Charity Number: 1136596 Website: www.sanktus.org Email: sanktus.welfare@gmail.com Address: 4 Lady Margaret Road London NW5 2XT **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2021** ## **Our objectives** SanKTus' objectives are the relief of poverty through advice & practical support to vulnerable people in Kentish Town and Camden. We provide meals, showers and clothes, befriending & referrals into statutory and community-based services. We provide activities to improve the health and wellbeing of elders in the local community including bingo, a two course meal and chair based exercise. The majority of the members are from an Irish background but all are welcome, ## **Our organisation** The charity had the following 6 trustees in the year 2020/2021: - Margaret Harvey - chair - Rev John Deehan - Stuart Garner - Allison Havey - Jennifer Rossiter - René van Velzen - treasurer Richard Mallon has been leading the activities in his role as Welfare Coordinator. SanKTus had the help of approx, 34 volunteers to support all the activities. We depend on volunteers to help us organise our food, shower and clothing services and to take time to engage in conversation with our guests, ## **Our activities and achievements in this period** ## **The Welfare Project** The Welfare Project remained open during Covid-19 restrictions but adapted its services. SanKTus provided a takeaway meal twice a week and dropped off food to some of our most vulnerable guests who were unable to leave their homes. SanKTus also provided a telephone service offering welfare advice and befriending. We also worked in partnership with Caritas (Diocese of Westminster) to target those in financial hardship with food vouchers that could be spent at Sainsbury’s. The Welfare Project also handed out non-perishable food when available. We also continued to provide people in food poverty with food vouchers for the local food bank. There was also a limited amount of clothing and toiletries handed out. A total of 164 people used at least one of these services with the majority attending the project at least once a week throughout the year. **Page 1 of 5** Charity Number: 1136596 Website: www.sanktus.org Email: sanktus.welfare@gmail.com Address: 4 Lady Margaret Road London NW5 2XT **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2021** Having surveyed our guests, we have a clearer profile of who our guests are and what their circumstances are. The majority are older men but of working age, living alone in sub-standard housing; they don't work because of poor health, although we are aware through our support work that they feel totally unprepared to find work and fear the impact of recent benefit changes. They do not eat well or have any social life and a number of them have literacy issues. We see a core of regulars who have attended the project for many years for the social connection they find just as much as the meal they receive. The overarching differences we make at SanKTus are that we ensure our service users take part in and benefit from being better linked in members of mainstream society. For those who are homeless and vulnerably housed, we try to move them on from the entrenched life choices they often make, build their confidence so they can secure work opportunities & stabilise their housing tenure. We want to give them the skills and self-confidence to sustain this level of independence for themselves. ## Our Pensioners Activities In addition to working with the Welfare Project's guests, we run a range of social and recreational activities every Tuesday for local pensioners including a lunch club with a two-course meal, bingo and keep fit in the afternoon. The lunch club part of the day runs with a full capacity of 32 members; we also hold parties for Christmas and St Patrick’s Day, and outings to the seaside in the summer. The club had to close for part of the year due to Covid-19 restrictions. Instead of running our activities that were based in the halls, we put in place a telephone service checking in on our most vulnerable guests in partnership with the local SVP and also continued to provide welfare advice over the phone. We visited the most isolated and vulnerable guests once a week to check in on them and drop off sandwiches and refreshments. Many of the elderly Irish people we support are widowed or living on their own, isolated by life limiting illness and poor mobility. They came to England with few resources to better their lot. Many of their partners have now passed away. Their late partners were their link to the church, to agencies and the community. This now leaves them isolated with little support. The level of social contact with the welfare and health advice we provide promotes their good physical and mental health. We have been successful in outreaching to older Irish women because we are linked in with the local parish, but we recognise there is also a significant number of older Irish men that we need to identify and involve in our activities. **Page 2 of 5** Charity Number: 1136596 Website: www.sanktus.org Email: sanktus.welfare@gmail.com Address: 4 Lady Margaret Road London NW5 2XT **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2021** Covid-19 impact on our activities and outlook for next year From March 2020 the lockdowns had a severe impact on our activities. Because we work with some very vulnerable people, we had to stop the activities and find other ways to support our guests in a safe way. As already discussed in this report, SanKTus remained open but had to adapt services. Instead of a sit-down meal inside we provided a take-away meal twice a week. We also offered telephone support and visited the most isolated and vulnerable at least once a week checking on their welfare and dropping off food. Going forward, there are obvious challenges around funding as lots of fundraising events that would have increased income were cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions. But the biggest challenge going forward, is supporting those guests who have suffered both emotionally and financially during this period. We have already seen an impact on the mental wellbeing of a number of our more elderly and isolated guests with many in trauma. There has been an increase in our project making Social Services referrals SanKTus in partnership with other organisations in the area, will try to meet this challenge but the full impact on the physical, mental and financial wellbeing of our guests is yet to fully materialise. Covid-19 has also impacted on our volunteers. A number of our older volunteers felt they could not continue in their role due to their own health issues and fear of contracting Covid-19. Of the younger volunteers, a number have had to step down at the last minute when they have tested positive prior to coming to the service. By offering a take-away hot meal on Sundays, and a sandwich take-away on Wednesdays, we have continued to see significant numbers of guests take advantage and have been extremely grateful that we have been one of the few charities who have remained open. Our service has been a life-line to many during this time. **Page 3 of 5** Charity Number: 1136596 Website: www.sanktus.org Email: sanktus.welfare@gmail.com Address: 4 Lady Margaret Road London NW5 2XT **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2021** ## **Our finances** SanKTus has been supported with grants and donations from the Embassy of Ireland, Awards for All, Caritas St John Southworth, Coronavirus Community Support Fund and GiveClarity. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000 58,841
20,000 46,046
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SanKTus aims to have a reserve of approximate 20% of annual receipts. At the end of the financial year, the reserve was £19,957 not including restricted funds, which is above the target. At the end of the year the carry-over of restricted funds was £12,509 which is required to cover the activities for the next year. The grants from Caritas and Awards for All have been received in February and March and the spending is mainly in the next financial year. The risk to the ongoing activities, which was caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, is slowly receding but careful financial planning remains important. **Page 4 of 5** Charity Number: 1136596 Website: www.sanktus.org Email: sanktus.welfare@gmail.com Address: 4 Lady Margaret Road London NW5 2XT **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2021** ## **Declarations** **The chair of the trustees declares that the trustees have approved the above trustees’ report.** **Signed on behalf of the chair of the trustees:** **Signature** Margaret E Harvey **Full name Margaret Harvey Date** 19/04/2022 **Page 5 of 5** ||**SanKtus**
**Charity Name**|**SanKtus**
**Charity Name**|**SanKtus**
**Charity Name**|**SanKtus**
**Charity Name**|**SanKtus**
**Charity Name**|**1136596**
**No (if any)**|**1136596**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
**01/07/2020**||**To**||Period end date
**30/06/2021**|| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,000**
**9,800**
**-**
**7,200**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**42,000**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,000**
**9,800**
**-**
**7,200**
**10,000**
**4,686**
**-**
**1,151**
**-**
**-**
**259**
**-**
**745**
**58,841**
**-**
**58,841**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Government of Ireland; Emigrant Support
Programme|**-**||**25,000**|||||**25,000**| |Awards for All Grant - 2021|**-**||**9,800**|||||**9,500**| |CARITAS St John Southworth|**-**||**-**|||||**9,420**| |Coronavirus Community Support Fund|**-**||**7,200**|||||**500**| |FP GiveClarity|**10,000**||**-**|||||**5,000**| |Donations|**4,686**|||||||**1,217**| |Bingo & Keep Fit deposited in Safe last year|**-**||**-**|||||**1,151**| |Transfer Bingo & Keep Fit to CAF Account|**1,151**||**-**|||||**-**| |Burns Night Fundraiser|**-**||**-**|||||**600**| |HWU General|**-**||**-**|||||**200**| |CAF Bank|**259**||**-**|||||**154**| |Coach Hire receipts|**-**||**-**|||||**650**| |Furlough|**745**||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**16,841**||**42,000**|||||**53,392**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, etc.**
**_Total receipts_**||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**16,841**||**42,000**||**-**|||| ||**16,841**||**42,000**||**-**||**58,841**|**53,392**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 19/04/2022 1 ## **A3 Payments** |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Tuesday Club - ESP Funding**||


















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|| |Salary cook|**745**||**1,671**||**-**||**2,416**||**2,398**| |Food for guests|**-**||**798**||**-**||**798**||**2,323**| |Materials & equipment|**-**||**88**||**-**||**88**||**148**| |Keep Fit Tutor - from receipts|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**900**| |Keep Fit Tutor|**-**||**-**||**-**||||**-**| |**Welfare Project - ESP Funding**|||||||||| |Salary coordinator|**-**||**17,300**||**-**||**17,300**||**17,449**| |Food for guests & cleaning materials|**1,268**||**2,275**||**-**||**3,543**||**2,280**| |Operational Costs|**-**||**84**||**-**||**84**||**198**| |Governance|**-**||**312**||**-**||**312**||**362**| |Telephony Welfare|**-**||**329**||**-**||**329**||**194**| |Volunteer Training|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Materials & equipment|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Total Government of Ireland; Emigrant Support**
**Programme**|||**22,857**||||||| |**Awards for All**|||||||||| |Volunteer Coordinator Salary|||**6,240**||||**6,240**||**5,720**| |Volunteer Expenses|**-**||**1,305**||||**1,305**||**121**| |Volunteer Training|**-**||**-**||||**-**||| |**Total Awards for all**|||**7,545**||||||| |**CARITAS St John Southworth**|||||||||| |Salary coordinator|**314**||**6,378**||**-**||**6,692**||**3,042**| |**Total CARITAS St John Southworth**|||**6,378**||||||| |**Coronavirus Community Support Fund**|||||||||| |Materials & equipment|**-**||**1,381**||**-**||**1,381**||**-**| |Refuse Collection|**-**||**2,120**||**-**||**2,120**||**456**| |Cleaning Building|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,657**| |OLHC refund May 2021|**-**||**1,500**||**-**||**1,500**||**2,657**| |**Total Coronavirus Community Support Fund**|||**5,001**||||||| |**FP clarity**|||||||||| |Bank Account Fees|**78**||**-**||**-**||**78**||**60**| |**Total FP clarity**|||**-**||||||| |Coach hire - from receipts|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**650**| |OLHC refund June 2021|**1,590**||**-**||**-**||**1,590**||| |Web hosting & Telephony Welfare|**270**||**-**||**-**||**270**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**4,265**||**41,781**||**-**||**46,046**||**41,615**| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**etc.**
**_Total payments_**|||||||**-**
**46,046**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**4,265**||**41,781**||**-**||||| ||**4,265**||**41,781**||**-**||**46,046**||**41,615**| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 19/04/2022 2 |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**12,576**|
|**219**|
|**-**
**-**|
**12,795**||**11,777**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |Government of Ireland**-**Carried forward|**-**|






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|**-**| |Awards for All Grant**-**Carried forward|**-**||8,111|||8,111||**4,452**| |Caritas Grant**-**Carried forward|**-**||6,378|||6,378||| |Unrestricted balance Carried forward|6,333|||||6,333||**1,938**| |Transfer from Safe to CAF account|- 1,151|||||- 1,151||**1,938**| |**Cash funds reported lastyear end**|**5,182**||**14,489**|||**19,671**||**6,390**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**5,182**||**14,489**|||**19,671**||**6,390**| |Rounding differences|-||-|||-||**- 2**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**17,758**||**14,708**||**-**|**32,466**||**18,165**| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 19/04/2022 3 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Independent examiner
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all
the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**CAF Bank Current Account**
Award for All - carry forward
**Deposits in safe (office OLHC)**
Embassy of Ireland - carry forward
Unrestricted
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Note: Bruce Burford (re-tired ex-
Chartered Accountant) has reviewed
and confirmed that he is happy with the
accounts.
Signature
Margaret E Harvey|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**19,957**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,957**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**| |---|---|---| |||**Bruce Burford**
**25 Park Drive**
**Chester**
**CH2 3JR**| CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 19/04/2022 4 |**Charity Name**
**SanKtus**|**Charity Name**
**SanKtus**|**Charity Name**
**SanKtus**|**No (if any)**
**1136596**| |---|---|---|---| |**Independent examiner report**|||| |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
**01/07/2020**|**To**|Period end date
**30/06/2021**| **Bruce Burford 25 Park Drive Chester CH2 3JR** Note: Bruce Burford (re-tired exChartered Accountant) has reviewed and confirmed that he is happy with the accounts. ## **CC16a** **Date approved: 16/03/2022**