2023-03-31-accounts

ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2022 - 2023

WHAT WE DO

Rumbletums community café provides training and work experience for young people with a learning disability, normally aged between 16 and 30, some of whom may also have an additional physical disability.

Rumbletums was established in 2011 by parents of children with learning disabilities, because of their concern about the lack of employment and development opportunities for such young people once they had finished formal education. They wanted to provide something valuable and purposeful for them, which would help them fulfil their potential, as well as enabling them to make a positive contribution to the community, helping to challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers. These aspirations are as relevant today as they were in 2011 and still underpin everything we do at Rumbletums.

The training is based primarily in our café where trainees undertake a range of ‘Front of House’ duties (such as taking orders, preparing and serving drinks, serving cakes, snacks and hot meals); a range of kitchen duties (such as preparing and cooking some food items, washing and drying pots, cutlery and pans etc., cleaning the kitchen); and a range of other related activities (such as laundering aprons and tea towels and shopping). In addition, trainees learn a range of basic office skills and get involved in the general cleaning and ‘housekeeping’ of the whole building and setting up the rooms for events or meetings. Also, some of our trainees also help at our toddler group, RumbletumsTots, or work in our allotment. We are always looking at new things that trainees can do to gain additional skills.

These activities enable our trainees to develop specific and transferable vocational skills associated with catering and hospitality as well as more general employability skills; enhanced communication and life skills; and greater confidence and self-esteem. All our trainees leave Rumbletums with additional skills and knowledge and trainees have gone on to find paid employment or to access further work experience and training.

The café opened on the corner of Victoria Street and Newdigate Street in Kimberley on 2 July 2011. It quickly established a reputation for excellent homemade food, coffee and service, and is currently open from 9.30am to 3.00pm from Tuesday to Saturday.

We offer a varied and tasty menu with Fairtrade and locally sourced ingredients being used as much as possible. All our meals and cakes are made on the premises, and we pride ourselves on our homemade food, much of which has been prepared by the trainees. We provide a varied choice of breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and a wide selection of tasty cakes, including vegetarian and gluten free options. Our coffees are made with freshly ground beans, roasted in West Bridgford by 200 Degrees, and tea is served traditionally in a teapot for maximum enjoyment. All our drinks can be made with skimmed, semi-skimmed or a choice of non-dairy milks, and we have a good choice of cold drinks.

Everyone is welcome at Rumbletums. We have tables for one or two, or up to four people and we are happy to add extra chairs or put tables together for bigger groups. The building has full wheelchair access, and we have an accessible toilet, as well as a chair lift to the first floor.

Rumbletums has a very child friendly attitude - little ones are very welcome, and we’re breastfeeding friendly. High-chairs and booster seats are available, and we have baby-changing facilities. Our children’s menu offers plenty of healthy and nutritious meals and snacks to choose from, and we have a bookcase just for children’s books for borrowing as well as reading in the café.

Rumbletums has received several local and national awards and accolades, recognising the value and quality of both the training and the delicious food and drinks served in the café.

Rumbletums’ support for and participation in the local community is a fundamental part of what we do. We provide a welcoming and safe space for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness and isolation, as well as providing delicious, affordable and nutritious food. Several groups choose Rumbletums as the venue for their social get-togethers.

To further support the wellbeing of members of the local community, we provide a range of community events.

A key one is RumbletumsTots, our parent/carer and toddler group run by a committed group of volunteers and some of our trainees. Tots meets every Tuesday in term time from 1.00pm to 3.00pm, and toddlers can come for free and play with our great range of toys, have a snack and a drink and enjoy a singsong at the end of the session. For a small charge parents/carers can get a drink and a piece of our delicious cake.

We also run a community coffee morning that takes place twice a month (“Rumblechums”), sponsored by Gedling Borough Council, and organised by a local NHS Social Prescriber; ‘Silver Screen’ Film Nights for the over 50s; and a self-help group for parents and carers of children and young people with learning disabilities.

We have two large rooms that provide affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations. We usually charge those using our rooms, but we actively support and provide space at reduced or no cost to non-commercial groups trying to improve the lives of the local population. Regular users of our space include Kimberley Neighbourhood Church, Slimming World, Weight Watchers, Broxtowe Women’s Project, a chair Yoga group, regular Sing and Sign sessions, a Chat & Craft group and several U3A groups, as well as individuals for parties and the like. We can provide catering to those hiring our rooms when the café is open, and increasingly we also provide food for room hire or events held out of hours, or as take-away for external events.

The interaction between our trainees and members of the community helps to break down barriers and challenge any negative stereotypes people might have about those with learning disabilities.

We offer opportunities for volunteering and our many committed volunteers make an invaluable contribution to the training and well-being of our trainees and other aspects of the project, whilst volunteering enables them to gain additional skills and improve their own well-being.

We are pleased to be able to support local employment and currently have eight paid members of staff. We are very grateful for their high level of skill, and their commitment to supporting our trainees and providing the highest quality food and drinks to our customers.

Rumbletums buys its food and services locally whenever possible, thus supporting local businesses and reducing its food miles. Other ways of supporting the local environment are our use of a local allotment to grow produce and plants; recycling as much as possible, including drinks cans; and

running events and activities that encourage recycling, for example, school uniform collection and resale events.

To further support the wellbeing of young people with learning disabilities and their families we provide a range of social events.

We have a social group, which includes some of our trainees, that arranges regular social events for young disabled people, their families and friends, such as open mike, quiz and fancy-dress nights.

The young people can get a different kind of social experience by working in our allotment, which we have through an on-going partnership with Kimberley School. This provides experience of working outdoors in a horticultural environment, with the aim of growing a variety of produce and plants.

Rumbletums is a registered charity, run by a board of trustees. We adopt good practice in governance and management and ensure Rumbletums is financially robust, and that all our activities are delivered at a high quality.

In recognition of the value of what we do at Rumbletums, we have been fortunate to receive several large and small donations and grants from many individuals and organisations. We are very grateful to all those who have supported us over the years and continue to do so.

HOW WE BENEFIT THE PUBLIC

The advancement of education by:

• providing supported training and work experience through which they can acquire specific and transferable vocational skills associated with catering and hospitality, as well as more general employability skills, and enhanced communication and life skills

• offering opportunities for volunteering and employment through which additional skills can be gained.

The relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by:

• providing valuable and purposeful activity, advice, support and assistance to young people with learning disabilities and helping them develop their skills, confidence and self-esteem

• increasing understanding in the community about learning disabilities, helping challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers; providing and supporting a range of social and community events for young people with learning disabilities and their families

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation free or at discounted rates to noncommercial organisations that support and encourage good physical and mental health.

The advancement of health or saving of lives by:

• providing in our community café a good range of home-cooked, nutritious and affordable food that meets all dietary needs

• providing a welcoming and safe space, for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness, improving wellbeing and reducing isolation

• offering opportunities for volunteering and employment which helps improve individuals’ well-being

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations that support and encourage good physical and mental health.

The advancement of citizenship or community development by:

• giving our trainees the chance to make a positive contribution to the local community as independent, mature and responsible individuals, whilst increasing understanding about learning disabilities, helping challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers

• offering opportunities for volunteering

• providing local employment opportunities

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations

• supporting local businesses whenever possible

• providing and supporting a range of community events for members of the local community.

The prevention or relief of poverty by:

• giving the trainees work experience and a range of employability and life skills, to enable them to develop and gain more independence that will help them if seeking paid employment, and in effectively managing their own affairs, particularly if living more independently

• providing in our community café a good range of home-cooked, nutritious and affordable food that helps support dietary needs

• providing local employment opportunities

• supporting local businesses whenever possible.

The advancement of environmental protection or improvement by:

• through our purchasing strategy ensuring that our food miles are as low as possible

• undertaking as much recycling as possible, including paper, cardboard, plastic, tins and drinks cans

• running events to encourage recycling, such as school uniform exchanges

• caring for and growing produce and plants in a local allotment, which we then sell at very low prices in the café

• ensuring environmental issues are considered in all planning activities.

KEY SUCCESSES IN 2022 – 2023

TRAINING

At the beginning of the year we agreed a Social Impact Plan, to help us demonstrate the difference Rumbletums makes, not just to trainees’ lives, but also to the wider community.

For our trainees, we want to see them live a full and fulfilled life within the realms of their abilities and possibilities; attain transferrable life skills; be able to participate in real work experience; gain training, skills and qualifications that lead to meaningful employment; achieve integration into their local communities; positively contribute as a Citizen to their local community and society; find their purpose in life and live purposefully in life; make a positive difference to those around them and achieve more in life; increase in confidence and gain more aspirations in life; and achieve more independence in terms of day to day living.

A major review and update of our training programme was undertaken in the early part of 2022 and the new programme was introduced in April 2022. Key aspects of this programme are:

• grouping of activities into a series of training modules that trainees will work through, with each task broken down into its key components and detailed procedures supporting each

module to help with skill development and ensure tasks are carried out in a consistent way. The training modules include working front of house and in the kitchen including on our bake day, general housekeeping duties around the building, supporting RumbletumsTots, office/administrative duties, as well as the personal skills and behaviours we expect from trainees such as good timekeeping, appearance, using their own initiative

• detailed records for each trainee, showing how trainees like to learn, the best way of supporting them, the training they have received, the skills they have developed and their other achievements

• agreed targets and areas for development for each trainee

• annual reviews with parents/carers to ensure the trainee’s needs are being met and to agree future targets for the trainee.

As part of the additional development opportunities we offer, in September we held a workshop run by Open Wings covering “Managing feelings and behaviour” and “Stress management and relaxation techniques”. It was a very successful day, attended by six of our trainees.

Trainees are encouraged to take part in everything we do at Rumbletums and gain a wide range of skills: literacy skills through things such as writing orders and labels; numeracy skills through things such as weighing out ingredients or counting; monetary skills through the use of the till and going shopping. Trainees gain many transferable skills that they will use for future employment, but the trainees that may not be as capable and so may not have the opportunity to go into employment, still gain relevant and helpful skills that they can transfer to other places, such as home or other activities they take part in.

Trainees meet a wide range of people, from customers to staff and volunteers, to other trainees. Trainees have to learn to communicate well with everyone, for example when learning tasks, discussing activities, asking questions, working with colleagues or serving customers. Rumbletums has many regular customers, partly because our food and service are so good, but also because they are very supportive of what we do. Trainees get to know them and enjoy having conversations with them. Understanding that every customer is different is something that the trainees see first-hand, and they need to learn to communicate well with each individual.

It is clear that every trainee who comes to Rumbletums really enjoys being a part of the community. The trainees enjoy interacting with customers, and each interaction builds up their confidence. They lean on the skills they have learnt and become confident in these, and their confidence in these skills help to build up their confidence overall. From the feedback we get from customers and other users of our services, there is no doubt that our trainees are valued within the community and have broken down barriers and helped challenge negative stereotypes about people with learning disabilities.

During the year, 33 different trainees worked with us and at the end of March we had 24 trainees, with many of them working more than one shift or day a week.

We are delighted to report that, during the year, eight of our trainees were successful in gaining paid employment, including in ward catering at the City Hospital, a role at Sainsbury’s, work in the Argos warehouse, in the restaurant of the Hilton Hotel and a Care Home. We also have a trainee who works at Queen’s Medical Centre. Three of these trainees have continued working at Rumbletums.

We keep in regular contact with trainees who have left. Most are still in employment or education and one of them runs a disco on the last Tuesday evening of every month for people with learning

disabilities. Many of them are regular café users or attend our social events, and we are always pleased to see them.

From June onwards our trainees have been wearing very smart polo shirts, complete with the Rumbletums logo, paid for from the grant generously given by The Gate Inn in Awsworth.

THE CAFÉ

The café was busier this year than ever before, and we served over 16,400 customers. We sold more drinks, cakes and meals than ever before - over 31,460 in total, and our best-selling items were Mars Bar Krispie (635), breakfast (2,054) and jacket potato (1,158).

We have extended the catering provided for room hirers and during the year undertook additional external catering. We also catered for several groups during the run up to Christmas.

We aim to meet all dietary needs, and we updated our menu to show clearly vegetarian and vegan items, and also a warning about those that contain nuts. As well as decaffeinated drinks, semiskimmed and “skinny” milk, we also now serve soya, oat and almond milk, and we have widened the range of gluten-free cakes available.

We simplified the way we display information about the allergens in our food and drinks and this is readily available both in the café and on our website. We also updated our procedure for taking orders and how we deal with any orders from customers with an allergy.

We completed a total overhaul of our Safer Food, Better Business records and practices, to ensure we comply with all food hygiene and food handling standards and that our procedures are written down, comprehensive and clear. As part of this work, we developed a supporting Training Pack for trainees, staff and volunteers, which we are now in the process of rolling out.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Supporting, and being part of, the local community is a key part of what we do at Rumbletums. We provide a welcoming and safe space for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness and isolation, as well as providing delicious, affordable and nutritious food.

In February 2023 we were awarded the Carers Quality Mark and received a Carer Friendly Award. This was for our valuable contribution to supporting carers, whether these are carers of our trainees or customers or other service users.

We regularly take part in local events, or run events ourselves, or facilitate events run by others in our premises.

We also provide many opportunities to members of the local community to volunteer, providing invaluable support to our trainees across all of their duties; supporting our RumbletumsTots sessions; carrying out odd jobs around the building, working in the allotment and supporting our various other community events. Volunteering can reduce loneliness and isolation, and it enables the individuals to gain additional skills whilst improving their own well-being.

During the year we took part in the Kimberley Film Festival and the Watnall Allotment Open Day in August and opened specially for both the Kimberley Lights switch-on and the Kimberley Christmas Market in November.

We worked with an NHS Local Prescriber and Gedling BC to provide Rumblechums, a fortnightly Community Café aimed at reducing social isolation. In partnership with Kimberley Town Council we

provided a “Warm Hub” and we hosted Warm Space events for people with learning disabilities, run by Helen Cooper from the New Horizon Church.

In March we hosted two important events. Firstly, a Cost-of-Living Support event, to help those worried about the rising cost of living. A wide range of information was available, such as managing household bills, health and wellbeing, benefits/welfare, debt advice, and social opportunities. Secondly a Learning Disability Roadshow, with the aim of helping health and community services to hear the voice of people with a diagnosed learning disability. The event included: ‘Art and Craft Activity by Transform Training’, ‘Chair Based Exercise’, ’Nordic Walking Demonstration’, ‘Guided Local Walk by Age UK Notts’, and ‘Community Singing for Health’.

We ran the first of our school uniform sales, for which we collected donated school uniforms. This was very successful, and we plan to repeat it.

Our toddler group, RumbletumsTots, ran throughout the year during term time and is more popular than ever.

We ran four Silver Screen events, which proved very popular and in December held our first Afternoon Tea. This was well supported and will be repeated.

We have two large rooms that provide affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups, organisations and individuals for parties and the like. State of the art AV equipment is available in the rooms and can be hired for a small fee. Our rooms are in daily use and this year we had 31 different room hirers, 22 of which were community groups or individual users, and 20 of which are working to support health and well-being.

SOCIAL EVENTS

We ran a number of social events this year. This is another way of supporting the wellbeing of our young people with learning disabilities, and their families, but also gives our trainees the chance to get to know one another. Several former trainees also attend which is a way of keeping in touch with them, and we also welcome other young people with learning disabilities.

We had a very successful bowling evening in May, funded from The Gate Inn grant, and at Rumbletums we ran open mike, pics & popcorn, crafty nibbles and two games nights, attended by 127 people.

GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

GOOD GOVERNANCE

We made significant strides in the governance of Rumbletums this year.

• Strategic Aims and Objectives

We updated our strategic aims and developed a comprehensive range of objectives to be completed over a two-year period, which cover every aspect of our activities. We made excellent progress in delivering these this year, but work remains to be done, for example:

• For trainees, we want to ensure that the views of parents/carers and of trainees about their experience at Rumbletums are sought, listened to and influence the content of the training, how it is provided, and other aspects of the Rumbletums experience.

• For the Café, we constantly review our menu but we want to look at how we can extend our catering provision for room hire or for internal or external events, and also to seek the views of customers about our menu, opening hours, facilities, service, etc.

• As part of our community involvement we want to ensure we continue to welcome all members of the community into Rumbletums, whether that’s through running or facilitating community events; ensuring our food remains affordable and nutritious; providing high quality, well-equipped and attractive rooms for hire; or recruiting more volunteers.

• Continuing to provide a good range of social events.

• Pursuing the idea of “Friends of Rumbletums”. This would be a way of getting the views of our various service users to support our continual development. As a starting point we are developing a series of surveys, to seek the views of trainees, parents/carers, staff/volunteers and customers about what we do, how we do it, how we might improve things or new things that we might do.

• Charitable Status

Rumbletums has always been a charity registered with the Charity Commission. In order to enter into contracts, employ people and own property we also had to be a company limited by guarantee, registered with Companies House.

In order to streamline and simplify our management arrangements, we decided to convert our charitable status to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), still registered with the Charity Commission, but no longer having to be separately registered with Companies House.

We had to draft a new constitution and get the agreement of the original members of Rumbletums – those people who originally set up Rumbletums – to do this, which we did this year, and our conversion to a CIO was completed from 4 April 2023.

In the coming year we will be recruiting more trustees to ensure the board has all the skills and experience needed for the future effective management of Rumbletums. We also plan to review our charitable aims to ensure they properly reflect all of our current activities.

• Business Development

We agreed a Social Impact Plan which will enable us to properly measure the impact of our activities, both in relation to trainees but also on the wider community. There is a separate report showing the results this year from this plan.

We agreed a Marketing Plan, to ensure we promote Rumbletums in the best possible way. As part of this plan we have developed a much more systematic approach to the use of Facebook and other social media, supported by a detailed Social Media Policy; we have produced a range of A4 publicity leaflets concerning training, room hire and volunteering; our website has had a complete overhaul and is now extremely attractive and user friendly.

OUR BUILDING

Our building needs to provide attractive, safe and appropriate accommodation for all those who use it.

This year we have reassured ourselves that all of the things needed to ensure it is safe are in place, such as fire safety equipment and procedures, PAT (electrical) testing, gas boiler servicing, etc. We

have also updated all of our cleaning schedules and agreed a timetable for redecoration to ensure our rooms remain clean, fresh and attractive.

We have identified several alterations to the building that we need to make, to provide better office accommodation and much needed additional storage, to improve the overall quality of the accommodation and to improve the energy efficiency of the building. We hope to be able to undertake some of this work in the coming year, from grant balances and reserves we have managed to build up this year.

STAFFING CHANGES

There have been several changes in our staffing this year.

Ruth Brown our Catering Supervisor left in February 2023 and we want to thank her for everything she did for Rumbletums over the years.

We took advantage of the vacancy to make several changes:

• Helen Groom became Café Supervisor

• Gemma Calder became Senior Training Support Worker

• we created a new role of Training Support Worker to work mainly in the kitchen and Patsy Buck took on this role

• we were very pleased to welcome Debbie Bonser who started as Bake-Day Cook in July 2022 and two other new members of staff who started in March 2023 – Roma Hatton as Cook and Paula Inger-Smith as Café Assistant

Along with these changes Angela Devine continued as Project Manager and Tracey Corkish continued as part-time Café Assistant.

We are lucky to have such a skilled and dedicated group of staff.

VOLUNTEERING

We rely heavily on our volunteers. They provide invaluable support to our trainees in the kitchen and front of house and at our RumbletumsTots sessions, carry out odd jobs around the building, work in the allotment and support our various other community events. Also, we have recruited a volunteer to undertake administrative duties in support of Angela.

Not only do Rumbletums and our trainees benefit from having volunteers - the community and the individuals benefit too. Volunteering can reduce loneliness and isolation, and it enables the individuals to gain additional skills whilst improving their own well-being.

This year 50 different individuals volunteered at Rumbletums. More than 20 of these worked at least once a month and many of those work at least one session or more every week.

We are very grateful to them all. We would also welcome anyone else who would like to volunteer.

DONATIONS, FUNDRAISING AND GRANTS

We have been very fortunate this year with fundraising, donations and grants.

Our fundraising and donations income was over £20,000, from numerous donations from individuals, groups and businesses; in-café donations; the sale of many different items that had been made by individuals and donated to us; Easter, birthday and Christmas raffles; the sale of a variety

of Rumbletums products; Easyfundraising, Amazon Smile and Give-as-you-live donations; the Broxtowe Lottery; the 100-Club income and winnings donated back to us.

In addition, we received more than £38,000 in new grants, inclusing one from the National Lottery Community Fund to support the salary costs of our Training Support Worker, another from Severn Trent Water to help with our very high energy costs and another from Morrisons for catering equipment and to help with energy conservation.

We are extremely grateful to everyone concerned.

BIRTHDAY

On 2 July 2022 Rumbletums celebrated its 11[th] birthday. We look forward to the next eleven!

THANK YOU

There are a number of people to be thanked for helping Rumbletums achieve another very successful year:

• Our trainees - for coming to Rumbletums and working so hard, with such commitment and resilience. They give such pleasure to all those who work with and all the customers and room users who interact with them

• The parents/carers of our trainees - for trusting us to look after, support, train and develop their young people

• Our employees - who have worked so hard throughout the year and adapted to the various changes we have made

• Our many volunteers - who provide invaluable support to our trainees and our other activities

• Our customers - for their loyal support throughout the year, and also for their overwhelmingly positive response to our trainees and what we are trying to achieve at Rumbletums

• All those who generously helped us with fundraising and gave us donations and grants. We are extremely grateful to everyone who has helped us financially this year, enabling us to continue our vital work in support of our trainees.

FIONA GEORGE

THE KEY NUMBERS

Who worked with us in 2022 - 2023?

Trainees:

33 different trainees during the year, with 24 trainees working with us at the end of March 2023

Trainees worked a total of 5,058 hours – a 20.7% increase on last year’s hours

Employees:

8 on 31 March

Volunteers:

50 different people during the year, with 20 volunteering every month

How many customers did we have?

16,413 in total On average 63 a day

The highest number of customers on any one day was 108 on a Tuesday in January

How much food did we sell?

lunches 4,406

snacks 6,684

4,500 pieces of cake 15,877 drinks

What were our best-sellers?

Lunches:

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Ploughman’s 130
Salad - Halloumi 179 [Nachos 138]
Salad - Other 190
Soup 243 Jacket Potato 1158
Lasagne - Vegetarian
248
Child’s Lunch Plate
282
Toastie 706
Lasagne -
Beef 297
Savoury
Ciabatta Tart 458
377
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Snacks:

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Veggie Breakfast 139
Tuna Mayo Cob/Sandwich 150
BLT 154
Sausage Cob/Sandwich 266
Bacon &/or Saus &/or
Egg Cob/Sandw 310
Teacake 316 Breakfast 2054
Beans on Toast
351
Toasted Tea
Loaf 442
Eggs on Toast & Butter
Toast 535 831
Bacon
Cob/Sandwich
582
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Cakes:

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Gluten Free
Iced Lemon
Flapjack 167
Cake 213
Sticky Ginger
Cake 217
Mars Bar
Caramel cake Krispie 635
233
Carrot Cake 266 Traybake 611
Coffee &
Walnut Cake Victoria
511 Sandwich 581
Chocolate Cake
540
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Drinks:

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Cold
21%
Hot
79%
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What Community Events Did We Run?

4 Silver Screens, with 94 people attending

1 Afternoon Tea, with 18 people attending

We also hosted:

19 Rumblechums events – the Community Café aimed at reducing social isolation, working with an NHS Local Prescriber and Gedling BC

3 other events supporting health and well-being

Who rented our rooms?

31 different users:

22 community groups or individuals

7 businesses 2 others

20 supporting health and well-being

What Social Events Did We Run?

6 events, with 127 young people and their families attending. These included a bowls evening and games nights.

We also ran a Christmas Party for our trainees

£211,054

What was our total income in 2022 - 2023?

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Community Events 0.1%
Social Events 0.2% Other Income 0.2%
Grants
17.3%
Total
Donations & Catering
Fundraising Income
9.6% 41.0%
Room Hire
Trainees'
7.3%
Fees
24.0%
Training Events
Income Bank Interest 0.2%
0.1%
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How much did we spend?

£169,653

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Financial Services/Credit Card
1.3%
Utilities
5.4%
Other
8.8%
Expenditure against
specific grants
3.6%
Café Food
Salaries and
Purchases
Expenses
17.8%
63.1%
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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2022 - 2023

WHAT WE DO

Rumbletums community café provides training and work experience for young people with a learning disability, normally aged between 16 and 30, some of whom may also have an additional physical disability.

Rumbletums was established in 2011 by parents of children with learning disabilities, because of their concern about the lack of employment and development opportunities for such young people once they had finished formal education. They wanted to provide something valuable and purposeful for them, which would help them fulfil their potential, as well as enabling them to make a positive contribution to the community, helping to challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers. These aspirations are as relevant today as they were in 2011 and still underpin everything we do at Rumbletums.

The training is based primarily in our café where trainees undertake a range of ‘Front of House’ duties (such as taking orders, preparing and serving drinks, serving cakes, snacks and hot meals); a range of kitchen duties (such as preparing and cooking some food items, washing and drying pots, cutlery and pans etc., cleaning the kitchen); and a range of other related activities (such as laundering aprons and tea towels and shopping). In addition, trainees learn a range of basic office skills and get involved in the general cleaning and ‘housekeeping’ of the whole building and setting up the rooms for events or meetings. Also, some of our trainees also help at our toddler group, RumbletumsTots, or work in our allotment. We are always looking at new things that trainees can do to gain additional skills.

These activities enable our trainees to develop specific and transferable vocational skills associated with catering and hospitality as well as more general employability skills; enhanced communication and life skills; and greater confidence and self-esteem. All our trainees leave Rumbletums with additional skills and knowledge and trainees have gone on to find paid employment or to access further work experience and training.

The café opened on the corner of Victoria Street and Newdigate Street in Kimberley on 2 July 2011. It quickly established a reputation for excellent homemade food, coffee and service, and is currently open from 9.30am to 3.00pm from Tuesday to Saturday.

We offer a varied and tasty menu with Fairtrade and locally sourced ingredients being used as much as possible. All our meals and cakes are made on the premises, and we pride ourselves on our homemade food, much of which has been prepared by the trainees. We provide a varied choice of breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and a wide selection of tasty cakes, including vegetarian and gluten free options. Our coffees are made with freshly ground beans, roasted in West Bridgford by 200 Degrees, and tea is served traditionally in a teapot for maximum enjoyment. All our drinks can be made with skimmed, semi-skimmed or a choice of non-dairy milks, and we have a good choice of cold drinks.

Everyone is welcome at Rumbletums. We have tables for one or two, or up to four people and we are happy to add extra chairs or put tables together for bigger groups. The building has full wheelchair access, and we have an accessible toilet, as well as a chair lift to the first floor.

Rumbletums has a very child friendly attitude - little ones are very welcome, and we’re breastfeeding friendly. High-chairs and booster seats are available, and we have baby-changing facilities. Our children’s menu offers plenty of healthy and nutritious meals and snacks to choose from, and we have a bookcase just for children’s books for borrowing as well as reading in the café.

Rumbletums has received several local and national awards and accolades, recognising the value and quality of both the training and the delicious food and drinks served in the café.

Rumbletums’ support for and participation in the local community is a fundamental part of what we do. We provide a welcoming and safe space for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness and isolation, as well as providing delicious, affordable and nutritious food. Several groups choose Rumbletums as the venue for their social get-togethers.

To further support the wellbeing of members of the local community, we provide a range of community events.

A key one is RumbletumsTots, our parent/carer and toddler group run by a committed group of volunteers and some of our trainees. Tots meets every Tuesday in term time from 1.00pm to 3.00pm, and toddlers can come for free and play with our great range of toys, have a snack and a drink and enjoy a singsong at the end of the session. For a small charge parents/carers can get a drink and a piece of our delicious cake.

We also run a community coffee morning that takes place twice a month (“Rumblechums”), sponsored by Gedling Borough Council, and organised by a local NHS Social Prescriber; ‘Silver Screen’ Film Nights for the over 50s; and a self-help group for parents and carers of children and young people with learning disabilities.

We have two large rooms that provide affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations. We usually charge those using our rooms, but we actively support and provide space at reduced or no cost to non-commercial groups trying to improve the lives of the local population. Regular users of our space include Kimberley Neighbourhood Church, Slimming World, Weight Watchers, Broxtowe Women’s Project, a chair Yoga group, regular Sing and Sign sessions, a Chat & Craft group and several U3A groups, as well as individuals for parties and the like. We can provide catering to those hiring our rooms when the café is open, and increasingly we also provide food for room hire or events held out of hours, or as take-away for external events.

The interaction between our trainees and members of the community helps to break down barriers and challenge any negative stereotypes people might have about those with learning disabilities.

We offer opportunities for volunteering and our many committed volunteers make an invaluable contribution to the training and well-being of our trainees and other aspects of the project, whilst volunteering enables them to gain additional skills and improve their own well-being.

We are pleased to be able to support local employment and currently have eight paid members of staff. We are very grateful for their high level of skill, and their commitment to supporting our trainees and providing the highest quality food and drinks to our customers.

Rumbletums buys its food and services locally whenever possible, thus supporting local businesses and reducing its food miles. Other ways of supporting the local environment are our use of a local allotment to grow produce and plants; recycling as much as possible, including drinks cans; and

running events and activities that encourage recycling, for example, school uniform collection and resale events.

To further support the wellbeing of young people with learning disabilities and their families we provide a range of social events.

We have a social group, which includes some of our trainees, that arranges regular social events for young disabled people, their families and friends, such as open mike, quiz and fancy-dress nights.

The young people can get a different kind of social experience by working in our allotment, which we have through an on-going partnership with Kimberley School. This provides experience of working outdoors in a horticultural environment, with the aim of growing a variety of produce and plants.

Rumbletums is a registered charity, run by a board of trustees. We adopt good practice in governance and management and ensure Rumbletums is financially robust, and that all our activities are delivered at a high quality.

In recognition of the value of what we do at Rumbletums, we have been fortunate to receive several large and small donations and grants from many individuals and organisations. We are very grateful to all those who have supported us over the years and continue to do so.

HOW WE BENEFIT THE PUBLIC

The advancement of education by:

• providing supported training and work experience through which they can acquire specific and transferable vocational skills associated with catering and hospitality, as well as more general employability skills, and enhanced communication and life skills

• offering opportunities for volunteering and employment through which additional skills can be gained.

The relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by:

• providing valuable and purposeful activity, advice, support and assistance to young people with learning disabilities and helping them develop their skills, confidence and self-esteem

• increasing understanding in the community about learning disabilities, helping challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers; providing and supporting a range of social and community events for young people with learning disabilities and their families

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation free or at discounted rates to noncommercial organisations that support and encourage good physical and mental health.

The advancement of health or saving of lives by:

• providing in our community café a good range of home-cooked, nutritious and affordable food that meets all dietary needs

• providing a welcoming and safe space, for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness, improving wellbeing and reducing isolation

• offering opportunities for volunteering and employment which helps improve individuals’ well-being

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations that support and encourage good physical and mental health.

The advancement of citizenship or community development by:

• giving our trainees the chance to make a positive contribution to the local community as independent, mature and responsible individuals, whilst increasing understanding about learning disabilities, helping challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers

• offering opportunities for volunteering

• providing local employment opportunities

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations

• supporting local businesses whenever possible

• providing and supporting a range of community events for members of the local community.

The prevention or relief of poverty by:

• giving the trainees work experience and a range of employability and life skills, to enable them to develop and gain more independence that will help them if seeking paid employment, and in effectively managing their own affairs, particularly if living more independently

• providing in our community café a good range of home-cooked, nutritious and affordable food that helps support dietary needs

• providing local employment opportunities

• supporting local businesses whenever possible.

The advancement of environmental protection or improvement by:

• through our purchasing strategy ensuring that our food miles are as low as possible

• undertaking as much recycling as possible, including paper, cardboard, plastic, tins and drinks cans

• running events to encourage recycling, such as school uniform exchanges

• caring for and growing produce and plants in a local allotment, which we then sell at very low prices in the café

• ensuring environmental issues are considered in all planning activities.

KEY SUCCESSES IN 2022 – 2023

TRAINING

At the beginning of the year we agreed a Social Impact Plan, to help us demonstrate the difference Rumbletums makes, not just to trainees’ lives, but also to the wider community.

For our trainees, we want to see them live a full and fulfilled life within the realms of their abilities and possibilities; attain transferrable life skills; be able to participate in real work experience; gain training, skills and qualifications that lead to meaningful employment; achieve integration into their local communities; positively contribute as a Citizen to their local community and society; find their purpose in life and live purposefully in life; make a positive difference to those around them and achieve more in life; increase in confidence and gain more aspirations in life; and achieve more independence in terms of day to day living.

A major review and update of our training programme was undertaken in the early part of 2022 and the new programme was introduced in April 2022. Key aspects of this programme are:

• grouping of activities into a series of training modules that trainees will work through, with each task broken down into its key components and detailed procedures supporting each

module to help with skill development and ensure tasks are carried out in a consistent way. The training modules include working front of house and in the kitchen including on our bake day, general housekeeping duties around the building, supporting RumbletumsTots, office/administrative duties, as well as the personal skills and behaviours we expect from trainees such as good timekeeping, appearance, using their own initiative

• detailed records for each trainee, showing how trainees like to learn, the best way of supporting them, the training they have received, the skills they have developed and their other achievements

• agreed targets and areas for development for each trainee

• annual reviews with parents/carers to ensure the trainee’s needs are being met and to agree future targets for the trainee.

As part of the additional development opportunities we offer, in September we held a workshop run by Open Wings covering “Managing feelings and behaviour” and “Stress management and relaxation techniques”. It was a very successful day, attended by six of our trainees.

Trainees are encouraged to take part in everything we do at Rumbletums and gain a wide range of skills: literacy skills through things such as writing orders and labels; numeracy skills through things such as weighing out ingredients or counting; monetary skills through the use of the till and going shopping. Trainees gain many transferable skills that they will use for future employment, but the trainees that may not be as capable and so may not have the opportunity to go into employment, still gain relevant and helpful skills that they can transfer to other places, such as home or other activities they take part in.

Trainees meet a wide range of people, from customers to staff and volunteers, to other trainees. Trainees have to learn to communicate well with everyone, for example when learning tasks, discussing activities, asking questions, working with colleagues or serving customers. Rumbletums has many regular customers, partly because our food and service are so good, but also because they are very supportive of what we do. Trainees get to know them and enjoy having conversations with them. Understanding that every customer is different is something that the trainees see first-hand, and they need to learn to communicate well with each individual.

It is clear that every trainee who comes to Rumbletums really enjoys being a part of the community. The trainees enjoy interacting with customers, and each interaction builds up their confidence. They lean on the skills they have learnt and become confident in these, and their confidence in these skills help to build up their confidence overall. From the feedback we get from customers and other users of our services, there is no doubt that our trainees are valued within the community and have broken down barriers and helped challenge negative stereotypes about people with learning disabilities.

During the year, 33 different trainees worked with us and at the end of March we had 24 trainees, with many of them working more than one shift or day a week.

We are delighted to report that, during the year, eight of our trainees were successful in gaining paid employment, including in ward catering at the City Hospital, a role at Sainsbury’s, work in the Argos warehouse, in the restaurant of the Hilton Hotel and a Care Home. We also have a trainee who works at Queen’s Medical Centre. Three of these trainees have continued working at Rumbletums.

We keep in regular contact with trainees who have left. Most are still in employment or education and one of them runs a disco on the last Tuesday evening of every month for people with learning

disabilities. Many of them are regular café users or attend our social events, and we are always pleased to see them.

From June onwards our trainees have been wearing very smart polo shirts, complete with the Rumbletums logo, paid for from the grant generously given by The Gate Inn in Awsworth.

THE CAFÉ

The café was busier this year than ever before, and we served over 16,400 customers. We sold more drinks, cakes and meals than ever before - over 31,460 in total, and our best-selling items were Mars Bar Krispie (635), breakfast (2,054) and jacket potato (1,158).

We have extended the catering provided for room hirers and during the year undertook additional external catering. We also catered for several groups during the run up to Christmas.

We aim to meet all dietary needs, and we updated our menu to show clearly vegetarian and vegan items, and also a warning about those that contain nuts. As well as decaffeinated drinks, semiskimmed and “skinny” milk, we also now serve soya, oat and almond milk, and we have widened the range of gluten-free cakes available.

We simplified the way we display information about the allergens in our food and drinks and this is readily available both in the café and on our website. We also updated our procedure for taking orders and how we deal with any orders from customers with an allergy.

We completed a total overhaul of our Safer Food, Better Business records and practices, to ensure we comply with all food hygiene and food handling standards and that our procedures are written down, comprehensive and clear. As part of this work, we developed a supporting Training Pack for trainees, staff and volunteers, which we are now in the process of rolling out.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Supporting, and being part of, the local community is a key part of what we do at Rumbletums. We provide a welcoming and safe space for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness and isolation, as well as providing delicious, affordable and nutritious food.

In February 2023 we were awarded the Carers Quality Mark and received a Carer Friendly Award. This was for our valuable contribution to supporting carers, whether these are carers of our trainees or customers or other service users.

We regularly take part in local events, or run events ourselves, or facilitate events run by others in our premises.

We also provide many opportunities to members of the local community to volunteer, providing invaluable support to our trainees across all of their duties; supporting our RumbletumsTots sessions; carrying out odd jobs around the building, working in the allotment and supporting our various other community events. Volunteering can reduce loneliness and isolation, and it enables the individuals to gain additional skills whilst improving their own well-being.

During the year we took part in the Kimberley Film Festival and the Watnall Allotment Open Day in August and opened specially for both the Kimberley Lights switch-on and the Kimberley Christmas Market in November.

We worked with an NHS Local Prescriber and Gedling BC to provide Rumblechums, a fortnightly Community Café aimed at reducing social isolation. In partnership with Kimberley Town Council we

provided a “Warm Hub” and we hosted Warm Space events for people with learning disabilities, run by Helen Cooper from the New Horizon Church.

In March we hosted two important events. Firstly, a Cost-of-Living Support event, to help those worried about the rising cost of living. A wide range of information was available, such as managing household bills, health and wellbeing, benefits/welfare, debt advice, and social opportunities. Secondly a Learning Disability Roadshow, with the aim of helping health and community services to hear the voice of people with a diagnosed learning disability. The event included: ‘Art and Craft Activity by Transform Training’, ‘Chair Based Exercise’, ’Nordic Walking Demonstration’, ‘Guided Local Walk by Age UK Notts’, and ‘Community Singing for Health’.

We ran the first of our school uniform sales, for which we collected donated school uniforms. This was very successful, and we plan to repeat it.

Our toddler group, RumbletumsTots, ran throughout the year during term time and is more popular than ever.

We ran four Silver Screen events, which proved very popular and in December held our first Afternoon Tea. This was well supported and will be repeated.

We have two large rooms that provide affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups, organisations and individuals for parties and the like. State of the art AV equipment is available in the rooms and can be hired for a small fee. Our rooms are in daily use and this year we had 31 different room hirers, 22 of which were community groups or individual users, and 20 of which are working to support health and well-being.

SOCIAL EVENTS

We ran a number of social events this year. This is another way of supporting the wellbeing of our young people with learning disabilities, and their families, but also gives our trainees the chance to get to know one another. Several former trainees also attend which is a way of keeping in touch with them, and we also welcome other young people with learning disabilities.

We had a very successful bowling evening in May, funded from The Gate Inn grant, and at Rumbletums we ran open mike, pics & popcorn, crafty nibbles and two games nights, attended by 127 people.

GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

GOOD GOVERNANCE

We made significant strides in the governance of Rumbletums this year.

• Strategic Aims and Objectives

We updated our strategic aims and developed a comprehensive range of objectives to be completed over a two-year period, which cover every aspect of our activities. We made excellent progress in delivering these this year, but work remains to be done, for example:

• For trainees, we want to ensure that the views of parents/carers and of trainees about their experience at Rumbletums are sought, listened to and influence the content of the training, how it is provided, and other aspects of the Rumbletums experience.

• For the Café, we constantly review our menu but we want to look at how we can extend our catering provision for room hire or for internal or external events, and also to seek the views of customers about our menu, opening hours, facilities, service, etc.

• As part of our community involvement we want to ensure we continue to welcome all members of the community into Rumbletums, whether that’s through running or facilitating community events; ensuring our food remains affordable and nutritious; providing high quality, well-equipped and attractive rooms for hire; or recruiting more volunteers.

• Continuing to provide a good range of social events.

• Pursuing the idea of “Friends of Rumbletums”. This would be a way of getting the views of our various service users to support our continual development. As a starting point we are developing a series of surveys, to seek the views of trainees, parents/carers, staff/volunteers and customers about what we do, how we do it, how we might improve things or new things that we might do.

• Charitable Status

Rumbletums has always been a charity registered with the Charity Commission. In order to enter into contracts, employ people and own property we also had to be a company limited by guarantee, registered with Companies House.

In order to streamline and simplify our management arrangements, we decided to convert our charitable status to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), still registered with the Charity Commission, but no longer having to be separately registered with Companies House.

We had to draft a new constitution and get the agreement of the original members of Rumbletums – those people who originally set up Rumbletums – to do this, which we did this year, and our conversion to a CIO was completed from 4 April 2023.

In the coming year we will be recruiting more trustees to ensure the board has all the skills and experience needed for the future effective management of Rumbletums. We also plan to review our charitable aims to ensure they properly reflect all of our current activities.

• Business Development

We agreed a Social Impact Plan which will enable us to properly measure the impact of our activities, both in relation to trainees but also on the wider community. There is a separate report showing the results this year from this plan.

We agreed a Marketing Plan, to ensure we promote Rumbletums in the best possible way. As part of this plan we have developed a much more systematic approach to the use of Facebook and other social media, supported by a detailed Social Media Policy; we have produced a range of A4 publicity leaflets concerning training, room hire and volunteering; our website has had a complete overhaul and is now extremely attractive and user friendly.

OUR BUILDING

Our building needs to provide attractive, safe and appropriate accommodation for all those who use it.

This year we have reassured ourselves that all of the things needed to ensure it is safe are in place, such as fire safety equipment and procedures, PAT (electrical) testing, gas boiler servicing, etc. We

have also updated all of our cleaning schedules and agreed a timetable for redecoration to ensure our rooms remain clean, fresh and attractive.

We have identified several alterations to the building that we need to make, to provide better office accommodation and much needed additional storage, to improve the overall quality of the accommodation and to improve the energy efficiency of the building. We hope to be able to undertake some of this work in the coming year, from grant balances and reserves we have managed to build up this year.

STAFFING CHANGES

There have been several changes in our staffing this year.

Ruth Brown our Catering Supervisor left in February 2023 and we want to thank her for everything she did for Rumbletums over the years.

We took advantage of the vacancy to make several changes:

• Helen Groom became Café Supervisor

• Gemma Calder became Senior Training Support Worker

• we created a new role of Training Support Worker to work mainly in the kitchen and Patsy Buck took on this role

• we were very pleased to welcome Debbie Bonser who started as Bake-Day Cook in July 2022 and two other new members of staff who started in March 2023 – Roma Hatton as Cook and Paula Inger-Smith as Café Assistant

Along with these changes Angela Devine continued as Project Manager and Tracey Corkish continued as part-time Café Assistant.

We are lucky to have such a skilled and dedicated group of staff.

VOLUNTEERING

We rely heavily on our volunteers. They provide invaluable support to our trainees in the kitchen and front of house and at our RumbletumsTots sessions, carry out odd jobs around the building, work in the allotment and support our various other community events. Also, we have recruited a volunteer to undertake administrative duties in support of Angela.

Not only do Rumbletums and our trainees benefit from having volunteers - the community and the individuals benefit too. Volunteering can reduce loneliness and isolation, and it enables the individuals to gain additional skills whilst improving their own well-being.

This year 50 different individuals volunteered at Rumbletums. More than 20 of these worked at least once a month and many of those work at least one session or more every week.

We are very grateful to them all. We would also welcome anyone else who would like to volunteer.

DONATIONS, FUNDRAISING AND GRANTS

We have been very fortunate this year with fundraising, donations and grants.

Our fundraising and donations income was over £20,000, from numerous donations from individuals, groups and businesses; in-café donations; the sale of many different items that had been made by individuals and donated to us; Easter, birthday and Christmas raffles; the sale of a variety

of Rumbletums products; Easyfundraising, Amazon Smile and Give-as-you-live donations; the Broxtowe Lottery; the 100-Club income and winnings donated back to us.

In addition, we received more than £38,000 in new grants, inclusing one from the National Lottery Community Fund to support the salary costs of our Training Support Worker, another from Severn Trent Water to help with our very high energy costs and another from Morrisons for catering equipment and to help with energy conservation.

We are extremely grateful to everyone concerned.

BIRTHDAY

On 2 July 2022 Rumbletums celebrated its 11[th] birthday. We look forward to the next eleven!

THANK YOU

There are a number of people to be thanked for helping Rumbletums achieve another very successful year:

• Our trainees - for coming to Rumbletums and working so hard, with such commitment and resilience. They give such pleasure to all those who work with and all the customers and room users who interact with them

• The parents/carers of our trainees - for trusting us to look after, support, train and develop their young people

• Our employees - who have worked so hard throughout the year and adapted to the various changes we have made

• Our many volunteers - who provide invaluable support to our trainees and our other activities

• Our customers - for their loyal support throughout the year, and also for their overwhelmingly positive response to our trainees and what we are trying to achieve at Rumbletums

• All those who generously helped us with fundraising and gave us donations and grants. We are extremely grateful to everyone who has helped us financially this year, enabling us to continue our vital work in support of our trainees.

FIONA GEORGE

THE KEY NUMBERS

Who worked with us in 2022 - 2023?

Trainees:

33 different trainees during the year, with 24 trainees working with us at the end of March 2023

Trainees worked a total of 5,058 hours – a 20.7% increase on last year’s hours

Employees:

8 on 31 March

Volunteers:

50 different people during the year, with 20 volunteering every month

How many customers did we have?

16,413 in total On average 63 a day

The highest number of customers on any one day was 108 on a Tuesday in January

How much food did we sell?

lunches 4,406

snacks 6,684

4,500 pieces of cake 15,877 drinks

What were our best-sellers?

Lunches:

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Salad - Halloumi 179 Nachos 138 Ploughman’s 130
Salad - Other 190
Soup 243 Jacket Potato 1158
Lasagne - Vegetarian
248
Child’s Lunch Plate
282
Toastie 706
Lasagne -
Beef 297
Savoury
Ciabatta Tart 458
377
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Snacks:

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Veggie Breakfast 139
Tuna Mayo Cob/Sandwich 150
BLT 154
Sausage Cob/Sandwich 266
Bacon &/or Saus &/or
Egg Cob/Sandw 310
Teacake 316 Breakfast 2054
Beans on Toast
351
Toasted Tea
Loaf 442
Eggs on Toast & Butter
Toast 535 831
Bacon
Cob/Sandwich
582
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Cakes:

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Gluten Free
Iced Lemon
Flapjack 167
Cake 213
Sticky Ginger
Cake 217
Mars Bar
Caramel cake Krispie 635
233
Carrot Cake 266 Traybake 611
Coffee &
Walnut Cake Victoria
511 Sandwich 581
Chocolate Cake
540
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Drinks:

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Cold
21%
Hot
79%
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What Community Events Did We Run?

4 Silver Screens, with 94 people attending

1 Afternoon Tea, with 18 people attending

We also hosted:

19 Rumblechums events – the Community Café aimed at reducing social isolation, working with an NHS Local Prescriber and Gedling BC

3 other events supporting health and well-being

Who rented our rooms?

31 different users:

22 community groups or individuals

7 businesses 2 others

20 supporting health and well-being

What Social Events Did We Run?

6 events, with 127 young people and their families attending. These included a bowls evening and games nights.

We also ran a Christmas Party for our trainees

£197,986

What was our total income in 2022 - 2023?

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INCOME
Bank Interest
0% Other trading
activities
16%
Grants and Café Sales
Donations 43%
15%
Training Fees
26%
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How much did we spend? £180,995

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EXPENDITURE
Insurance &
Licences Other Utilities
2% 5% 5%
Depreciation
9%
Café Food
Purchases Café Non-Food
16% Purchases
2%
Equipment repair
& maintenance
Wages, NI & 2%
Pension
59%
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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2022 - 2023

WHAT WE DO

Rumbletums community café provides training and work experience for young people with a learning disability, normally aged between 16 and 30, some of whom may also have an additional physical disability.

Rumbletums was established in 2011 by parents of children with learning disabilities, because of their concern about the lack of employment and development opportunities for such young people once they had finished formal education. They wanted to provide something valuable and purposeful for them, which would help them fulfil their potential, as well as enabling them to make a positive contribution to the community, helping to challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers. These aspirations are as relevant today as they were in 2011 and still underpin everything we do at Rumbletums.

The training is based primarily in our café where trainees undertake a range of ‘Front of House’ duties (such as taking orders, preparing and serving drinks, serving cakes, snacks and hot meals); a range of kitchen duties (such as preparing and cooking some food items, washing and drying pots, cutlery and pans etc., cleaning the kitchen); and a range of other related activities (such as laundering aprons and tea towels and shopping). In addition, trainees learn a range of basic office skills and get involved in the general cleaning and ‘housekeeping’ of the whole building and setting up the rooms for events or meetings. Also, some of our trainees also help at our toddler group, RumbletumsTots, or work in our allotment. We are always looking at new things that trainees can do to gain additional skills.

These activities enable our trainees to develop specific and transferable vocational skills associated with catering and hospitality as well as more general employability skills; enhanced communication and life skills; and greater confidence and self-esteem. All our trainees leave Rumbletums with additional skills and knowledge and trainees have gone on to find paid employment or to access further work experience and training.

The café opened on the corner of Victoria Street and Newdigate Street in Kimberley on 2 July 2011. It quickly established a reputation for excellent homemade food, coffee and service, and is currently open from 9.30am to 3.00pm from Tuesday to Saturday.

We offer a varied and tasty menu with Fairtrade and locally sourced ingredients being used as much as possible. All our meals and cakes are made on the premises, and we pride ourselves on our homemade food, much of which has been prepared by the trainees. We provide a varied choice of breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and a wide selection of tasty cakes, including vegetarian and gluten free options. Our coffees are made with freshly ground beans, roasted in West Bridgford by 200 Degrees, and tea is served traditionally in a teapot for maximum enjoyment. All our drinks can be made with skimmed, semi-skimmed or a choice of non-dairy milks, and we have a good choice of cold drinks.

Everyone is welcome at Rumbletums. We have tables for one or two, or up to four people and we are happy to add extra chairs or put tables together for bigger groups. The building has full wheelchair access, and we have an accessible toilet, as well as a chair lift to the first floor.

Rumbletums has a very child friendly attitude - little ones are very welcome, and we’re breastfeeding friendly. High-chairs and booster seats are available, and we have baby-changing facilities. Our children’s menu offers plenty of healthy and nutritious meals and snacks to choose from, and we have a bookcase just for children’s books for borrowing as well as reading in the café.

Rumbletums has received several local and national awards and accolades, recognising the value and quality of both the training and the delicious food and drinks served in the café.

Rumbletums’ support for and participation in the local community is a fundamental part of what we do. We provide a welcoming and safe space for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness and isolation, as well as providing delicious, affordable and nutritious food. Several groups choose Rumbletums as the venue for their social get-togethers.

To further support the wellbeing of members of the local community, we provide a range of community events.

A key one is RumbletumsTots, our parent/carer and toddler group run by a committed group of volunteers and some of our trainees. Tots meets every Tuesday in term time from 1.00pm to 3.00pm, and toddlers can come for free and play with our great range of toys, have a snack and a drink and enjoy a singsong at the end of the session. For a small charge parents/carers can get a drink and a piece of our delicious cake.

We also run a community coffee morning that takes place twice a month (“Rumblechums”), sponsored by Gedling Borough Council, and organised by a local NHS Social Prescriber; ‘Silver Screen’ Film Nights for the over 50s; and a self-help group for parents and carers of children and young people with learning disabilities.

We have two large rooms that provide affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations. We usually charge those using our rooms, but we actively support and provide space at reduced or no cost to non-commercial groups trying to improve the lives of the local population. Regular users of our space include Kimberley Neighbourhood Church, Slimming World, Weight Watchers, Broxtowe Women’s Project, a chair Yoga group, regular Sing and Sign sessions, a Chat & Craft group and several U3A groups, as well as individuals for parties and the like. We can provide catering to those hiring our rooms when the café is open, and increasingly we also provide food for room hire or events held out of hours, or as take-away for external events.

The interaction between our trainees and members of the community helps to break down barriers and challenge any negative stereotypes people might have about those with learning disabilities.

We offer opportunities for volunteering and our many committed volunteers make an invaluable contribution to the training and well-being of our trainees and other aspects of the project, whilst volunteering enables them to gain additional skills and improve their own well-being.

We are pleased to be able to support local employment and currently have eight paid members of staff. We are very grateful for their high level of skill, and their commitment to supporting our trainees and providing the highest quality food and drinks to our customers.

Rumbletums buys its food and services locally whenever possible, thus supporting local businesses and reducing its food miles. Other ways of supporting the local environment are our use of a local allotment to grow produce and plants; recycling as much as possible, including drinks cans; and

running events and activities that encourage recycling, for example, school uniform collection and resale events.

To further support the wellbeing of young people with learning disabilities and their families we provide a range of social events.

We have a social group, which includes some of our trainees, that arranges regular social events for young disabled people, their families and friends, such as open mike, quiz and fancy-dress nights.

The young people can get a different kind of social experience by working in our allotment, which we have through an on-going partnership with Kimberley School. This provides experience of working outdoors in a horticultural environment, with the aim of growing a variety of produce and plants.

Rumbletums is a registered charity, run by a board of trustees. We adopt good practice in governance and management and ensure Rumbletums is financially robust, and that all our activities are delivered at a high quality.

In recognition of the value of what we do at Rumbletums, we have been fortunate to receive several large and small donations and grants from many individuals and organisations. We are very grateful to all those who have supported us over the years and continue to do so.

HOW WE BENEFIT THE PUBLIC

The advancement of education by:

• providing supported training and work experience through which they can acquire specific and transferable vocational skills associated with catering and hospitality, as well as more general employability skills, and enhanced communication and life skills

• offering opportunities for volunteering and employment through which additional skills can be gained.

The relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by:

• providing valuable and purposeful activity, advice, support and assistance to young people with learning disabilities and helping them develop their skills, confidence and self-esteem

• increasing understanding in the community about learning disabilities, helping challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers; providing and supporting a range of social and community events for young people with learning disabilities and their families

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation free or at discounted rates to noncommercial organisations that support and encourage good physical and mental health.

The advancement of health or saving of lives by:

• providing in our community café a good range of home-cooked, nutritious and affordable food that meets all dietary needs

• providing a welcoming and safe space, for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness, improving wellbeing and reducing isolation

• offering opportunities for volunteering and employment which helps improve individuals’ well-being

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations that support and encourage good physical and mental health.

The advancement of citizenship or community development by:

• giving our trainees the chance to make a positive contribution to the local community as independent, mature and responsible individuals, whilst increasing understanding about learning disabilities, helping challenge negative stereotypes and break down barriers

• offering opportunities for volunteering

• providing local employment opportunities

• providing affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups and organisations

• supporting local businesses whenever possible

• providing and supporting a range of community events for members of the local community.

The prevention or relief of poverty by:

• giving the trainees work experience and a range of employability and life skills, to enable them to develop and gain more independence that will help them if seeking paid employment, and in effectively managing their own affairs, particularly if living more independently

• providing in our community café a good range of home-cooked, nutritious and affordable food that helps support dietary needs

• providing local employment opportunities

• supporting local businesses whenever possible.

The advancement of environmental protection or improvement by:

• through our purchasing strategy ensuring that our food miles are as low as possible

• undertaking as much recycling as possible, including paper, cardboard, plastic, tins and drinks cans

• running events to encourage recycling, such as school uniform exchanges

• caring for and growing produce and plants in a local allotment, which we then sell at very low prices in the café

• ensuring environmental issues are considered in all planning activities.

KEY SUCCESSES IN 2022 – 2023

TRAINING

At the beginning of the year we agreed a Social Impact Plan, to help us demonstrate the difference Rumbletums makes, not just to trainees’ lives, but also to the wider community.

For our trainees, we want to see them live a full and fulfilled life within the realms of their abilities and possibilities; attain transferrable life skills; be able to participate in real work experience; gain training, skills and qualifications that lead to meaningful employment; achieve integration into their local communities; positively contribute as a Citizen to their local community and society; find their purpose in life and live purposefully in life; make a positive difference to those around them and achieve more in life; increase in confidence and gain more aspirations in life; and achieve more independence in terms of day to day living.

A major review and update of our training programme was undertaken in the early part of 2022 and the new programme was introduced in April 2022. Key aspects of this programme are:

• grouping of activities into a series of training modules that trainees will work through, with each task broken down into its key components and detailed procedures supporting each

module to help with skill development and ensure tasks are carried out in a consistent way. The training modules include working front of house and in the kitchen including on our bake day, general housekeeping duties around the building, supporting RumbletumsTots, office/administrative duties, as well as the personal skills and behaviours we expect from trainees such as good timekeeping, appearance, using their own initiative

• detailed records for each trainee, showing how trainees like to learn, the best way of supporting them, the training they have received, the skills they have developed and their other achievements

• agreed targets and areas for development for each trainee

• annual reviews with parents/carers to ensure the trainee’s needs are being met and to agree future targets for the trainee.

As part of the additional development opportunities we offer, in September we held a workshop run by Open Wings covering “Managing feelings and behaviour” and “Stress management and relaxation techniques”. It was a very successful day, attended by six of our trainees.

Trainees are encouraged to take part in everything we do at Rumbletums and gain a wide range of skills: literacy skills through things such as writing orders and labels; numeracy skills through things such as weighing out ingredients or counting; monetary skills through the use of the till and going shopping. Trainees gain many transferable skills that they will use for future employment, but the trainees that may not be as capable and so may not have the opportunity to go into employment, still gain relevant and helpful skills that they can transfer to other places, such as home or other activities they take part in.

Trainees meet a wide range of people, from customers to staff and volunteers, to other trainees. Trainees have to learn to communicate well with everyone, for example when learning tasks, discussing activities, asking questions, working with colleagues or serving customers. Rumbletums has many regular customers, partly because our food and service are so good, but also because they are very supportive of what we do. Trainees get to know them and enjoy having conversations with them. Understanding that every customer is different is something that the trainees see first-hand, and they need to learn to communicate well with each individual.

It is clear that every trainee who comes to Rumbletums really enjoys being a part of the community. The trainees enjoy interacting with customers, and each interaction builds up their confidence. They lean on the skills they have learnt and become confident in these, and their confidence in these skills help to build up their confidence overall. From the feedback we get from customers and other users of our services, there is no doubt that our trainees are valued within the community and have broken down barriers and helped challenge negative stereotypes about people with learning disabilities.

During the year, 33 different trainees worked with us and at the end of March we had 24 trainees, with many of them working more than one shift or day a week.

We are delighted to report that, during the year, eight of our trainees were successful in gaining paid employment, including in ward catering at the City Hospital, a role at Sainsbury’s, work in the Argos warehouse, in the restaurant of the Hilton Hotel and a Care Home. We also have a trainee who works at Queen’s Medical Centre. Three of these trainees have continued working at Rumbletums.

We keep in regular contact with trainees who have left. Most are still in employment or education and one of them runs a disco on the last Tuesday evening of every month for people with learning

disabilities. Many of them are regular café users or attend our social events, and we are always pleased to see them.

From June onwards our trainees have been wearing very smart polo shirts, complete with the Rumbletums logo, paid for from the grant generously given by The Gate Inn in Awsworth.

THE CAFÉ

The café was busier this year than ever before, and we served over 16,400 customers. We sold more drinks, cakes and meals than ever before - over 31,460 in total, and our best-selling items were Mars Bar Krispie (635), breakfast (2,054) and jacket potato (1,158).

We have extended the catering provided for room hirers and during the year undertook additional external catering. We also catered for several groups during the run up to Christmas.

We aim to meet all dietary needs, and we updated our menu to show clearly vegetarian and vegan items, and also a warning about those that contain nuts. As well as decaffeinated drinks, semiskimmed and “skinny” milk, we also now serve soya, oat and almond milk, and we have widened the range of gluten-free cakes available.

We simplified the way we display information about the allergens in our food and drinks and this is readily available both in the café and on our website. We also updated our procedure for taking orders and how we deal with any orders from customers with an allergy.

We completed a total overhaul of our Safer Food, Better Business records and practices, to ensure we comply with all food hygiene and food handling standards and that our procedures are written down, comprehensive and clear. As part of this work, we developed a supporting Training Pack for trainees, staff and volunteers, which we are now in the process of rolling out.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Supporting, and being part of, the local community is a key part of what we do at Rumbletums. We provide a welcoming and safe space for all members of the community, helping combat loneliness and isolation, as well as providing delicious, affordable and nutritious food.

In February 2023 we were awarded the Carers Quality Mark and received a Carer Friendly Award. This was for our valuable contribution to supporting carers, whether these are carers of our trainees or customers or other service users.

We regularly take part in local events, or run events ourselves, or facilitate events run by others in our premises.

We also provide many opportunities to members of the local community to volunteer, providing invaluable support to our trainees across all of their duties; supporting our RumbletumsTots sessions; carrying out odd jobs around the building, working in the allotment and supporting our various other community events. Volunteering can reduce loneliness and isolation, and it enables the individuals to gain additional skills whilst improving their own well-being.

During the year we took part in the Kimberley Film Festival and the Watnall Allotment Open Day in August and opened specially for both the Kimberley Lights switch-on and the Kimberley Christmas Market in November.

We worked with an NHS Local Prescriber and Gedling BC to provide Rumblechums, a fortnightly Community Café aimed at reducing social isolation. In partnership with Kimberley Town Council we

provided a “Warm Hub” and we hosted Warm Space events for people with learning disabilities, run by Helen Cooper from the New Horizon Church.

In March we hosted two important events. Firstly, a Cost-of-Living Support event, to help those worried about the rising cost of living. A wide range of information was available, such as managing household bills, health and wellbeing, benefits/welfare, debt advice, and social opportunities. Secondly a Learning Disability Roadshow, with the aim of helping health and community services to hear the voice of people with a diagnosed learning disability. The event included: ‘Art and Craft Activity by Transform Training’, ‘Chair Based Exercise’, ’Nordic Walking Demonstration’, ‘Guided Local Walk by Age UK Notts’, and ‘Community Singing for Health’.

We ran the first of our school uniform sales, for which we collected donated school uniforms. This was very successful, and we plan to repeat it.

Our toddler group, RumbletumsTots, ran throughout the year during term time and is more popular than ever.

We ran four Silver Screen events, which proved very popular and in December held our first Afternoon Tea. This was well supported and will be repeated.

We have two large rooms that provide affordable, well-equipped accommodation for the use of local groups, organisations and individuals for parties and the like. State of the art AV equipment is available in the rooms and can be hired for a small fee. Our rooms are in daily use and this year we had 31 different room hirers, 22 of which were community groups or individual users, and 20 of which are working to support health and well-being.

SOCIAL EVENTS

We ran a number of social events this year. This is another way of supporting the wellbeing of our young people with learning disabilities, and their families, but also gives our trainees the chance to get to know one another. Several former trainees also attend which is a way of keeping in touch with them, and we also welcome other young people with learning disabilities.

We had a very successful bowling evening in May, funded from The Gate Inn grant, and at Rumbletums we ran open mike, pics & popcorn, crafty nibbles and two games nights, attended by 127 people.

GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

GOOD GOVERNANCE

We made significant strides in the governance of Rumbletums this year.

• Strategic Aims and Objectives

We updated our strategic aims and developed a comprehensive range of objectives to be completed over a two-year period, which cover every aspect of our activities. We made excellent progress in delivering these this year, but work remains to be done, for example:

• For trainees, we want to ensure that the views of parents/carers and of trainees about their experience at Rumbletums are sought, listened to and influence the content of the training, how it is provided, and other aspects of the Rumbletums experience.

• For the Café, we constantly review our menu but we want to look at how we can extend our catering provision for room hire or for internal or external events, and also to seek the views of customers about our menu, opening hours, facilities, service, etc.

• As part of our community involvement we want to ensure we continue to welcome all members of the community into Rumbletums, whether that’s through running or facilitating community events; ensuring our food remains affordable and nutritious; providing high quality, well-equipped and attractive rooms for hire; or recruiting more volunteers.

• Continuing to provide a good range of social events.

• Pursuing the idea of “Friends of Rumbletums”. This would be a way of getting the views of our various service users to support our continual development. As a starting point we are developing a series of surveys, to seek the views of trainees, parents/carers, staff/volunteers and customers about what we do, how we do it, how we might improve things or new things that we might do.

• Charitable Status

Rumbletums has always been a charity registered with the Charity Commission. In order to enter into contracts, employ people and own property we also had to be a company limited by guarantee, registered with Companies House.

In order to streamline and simplify our management arrangements, we decided to convert our charitable status to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), still registered with the Charity Commission, but no longer having to be separately registered with Companies House.

We had to draft a new constitution and get the agreement of the original members of Rumbletums – those people who originally set up Rumbletums – to do this, which we did this year, and our conversion to a CIO was completed from 4 April 2023.

In the coming year we will be recruiting more trustees to ensure the board has all the skills and experience needed for the future effective management of Rumbletums. We also plan to review our charitable aims to ensure they properly reflect all of our current activities.

• Business Development

We agreed a Social Impact Plan which will enable us to properly measure the impact of our activities, both in relation to trainees but also on the wider community. There is a separate report showing the results this year from this plan.

We agreed a Marketing Plan, to ensure we promote Rumbletums in the best possible way. As part of this plan we have developed a much more systematic approach to the use of Facebook and other social media, supported by a detailed Social Media Policy; we have produced a range of A4 publicity leaflets concerning training, room hire and volunteering; our website has had a complete overhaul and is now extremely attractive and user friendly.

OUR BUILDING

Our building needs to provide attractive, safe and appropriate accommodation for all those who use it.

This year we have reassured ourselves that all of the things needed to ensure it is safe are in place, such as fire safety equipment and procedures, PAT (electrical) testing, gas boiler servicing, etc. We

have also updated all of our cleaning schedules and agreed a timetable for redecoration to ensure our rooms remain clean, fresh and attractive.

We have identified several alterations to the building that we need to make, to provide better office accommodation and much needed additional storage, to improve the overall quality of the accommodation and to improve the energy efficiency of the building. We hope to be able to undertake some of this work in the coming year, from grant balances and reserves we have managed to build up this year.

STAFFING CHANGES

There have been several changes in our staffing this year.

Ruth Brown our Catering Supervisor left in February 2023 and we want to thank her for everything she did for Rumbletums over the years.

We took advantage of the vacancy to make several changes:

• Helen Groom became Café Supervisor

• Gemma Calder became Senior Training Support Worker

• we created a new role of Training Support Worker to work mainly in the kitchen and Patsy Buck took on this role

• we were very pleased to welcome Debbie Bonser who started as Bake-Day Cook in July 2022 and two other new members of staff who started in March 2023 – Roma Hatton as Cook and Paula Inger-Smith as Café Assistant

Along with these changes Angela Devine continued as Project Manager and Tracey Corkish continued as part-time Café Assistant.

We are lucky to have such a skilled and dedicated group of staff.

VOLUNTEERING

We rely heavily on our volunteers. They provide invaluable support to our trainees in the kitchen and front of house and at our RumbletumsTots sessions, carry out odd jobs around the building, work in the allotment and support our various other community events. Also, we have recruited a volunteer to undertake administrative duties in support of Angela.

Not only do Rumbletums and our trainees benefit from having volunteers - the community and the individuals benefit too. Volunteering can reduce loneliness and isolation, and it enables the individuals to gain additional skills whilst improving their own well-being.

This year 50 different individuals volunteered at Rumbletums. More than 20 of these worked at least once a month and many of those work at least one session or more every week.

We are very grateful to them all. We would also welcome anyone else who would like to volunteer.

DONATIONS, FUNDRAISING AND GRANTS

We have been very fortunate this year with fundraising, donations and grants.

Our fundraising and donations income was over £20,000, from numerous donations from individuals, groups and businesses; in-café donations; the sale of many different items that had been made by individuals and donated to us; Easter, birthday and Christmas raffles; the sale of a variety

of Rumbletums products; Easyfundraising, Amazon Smile and Give-as-you-live donations; the Broxtowe Lottery; the 100-Club income and winnings donated back to us.

In addition, we received more than £38,000 in new grants, inclusing one from the National Lottery Community Fund to support the salary costs of our Training Support Worker, another from Severn Trent Water to help with our very high energy costs and another from Morrisons for catering equipment and to help with energy conservation.

We are extremely grateful to everyone concerned.

BIRTHDAY

On 2 July 2022 Rumbletums celebrated its 11[th] birthday. We look forward to the next eleven!

THANK YOU

There are a number of people to be thanked for helping Rumbletums achieve another very successful year:

• Our trainees - for coming to Rumbletums and working so hard, with such commitment and resilience. They give such pleasure to all those who work with and all the customers and room users who interact with them

• The parents/carers of our trainees - for trusting us to look after, support, train and develop their young people

• Our employees - who have worked so hard throughout the year and adapted to the various changes we have made

• Our many volunteers - who provide invaluable support to our trainees and our other activities

• Our customers - for their loyal support throughout the year, and also for their overwhelmingly positive response to our trainees and what we are trying to achieve at Rumbletums

• All those who generously helped us with fundraising and gave us donations and grants. We are extremely grateful to everyone who has helped us financially this year, enabling us to continue our vital work in support of our trainees.

FIONA GEORGE

THE KEY NUMBERS

Who worked with us in 2022 - 2023?

Trainees:

33 different trainees during the year, with 24 trainees working with us at the end of March 2023

Trainees worked a total of 5,058 hours – a 20.7% increase on last year’s hours

Employees:

8 on 31 March

Volunteers:

50 different people during the year, with 20 volunteering every month

How many customers did we have?

16,413 in total On average 63 a day

The highest number of customers on any one day was 108 on a Tuesday in January

How much food did we sell?

lunches 4,406

snacks 6,684

4,500 pieces of cake 15,877 drinks

What were our best-sellers?

Lunches:

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Salad - Halloumi 179 Nachos 138 Ploughman’s 130
Salad - Other 190
Soup 243 Jacket Potato 1158
Lasagne - Vegetarian
248
Child’s Lunch Plate
282
Toastie 706
Lasagne -
Beef 297
Savoury
Ciabatta Tart 458
377
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Snacks:

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Veggie Breakfast 139
Tuna Mayo Cob/Sandwich 150
BLT 154
Sausage Cob/Sandwich 266
Bacon &/or Saus &/or
Egg Cob/Sandw 310
Teacake 316 Breakfast 2054
Beans on Toast
351
Toasted Tea
Loaf 442
Eggs on Toast & Butter
Toast 535 831
Bacon
Cob/Sandwich
582
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Cakes:

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Gluten Free
Iced Lemon
Flapjack 167
Cake 213
Sticky Ginger
Cake 217
Mars Bar
Caramel cake Krispie 635
233
Carrot Cake 266 Traybake 611
Coffee &
Walnut Cake Victoria
511 Sandwich 581
Chocolate Cake
540
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Drinks:

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Cold
21%
Hot
79%
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What Community Events Did We Run?

4 Silver Screens, with 94 people attending

1 Afternoon Tea, with 18 people attending

We also hosted:

19 Rumblechums events – the Community Café aimed at reducing social isolation, working with an NHS Local Prescriber and Gedling BC

3 other events supporting health and well-being

Who rented our rooms?

31 different users:

22 community groups or individuals

7 businesses 2 others

20 supporting health and well-being

What Social Events Did We Run?

6 events, with 127 young people and their families attending. These included a bowls evening and games nights.

We also ran a Christmas Party for our trainees

£197,986

What was our total income in 2022 - 2023?

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INCOME
Bank Interest
0% Other trading
activities
16%
Grants and Café Sales
Donations 43%
15%
Training Fees
26%
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How much did we spend? £180,995

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EXPENDITURE
Insurance &
Licences Other Utilities
2% 5% 5%
Depreciation
9%
Café Food
Purchases Café Non-Food
16% Purchases
2%
Equipment repair
& maintenance
Wages, NI & 2%
Pension
59%
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