THE PUMP HOUSE PROJECT Swan House, Swan Lane Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7AF ## **Chair of Trustees’ Annual Report – Tax Year April 2020- March 2021** It is no cliché to say that the 12 months between April 2020 and March2021 have been very challenging for all of us involved in The Pump House Project. On the 14[th] March 2020, just two weeks after our last AGM, The Pump House Project building had to be closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. So in the terminology of the business world, we were forced to “pivot” or in real English, we had to change what we were doing and how we were going to do it, very quickly. Our main aim was to ensure that TPHP remained engaged with the community. Our intention was to continue to provide support to those in the community that were most vulnerable, and we achieved this through providing a variety of services and activities including food and medicine collection; a jigsaw library, the Pot Plant initiative, on line Crafty Crew sessions, on line Urban Movement Academy classes, and the Faringdon Food Share programme. We continued to develop our Brighter Futures project, supported by the National Lottery and in partnership with Abingdon and Witney College. By moving our courses online, it still meant we could continue to offer learning opportunities to those that needed them. The following highlights come from the annual report prepared for the National Lottery. Due to the closure of the building we had to move our courses online, but this still meant we could continue to provide our courses to those that needed them. Registered Charity number 1151905 THE PUMP HOUSE PROJECT Swan House, Swan Lane Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7AF Registered Charity number 1151905 THE PUMP HOUSE PROJECT Swan House, Swan Lane Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7AF Registered Charity number 1151905 THE PUMP HOUSE PROJECT Swan House, Swan Lane Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7AF During the course of the lockdown it became clear that funds for the main Pump House Project would be under strain due to a lack income from events and activities. Following a discussion with the National Lottery, they agreed to let us use the Brighter Futures funding to support the charity as a whole. This meant that we were able to cover the overheads and also fund activities that could still be run during the lockdown, such as Crafty Crew. The next phase for Brighter Futures is to reintroduce those courses that were postponed over the last 12 months and continue to develop new ideas that will benefit the community. In early 2021, we undertook a restructuring of the management team due to the departure of Lucy Brown as Project Co-Ordinator. The restructuring saw the role of the Project Coordinator split into two separate roles: Project Administrator and Project/Community Liaison Manager. Both roles have been successfully filled, allowing us to manage the situation we found ourselves in. In conclusion, 2020 has been a very challenging year, however we believe that we are still providing the community of Faringdon and the surrounding district with a wide variety of valuable activities and services and we hope that over the next few years we can develop our range and reach even further. Andy Brown Chair of Trustees 21/01/2021 Registered Charity number 1151905 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl membern of On accounts for the year ded 30 OLfr.Ii Charlty no (If any) 11 si?or Set out on page• I report to the trustees ¢)n my examinats'on of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Trust) for the year ended ResponslblIltl￿ and As the chanty trustees of the Trust. Y￿ are responsib￿ for the preparation basls of rnport of the accounts in accordance wrth the requirements of the Charrties Act 2011 (Ih• Acr). I report in re8pe(* of my examinati¢)n of the Tru¥t'8 accounts carr￿d out undef seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying oul my examination, I have followed the applicab￿ Diredions given by the Charty Commission urKler section 145(5){b> of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters hav8 come to my attenb'on (Oll￿r than that discbosed b8low ") in connection with the examinats'on which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not aCc￿d wlth the accounting raeords Independent examlnerfs statement I have no concerns arKI have come across no other matters in connection wrth the examination lo which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. . Please delete the W￿d8 in Ihe brnckets rfthey not apply. Slgned: Date: £.os zi Name.. A(rAAhJ tJA bANJ IELS Relevant professlonal quallflcatlon(s) or body (If any): Address: c)tra5 LTfS 3HCI IER October 2018 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES 1151905 Receipts and pa ments accounts CC16a F¢x tl* p•rlod 0110512020 30104r2021 Section A Receipts and payments Unmtrfct•d lund* Rwtrlcl•d fund• lund• Total fund• Last year t•th• ¢0 th• rn•r••t£ totr* nMr•M£ toth• nMr••t£ A1 R•c•l Grants ¥nd 9.912 19,724 J3,326 6.016 Omerewr Sub total(Gross income lor ARJ 34.J92 79.Ot7 A2 A•••t and InTM•thwnt Ml••. {••• t•bl•). Sub total 34,392 9.952 79,087 A3P• WBge5 hl & He•1 FundN8irq E¥w Inwrarce wertl81 Othw tspernd Buikli •nts 18.547 2.274 16.$47 2.274 19.866 4.028 1,179 11.340 i.OJ4 21.94B 1,Q34 36,JOS 7.691 Sub total 31.7S8 42,JBJ 69,996 A4 A¥••t •nd Inv••tm•nt urch••••, •v t•blo Sub tot•1 31,755 10,608 4138J Net ofrnCe1￿￿