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Trustees Annual Report 2021 - 2022

‘Restoring faith through care and support’

Registered Office

Huntingdon Volunteer Office 1 Princes Street

Huntingdon PE29 3PA

Telephone: 01480 414766

info@huntsvc.org.uk www.huntsvc.org.uk

Registered Charity: 1126811 Company Number: 6726114

Trustees

Mike Baker Chairman Jenny Clarke Secretary Robert Young Treasurer Anthony Clarke Payroll Jim Abele Trustee Chris Myles Trustee Steve Burdett Trustee Richard Brown Trustee Gordon Thorpe Trustee Keith Woodward Trustee Debbie Townsend Trustee

The Charity may by ordinary resolution at an annual general meeting appoint a person who is willing to act as a Trustee. At least 14 clear days written notice shall be given to the members of the names of those nominated or otherwise standing for appointment or re-appointment as a Trustee. The persons to be appointed as Trustees shall be determined by ballot of the members. The Trustees may appoint a person who is willing to act as a Trustee. Any Trustee appointed under this clause must retire at the next Annual General Meeting.

Huntingdonshire Volunteer Centre

‘Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.’

We are a small local charity, locally funded, supporting vulnerable people with valued services. Our charity organisation aims to reach out to the residents of Huntingdonshire managed by four different offices and a Charity shop, to be able to support vulnerable adults and improve the feeling of wellbeing in the community. We promote volunteering opportunities to all age groups including SEN.

Staff

Radha Roychowdhury General Manager Emma Cameron Shop Manager

Area Managers

Rebecca Chamberlain St Neots (current) Debbie Windsor St Ives Alison Walter St. Neots (2021-22) Marie Webb Ramsey Tripti Woolf Huntingdon Godmanchester

A Mission in Volunteering

‘Caring and sharing for a stronger community’

Our mission is to actively engage volunteers in a variety of initiatives mainly our four community car schemes and the Huntingdon Together Shop and also our community projects.

Our assets are our six hard-working and dedicated part-time staff members and our altruistic volunteers over 150 who use their skills to help as Trustees, volunteer in the shop, help with car scheme bookings & administration, support our car scheme volunteer drivers, buy local communities are a better place to live in. You have all made a real difference!

Calculated Economic Benefit to Huntingdonshire = in excess of £124,367 ( Rates of pay taken from 2009 Government Statistics on Economic Value of Volunteering).

1 April 21 – 31 March 22	Donated Hours (hours)	Equivalent Rate of Pay (£)	Economic Value (£)
Committee Volunteers	732	£22.15	16,214
Ofce Admin/Data Entry	2,343	£10.69	25,047
IT Support & broad- band	680	£21.66	14,729
Car Scheme Volunteers	950	£9.92	9,424
Surplus Share	832	£9.92	8,253
Management Time	175	£22.15	3,876
PAT Tes�ng	52	£22.66	1,178
Shop Volunteers	4,270	£10.69	45,646
Total	10,034		£124,367

Chairman’s Report 2021/2022

Mike Baker

The gradual easing of the COVID 19 restrictions have meant us starting to return to greater activity rates and to a more normal life. Sadly some of our car scheme volunteers have seen this break as a time to retire but I am delighted that so many are returning to help us.

All our staff have been back working their normal hours and are happy to be back! It is our staff who are our amazing strength and we have made two new appointments this year.

Our St. Ives manager, Debbie Windsor, looked after the Ramsey office for a number of months until we appointed Marie Webb. Marie has already taken a number of initiatives and is doing great work there.

At the end of the year Alison Walter stood down as the manager in St. Neots. She had done excellent work both organising the NATTER project and running the office. We have appointed Rebecca Chamberlain (now known as Bex) to the job in St. Neots. She has experience in the sort of work we do and is now working very constructively on our behalf.

Tripti and Debbie continue to manage the offices in HuntingdonGodmanchester and St. Ives and are both caring, calm, organised and efficient with their work. Radha has been our general manager for over a year and has risen impressively to this challenging role. She has been energetic in pursuing funding opportunities and has had a great deal of success which has been very helpful to us. She filled a vital role in looking after the St. Neots office whilst we were appointing a new area manager.

Our shop continues to be very busy and we are blessed to have Emma as our manager. Her energy and caring nature attracts a great number of volunteers to help and she is a huge asset to us.

One of our main concerns this year has been the future of the charity shop in

Huntingdon because our success has meant that we have outgrown our premises. We have been negotiating for another empty building nearby but it has been more complicated and has taken more time than we had anticipated. We look set to be signing a lease soon but nothing is certain. We do need a bigger shop and we need a better office for Tripti to use.

The St. Ives Christmas Day lunch was cooked in the Free Church as usual by Pat Clarke and her team but because of the COVID restrictions we delivered the meals rather than having a party in the church hall. About 50 meals went out and thanks to Debbie’s brilliant organisational skills, everything went smoothly – it was a great success – much appreciated by those who enjoyed the meals.

Our funders have continued to be generous and I need to give special thanks to the town councils in St. Ives and St. Neots for their generosity – without their help our lives would have been very difficult.

The trustees continue to be supportive and involved through difficult times. Jenny Clarke has been a tower of strength as secretary and has developed social gatherings for trustees and staff to meet on a regular basis. Bob Young continues to do an amazing job as treasurer and has now been joined by Anthony Clarke and Keith Woodward whose skills have been very valuable. Each of the trustees have their own area of expertise – Debbie Townsend with health & safety, Richard Brown with HR matters, Chris Myles with the shop, Keith Woodward with marketing, Gordon Thorpe always has his eyes out for funding opportunities, and I am grateful to all of them for their time and energy so willingly given.

And finally a huge thank you to the people on who we totally depend – our volunteers. I’m continually reminded about the good work so many people do as I read the thank your letters sent to us by grateful clients. Thank you for all you do and I hope that you are aware of the difference you make to so many people’s lives in our community.

It is a continuing privilege for me to work with so many kind, compassionate and selfless people who concentrate on what they can contribute rather than what they can take from the work they do.

Treasurer’s Report Bob Young

This report is for the financial year ending on 31[st] March 2022.

This year’s financial performance has been undertaken against a background of post covid recovery. It was never going to be easy as government support ended but our income streams remained subject to the continued need people to “self-Isolate” and the continued reluctance of people to mix and return to the “new normal”. The measures taken during the year, although not so draconian have resulted in a decline in HVC’s financial position.

Before I review our total income and expenditure, for the year, I will review the financial performance of our two of our three major income streams the Car Scheme and the Charity Shop:

Car Scheme – Income from Cambridge County Council (CCC) was £7908.00. Income from Booking fees was £5608.00. A total of £13517.00. The income received in the year 2019/2020 (Pre-Pandemic) was £28219.00 (CCC - £21039.00, Booking Fees - £7180.00. The car scheme income has decreased by some 53%. The decrease would be more dramatic but for the generosity of some of our volunteer driver’s who pay in the total cost of a journey not just the booking fee element. Booking fee income only fell by some 22%

Charity Shop – Direct sales income amounted to £36703.00 which compares well with pre-pandemic direct sales Total income was £47323.00. Gift aid income was £5805.00, A last Huntingdonshire Covid grant of £2667.00 was received early in the year. The shop expenditure was £35190.00 (2019/20 £29167.00, 2020/21 £30225.00) This year the shop produced a profit of £16462.00. However, the audited accounts show a shop profit of £20000.00 which was the amount transferred from the shop account to the main account.

Our third major stream of income is in grant’s local councils. During the year we received £13152.00 (St Ives £11652.00, Huntingdon Town Council £500.00, Godmanchester Council £1000.00. The St Neots Town Council has granted us £8010.00 but the grant process was completed after the close of our financial year so it will be included in the 2022/23 Accounts. We are very grateful to all these Councils for their continued support. During this financial year we received a final payment for our involvement in the “National Census” of £3920.00, a final payment of £1217.00 from the “Furlough” scheme and an exception donation of £3000.00 from a supporter in St Ives.

Our total income for the year was £104566.00 (2020-21 £127472.00, 20192020 £110589.00) Note that last year’s total included £46918.00 In government “Covid” support.

Our total expenditure was £120210.00 (2020-2021 £110896.00, 2019-2020 £105312.00) with wage costs accounting for £73759.00 of that total. This year’s expenditure figure is inflated by comparison to previous years for the following reasons:

Computer support - This is the first year we have paid £3240.00 for computer support. Without this spending would have been in line with previous years.

Communications and Marketing – We took the decisions to buy the mobile telephones staff needed at a one-off cost of £2000.00. This investment will bring saving in future years.

Other expenditure increased as staff returned to their office’s cost e.g., Rents/ Rates, Travel/expenses.

As at 31[st] March 2021 Huntingdon Volunteer centre had £85762.00 cash at the bank and in hand compared with £105224.00 on 31[st] March 2021 (£88723.00 on 31[st] March 2019.) This shows a net loss of £19462.00 over the year. This is in stark contrast to last year’s gain of £16500.00

There is no doubt that this has been a difficult year adjusting to the “new normal”. The loss of government pandemic financial support while the pandemic was still affecting the way people behaved was always going to be challenging.

However, our financial reserves, together with continued profits from the shop, the continued resurgence of the car scheme and the continuing support of the councils referred to above will enable us to continue to face the future, with all its difficulties, with some confidence. The success of the coming year will, hopefully, be further enhanced by our charity shop moving to larger premises.

The Reserves Policy states that the Charity’s reserves should be maintained at a minimum of three months operating expenditure. I can assure you that this is currently the case.

Huntingdonshire Volunteer Centre is a private limited company operating under a Memorandum of Association and registered with Companies House and registered as a charity with the Charity Commission. The accompanying accounts are presented in the format required by current legislation applying to charitable companies. It is a requirement that the Trustee’s Report and Annual Accounts are submitted to both the Charity Commission and Companies House.

A qualified accountant has independently examined the Annual Accounts. A summary of the accounts will be provided for all those attending the Annual General Meeting. Copies of the full accounts will be posted on our website and available by request from the Manager.

Lastly. I would like to thank Anthony Clarke and Keith Woodward for their support and assistance during the year with budgets and payroll.

Report from HVC Secretary to the Trustees

Jenny Clarke

Six years ago, I started to volunteer with HVC. Every Wednesday afternoon I answer the telephone in the St. Ives office, my main task is to record a request for a drive with the community car scheme. I have continued to do this every Wednesday afternoon since, except when I’ve been away on holiday or ill. Initially all the recording was done on paper in diaries, we have now progressed to the use a Spreadsheet and work out of a spacious and comfortable office in the Town Hall. In the early days I was sharing a desk with the Area Manager in the office of the Free Church and during Lockdown I was working out of the study at home. It wasn’t long before I realised that another important aspect of my job was to listen to and chat to both the clients and drivers, this was especially the case during Lockdown.

The Secretary to the Trustees resigned and I was asked if I would take on the role of Secretary to the trustees. I was assured that it would just involve sending out the relevant papers before the quarterly meetings and taking Minutes at the meeting. It has evolved into a

wider role. As a result of my role as a volunteer and a Trustee I know that HVC has a positive impact on the lives of many different people in Huntingdonshire.

AGM 20th September 2021

‘Keeping Huntingdonshire communities safe’

We organised our first face to face post-Covid Annual General Meeting on the 20th of September 2021.

Twenty-four people attended the meeting including Cllr Karl Webb, the Mayor of Huntingdon and Cllr Cliff Thomas, the Mayor of Godmanchester. Attendees received a copy of the Trustees Annual Report for 2020-2021, a copy of a summary of the Financial Activities for the charity for the financial year 20202021, and a copy of the proposed changes to the Memorandum and Articles.

Mike Baker, the chairman, said that the Covid pandemic has had a huge effect on many aspects of the work of the charity. Volunteers and clients were isolating and avoiding the risk of infection so the demand for the services of the volunteers of HVC dropped and the ability to deliver a service also declined. Most of the staff were furloughed for a large portion of the year.

The car scheme transported clients to essential appointments with drivers cleaning the interior of their cars and wearing face masks. Emma, the shop manager, distributed food from the Surplus Share scheme in her own car to people’s homes. The shop did reopen for a short time but then had to close again.

The normal Christmas Day Lunch and party in the Free Church in St. Ives was cancelled but members of the Rotary club helped distribute fifty hot meals cooked by the staff of the Seven Wives public house on behalf of the St. Ives hub on Christmas Day.

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Manager’s Report

‘You are not alone, we are there to provide support’

Our charity is a group of people driven by an altruistic passion to help, thus there can never be an ‘I’ in anything that is done to bring about valued changes in the community. This report is about ‘us’.

We are a team of six part-time managers working together to overview four areas of Huntingdonshire. Our strength is our trustees who are actively involved in steering the focus of the charity to provide services that are needed in the local community and to make Huntingdonshire a better and safer place to live in. For providing the valued services, key workers are our like-minded volunteers who make things happen. We are truly grateful to all of them for their support and would like to thank them sincerely.

The stronger the team, the better it is for the organisation and that’s what we are. We are there to share duties, suggest improvements for efficient

services, increase our awareness through trainings or meet for coffee to plan new projects . Thank you Tripti, Debbie, Emma, Marie, Bex for your support.

Saying goodbyes can be difficult. Ann Bunting, has been the HVC manager for 10 years and helped the organisation grow. Her positive energy and leadership qualities motivated the team to give their best. We are grateful to her and thank her for her contributions.

Goodbye Alison! She has been a dedicated manager at St. Neots office. Best of luck from the team.

Thank you Gavin and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough County Council for the support and trainings.

Our Volunteers

‘volunteering is at the very core of being human’

Our volunteers are the heart and soul of our charity organisation. Without their support and efforts we would not be able to provide the excellent services we do to help the community. We are very thankful to them and wish them well.

Our trustees are also role models. Our chairman, Mike, leads our gardening project to work with volunteers and help clean gardens for those who need support. We are very fortunate to have the support of our trustees and a big thank you to you all.

Our volunteers are wonderful people and we thank you all for supporting us. We create some memorable times together as a team for our well-being and good health.

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Car Scheme Services

‘We value time and will travel an extra mile’

Our car scheme volunteers dedicate their times to receive queries and bookings for journeys to hospitals, supermarket and other social travels. Our services were provided even during COVID19 and lockdowns to support vulnerable adults with mobility issues. There were 1654 journeys to the hospitals. The hospitals are now recommending our car scheme services to patients as they find us reliable and providing extra care for patients.

Our clients are also very pleased with our services and find our volunteers and managers very supportive. We are very grateful for their donations and their kind words motivate us to do better.

We thank our Town Councils for the community grants to be able to provide our services to the community who feel cared and protected.

heir kind words motivate us to	do better.
Hospital Journeys	2021-22	We thank our Town Councils for the community grants to be able
Hinchingbrooke	1,049	provide our services to the comm
Addenbrookes	338	nity who feel cared and protected
Peterborough	128
Other Hospitals:	139
Cambridge, Bedford, Ely,
Histon, Kettering, Stam-
ford & Rutland, Wisbech
Total Hospital Journeys	1654	23536 Miles travelled to hospitals 56%of total mileage!

2021 /22	Huntingdon	Ramsey	St Ives	St Neots	Total
Journeys	1710	733	2406	1263	6126
Miles	13219	5652	24,549	14,522	53183
People	836	397	1226	517	2976
New Users	63	34	107	21	209

Charity Shop Manager Emma Cameron

Hopefully No More Lockdowns -Back to hard work! We reopened the shop on Monday 12[th] April after a 3-month lockdown. Keeping the same government restrictions in place the shop did very well with huge amounts of donations!

In June we said Goodbye to Anne our manager, due to retirement and hello to Radha.

Thank you to our NCS students for volunteering in August by handing out leaflets for the shop and sending people who didn't know we are here up to us from the High Street!

Helped the Love Huntingdon Community Clean-Up Litter Pick at Sapley Park and surrounding Streets. In June and August 2021.

Christmas 2021! We could all finally celebrate after 2 years!

Celebrating our 6[th] anniversary of opening the shop in November with the Christmas market stall, raising £286.50!

30 Christmas Hampers handed out to those in need from Nadine at Morrisons and Hannah at Coop.

In December we took part in the council’s winter warmer campaign, distributing donated blankets to our customers who needed them, with thanks to Ann Pinkney from HDC!

March 2022 Enjoying the annual Pancake Race Day, whilst raising awareness with the community!

Our community fridge and services continue to grow and support local people! Thank you to Co-op, Godmanchester Food Bank, Morrisons and the general public that donate for this service! We are looking forward to serving the community in 2022!

Extra Funds Raised!

Online Books £1894.70

£1,208.24 Ziffit £521.41 We buy Books £ 165.05 WOB Thank you, Mum and Anthony

Gumtree £237.00 Thank you Christy Ebay £834.57 Thank you, Kelly, Mum and Anthony.

Rags £705.70 PAT Testing -Thank you Phil Food – Not for profit but we ask for a donation for the upkeep of the fridge. Thank you Adeline Leeanda, Paul and Suzanna

The biggest THANK YOU goes to the amazing volunteers who work extremely hard to just keep the shop running and raise funds for HVC!

Highlights from Huntingdon Tripti Woolf Huntingdon & Godmanchester Area Manager

It was a slow start to the year with regards to people seeking volunteering opportunities and the usage of the Community Car Scheme.

By the end of the year the Community Car Scheme was very busy. The majority of the drives requested were for medical and hospital appointments, later on there were more requests for social purposes i.e. to attend various clubs. The bookings are taken by Volunteer Car Scheme Administrators.

Community Car Scheme Administrators Janet and Harry. Harry has also started driving for the Car Scheme. Sadly, two administrators left, Lianna moved away and Francesca found a full time job in the finance sector after gaining admin skills in our office.

Unfortunately, the number of people seeking volunteering opportunities has declined. Do-it.live website is a national database with volunteering opportunities. However, since its update from do-it.org website, it has been difficult to use to search for volunteering opportunities. Debbie the St Ives Manager complies a monthly newsletter with current volunteering opportunities. Anyone can sign up to receive this newsletter and organisations can also advertise their opportunities.

Celebrations

We celebrated Christmas with a meal at Hartford Mill with our volunteers, Car Scheme drivers, and Trustees.

I would like to say a huge thank to the Board of Trustees, my colleagues Debbie, Marie, Bex, the Car Scheme Drivers Alan, Anne, Chris, David, Harry, Helen B, Helen S, Jim, Katherine, Laurance, Lawrence, Odette, Car Scheme Administrator Janet, our patrons and supporters without whom we would not be able to provide a much needed service to the Community of Huntingdonshire.

Highlights from Ramsey Marie Webb, Ramsey Area Manager

Having only joined at the end of February 2022, it is difficult for me to have a view of the full year. However, I would like to thank Debbie for all of her help in getting to grips with the position and spending time with me, making sure I was confident in what I was doing before leaving me to fly solo!

I understand that the office closed during the pandemic, with driver requests being managed by the team at St Ives. The office then re-opened in the second quarter. Gradually bookings increased, and I am pleased to say they have continued to do so!

The number of clients using the service has also increased, with 50 new clients also joining during the year, and a total of 733 journeys and 5,652 volunteer miles driven. The need for this service in Ramsey is clear and is continuing to grow.

I attended my first driver’s morning on 15[th] March, which was a little quieter than we had hoped. It was a great opportunity to meet some of the volunteers from Ramsey and other offices and also meet the other managers and some of the Trustees. Unfortunately the planned speaker was unable to attend and so instead, Debbie and Tripti had a short Q&A session with the volunteers, which was very interesting.

Client Testimonials:

Received from a Social Care Family Worker

“I have recently contacted the Ramsey Vol Drivers Scheme who have been incredibly helpful and efficient. They have quickly arranged transport for a family I am working with, to a much needed series of appointments to support a young person’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. This is a family that are incredibly isolated. They live in a rural location where mum does not drive. They have a very limited support network and also the young person is home schooled so they have very little social interaction. This is a much needed series of support appointments that this family, without the help from Volunteer Drivers, would not be able to access.

They have been great in explaining the process and costs and have kept both myself as family worker and also the family up to date on the progress of the request. A really excellent much needed service in this area and I will be recommending to my colleagues.”

We received some lovely feedback from one of our Ramsey clients, Ms R:

“We used to use a taxi, but then discovered the car scheme and certainly wouldn’t go back. The same driver takes us regularly, but we have had two other drivers when he is unavailable, and they have been fantastic. They are always kind, helpful and extremely accommodating. I’m recommending your service to everyone. You are very lucky to have such wonderful drivers and office staff too.”

From one of the St. Neots drivers:

‘I have been driving throughout the whole pandemic. I am in my seventies, so despite enjoying good health was in a vulnerable group myself. My rationale was that if I didn't help out and drive at a time of national emergency, who would? Other people were helping out at covid centres and I wanted to do my bit. At first there were only a few patients to take to hospital, and these were very vulnerable people themselves whose need for medical treatment was great. Once the vaccine centres were set up, I drove a steady flow of people to receive their jabs, not just locally but also as far afield as Biggleswade. I also drove people who needed to be tested before going into hospital, again this could be in Newmarket one day, and Hinchingbrooke another. I bought masks and sanitizer right at the outset, and used them for some weeks before they became mandatory both for the sake of our clients and for my sake and my wife's. I was very glad when my wife and I received our first vaccine, and relieved when we received our second dose. I feel that many others were taking a risk, not least our supermarket workers, and I'm glad I could help out in a time of national need.’

Highlights from St Ives Debbie Windsor, St Ives Area Manager

It has been a busy year for me in St Ives- I was asked if I could help get the Ramsey office up and running after being closed through the pandemic. Gradually the bookings started to pick up and our lovely new Manager Marie was appointed in February.

The build up to Christmas was rather frantic at times and it was very timeconsuming juggling drivers to be able to meet all requests, although I am delighted to say that we did not need to ‘cancel’ any requests. There were many hospital appointments during this quarter and surprising quite a number during the Christmas holidays. We did have some drivers that were happy to take our clients during this time.

It was lovely to see some of our volunteers and Trustees pop into the Free Church on Sunday 5[th] December for our annual Christmas gathering for mince pies, refreshments and a good old catch up.

The staff met with Alison in St Neots on 31[st] January to have a farewell leaving lunch. It was lovely for us all to get together, however we will miss Alison. I wish her well for the future.

I continued to manage the Ramsey office during January and February and prepared everything ready for when Marie joined the team on 28[th] February. I spent 2 weeks training with her and I am delighted to say that she has settled in wonderfully well and is now managing the Ramsey office with no problems. During February I recruited a new Admin volunteer for Ramsey, and he is now thriving in Marie’s capable hands!

I was asked to cover the St Neots office for the last two weeks of March while Radha was on leave, so I spent the mornings there and then back to the St Ives office for the afternoons.

I have been asked to continue going to the St Neots office to help until a new manager has been recruited.

The drivers morning on 15[th] March was a little quieter than we had hoped. Unfortunately the speaker we had planned had tested positive for covid the night before so we had a small change of agenda for the day!

Christmas 2021

The Christmas Committee met at Tookeys Coffee Shop at the end of October to discuss the plans for the Christmas day dinners. We decided it would be safer if we did not hold our traditional gathering at the Free Church, due to Covid, but to prepare and deliver Christmas dinners to our clients.

I called everyone on our list who received a dinner last year and asked them if they would like to receive a delivery of a dinner and a gift bag- to which I had many tears of joy and gratitude.

With donations from Waitrose, Co-op and Buckingham Foods and the help of some amazing volunteers & Pat Clarke the wonderfully organised cook at the Free Church we prepared 50+ dinners and delivered them to clients in the area along with a gift bag which consisted of:

Mince pie, chocolates, fruit, crisps, cake, tea bags, juice and a pair of gloves.

Mike Baker wrote a letter which will be featured in the Hunts Post following our Christmas Day deliveries:

“Again this year we thought it unwise to host the St Ives Christmas day lunch at the Free Church, but instead our team of volunteers cooked lunches and delivered them to people who were isolated or alone on Christmas Day.

Huge thanks are due to the team- the cooks, the drivers, the people who shopped for the Christmas gift bags and the organisers. It was a great effort and the fifty meals delivered were much enjoyed by all.

We are grateful to Buckingham Foods of Histon, to the St Ives Co-op and to St Ives Waitrose for their generous support.

We hope that all of our friends will be back in the Free Church hall on Christmas day 2022 for our traditional Christmas lunch.”

Driver Stories:

A testimonial from one of our drivers:

“I retired in May last year. Didn’t really want to stop completely so I started looking for something I could do. A friend told me he was a volunteer driver for HVC and as my full time job had been working for a community transport charity in Cambridge, it seemed an ideal opportunity.

I have really enjoyed my time with the Car Scheme so far and met some lovely people.

It’s almost as if I haven’t really retired …….. but a lot less hours !! ”

A lovely message from one of our St Ives clients, Mrs W:

“I learned about the Community Car Scheme last year, when my driving licence was withdrawn due to my poor eyesight. Since then I have relied heavily on this scheme in order to get about.

I cannot praise highly enough the kindness, consideration and co-operation I have received from the volunteer drivers and also the administration staff in St Ives, and of course, particularly through the restraints caused by ‘Covid-19’.

I can heartily recommend the Team and I am very pleased to take this opportunity to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to everyone involved.”

The St Ives office continues to be busy. With 27 active volunteer drivers and 4 admin volunteers, we are taking around 20 – 30 bookings a week and are signing up on average 6-12 new clients each month.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank every single one of our volunteersthis organisation would not be able to run without you!

Highlights from St Neots

Bex Chamberlain St Neots Area Manager

Having joined St Neots as Area Manager at the end of

April 2022, I was not present during the 2021/22 business year. I will however do my best to provide a report based on files and information I have available.

2021/22 once again saw restrictions in place due to Covid, which had a limiting effect on the work of the volunteer centre and its schemes.

Following the departure of Alison Weir in January 2022 the St Neots office was overseen by Radha, with assistance from Debbie and the other managers.

Community Car Scheme : The most common reason for a journey between April 2021 –March 2020 was for hospital attendance, and this remained consistently high throughout the year. Personal and social journeys remained the lowest reason for travel.

A drivers morning was held in March, with some attendees from the St Neots area. Danny Brooke is currently the only volunteer administrator for the St Neots scheme, and I would like to thank him and the volunteer drivers for their continued support and commitment during the last year.

Natter : Due to continuing covid restrictions the NATTER group did not re-form in 2021/22.

From one of our clients: “I would like to thank all the people who are running the volunteer bureau. It is a godsend to people like me who can no longer drive and one of the few rays of sunshine in our lives is the volunteer bureau. All of the drivers and staff are marvellous! It gives me something to look forward to, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to get out.

I am so grateful!”

We are grateful to all our supporters for donating their �me & skills for our benefit and that of the local community. To those who have fundraised on our behalf and made individual donations —

we thank you!

All these ac�ons have greatly encouraged us and helped to us to con�nue to deliver our services locally, across Hun�ngdonshire.

Our focus is s�ll to work within local communities

  - **To manage our car schemes**

To raise funds to support our work through our Huntingdon Together Shop & project work
To help volunteers and promote volunteering as finances permit.

For your support during the financial year 2021-22—Thank You! Cambridgeshire Community Transport, Hun�ngdon Freemen’s Trust, Cambridgeshire Community Founda�on, Town Councils:

St Ives, St Neots, Ramsey, Huntingdon, Godmanchester,

‘Suppor�ng volunteering across Huntingdonshire’

Huntingdon Office: 1 Princes Street, Hun�ngdon, PE29 3PA. 01480 414766 hun�ngdon@huntsvc.org.uk

Huntingdon Together Shop: 1 Princes Street, PE29 3PA 01480 700290 biz@huntsvc.org.uk

Ramsey Office: Methodist Church, High Street, Ramsey, PE26 1AA. 01487 814117 ramsey@huntsvc.org.uk

St Ives Office: Town Hall, Market Hill, St Ives, PE27 5AL.

01480 301462 stives@huntsvc.org.uk

St Neots Office: Community Building, 6a South Street, St Neots, PE19 2BW. 01480 476047 stneots@huntsvc.org.uk

Manager: 07718 272524 info@huntsvc.org.uk www.huntsvc.org.uk

Huntingdonshirfr Volunteèr Contr Registered Charity 1126811 Company Number 6726114 Accounts for the Year Ended 31st March 2022

Huntingdonshire Volunteer Cèntrè Trustee$ and Management Committee Mike Baker Jim Abele Anthony Clarke (Appointed 22nd May 2022} Richard Brown Jennifer Clarke Chris Myles Gordon Thorpe Debbie Townsend Roberl Young Keith Woodward N.B The above are appolnted as DiTeGtOTS of the company and Trustees of th& charity. In th15 document and in the organisation's pap8rs the word Trustees is used to cover both meanlngs. Bankers CAF Bank Ltd. 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill Wesl Malling Kent ME194JQ Reglsteyed Company Nurnber 6726114 Reglstered Charity Numb8r 1126811 Principal Addrgss 1 Prin¢es Street Huntingdon Cambridgeshire PE29 3PA Independonf Examiner John Sinfield FCA 32 Beally Road Ealon Socon Sl Neols PE19 8PT

Huntlngdonshlre Volunteer Centre statement of the Trustee's Responsibilltles Charity Law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a tiue and fair view of Ihe stale of affairs of the Charily and of th@ profil or108s of the Charity for the year. In preparing those financial slalemenls, the Committee is required lo.. al select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently. b) make judgements and estimates that ale reasonable and prudent., } slate whether applicable aGcounling sl8ndard5 and statements of recommended practice have been followed, stjbiecl lo any deparlures disclosed and explained in th& financial slalemenls.. and d) prepare Ihe financial statements on the going concern basis unless il is Inappropriate lo presume that the Charity will continue in operation. el observe the methods and principles of the Chari1105 SORP (FRS 1021 The Trustees are responsible for keèplng proper accounting records which disck)se with reasonable accuracy al any lime Ihe financial ptssilion of the Chatity and lo enable them to ensuie that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the asse15 of Ihe Charily and hence for laking Teasonable steps for the prevention 8nd delecliun of fiaud and other irregularities. In so far as trustees are aware.. - there is no relevant information ol which thfy Irusl's independent examiner is unawaie., and - the trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken lo make themselves aware of any relevant infomation and to establish that the independent examiner is awBre of that infom)ation.

Huntlngdonshire Volunteer Centre Independent Examin8r's Report to the Trustees of thé Huntingdonshlre Volunteèr Centre Rèspective lesponslbllitles of trustees and independènt oxath)iner The ¢harity's Iruslees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charilres Acl 2011 {he A¢l"l and the requirements of the Companie5 Act 20fl6. The charity's Iruslees consider that an aurlil is not reqviied f this yeai under section 144 of the Act and that an independent examinal#)n 1$ needed. 11 is my responsibility to.. examine the accounts under se10 145 of the Charities Act lo follow the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)Ib) of Ihe Act, and lo stale whether particulai mallers have come lo my attention. Basls of Independent examlner's statement My examination was caTfied out in accordance wilh the general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examinalion includes a review of the accounting iecords kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with Ihose records.11 alsc> includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the Iruslees conc8rning any such matters. The Procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would b& required in an audit. and ¢onsequenlly no opinion is given as lo whether the accounts PTesent a'lrutr and fairf. view and Ihe report is limitod lo those matters sel out in the statement betow. Indep8ndent examiner's statement In connection with my examination, no matters have come lo my attention which gives mo cause lo believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not keep in accordance with section 130 Df the Charities Acl. or the acunIS did not accord with Ihe accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable r¢quiiements ¢on¢eining the form and content ol accounts set out in the CharilieslAccounls and Reportsl Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a "true and fail" view which is not a malleT consideied as p8rt of an independanl examination I have no concerns and have com& across no olher matters in corine¢lton with the examination to which atter)lion should be drawn in this report in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts lo be reached. -1 , S*rnkthJ Mr J Sinfpld FCA 32 Beatty Road Eaton Socon St Neols PE19 8PT

HUNTINGDONSHIRE VOLUNTEER CENTRE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST hlARCH 2022 Unie51ricte Funds Restricted Funds 2022 Unrestricted R¢sln¢ied 2021 Total Fund5 Ftsnd5 Total Funds Fn5 Incomlng rosources Incomlllg T8SoEErce$ from generated funds VDluniary Income from DonatiorTrs Incomè fiotn inve51tnent 4944 4944 638 25 e83 638 25 663 4953 4953 In¢omlng resoEErces charitable actlvltles Charlt8ble p(Irpose 9g613 99613 128809 126809 Total lficoming Resour9 104566 104566 127472 127472 Rg$ources expendèd CharTrtablè a¢tlvlties Dift¥ct chaiitsble purpose$ 120263 120263 1113fj4 232 111596 Total expendlture 120263 120263 111364 232 111506 N8t In¢Dmtng resoueS befoie transfers -15697 -15697 16108 -232 15876 GT055 transfer b@tween lunds Net Incoming resoyrces befo revalualion & InvÈ$lment asseldispDsals -15697 -15697 16108 -232 15876 Reali8ed galns on disposal of Inve$iment 8ssels Unrealised gains on revaluatitin of Inveslmenl a8sels Nel movemèftt on f*Jnds -15697 -15697 18108 -232 15876 FUNE$ Brought Forward 109849 109649 93741 232 93973 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 94152 94152 10Q849 109849 The no¢e5 on page$ 6 to g form part of these 8ccounls

HUNTINGDONSHIRE VOLUNTEER CENTRE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 31ST MARCH 2022 IBALANCE SHEET) Nole 2022 2021 Fixed Assets Tangible Assets 2992 1634 Current Assels Debtors 5398 3312 Cash al Bank atEd in Hand 85762 105224 Total Curtenl Assets 91160 108536 Current Liabilities Crèdilots-. amounts lalling due within one year 10 321 NET CURRENT ASSETS 91160 108215 NET ASSETS 94152 109849 Chaiil Funds Uniesliicle(S Funds Rtricted Funds 94152 t09849 11 94152 109849 The Trustees ¢onsidei that the Charity is enlilled lo exemption from the requiremènl lo have an audit nder the provisions of Section 477 of the Companies Ael 2(K)61"The Acl'l and membèrs have nok required Ihe Charily to obtain an audit for Ihe year in question in accordance with Section 476 01 The Act. Th8 T¥u81ee8 acknowledge Iheir rèsponsibilities for comptying with the requiietllenls of The Act with respect to accountino records and the preparation of financial slalements. The financial statements havo been prepared in accor<J#nce wilh the piovisions applicablè lo enlilies subject lo the small companies gEMe. Approved on behalf of Truslè&s Chawman.. M.G B8k&r Treasurer.. R. Young Date= L KJy)Ly The notes on pages 6 10 9 fomi part of thes& accounts

ACCOUNTING POLICIES al ACCOUNTING CONVENTION The accounts have been prepared under the historic ¢osl convention. The aeeounls are in accordance with applicable accounting standards, the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounling and Reporting by Charities. IFRS 1021 issued July 2014 and the Charitiès Act 2011. bl SORP FRS 102 This 1$ third year of adoption Df FRS 102. thère was no change in financial performanc8 and il has not been necessary lo roslale the previous year Iwures. cl GOING CONCERN The trustees are of the viéw Ihal the chaiily is a going concern. dl PUBLIC BENEFIT Huntingdon Volunteer Centre meets the defiriilion of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. e) CASH FLOW STATEMENT The cha¥ily has taken advantage of the exemption offered under FRS 102 to small charities not to provide a cash flow slalement. f) INCOMING RESOURCES Income 15 shown within three main categories in Ihe Stalement of Financial Activ6ties - Voluntary income Investment income Incoming iesoufces from charitable activities Volijnlary income are donations and are accoLJnted for al the time of arising. Gifts in Kind are accounted for by recognising as an incoming resource al a reasonable estimate of their value. Incoming Tesources from ¢harilable activities include uranls and contributions reiVed relating to the volunteer services provided by the charity. g) RESOURCES EXPENDED Exp8nditure is recognised on an accrua15 basis as a liability is incurred. The Statement of Financial A¢livities defines Costs in two spe¢ili¢ ¢8legories'. Charilable activities Govofnance costs Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the chafity in Ihe delivery of ils activities and services for ils b&neltciaries. Governance costs include those costs assoLialed willi mo8ling the ¢onslilL*lional and stalulory requirements of the charity, as well as administrative and eslablishmenl costs of Ihe Charity which cannol be fairly allocated lo any of the charity's aclivilies. h) FIXED ASSETS Fixed ass&ls costing more Ih8n £500 are in¢lL¢ded al actu81 cost. i.e inclusive of irrecoverable VAT. Donated assets are shown at a reasonable estimate of their value al the lime of the gift. Depreciation is provided on the tangible lixed assets In use al a late calculated lo write oll thè cost of each asset at a rale of 25010 per annum straight line. TURNOVER Turnov8r is made up of grants and donations ieceived in the furtheTance of the charills objectives.

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS VOLUNTARY INCOME 2021 Unie8lricied Re8lricted Funds Funds Total Funds Unreslrided Re81rieled Funds Funds 2022 Totsi riind$ Donat((X)8 4944 4944 638 638 INVESYKIENT INCOME Unreslricied Restricte Funds Funds 2022 Total Funds Unreslricied FuRds 2021 Tolal Funds B8nk lfileresl Red 25 25 INCOMING RESOLJRCES FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES Unr8stri¢16d ReslFktwJ FunLIs Fiinds 2021 Unreslricled Re$tTr¢led Funds Fiinds Total Funds 2022 Toia1 Fund SI. Iv65 Tow Counc Sl Neols Toyffl Counc GtKfrnofi¢hesier Town Countil Hunlingdon Toyén Coiincil Bmlngfrffid Padsh Coundl Ram$eyTown CourKfjI CCC. C&rScknne IrKome MR¢ JRS GiaDI 2021 Census SeNlce$ Provlded In¢om Smp Profil Freemans Trust Conlfibulion frDm Blg Bieakfos16 Conknbulion from Youth Monitoring Chariiy S*op IncDtne Olh8r Incom8 H8alih S Wellb&ln Natter Car $cme 8oDking Fee5 Youth Mentori 11G52 11652 11513 5820 11513 5820 100LI 50Q 1000 500 cooo 10593 27011 6468 7908 1217 3920 7gO8 1217 3920 10593 270t1 8488 20000 200DO 10000 toooo 47323 47323 45423 45423 809 173 5609 173 5609 3172 3172 98613 99613 128809 126809 Fund811 by Ihp People5 Heafh TnEs1 moneyr8lsed byH8allhCommitt IhKwgh Ihe Healih LottÈry CHARITABLE EXPENDITURE (are p8riof the Ch?rit8ble Acliviifes lota1 on tho SOFA) 2021 Unr#$triCd Réstricted FnrtS Fundts Tota FurKJs Ljnreskncled Reslribxe Funds Funds 2022 TotRI Funds Woge C(>sl$ Insurance Travel Expense$ Volunlepfs Eypenses NAFFER m9.alIng caMbdeSh1le Youth Mentoring Gardening Blg Bre8klasl Car Sclieme Dlreci Payments 71351 71351 72144 1108 1996 77 72144 1108 1996 77 1371 10 tgo 1371 190 2,ODD 594 gt2 232 232 74635 7463$ 76237 232 76489

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS GOVERNANCE COSTS (are part of Ih$ Chari1&b Acllwll8$ lolal on Ihe SOFA) UnreslriclÈd Restrided Fund8 Funds 2022 T¢tal Fufjds UNeslrt¢led Restricted 2021 Ftsnds Funds Total Funds Offlce AdMinIratIDn Tdephone. Posts, Pr1r*llng & Slaiionery ProlEsslonal Feps Reni & Raies IT Costs ChaiSly Shop ¢o$t$ Sundiies oep1#tiOfi 2.415 350 673 4.854 35.190 1,542 600 45.628 2,41 350 673 4.8Jf4 35.190 1.542 600 45.628 2.290 519 3fj4 3,564 26,861 1.29 233 35,127 2.290 519 3,Jf64 26,661 1.29e 233 35,127 FIXEO ASSETS otfice ment Tol81 Cost Brought FO[d Addilion& 13.812 1.958 13.812 1.958 As at 31st Maith 2022 lof.770 15.770 Depi8cialion Broughl Fomard Provided ir? Ytrar As 8131st March 2022 12.178 800 12.778 12.178 12.778 Net B4Jof< Value a131sl March 2022 2.992 2,992 Net Botsk Value al 31si March 2D21 1.634

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS DEBTORS 2022 2021 Shop Deposlt April Shop Rent PAYE and Nl 2.437 2,437 875 2.086 Total Debtors 5.398 3,312 fjo CREDITORS Amounts falling due fhin olle y98r 2022 2021 PAYE and Nl 321 Sundry Credttor$ & Acciuals 321 IMCOME ACCOUNT Movements in the In¢ome Account dunng the year have been as follows:_ 2022 2021 unStrIcted Funds BÈlance Bioughl Forward Transfer fiom Statement of Financial Aclivlties Balance as at 3181 March 2022 Restricled Funds Balan Brou9hl Forward Transfer from Statement of FinanGial Activities Balance as at 3151 March 2022 109,849 15,697 94,152 93,741 16,108 109,849 232 -232 12 TRANSACTIONS WITH TRUSTEES No remuneration is paid lo'ftuslee5. In the ¢urrenl period, the Tiustees claimed 3 total of £0 in expenses. RELATED PARTIES trlo on8 individual controls Ihe charily wilh all Iiuslees having eqLIBI voling rights. 14 TAXATION The chafily is exempt from lax on income 8nd Gains falling within section 505 of th8 Tax8s Act 1988 section 252 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gain5 Act 1992 to the ¢xtenl Ihat these are applied to ils ¢haritdble objective5. 18 PENSIONS The charily has a pension scheme whlch was sel up on 1st May 2017. IT COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE The Company Is limited by guaranlep. The liability of &Èch member 15 a maxhnum of £10. The Company has nine members at 31 Maich 202212021 ninel.