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2023-03-31-accounts

Bristol North West Foodbank

(A charitable company limited by guarantee)

Trustees Annual Report

and

Unaudited Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31 March 2023

Charity number 1147727 Company number 8089474

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Bristol North West Foodbank Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

Contents

Contents
Reference and Administrative information 2
Trustee’s Report 3-20
Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements 21
Independent Examiners Report 2
Statement of Financial Activities 23
Balance Sheet 24
Notes to the Financial Statements 26-32

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Reference and Administrative information

Charity Name:

Bristol North West Foodbank

Charity registration number: Company Registration Number:

1147727

8089474

Registered Office:

Social Justice Hub St. Andrew’s Church Avonmouth Road Avonmouth Bristol BS11 9EN

Board of Trustees/Directors:

Mr Graham Burley Mr Jonathan Ball Rev Dr Andrew Murray Mrs Emma Murray Mr Robert Porter Miss Ann Roberts Mrs Selina Salisbury

Treasurer

Chair Foodbank Manager (Appointed 1[st] September 2021)

Independent Examiner:

Mrs Emma Brook ACA 124 Reedley Road Bristol BS9 1BG

Bank:

Solicitors:

Lloyds TSB PLC 15 High Street, Westbury on Trym, Bristol BS9 3BY Veale Wasbrough Vizards Orchard Court, Orchard Lane, Bristol BS1 5WS

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Bristol North West Foodbank Trustees’ Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

Structure, Governance & Management

Governing Document: Memorandum and articles of association Incorporated on 30[th] May 2012 Registered on 18[th] June 2012 How is the charity constituted: Charitable Company limited by guarantee Trustee selection method: Election by Trustees

Charity Objectives

The prevention and relief of poverty in particular (but without limitation) in the North West Bristol area, in particular (but without limitation) by providing food and support to individuals and families facing short term times of crisis.

Aims of the Charity

Our aims are to alleviate poverty through the provision of food parcels to those in crisis, in partnership with local care agencies who refer clients in crisis to us. By signposting to care agencies, advice services and other support agencies we aim to seek resolutions to a client’s immediate crisis, which is causing their need to use the Foodbank. Anyone in need can be referred to the Foodbank, regardless of their race or creed.

Charitable Activities

The Foodbank is run in partnership with churches and their members in North West Bristol. The North West Bristol area includes (but is not limited to) Shirehampton, Sea Mills, Lawrence Weston, Avonmouth, Pill, Severn Beach, Westbury on Trym, Stoke Bishop, Coombe Dingle, Clifton, Cotham, Redland, Hotwells, Henbury and Brentry. The Bristol North West Foodbank is a part of the Trussell Trust network of 430+ Foodbanks in the UK.

The Foodbank is aware that a crisis may come in many forms, including (but not limited to) redundancy, revocation of benefits, ill-health, family break-up or unexpected large bills. The Foodbank regularly meets the needs of such individuals. Anyone in need in the North West Bristol community is welcome to receive food packages, regardless of their faith or creed.

Individuals, churches, schools and other interested organisations donate money and non-perishable food to the Foodbank. The food is then stored in three outlets located at churches in Henbury, Lawrence Weston and Avonmouth and several containers in Avonmouth (which have been registered and inspected by Bristol City Council's food hygiene team). Food is also transported in our mobile store van to resource our fourth outlet in Hotwells. Future outlets may open in the future as the Foodbank expands.

The Foodbank works in partnership with local care agencies, charities and other organisations which include (but is not limited to) General Practitioners, health visitors, the Citizen's Advice Bureau, church ministers, community workers, schools, social workers and children's centres. Individuals involved in these agencies are able to identify vulnerable families or individuals facing short term times of crisis and need immediate assistance. The local care agencies will make a judgement call as to which people are in need of the

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Foodbank's help. This will come following contact with these individuals where time has been taken to understand their personal circumstances and needs.

Where an individual is identified as requiring the Foodbank's assistance, they are issued with an e-voucher. These are usually given where there is no other option available to the individual at that time. This entitles them to enough nutritionally balanced food for three days for themselves and their family (if applicable). There are currently 400 referral agencies in the area who issue these vouchers.

The Trussell Trust online database is used to log the names and addresses of the individual and their family (if applicable) being issued a voucher. This acts as a safeguard to prevent the abuse of the system. In a six month period, if an individual has more than three vouchers (nine days' worth of food) from the Foodbank, we will investigate the cause of their crisis with their referral agency and offer them an appointment with our advice worker to tackle the underlying cause. A flagging of an individual after three referrals, is in place to prevent them from becoming dependent on the Foodbank for food. In exceptional circumstances, after discussion with their referring agency, further vouchers can be provided.

The vouchers can be redeemed at the four outlets mentioned above, or be home delivered if the client is elderly, housebound or sick. We also provide pick up from our Foodbank Hub in Avonmouth by support workers outside of the outlet opening times as well as pick up for those who may be in work and be unable to access the Foodbank through outlet opening times. The voucher identifies the type of crisis which that individual is experiencing. As the individual waits for their food package to be prepared, complimentary refreshments are provided. Foodbank volunteers are available at talk to at this time, and where appropriate, the volunteers help the individuals to identify whether the client would benefit from an appointment with one of our Advice Workers.

The Foodbank volunteers come from the local churches and communities. They assist in running the four Foodbank outlets by packing and distributing food, and, also by offering support whilst the food packages are prepared. There are other care agencies which could assist individuals during their short-term time of crisis, and the Foodbank is able to help in identifying these. Many of the volunteers act as Foodbank ambassadors within their local church, work and community to encourage people to make regular and reliable donations to maintain a balanced stock of food within the Foodbank.

Once at an outlet Foodbank vouchers are redeemed for three days of food which includes one or two nonperishable boxes of food along with a box of fresh fruit, veg, eggs, bread and chilled items when available. We also provide a bag of toiletries and baby milk, nappies and pet food as required. We work hard to provide a wide range of food parcels which cater for speciality diets, such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Halal, Gluten Free, Diabetic and so on.

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Achievements and Performance for the Year

Overview

We have had a year of change as we were still seeing the after effects of Covid which was swiftly followed by the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’. It’s been a tough time for those in our local community as many struggled through the winter without adequate funds to access heating or food because of the rising prices. We are seeing the urgent need to be there for pastoral support for many who were experiencing extreme isolation and loneliness. We are having to deal with more aggression and heightened levels of depression and stress from our clients as they struggle in the current climate. We are seeing more people than before who are in work having to turn to us for support and those struggling with paying their mortgages coming under intense stress which is causing many to find they can’t afford to feed their families by the end of the month.

Foodbank use has remained higher than pre-covid levels, which appears to have been driven by the ‘cost of living’ price rises. We also continue to welcome and support Ukrainian, Syrian and Afgan refugees who often need longer term support.

We are hugely grateful to St. Andrew’s Church for their support in providing space for our Foodbank outlet and storage across the site for our Food and other items that we provide. We are also immensely grateful to our church outlet hosts, Emmanuel Chapel in Henbury, Hope Chapel in Hotwells and Hope Church in Lawrence Weston.

We are so thankful to the volunteers who provide the pastoral care side of the Foodbank operation. People have really appreciated the personal conversations at the door and most clients feeling they can come in and stay for a cuppa. This has also enabled us to sign up people for advice appointments more readily. We have continued to home deliver to those isolating and the sick and elderly on a Wednesday and Friday morning.

Our Advice Workers, Linda, Jules and Saffron been fully booked with appointments, and we are delighted that we have secured funding for our advice work for the next three years. We secured funding this year to buy in a Debt Advisor for two days a week from North Bristol Advice Centre (NBAC). This advisor is available face to face at our Avonmouth outlet on a Monday or through phone appointment. We are already seeing the difference that this is making by enabling our Foodbank clients to obtain swift help with their debt rather than having to go on the NBAC waiting list and travel to Horfield for this support.

The main highlights of the year have been the ongoing growth of our Space4Makers workshop, running two cookery courses and the opening of the Clothes Bank. All of these have been successful in bringing together many from our local community in need of support. Please see further information about these later in this report.

The Foodbank has a superb team who have worked so hard this year and I want to take this opportunity to sing their praises and thank them. I also want to thank Jesus for the daily miracles of provision and strength he has given to us as we’ve had to deal with some very upsetting and stressful situations. Without him we could not continue do this work.

Partner agencies

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We have 400 (distributors) agencies who give out our vouchers to those that they identify as being in a crisis situation. All of our agencies us the Trussell Trust electronic referral system to refer their clients to us. We have now fully moved over to the use of this system.

Areas we cover

Bristol North West Foodbank is now covering the following areas for emergency food: Avonmouth, Severn Beach, Pilning, Pill, Lawrence Weston, Shirehampton, Sea Mills, Coombe Dingle, Stoke Bishop, Westbury on Trym, Westbury Park, Henleaze, parts of Southmead, Clifton, Redland, Henbury and Brentry. Hotwells, Long Ashton and Cotham. We occasionally help clients outside of these areas who may be referred to us by our registered agencies, mainly because the Social Justice Hub enables us to respond to emergencies outside of Foodbank outlet opening times.

Our Homebank covers the whole of the City and surrounding areas.

Volunteers

We are so grateful to the faithful team of volunteers on our rotas who help the Foodbank to work week by week. We have over 113 actively volunteering volunteers, many from local churches who do a variety of tasks such as sorting and packing food, admin, greeting clients in the cafe, serving drinks and collecting food from local churches. We have 10 volunteers who are trained in the ‘Food Safety in Retail’ level 1 & 2 to manage the fresh food we receive from M&S, Co-op, Lidl, Hovis, Aldi, Waitrose and Warburtons. We have 8 volunteers who run our Eat Well Spend Less Courses.

We have seen a number of new faces join our team during this financial year, particularly drivers for the van, those helping with the clothes bank, kitchen team and in our Space4Makers workshop.

During the year we also welcomed a number of one-off volunteer teams including:

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We continue to have a placement relationship with Trinity Theological College. We had three Trinity students on placement with us throughout this year.

We also benefit from weekly volunteering from Students at Clifton College through their ‘Clifton in the Community’ scheme and once a term an after school club from Bristol Grammar School.

Advice Work and Signposting

A key part of our work is to help clients with trying to sort out the driver leading them to need help with emergency food and to maximise their income.

We have two Advice workers this year Linda, (Saffron) and Jules who work alongside our clients to support them with benefit claims, grant applications, referrals to debt help etc. Saffron left us for a new role in September and Jules joined the team.

We have developed a check list leaflet for volunteers to use when talking to clients to help direct conversations to needs they might have. This leaflet then enables our advice worker to get in contact with the client if necessary and make an appointment.

During Covid all of our Advice appointments have been over the phone and the majority continue to remain so at present. The Advice workers, however, are now available at all of our outlets to speak to clients as they come in to collect food and to book them in for appointments. We find that this face to face meeting makes clients more likely to respond to subsequent phone calls.

We are grateful that we have been able to move to using AdvicePro in April 2022 for storing our client data from our advice appointments. This has made a huge difference to the ease of recording information and generating reports. The team have opened 369 cases over the year. Please see the statistics of financial gains for Foodbank clients over the last year below.

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Number/Amount
The number of new people accessing advice and support using this
service.		 369
The total number of people accessing advice and support using this
service.		 638
The number of cases/matters relating to each different area of advice.
Benefits and income maximisation
(includingcharitable support andgrants)
Water debt cleared
16
Monthlywater saving
29
CSE
84
Utilities and communications
16
records before 1/1/23 do not record this information
clearly**
Benefits and income maximisation
(includingcharitable support andgrants)
Water debt cleared 16
Monthlywater saving 29
CSE 84
Utilities and communications 16**
records before 1/1/23 do not record this information
clearly
The number of people who achieved or are expected to achieve financial
gains.		 369
Total financial gains for people using the service (£). 58,277.24
Number of people whose debt was managed. Between 1/9/22-31/3/23 33
Total amount of debt managed for people using the service (£). 87
Number of people whose debt was written off. 3
Total amount of debt written off for people using the service. (£) 8,125.44
The number of people estimated to no longer need to use the food bank
for food, after accessing advice and support.		 228
Financial Gains Financial Gains
Gain Type Sum Calculated Financial Gain
Grants - Bristol Charities £350.00
Grants ? Children in Need £250.00
Grants ? Internal Carpet Grants £2,388.73
Grants – Local Crisis Prevention Fund £750.00
Grants - Other £4,248.80

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Grants - St Monicas £4,780.00
Other £19,579.65
Vodaphone Sim £12,240.00
Wessex Water - reduced monthlybills £6,771.96
Wessex Water Debt Written Off £12,820.95

We encourage Foodbank clients to sign up to help from our Advice Worker when we recognize that they are continuing to try and access the Foodbank after having three emergency parcels.

We are hugely grateful for the dedication and hard work of our Advice Workers who are daily supporting our clients many who are in great distress about their situations. We value them very highly and see the positive difference they are making to many in our community.

North Bristol Advice Centre Debt Advice NBAC sessions

The NBAC debt advice outreach sessions at the food bank started Monday 5 September 2022. We’ve had a few teething problems with the session, and low numbers to start, but this is to be expected with any new service. We have been working productively together to identify, discuss and resolve issues. This has included databases and recording, appointments, co-working methods, suitable interview rooms and publicity. We’re currently working on a process plan to put in place to remind clients of their appointments to reduce the high level of no shows.

Outputs:

2 Casework clients (support ongoing)

2 advice-only clients (closed)

6 No client shows

2 appointments cancelled - the clients no longer wanted advice

5 pending appointments

Case studies:

  1. Client with multiple priority (council tax and fuel arrears) and non-priority debts (phone contracts, water and benefit overpayments amongst others). Her personal situation is currently unstable and has been for many years - she only very recently got out of an abusive relationship. Her ex-partner is now in prison and she is raising two children on her own with little support - her only income is Universal Credit and Child Benefit. The client has never learnt to budget, knows very little about her debts, including balance owed, and has recently experienced a change in her circumstances which has caused her expenditure to increase.

Plan of action: help client to increase income and/or manage expenditure, identify debts and verify debt balances; put immediate enforcement action on hold; look into applying for a Debt Relief Order to give the client a fresh start.

  1. The client is a single mother with an 18-month old baby. She works part-time and receives universal credit and council tax reduction. She has council tax arrears and several credit card debts which she is paying back by making minimum monthly payments on each one. The client does not

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want to enter into a debt solution due to concerns she has about how this may affect her credit rating and wider financial situation. The client is owed a credit of £900 from her fuel supplier. The client intends to use this credit to clear her outstanding council tax arrears.

The client was advised of the difference between priority and non-priority debts and what happens if she defaults on any of the debts, impact on credit report, CCJ process and the potential enforcement action that can follow. She was given the "ways to clear your debt fact sheet" from NDL and our adviser agreed to call her back next week to discuss if any of the options might be of interest to her.

Since the new year we have started to see sessions pick up and appointments being kept more regularly.

Jan 2023 to Mar 2023

The number of new people
accessing advice and
support usingthis service.		 28
The total number of people
accessing advice and
support usingthis service.		 29
The number of
cases/matters relating to
each different area of
advice.		 29 Debt Advice
The number of people who
achievedor are expected to
achieve financialgains.		 5
Total financial gains for
people usingthe service(£).		 £959.43
Number of people whose
debt was managed.		 13
Total amount of debt
managed for people using
the service(£).		 £118,002.23
Number of people whose
debt was written off.		 0
Total amount of debt
written off for people using
the service.(£)		 £0
The number of people
estimated to no longer need
to use the food bank for		 7

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food, after accessing advice and support.

Client Case Study :

Client was a single man living alone in council property. He was unfit for work as an alcoholic with liver cirrhosis, diabetes and mental health issues (depression and anxiety). He was in receipt of Universal Credit and had had an application for PIP declined, and was going through an assessment for Low Capability for Work (LCW).

On completing a financial statement, the client told us, that he spends a high amount on alcohol each day. This is why he needed the food bank to supplement his food supply and struggles with paying his bills, which is also exacerbated by the rise in the cost of living.

He was struggling with his electric which was paid through a pre-payment meter and he had received a gas bill of £85 which he could not afford. He also thought he had rent arrears. He was owed money from BCC Council Tax as there had been an adjustment made to his bill. He had tried several times to request that this refund be paid in to his bank account, but each time it failed.

We contacted Council Tax twice and requested the refund of £518.43, be paid in to the client’s bank. This was successful after our second attempt. We contacted the client’s Housing Officer who notified us that there had been Discretionary Housing Payment applied to the rent account which had cleared the arrears and left the client in credit.

We contacted the Centre for Sustainable Energy to obtain electric vouchers for the client’s prepayment meter and he received 3 vouchers worth £47 each. We also applied to a local energy grant and raised £60 to help pay off his gas bill. We gave him a sim card for his mobile phone with £20 credit. We referred him to our Welfare Benefits Team and one of our volunteers helped him complete his Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application form.

If the PIP claim and his assessment for LCW is successful, his income will increase so that he would no longer rely on the Food Bank, and be able to afford his ongoing bills.

Home Delivery Service

We have managed to cut back on our home delivery service this year as we’ve managed to encourage most people who are able to come and collect their food from the outlets.

We continue to offer home delivery to the elderly, sick and housebound on a Wednesday and Friday morning.

Agencies are able to indicate whether a client needs home delivery at the point of referral and we will check that this is necessary before delivering. We have worked hard to try and reduce deliveries and encourage those who are able to collect from our Foodbank outlets, so that they can benefit from the further support available there.

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Publicity and Raising Awareness

We have been involved with TV reports and newspaper publications over the last year. Emma Murray the Manager spent an hour with Darren Jones MP giving him a tour of the Foodbank and talking to him about the issues our clients are facing. Emma also was invited by the Port Authority to join their table at the Labour South West Business Meal, which was a great opportunity to network and meet Rachel Reeves the Shadow Chancellor.

Andy Murray our chair has also been attending the Severnet business breakfast meeting the businesses from the Avonmouth docks and the Lawrence Weston Community breakfasts.

We have also conducted tours for churches, and businesses in the local area.

Harvest

We were so happy to be able to go back into 15 schools this autumn. We did a cost-of -living exercise where three children were given three purses with different amounts of giant coins, 3, 5 and 10. There was the choice of 8 items they could choose to ‘buy’ such as food, electricity, meals out, water, rent for their house, holidays and so on. The idea was to show the children that some people don’t have enough money to buy the essentials and that those with more can help those who don’t have enough. We are thankful to Sue, Ann, Hazel, Andy, Rachel, Errol and Melanie who supported Emma in taking these assemblies.

Staffing & Training

We have had some staff changes this year. We said goodbye to Saffron (Advice Worker), Sarah (Assistant Manager) and Linda (Advice Worker) this year. They are sadly missed. We wish them well in their future posts. We were delighted to welcome, Jules Bowen our new Advice Worker, Caragh and Freddie our new workshop technicians/caretakers.

Mark Burgoine our Workshop Tutor attended Mental Health First Aid & and First Aid refresher.

The majority of the staff team have done their safeguarding training this year.

Shauna our administrator has done her Food Hygiene and Safety for catering level 2.

Judith, Ann, Maggie, Jane, Wendy, Sally, Annie, Sue, Ra have completed their Food Hygiene and safety for catering level 2.

All new volunteers have done their manual handling training and basic induction.

Our Advice workers have attended the following training:

Community Wellbeing Board -North and West Locality – 11/1/23 Staff away day – 25/1/23

Wessex water – 1/2/23

Online Event Training – talking to vulnerable people – 10/2/23

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Avonmouth Task C19 Community multi agency meeting – 28/2/23 Brentry Children’s Centre – networking and launch of rebranding – 15/3/23 CPAG – users guide – 20/3/23

Eat Well Spend Less

We were delighted to restart our Eat Well Spend Less courses this year. We have run two courses at our Avonmouth outlet on Tuesday mornings. Around 12 clients attended the course, a couple did not complete it.

This course was originally developed by the Trussell Trust as part of their ‘More Than Food’ programme. Our course leader Judith White has worked hard to develop the course and change some of the recipes dependant on the different types of people attending the courses and their needs. The course runs for six mornings over six weeks. You do not have to be a Foodbank client to come on these courses. We have had some Foodbank clients and a number who have self-referred from seeing our adverts in the local community magazines.

The course teaches basic food hygiene, knife skills, managing your food budget, recycling skills, preparing a menu and gives each course participant the opportunity to cook two food items each week that they can take home. These include things like homemade pizzas, porridge, cereal bars, omelettes etc.

The course has been a real success. Here are a couple of things the participants have said about it this year, “The cooking course was amazing, I have saved so much money on buying jar foods, now I make from scratch.”

“I have really enjoyed this excellent course. I have learned a lot. Lovely staff, great atmosphere and made friends.”

“Loved it! Thank you so much for running the course. I’ve learned skills I wanted to learn and found tips that will be invaluable for saving time and money. The ladies helping have been amazing and they’ve created a supportive non-judgemental environment. I can also chop an onion properly now.”

Our second course this year was a real joy as the participants really worked hard and made huge strides in their cooking abilities. We are so thankful to our cookery course team who are so encouraging and supportive of our participants and particularly thankful to Judith White who leads so enthusiastically.

We are hopeful that we are going to be able to restart our Lawrence Weston courses at St. Peter’s Church in the next financial year.

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Homebank

The Homebank has now been running for just over four years. This project was set up in response to the need we were seeing from our clients. The project takes in second hand and new kitchen utensils, plates, pans etc, bedding towels plus small electrical items such as toasters, kettles, vacuum cleaners and microwaves as well as fridges and freezers. These are cleaned and pat tested by our pat tester Colin and then Homebank registered referrers are able to make requests for items for their clients. Many are people coming off the streets or out of hostels into new accommodation where they need everything. We help with items to set up a kitchen and bedroom. We provide limited delivery of fridges and freezers. With this project we have linked up with the Lidl Warehouse, local solicitor, the University, St. Monica’s, Blaise Weston Court in Lawrence Weston and a house clearance company to source some of the items. We also have large quantities of donations from the general public.

We now have a large 40ft container off site to help us store larger items such as beds, wardrobes, tables and fridges. This is working well as we are able to make more items from house clearances.

This year Karolina took on the administration of the Homebank in January 2023. We are also extremely grateful to the volunteers who pack, sort, load and drive orders to clients across Bristol. It’s a hugely rewarding project as there is an immediate change in circumstance for the clients we have helped. Our drivers often come back extremely moved by the grateful thanks they receive and the humble circumstances they find people living in.

We’ve continued to see the work increase this year. We’ve fulfilled 424 orders which has helped 849 people. This is an increase of 17% on orders and a 9% increase in the amount of people we’ve managed to help from the previous year.

Space for Makers Woodworking Workshop

The Space4Makers Woodworking Workshop opened in October 2021 to provide informal groups and activities, alongside training programmes to engage with the wider community and to reduce social isolation, strengthen families, engage young people and young adults to develop confidence & skills that can help them into work.

The workshop has been running ‘drop in’ sessions on Mondays and Tuesdays and quieter sessions on Wednesdays for those who need more support. There is also an after-school club running on Monday and Tuesday evenings for those in year 6 and above. During the summer term we ran courses for all the Avonmouth Primary year six children during their school day. They were thrilled with the mobile phone stands they made and laser marked with their choice of picture. There was a huge buzz in the workshop and it was great to see their eyes opened to the fact that they could pursue a practical career like this.

The workshop has been in huge demand from the outset. It’s been great to see the volunteer team growing and to see the wide range of men and women finding pleasure and companionship through learning woodworking skills.

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Wessex Water have come alongside the Foodbank to help fund this project and partner with us to provide staff to help with mentoring and they will be funding our Workshop Tutors and enabling local schools in the UPAs we are working in, to build time in their curriculum to transport children to the workshop to experience woodworking skills. There is also the possibility of apprenticeships for those excelling in their workshop skills.

Wessex Water has commissioned the workshop team to build swallow and bat boxes for their site. This has been an opportunity for us to support some of our users who are on benefits with some paid work to fulfil this order.

Mark Burgoine and Neil Sutor are our Workshop Tutors. We also employed Freddie and Caragh in January 2022 as our workshop technicians and site caretakers. Freddie has come from being out of work for many years, became a user of the workshop for the last 9 months and now we have been able to employ him. This has been extremely encouraging for the team.

Caragh brings her wealth of experience of teaching women woodworking skills, teaching at the University for many years and brings many practical skills which are much needed in the workshop and across the Foodbank site. We are so thrilled to have her on the team and especially as a welcoming face for the many women and girls coming into the workshop.

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Fresh & Chilled Food

We have been providing fresh vegetables, bread and fruit from the surplus from supermarkets over the last 9 years. We have increased our intake of fresh goods from local supermarkets and purchased fruit and vegetables so that we are able to send out a fresh box with each of our non-perishable food parcels. These boxes include, fruit, veg, eggs and chilled items that we may have available. We increased our capability to handle this by purchasing a fridge trailer and three fridges for our kitchen. We currently take fresh food from several Co-ops across North West Bristol, a Tesco express, Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl, Lidl Distribution, Hovis, Warburtons, M&S, Fareshare and Bookers. This is arranged through Neighbourly, Food Diverse and FareShare Go.

We also get chilled items from Bookers and Fareshare.

We have worked hard to make sure this is all handled carefully, and strict records maintained. All our staff handling this food have been trained in ‘Food Safety in Retail’ or have a level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate.

With this capability we are also able to take one off donations from restaurants, shops and Fareshare if there is surplus.

Listening Café

The Foodbank and St. Andrew’s Church partnered to set up a listening café which opens on Tuesday mornings at St. Andrew’s Church. This is followed by a community lunch. This was in response to the need seen at the Foodbank outlet on a Monday morning and the real sense of loneliness in our local community.

The Foodbank continues to support the café and the lunch by providing tea and coffee supplies, cakes, biscuits, bread and vegetables for making the soup lunch.

Since it opened it has been extremely busy, and well received, offering a safe place for guest to chat and to be pampered with delicious cakes and drinks. It is working well to have this café as a place that we can invite Foodbank clients to, who have need of more pastoral and listening support.

Bristol North West Foodbank Analysis of Performance

The Foodbank has seen an increase in usage this year of 21% compared to the 2019-2020 pre-pandemic year. The amount of people supplied with food this financial year is 8708, compared to 7197 in 20192020 the pre-pandemic year.

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These figures can be broken down as follows:

Crisis type resulting in use of the Foodbank

Reasons for referral No. of vouchers fulfilled Adults Adults Children Children Total
(%) (%)
Benefit Changes 127 197 55.65% 157 44.35% 354
Benefit Delays 129 198 57.89% 144 42.11% 342
Child Holiday Meals 12 17 34.69% 32 65.31% 49
Debt 134 214 58.79% 150 41.21% 364
Delayed Wages 39 70 50.72% 68 49.28% 138
Domestic Violence 58 72 45% 88 55% 160
Homeless 56 67 62.04% 41 37.96% 108
Low Income 1692 2699 56.93% 2042 43.07% 4741
No recourse to public funds 250 492 46.37% 569 53.63% 1061
Other 411 595 58.97% 414 41.03% 1009
Sickness 180 265 69.37% 117 30.63% 382

Foodbanks across the country have been talking to the Trussell Trust about the ‘Low income’ category on the crisis type data, as it is an option that many referrers choose, but we feel it is not giving an accurate reason for referral. This will be changing for the 2023-2024 financial year.

Reasons why some people have needed more than 3 vouchers in 6 months

Reason for needing more than 3 vouchers in the last 6 months No. of vouchers fulfilled Adults Children Total
Sanction 5 5 (50%) 5 (50%) 10
Change to different benefit 7 9 (36%) 16 (64%) 25
Reduction of benefit value 30 41 (62.12%) 25 (37.88%) 66
New claim not yet awarded 16 23 (41.82%) 32 (58.18%) 55
Awaiting first payment 8 10 (47.62%) 11 (52.38%) 21
Interrupted payments 21 30 (52.63%) 27 (47.37%) 57
Earning, no benefits 9 12 (48%) 13 (52%) 25
Earnings and benefits 12 22 (51.16%) 21 (48.84%) 43
Benefits, not earning 171 278
(55.94%)		 219
(44.06%)		 497
At start of employment 4 6 (66.67%) 3 (33.33%) 9
At end of employment 8 16 (61.54%) 10 (38.46%) 26
Mortgage/rent 4 6 (35.29%) 11 (64.71%) 17
Council tax 1 2 (66.67%) 1 (33.33%) 3
Utility bills 26 45 (45.92%) 53 (54.08%) 98
Funeral costs 3 6 (54.55%) 5 (45.45%) 11

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Retailer (e.g. hire purchase) 3 6 (46.15%) 7 (53.85%) 13
Other 546 924 (52%) 853 (48%) 1777
Rough sleeping 1 1 (100%) 0 1
Shelter, refuge or hostel 1 1 (100%) 0 1
“Sofasurfing” 5 7 (70%) 3 (30%) 10
Temp accom (e.g. B&B) 2 4 (40%) 6 (60%) 10
Long term (12+ months) 15 23 (88.46%) 3 (11.54%) 26
Short term (less) 8 12 (80%) 3 (20%) 15
Totals 906 1489 1327 2816

Ethnic Groups using the Foodbank

The Bristol North West Foodbank is available for anyone in the community in need, regardless of their race, faith, creed or family background. We no longer collect this data or have access to it following the introduction of GDPR.

Age Groups using the Foodbank

Age Group Number of people
Adults (17 - 24 yrs) 825
Adults (25 - 64 yrs) 3758
Adults (Over 65 yrs) 167
Adults (unknown age) 135
Children (0 - 4 yrs) 1282
Children (12 - 16 yrs) 891
Children (5 - 11 yrs) 1590
Children (unknown age) 59

Sizes of Families using the Foodbank

Size of No. vouchers fulfilled No. vouchers fulfilled (%)
family
Couple 326 10.56%
Family 654 21.18%
Other 332 10.75%
Single 1099 35.59%
Single Parent 677 21.92%

Food donated this year

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We struggled for food donations in the first four months of 2023, which has put huge pressure on our food reserves. We had four containers full of food plus our warehouse at the beginning of the year, we now have 1 ½ containers of food reserves. One of these containers is just cereal.

We are grateful to the Salvation Army for connecting us with weekly donations from the Lidl Distribution Centre in Avonmouth, which has begun to help us with the shortfall in donations.

The food we gave out to our clients was donated to us by 285 named donors and many anonymous donors, which includes individuals, local businesses, schools, local scout and book groups and many churches. Local churches and individuals make up the bulk of our ongoing donors who provide the majority of our food. We are most grateful for their continued faithful support. Our supporters gave us a whopping 150781.65kg food to give to clients over the financial year.

We now have fourteen permanent collection points at supermarkets. These are at Sainsbury’s Clifton Down, Sainsbury’s Whiteladies Road and Waitrose in Portishead and Clifton Triangle, Lidl in Lawrence Weston and Co-op stores in Westbury on Trym, Henbury, Crow Lane, Clifton Village, Henleaze, Westbury-on-Trym and Avonmouth and Tesco Nailsea where the public can make their donations.

We also have 16 churches with permanent collection points that are also open to the public. Our van makes weekly pick-ups at these churches and the supermarkets.

We continue to receive food from Marks and Spencers at Cribbs Causeway, through a scheme called ‘Foodroute’ managed by Neighbourly. We pick up close dated fresh vegetables, fruit, bread and other miscellaneous items three times a week which we make available to our clients to help themselves on top of their food parcel. This accounted for 6865kg food this year

We have added the collection of fresh, close dated food from Lidl in Lawrence Weston, Lidl Distribution, Bookers, Waitrose Clifton Triangle and Aldi in Henbury & Portishead (through Foodroute)We also collect food from the customers through the customer collection points at these stores. Co-ops across North West Bristol also provide us with close dated fresh food.

We are extremely to our neighbourhood champions who regularly collect food from their neighbours on their streets and areas. We particularly appreciate the fast responses to our food gaps that we list on Facebook.

Over the summer holidays we gave out around 150 treat boxes to low income families to give them a boost over the holidays. These included drinks, sweets, crisps, baking kits, colouring books and pens, indoor and outdoor games, dvds etc. These were extremely well received.

We were pleased to be able to give out over 300+ Christmas hamper bags during December in addition to our regular food parcels. These provided items such as Christmas Puddings, Tinned Ham, Stuffing and other Christmas treats. We were also able to give out new toys to families with children that we collected from our Amazon weekly donations. We are thankful to the company teams and

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our regular volunteer teams for wrapping the Christmas presents, packing the hampers and helping us distribute them on our two hamper days.

We collected food this year from 64 local schools, nurseries, scout and brownie groups and churches from their harvest festivals.

Donor type statistics:

Stock in type Stock in Stock in (% of total)
(kg)
Donations from donors - Charities 7026.34 4.66%
Donations from donors - Churches 8655.66 5.74%
Donations from donors - Community groups 7636.33 5.06%
Donations from donors - Corporates 39118.94 25.94%
Donations from donors - Educations 4313.97 2.86%
Donations from donors - Individual(s) 14166.43 9.4%
Donations from donors - Other bulk food distributors 1255.75 0.83%
Donations from donors - Supermarkets 61111.15 40.53%
Purchased 3452.75 2.29%
Returns from food bank centre 1664.63 1.1%
Stock Adjust 50.6 0.03%
Stock in from other food bank: North Bristol & South Glos Foodbank 2329.1 1.54%
Totals 150781.65 100%

Total: 150781.65kg donated this financial year.

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Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements

The charity trustees are responsible for preparing a trustees’ annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the charity trustees to prepare financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and the group and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable group for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006, and that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and the group and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees are responsible for preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2017.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2016 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

On behalf of the Board:

Andy Murray (Dec 7, 2023, 4:33pm)

Signed:

07 Dec 2023 Date

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Bristol North West Foodbank Report l April 2022 to 31 March 2023 Independent Examinerfs Report I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of Bristol North West Foodbank forthe year ended 31" March 2023. Responslbilhy and basis of report As the charTtVs trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance wrth the requirements of the Charities Art 20111.the Act'l. Havin8 5ati5fied myself that the accounts of Bristol North West Foodbank are not required to be audite(l under Part 16 of the 2CQ6 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charitvs accounts as carried out under sertion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed all the applicable Direction5 given by the Charity Commission under section 1451511bl of the Act. Independent examin•rfs ststement I have completed my examinatlon. I conflm) that no materlal matters have come to my attention In connectlon wlth the examination glving me cause to believe: l. Accountin8 records were not kept In accordance wlth sertlon 130 of the Charities Act; or 2. The accounts do not accord w￿h those records: or 3. The accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements conternin8 the form and content of accounts sel out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 21)08 other than any requirement that the accounts 8ive a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of my independent examinatlon. I have no Concerns and have come acros5 no other matters In connection with the examlnatlon to whlch attentlon should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Steven Baptiste ACPA Linden Accountant Limrted 5crapstore House 21 Sevier Street St Werb(Frghs Bristol B52 9LB Date: 05112123 22

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Including Income and Expenditure Account) YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

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Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2023 2022
(Restated)
Note £ £ £ £
INCOME
- -
Income from generated funds
Bristol Port Company 3 - 25,000 25,000 -
Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track 3 - 45,000 45,000 -
Headley Trust 3 - 15,000 15,000 -
B&Q Foundation 3 - 1,000 1,000 -
Quartet Community 3 - 1,950 1,950 -
Quartet Community - Debt Advice 3 - 10,000 10,000 -
Fuel Donations 3 - 49,221 49,221 -
Other income
Grants 4 26,231 - 26,231 243,458
Institution Donations 4 47,635 - 47,635 46,002
Donations - Individual, One-Off, Fundraising 4 146,421 - 146,421 145,386
Food Donated 4 229,370 - 229,370 235,763
Gift Aid Received 4 7,424 - 7,424 13,503
TOTAL INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS 457,081 147,171 604,252 684,112
EXPENDITURE
Expenditure on charitable activities 4 512,262 92,138 604,400 502,623
TOTAL EXPENDITURE 512,262 92,138 604,400 502,623
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) (55,181) 55,033 (148) 181,489
-
Balances brought forward 553,161 553,161 371,672
Gross Transfers Between Funds 10 (1,770) 1,770 - -
Balances carried forward 496,210 56,803 553,013 553,161
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The charity has no recognised gains or losses other than the results for the year as set out above.

All of the activities of the charity are classed as continuing.

The notes on pages 25 to 31 form part of these financial statements

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK

BALANCE SHEET

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

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2023 2022
Note £ £
(Restated)
FIXED ASSETS:
Tangible assets 6 203,598 223,353
CURRENT ASSETS:
Debtors 7 93,520 76,103
Cash at bank and in hand 386,916 376,379
480,436 452,482
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Creditors: falling due within one year 8 (131,021) (122,674)
Net current assets 349,415 329,808
NET ASSETS: 553,013 553,161
FUNDS
General funds 10 496,210 553,161
Designated funds 10 - -
Building funds 10 - -
Restricted funds 10 56,803 -
553,013 553,161
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07 Dec 2023 These financial statements were approved by the directors and authorised for issue on ……………………………… and are signed on their behalf by:

………………………………………………………. Andy Murray (Dec 7, 2023, 4:33pm) Chair of Trustees

Charity Registration Number: 1147727

The notes on pages 25 to 31 form part of these financial statements

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (FRS 102 SORP) issued in July 2014, and applicable UK Accounting Standards and the Charities Act 2011.

Funds structure

Unrestricted income funds comprise those funds which the trustees are free to use for any purpose in furtherance of the charitable objects. Unrestricted funds include designated funds where the trustees, at their discretion, have set aside resources for a specific purpose.

Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by the donor or the terms of a specific appeal.

Income

All income is recognised once the charity has entitlement to the resources, it is certain that the resources will be received and the monetary value of income can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Income from donations is included when these are receivable, except as follows:

Income from grants, where there are performance or service deliverables required by the terms of the grant, are accounted for as the charity earns the right to payment through its performance.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to the expenditure. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that agree all costs related to the category. Support costs have been allocated 100% towards the charitable activities of the charity.

Charitable activities

Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both the direct pay and non-pay costs and support costs relating to those activities.

Going concern

After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue its operations for the foreseeable future and therefore they have continued to adopt the going concern basis when preparing the financial statements.

Governance costs

Governance cost include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the charity, and include its independent examination fees and costs linked to the strategic management of the charity including trustee expenses.

Tangible fixed assets and depreciation

Depreciation has been provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value of each asset, over its expected useful life. The rates used are 25% straight line for Plant & Machinery and Office Equipment, 20% straight line for Motor Vehicles, and 10% straight line for Leasehold Improvements.

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

2 GRANTS RECEIVABLE

Bristol Port Company
Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track
Headley Trust
B&Q Foundation
Quartet Community
Quartet Community - Debt Advice
Fuel Donations
PRIOR YEAR
Bristol Port Company
Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track
Headley Trust
B&Q Foundation
Quartet Community
Quartet Community - Debt Advice
Fuel Donations		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Unrestricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Restricted
Funds
£
25,000
45,000
15,000
1,000
1,950
10,000
49,221
147,171
Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Total Funds
2023
£
25,000
45,000
15,000
1,000
1,950
10,000
49,221
147,171
Total Funds
2022
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

3 INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Grants
Institution Donations
Donations - Individual, One-Off, Fundraising
Food Donated
Gift Aid Received		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
26,231
47,635
146,421
229,370
7,424
430,850		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Total Funds
2023
£
26,231
47,635
146,421
229,370
7,424
430,850		 Total Funds
2022
£
(Restated)
243,458
46,002
145,386
235,763
13,503
440,654

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

4 DIRECT CHARITABLE EXPENDITURE

Charitable Activities
Food Distributed
Support Costs
Accounting & Bookkeeping
Advertising
Cleaning
Clothing Costs
Electricity & Gas
Equipment Purchase
Equipment Rental
Foodbank/Homebank Purchases
Foodbank Services
Franchise Fees
Leasehold Improvements Depreciation
Legal & Regulatory Fees
Mileage Claims
Motor Vehicle Depreciation
Motor Expenses
Office Equipment Depreciation
Payroll Expenses
Phone and Internet Charges
Plant and Machinery Depreciation
Postage
Premises Expenses
Printing Costs
Public Liability Insurance
Rent
Software Subscriptions
Stationery
Training
Volunteer Expenses
Governance Costs
Independent Examination Fee		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
213,677
3,327
1,331
104
658
15,674
-
2,621
3,690
1,630
360
19,272
4,222
334
5,969
6,549
4,327
192,768
1,255
6,106
4,155
3,984
2,637
8,385
2,459
3,433
816
828
990
511,562
Unrestricted
Funds
£
700
700		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
15,160
-
23,244
-
-
-
10,467
-
-
-
-
43,030
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
237
-
92,138
Restricted
Funds
£
-
-		 Total Funds
2023
£
213,677
3,327
1,331
104
658
15,674
15,160
2,621
26,934
1,630
360
19,272
14,689
334
5,969
6,549
4,327
235,799
1,255
6,106
4,155
3,984
2,637
8,385
2,459
3,433
816
1,065
990
603,700
Total Funds
2023
£
700
700		 Total Funds
2022
£
(Restated)
255,709
-
1,219
321
678
6,494
19,865
-
33,965
-
360
-
2,159
1,011
5,969
5,767
3,627
133,697
2,361
3,035
3,356
5,492
6,776
6,218
2,459
764
841
479
-
502,623
Total Funds
2022
£
(Restated)
-
-

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

5 CORPORATION TAX

The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within section 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or section 252 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects. No tax charges have arisen in the charity.

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TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Leasehold
Improvements
£
COST:
At 1 April 2022
192,719
Additions
-
At 31 March 2023
192,719
DEPRECIATION:
At 1 April 2022
-
Charge for the year
19,272
At 31 March 2023
19,272
NET BOOK VALUE:
At 31 March 2023
173,447
At 31 March 2022
192,719
(Restated)
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DEBTORS
Trade Debtors
Food Stocks
Gift Aid Due
Prepayments
8
CREDITORS: amounts falling due within one year
Trade Creditors
Accruals
PAYE/NIC Payable
Pensions Payable
Deferred Income		 Motor
Vehicles
£
29,845
-
29,845
14,751
5,969
20,720
9,125
15,094		 Office
Equipment
£
18,329
3,632
21,961
8,857
4,327
13,185
8,777
9,472		 Plant and
Machinery
£
16,497
12,287
28,784
10,428
6,106
16,534
12,250
6,069
2023
£
62
86,592
2,650
4,216
93,520
2023
£
12,639
5,635
4,121
1,228
107,398
131,021		 Totals
£
257,390
15,919
273,309
34,036
35,675
69,711
203,598
223,353
2022
£
(Restated)
1,196
70,899
2,650
1,357
76,103
2022
£
(Restated)
(65)
-
296
979
121,464
122,674

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

Deferred Income here relates to two grants which have been deferred to be released in line with depreciating the assets in question. These are as follows, complete with the balances as at 31st March 2023:

Foodbank Van (Temple Ecclesiastical Charity)
Space 4 Makers Workshop (Port of Bristol Community Fund)
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ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS
Unrestricted
Funds
£
Fixed Assets
203,598
Current Assets
480,436
Current Liabilities
(131,021)
553,013
10 ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE FUNDS
For the year ended 31 March 2023
Analysis of
Balance
Income
Fund movements
b/fwd
£
£
Unrestricted funds:
General funds
553,161
457,081
Designated funds
-
-
Building funds
-
-
553,161
457,081
Restricted funds:
Balance
Income
b/fwd
£
£
Bristol Port Company
-
25,000
Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track
-
45,000
Headley Trust
-
15,000
B&Q Foundation
-
1,000
Quartet Community
-
1,950
Quartet Community - Debt Advice
-
10,000
Fuel Donations
-
49,221
-
147,171
Total
553,161
604,252		 2,400
£
104,998
£
107,398
£
Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
Expenditure
£
(512,262)
-
-
(512,262)
Expenditure
£
(25,000)
(37,310)
(4,634)
(2,770)
(1,950)
-
(20,474)
(92,138)
(604,400)		 (2022: £4,200)
(2022: £116,664)
Total Funds
2023
£
203,598
480,436
(131,021)
553,013
Transfers
£
(1,770)
-
-
(1,770)
Transfers
£
-
-
-
1,770
-
-
-
1,770
-		 Total Funds
2022
£
(Restated)
223,353
452,482
(122,674)
553,161
Fund
c/fwd
£
496,210
-
-
496,210
Fund
c/fwd
£
-
7,690
10,366
-
-
10,000
28,747
56,803
553,013

Bristol Port Company

Funding to support the Foodbank's Workshop initiative.

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track

Funding for the provision of Advice Workers, particularly focused around debt advice.

Headley Trust

Funding to provide financial, debt, and welfare benefits and other services to families and individuals affected by the increase in the cost of living.

B&Q Foundation

Funding to support families with new carpets.

Quartet Community

Funding to provide advice on welfare benefits.

Quartet Community - Debt Advice

Funding to provide advice on debt.

Fuel Donations

Funding to provide fuel vouchers to support families and individuals during this period of high utilities cost.

1 ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE FUNDS

For the year ended 31 March 2022

Analysis of
Fund movements
Unrestricted funds:
General funds
Designated funds
Building funds		 Balance
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
Fund
b/fwd
c/fwd
£
£
£
£
£
371,672
684,112
(502,623)
-
553,161
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
371,672
684,112
(502,623)
-
553,161
Restricted funds:
Bristol Port Company
Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track
Headley Trust
B&Q Foundation
Quartet Community
Quartet Community - Debt Advice
Fuel Donations		 Balance
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
Fund
b/fwd
c/fwd
£
£
£
£
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Total 371,672
684,112
(502,623)
-
553,161

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

11 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Trustee E Murray is employed as Food Manager of Bristol North West Foodbank, which has been fully approved by the Charity Commission.

Personal donations were received from four trustees throughout the financial year - A Murray donated £360 (2022: £360), G Burley donated £360 (2022: £360), A Roberts donated £840 (2022: £840) and S Salisbury donated £300 (2022: £300); these donations total £1,860 (2022: £1,860).

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