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2024-01-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

From Period start date
1
Feb		 2023 To Period end date
31
Jan		 2024

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Cortonwood Comeback Community Centre Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1093848 ~~——=~~ Charity's principal address Cortonwood Comeback Community Centre Chapel Avenue Brampton Postcode S73 0XQ

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)
1 Denise Lelliott Chair Person
2 Katrina Claydon Treasurer
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser
Name
Address
Child Protection/Vulnerable
Adult Officer		 David Dunwell 17 Knollbeck Lane Brampton Barnsley S73 0TR

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

The activities that we provide are based on the needs of the community and in line with the charitable aims of the charity

The day to day running of the Community Centre is undertaken by Jayne Andrews who reports to the trustees. The Trustees oversee the overall management of the charity. We have a Child Protection/Vulnerable Adults officer who is qualified Social Worker. We undertake DBS checks with staff and volunteers before they commence work. Staff and volunteers also undertake Safeguarding Training which is regularly refreshed in line with our CPP. The Trustees also undertake safeguarding training and have DBS checks in line with statutory requirements. All trustees give their time freely and receive no remuneration or other benefits. We work in partnership with learning for locals, RMBC, local ward councillors and the local police and other voluntary and community groups and centres within the locality.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the
charity set out in its governing
document
Summary of the main activities
undertaken for the public benefit
in relation to these objects
(include within this section the
statutory declaration that trustees
have had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission
on public benefit)		 Cortonwood Comeback Community Centre (CCCC) was established in 1986 by
the local community who recognised the need to tackle the problems of
unemployment, exclusion and disadvantage within Brampton Bierlow and the
surrounding areas from the aftermath of the miners’ strike.
For over 30 years Cortonwood Comeback Centre has provided a community
service that is needs led, adapting the services to the needs of the community
at any given time.
The community centre aims are to:
“overcome inequalities and lack of access to services that have a direct
impact on the lives of the elderly, young people, and those on low
incomes in an effort to advance education and provide facilities in the
interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time, with the
objective of improving quality of life.
We plan our work in accordance with our governing document and in
consultation with the community this includes:
Centre for Warmth
Employment Advice
Cadent Gas – Gas Safe & Energy efficient
Housing Support
Benefit Advice
Debt Management
Breakfast Club
Social Groups
Messy Monsters - Parent & Toddler Group
Community Resource Centre
Volunteer Opportunities
Room Hire
Keep Fit

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Our Main source of funding continues to be from grant raising for specific projects.

This financial year we have received grants from

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

We raise funds through room hire, community events donations. This money is used pay for core costs such as utilities, insurance, cleaning and maintenance of the building.

Section D Achievements and performance

Section D Achievements and performance

Centre for Warmth Summary of the main The centre for warmth continues to thrive. We deliver a combination of achievements of the charity during outreach and centre-based work. the year we deliver session in the community, these sessions include, energy efficiency, Co2 advice and distribution of monitors. We also hand out free clow cookers and electric blankets. We engaged with 900 individuals last year for this project. We have been able to significantly increase our reach and signpost people on to other agencies, assist with job search and PiP claim forms and appeals. Food Bank Food bank – providing food for vulnerable families and individuals that were being refereed to us via housing, early help and self-referral. We have now become a registered foodbank and work in partnership with RMBC, VAR we currently provide on average 33 food parcels per week providing food for approximately 75 individuals per week. Via fund from RMBC Household Support Fund we provided Christmas Hamper for 59 families providing families with everything they need in terms of food and festivities for Christmas, 108 adults and 60 children benefited from this . Employment Advice The employment advice service is an essential part of what the community centre offers. The support worker assists people with writing CV’s, applying for jobs and accessing training. During the last year 53 accessed this service, some of those just for CV’s whilst a significant number of people needed 1:1 sessions and more intensive support. We have built relationships with the job centre who signpost on to our services. We have also set up training opportunities with the local learning forum that have supported people to access basis training in Food Hygiene, Health & Safety and Safeguarding, these have led to employment and at least one woman starting her own catering business. Benefit Advice/Pip Appeals We continue to support people in accessing benefits completing forms for Pip and also helping with PIP appeals, our support worker also undertook several home visits for residents that weren’t well enough to attend the community centre Monday Morning Group. This group runs on a Monday and as a regular attendance of 35 people with 46 people on the books. The group is currently attended by a mix of men and women who taking part in “making and doing” and bingos. Messy Monsters - Parent & Toddler Group The parent and toddler group are managed by parents with the help of a support worker. It runs 1 session per week and is very popular in the community. The group offers play activities for children, gives advice to parents, informs parents about course and also have guest speakers that offer advice. We have seen a significant increase in demand for this session.

Section D Achievements and performance

Community Resource Centre

The centre continues to be a hub for the community and community groups alike. We support individuals, sometimes at their most vulnerable, we offer free meeting spaces when they need to meet with children’s social care for example.

We offer free rooms hire for community events, community consultation with the local authority and a free rent period for new groups. We also help new groups with their constitutions, setting up bank accounts and recruiting people on to their projects.

Community Events

We run four large community events a year including Easter Bunny Hunt, Summer Fete, Halloween Scarecrow Hunt and Haunted Chapel and Community Christmas Event and Santa’s Grotto Christmas. The events are all free to attend with the exception of the Grotto, we charge a nominal amount for the grotto to cover the costs of the gift. This year we have averaged 250 people per event.

Keep fit for Less

Initially funded via a grant we have managed to keep the classes running with a regular attendance of new and repat participants, we have an average class attendance of 14 people and have also managed to keep the prices low and affordable.

Men in Shed – This project is new and aims to work with older men who are facing isolating and tackling loneliness, we now have a management committee and are starting to recruit people on to the project

Volunteer Opportunities

Cortonwood Comeback Community Centre was established in 1986 after the miners’ strike it was set up by the women action group who foresaw a need for help, advice and support after the decline of the mining industry. Volunteers continue to be the backbone of the centre and we are still managed by volunteers both at a management and operational level. We continue to offer volunteering opportunities for members of the community and wider opportunities taking volunteers from the probation service, schools and businesses. We have a robust volunteer policy and offer extensive training opportunities enabling people to move on in to employment, run their own groups and apply for their own funding.

Section E Financial review Cc[__][______]

Brief statement of the charity’s To hold no more than 6 months running costs in reserve. Reserves are to be policy on reserves used to support unfunded running costs and to cover project cost in periods between funding.

Details of any funds materially in

deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include We have been fortunate enough to secure funding from Cadent Gas to pay our additional information, where core costs for staff and utilities relevant about:

The general day to day management of the centre and the running of community groups is still undertaken by volunteers who are the backbone of the centre.

• investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

~~ee~~ Section F Other optional information

This year we were sadden by another loss of our Trustee Diane Walton, she started volunteering at the senior citizen in 1990 and later became a trustee. She will be sadly missed and will leave a huge gap in the management committee and her group.

Next year we aim Recruit new Trustees Recruit to the management committee

Section G Declaration ~~ee~~ The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Lelliott Full name(s) Denise Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) ~~EE~~ Chair of the Trustees Date 16-05-2024 ~~|~~

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Independent Examlnerfs report on the Accounts Cortonwood Comeback Community Centre Charty Numb8r 1093848 Respectlve rosponsibilities of the Management Committee and examiner The Management Committee is responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Management Committee considers that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 {the Charities Act) and that an independ8nt examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: examine the accounts under s8Ctlon 145 of the Charities Act; follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions gNen by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and state whether particular matters have come lo my attention. Ba818 of indopendent examlner's Statement My examination was carried out In accordance with the general direction8 given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of Ihe accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in Ihe accounts, and seeking explanations from the Management Committee concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no oplnion Is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view, and the report Is limited to those matters set out in the ststement below. Indepondent •xamln8r'$ Statement In connection with my examlnation, no matter has come to my attentlon (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe thal in, any material respect, the requiremenls below to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130of the Charities Act; to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act, have not been met., or (2) to which. in my opinion, attention should be dravm in order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reaGhed. Name: Barry Morton Sigrye Address: 19 West Pit Hill Date: 7th May 2024 Brampton Barnsley S636BP