barn Dance, Spring Babies, and Farm Open Day.

We managed to carry out the Halloween afternoon event, March hare/mad hatter themed Tea party and visit to Santa.

These events enable the Farm to continue to reach out to our neighbourhood as well as helping families enjoy a safe open space. The Halloween event has now become popular, as parents do not have to worry about the safety of children on the streets. .

The farm attended the London Festival of Social Farms’ and Community Gardens. This year we did not have many young people representing the farm due to the effects of the pandemic. We are proud of all volunteers who made the show a success by promoting the important and wide ranging work City Farms and Gardens do for the community.

In November, we held our popular and well-attended Farm Quiz night as rules were lifted, again reengaging with our community and raising funds.

We continued to take part in the LBBD Lottery scheme where the community purchased tickets to raise funds for the farm, which is match- funded by the Borough.

Sustainable Development

The farm is grateful to all the volunteers who continue to help with horticulture, maintenance, animal work, administration and educational visits all of which help to keep the farm running.

We have now secured the fencing and gates, insurance and water supply for the allotment site; and plots have been allocated. We appreciate all the support from the Borough in getting the allotment project underway. There has been a lot of interest from the local community in taking up plots and getting involved in the project.

We receive many enquiries from people and groups in the borough to help them gain work experience, life skills, volunteering, to help increase their involvement in the community and their confidence, abilities and self-esteem. Due to limited finances, we are unable to meet the demand and support all those who need help. Without an increase in funding, we will struggle to maintain our current level of services. Core costs have been increasing and this affects the services we can offer. To help us maintain our service level and potentially increase our ability to engage with the community we will continue to apply for charitable grants.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

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The charity's policy on reserves

Wellgate Community Farm has agreed that free reserves should aim to be a minimum of 3 months and a maximum of 1 year's expenditure. The Trustees believe that this level of reserves would enable us to meet our aims and objectives on a short-term and long-term basis. This would also provide for unanticipated shortfalls in income and to cover costs such as staff sickness, delays in receiving grants, moving premises or other unplanned events. The level of reserves is regularly kept under review

Future developments

To implement the business plan bearing in mind the business risk assessment.

To maintain and develop our partnership with Barking & Dagenham Council, Lambourne End Centre, Social Farms and Gardens (the amalgamation of the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and Care Farming UK) to increase our partnership working.

To continue to use our resources as efficiently as possible and to be alert to possibilities for developing the farm, including new streams of funding.

To continue to work with the developer to realise the proposals for the new development.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Registered number: 04370324

Directors' Report (incorporating the Trustees' annual report)

Financial Review

The results of the year are set out in the Statement of Financial Activities on page 18.

Management accounts continue to be presented to the Trustees at each meeting.

The Trustees have continued to work with the local Council for Voluntary Services to provide advice on commercial management and viability.

For the coming year the farm needs to continue to increase its income in order to further develop and maintain its resources.

Directors' responsibilities

The directors are responsible for preparing the report and accounts in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare accounts for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the accounts in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the accounts unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these accounts, the directors are required to:

select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Small company provisions

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

This report was approved by the board on 8 October 2022 and signed on its behalf.

Reverend R Gayler Director

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM

Directors' statement

We confirm that as directors we have met our duty in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 to:

ensure that the company has kept adequate accounting records;
prepare accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at 31 March 2022 and of its profit and loss for the year then ended in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities; and
follow applicable accounting policies, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the notes to the accounts.

Reverend R Gayler for and on behalf of WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM 8 October 2022

Accountants' independent assurance report on the unaudited accounts of WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee)

To the Board of Directors of WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM ('the Company')

We have performed certain procedures in respect of the Company’s unaudited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet and the related notes), made enquiries of the Company’s directors and assessed accounting policies adopted by the directors, in order to gather sufficient evidence for our conclusion in this report.

This report is made solely to the Company’s directors, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement. It has been released to the directors on the basis that this report shall not be copied, referred to or disclosed, in whole (save for the directors’ own internal purposes or as may be required by law or by a competent regulator) or in part, without our prior written consent. Our work has been undertaken so that we might state to the directors those matters that we have agreed to state to them in this report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company’s directors as a body for our work, for this report or the conclusions we have formed.

Respective responsibilities

You have confirmed that you have met your duty as set out in the directors’ statement. You consider that the Company is exempt from the statutory requirement for an audit for the year. Our responsibility is to form and express an independent conclusion, based on the work carried out, to you on the accounts.

Scope

We conducted our engagement in accordance with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales Interim Technical Release AAF 03/06. Our work was based primarily upon enquiry, analytical procedures and assessing accounting policies in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities. If we considered it to be necessary, we also performed limited examination of evidence relevant to certain balances and disclosures in the accounts where we became aware of matters that might indicate a risk of material misstatement in the accounts.

The terms of our engagement exclude any requirement to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the risks of material misstatement, a consideration of fraud, laws, regulations and internal controls, and we have not done so. We are not required to, and we do not, express an audit opinion on these accounts.

Conclusion

Based on our work, nothing has come to our attention to refute the directors’ confirmation that in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 the accounts give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs as at 31 March 2022 and of its profit for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities.

N W Consultants Limited

Suite 4, Peverel House The Green Hatfield Peverel Essex CM3 2JF

8 October 2022

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

1 Accounting policies

Basis of preparation

The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008).

Accounting convention

The financial statements are prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards and Accounting and Reporting by Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP 2005).

Fund accounting

The following types of funds are maintained:-

Unrestricted funds

These represent funds that are expendable at the discretion of the directors in the furtherance of the objects of the charity. Part of the unrestricted fund balances are designated funds which have been earmarked by the directors for particular purposes.

Restricted funds

These represent grants, donations and other types of income which are allocated by the donor for specific purposes.

Depreciation

Depreciation has been provided at the following rates in order to write off the cost of assets less their estimated residual value, over their estimated useful lives.

Improvements to property	10% on cost
Plant and machinery	10% on cost
Fixtures and fittings	25% on cost
Motor vehicles	20% on cost

Incoming resources and resources expended

The charitable company has taken advantage of the concessions given in Appendix 5 of SORP 2005 and does not analyse either income or expenditure by activities. The income and expenditure classifications used, therefore, in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) are natural ones.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when the charity is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income.

Voluntary income is received by way of grants, donations and gifts and is included in full in the Statement of Financial Activities when receivable. Grants, when entitlement is not conditional on the delivery of a specific performance by the charity, are recognised when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant. Incoming resources from grants, where related to performance and specific deliverables, are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.

Donated services and facilities are included at the value to the charity where this can be quantified. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included in these accounts.

Farm sales, investment income and membership fees are included when receivable.

Training and educational fees are recognised within the financial statements when receivable by way of performance of services.

Resources expended

Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

2 Grants & service level agreements

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham service level agreement London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Discretionary Grant Charles S French Trust Essex Youth Trust Jack Petchey Foundation CLA Charitable Trust North Meet South Big Local Marsh Christian Trust NCIL 4th round Provident Social Impact Fund Tesco Groundwork The Fore Trust The Ninevah Trust Grange Farm Centre Trust London Community Foundation	Unrestricted £ 25,000 40,193 - - - - - - - - - - - - 65,193	Restricted £ - - - - 14,702 5,000 4,470 - - - 1,000 - - - - 25,172	2022 £ 25,000 40,193 - - 14,702 5,000 4,470 - - - 1,000 - - - - 90,365	2021 £ 25,000 44,639 5,000 - 8,569 - - 400 10,000 10,000 500 4,822 2,500 - 9,474 120,904

3 Tangible fixed assets

Cost At 1 April 2021 At 31 March 2022 Depreciation At 1 April 2021 At 31 March 2022 Net book value At 31 March 2022	Improvements to premises £ 109,793 109,793 109,793 109,793 -	Furniture, fixtures & plant £ 43,635 43,635 43,635 43,635 -	Motor vehicles £ 28,620 28,620 28,620 28,620 -	Total £ 182,048 182,048 182,048 182,048 -

4 Employees

The directors and officers are unremunerated.

5 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Accrued expenses Other creditors	2022 £ 1,217 780 1,997	2021 £ 1,218 780 1,998

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

6 Movements in funds

Description and conditions Restricted funds Jack Petchey Foundation CLA Charitable Trust North Meet South Big Local National Lottery Community Fund Essex Youth Trust Garfield Weston NCIL 4th Round Provident Social Impact Fund Tesco Groundwork The Nineveh Trust Ford Trust Grant North Meet South Dragon's Den Greggs Foundation Total Restricted Funds Unrestricted Funds Vehicle Replacement Fund Reserves fund LBBD Total Designated Funds General Fund Total Unrestricted Funds	Opening balance £ 3,070 - - 7,913 2,652 10,500 10,000 8,993 - 2,152 201 208 371 46,060 7,669 27,500 1,535 36,704 63,278 99,982	Incoming resources £ 14,702 5,000 4,470 - - - - - 1,000 - - - - 25,172 65,193 65,193 115,471 180,664	Resources expended £ (16,743) - - (2,003) (324) (10,500) (5,579) - - (61) - - - (35,210) - - (49,193) (49,193) (104,807) (154,000)	Closing balance £ 1,029 5,000 4,470 5,910 2,328 - 4,421 8,993 1,000 2,091 201 208 371 36,022 7,669 27,500 17,535 52,704 73,942 126,646

All restricted fund balances represent unspent grants which are carried forward for use in the next financial period.

The grants were given for the following purposes:-

Jack Petchey Foundation

The Farm runs a Youth Achievement Scheme awarded to young people between the ages of 11 and 25 and is expended at their discretion within the charity's activities. We were also awarded two grants.

1- Jack Petchey Give Something Back Grant

To run a youth volunteering project for young people to volunteer and give back to their local community. The project is for 11 to 18 year olds to volunteer at the Farm during school holidays. The key benefits of the programme are that the young people are learning new skills with like-minded people at a community farm.

2- The Jack Petchey Covid-19 Recovery Fund

This grant was awarded to the Farm to enable staff to return from furlough to support and supervise the young people 11 to 25 years in London/Essex. The project increased the number of young people able to attend after lockdown and during the Covid-19 pandemic. This was achieved through work experience, work placements, extra-curricular activities perticularly Special Educational Needs pupils, and longer-term volunteer places for young people not in education, employment or training (NEET).

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

Charles S French Trust

This grant was awarded to the Farm to contribute to the Farm Manager's salary costs. This enabled the Farm Manager to return from furlough to plan and set up new Covid-19 secure working practices; this will allow the return of other staff for training, then in turn volunteering and educational activities to resume as permitted by Government guidelines.

National Lottery Community Fund

This was originally awarded for the running of the Wellgate Farm Summer Community Events. Due to the pandemic we requested a change of plan and the grant has been used to fund two projects:

Spring Back to Life - Plan for reopening to the general public in a Covid safe way for small groups of people to attend for booked visits at set times.
Wellgate Challenge and Farm Show - this funded a programme of events and activities for our service users in a socially distanced style. We ran a programme of challenges and activities and an animal show for all farm volunteers, students and young farmers.

Essex Youth Trust

£3,000 was awarded to help fund the costs of the weekend Young Farmers' Club and £3,000 to fund our rabbit house.

Garfield Weston

This grant was awarded to help close the funding gap for 2019/20 and to contribute towards Farm core costs as well as offset the full costs of delivering services to disadvantaged people whilst maintaining our ethos of inclusivity.

NCIL 4th Round

This funding is to contribute towards the replacement of our old rabbit house which is no longer fit for purpose. This resource will support educational and volunteering activities at the Farm.

Provident Social Impact Fund

This grant was used to support the Branching Out project providing supported volunteer places for young people 18 to 30 not in education, employment or training and those transitioning from education.

Tesco Groundwork

This grant was awarded to contribute towards purchase of equipment and materials enabling the Farm to reopen the Young Farmers Club and volunteering project safely.

The Fore Trust- Raft Emergency Fund

This grant was used to support the Farm through loss of income due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Nineveh Trust

Funding towards the replacement costs of the old rabbit house, no longer fit for purpose.

North Meet South

The grant was awarded to the Farm to employ a horticulture coordinator who will be able to deliver the project. The horticulture coordinator will be working with plot owners to give advice on how to maintain their plots and offer assistance but will also work with local schools and other residents at the communal plot.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

Greggs Foundation

This was awarded to regenerate the old young farmers garden, transforming a neglected corner of the Farm into an improved garden with safer fences, adding wheelchair access, interpretation signs and raised beds for vegetables, herbs and fruit bushes.

CLA Charitable Trust

This grant was awarded to the Farm to contribute to the purchase of a horsebox.

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham

This is a service level grant towards the core costs of the Farm. Additional discretionary funding was granted which was used to support the Farm through the loss of income due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM (A Company Limited by Guarantee) Statement of Financial Activities (Incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Notes *Incoming resources from generated funds:* Grants and service level Income 2 Charitable activities Generated funds Income - miscellaneous Donations / voluntary Donations / grants Total incoming resources *Expenses:* Charitable activities Community involvement Running and support costs Pay costs Miscellaneous expenses Vehicle expenses Governance costs Total resources expended Net movement in funds for the year Net outgoing / incoming resources before other recognised gains and losses	2022 £ 90,365 92,586 8,761 591 13,518 15 205,836 (30) (23,128) (27,057) (126,557) (340) (10,616) (1,482) (189,210) 16,626 16,626	2021 £ 120,904 39,545 2,483 5,523 9,180 110 177,745 (30) (22,749) (14,226) (76,877) (300) (5,448) (1,389) (121,019) 56,726 56,726

WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM Registered number: 2818238 Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022

Notes Current assets Cash at bank and in hand Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 5 Net Current Assets Net Assets Representing: The Funds of the Charity Unrestricted income funds 6 Restricted income funds 6 Total funds	2022 £ 164,665 (1,997) 162,668 162,668 126,646 36,022 162,668	2021 £ 148,040 (1,998) 146,042 146,042 99,982 46,060 146,042

The directors are satisfied that the Company is entitled to exemption from the requirement to obtain an audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006.

Members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Act.