Sharing Life Trust Unit D2 Station Yard Thame OX9 3UH
Registered Charity No. 1100176
Annual Report for 2022
Review of the year by area:
Foodbank
The Foodbank has increased dramatically during the year by 33%, and a total of 914 food parcels were delivered to local addresses, providing for 685 adults and 549 children in 191 households. Requests were again overwhelmingly validated by other local agencies, and in total £25,681 was spent, including supplementary items and energy top-ups.
We have 90 Volunteers covering the Foodbank and Community Larder, all exceptionally committed in both collecting food from supermarkets and delivering to clients, and who are critical for us in responding to this growing demand in such difficult circumstances.
Community
In a development of the Foodbank, we have continued to expand the Community Larder scheme, which has over 110 members, including some Ukrainian refugees. This offers unsold food items donated by supermarkets for scheme members to buy at very reduced cost; enabling people to benefit from the lower expense and also to regain control over their food shopping. An additional benefit (and motivation for around half the users) is to reduce the amount of wasted food going to landfill.
As demand has grown due to the cost-of-living crisis we expanded the FoodBank store and we also launched a new database to support our FoodBank clients, and employed the first of our two planned administration job-share partners.
The Trust continued to support local people in need with emergency funding for clients of the Citizens Advice Bureau for some bankruptcy and Debt Relief Orders, and also to provide white goods for people unable to manage without a cooker or fridge, for example.
International
We support the Sharing Life/Rema clinic in Burundi, in conjunction with Rema UK (registered charity no. 1118650). The clinic provides healthcare in the province of Rutana, where a very large number of returnees from refugee camps in Tanzania have settled, either on land requiring negotiation with families who took it over following the genocides, or in Internally Displaced People camps. We continue to support the clinic’s work with funding for medicines and malaria prevention.
We also carried on funding for the Calcutta Samaritans and Emmanuel Ministries in Kolkata, India with their work alongside substance abuse addicts and street children.
Steve Eyre, Trustee
Contact us on the Sharing LifeLine : 0345 201 0212 or e-mail us at info@sharinglifetrust.org
SHARING LIFE TRUST
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2022
| 2022 | 2021 | PAYMENTS | 2022 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bank balance as at 1stJanuary | 50259.53 | 46359.02 | |||
| RECEIPTS | |||||
| Specific gifts received for: | Specific Gifts for: | ||||
| OverseasAid/Relief in Burundi | 5648.68 | 5809.75 | Overseas Aid /Relief in Burundi | 22672.47 | 25739.83 |
| Emmanuel Ministries & Calcutta | Emmanuel Ministries & Calcutta | ||||
| Samaritans -workingwith | Samaritans -workingwith | ||||
| destitute in India | 600 | 600 | destitute in India | 4400 | 11000 |
| UFM Worldwide | 500 | ||||
| Caring inThame including | Caring inThame includingthe | ||||
| donationstoThame Food bank | 32969.76 | 22594.18 | running ofThame Food bank | 25691.16 | 16301.08 |
| Counselling Support | 2700 | 2150 | |||
| Ukraine Support | 1157.79 | ||||
| Donationstocoveradmin costs | 2400 | 2400 | Admin costs | 1534.12 | 2143.57 |
| General Donations | 20804.12 | 22005.69 | |||
| Tax reclaimed on GiftAided Giving | 5965.99 | 7430.79 | |||
| Ukraine Support | 4843.93 | ||||
| Red Kite FamilyCentre | 24.12 | 144.9 | Red KiteFamilycentre | 344.9 | |
| (2019 includes £10000 grantfrom OCC) | |||||
| Energy Support | 2563.48 | ||||
| Total Receipts | 75820.08 | 60985.31 | Total Payments | 59000.44 | 57334,48 |
| Bank/cash as at 29th December | 67079.17 | ||||
| Independentlyexaminedby TrevorWalker andsigned 26 Augis!2023 | |||||
| Notes: <Afog Foodbankequipmentpurchased 2 : |
OpeningCash Balance 1January 22 | 50259.53 | |||
| Fridge | 1307.98 | Plus Receipts 2022 | 75820.08 | ||
| Racking | 456 | 126079.61 | |||
| Bins | 149.84 | Less Payments 2022 | 59000.44 | ||
| signs | 200 | 67079.17 | |||
| Headset | 173.9 | Bank Balance 29 December 2022 | 67079.17 | ||
| Petty Cash Balance 31 Dec 2022 | 472.59 | ||||
| Total: | 2287.72 | 67551.76 |
7 a CHARITY COMMISSION Independent examiner's FOR ENGLAND AND WALES report on the accounts
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