2023-12-31-accounts - Sharing Life Trust

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Sharing Life Trust Unit D2 Station Yard Thame OX9 3UH

Registered Charity No. 1100176

Annual Report for 2023

Review of the year by area:

Foodbank

The number of Foodbank parcels has increased dramatically during the year by 72%, and a total of 1582 food parcels were delivered to local addresses, providing for 777 adults and 690 children in 300+ households. Requests were again overwhelmingly validated by other local agencies, and in total £46,202 was spent (an increase of 80% on the previous year), including supplementary items and energy top-ups.

A new online payment platform called ‘Enthuse’ was launched to enable donations from the website, which brought in £6530 since August and was becoming a very significant source of support.

We have 120+ Volunteers covering the Foodbank and Community Larder, with around 80 regularly 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 155 members (an increase of 21% on the previous year), including many 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 employed the second of our two planned administration job-share partners and rented additional office space to accommodate them.

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

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