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2024-03-31-accounts

Bristol North West Foodbank

(A charitable company limited by guarantee)

Trustees’ Annual Report

and

Unaudited Financial Statements

For the year ended 31 March 2024

Charity number: 1147727 Company number: 8089474

Bristol North West Foodbank Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Contents

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Reference and administrative information 2
Trustees’ Annual Report 3-22
Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements 23
Independent examiner’s report 24
Statement of Financial Activities 25
Balance Sheet 26
Notes to the Financial Statements 30-36

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Reference and Administrative Information

Charity name: Bristol North West Foodbank Charity registration number: 1147727 Company registration number: 80879474 Registered office: Social Justice Hub St. Andrew’s Church Avonmouth Road Avonmouth Bristol BS11 9EN

Board of Trustees/Directors:

Mr Jonathan Ball (Resigned 19[th] February 2024) Mr Graham Burley Treasurer Mr James Lovell (Appointed 1[st] July 2023) Rev Dr Andrew Murray Chair Mrs Emma Murray Foodbank Manager Ms Virginia O’Conor (Appointed 1[st] May 2023) Mr Robert Porter (Resigned 19[th] February 2024) Ms Keren Rice (Appointed 1[st] May 2023) Miss Ann Roberts Mrs Selina Salisbury

Independent examiner:

Bank:

Solicitors:

Linden Accountants Ltd Scrapstore House St Werburghs Bristol BS2 9LB 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 2024

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, specifically (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 and Severn Beach. The Bristol North West Foodbank is a part of the Trussell Trust network of 450+ 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 other outlets in Hotwells, Henbury and Severn Beach. Future outlets may open in the future as the Foodbank expands.

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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 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 six vouchers (eighteen 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 six 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 five 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 five 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

The ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ has continued to be a source of stress for our local communities as we saw many struggling through the winter without adequate funds to access heating or food because of the rising prices. More than before we are finding that many people in work are finding it impossible to make ends meet. Food prices not only have made it difficult for those we support it has also had a knock-on effect to the amount for food that is being donated to the Foodbank. We are thankful to our wonderful donors who have helped us make it through the year so that we have not have to turn anyone away who had a genuine need.

The ’Cost of living’ payments from the government provided temporary respite for those on benefits, which was good to see. However, there is no plan for this to continue, so we have been supporting the Trussell Trust’s & Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s ‘Essentials Guarantee Campaign’ that is asking the government to raise benefit payments, so that everyone has the necessary income to provide for the basic essentials. At present this falls short. You can find out more about this at: www.trusselltrust.org/getinvolved/campaigns/guarantee-our-essentials/

We are still seeing the urgent need 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. Mortgage increases are putting families under intense stress which is causing many to find they can’t afford to feed their families by the end of the month.

Amidst this difficult climate, the Foodbank staff and volunteers continue to provide compassionate support and work so hard. As a trustee board we are extremely grateful for their faithfulness and love to those we serve.

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, Emmaus Church Centre in Severn Beach 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, Jules, Amy and Mat have been fully booked with appointments. Our Debt Advisor, Mandy from North Bristol Advice Centre (NBAC) is also working for us two days a week. 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 three cookery courses and seeing the growth of our Clothesbank and Hombank. All of these have been successful

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in bringing together many from our local community in need of support. Please see further information about these later in this report. We’ve also secured a license for use of the old Avonmouth Toilet block for storage. This is going to make a huge difference to our need for extra Homebank space and Food storage during harvest.

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. He surprises us daily with answers to prayers. Without him we could not continue do this work.

Partner agencies

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, which is GDPR compliant. Our agencies find this helpful as they are able to do a referral straight from their phone if they are out of the office on site with a client.

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 120 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 12 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 10 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:

Bristol University staff - Silent Auction prep LIDL Senior Leadership Team - stock ISG x3 - toilet block construction works, Christmas prep & Ukraine Hub set-up Rapid Relief Team - Ukraine Hub catering

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Ashfords LLP x3 - Auction prep, Christmas Hamper packing and stock Charles River x2 - Silent Auction/Cream Tea set-up and Christmas Hamper packing TSB x3- stock and painting XPO Logistics - Clothes Bank sort-out NMI - stock Co-op CDC - Treat box packing Airbus x2 - stock & Hamper day Nisbetts - Hamper prep Ambition Lawrence Weston - Hamper Day Ghyston - Hamper Day Octopus Energy - Christmas stock Amazon DBS2 - stock Bristol Grammar School staff team - stock Accolade Wines - Christmas Ukraine Hub set-up

We've also run 2 sessions for Kinsgweston School 6th form (Special Educational Needs)

Clifton College send a group of 6 students with a teacher every Monday afternoon during term time as part of their ‘Clifton in the Community’ scheme to help in our warehouse.

Bristol Grammer School come in once a term with young people from their after school club to help in the warehouse.

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

Progress on the Avonmouth Toilet Block: We are hugely thankful to a ISG who organised a group of local companies to come for the day to start clearing out the old toilet block ready for storage. It was a hugely efficient day where they managed to clear out the building of the old toilets and cubicles. They also managed to jet wash it down and repair the electrics. We are looking forward to them returning to complete the work once we have signed a long term lease on the building.

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 Amy and Mat who work alongside our clients to support them with benefit claims, grant applications, referrals to debt help etc. Mandy our Debt advisor from North Bristol Debt Centre is also available for two days of the weeks and takes referrals from our Advice workers for this service.

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.

We have also set up links with external agencies who have provided support workers who are present in our Foodbank outlets. These are from Shelter, Salvation Army Employment Support, Seetec Plus employment

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support and NHS Talking therapies. This has enabled us to offer a wider range of specialist support directly at the point of food collection for our clients.

A volunteer John is also providing a Bookbank service at our Hotwells outlet, which is proving very popular.

Our booked Advice appointments are predominantly on the phone, but there is an option to meet face to face if requested. The Advice workers, however, are also available at 4 of our outlets to speak to clients as they come in to collect food and then book them in for appointments if necessary. 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 410 cases over the year. Please see the statistics of financial gains for Foodbank clients over the last year below.

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Wes1 Number 10 Amoun The numberof new people accessin8 advice and support using this service. The total number of people accessin8 advice and support using this service. The numberof cases/matters relatin8 to each different area of advice. io Ca•• D•t•ll• Cll•nt D•lall• Ca•• D•tal Cwnt NumI￿r rf Count Numb•r Cll•nt• ConsumerlGeneral Contract Debt 73 74 Domesti¢ Wiolence Educats'on Employment Famlly Genoral Housing Miscellaneous 283 13 17 285 13 17 VodaphoM Slm Welfare Beneffts 10 10 The number of people who achieved or are expected to achieve financial 8ains. 74 Total financial 8ains for people using the service (£). 27.719.36 Number of people whose debt was managed. Total amount of debt managed for people using the service l£}. 1,186.89 Number of people whose debt was written off. Total amount of debt written off for people using the servi￿. (£) 0.105.97 The number of people estimated to no lon8er need to use the food bank for food, after accessing advice and support.

Case Study

We recently assisted a client at Bristol North West Foodbank who urgently sought help with basic necessities. Upon delving into the situation, we discovered that the individual was grappling with a terminal brain tumour, adding a heightened level of urgency to his predicament. Apart from facing a significant water debt of £2321.04 with Wessex Water, his living conditions were dire, lacking even basic amenities such as flooring and household items in his residence.

Understanding the urgency and severity of his circumstances, we swiftly intervened on multiple fronts. Firstly, we applied for Water Restart with Wessex Water, aiming to alleviate the substantial water debt burden, which has been constantly on the mind of Katie and Martin. Simultaneously, we secured £400 in funding from Headley Trust to purchase essential carpets for his home and had it installed as soon as it was possible. The timing was crucial, as the impending cold weather made this provision even more vital for his well-being. Additionally, recognising the client's financial constraints, we collaborated with CSE to secure ongoing support for his utility needs in form of some shopping vouchers to offset the cost of energy, ensuring access to electricity and gas during this challenging time.

The client and his partner express heartfelt gratitude for the support provided during this challenging period. They acknowledge that the assistance received from Bristol North West Foodbank, Wessex Water, Headley Trust, and CSE has significantly improved their living conditions. The provision of essential items, such as carpets for their residence, not only enhanced the physical comfort of their home but also contributed to a positive shift in their overall well-being, also contributing to an improved quality of life as Martin navigates through the difficulties of his terminal illness.

In their own words, the clients emphasize the impact of the collaborative effort, noting that the timely intervention with the water debt, carpet purchase, and ongoing utility support has alleviated the immediate

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stressors they were facing. The couple now feels a sense of relief and security, particularly as winter approaches, appreciating the warmth and comfort provided by their improved living conditions. This case stands as a testament to the positive outcomes that can arise through collaborative support and compassionate intervention during times of need.

North Bristol Advice Centre Debt Advice NBAC sessions

The NBAC debt advice outreach sessions at the food bank started Monday 5 September 2022. We are seeing the benefits of having a debt advisor dedicated to our Foodbank clients. Although, we still find there is sometimes a reluctance to engage on some level which is frustrating at times.

The figures for this year April 2023-March 2024 are encouraging and we are thankful for the difference that this service is bringing to our provision of support.

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The number of new people 121
accessing advice and support
using this service.
The total number of people 142
accessing advice and support
using this service.
The number of cases/matters 116
relating to each different area
of advice.
The number of people who 11
achieved or are expected to
achieve financial gains.
Total financial gains for people £69,133,28
using the service (£).
Number of people whose debt 44
was managed.
Total amount of debt managed £284470.37
for people using the service
(£).
Number of people whose debt 9
was written off.
Total amount of debt written £143161.11
off for people using the
service. (£)
The number of people 19
estimated to no longer need to
use the food bank for food,
after accessing advice and
support.
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The following case studies give a snapshot of those we are helping:

Case Study 1:

Client was a single lady living alone with her 3 children aged 24, 18, and 9 years, in a 3 bedroom council property. She was unemployed and in receipt of full benefits. Her eldest son was working full time and had ADHD. He refused to contribute to the household costs. Her 18 year old son had finished education and was not working or claiming benefits and her 9 year old daughter was being assessed for autism. Client suffered with depression and anxiety, and had been in and out of work since 2016 when she and her husband had divorced. She had struggled financially since then. She had 2 County Court Judgements in her name and a non-priority debt and Council Tax arrears being collected by bailiffs.

Client first presented to us, in December 2022, seeking our advice regarding Rent and Council Tax arrears, that totalled £4361 and non-priority debts that totalled £19,686. She had a possession order on her property that she was behind on, so her tenancy was at risk.

We completed a financial statement with the client, and after seeing her bank statements, it became clear she had a gambling habit. According to the statements she was spending around £10,000 per quarter and also winning roughly the same amount. There were around 20 different transactions every day. We contacted her and explained that we could not help/advise her unless she gave up gambling. She agreed to comply and we referred her to Gam Care for advice and support for her habit. She also spoke to her eldest son and he agreed to pay the non-dependant rent charges (bedroom taxes) that were taken away from the client’s benefits. We also advised the client to apply for PIP for herself and DLA for her daughter when she was diagnosed with autism. This helped maximise her income.

We contacted Bristol City Rent Management and Council Tax, to negotiate with and explain the client’s situation. They agreed to hold off any further enforcement while the client sought help. The client told us that she had stopped gambling and then after speaking to Gam Care, started an 8 week counselling course which she completed successfully. Once we were convinced that the client had managed to cease gambling, we sent for more credit reports and requested new bank statements from the client. The Bank statements and the Credit Reports all showed that the gambling had ended.

We agreed to help her apply for a DRO Application which was approved on 09/02/2024, clearing all her debts that totalled £24,078.42. This has given her a completely fresh start with no debt, no gambling habit, better off financially and no need to use the Food Bank.

Case Study 2 :

The client had sought my advice several times over the last few years to apply for a Debt Relief Order, to clear her debts. The appointments were always conducted over the phone as the client could not manage to come to the Advice Centre office.

She always disengaged with me and could never provide the evidence that was required to complete the DRO Application. The cases were always closed because of lack of contact or information from her. She had had a brain injury some years ago, which had left her with brain damage and her memory was very poor. She had poor literacy skills and had been the victim of domestic violence. She suffered with the following health issues: depression, anxiety, rheumatoid arthritis, mobility problems and incontinence. Her mental health was deteriorating because several creditors were being quite aggressive towards her in their debt collection activity.

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She was a challenging client as quite often when I contacted her by phone she could not remember who I was or what we were doing.

This time she had advice through the Food Bank, at a face to face appointment with me and wanted to still apply for a DRO.

She had several non -priority debts that consisted of a benefits overpayment being deducted from her Universal Credit, a credit card and several catalogues. The total amount of debt was £ 3,624.44.

I started the DRO Application process and the client paid the £90 fee in instalments. She managed to provide me with all information needed, bringing any paper work to the Food Bank for me.

She managed to pay the full fee and the DRO was submitted and approved. She was very happy that at last her application had succeeded and she would be debt free.

Home Delivery Service

We continue to offer home delivery to the elderly, sick and housebound on a Wednesday and Friday morning and will occasionally do emergency deliveries if we are able.

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 encourage those who are able to collect from our Foodbank outlets, so that they can benefit from the further support available there.

Publicity and Raising Awareness

Emma the Foodbank Manager visited groups and churches to speak about the Foodbank. This included Clifton Circle, Stoke Bishop Ladies Choir performance, Westbury Baptist seniors, WI Easter Compton & St. Mary’s Leigh Woods Lent Lunch as well as a number of Harvest assemblies and talks listed below.

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

Harvest

We were so happy to be able to go back into 15 schools this autumn. We did assemblies at the following schools:

Clifton College Clifton Pre-prep Westbury Park Primary Shirehampton Primary School Avonmouth C0fE Primary Nova Primary Long Cross Primary Brentry Primary St. Peter’s Church Emmaus Church St. Andrew’s Church Branch Church Bankleaze Primary St. Mary’s Stoke Bishop

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Elmlea Junior School Elmlea Infants School

We are thankful to Em, Emma, Ann, Hazel and Rachel who took these assemblies and talks.

In total, 48 Churches and Schools collected harvest donations for us.

Staffing & Training

We have had some staff changes this year. We said goodbye to Jules (Advice Worker) & Caragh (Technician). We welcomed Mat & Amy, our new advice workers, and Em, our warehouse coordinator.

Freddie, our Workshop Technician, attended First Aid Training.

The staff team have continued with their training this year including: Equality, Inclusion and Diversity Training Food safety in Retail level 2 (Emma, Hazel, Em) Safeguarding lead training (Emma) Fuelbank training Manual Handling Suicide Awareness Fire Marshall training

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

Our Advice workers have attended the following training:

31[st] Oct – fuel heat fund training 13[th] November - loan shark training. 5[th] & 12 Dec - CPAG intro to benefits training.

22[nd] Feb - Partner workshop Wessex Water

19[th] March – CPAG managed migration 25[th] March – suicide awareness training Benefits for EEA Nationals Equality, Inclusion & Diversity training

Eat Well Spend Less

We were delighted to run Eat Well Spend Less courses this year in Avonmouth on a Tuesday morning. Around 11 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.

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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.”

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. Judith has also run a training day for new members of the team and a for a course leader, Jenny, who will be leading the courses at St. Peter’s Lawrence Weston in the next financial year.

Homebank

The Homebank has now been running for just over five 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, 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.

Karolina works on the administration of the Homebank. We are also extremely grateful to the volunteers who pack, sort, load and drive orders to clients across Bristol. We are so pleased to see this volunteer growing to enable us to cater for the growing numbers. The Homebank is 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 508 orders which have helped 1068 people. This is an increase of 20% on orders and a 26% increase in the amount of people we’ve managed to help from the previous year.

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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.

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.

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Mark Burgoine and Neil Sutor are our Workshop Tutors. Freddie is our Technician. Nathan has joined this year as Senior Technician and has brought a wealth of woodworking skills and creativity to the team.

The workshop has had around 200 adults and children through the workshop during this financial year.

Case study:

Ann, 61, has been coming along to one of our adult sessions. She says, “I was nervous at the beginning but realised I didn’t need to be concerned. I suffer with anxiety and nerves which I made them aware of. I don’t think this made a difference. They treated us all with the same respect and care. I made a bandsaw box which when I initially chose it, I imagined it would be very difficult, but with their training and guidance it’s given me skills I never thought I’d have learnt. The team are amazing.

It's given me a confidence boost and distracted me from my problems. A welcome relief! It’s made such a difference in my life. I’ll be sad when I finish.” (Please see Photo of Ann below)

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Fresh & Chilled Food

We have been providing fresh vegetables, bread and fruit from the surplus from supermarkets over the last 10 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.

Supporters

We are so grateful and reliant on a large pool of supporters who raise funds for us and run food collections. Here is a list of a few who have contributed this year to give you a flavour:

Stoke Bishop Ladies choir concert Easton Jamia Masjid Mosque – donated Ramadan boxes for 2023 Royal Edward Lodge financial donation Clifton High School who donate 3x year City Voices Bristol fundraising concerts Cabot Choir fundraising concerts John Lewis – donation of kettles and toasters to our Homebank Alan Coward - 2 van loads of food Plimsoll productions gave us furniture and items off their sets for our Homebank Alligra Charitable foundations - £500 Dr Fox - £2,000

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Coop CDC - £367.44

Morrisons Giving Tree donation from their customers

Bristol North West Foodbank Analysis of Performance

The Foodbank has seen an increase in usage this year of 11% compared to the 2019-2020 pre-pandemic year. The amount of people supplied with food this financial year is 7975, compared to 7197 in 2019-2020 the prepandemic year.

Please note the classifications for this data changed from the 4[th] April 2023 on the Trussell Trust database. Therefore this report runs from 4[th] April 2023-4[th] April 2024 to give a full year of data. This will mean there is a slight difference in the 7975 total given for the financial year period.

Crisis type resulting in use of the Foodbank

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Category Reasons for referral No. of vouchers fulfilled Adults Children Total
Financial - earnings related Change in work hours 86 152 130 282
Financial - earnings related Unemployment following permanent work 119 228 120 348
Financial - earnings related Unemployment following temporary work 45 75 64 139
Financial - earnings related Delay in or awaiting other income 180 290 180 470
Financial - benefits related Benefit delay 240 389 248 637
Financial - benefits related Benefit deduction due to overpayment or benefit advance 21 27 18 45
Financial - benefits related Benefit reduction due to change in eligibility 64 104 64 168
Financial - benefits related Benefit reduction due to sanction 33 48 28 76
Financial - benefits related Awaiting first benefit payment for less than a month 39 64 28 92
Financial - benefits related Awaiting first benefit payment for more than a month 25 34 16 50
Financial - debts, costs and expenses Priority debt 465 833 617 1450
Financial - debts, costs and expenses Non-priority debt 189 364 321 685
Financial - debts, costs and expenses Cost of dependents has increased 179 340 405 745
Financial - debts, costs and expenses Rising costs of essentials 765 1242 861 2103
Financial - debts, costs and expenses Other unexpected expense 238 367 269 636
Personal circumstances Insecurely housed 170 243 127 370
Personal circumstances No access to financial support due to immigration status 63 123 116 239
Personal circumstances Loss of support from friends or family 121 188 122 310
Personal circumstances Change in relationship status 54 70 99 169
Personal circumstances Domestic abuse 98 133 132 265
Personal circumstances Change in dependents 62 129 133 262
Health New physical or mental health condition 87 157 81 238
Health Ongoing impact of physical or mental health condition 582 924 544 1468
No answer None applicable 78 126 79 205
No answer Declined to answer 24 41 10 51
No answer Unable to ask 818 1157 796 1953
Health Change in existing physical or mental health condition 27 49 28 77
Vouchers issued before 4th April 2023 Reason for referral not in this format 21 28 21 49
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Vouchers fulfilled by source of income

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Source of Income No. of vouchers fulfilled Adults Children Total
Earning, no benefits 110 179 122 301
Earning and benefits 236 455 413 868
Benefits, not earning 1570 2527 1710 4237
Income but no or insufficient access to it 43 66 47 113
No income 173 253 135 388
Declined to answer 26 40 6 46
Unable to ask 803 1174 879 2053
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Reason for needing more than 3 vouchers in six months

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Reason for needing more than 3 vouchers in the last 6 months No. of vouchers fulfilled Adults Children Total
Awaiting first benefit payment 18 25 20 45
Benefit delay or sanction 45 74 59 133
Debt 61 99 61 160
Domestic abuse 22 35 30 65
Drug or alcohol dependency 9 13 6 19
Homelessness 25 30 10 40
Long term health condition 79 136 75 211
Long term unemployment 36 72 69 141
No access to financial support due to immigration status 44 95 104 199
Other - low income 304 461 333 794
Other 72 122 101 223
Totals 715 1162 868 2030
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Age Groups using the Foodbank

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Age Group Number of people
Adults (17 - 24 yrs) 864
Adults (25 - 34 yrs) 1082
Adults (35 - 44 yrs) 1029
Adults (45 - 54 yrs) 758
Adults (55 - 64 yrs) 487
Adults (65 - 74 yrs) 139
Adults (75+ yrs) 38
Adults (not specified) 325
Children (0 - 4 yrs) 905
Children (12 - 16 yrs) 892
Children (5 - 11 yrs) 1377
Children (not specified) 159
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Vouchers fulfilled by household structure

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The household structure No. of vouchers fulfilled No. of vouchers fulfilled %
Single adult household (with or without dependents)
Single adult with no children 1077 36.12%
Single adult with 1 or 2 children (0 - 16 years old) 497 16.67%
Single adult with 3 or more children (0 - 16 years old) 183 6.14%
Sub-total 1757 58.92%
One couple household (with or without dependents)
One couple household with no children (0 - 16 years old) 128 4.29%
One couple household with 1 or 2 children (0 - 16 years old) 183 6.14%
One couple household with 3 or more children (0 - 16 years old) 177 5.94%
Sub-total 488 16.36%
Couple and additional adult(s)
Couple and additional adult(s) with no children (0 - 16 years old) 37 1.24%
Couple and additional adult(s) with 1 or 2 children (0 - 16 years old) 61 2.05%
Couple and additional adult(s) with 3 or more children (0 - 16 years old) 52 1.74%
Sub-total 150 5.03%
Multi-adult household
Multi-adult household with no children 268 8.99%
Multi-adult household with 1 or 2 children (0 - 16 years old) 224 7.51%
Multi-adult household with 3 or more children (0 - 16 years old) 95 3.19%
Sub-total 587 19.68%
Total 2982 100%
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Food donated this year

We have continued to struggle for food donations during the year, which has put huge pressure on our food reserves. We now carry very little in reserve in our containers. We had 230658kg donated and 230280kg was given out.

The food we gave out to our clients was donated to us by 201 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.

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 Coop 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.

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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 10287kg food this year

We also collect 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 grateful 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 146 treat boxes to low income families to give them a boost over the holidays. These included drinks, sweets, crisps, baking kits, board games, small toys, 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 200 Christmas hampers at our special hamper days as well as toys for children and adults. We also gave out approximately 200 Christmas 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 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:

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Stock in type Stock in (kg) Stock in (% of total)
Donations from donors - Charities 5818.66 2.52%
Donations from donors - Churches 7904.1 3.43%
Donations from donors - Community groups 2421.82 1.05%
Donations from donors - Corporates 137850.58 59.76%
Donations from donors - Educations 5102.24 2.21%
Donations from donors - Individual(s) 7333.71 3.18%
Donations from donors - Other bulk food distributors 1106.75 0.48%
Donations from donors - Supermarkets 59667.3 25.87%
Purchased 1948.0 0.84%
Returns from food bank centre 1429.68 0.62%
Stock Adjust 2.2 0.0%
Stock in from other food bank: SE Bristol Foodbank 73.0 0.03%
Totals 230658.04 100%
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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:

● select suitable accoun�ng policies and then apply them consistently;

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:

………………………………………… Director / Trustee

Date………………………..

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Bristol North West Foodbank Report l April 2023 to 31 March 2024 Independent Examinerfs Report I report to the charily trustees on my examination of the accounts of Bristol North West Foodbank for the year ended 31. March 2024. Responsiblllty and basls of report As the charivs irustees. you are responstble for the preparation of the attounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111.the Act'l. Having satisfied myself that the accounts of Bristol North West Foodbank ère not required to be audited under Part 16 01 the 2CIJ6 A¢1 and are eligible for independent examination. I rewrt in respeci of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed all applicable Directions given by t Charity Commission under section 14515llb) of the Act. Independent exarnlnerfs slatsment I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in conneciion WFth the exarnination giving me cause to belIe￿- l. Accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act: or 2. The accounts do not accord with those records.. or 3. The accounts do not cornp￿ with the applicable requirements (onceming the ft>rrn and content of accounts set oul in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts 8nie a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part ol my independent examination. I have no concern5 and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper urKlerstandin8 of the account5 to be reached. Steven Baptiste ACPA Linden Accovntanl Limited Scfapstore House 215evier Street St Werburghs 8ristol 8S2 9L8 Date= 0811012024

Bristol North West Foodbank

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Including Income and Expenditure Account)

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

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Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2024 2023
Note £ £ £ £
INCOME
Income from generated funds 2 27,832 83,250 111,082 147,171
Other income 3 471,784 - 471,784 457,081
TOTAL INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS 499,616 83,250 582,866 604,252
EXPENDITURE
Expenditure on charitable activities 5 601,598 104,314 705,912 604,400
TOTAL EXPENDITURE 601,598 104,314 705,912 604,400
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) (101,982) (21,064) (123,045) (148)
Balances brought forward 496,210 56,803 553,013 553,161
Gross transfers between funds 15 - - - -
Balances carried forward 394,228 35,739 429,968 553,013
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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 28 to 34 form part of these financial statements

Bristol North West Foodbank

BALANCE SHEET

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

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2024 2023
Note £ £ £
FIXED ASSETS:
Tangible assets 200,089 203,598
CURRENT ASSETS:
Debtors 73,469 93,520
Cash at bank and in hand 254,291 386,916
327,760 480,436
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Creditors: falling due within one year (97,881) (131,021)
Net current assets 229,879 349,415
NET ASSETS: 429,968 553,013
FUNDS
General funds 394,228 496,210
Restricted funds 35,739 56,803
429,968 553,013
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For the year ending 31st March 2024, the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. No members have required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006. The directors acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime.

These financial statements were approved by the directors and authorised for issue on ……………………………… and are signed on their behalf by:

………………………………………………………. Chair of Trustees

Charity Registration Number: 1147727

The notes on pages 28 to 34 form part of these financial statements

Bristol North West Foodbank

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

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2024 2023
£ £
Net cash inflow from operating activities (96,774) 26,456
Non-operational cash flows:
Investing activities
Payments for tangible fixed assets (35,851) (15,919)
Net cash (outflow)/inflow for the year (132,625) 10,537
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Cashflow restrictions

Charity law prohibits the use of net cash inflows on any endowed or other restricted fund to offset net cash outflows on any fund outside its own objects, except on special authority. In practice, this restriction has not had any effect on cash flows for the year.

The notes on pages 28 to 34 form part of these financial statements

Bristol North West Foodbank

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

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) effective from 1st January 2019, and applicable UK Accounting Standards, the Charities Act 2011 and the Companies Act 2006.

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.

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 and machinery and IT and office equipment; 20% straight line for motor vehicles; and 10% on leasehold improvements. Items of equipment are capitalised where the total price for purchasing the item is greater than £100.00.

Allocation of support and governance costs

Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Governance costs are the costs associated with the governance arrangement of the charity, including the costs of complying with constitutional and statutory requirements and any costs associated with the strategic management of the charity's activities. These costs have been allocated between cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities on the following basis:

2024 2023
Raising funds 30% 30%
Charitable activities 70% 70%

Bristol North West Foodbank

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

2 INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Grant Income
Bristol Port Company
Trussell Trust
Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track
Headley Trust
B&Q Foundation
Quartet Community
Quartet Community - Debt Advice
Fuel Donations
Other grants		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
27,832
27,832		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
51,750
-
30,000
-
-
1,500
-
-
83,250		 Total Funds
2024
£
-
51,750
-
30,000
-
-
1,500
-
27,832
111,082		 Total Funds
2023
£
25,000
-
45,000
15,000
1,000
1,950
10,000
49,221
26,231
173,402

3 INCOME FROM OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES

Institution donations
Donations - individual, one-off, fundraising
Food donated
Gift Aid received		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
61,158
149,290
238,608
22,728
471,784		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
-		 Total Funds
2024
£
61,158
149,290
238,608
22,728
471,784		 Total Funds
2023
£
47,365
146,421
229,370
7,424
430,580
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
Support and
Raising Charitable governance Total Funds
funds activities costs 2024
£ £ £ £
Food Distributed - 255,852 - 255,852
Accounting & Bookkeeping - - 5,748 5,748
Advertising - 145 145 290
Cleaning - - - -
Clothing Costs - - 379 379
Disallowable Penalties - - 132 132
Electricity & Gas - - 8,387 8,387
Equipment Purchase - - 11,156 11,156
Equipment Rental - - - -
Foodbank/Homebank Purchases - 23,987 - 23,987
Foodbank Services - 15,278 649 15,927
Franchise Fees - - 360 360
Leasehold Improvements Depreciation - - 22,699 22,699
Legal & Regulatory Fees - 52 7,526 7,578
Mileage Claims - - 281 281
Motor Vehicle Depreciation - - 5,969 5,969
Motor Expenses - - 7,269 7,269
Office Equipment Depreciation - - 4,190 4,190
Payroll Expenses - 62,771 232,845 295,616
Phone and Internet Charges - - 1,345 1,345
Plant and Machinery Depreciation - - 6,502 6,502
Postage - - 3,262 3,262
Premises Expenses - - 3,413 3,413
Printing Costs - - 5,202 5,202
Public Liability Insurance - 760 10,751 11,511

Bristol North West Foodbank

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

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5 TOTAL EXPENDITURE (Continued)
Rent - - 2,459 2,459
Software Subscriptions - 751 1,712 2,462
- -
Stationery 2,031 2,031
Training - 570 751 1,321
Volunteer Expenses - - 585 585
-
360,166 345,746 705,912
-
Allocation of support & governance costs 103,724 242,022 (345,746)
-
103,724 602,188 705,912
TOTAL EXPENDITURE - Previous period
Support and
Raising Charitable governance Total Funds
funds activities costs 2023
£ £ £ £
Food Distributed - 213,677 - 213,677
- -
Accounting & Bookkeeping 4,027 4,027
- -
Advertising 1,331 1,331
Cleaning - - 104 104
Clothing Costs - - 658 658
Disallowable Penalties - - -
- -
Electricity & Gas 15,674 15,674
- -
Equipment Purchase 15,160 15,160
- -
Equipment Rental 2,621 2,621
Foodbank/Homebank Purchases - 23,244 3,690 26,934
Foodbank Services - - 1,630 1,630
Franchise Fees - - 360 360
- -
Leasehold Improvements Depreciation 19,272 19,272
-
Legal & Regulatory Fees 10,467 4,222 14,689
Mileage Claims - - 334 334
- -
Motor Vehicle Depreciation 5,969 5,969
- -
Motor Expenses 6,549 6,549
- -
Office Equipment Depreciation 4,327 4,327
-
Payroll Expenses 43,030 192,768 235,799
- -
Phone and Internet Charges 1,255 1,255
- -
Plant and Machinery Depreciation 6,106 6,106
- -
Postage 4,155 4,155
- -
Premises Expenses 3,984 3,984
- -
Printing Costs 2,637 2,637
- -
Public Liability Insurance 8,385 8,385
Rent - - 2,459 2,459
- -
Software Subscriptions 3,433 3,433
Stationery - - 816 816
Training - 237 828 1,065
Volunteer Expenses - - 990 990
-
305,815 298,585 604,400
-
Allocation of support & governance costs 89,576 209,010 (298,585)
-
89,576 514,825 604,400
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Bristol North West Foodbank

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

This is stated following these charges:

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|||| |---|---|---| |2024|2023| |£|£| |Depreciation|39,360|35,675| |Trustees' remuneration|-|-| |-|-| |Trustees' expense reimbursement| |Fee for independent examination|700|700|

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In the current year, no expenses were reimbursed to the trustees (2023: £Nil).

7 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.

8 STAFF NUMBERS AND COSTS

Staff costs were as follows:

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|||| |---|---|---| |2024|2023| |£|£| |Salaries and wages|264,830|212,262| |Social security costs|21,528|17,373| |Pension contributions|9,257|6,163| |295,616|235,799| |The average number of employees (including senior management and leadership) during the year was:| |2024|2023| |Staff|16|15|

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No individual employee earned more than £60,000.00 during the current or prior period.

Key management personnel

The key management personnel of the charitable company comprise the Trustees and Foodbank Manager. The total employment benefits of the key management personnel were £35,475 (2023: £33,790).

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||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Leasehold|Motor|Office|Plant and| |Improvements|Vehicles|Equipment|Machinery|Totals| |£|£|£|£|£| |COST:| |At 1 April 2023|192,719|29,845|21,961|28,784|273,309| |Additions|34,267|-|-|1,584|35,851| |At 31 March 2024|226,986|29,845|21,961|30,368|309,160| |DEPRECIATION:| |At 1 April 2023|19,272|20,720|13,185|16,534|69,711| |Charge for the year|22,699|5,969|4,190|6,502|39,360| |At 31 March 2024|41,971|26,689|17,375|23,036|109,071| |NET BOOK VALUE:| |At 31 March 2024|185,015|3,156|4,586|7,332|200,089| |At 31 March 2023|173,447|9,125|8,776|12,250|203,598|

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Bristol North West Foodbank

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

10
DEBTORS
Trade Debtors
Food Stocks
Gift Aid Due
Prepayments
11
CREDITORS: amounts falling due within one year
Trade Creditors
Accruals
PAYE/NIC Payable
Pensions Payable
Deferred Income		 2024
£
-
69,349
2,650
1,470
73,469
2024
£
439
2,013
802
1,296
93,331
97,881		 2023
£
62
86,592
2,650
4,216
93,520
2023
£
12,639
5,635
4,121
1,228
107,398
131,021

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 at 31st March 2024:

Foodbank Van (Temple Ecclesiastical Charity)
Space 4 Makers Workshop (Port of Bristol Community Fund)		 -
£
(2023: £2,400)
93,331
£
(2023: £104,998)
93,331
£

12 RECONCILIATION OF NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS TO NET CASH INFLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

13
14		 Statement of Financial Activities: Net movement in funds
Depreciation
Increase in operational creditors: current liabilities
Decrease / (increase) in operational debtors
(Increase) / decrease in stock
Net cash (outflow) / inflow from operating activities
ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN CASH DURING THE YEAR
Cash at bank and in hand
Cash at bank and in hand
ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS
Fixed Assets
Current Assets
Current Liabilities		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-		 2024
£
254,291
2023
£
386,916
Designated
Funds
£
-
-
-
-		 2024
£
(123,045)
39,360
(33,140)
2,808
17,243
(96,774)
2023
£
386,916
2022
£
376,379
General
Funds
£
200,089
327,760
(97,881)
429,968		 2023
£
(148)
35,675
8,346
(1,724)
(15,693)
26,456
Change
£
(132,625)
Change
£
10,537
Total Funds
2024
£
200,089
327,760
(97,881)
429,968

Bristol North West Foodbank

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

14 ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS (Continued)

Prior period comparison
Fixed Assets
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
15
ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE FUNDS
For the year ended 31 March 2024
Analysis of
Fund movements
Restricted funds
Trussell Trust
Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track
Headley Trust
Quartet Community - Debt Advice
Fuel Donations
Total restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 Balance
b/fwd
£
7,690
-
10,366
10,000
28,747
56,803
496,210
496,210
553,013		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
Income
£
-
51,750
30,000
1,500
-
83,250
499,616
499,616
582,866		 Designated
Funds
£
-
-
-
-
Expenditure
£
(7,690)
(24,193)
(36,944)
(11,500)
(23,987)
(104,314)
(601,598)
(601,598)
(705,912)		 General
Funds
£
203,598
480,436
(131,021)
553,013
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Total Funds
2023
£
203,598
480,436
(131,021)
553,013
Fund
c/fwd
£
-
27,557
3,422
-
4,760
35,739
394,228
394,228
429,968

Trussell Trust

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

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.

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.

Bristol North West Foodbank

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024

16 ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE FUNDS

Prior period - For the year ended 31 March 2023

Analysis of
Fund movements
Restricted funds
Bristol Port Company
Trussell Trust - Financial Inclusion Fast Track
Headley Trust
B&Q Foundation
Quartet Community
Quartet Community - Debt Advice
Fuel Donations
Total restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 Balance
b/fwd
£
25,000
45,000
15,000
1,000
1,950
10,000
49,221
147,171
553,161
553,161
700,332		 Income
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
457,081
457,081
457,081		 Expenditure
£
(25,000)
(37,310)
(4,634)
(2,770)
(1,950)
-
(20,474)
(92,138)
(512,262)
(512,262)
(604,400)		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
1,770
-
-
-
1,770
(1,770)
(1,770)
-		 Fund
c/fwd
£
-
7,690
10,366
-
-
10,000
28,747
56,803
496,210
496,210
553,013

17 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 £400 (2023: £360), G Burley donated £360 (2023: £360), A Roberts donated £840 (2023: £840) and S Salisbury donated £300 (2023: £300); these donations total £1,900 (2023: £1,860).