CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report lo the trusto081
members of
harlly Namt
Middlesbrough Foodbank
On accounts for the year
ènded
31 March 2022
Charity no
(rfary)
1151665
Set out on pages
1-2 receipts and payments accounts
1-5 Trustees annual r8POrt for the year
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of th8 above
cha17ty (Ihe Trust'} for the year ended 31 March 2022.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the r8quirements of the CharitFes Act 2011
(Yhe Acr).
Responsibllltios and
basis of roport
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carri8d out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Direction8 given by the Charity Commission
und8r section 14q5)(b) of the Act.
Independent I have Completed my 8xamination. I confirm that no material matters have
examlnerfs statement come to my attention in connectlon with the examination which gives me
ause to believe that in, any material respect:
the ac¢ounting records were not kept in accordanc8 With section 130
of the Charities Act. or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or
th8 accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
conc&ming thé fomi and content of accounts set out in the Charitias
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a Itue and fair. vi8w which is not a matter
Considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concems and have come across rKJ Other matters In connection
with the examinallon to which attention should be drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reaGhed.
Signed:
Datè:
1211123
Name:
Lee Harris
Relevant profossional
quallfication{s) or body
{if any):
FCCA
Addr08S:
43 ConisGliffe Road
Darlington, Co. Durham
IER
Oct 2018
DL3 7EH
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight malerial matters of concem
(see CC32, Independent examination of Charity accounts: directions and
guidance for examiners).
Give hore briof details of
any itom8 that the
examiner wishes to
dlscloso.
None
IER
Oct 2018
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Middlesbrough Foodbank 1151665
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period
To
from 01/04/2021 31/03/2022
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations: - - - - -
- From individuals 97,631 1,150 - 98,781 169,047
- From churches 9,561 - - 9,561 14,807
- From Middlesbrough Council - - - - 26,728
- From companies / grant-making organisations 48,692 22,656 - 71,348 74,260
Bank interest - - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 155,884 23,806 - 179,690 284,843
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
Nil - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 155,884 23,806 - 179,690 284,843
A3 Payments
Building (rental, maintenance and insurance) 19,549 - - 19,549 13,374
Equipment (office/warehouse and uniforms) 1,711 - - 1,711 1,812
Fuel for van 562 - - 562 582
Pay / tax / NI / pension for staff 36,508 - - 36,508 36,089
Stationery 78 - - 78 856
Utilities (phone, broadband, alarm) 7,277 - - 7,277 3,791
Vehicle (lease/purchase, maintenance, insurance, tax) 2,645 - - 2,645 26,332
Personnel (inc training and volunteer meetings) 536 - - 536 332
Food 10,117 3,606 - 13,722 22,925
Other (Trussell Trust annual fee, plus
banking/accounting charges, plus debt advice project) 1,074 20,201 - 21,275 408
- - - - -
Sub total [ 80,057 ] 23,806 - 103,863 106,501
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see
table)
Nil - - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 80,057 23,806 - 103,863 106,501
Net of receipts/(payments) 75,828 - - 75,828 178,342
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 223,513 - - 223,513 45,171
Cash funds this year end 299,340 - - 299,340 223,513
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
14/01/2023
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the
trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|A Proudler
Signature
RPJones
Payroll fees for Jan-Mar 2022
**Details**
Scales
Trolley
Office furniture
Current account, Co-operative Bank
Pending deposits to current account
Petty cash
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Gift Aid to be reclaimed
**Details**
**Details**
_Nil_
**Details**
Van
IT equipment|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**298,504**
**-**
**736**
**-**
**100**
**-**
**299,340**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**3,643**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**21,700**
Unrestricted
**2,961**
Unrestricted
**72**
Unrestricted
**28**
Unrestricted
**475**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**47**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Richard Jones
Alan Proudler|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**19,000**
**400**
**25**
**15**
**60**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
**01 April 2022**
Date of
approval
07/12/2022
07/12/2022|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **From 01 04 2021 To 31 03 2022**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Middlesbrough Foodbank
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1151665
**Charity's principal address** 5 Wear Court Wallis Road Skippers Lane Industrial Estate Middlesbrough **Postcode TS6 6DU**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Alan Proudler Chair
2 Richard Jones Treasurer
3 Wendy Sutton Until 20/01/22
4 Pat O’Connor
5 Chris Kelly
6 Peter Jackson
7 Paul McGrath From 09/09/21
8 John Kabuye From 20/01/22
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
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Name Dates acted if not for whole year
Not applicable
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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
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**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Not applicable
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are appointed by existing trustees, generally for a 3-year term, Trustee selection methods selected from churches in the Middlesbrough area that provide support to (eg. appointed by, elected by) the Middlesbrough Foodbank.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
Middlesbrough Foodbank is part of the Trussell Trust Foodbank network, You **may choose** to include and works in partnership with local churches and organisations. additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The objective of Middlesbrough Foodbank is the prevention or relief of poverty to people in need in Middlesbrough and the surrounding areas.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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Middlesbrough Foodbank provides three days of nutritionally balanced emergency food to people in crisis. Vouchers are issued via frontline professionals, including doctors, health visitors, social workers, Citizens Advice Bureau staff, welfare officers, the police and probation officers. Vouchers can then be exchanged for food at various distribution centres across Middlesbrough.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
The trustees have regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. In particular, we are seeking to ensure that our vouchers are available via a suitable range of organisations and that we provide a network of food distribution centres across Middlesbrough so that our services are accessible to the people in need.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
Middlesbrough Foodbank relies on the work done by volunteers who help at the warehouse, at distribution points, and during special supermarket collection days. These volunteers are generally members of a variety of churches across Middlesbrough, and we are grateful for the support of the volunteers and our partner churches.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
Middlesbrough Foodbank complies with the code of practice for ethical fundraising issued by the Fundraising Regulator. We do not use the services of professional fundraisers.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Middlesbrough Foodbank was set up in 2012, and became a registered charity on 17[th] April 2013. In the year from April 2021 to March 2022, we fed 8649 people, including 5198 adults and 3451 children, a reduction on the previous year, back to pre-pandemic levels. We have active voucher holders in around 100 organisations. This year, more agencies reopened. The main issuers were Breckon Hill community centre. The Salvation Army, New Walk, Middlesbrough Probation Service and Nite Light CIC. All food given out is donated by local people or purchased using monetary donations. In the year from April 2021 to March 2022, 80 tonnes of food were distributed (a decrease from 118 tonnes the previous year). We are continuing to need to purchase a far higher proportion of food that before the pandemic, rather than relying on food donations. We have a network of food distribution centres across the town This year, the centre at Trinity Methodist Church, Whinney Banks closed, but we opened a new centre at Church of Ascension, Berwick Hills. We continue to ensure we have a centre open on each weekday: St Barnabas Church, Linthorpe (Mondays) Grove Hill Methodist Church (Tuesdays) Coulby Newham Baptist Church (Wednesdays) Church of Ascension, Berwick Hills (Wednesday) Middlesbrough Community Church, Gresham (Thursdays) Holy Trinity Church, North Ormesby (Fridays) We also aim to open another new centre at St Thomas More, Beechwood. We opened our distribution centres more fully again, welcoming people into a more hospitable environment, with a chance for people to chat and be signposted to other relevant support organisations. However further restrictions were imposed for some time in the light of the Omicron variant. We were offered a unit in the Hill Street Shopping centre rent-free, which we used temporarily for storage of additional stock. We have since surrendered that unit as we became liable for business rates on it. However we hope to move our main depot to new premises nearer to Middlesbrough Centre where there might be more scope for welcoming clients to the centre, for advice sessions, etc. In line with the objectives stated last year, we worked with the Salvation Army to introduce a debt advice service that we can refer Foodbank clients to, when appropriate. In December 2021 our project manager Alan Jones moved into a role in this debt advice service, and we employed Tracey Godfrey as our new project manager. A team of around eighty volunteers work at the warehouse and distribution centres, as well as helping out at food collections. We are very grateful for all they have done.
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## **Section E Financial review**
We aim to manage our finances so that we have between 3 and 6 **Brief statement of the** months of reserves in order to meet our financial obligations – primarily **charity’s policy on reserves** the costs of employing a project manager, running a van, and rental of our warehouse space.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
Not applicable.
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
- Middlesbrough Foodbank has been supported financially by donations
- You **may choose** to include from individuals, churches and companies across the region, and by
- additional information, where grant-making organisations. Sixty two individuals, three churches and
- relevant about: one company make regular donations by standing order, totalling
- the charity’s principal £21,414. £47,843 was donated via our web page and £2490 was sources of funds (including collected at Middlesbrough Football Club matches. Many other people any fundraising); and organisations have made one-off donations. We are grateful to all
- how expenditure has our donors for their support. The larger donations from other supported the key objectives organisations this year were: of the charity; £28,201 from Trussell Trust (inc Tesco top-ups and a £20,201
- investment policy and grant to support the debt advice service) £10,000 from Ian Donaldson
- objectives including any ethical investment policy £4455 from North East Help Link Trust adopted. £3735 from Young Guns Teesside £2883 from Sainsbury's Neighbourly Foundation £2500 from Aldan Management £2456 from Mbro Erimus Rotary Trust £2000 from 378 Company Ltd (Linthorpe Pharmacy) £1490 from R&MJ Thompson £1270 from Great Ayton PCC (Christ Church) £1111 from TomRods Ltd £1000 from Holdings GBP £1000 from MJ Tomlin £1000 from Mrs D Turner £1000 from “Nor Eas H Ltd SW” £1000 from Stokesley Christian Fellowship £1000 from Unite NE/202/9 Middlesbrough Chemical Sector £1000 from Workman (as a partial refund of the Hill St rates)
**Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** RP Jones A Proudler **Full name(s)** Richard Jones Alan Proudler **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Treasurer ] Chair of trustees **Date** 07/12/22
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