1 COLCHESTER FOODBANK ANNUAL REPORT 2022 ~~Colchester Foodbank~~ Annual Report Challenging Hunger & COVID-19 **September **
**Supported by:** Mayor of Colchester COLCHESTER.FOODBANK.ORG.UKDeputy of the Cinque Port Liberty of Brightlingsea
Printed on **Recycled paper** Cover art by: Rebecca Osborne
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**We know that poverty and hunger in the UK isn’t right, and Colchester Foodbank works tirelessly to address the underlying issues causing more people to need the food bank than ever before. They are fully committed to Trussell Trust’s vision to end the need for food banks by having committed to end the need for their services by . But until that is achieved, the team is continuing to diligently support the community and help those most in need, to ensure that no-one in the district goes hungry. I am so thankful for the hard-work and dedication of the team that make the food bank the positive, dignified place that it is.**
## **Rebekah Hill**
Area Manager for Essex, The Trussell Trust
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## contents
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|Whatpeople say|****|
|OurGovernance|****|
|Our Chair of Trustees’ Message|7|
|Our CEO’s Message|8|
|Our Structure|10|
|Our Trustees|14|
|Our Memberships|16|
|Our Specialist Advisors to the Trustees|17|
|Our Patrons|17|
|OurStrategy|****|
|Our Vision|18|
|Community Listening|20|
|Our Strategic Priorities|22|
|Community Cooperation|23|
|Community Participation|23|
|OurWork&Positive Impact|****|
|Our Values|24|
|Our Clients|25|
|Voucher Report|26|
|Client Services Delivery Report|28|
|Warehouse Report|36|
|Our Sites|w40|
|Our Volunteers|52|
|Training|55|
|OurRecognition&Awards|****|
|OurVoucher Issuing AgenciesandPartners|****|
|PRReport|****|
|OurFinances|****|
|Treasurers Report|74|
|Independent Examiners Report|75|
|Annual Accounts|76|
|A BigThank you|****|
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## What people Say
**I just wanted to say how grateful I am for your continued support and kindness to my customers. I do not always get the time or opportunity to express my gratitude but it is appreciated. Thank you, You are all amazing!!**
**Michaela Fulleylove** Work Coach, Department for Work and Pensions
**It’s clear to me the staff and volunteers at the foodbank run an efficient operation in which users are treated with compassion and respect. The foodbank doesn’t work in a silo and has a number of partner charities and agencies they work with to assist people, who often have multiple needs. I was particularly impressed to learn first hand how people with learning disabilities help to create craft and stimulation packs for children and those struggling with what most of us take for granted with our homelife.**
**Since joining CBH in late I’ve visited Colchester Foodbank’s hub as well as the Greenstead satellite. I’ve been incredibly impressed by the work of the foodbank, the dedication and commitment of its volunteers and the vital support it’s providing to local people in need.**
**Philip Sullivan BSc (Hons) MSc FRICS CertCIH** Chief Executive, Colchester Borough Homes
## **Darius G Laws**
Colchester Conservative group leader, Colchester Borough Council.
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**The important work of the foodbank has never been so vital given the current state of the economy, inflation, energy prices and downward pressures on all household incomes. Please do all you can to support this much needed organisation.**
**Martin Goss** Lib Dem Group Leader, Colchester Borough Council.
**The work of the Colchester Foodbank has never been more important. Sending our heartfelt thanks to the whole team at Colchester Foodbank for their help to families in need in such difficult times. The difference you make to your community is immeasurable, not only in the goods you provide but in the respect, support and love that’s evident in everything you do. Thank you.**
**Colchester foodbank is a real lifeline for residents. In an ideal world we would not need the foodbank but across communities in Colchester they support people most in need not only with food but helping to ensure that families get the support they need over the longer term too. The staff and volunteers are part of a network of support in Colchester and deserve all our thanks for their continued hard work.**
## **Councillor Adam Fox**
Deputy Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Local Economy and Transformation Leader of the Labour Group
## **Elaine Hindal**
Chief Executive of The British Nutrition Foundation
**Colchester Foodbank play an invaluable role in the community, and I have had the great pleasure of working with them through my role at the University of Essex. They have been an excellent partner to work with on multiple projects, and we have been developing our collaboration over several years. For example, they have shared their experiences and work with our students, inspiring many of them, and they have campaigned with a far-reaching impact on living wage which has had a big influence on the Living Wage campaign in Essex. We have learnt a lot from their insight and work, and I look forward to continuing to build a strong collaboration.**
**Dr Rebecca Warren, PhD, FHEA** Lecturer in Accounting, Essex Business School, University of Essex
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## Our Governance
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## Our chair of Trustees’ Message
Why invite someone to a party and then say it’s cancelled?
Maybe that’s what it feels like to hear that we are planning to close the foodbank by 2030. When I shared this thought last October - it naturally made us uncomfortable because we are passionate about serving our clients. It may sound even more ridiculous with the cost of living crisis upon us but I think it challenges the expectation that in the 21st Century food banks should not be part of everyday life.
Apparently, we are figures of fun in some places but we remain deadly serious about providing food parcels for our clients. The reality is that we have grown and aged as a charity and when you get to your teens, you get tired of playing with some things and you want to be taken a bit more seriously.
We have done charity - and we will remain charitable to every client who approaches us for food but having grown so much, we need to be intentional about closing otherwise we could be accused of being complicit in food poverty (yes - I have had that thrown at me).
If we stay comfortable, we build a castle and reign for a thousand years - instead we as a charity want to try to enable a way of life where the hold of food poverty in North Essex is broken. I’d rather fail and be ridiculed than put the slippers on and raise a glass to our success.
signposting and looking to invest in people. Instead of being frozen by the prospect of the cost of living crisis this winter, we are dusting ourselves down and ready for a scrap! We will be leaning into the challenge - collectively, we remember as a Charity the wave of austerity after the banking crash. We are a lot more professional and broader now and will meet the challenge square on.
We know that we have the goodwill of so many decent local people and we know that folks in crisis desperately need our support. But we are no longer going to just address each crisis but also “swim up river” and start deep analysis of the causes of the crisis. To folks mired in despair we want to move beyond ‘hand-outs’ to igniting rocket packs. It will look different at times - yes we will make mistakes, but we will not be getting complacent. If we have created a beautiful monster - we are intentional about taming it!
Thank you for taking an interest in Colchester Foodbank and its mighty satellites and we pray for every blessing in this challenging season - thank goodness for the talent and generosity we bring to this battle. Maybe the party hasn’t been cancelled but the mood music has definitely changed!!!
## **Rev Andrew Fordyce MBE**
As a constellation of food banks, we are evolving beyond the core business of food parcels and
Chair of Colchester Foodbank charity’s Trustee Board
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## Our Chief Officer’s Message
**I start by saying ‘Thank You!’ to all the supporters, generous donors of money, small and large gifts of all kinds, and for the help offered and given by so many and to all those people who donated and wished to remain anonymous.**
## **For those who love statistics:**
- In 2020 we fed over 13,950 people, 42% were children.
- In 2021 we fed over 15,400 people locally and in neighbouring areas we fed over 1,100 others as no other foodbank was available, 43% were children.
- In the first six months of 2022 we fed just over 9,000 people, 42% were children.
**We continue to receive generous donations of food from both the public and supermarkets:**
- Food donations received in 2021: 225 Tons
- Food distributed to local people in crisis in 2021: over 190 Tons
- Food donations received in the first six months of 2022: 125 Tons
- Food distributed to local people in crisis, first six months of 2022: over 133 Tons
We have won a number of awards this year - see our PR Report for information on these - but these are a means to an end and the end is being ever more effective at helping people out of poverty. Looking to the future, our Trustees resolved to fundraise for money to buy a building only on the condition that if the foodbank closes, then assets of the charity go to local anti-poverty charitable cause(s). Our Trustees have also resolved to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) before buying a building. Lastly, Trustees have daringly resolved to close the foodbank by 2030 if this can be done without
causing suffering to clients. We plan to accomplish this by focusing more on tackling the root causes of the poverty that brings people to our door.
Tollgate Partnership have kindly offered us space to use in Stanway, prior to its planned redevelopment in 2023. So we are looking for a new Food HQ for the foodbank after that time, which we hope will go on to be a community asset for the community should the foodbank achieve its ambition of closing for lack of demand because Trustees resolved to give all assets and money to local anti-poverty charities locally as Colchester Foodbank’s legacy.
Food Standards Agency data shows that almost one in four consumers now report skipping a meal or cutting the size of meals due to lack of money to buy food. And that 15 per cent of consumers – over one in six – reported using a Foodbank in March 2022.
There’s a growing realisation that people’s lack of income is the biggest factor in people needing to use the foodbank. This can best be resolved by ensuring advice, including income maximisation and support, is the first port of call for someone struggling to afford food. This is critical to ending the need for food banks. Colchester Foodbank has already been working with council teams, advice providers and other food welfare providers to reduce gaps in service provision. This year, in response to calls by our volunteers and in partnership with Trussell Trust, we have funded extra staff at our local Citizens Advice and at Colchester Foodbank and set up a community
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organising project, all to help address the causes of foodbank need.
We know that many people are struggling with the cost of living crisis. In the current economic climate, with rising fuel bills, redundancies or a sudden crisis could affect any one of us. Colchester Foodbank is committed to help those in need and share the generosity of this great community by providing emergency food parcels for local people in crisis and other additional toiletries or items they are in need of, while signposting to the welfare/benefit of our clients.
We are the busiest Foodbank in Essex, last year providing over 165,000 meals free at the point of delivery and working with partner agencies so as not to create dependency on the Foodbank. We have a great team of volunteers in all our departments who get your donations collected, transported, processed in the warehouse and finally brought for distribution from our 10 distribution centres (distribution site number 11 in Highwoods is scheduled to open in October 2022).
**This local increase is due to a number of factors which have become the focus of our campaigning:**
- people struggling with continued issues with benefit payments including sanctions;
- issues with Universal Credit such as the fiveweek wait (this waiting period can be reduced as the Harrogate pilot has proved);
- the two-child limit on welfare benefits (Children are never undeserving of help);
- the need for a benefit uplift like we had during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic;
- insecure work such as zero hours contracts or lowpaid work on a part-time basis - which is why we have become a Real Living Wage employer and recommended other employers do this too.
While the cost of improving conditions for the poorest is often talked of as being too great, we must also consider the cost to the nation of forcing people to live on such a low benefit level. It destroys people’s confidence, selfworth and dignity. It affects their mental and physical health and resilience, putting strain on already overstretched NHS resources. People need decent support to build on, to find work with their dignity intact. The answer must be to ensure our social security system provides people with enough money to cover the essentials. At the very least, we’re saying the government must
choose to protect people and choose to boost income so they can afford to eat.
While not compromising our existing service - feeding people in need and crisis - our continued status as a part of the Trussell Trust network of Foodbanks and as a member of a Citizen’s UK Chapter ensures that we do not work in isolation, responding only after people have been crushed by the world as it is. Our statistics, expertise, stories, lived experience, network of connections, media platform, influence, anger at injustice and energy to create change - combined with those things in others - is being woven together into a movement to create the world as it should be.
## **No-one can change the world alone. Our thanks go to so many. Particular thanks to our partner organisations using our Stanway Food HQ space to help the community:**
- Rev Wendy Pagden and the Stanwell Hub team;
- Eunice and Barbara and the team from Tots2Teens, who are Colchester Baby and Children’s Bank;
- Mark Snelling and the team Essex Free School Uniform Exchange;
- Souzan and Raied and the team from Bridgeway Mission working with refugees;
- Refocus group creative therapy with support from volunteer partners Bright Lives Social Enterprise C.I.C, Isola Life Skills, Colchester Art Society, Fabric Love and the Arts Society of Colchester.
- All the wonderful Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteers;
- Also a big shout out to Lee Pugh and the team from Colchester Ecargo Bike Delivery Project who have been such a help with deliveries;
- Colchester Anti-Loo Roll Brigade for their ongoing practical support.
We are grateful to all those who respond constructively to the needs of the Foodbank by helping and by encouraging others to do their bit! We are all in this life together and what happens to one affects us all. Each of your voices added to ours makes us stronger, each of your gifts added to ours reaches further, each of your contributions matters more than you can ever know. Thank you all.
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**Michael Beckett BA(Hons) CDir FIoD MCIOF** Colchester Foodbank Chief Officer
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## Our Structure
## **Our team that will make change happen**
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## Our Trustees
**Colchester Foodbank charity was the rd foodbank in the UK to be formed and has a board of Trustees to hold the charity to account and provide strategic direction for our anti-poverty charity.**
”In 2008 I started a journey of faith to see if we could do something to address an economic downturn, and the Trussell Trust model seemed the best fit.
Our Chair:
After conversations across the Churches and with Hilary Le Seve and Brian Ford, we launched at the end of 2009. I continue to feel it’s a privilege to be associated with Colchester Foodbank and have been amazed by the changes and wonderful people who have supported it. October 2019 marked ten years of foodbank provision but since then we have had the challenge of navigating the Pandemic.
Rev Andrew Fordyce MBE
**Andrew is Rector at the Tenpenny villages Benefice and is married to Cathy with daughters - Isobelle and Abigail.**
The tireless resolve of our volunteer teams and dedicated staff has been truly remarkable. Our demand had gone up and amazingly not only have we met the demand but we have grown with more Satellites and a move to Stanway. Well done everyone - you are amazing!”
## Our Deputy Chair:
## Richard Priest
Richard Priest has lived in Colchester most of his life although he now lives in Tendring by the sea. He is married and has three children, one son and two daughters.He has been actively involved in serving people all his life.
He has run various clubs and societies, mainly for young people. He was chairman of Colchester Korban, a local homelessness charity. Until 2018 he worked for a large registered social landlord, Peabody, and was responsible for services in the County which include homelessness
accommodation, vulnerable families, young people services, floating support, acquired brain injury services, learning disability services and mental health. He has worked as a support worker delivering front line services to all of these client groups, and as a manager at various different grades. He has had the privilege of being the director of these services in Essex. He brings to the foodbank strategic planning, some legal compliance in terms of HR, health and safety, building management etc. but also strategic planning regarding finance and governance. He also brings a wealth of general knowledge about our sector in understanding and supporting vulnerable people. He is a Christian and his faith means a great deal to him. Many of the people he has supported use the foodbank and it makes such a tremendous difference to. Not just the obvious practical benefits of some food for the family but often people have multiple issues going on and this takes a lot of pressure off them and I know that the act of kindness and generosity that we facilitate is a very meaningful and gratefully received experience for our customers. Homelessness is on the rise and things are certainly going to get tougher.
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## Trustee Julie Rusiecki
“I was born in Colchester where I lived with my family until 1969 when I left to read History and Politics at Sheffield University. When I graduated in 1972, I added a husband, Paul, as well as an Honours Degree. I taught in London as a History and Humanities at Secondary level, where I became acting Head of the History Department and Head of Sixth Form. We left London for the birth of our son, Marcus, in 1978 and returned to Colchester. Paul became Head of History and Examinations at East Bergholt High and I had a daughter, Helen, in 1980. I ran a Playgroup before becoming Head of the Constantine Road Nursery School, and returned to full-time teaching as a Primary teacher, where, apart from a short break, I remained until my retirement seven years ago. I am a member of St Anne’s church and have been actively involved in the Foodbank as a volunteer for many years. When Paul and I retired, we chose, as Christians, to use our time to benefit others. I would describe myself as ‘a people person’ and my skills all revolve around that perception. I am always prepared to listen, will offer advice if it asked for – and sometimes when it is not – (a relic of the bossy teacher I’m afraid), but I love to serve and have a great respect for all the people I meet and know. My hobbies include baking, cakemaking and organising community events. I’m a bit arty and crafty, love to dabble in the garden and think I can arrange flowers - as long as wild and over-the-top is all that is required. I enjoy archaeology, Ancient History and my favourite film is ‘Lord of the Rings’! I chose to become a Trustee for Colchester Foodbank, not because I know better than anyone else, but because I believe in the value of the work the Foodbank does in the community. If I can contribute to the success of this wonderful venture, then it is time and effort well spent and I am privileged to be part of it.”
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## Caroline Beckett
“My name is Rev. Caroline Beckett and I am vicar of All Saints & St. James,Brightlingsea, a member of ‘Colchester Citizens’ (an alliance of local civic sector organisations such as faith groups, educational establishments, unions and charities, part of Citizens UK), and a trustee of another charity ‘Gifts For Romania’ working with community leaders to combat poverty and isolation in rural communities. I am mum to two lovely teenagers Danielle and Thomas. I enjoy singing, writing, spending time with loved ones, nature and volunteer work. I love being a minister because I get to meet so many extraordinary and interesting people and have the privilege of helping those going through difficult times and sharing in the joy of those who are celebrating. Being the widow of Rev. Rhys Martin, a local minister for a decade, and born in Old Heath and growing up in Alresford, working in Monkwick and now ministering in Brightlingsea, I have lived in the Colchester area on and off for most of my life, so I know it quite well. For me, Foodbank is good news in action: doing on a grand scale what some of us used to do from our home kitchens for people in need; reaching so many who are going through a vulnerable time in their lives. It’s sobering to think we are all only a few months’ salary away from a food parcel. Life is fragile, beautiful, challenging and tough and we are all in it together. It’s been lovely to meet so many of the Foodbank volunteers and to be part of this important work in our community. Feeding the hungry is central to my faith but what we do in Foodbank goes beyond supplying food to enabling people to transform their circumstances.”
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## Trustee Mark Norrington
Mark is Volunteer Coordinator at Wivenhoe and someone Essex born and raised who decided, when moving to Wivenhoe after too many years commuting to work in London, that he wanted to get involved in his local community. In addition to volunteering at the foodbank this has also included working as a volunteer with the library service, helping out with the local Reaching out at Christmas initiative, work for local community hub in Thurrock and on the Steering Group for the Wivenhoe Neighbourhood Plan.
## Trustee Win Pomroy
Win is the Lead volunteer at Brightlingsea Foodbank, who used to work for the NHS as an emergency nurse practitioner in the Accident & Emergency department at Colchester General Hospital. Win began volunteering because she wanted to give something back to the community. Win belongs to the Ladies of the Liberty, which supports the historic charity of the Cinque Port Liberty of Brightlingsea.
## Trustee Peter Tibber
After a career in the British diplomatic service Peter moved to Colchester in 2019 to live in the cohousing community he helped to create. Shortly afterwards he started volunteering for the foodbank at Tollgate. Earlier this year he was invited to become a trustee. His first task, at their request,was to facilitate a self-appraisal of the Board. This led to a number of recommendations to improve governance, which will need to be considered as the foodbank transitions into its new strategy. When he is not at the foodbank Peter is a keen amateur musician, swimmer, tennis player and reader. He is also a trustee at the Firstsite gallery in Colchester.
## Trustee Jo Santinelli
Jo is married with two grown up children, trained as an RE teacher in Brentwood before becoming an Assistant Head, and then the Deputy Head with responsibility for pastoral care and teaching and learning. Jo took up headship at St Benedict’s in Colchester in February 2012. “It is a privilege to serve and be part of the local community and I am keen to support the superb work of the Colchester Foodbank in some small way.”
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## A big thank you to retired Trustees
Retired from Trustee Rev Ken Thom
Retired Trustee Sir Bob Russell
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## Our Memberships
- We are affiliated to the Trussell Trust
- We are affiliated to Citizens UK
- Colchester Citizens
- Colchester Food Poverty Alliance
- Essex Food Poverty Alliance
- Essex Alliance
- Small Charities Coalition
- The Foundation for Social Improvement
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations
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## Our Specialist Advisors to the Trustees
## **Our Specialist Advisors, help our Trustees to do their job.**
They are **Clive Joyce** , Treasurer and **Paul Rusiecki** , Minute Secretary. The Trussell Trust’s East of England Area Manager **Rebekah Hill** also acts as a Specialist Advisor to the Board of Trustees and to the Chief Officer helping us by ensuring we meet Quality Assurance standards.
**Clive Joyce:** Treasurer
**Paul Rusiecki** : Minute Secretary
**Rebekah Hill** : Trussell Trust, Area Manager
## Our Patrons
Our Co-Patrons, The Right Reverend **Roger Morris** , the Bishop of Colchester and **Sir Bob Russell** , the High Steward of Colchester help raise the profile of Colchester Foodbank.
**Roger Morris:** The Bishop of Colchester
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## Our Strategy
## Our Vision
**A local community in and around Colchester with a buzzing hub of collaborative support and without the need for a foodbank.**
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## **At the beginning of , we started a Listening Campaign - The Big Conversation. The aim of the campaign was twofold:**
- to listen and gain a greater understanding of the current challenges frontline organisations in Colchester are facing with increasing service demand from clients on a low income, struggling in the wake of the increased cost of living.
The Big Conversation has helped inform our new strategic plan, finding ways to work collaboratively in the community towards a compassionate future, where everyone can afford to buy their own food.
- to challenge our thinking, to see how we can invest in people, to see how we can do more, to help them need the foodbank less.
## Our Mission
**To tackle food poverty with active listening and community engagement, working in partnership to implement sustainable projects that empower clients and restore their dignity with emergency food parcels and support to overcome the underlying issues that put them into crisis.**
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## Listening to Our Voucher Issuing Agencies
## **From March to early May we listened to our active voucher issuing agencies. They spoke and we listened. This is what we heard.**
There is a willingness to take part and collaborate, but time pressures make it challenging for agencies to come together without tangible benefits. They are also keen to network with other agencies getting the most from any time they spend away from their desks.
**Source:** The Big Conversation, **Number of Respondents:** 25 Survey (36%)
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## Listening to Our Volunteers
**In January and February we ran The Big Conversation amongst our volunteers. They spoke and we listened. This is what we heard.**
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**% of our volunteers ranked Swaying Social Policy as our # priority**
**% of our volunteers ranked Investing in our People as our # priority**
**% of our volunteers ranked Normalising Reaching Out for Support as our # priority**
**Source:** The Big Conversation, **Number of Respondents:** 101
## **Our Voluteers’ top priorities...**
**When analysing a weighted average of all the suggested priorities, the clear leading priorities were:**
- Sway social policy
- Improve Signposting
- Sustainablility and resilience
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- Impoving access to projects
- Investing in our people
- Support community education
- Increase access to nutritional and culturally relevant foods
## **Confidence:**
Confidence in our ability to bring about social change was 37% at the beginning of the survey and 47% at the end.
## **Training**
At the beginning of the survey 31% felt they needed training. At the end of the survey 64% felt they would need training to help bring about positive social change.
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## Our Strategic Priorities
## **An overview of what we will prioritise to make happen**
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## Community Cooperation
## **Achieving our long-term goal of closing the foodbank by is not something we can do alone.**
We will seek to engage the community, bringing people together to implement key projects. Community organising and research, in order to provide tangible benefits for the local community, is central to this activity. We are the lead agency for the Colchester Food Poverty Alliance and the Essex Food Poverty Alliance and we have a network of over 265 partners including Social Services, One Support, Community Mental Health Team, local housing groups, Citizens Advice, Age UK, Churches, Schools, GP Surgeries, philanthropic individuals and businesses including the major supermarkets. Our relationship with the University of Essex opens up a pool of new talent for us to attract from students completing their Democracy in Action module on community organising.
Partnership working with our local network will increase our access to both resource and skillsets. It will also open up new ways of working while reducing risks as we attempt to achieve a challenging goal. Community engagement will require us to strengthen our relationships and change how we work, introducing shared processes, decision making and improved communications for the success of any projects that promote sustainability and resilience.
## Community Participation
## **Community participation is essential to bring about significant change.**
With community support, we can build engagement and empower our community to work together to create and deliver local services that can address the underlying causes of crisis for our clients. Community participation can provide a means of prevention with early access to services or support that clients may need which helps them from spiralling further into crisis.
Community participation will encourage community organising. We saw this during the pandemic. There is an energy in our community that wants to see change happen. We can tap into this, building power, raising our voice, swaying social policy and making change happen. Our community organising activity is committed to positive social change and working for a more socially just, caring and cooperative society where everyone can afford to buy their own food.
## Community Listening
## **Active listening is integral to achieving the change we are wanting to see in our community.**
Through listening, we will achieve greater levels of understanding of the underlying challenges that put our clients in crisis. This understanding will enable us to improve how we signpost clients and how we choose our project work. Active listening will also improve productivity as we focus on the right things. It will also improve our ability to influence, persuade and negotiate while avoiding conflict and misunderstandings. All of these are necessary for change and for working in the community. Diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do to create a sense of belonging for all,as we increase understanding and compassion amongst the public
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## Our Work and Positive impact
## Our Values
**Our values come through everything we do, in all areas of our work. Every day, they guide how we speak, think and act. Colchester Foodbank is committed to community built on diversity, tolerance, cooperation, justice and mutual respect; we want to contribute to society and demonstrate social responsibility.**
## **We value dignity**
and that every individual is worthy of respect, treating everyone fairly and ethically.
## **We value passion**
and hold strong feelings about ending food poverty, the work we do and the difference it makes in the lives of others.
## **We value compassion**
which motivates us to give selflessly and put others before ourselves, working alongside people in crisis to provide support.
## **We value collaboration**
working in partnership with other organisations for more resources and greater impact.
## **We hold ourselves accountable**
we acknowledge and assume responsibility for actions, decisions, and consequences – as individuals and as an organisation.
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## Colchester Foodbank provides short- term emergency support to individuals and families in a crisis within Colchester and the surrounding area, including Brightlingsea.
We also work with other local foodbanks and regularly review our areas of coverage in response to need. To qualify for help, families and individuals must be referred by a professional from one of our registered voucher issuing agencies who help to determine the underlying issues of crisis, which can be caused by a complex combination of events
that may include factors like benefits delays, unemployment, illness and domestic violence. Where possible we refer or signpost people to relevant agencies, so they can get the additional help they need. This enables them to more fully understand the reality of their issues and how to get through them, seeking appropriate support and targeted transitional intervention.
## Our Clients
**Our clients are those in need or crisis: people on benefits, people who do not qualify for benefits. We want to help individuals of any age and families who cannot afford to buy food.**
## This includes:
- the mums who skip meals to feed their children,
- the pensioners who skip meals to pay their heating or to help feed their grandchildren,
- individuals suffering with debilitating mental health challenges,
- those living in fear who can’t leave the house,
- single parents struggling to cope juggling childcare, work and studies,
- the working poor struggling to make ends meet due to rising cost of living.
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## Voucher Report
## January 2021 - December 2021
||**JAN21- DEC 21**
**JAN**
**FEB**
**MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE**
**JULY**
**AUG**
**SEPT**
**OCT**
**NOV**
**DEC**
**BRIGHTLINGSEA**
ADULTS
60
45
65
34
42
42
36
44
40
32
38
58
CHIDLREN
54
39
54
33
29
20
25
40
25
14
18
29
**CENTRAL**
ADULTS
44
69
71
33
42
52
45
18
33
34
41
45
CHILDREN
9
26
24
7
16
8
7
8
12
5
6
4
**COLCHESTER TOLLGATE**
ADULTS
558
358
535
549
387
478
482
399
406
358
444
703
CHILDREN
435
271
457
458
292
355
423
307
315
260
350
637
**GREENSTEAD**
ADULTS
37
107
117
110
87
118
129
104
124
125
132
185
CHILDREN
25
64
80
69
74
108
70
83
87
61
94
131
**MONKWICK**
ADULTS
13
4
10
16
13
15
18
10
14
22
21
25
CHILDREN
11
1
5
0
2
6
1
4
2
2
9
12
**NEW TOWN**
ADULTS
0
5
9
2
8
9
8
12
12
11
15
6
CHILDREN
0
2
4
0
3
7
6
3
5
9
11
4
**ROWHEDGE**
ADULTS
11
9
29
11
24
12
24
23
19
31
19
11
CHILDREN
19
13
47
12
54
20
29
37
30
45
30
10
**SHRUB END**
ADULTS
9
3
CHILDREN
22
3
**TIPTREE**
ADULTS
12
23
5
10
5
6
8
9
14
13
9
9
CHILDREN
11
14
11
4
4
5
7
2
9
4
6
9
**WIVENHOE**
ADULTS
3
5
4
5
6
4
7
2
9
5
0
9
CHILDREN
8
4
1
7
1
1
2
0
4
3
0
8
**ADULTS TOTAL**
**CHILDREN TOTAL**
**OVERALL TOTAL**|
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## January 2022 - June 2022
||**JAN 22- JUNE22**
**JAN**
**FEB**
**MARCH**
**APRIL**
**MAY**
**JUNE**
**TOTAL**
**BRIGHTLINGSEA**
ADULTS
44
30
28
24
24
35
**185**
CHILDREN
20
14
15
14
14
27
**104**
**CENTRAL**
ADULTS
50
41
55
62
60
61
**329**
CHILDREN
16
3
15
15
15
5
**69**
**COLCHESTER TOLLGATE**
ADULTS
511
502
606
579
624
625
**3447**
CHILDREN
389
399
504
452
520
534
**2798**
**GREENSTEAD**
ADULTS
153
114
134
148
158
138
**845**
CHILDREN
99
61
63
75
9
91
**398**
**MONKWICK**
ADULTS
28
11
16
52
25
12
**114**
CHILDREN
6
3
4
3
11
8
**35**
**MYLAND**
ADULTS
2
6
1
1
9
0
**19**
CHILDREN
0
4
0
2
8
0
**14**
**NEW TOWN**
ADULTS
12
12
12
13
15
14
**78**
CHILDREN
10
5
7
3
10
7
**42**
**ROWHEDGE**
ADULTS
10
18
12
12
29
20
**101**
CHILDREN
18
24
20
9
45
33
**149**
**TIPTREE**
ADULTS
16
13
8
17
23
11
**88**
CHILDREN
13
15
1
6
13
9
**57**
**WIVENHOE**
ADULTS
0
9
7
6
7
5
**34**
CHILDREN
0
4
1
7
4
1
**17**
**ADULT TOTAL**
**5389**
**CHILDREN TOTAL**
**3683**
**OVERALL TOTAL**
**9072**|
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## Client Services Delivery Report
**This start of the year () sent a lot of challenges, first was moving the foodbank from moorside to Stanway. We all worked extremely hard to put new systems in place. After a few months of trial and error I feel we have it the best we can. We took on more volunteers and trained them throughout the year ahead. Adding to an already wonderful team.**
## June 2021
## Volunteer Outreach
## Program Launch
We launched the volunteer outreach program to give the opportunity to agencies and charities around us, to nominate clients that would potentially benefit in some outreach work within the foodbank. This could include anything from confidence building, social skill improvement or work experience. We offered the program for an 8-week placement, teaching and supporting the workings within the foodbank. If at the end of the 8 weeks an opportunity became available, they would then be offered a permanent shift with us.
We have a great outreach partnership with the Military Corrective Training Centre, helping to rehabilitate for army release. We have also had pupils via the outreach program from Colchester Institute. We have a current and fantastic partnership with Suffolk Youth offending and NoVA. So far we have given over 500 hours of outreach time to these wonderful people throughout the year.
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## August 2021
## Prepaid SIM cards
## for clients
TT launched a partnership with Vodafone to supply pre-paid sim cards. These are valid for 6 months and include 20gb data and unlimited calls and texts. A huge benefit and money saving item for a lot of our clients. We took part in this and have been ordering monthly sim cards since so we can give these out in all satellites also. Not only can these save our clients the worry and cost of buying phone credit, they also give anyone who is not able to access the internet that ability.
## October 2021
## Fuel Poverty
During the past 18 months we have seen a heavy incline in fuel poverty, and up until now have not been able to help. In October I made contact with the Anti Loo Roll Brigade and asked if they could help fund a fuel poverty program with us. Luckily they agreed and we began helping people with fuel. We are hoping to gain more funding which will allow us to be able to branch this to the other satellites, we are currently only able to do the scheme at Stanway and Rowhedge if we have funding available to help them.
## November 2021
## Encouraging Reading
Penguin Books asked if we would be interested in taking part distributing donated books from them. We took our first delivery in December 2021 which again allowed us to be able to not only give these out as gifts, but also to be part of a wider program of encouraging reading with adults and children alike. We found this to be successful so when Penguin books re-emailed and asked again, we again said yes. We have had many occasions where Penguin have contacted us donating books.
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## December 2021
## Christmas giving
## tree appeal
Wow! 450 presents delivered or collected from Culver Square Management. All gift bagged and labeled. A fantastic team of Elves, Sophie, Sue and Kim and myself working off a spreadsheet to number code them all, and put into an order. I had done this to not only show where all presents needed to be grouped, but it also gave me parents details and contact numbers (not shared with Culver). We had made contact with the Refuge and NEST and Kingsland church and Tots2teens at the beginning to add any children that needed that extra gift to help also.Between us all working together we managed to not only give all these children gifts this year, but we have brought the community together to help us do this, they have brought more than £9,000 worth of gifts!
Culver Managment’s team and BID (Business improvement at our Colchester) also raised a further £453 which has been transferred to the foodbank. This year for Christmas 2022 we hope to excel this number to be able to help many more children and families. The giving tree will go “live” on the 16 th November when Culver street shopping Center do their light switch on for Christmas.
## January 2022 - June 2022
## Surge of demand
During the first few months of the year, we managed to breathe a little from Christmas. But unfortunately war broke out in Ukraine and that brought us our own challenges of trying to source and keep up donations. Our donations dropped at one point by 50%. We’ve had to reduce parcel weights to try and keep in line with foods going in and out.
We put 12 of our volunteers throughout the foodbank and satellites on a first aid course, all passing with flying colours. We have had another 8 people pass through our outreach program, all reporting back how much they have enjoyed being with us. Hopefully taking with them experience and confidence.
Due to the increase in demand for food parcels since June 2022,, and with the increased needs to deliver foods, we have subsequently taken on 4 new drivers throughout the months to help. All going above and beyond to help whenever they can.
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Left: **Bev Perkins** , CEO Citizens Advice Colchester, middle: Michael Beckett, CEO Colchester foodbank, right: **Rhiannon Barrow** , Trussell Trust, Financial Inclusion Manager – East of England
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## Financial Inclusion
We were lucky enough to have Sylvia join us from Citizen’s Advice, making a world of difference in helping clients deal with the underlying issues that mean they need to use the foodbank, often it can be the need to maximise their income, claim benefits or access other support. Sylvia is based at Tollgate and Greenstead one a week, with visits to the satellite locations regularly.
Working with the Foodbank has given us the opportunity to meet people in the community, face to face, when they are in crisis. This overcomes the barriers of receiving help that are otherwise difficult for clients to overcome. Sometimes it can be difficult to pick up the phone. Because we are in the foodbank, we can offer help immediately, and that can make all the difference.
**Sylvia Jeffcock** helping out at the Colchester Food & Drink festival
**The cost of living crisis emphasises more than ever the importance of Colchester Citizens Advice standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Colchester Foodbank. Together we are offering a more holistic support service to help people get through their individual crisis so they can focus on living their lives to the full without wondering how they will survive the next day. An increasing number of people face the kind of heart-rending choices that our frontline advisors and Foodbank volunteers already see all too often, but together, Colchester Foodbank and Colchester Citizens Advice are really making a difference.**
**David Jarvis CBE** Chair of Colchester Citizens Advice
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## Community work
## Duke of Edinburgh
**The Colchester Foodbank were delighted to accept some additional young volunteers (and their parents) to the Saturday Crew this year.**
As part of the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme the participants are required to undertake some local voluntary work and Colchester Foodbank were delighted to accept their help. The participants performed a number of valuable tasks from receiving donations, sorting these donations and creating parcels from the donations. On behalf of Colchester Foodbank and the Saturday Crew in particular we would like to extend our gratitude to these young volunteers who were a credit to The Duke Of Edinburgh Scheme, their schools and their parents.
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We would like to extend our gratitude to these young volunteers who were a credit to The Duke Of Edinburgh Scheme, their schools and their parents
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the vans are advertised on Facebook and other renting sites .
## Supporting a
## New Community
Residents can pay from £650 to £1000 a month depending on the size or style of van. This includes all utilities –as well as council tax. Most of the residents are in receipt of Universal Credit or income support. There are some who have lost any chance of housing for various reasons and now live on the site. Some residents have fled domestic violence.
**One Sunday in March , we had a call from Family Solutions about residents living on a caravan park who were in great difficulty. The residents, many with young children and some with babies, had no calor gas as they couldn’t afford it and the electricity power had been cut off.**
The residents are living in poverty or have very low income. 80 per cent of residents have one or more children, one resident who is just about to give birth has limited amenities in the van. Tots2Teens have been contacted to support with cots,and pram and other useful items. Essex Uniform Exchange have also provided school uniform for other children on site.
On the Monday, appropriate food parcels were made up, including toiletries, soap powder, bread, and fruit and vegetables. Cronan, one of our drivers, and Anne went along to the site to see how the residents were going to manage. As we arrived a local company had donated calor gas cylinders, so cooking was possible.
Since we first visited in March there are now about 100 vans on the site and building work is just being completed for another 40. We only support 23 vans. The Local Council have said the accommodation is appropriate and in most cases will not be re-housing some of the residents. I would like to thank all the volunteers who have packed up the parcels and deliver them.
The caravans, ex holiday mobile homes, were sited round the edge of a field. Mains water and drainage and sewage had been installed. The families were extremely grateful for the food parcels and they have received one a month since then. The spokesperson for the site, who has 4 children including a 3 year old as well as a 17 year old living in a 5 berth van, told me that
## **Anne Barney**
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## Warehouse Report
## **Covid was our main threat when I started working in Moorside and Langham years ago and later when we moved our operation to Tollgate.**
We can report that we have now established and aligned all processes and I’m glad to say that we serve our satellites and the wider Colchester community every day with great engagement and enthusiasm.
The working cooperation with Nikki is optimal. With motivated volunteers in the warehouse and FOH and additional volunteer drivers for supermarket pick-ups and client deliveries, we are more flexible and reactive than ever before.
2021 was all about workflows and 2022 has become the year of stock management, stock control, monitoring and sufficient supply of goods. I anticipate the most difficult part of the year is still ahead of us.
Since mid-2021, further intensified by the war in Ukraine since February 22, we saw a new spectre rising: The cost-of-living crisis! Now in September 2022 it has become deeply engrained in our lives: rising fuel and energy prices, soaring food prices for staples and food in general, inflation rates at a 40 year high and still no end in sight. A critical time will be the start of the heating period and further hikes in energy bills in late autumn.
At the beginning of the year, we planned various scenarios to mitigate expected influences on the Foodbank and, after monitoring the data between JAN – JUL 22, the situation could have been status. Depleted shelves, empty warehouses and the news that struck me the most: “We have no more food. We’ve had to turn away hungry people!” A quote from a Foodbank manager in the UK.
Two developments were quite predictable. The demand for food parcels would go up and the amount of food donated to the Foodbanks would go down. These assumptions were proven right (see Chart 1 & Chart 2). The problem was, and still is, to what extent these trends will affect the Colchester Foodbank and how severely stock levels will be influenced.
Compared to the same period last year demand has gone up and we are handing out 22% more parcels (Standard/Family) to our clients. At the same time food donations (supermarkets and private) have dropped by 12%. Whereas in 2021 we had to add an extra pick up run per week because food cages in supermarkets were overflowing, now a pickup once a week is definitely enough. However, with soaring expenses for households and increasing food prices the outcome could have been far worse. Again, we can only monitor the situation and react accordingly. Besides monthly stock level counts and using our newly developed Stock Level Tool (SLT) (see Chart 3) we have actively increased our food appeals on social media and other publications.
This tool allows us to react to low stock levels by adjusting our parcel sizes for clients. Grey represents the 2021 situation with availability per product shown in months. Green shows an increase 2021 of 30%, yellow an increase of 65% and red equals 100% increase over 2021.
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This inventory was taken on 15 August 2022 and represents product availability in months without further donations. Unsurprisingly, without further donations and a 100% increase in demand we would be struggling to supply most of our products for more than 2 months. By adjusting our parcel weights over the recent months, we have managed to keep the incoming and outgoing food almost level, remembering the increase in demand and lower overall donations. (see Chart 4). If we can retain these numbers through to the end of the summer and autumn, we might have a good chance to manage this year successfully. Harvest school donations and Christmas are normally our busiest periods, we need to see how the current economic climate will influence this part of our business.
“We have no more food. We’ve had to turn away hungry people!”
A Foodbank manager in UK.
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## Recycling
organised, and clients can use 14 outlets to cover their demand. However, after the summer we will see a return to manageable levels.
In November 21 we started distributing recycling items for the Colchester Borough Council. Clients can pick up their garden bags, clear sacks and various containers at Tollgate. The service is very much appreciated by the public and it draws attention to the work of Colchester Foodbank with every item we hand out.
Some visitors had never heard of the foodbank. This provides us with an opportunity to expand our reach, and share information about the good work that we do in the community. It also enables us to request their support. This will become ever so important as we begin activities to help change hearts and minds, growing support for ending the need for foodbanks.
At the beginning of this cooperation the daily numbers of items were staggering, due to a back-log situation in recycling distribution from the Council, and Tollgate was 1 of only 2 outlets to obtain these products. Now the supply is
## Warehouse in Langham
The Langham warehouse was closed on the 31st July 2022 and the keys were handed back to the owner. We dismantled the complete racking for further use and currently all our stock is located in Tollgate.
All of us work as an orchestrated unit and we all share the same ambitions and determination. The statement “We don’t have food anymore” will never be said of Colchester Foodbank, we are all here to help.
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**There are ten satellites, mostly in different areas of Colchester but also at Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe and Tiptree. They are staffed by volunteers and serve clients who have referrals made by a variety of agencies.**
## 1. Tiptree
United Reformed Church, Chapel Rd, Tiptree, Colchester CO5 0HP **Thursday pm - pm**
## 2. Stanway
Unit 3 Tollgate Retail Park (old Office World shop) Stanway CO3 8RG
**Tuesday am - pm**
## 3. Monkwick
St Margaret’s Church Hall, Stansted Road, CO2 8RA
**Friday am - pm**
## 4. New tOWN
St Stephen’s Church Canterbury Road, Colchester, CO2 7RY
**Monday :pm - :pm Thursday am - pm**
## 5. Colchester Central
Eld Lane Baptist Church, Eld Lane, CO1 1LS
**Wednesday and Friday am - pm**
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Thorrington, Frating,
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## 6. Moorside
Closed, we’ve moved to Stanway
## 7. Greenstead
Colchester Credit Union
7 The Centre, Hawthorn Avenue, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3PX **Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday am - noon**
## 8. Wivenhoe
Wivenhoe Congregational Church, High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex, CO7 9AB
**Thursday am - noon**
## 9. Rowhedge
Mariners Chapel Chapel Lane Rowhedge, CO5 7JS **Monday pm - pm**
## 10. Brightlingsea
Local delivery only during lockdown 01206 3033903 or 07970 480968 **Wednesday am - :pm**
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## Brightlingsea
**A year that has seen many changes at Trussell Trust and at Colchester Foodbank and its satellites, changes that arguably could be said to not always seem to be for the good of the foodbanks.**
Colchester Foodbank, in line with many other UK foodbanks, has more salaried staff, funded by Trussell Trust. We are working with more of the other charities that are trying to make life easier for those in our communities, unable to make the inadequate benefits, or if they are working, the unrealistic ‘Living Wage’ etc. cover all the essential outgoings that they face.
Before 2020, none of us could have imagined how our service would need to change to meet the needs of the public during the Covid-19 pandemic. That proved very true. Now add to that the global effects of the Russia – Ukraine war, the shortages of essential foodstuffs and the weekly, no, daily increases in food and fuel prices and you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see what is going to happen to not only those who were already struggling, but those who cannot meet the huge increases in their domestic fuel costs, and food bills etc.
This also means that instead of foodbank numbers decreasing, they are increasing daily. Brightlingsea Foodbank is facing all these problems stoically and continues to try to meet the needs of those in our close-knit community who are struggling. We offer the basic food parcels and, because of the continued amazing monetary generosity of our community, and council grants, we can provide our clients with vouchers for two of our local businesses, Smith’s the Butchers and Bumbles, the greengrocers. This was the idea of one of our volunteers, who designed vouchers, which we then had printed free, courtesy of a member of the Cinque Port Liberty of Brightlingsea and the scheme is working well. It replaces the fresh food shopping that we used to do and means that clients can choose their own meat, cheese, fruit, and vegetables etc. We also top up domestic fuel cards on an ad hoc basis. All this from a small, coastal, close-knit town that cares about the less fortunate in its midst.
Beside the food provision aspect, we signpost as much as possible, helping clients to access benefits advice, local housing needs, school uniform exchanges, etc. Also, we will go online and access any other organisational help they need, look at local job availability and put them in touch with local employers. We have other
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charities in the town who can give one- off monetary support if needed. The Foodbank itself fundraises when able, its main fundraiser being running the Tea Tent at the Brightlingsea Free Music Festival every year. This brings in just under £1,200 per year, which we share equally with the music Festival organisers. Added to our share is the bucket collection we have in the tea tent, which this year raised nearly £300.
During the Covid-19 pandemic we had a marked increase in clients when we delivered all food parcels. When we went back to face-to-face client encounters earlier this year, we noticed a marked drop in clients attending the hall. Most strange!! However, the numbers are slowly creeping up again as the present economic downturn bites. I’m afraid that in Brightlingsea the Trussell Trust criteria of 3 to 4 food packs in 6 months is just not hitting the mark and we are having to provide weekly packs to some clients. I like to think that we do provide Colchester
## Central/Eld Lane
Colchester Central Foodbank is based in Eld Lane where we are working in partnership with Open Door. It has seen an increase in clients and is one of our busiest satellites. We are grateful for such a central location to make accessing our services easier. Clients without access to a kitchen are provided with kettle packs filled with food items that can be prepared with just hot water, a good example of how we tailor our service to clients’ needs and a stark reminder of the level of that need and the circumstances many of our clients are coping with. “We provide a welcoming and supportive venue offering cups of tea coffee and conversation. In the current climate, many people, employed or unemployed are struggling with the rise in the cost of living. People from all walks of life come to our centre to receive support and food from us. It can be challenging to see parents bringing their children, knowing that these families are going hungry, but with our support, we are able to create a food parcel to suit their needs. I am grateful for my volunteer teams that give their time. Their persistent smiles and warm welcome create a positive environment for these people to chat and receive advice, sometimes referrals to other agencies that can resolve their problems. I give thanks to the team at head office who prepare and dispatch the deliveries. Without them we would not be able to serve.
Foodbank with regular food top ups from the generous monetary donations we receive, so I don’t feel guilty about supplying additional food packs to people. We have supported our local shops as much as possible too and have a great rapport with local businesses and charities.
## **Volunteers**
Our core of 19 volunteers has not changed. We have one who has just sadly retired from the foodbank due to ill health and who will be sorely missed, as she and her husband were our main delivery team for a while. We wish them all the best in the future. The remaining volunteers continue to give their all and go above and beyond at times too. They make my life easier!
My biggest Thank You goes to you, my Brightlingsea volunteers - well done to all of you for your unfailing support and for putting up with me over the last year! - **Win Pomroy**
And most importantly, we are so grateful for those individuals donating food, money and supplies. These donations change people’s lives and we can see first-hand the impact that this has. We often see individuals who have received support from us, return to inform us of good news, perhaps finding a job or a home’. **Kaoru Magee** Colchester Central Leader
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## Greenstead
This client presented often to our satellite and it became obvious to volunteers that there was an issue. With the help of Nikki and Councillor Tim Young, a referral has been made to multiple agencies and we are hopeful for a positive outcome.
We have reached our 3rd anniversary and it has been busier than ever. Our satellite remained open every day possible, bar 2, one to extreme cold and one to extreme heat. Both occasions were due to inability to access premises.
Our volunteers have succumbed to the dreaded covid and other afflictions but the rest of the team has rallied around to ensure we remain open (a big thanks to them all). During the year we have collectively received a certificate of recognition in the community and Liz Carty received personal recognition for service to the community from the High Sherif of Essex. Our commitment was recognised earlier in the year in newsletters when we had serious safeguarding concerns regarding a client.
We also took possession of a brand new fridge to assist in the storage and preservation of fresh produce and it has been proven to be a great asset. Health and safety has also improved with the donation of move dollies to improve the manoeuvring and transport of food parcels by Evo supplies, our thanks to them all.
We are all committed to providing the same great service in the year to come
## **eCargo Bike Delivery Service**
The eCargo Bike delivery service supports Greenstead Foodbank every Thursday.
In addition to the increased demands on our Foodbank, the eCargo Bike delivery service is also seeing more families relying on community support for accessing and acquiring childrens’ and baby clothing, baby supplies, school uniforms and essential kitchen and home-wear items.
Many service users are facing financial hardship and mobility challenges or are having to selfisolate and need to rely on home delivery of essential food, medicine, and other provisions.
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## Myland
that very morning a donor had dropped off some good quality olive oil and a huge family sized tub of peanut butter, they went off delighted with their bags, and were also directed to the uniform bank at Tollgate to get their children kitted out for the new school year. We anticipate getting a lot busier as the energy cost hikes and general cost of living rises hit.
We had a very slow start at Myland satellite, but now we are starting to see clients a bit more frequently ( but not as much as we would like!) Like most satellites, there is no such thing as a typical client. We have had a Ukrainian refugee family looking for a little help until everything was in place; the father said he will be back to donate when they are all settled as they are so very grateful for all the help. We have had a retired lady, weeping as she was finding it very difficult to keep helping out her daughter who was working a zero hours contract but sadly, felt unable to visit the foodbank herself. We have had a Muslim family who had been rehoused in Colchester. Fortunately we had a good selection of vegetarian foods and by happy co-incidence,
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## Monkwick
We were also able to secure some new cafe still round tables ready for use once the community Cafe was ready to launch. We have cemented a good team in place and look forward to expanding the range of support we can offer in 2022.
2021 saw the Monkwick satellite reputation grow. We started receiving direct referrals from local support agencies including the job centre and the council housing team. Through the foodbank, we were able to lay the foundations for the launch of a community hub that would include having other support agencies on location during the satellites opening times.
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and offer them both food parcels along with wider care and support. A number of new friendships have developed through this. Our volunteers continue to support us well and we could not have managed without their continued commitment. We are also blessed to often receive donations from members of the local community and these are greatly appreciated.
By the time you read this report, the New Town Satellite will have been running for two plus years. Whilst the data shows that numbers using us are not huge, we feel that it was and still remains a great support to the New Town residents and beyond.
Having opened in the height of COVID lockdown, we were very restricted in terms of the welcome we could offer clients, albeit every effort was made. Now we are restriction free and thanks to the financial support from our local Councillor we now have a more Café like feel to the foyer area where we run from and this has really helped to enable us to offer a friendly welcome and a drink while we sort out the business of vouchers and parcels.
And, we mustn’t forget the support from central team, which is wonderful. We totally get that this is a team effort and everybody plays a part and that there are a huge number of people supporting us behind the scenes who we never get to see or even speak to and we greatly appreciate them. Our closest links are with Anne and Roy who often delivers to us and we are very grateful to them for their help and support.
Numbers are not everything and we have been blessed to have met a large number of people
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## Rowhedge
## **Over the past year and half the Rowhedge Foodbank has managed to support an increasing number of local families.**
We have received generous donations from individuals, local community events e.g. Mariners Christmas Sale, the village craft Fayre, Rowhedge Regatta and local organisations amounting to £2566.43.
Rowhedge Foodbank was nominated for and jointly won the annual Rowhedge Parish Council Community Award prize with the Rowhedge Hertiage Centre. Both organisations were awarded £100 and the Heritage Centre generously donated their £100 to the foodbank. The foodbank has also received regular food donations from people living in the village and Fingringhoe.
As a result of these donations we have been able to ensure that families have fresh fruit, vegetables, ham, butter, cheese and bread along with their food parcels. The Rowhedge team have recognised that many of the individuals and families accessing the foodbank have additional
needs and we actively encourage people to talk about these so additional help or funding can be sourced e.g. payment of utility bills, advice etc.
Over time we have built up strong partnership working with a number of agencies which has enabled us to make a big difference to some families. These partnerships, with different charities and mainstream organisations, include the Mariners Chapel in Rowhedge, Christians Against Poverty, the Green Doctor, Tescos and a new developing relationship with Citizens Advice Bureau who are planning to attend the foodbank once a month. As a team we have noticed that these agencies are working to full capacity and that often there is a wait when immediate help is needed. Because of this the team has been creative in working out solutions e.g. a family were supported in writing a letter to Will Quince regarding inadequate housing conditions.
Two particularly strong and effective partnerships are, St. Lawrence’s Primary School which has resulted in the foodbank being able to reach out to more families in need particularly during the school holidays and the Mariner’s Chapel which hosts the foodbank, provides storage space, advertises the foodbank at the Sunday service and makes a hardship fund available if necessary.
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the new year including ‘Boundary’ training and ‘Active Listening’ training. Post COVID we have changed the arrangement of collecting details from families to a more informal, friendly approach designed to make people feel more comfortable about asking for help.
While many families and individuals access the foodbank at the Mariners Chapel, we have also provided a delivery service to those who are unable to collect heavy bags of food or indeed manage to access the foodbank itself in person.
We would like to thank Colchester Foodbank in supporting everything we do and especially to Anne and Graham who go above and beyond to ensure we are fully supported.
The Rowhedge Team have met regularly throughout the year. These meetings strengthen both our knowledge, our team identity and a positive ‘can do approach’. As a result of these we have identified specific training needs for
## Tiptree
Rev Anne-Marie Renshaw and the team at Tiptree Churches Foodbank have been working hard to meet the needs of their community and Rev Ken Thom became a valued member of the Colchester Foodbank Trustee team. A big thank you to him for his hard work and we hope he enjoys his retirement!
2021 saw the development of a new stockroom at Tiptree United Reform Church completed and this satellite has Citizens Advice staff visiting to assist clients. It is increasingly busy, offering local delivery, tea and coffee and a warm welcome to clients. Having satellites in a number of different areas puts us closer to clients in need rather than them needing to find ways to reach us when they have little money, few transport options and low energy: just another way we take the demands of poverty into account.
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## Wivenhoe
Another challenging year for the Wivenhoe Foodbank, though since restrictions have eased we’ve been able to return to something closer to normality. Use of our foodbank dropped during the latter part of 2021, though numbers have been rising since the turn of the year. Some new clients have been coming from sectors of the local community not previously seen by us, illustrating how the cost of living crisis is now impacting on an even wider spectrum of the populus.
The local community however continue to make generous donations to us and we received just over 1 tonne of food donations in the last year. Particular thanks to the Wivenhoe Allotment and Garden Association, (for supplies of fresh fruit and veg during the summer months) and Black Cat Bakes and as local donation points in the town Wivenhoe One Stop and 10 Beer Bottles.
Fundraising events in the last year have included a nearly new clothes sale, which raised £300 and a Tombola at the Jubilee weekend Community event which raised £120.
We continue to work with other agencies and local stakeholders and are gearing up for what is expected to be a challenging winter into 2023.
We bid a sad goodbye to one of our stalwart volunteers who had been with us from the start, when they moved out of the area but have also welcomed new members to the team to fill the gap.
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Fundraising events in the last year have included a nearly new clothes sale, which raised £300 and a Tombola at the Jubilee weekend Community event which raised £120.
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## Our Volunteers
## **The recent trend continues in our volunteer workforce, with a high turnover and more and more people wanting to volunteer with Colchester Foodbank.**
The reasons for wanting to volunteer are as wide ranging as the people themselves. Many are moved to give something back to the community in which they live, some seek experience on the road back into paid employment and some hope to make new friends having suffered a bereavement or a recent move to Colchester.
There are a number that turn to the foodbank because they have seen or heard of it as a local charity, with a fair proportion wanting to work evenings and Sundays, on the odd day when they are free, when they are having a break from travelling, when the sporting season ends, when it is the school holidays, on Christmas Day even.
These applicants present a challenge for us because the Foodbank is built on daily teams who know each other and work together. They develop working relationships, often a degree of friendship and always a sense of belonging to the Foodbank Family. However, this camaraderie comes from working a set shift of four hours, on the same day each week with the same people. It relies upon every individual knowing their role and how they help to keep the foodbank machine rolling smoothly.
Potential volunteers who visit – and all applicants are asked to arrange a visit initially – are not only surprised at how well the warehouse is run, but how both training and experience are required before joining the Foodbank Family. With so many people working together, it is very important to get the right mix of personalities and is always a consideration when taking on new Volunteers.
At the satellites, the same principles apply. Lead volunteers train their own people, supported by Anne Barney who is Lead to the satellites, they often provide a service which is unique to their own area and clients and the Trustees are indebted to their commitment and expertise. Several years ago, it was decided that the foodbank should place satellites where the clients needed them to be, and thanks to the hard work of many, this has been achieved, allowing the foodbank to serve each community: Brightlingsea and Wivenhoe are our oldest satellites, Greenstead is our busiest and Myland our newest, with every satellite providing a vital service to their clients.
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Building on the black and white T shirts of the previous year and in response to Volunteer requests, Michael Beckett ordered a wide range of T-shirts, fleeces, polo shirts and the odd gilet (for difficult individuals like me), which boosted morale during the winter months - and the temperature! Available to all volunteers in all locations, it strengthened the sense of unity within the foodbank and helped our clients identify Volunteers by sight.
**I close this report as ever, praising the dedication and commitment of all our Volunteers, whether they work in the warehouse, pack parcels for clients, keep the Administration running smoothly, meet face-to-face with clients in the Front of House, collect from the Supermarkets, deliver parcels to clients who cannot get to the Foodbank, supply the satellites with the parcels and extra items needed by their clients and all the incidental moving of stock around as part of the Foodbank service to a wider community.**
I close this report as ever, praising the dedication and commitment of all our Volunteers, whether they work in the warehouse, pack parcels for clients, keep the Administration running smoothly, meet face-to-face with clients in the Front of House, collect from the Supermarkets, deliver parcels to clients who cannot get to the Foodbank, supply the satellites with the parcels and extra items needed by their clients and all the incidental moving of stock around as part of the Foodbank service to a wider community. At Christmas you received a star in recognition of your outstanding support, but this was merely the tip of the iceberg; our gratitude goes much deeper into the heart of the foodbank – our Volunteers.
## **Julie Rusiecki**
Trustee with responsibility for Volunteers
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## Training
Over the last year a number of training opportunities have taken place. All volunteers have had the opportunity to take part in a number of Training options.
## **Emergency First Aid Level run by Pro Training**
12 volunteers took part, passed and received a certificate
## **Health and Safety Refresher**
held at Tollgate with satellites invited, an attendance certificate was issued.
## **Green Doctor**
Volunteers from all satellites and Tollgate, were invited to hear how the organisation could support our clients. Carmel was very informative.
Some Satellites have arranged their own training relevant to their needs
Fire safety training in Wivenhoe
Training session with Carmel from Green Doctor
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## A Volunteer’s View
**Last year I concentrated on the message of why people volunteered and the same message is true, there is not one reason. So lets review the year (August to July ) from the perspective of a volunteer and the knock on affect on the foodbank and its loyal army of volunteers.**
The aftermath of Christmas and the increased donations in December allows the warehouse team to reconsider stock and storage options. Over the course of the year donations have seen a decrease and so stock rotation is a priority seeking long term solutions to storage and distribution is in the forefront of our mind. After what inevitably is a busy period the month before the Front of House and Satellite teams are able to regroup. Shortly after we have forgotten about Christmas the Christmas cards have been replaced by Easter Eggs and so the influx of chocolate in the form of eggs and bunnies begins. Critically we see extremely generous donations from schools, churches and the like at this time of year. There is a realisation that Easter Eggs are not an essential item to be distributed within a food parcel but it is the belief of the Trustees that putting a smile on the faces of our clients (and more likely their children) is also important.
August and the holiday season sees 2 major impacts on the Foodbank. The volunteer rota gets strained and flexed with holidays, in addition donations are generally lower. Whilst Covid19 vaccinations continued to be rolled out across the globe we in the warehouse in Tollgate continued to implement a stock rotation system in the warehouse but also within the satellites and off site storage locations.
As the children return to school in September, so our volunteers return to Tollgate and our satellite offices. What was concerning to see this year was that the donations generally continued to reduce. However, we did have confidence that no one would be sent away from any of our locations in and around Colchester. The teamwork and constant communication between the warehouse team, the parcel makers / pickers and Front of House meant there was a continued flow of information in regards to parcel content and stock levels.
January, February, March, April and May 22 saw continual and stepped increased requirement for parcels. With this increased demand it means that all parts of the volunteer force were kept busy. From sorting to picking, warehousing to distribution, all parts of the team maintained constant communication to make sure there was never a point where our clients were in a position not to receive the parcels that they are entitled to.
In October and November we saw Christmas Cards appearing on the shelves and Carols being played over the tannoy system of the supermarkets and shops, it was time for the foodbank to prepare for Christmas. The Trustees make sure that no one should miss out on Christmas so the Sorting teams begin to take out the salmon, ham, after dinner chocolates and similarly festive treats from contributions. Space begins to come at a premium in the Tollgate premises as this is the time of year when the generosity of the people of Colchester begins to become a factor. There is obviously a shared belief by the trustees, volunteers and the general public that no one should miss out at Christmas. I have mentioned before both publicly and privately that I continue to be humbled by the generosity of the general public and never is this more evident at this time of year.
With an increase in demand and reduction in donations we created a Stock Level Tool (SLT) therefore we can now determine levels of demand and stock levels. The key is for all volunteers to know what we are short of. In April when we had a real shortage of jam and appealed directly to the general public, the generosity of the general public meant that over the following weeks we saw specific donations of jam increase significantly.
I am often envious of the Front of House and Satellite offices during the month of December. They have the ability to see the faces of those we are all here to help and provide assistance for. The key in this month is that we are able to give something a little extra. I often think if those who donate could see the smiles of mothers who know they can make Christmas a little special or Grandparents who can now not worry about hosting grandchildren it would truly be priceless.
In May we were delighted to accept 4 Duke of Edinburgh participants. As part of the scheme there is a requirement to do a certain amount of volunteer hours and we were delighted to accept their assistance on both sorting and picking. This extra help was appreciated as we continued to see increased distribution of food parcels.
All in all another successful and rewarding year for all our volunteers.
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## Our Recognition & Awards
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## Foodbank annual
report donated to Essex Record Office **Essex Record Office now has in its archives the first item relating to foodbanks anywhere in the county – that of the Annual Report of Colchester Foodbank which is the busiest in Essex.**
It was presented to Mr Martin Astell, Essex Record Office Manager, by Sir Bob Russell who is a Trustee of Colchester Foodbank and also Joint Patron with the Bishop of Colchester.
Sir Bob said that social historians, in years to come, will find the contents of the annual report to be of great interest because it chronicles not only the growth of Colchester Foodbank over the past ten years but would also explain how it operated during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Foodbanks across the country have seen demand increase dramatically in recent years, and all the signs are that demand will be increasing significantly in the months ahead.
**I am writing mainly to thank you for sending us a copy of your annual report, which Sir Bob Russell brought in to the Record Office yesterday. We are pleased to have it, and researchers can now trace it in our catalogue Essex Archives Online (www. essexarchivesonline.co.uk) by our document reference A.I think that this is the first material that we have from your organisation, and we would be pleased to add to it. It does seem important that initiatives like this should be properly recorded, for permanent preservation.**
**Chris Lambert -** Archivist, Essex Record Office, Culture, Heritage and Green Spaces, Environment and Climate Action, Essex County Council
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## Living Wage - Third Sector Champion
**We pay the Real Living Wage. We campaign for the Real Living Wage. It is one of the best ways of reducing foodbank use.**
We have been recognised for our work in the community by the Living Wage Foundation. This is wonderful recognition for our campaigning work. Our hard work was recognised with the Real Living Wage Champion Award, Third Sector Champion, at an inspiring evening full of incredible stories of change and hope.
Working with community leaders from Colchester Citizens, we hosted an event introducing key member of local Government to the stories and lived experience of those seeking the Real Living Wage. We secured a meeting with the Leader of Essex County Council and raised the issue of becoming a Real Living Wage employer like the foodbank has. Colchester Borough Council again affirmed their commitment to it. Essex County Council considered making the change but subcontractors are their sticking point at the moment.
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and align their values with the Armed Forces Covenant. Public and private sector organisations are eligible to apply, including NHS boards, local authorities and emergency services.
## Bronze Award -
## Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS)
There are three award levels – bronze, silver and gold – and each requires recipients to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, which is a promise by the nation to ensure that those who Serve, or have Served, in the Armed Forces are treated fairly.
## **Colchester Foodbank has been honoured with a prestigious award for its work to help Armed Forces families in and around Colchester.**
The organisation has received the bronze award from the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) for its contribution to supporting the military community.
The ERS initially recognised only employer efforts but has expanded to include all groups that pledge, demonstrate or advocate support to defence and the Armed Forces community,
## High Sheriff
## visits the Foodbank **It was wonderful to welcome the High Sheriff of Essex Nick Alston to our foodbank in May.**
He visited Greenstead then Stanway, to give some well-earned recognition to our fabulous staff and volunteers Liz, Nichola, Julie, Anne, Armin, Win and Emma. All were quick to point out that they accepted them on behalf of the wider pool of volunteers who all work hard to make a difference for local people in crisis.
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## Our Voucher Issuing Agencies & Partners
## Voucher Issuing Agencies
We currently have 292 Agencies registered with us who can give out food vouchers, but only 172 have been active over the last year.
## Agencies registered...
- 18 charity holders
- 31 Churches
- 45 Community- scouts, guides, street groups
Our most active Agencies are the Job Centre, Help Through Hardship- a branch of Citizens Advice, Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, Colchester Council Peabody Support Service, and our local ward Councillors at Greenstead, New Town and Hythe as well as Monkwick with Berechurch.
- 149 statutory agencies - schools, health organisations , job centre etc
Many Secondary and Primary Schools use their vouchers especially during the School Holiday periods. Housing Organisations, Health Support agencies including Mental Health, Churches as well as Doctors surgeries hold vouchers. The local hospital discharge team has vouchers ready for when someone is discharged from hospital after a long stay or if they are unable to get to shops to buy food.
- 24 voluntary agencies
We are now seeing an increase in support groups wishing to become a Voucher Holder Agency.
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## Supermarkets
The supermarkets continue to support our efforts with food donation points.
At this year’s Tesco Big Collection, we even had volunteers from Hiscox take part. We collected 3063kgs of items that we are short of. This is a new record!
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## Shared Space
We share space with a few agencies who are aligned with our values and work to help those in poverty.
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## Tots2Teens
## **Helping in excess of over children from - years with clothing and equipment**
Since the Covid 19 Pandemic Tots2Teens have seen demand steadily rise. The requests for help have far expanded the Colchester Area with referrals from various agencies across Essex ,Tendring and Suffolk. We continued to operate from Tollgate Foodbank, increasing our days to cope with demand.
We took on extra volunteers to help us with the workload, helping us to sort and wash donations that were coming in. We were also still operating from Greenstead Community Hall on a Monday between 10-11:30 providing much needed help to families the other side of town which helped us massively due to coming out of lockdown.
On top of operating from the 2 hubs we still delivered clothing to families that were unable to travel to us. Tots2Teens are also thrilled to continue to work with Lee Pugh and Team with his ECargo Bike Delivery Service where they continue to help us with deliveries to families. We have had so much love and support from the community with donations of pre-loved and new items.
The guidance and support we have received from Mike, Nicola, Anne and Julie and all the volunteers at Tollgate Foodbank have been incredible. Without them we wouldn’t be able to provide half the service that we do and we are so very grateful for their constant love and support.
Tots2Teens are privileged to continue to be supported by Dennicci Blues Marketing Company where they send a huge box of gorgeous new clothing once a month which we love to give out to families that are needing help .
Tracy and her team from Sainsburys at Priory Walk in Colchester Town have been a rock of support to us by not only providing items we may request to the community on our Facebook page but for the last 2 years have amazingly provided 5 families with the complete Christmas Dinner and Goodies Hampers which have bought not only us but the families who received them to tears. We have been so lucky to be supported by Tom and his team at Tesco the Hythe with donations of nappies and clothing. In Christmas 2021 we launched our Christmas Eve Box where we asked
for donations of new pyjamas, fluffy socks and sweets to create for families that extra special Christmas treat to help keep children warm. We were blown away by the support of the community and many local Councillors with their donations which enabled us to give in excess over 300 children new pyjamas.
Tots2Teens were honoured to be asked again to be part of the Winter Warmers and Summer Coolers Events run by Les Nichols from NEST and Michelle from The Childrens Well Being Service which was based in Greenstead and Monkwick.
We have supported many families that arrived from Ukraine, providing clothing, bedding, equipment and continuing to provide families with help and support. Now with the rise in the cost of living, we can see a huge demand in our services with phone calls, emails, families that turn up to the hubs asking for help as well as from various agencies. In less than a 24 hour period we had requests to help 50 children and we expect this to rise as the colder months loom.
Tracy and her team from Sainsburys at Priory Walk in Colchester Town have been a rock of support to us by not only providing items we may request to the community on our Facebook page but for the last 2 years have amazingly provided 5 families with the complete Christmas Dinner and goodies Hampers which have bought not only us but the families who received them to tears
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## ReFocus
**This has been our second successful, fun-packed year, providing free arts and crafts bags filled with loads of goodies to give to children and adults across Colchester and the local area.**
Over 1,000 bags have been sent out, 500 alone at Christmas, with up to 8 crafts in each. Our wonderful helpers from Bright Lives Social Enterprise CIC, Isola Life Skills and DofE have helped create, cut, stamp, pack and have been crucial in the creation of each individual bag. We’re also blessed once more to have help from The Arts Society Colchester, Fabric Love and Colchester Arts Society who provide donations of a multitude of arts and crafts materials. Colchester Borough Homes have once again supported us financially, for which we are very grateful.
We’ve celebrated Easter, The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, summer holidays and Christmas with bright, shiny crafting materials for all to enjoy. We love making them as much as we hope each recipient enjoys discovering the contents of our free bags. Our bags are available to all and there is no age limit or restriction on abilities. The basic packs always include glue, glitter, cards, activities and all sorts of embellishments to fire the imagination. With donations of books, cuddlies, toys, most of which have been donated, also go into the bag, which is always finished off with a sprinkling of love.
This year, as covid restrictions lifted, we were able to get out and about to community events and clubs, providing free arts and crafts activities face to face with our customers. We’ve been able to work alongside some great organisations such as Community 360, African Families In The UK, Precious Bundles, Munch Clubs, and The Mayor’s Diversity Events. We’ve met many youngsters who have all enjoyed time spent being creative, having space to relax and process… and all for free.
We’re now planning for another Christmas, with angels, crackers, Father Christmas and bunting all being prepared. We wish to thank Colchester Foodbank for our hub space so that we can store and pull together every item and donation, create and make our creative bags as varied and exciting as possible. We hope, in our own way, that we’re able to give children and adults a chance to lose themselves in colouring and crafting and creating which, as we know only too well, is a huge benefit to mental health and well-being. It’s a joy and a privilege to make a difference.
**Paula Stubbs and Jenny Turnbull** Re:Focus Project Leaders
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## Bridgeway
Bridgeway helps to integrate newly arrived Muslim migrants and refugees from the Middle East with a local host in the Colchester community. The charity runs local social events which help local people to meet new Muslim migrants and learn about new cultures. They also run activities that help people become part of the local community. They have also helped new migrants with food and household items, when they first arrive in Colchester.
“Bridgeway want to give thanks to Colchester Foodbank for their supportive collaborative relationship. Foodbank stood beside us during the hard times and helped us store our stuff for more than one year and offered their volunteers to help us load and unload. This helped us deliver our goal to support our community for asylum seekers and refugees.”
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## Essex Uniform Exchange
Essex Free School Uniform provides second hand uniform to any family in need without application criteria or proof required. It is a donation based system that recycles Clothes that would usually have ended up in landfill.
2021 year was our second full year in operation and saw us distribute over 12000 items across our growing network. The Colchester Foodbank has been key in helping this growth by facilitating a hub at the main Tollgate hub and by allowing the foodbank satellites to take uniform donations.
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## PR Report
## **It has been an interesting year for Colchester Foodbank. A year of awards and celebration and of really hard work.**
Our involvement with Citizens UK and in particular our support of the campaign for the Real Living Wage led to us hosting an event with local civic leaders to help bring about change and influence policy locally. We were awarded the Third Sector Champion Award by the Living Wage Foundation for our work and for being a Real Living Wage employer ourselves.
Another celebration focused on the work of some of our key staff and volunteers as Colchester Foodbank received an unprecedented 7 awards from the High Sheriff: Ann Barney, Win Pomroy (Brightlingsea), Nicola Ransom, Armin Lange, Julie Rusiecki, Liz Carty (Greenstead) and Emma @@@@ (Rowhedge). We were present raising funds and awareness at the Colchester Food and Drink Festival and Brightlingsea Free Music Festival.
ITV and BBC camera crews have visited the Foodbank (without compromising the privacy of our clients); we have been a frequent voice on local radio stations and on LBC; we seem to be constantly in the newspapers and we remain the most ‘liked’ Foodbank on Facebook in the UK. Our CEO Mike Beckett also won Director of the Year with the Institute of Directors, East of England.
Why do awards and interviews, Facebook likes and articles matter? All of this work, along with the talks we give and our presence at community events, maintains our profile and our place in the public imagination, resulting in more businesses supporting us, more donations from organisations and the general public, more trust in us as a charity, more opportunities and partnerships and greater visibility for the wonderful work of our volunteers and donors. It also gives us a platform to speak about the reality of poverty in our nation, bust a few myths about foodbanks and reduce the stigma around needing us. So overall, being noticed helps us feed and resource people in poverty and crisis. So please lend us a ‘like’; read, hear and talk about our work and take the time to share it with others.
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## Look East
Look East BBC on Wednesday 3rd August featured East of England Co-op. The main focus was the 50% drop in donations and the vital role these supermarket collection points play. The 10.30pm slot featured several shots of our Tollgate shelves!
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## Our Finances
## Treasurer’s Report
## Governance
I am grateful to Taylor Rushby, Chartered Accountants, for their continued support in carrying out an Independent Examination and for presenting the accounts in the format currently required by The Charity Commission. In particular, I would like to thank Nick Taylor for his patient approach and guidance. Following the AGM, the accounts for 2021 will be lodged with the Charity Commission and will then be available to interested parties.
The Trustees have reviewed the Charity’s actual and projected financial position throughout the year, generally at monthly intervals. Funds received and expenses incurred have been itemised against each of the operational activities undertaken to engender transparency and to maintain the ability of Trustees to have a clear understanding of the underlying position at all times.
## Incoming Resources
An analysis of income is shown in Section C- Notes 3&4 of the accounts. Despite economic challenges funding has remained buoyant with many individuals, business organisations, philanthropic and faith groups choosing to continue their support of the Foodbank.
In overall terms, incoming resources totalled **£k** , compared to **£k** in 2020, a reduction of **£k (%)** with falls in donations and grants of **£k** & **£k** respectively.
## Resources Expended
Costs for the year on operational activities and organisational governance totalled **£k** , a reduction of **£k (%)** compared with the
previous year. A comprehensive analysis of expenditure is shown in the accounts in Section C – Note 6.
## Statement of Funds
As at the end of 2021, funds held totalled **£k** , inclusive of **£k** earmarked for the purchase of new premises for storage and distribution when the need arises.
Please get in touch should you wish for further information or clarification on any aspect of the accounts. In the first instance I can be contacted by email: **clivejoyce@colchester.foodbank.org.uk**
**Clive Joyce** Treasurer
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INDEPENDENf EXAMINERS REpowr
Colcb44t¢r F¢Mbdb8Trk
Independenl e¥4mlner'5 rqjort lo Ihe Tru&tees of Colche5ter Foodbank
I repon on the accounts of the org8ni$&tion for th¢ y¢ar ¢E)d¢d 315t D¢G¢mb¢r 2025.
Respectlve resp)llsibilitics of trllstees exaTniller
The Charity's trile¢S are responsible forthe preparation of the accounts in accord8nce with
the requirements of the Lharities Act 201 I I'the Act.). The chaTilJ's truste¢$ Consider that an
audii is not required for this year der section 144(21 of the Act artd ihat art ind¢pertdent
examination is needed.
It is JDY responsibility to..
exatnine the accounts under section 145 of the A¢t',
to follow the prOCUreS laid down in the General Directio given by the Charity
Commissioner utlder section 145{5Xbl of the Act,. and
to.ttate whether parti¢uiarmatt¢rs have come to my attention.
BJL¥iS of independent eximiner J report
The charity's gross incomc cxcccdcd £250,OOD and l am qualified to umlertake the
examination by bein8 & qualificd membcr of The Inshiut¢ of Lhartered Acwunlants In
England and Wales. My examination was c8rri¢d out in A¢¢ordsnGe with the G¢n¢ra]
Dirrclions giv¢n by th¢ Charity Comtni%sion¢r. An examination includes a review ofthe
8£eountillg record% kept by the ¢harity and acomparison of the accounts presented with those
rordS. It also Include oonsid¢Tation of any unusual ilems or dssclosiires in the accounts, and
the seeking of explanations from you Bs trustccs ¢onceming &ny su¢h matt¢rs.'I'he pro¢ur¢S
undcrtaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit An
cons¢qucnlly no opinion is given as lo wh¢th¢r th¢ account5 present a'true a[ fair vi¢w' and
the report is limited to those matters $¢t out in the 5tate]nent below.
Indep¢ndent exxmlller's ststement
In ¢onneGtion with Tny examination, no matter li&% come to my atteThtion'.
which gives me r¢a50tsabl¢ lo bEli¢ve th&t, in any n)at¢Tial rtsct, the
requiretnents..
la)
¢0 kEep accounting record5 Ln accordance with 5cetion 130 of the
2011 Act.,
to prepare accounts which accord with thc accounting records., and
to CoP[Y with the applicable requiren]ents set out in the Charities
(Accounts and Report8) Re8iilations 2008. or
to wbich, in tny opinion, attenlion should be drawTh inorder to enable a proper
und¢r8talldiiis of the accounts to be reached.
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(c)
Nick Taylor
Chartered Ac¢015ntant
The Coach House
Head8ate
Lolchester
C03 3BT
The date upon which my opinion is expressed is..
5 July 4022
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||**Colchester Foodbank**|**Colchester Foodbank**|**Colchester Foodbank**|Charity No|1152387||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Annualaccountsforthe period||||||
||Period start date|01/01/2021|**To**|Period end
date|31/12/2021||
||||||||
|**Section A**|**Statement of financial activities**||||||
|**Incoming resources (Note 3)**
**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Gift Aid relief
Charitable activities
Other trading activities
Investments
Grants received
Other
**Resources expended (Note 6)**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Governance costs
Other
Net gains/(losses) on investments
**Extraordinary items**
Other gains/(losses)
**_Reconciliation of funds:_**
**_Total_**
**_Net movement in funds_**
Total funds brought forward
**_Total funds carried forward_**
**_Total_**
**Net income/(expenditure) before investment**
**gains/(losses)**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
**Transfers between funds**
**Other recognised** **gains/(losses):**
Gains and losses on revaluation of fixed assets for the charity’s own use||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**Prior year**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
F01
F02
F03
F04
F05|||||
|||217,249|-|-|217,249|303,624|
|||5,591|-|-|5,591|3,905|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||222|-||222|162|
|||34,878|-|-|34,878|85,486|
|||-|-|-|-|471|
|||257,940|-|-|257,940|393,648|
||||||||
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||118,752|-|-|118,752|141,768|
|||5,683|-|-|5,683|1,921|
|||11|-|-|11|-|
|||124,446|-|-|124,446|143,689|
||||||||
|||133,494|-|-|133,494|249,959|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||133,494|-|-|133,494|249,959|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
||||||||
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||133,494|-|-|133,494|249,959|
||||||||
|||346,450|-|-|346,450|96,491|
|||479,944|-|-|479,944|346,450|
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Section 8
Balance sheet
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283.017
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479.944
479.944
346.450
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479.944
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346.150
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## **Section C Notes to the accounts**
## Note 1 **Basis of preparation**
_**This section should be completed by all charities** ._
## **1.1 Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The accounts have been prepared in accordance with:
• the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014
- and with the Charities Act 2011.
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102.*
## **1.2 Going concern**
_**If there are material uncertainties related to events or conditions that cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, please provide the following details or state "Not applicable", if appropriate:**_
An explanation as to those factors that support _**Not applicable**_ the conclusion that the charity is a going concern; Disclosure of any uncertainties that make the _**Not applicable**_ going concern assumption doubtful; Where accounts are not prepared on a going _**Not applicable**_ concern basis, please disclose this fact together with the basis on which the trustees prepared the accounts and the reason why the charity is not regarded as a going concern.
## **1.3 Change of accounting policy**
The accounts present a true and fair view and the accounting policies adopted are those outlined in note 2.
Yes* * -Tick as appropriate No* _**Please disclose: (i) the nature of the change in accounting policy; (ii) the reasons why applying the new accounting policy provides more reliable and more relevant information; and**_
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_**(iii) the amount of the adjustment for each line affected in the current period, each prior period presented and the aggregate amount of the adjustment relating to periods before those presented, 3.44 FRS 102 SORP.**_
## **1.4 Changes to accounting estimates**
No changes to accounting estimates have occurred in the reporting period (3.46 FRS 102 SORP).
Yes* * -Tick as appropriate No*
_**Please disclose:**_
_**(i) the nature of any changes; (ii) the effect of the change on income and expense or assets and liabilities for the current period; and (iii) where practicable, the effect of the change in one or more future periods.**_
## **1.5 Material prior year errors**
No material prior year error have been identified in the reporting period (3.47 FRS 102 SORP).
Yes* * -Tick as appropriate No* _**Please disclose:**_
_**(i) the nature of the prior period error;**_
_**(ii) for each prior period presented in the accounts, the amount of the correction for each account line item affected; and (iii) the amount of the correction at the beginning of the earliest prior period presented in the accounts.**_
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## **Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 2 Accounting policies**
## **2.2 INCOME**
_This standard list of accounting policies has been applied by the charity except for those ticked "No" or "N/a". Where a different or additional policy has been adopted then this is detailed in the box below._
|**Recognition of income**
Donated services and facilities that are consumed immediately are recognised as
income with an equivalent amount recognised as an expense under the appropriate
heading in the SOFA.
The cost of any stock of goods donated for distribution to beneficiaries is deemed to be
the fair value of those gifts at the time of their receipt and they are recognised on receipt.
In the reporting period in which the stocks are distributed, they are recognised as an
expense at the carrying amount of the stocks at distribution.
**Donated services and**
**facilities**
Donated services and facilities are included in the SOFA when received at the value of
the gift to the charity provided the value of the gift can be measured reliably.
**Income from interest,**
**royalties and dividends**
This is included in the accounts when receipt is probable and the amount receivable can
be measured reliably.
**Income from membership**
**subscriptions**
Membership subscriptions received in the nature of a gift are recognised in Donations
and Legacies.
Membership subscriptions which gives a member the right to buy services or other
benefits are recognised as income earned from the provision of goods and services as
income from charitable activities.
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:
the charity becomes entitled to the resources;
· it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources; and
the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability
**Donated goods**
**Contractual income and**
**performance related**
**grants**
**Offsetting**
There has been no offsetting of assets and liabilities, or income and expenses, unless required o
permitted by the FRS 102 SORP or FRS 102.
**Grants and donations**
Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the general income
recognition criteria are met (5.10 to 5.12 FRS102 SORP).
This is only included in the SoFA once the charity has provided the related goods or
services or met the performance related conditions.
Donated goods are measured at fair value (the amount for which the asset could be
exchanged) unless impractical to do so.
In the case of performance related grants, income must only be recognised to the extent
that the charity has provided the specified goods or services as entitlement to the grant
only occurs when the performance related conditions are met (5.16 FRS 102 SORP).
**Legacies**
Legacies are included in the SOFA when receipt is probable, that is, when there has
been grant of probate, the executors have established that there are sufficient assets in
the estate and any conditions attached to the legacy are either within the control of the
charity or have been met.
**Government grants**
The charity has received government grants in the reporting period
**Tax reclaims on**
**donations and gifts**
Gift Aid receivable is included in income when there is a valid declaration from the
donor. Any Gift Aid amount recovered on a donation is considered to be part of that gift
and is treated as an addition to the same fund as the initial donation unless the donor or
the terms of the appeal have specified otherwise.
Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included in the SoFA as income from donations
when receivable.
**Support costs**
The charity has incurred expenditure on support costs.
**Volunteer help**
Donated goods for resale are measured at fair value on initial recognition, which is the
expected proceeds from sale less the expected costs of sale, and recognised in 'Income
from other trading activities' with the corresponding stock recognised in the balance
sheet. On its sale the value of stock is charged against 'Income from other trading
activities' and the proceeds from sale are also recognised as 'Income from other trading
activities'.
Goods donated for on-going use by the charity are recognised as tangible fixed assets
and included in the SoFA as incoming resources when receivable.
The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts but is described
in the trustees’ annual report.|Yes
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|---|---|---|
||**2.4 ASSETS**
**Intangible fixed assets**
**Heritage assets**
Debtors (including trade debtors and loans receivable) are measured on initial recognition at
Goods or services provided as part of a charitable activity are measured at net realisable value
based on the service potential provided by items of stock.
Work in progress is valued at cost less any foreseeable loss that is likely to occur on the contract
They are valued at cost.
**Investments**
Fixed asset investments in quoted shares, traded bonds and similar investments are
valued at initially at cost and subsequently at fair value (their market value) at the year
end. The same treatment is applied to unlisted investments unless fair value cannot be
measured reliably in which case it is measured at cost less impairment.
Investments held for resale or pending their sale and cash and cash equivalents with a
maturity date of less than 1 year are treated as current asset investments
**Grants with performance**
**conditions**
Where the charity gives a grant with conditions for its payment being a specific level of
service or output to be provided, such grants are only recognised in the SoFA once the
recipient of the grant has provided the specified service or output.
**Grants payable without**
**performance conditions**
Where there are no conditions attaching to the grant that enables the donor charity to
realistically avoid the commitment, a liability for the full funding obligation must be
recognised.
**Stocks and work in**
**progress**
Stocks held for sale as part of non-charitable trade are measured at the lower or cost or net
realisable value.
The charity has intangible fixed assets, that is, non-monetary assets that do not have
physical substance but are identifiable and are controlled by the charity through custody
or legal rights. The amortisation rates and methods used are disclosed in note 9.5
They are valued at cost.
The charity has heritage assets, that is, non-monetary assets with historic, artistic,
scientific, technological, geophysical or environmental qualities that are held and
maintained principally for their contribution to knowledge and culture. The depreciation
rates and methods used as disclosed in note 9.6.1.4.
This includes any realised or unrealised gains or losses on the sale of investments and
any gain or loss resulting from revaluing investments to market value at the end of the
year.
**2.3 EXPENDITURE AND LIABILITIES**
**Liability recognition**
Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or
constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources and the amount of the
obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.
**Investment gains and**
**losses**
The charity accounts for basic financial instruments on initial recognition as per
paragraph 11.7 FRS102 SORP. Subsequent measurement is as per paragraphs 11.17
to 11.19, FRS102 SORP.
**Tangible fixed assets for**
**use by charity**
The depreciation rates and methods used are disclosed in note 9.2.
**Governance and support**
**costs**
Support costs have been allocated between governance costs and other support.
Governance costs comprise all costs involving public accountability of the charity and its
compliance with regulation and good practice.
Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost
categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, eg allocating property costs
by floor areas, or per capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage.
**Settlement of insurance**
**claims**
Insurance claims are only included in the SoFA when the general income recognition
criteria are met (5.10 to 5.12 FRS102 SORP) and are included as an item of other
income in the SoFA.
They are valued at cost.
These are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year, and cost at least
£1,000
**Redundancy cost**
The charity made no redundancy payments during the reporting period.
**Deferred income**
No material item of deferred income has been included in the accounts.
**Creditors**
The charity has creditors which are measured at settlement amounts less any trade
discounts
**Provisions for liabilities**
A liability is measured on recognition at its historical cost and then subsequently
measured at the best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation at the
reporting date
**Basic financial**
**instruments**|Yes
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## **Debtors**
**Current asset investments**
( g ) g settlement amount after any trade discounts or amount advanced by the charity. Subsequently, they are measured at the cash or other consideration expected to be received.
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settlement amount after any trade discounts or amount advanced by the charity. Subsequently,
they are measured at the cash or other consideration expected to be received.
The charity has has investments which it holds for resale or pending their sale and cash and Yes No N/a
cash equivalents with a maturity date less than one year. These include cash on deposit and
cash equivalents with a maturity date of less than one year held for investment purposes rather
than to meet short term cash commitments as they fall due.
Yes No N/a
They are valued at fair value except where they qualify as basic financial instruments.
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|**Section C**|**Notes to the acco**|**unts (cont)**|**unts (cont)**|**unts (cont)**|**unts (cont)**|**unts (cont)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**TOTAL INCO**
**Other:**
**Other trading**
**activities:**
**Income from**
**investments:**
**Separate**
**material item**
**of income:**
**Note 3**
**Donations**
**and legacies:**
**Charitable**
**activities:**|**Analysis of income**
**Analysis**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**Prior year**
**£**
**£**
217,249
- - 217,249 303,624
5,591
- -5,5913,905
- - - - -
34,878
- -34,878 85,486
- - - -
- - - - -
- - - -
257,718
- - 257,718 393,015
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
222
- - 222 162
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
222
- - 222 162
- - - - 471
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - 471
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
257,940
- - 257,940 393,648|||||
||Donations andgifts|217,249|-|-|217,249|303,624|
||Gift Aid|5,591|-|-|5,591|3,905|
||Legacies|-|-|-|-|-|
||General grants provided by government/other
charities|34,878|-|-|34,878|85,486|
||Membership subscriptions and sponsorships
which are in substance donations|-|-|-|-||
||Donatedgoods,facilities and services|-|-|-|-|-|
||Other|-|-|-|-||
||**Total**|257,718|-|-|257,718|393,015|
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||Other|-|-|-|-|-|
||**Total**|-|-|-|-|-|
||Interest income|222|-|-|222|162|
||Dividend income|-|-|-|-|-|
||Rental and leasingincome|-|-|-|-|-|
||Other|-|-|-|-|-|
||**Total**|222|-|-|222|162|
||Fundraising|-|-|-|-|471|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
|||-|-|-|-|-|
||**Total**|-|-|-|-|471|
||Conversion of endowment funds into income|-|-|-|-|-|
||Gain on disposal of a tangible fixed asset held
for charity's own use|
-|-|-|-|-|
||Gain on disposal of a programme related
investment|-|-|-|-|-|
||Royalties from the exploitation of intellectual
propertyrights|-|-|-|-|-|
||Other|-|-|-|-|-|
||**Total**
**ME**|-|-|-|-|-|
|||257,940|-|-|257,940|393,648|
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|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Colchester Borough Council**
**Community 360**
**South East Anglia Quakers**
**Essex Association of Local Councils**
**Waitrose**
**Essex County Council**
**Trussell Trust**
**Other**
**Total**
**Colchester Borough Council**
**Anglian Community Trust**
**CAF Coronavirus Emergncy Fund**
**Colcheser and Tendring**
**Essex Community Foundation**
**Essex County Council**
**Paypal Giving Fund**
**Trussell Trust**
**HM Treasury**
**Other**
**Total**
**Note 4 Analysis of receipts of government grants and other grants**
**Description**
to open Brightlingsea brance
to open Brightlingsea brance
for salaries of warehouse supervisor
for premises
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
**Description**||**This year**
**£**|
|||8,395|
|||2,000|
||for premises|5,000|
||to open Brightlingsea brance|1,000|
|||2,666|
||to open Brightlingsea brance|6,797|
||for salaries of warehouse supervisor|9,020|
|||-|
||**Total**
**Description**|34,878|
|||**Last year**
**£**|
|||16,400|
|||2,500|
|||2,500|
|||1,639|
|||14,850|
|||600|
|||4,440|
|||16,165|
||Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme|3,892|
|||-|
||**Total**|62,986|
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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)
Note 5 Donated goods, facilities and services
This year Last year
£ £
Seconded staff - -
Use of property - -
Other - -
- -
Items of equipment have been donated which have been included as tangible fixed assets at an
Please provide details of the accounting
estimated market value at the time of receipt.
policy for the recognition and valuation
of donated goods, facilities and
services.
The charity receives donated food items. There is no valuation of these goods and they are
Please give details of other forms of
not recognised in the accounts as either income or stock held at the year end.
other donated goods and services not The main premises are being occupied rent-free; the notional cost and income are not
recognised in the accounts, eg recognised in the accounts.
contribution of unpaid volunteers.
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|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**£**
**£**
**Analysis**
**Expenditure on charitable activities:**
**Note 6 Analysis of expenditure**
**This year**
**Last year**|||||||||
|Warehouse and storage costs|6,752|-|-|6,752|24,747|-|-|24,747|
|Premises repairs and maintenance|2,986|-|-|2,986|4,282|-|-|4,282|
|Rates and water|105|-|-|105|78|||78|
|Light and heat|1,182|-|-|1,182|1,813|||1,813|
|Satellite centres|8,647|-|-|8,647|1,891|||1,891|
|Insurance|1,228|-|-|1,228|2,307|||2,307|
|Advertising and signage|659|-|-|659|-|||-|
|Warehouse/distribution manager|13,580|-|-|13,580|13,387|-|-|13,387|
|Managerial services|28,800|-|-|28,800|21,581|-|-|21,581|
|Other salaries and wages|10,186|-|-|10,186|13,111|-|-|13,111|
|Social Security and other pension costs|1,058|-|-|1,058|8,217|-|-|8,217|
|Van and travel expenses|11,162|-|-|11,162|5,409|-|-|5,409|
|Computer and telephone costs|1,201|-|-|1,201|402|-|-|402|
|Stationery and postage|1,416|-|-|1,416|1,739|-|-|1,739|
|Training and volunteer support|3,786|-|-|3,786|3,642|-|-|3,642|
|Food items|9,677|-|-|9,677|4,218|-|-|4,218|
|Bank and other costs|-|-|-|-|250|-|-|250|
|Depreciation, disposal and impairment|16,327|-|-|16,327|12,194|-|-|12,194|
|**Total expenditure on charitable**
**activities**
**Expenditure on governance:**|118,752|-|-|118,752|119,268|-|-|119,268|
||||||||||
|Subscriptions|1,549|-|-|1,549|1,397|-|-|1,397|
|Annual report costs|2,087|-|-|2,087|-|-|-|-|
|Payroll processing costs|302|-|-|302|324|-|-|324|
|Independent Examiner's fees|300|-|-|300|200|-|-|200|
|Other legal and professional fees|1,445|-|-|1,445|-|-|-|-|
|**Total expenditure on governance**
**Separate material item of expense**|5,683|-|-|5,683|1,921|-|-|1,921|
||||||||||
|DEFRA funds distributed|-|-|-|-|-|22,500|-|22,500|
||-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Other**
**Total**|-|-|-|-|-|22,500|-|22,500|
||||||||||
|Interestpaid on overdue tax|11|-|-|11|-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**
**Total other expenditure**|11|-|-|11|-|-|-|-|
||124,446|-|-|124,446|121,189|22,500|-|143,689|
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## **Section C Notes to the accounts**
## **Note 7 Details of certain items of expenditure**
## **Fees for examination of the accounts**
_**Please provide details of the amount paid for any statutory external scrutiny of accounts and other services provided by your independent examiner. If nothing was paid please enter '0' in the appropriate box(es).**_
|**Note 7 Details of certain items of expenditure**
**_Please provide details of the amount paid for any statutory external scrutiny of_**
**_accounts and other services provided by your independent examiner. If nothing_**
**_was paid please enter '0' in the appropriate box(es)._**
**Fees for examination of the accounts**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Other fees (for example: financial advice, consultancy, accountancy services) paid**
**to the independent examiner**
**Independent examiner’s fees**
**Assurance services other than audit or independent examination**
**Tax advisory fees**|**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**|
||300|300|
||-|-|
||-|-|
||-
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 8 Paid employees**
## **Staff Costs**
|**Staff Costs**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Salaries and wages**
**Social security costs**
**Other employee benefits**
**Total staff costs**
**Pension costs (defined contribution scheme)**|**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**|
||53,978|48,080|
||-|6,102|
||1,058|2,115|
||-|-|
||55,036|56,297|
No employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) for the reporting period of more than £60,000
|**Average head count in the year**
**The parts of the charity in which the**
**employees work**||**This year**
**Number**|**Last year**
**Number**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**Fundraising**|-|-|
||**Charitable**
**Activities**|2|2|
||**Governance**|1|1|
||**Other**|-|-|
||**Total**|3|3|
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
**Note 9 Defined contribution pension scheme or defined benefit scheme accounted for as a defined contribution scheme.**
_**Please complete this note if a defined contribution pension scheme is operated.**_
**This year Last year £ £ Amount of contributions recognised in the SOFA as an expense** 1,058 2,115
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont) Note 10 Tangible fixed asset** _**Please complete this note if the charity has any tangible fixed assets**_ **Cost or valuation**
|At the beginning of the year
Additions
Revaluations
Disposals
Transfers *
At end of the year
**Basis**
**Rate**
At beginning of the year
Disposals
Depreciation
Impairment
At end of the year
Net book value at the beginning of the year
Net book value at the end of the year
**Net book value**
**Depreciation and impairments**|**Freehold land &**
**buildings**
**£**|**Other land &**
**buildings**
**£**|**Plant,**
**machinery and**
**motor vehicles**
**£**|
**Fixtures, fittings**
**and equipment**
**£**|**Total**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||-|-|17,000|58,627|75,627|
||-|-|-|26,467|26,467|
||-|-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|- 16,920|- 16,920|
||-|-|-|-|-|
||-|-|17,000|68,174|85,174|
|||||||
||||Reducing
balance|Reducing balance||
||||20%|15%||
|||||||
||-|-|3,400|8,794|12,194|
||-|-|-|- 2,538|- 2,538|
||-|-|2,720|9,245|11,965|
||-|-|-|-|-|
||-|-|6,120|15,501|21,621|
|||||||
||-|-|13,600|49,833|63,433|
||-|-|10,880|52,673|63,553|
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Note 11 Stocks
The charity receives and collects donated goods for distribution. A relatively small amount of
purchases supplement the amount of stock. The Trustees have not valued the donated goods and,
therefore, do not disclose a value of stock held at the period end.
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 20 Creditors and accruals**
_**Please complete this note if the charity has any creditors or accruals.**_
## **20.1 Analysis of creditors**
|**Accruals for grants payable**
**Bank loans and overdrafts**
**Trade creditors**
**Payments received on account for contracts or**
**performance-related grants**
**Accruals and deferred income**
**Taxation and social security**
**Other creditors**
**Total**|**Amounts falling due within**
**oneyear**|**Amounts falling due within**
**oneyear**|
**Amounts falling due after**
**more than oneyear**|
**Amounts falling due after**
**more than oneyear**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**|**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**|
||-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|
||1,711|-|-|-|
||-|-|-|-|
||1,711|-|
-|-|
## **20.2 Deferred income**
_**Please complete this note if the charity has deferred income.**_
|**_Please explain the reasons why income is deferred._**
**_Movement in deferred income account_**
**Balance at the start of the reporting period**
**Amounts added in current period**
**Amounts released to income from previous periods**
**Balance at the end of the reporting period**|**Thisyear**|**Lastyear**|**Lastyear**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
|||||
|||**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**|
|||-|-|
|||-|-|
|||-|-|
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
**Note 12 Cash at bank and in hand**
|**Note 12 Cash at bank and in hand**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Other**
**Cash at bank and on hand**
**Total**
**Short term cash investments (less than 3 months maturity date)**
**Short term deposits at bank**|**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**|
||-|-|
||379,804|229,582|
||38,298|53,435|
||-|-|
||418,102|283,017|
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|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
**Note 13 Charity funds**
**_* Key: PE - permanent endowment funds; EE - expendible endowment funds; R - restricted income funds, including special trusts, of the charity; and U - unrestricted_**
**_funds_**
**13.1 Details of material funds held and movements during the CURRENT reporting period**|**Fund**
**balances**
**brought**
**forward**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Transfers**
**Gains and**
**losses**
**Fund**
**balances**
**carried**
**forward**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
General Fund
UR
166,634 235,033 - 106,283 - 100,484 - 194,900
Premises Project
UR
150,050 - - 100,484 - 250,534
Brightlingsea
UR
8,553 13,748 - 8,541 - - 13,760
Wivenhoe
UR
5,524 1,594 - 60 - - 7,058
Designated for food
UR
for food purchases
15,689 7,565 - 9,562 - - 13,692
- - - - - -
- - - - - -
- - - - - -
- - - - - -
- - - - - -
**_Other funds_**
**N/a**
**N/a**
- - - - - -
346,450 257,940 - 124,446 - - 479,944
**Type PE, EE**
**R or UR ***
**Purpose and Restrictions**
**Total Funds**
**Fund names**
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||**_usts, of the charity; and U - unrestricted_**|**Fund**
**balances**
**carried**
**forward**
**£**|166,634|150,050|8,553|5,524|15,689|-|-|-|-|-|-|346,450|18/07/202|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Gains and**
**losses**
**£**|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-||
|||**Transfers**
**£**|- 114,616|98,927|-|-|15,689|-|-|-|-|-|-|-||
|||**e**|8||1|0||0||||||9||
|**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
**Note 13 Charity funds (cont)**|**13.2 Details of material funds held and movements during the PREVIOUS reporting period**
**_* Key: PE - permanent endowment funds; EE - expendible endowment funds; R - restricted income funds, including special tr_**
**_funds_**|**Expenditur**
**£**|- 119,29|-|- 1,61|- 28|-|- 22,50|-|-|-|-|-|- 143,68||
|||**Income**
**£**|360,764|1,657|5,360|3,367|-|22,500|-|-|-|-|-|393,648||
|||**Fund**
**balances**
**brought**
**forward**
**£**|39,784|49,466|4,804|2,437|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|96,491||
|||
**Purpose and Restrictions**|||||for food purchases|DEFRA funds to be distributed|||||**N/a**|||
|||**Type PE, EE**
**R or UR ***|UR|UR|UR|UR|UR|R|||||**N/a**|||
|||**Fund names**|General Fund|Brightlingsea|Wivenhoe|Premises Project|Designated for food|DEFRA|||||**_Other funds_**|||
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**Note 14 Transactions with trustees and related parties**
## **14.1 Trustee remuneration and benefits**
None of the trustees have been paid any remuneration or received any other benefits from an employment with their charity or a related entity is this year or the last.
## **14.2 Trustees' expenses**
No trustee expenses have been incurred in this year or the last.
**14.3 Transactions with related parties** There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period or the last.
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**COLCHESTER.FOO** DB **ANK.ORG.UK**
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SHOPPING LIST
Please donate any item
from this list
FOOD?ANX
/ Tinned meat
/ Tinned fruit
/ Tomatoes tins
/ Small rice bags
/ Jam (chocspread, peanut butter)
/ Squash
/ Longlife Milk IUHT)
/ Longlife Juice
/ Pasta Sauce
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/ Rice Pudding
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## A big thank you!
**We wish to thank all those people who have donated to the foodbank, whether it has been anonymously within the many stores that have collection points, through churches, schools, communities and businesses. Also, a special thank you to those individuals who regularly drop off donations at Stanway Tollgate, Tiptree Foodbank or their local foodbank.**
## Colchester Borough Homes
Cosmic Puffin music festival
Fowler Smith and Jones
## Glenn Tilbrook
Hiscox Insurance
Kim Moore
Native Promotions
The Deputy of Brightlingsea **, Frank Pomroy**
The Mayor of Colchester **/ Tim Young**
The Mayor of Colchester **/, Cllr Robert Davison**
Tollgate Partnership
## Rebecca Osborne and Paul Osborne
Jaye Gibbons
We especially wish to say thank you to the
many people who donated and wished to remain anonymous.
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17th Colchester Cub Scouts 17th Colchester Sea Scouts 17th Sea Scouts Colchester 1st Gt Horksley Cubs 1st Rowhedge Brownies 25TH Colchester Guides 26TH SEA SCOUTS 2nd Lexden Beavers 2nd Lexden Scouts 30th Colchester Scouts Abacus Kindergarten AGM PLC ALDI LONDON ROAD ALDI COWDRAY AVE Aldi Stane Park All SAINTS &St JAMES BRIGHTLINGSEA All Saints Church Great Horksley Alresford Church AMOCO GIFFIN Amplers Construction ARGOS Army Cadets Army Arts Centre Asda Colchester ASDA TIPTREE Atlantis Health and Beauty B&M Barnardo’s Day Nursery BARNARDOS CHILDREN CENTRE Bartech Engineering BAYNARDS PRIMARY SCHOOL Beacon House Birch School/ Caterpillars Pre School Birkett Long Solicitors Bishop William Ward School Black Cat Bakes Boaz Project Bookers Box River Studios Boxted WI Boyer Group BP Scaffolding Braiswick Primary School Brands Direct Brightlingsea Community
Brightlingsea coop BRIGHTLINGSEA FOODBANK Brightlingsea Football Club Brightlingsea SPAR BRIGHTLINGSEA TESCO BRIGHTLINGSEA COOP Brooklands Primary Brantham BUSY BEES KINDERGARTEN Cadburys CADMAN Camulos Academy Castle Methodist Church CGN LTD MCDONALDS Channel Central Chapel Church Chesterwell Park Coop - Chestnut Nursery Christ Embassy Colchester Christchurch CofE CHS Cllr Harris Cllr Lin Barton Co-op Iceni Way Shrub End Coggeshall Scouts and Guides Colchester Beavers 30th COLCHESTER BOOT CAMP Colchester Borough Council Colchester Cat Rescue Colchester County High School Colchester Dance HQ Colchester Forum Rotary Club Colchester Garrison HQ Staff Colchester High School Colchester Hospital Colchester Hospital IT Dept Colchester Institute Colchester Micro Biology Department Colchester Royal Grammer Colchester SAP Group Colchester Seventh Day Adventist Colchester Tennis Academy Colchester United Colgate Community 360 Consensus Coop Harwich Road
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## Coop prettygate
Coop Station Road Brightlingsea COSTA LION WALK Costa Tesco Hythe Councillor Dave Harris Country Food Trust Courtyard Stores CRC PROBATION CSH Currys D&PScaffoldong Daniel Connal Partnership Dedham and Stratford Community Dedham Co-op Dedham Cof E Church DEDHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL Earls Colne Farm East Mersea Church East of England Paddle Sports Eight Ash Green Bakery Ellisons Enigen uk Essex County Council Essex County Library Essex CRC Essex Cricket Club Essex Student Union Essex University Essex University Theatre Arts Society EVO supplies Family Solutions Fareshare Fenwicks Fiducia Wealth Management First Bus Fisher Jones Greenwood Fiveways Co-op Fordham & Eight Ash Green Church Fosters Financial Freddie Britcher Toys Friars Grove Primary Funky Voices Gementera Gilberd School Giles of Alresford GLOBAL STONE
Gosbecks School Gray Dawes Travel Great Bentley Church Great Horksley Apple Farm GREAT TEY PRIMARY Greenstead Co-op Greenstead Evangelical Free Church Greenstead Foodbank Greenstead Social Club Grove-pre school Haines Watts Accountants Hamilton School Handelsbanken Bank Happy Homes Farm Heathlands School Helping Kids In Colchester Hiscox Holmwood House School Holt Farm HOMESTART Hopscotch HSBC BANK Iceland ICENI ACADEMY INCODIA INTERNATIONAL Ireton Road Neighbourhood ISITE James Buckland John Fenn Open Reach Jollyess The Pet People Just Imagine Nursery Kelvedon Labour Club KENDALL PRIMARY SCHOOL Kent & Blaxill Kier Construction Kingsford infant school Kingsland Church Kingswood Hoe School Lancer House Langenhoe & Abberton Shop Langham Ward Layer De La Haye Church Layer Marney Church Leavenheath Community Lexden Methodist Lexden Primary School
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Lexden Spring School Lidl Abbotts Road Lidl Gosbecks Road Linden Lady Linmar Care Lion Walk URC Lions 105 Century Lions Corner Community Shop Little Beginnings Child Minding Little Bentley Service Station LSL Communities Make Lunch Mile End Marfleet Contractors Mariners Chapel Mayne Vets McColls Monkwick McDonalds McGhan Lees Dance Academy McLauchans Farm Mercers Farm Allotmnet Mersea Road Coop Mersea School Messing Primary School Mile End Co-op Milldene School Tiptree Millfield School, Wivenhoe Mobile Green Grocer Mobile Grocer Monkey Puzzle Nursery MONKWICK JUNIOR SCHOOL Monkwick with Berechurch Foodbank Morrisons Little Clacton Morrsions Clacton MOUNT BURES COMMUMITY Multiple Sclerosis UK Munch Club Myland Parish Church N20 National Citizens Service Nayland Primary School NE ESSEX COOPERATIVE ACADEMY New Homes Group North Primary School OLD HEATH COOP OMG STATIONARY One Stop Greenstead
One Stop Kelvedon One Stop North Hill One Stop Plume Avenue Open Reach OPEN ROAD Oracle Dental Group Greenstead ORCHARD BAPTIST CHURCH OXFORD HOUSE SCHOOL P&F CLADDING Parsons Heath School PAXMAN ACADEMY Peabody Penguin Books Perrywoods Garden Centre Peverel Lodge 7743 PGW Trading Pippins Nursery Wakes Colne Plume Avenue Church Prettygate Baptist Prettygate Infant School Probation Service Purcell Architecture Ltd Queen Boudica Primary School Rapid Electrics RCCG STILLWATER Reading Partnership Redeemer Church Refugee Action Ribena Lucozade Roach Vale Primary Robert Prince Rotary Club Rowhedge Community Rowhedge Coop ROY GOVER CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS Sainsbury’s Colchester Sainsbury’s Colchester Layer Road Local Sainsbury’s Stanway Sainsburys Fareshare Samson Road Co-op Brightlingsea Sixth Form College Slimmers World Smyhths SODEXO SPAR BRIGHTLINGSEA Spiritualist Church
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Squirrelsfield Close St Albrights Baby Group St Andrews Arlesford St Andrews Church Greenstead St Andrews School St ANDREWS TEAM MINISTRY St Annes, Greenstead St Benedict’s College St Botolph’s Church St James & St Sabeena St James Church ST JAMES PRIMARY SCHOOL St James, Brightlingsea ST JOHN THE BAPTIST LAYER DE LA HAYE St John’s Church St John’s Cof E Primary School St John’s Payne St Lawrence C of E Primary School Rowhedge St Leonard’s Church St Mary the Virgin Ardleigh St Marys Church Dedham St Marys Church Easthorpe St Marys Church Great Bentley St Marys Church Peldon St Marys Wivenhoe St Nicholas Pre School St Peters Boxted St Stephens Church St Thereas Catholic Church St Theresa’s School Lexden Stane Park Aldi Stanway Community Youth Club STANWAY GUIDES Stanway Parish Council STANWAY PRE SCHOOL Stanway Primary School Stanway Rovers Stanway School Stanway Townswomen’s Guild Stepping Stones Playgroup STRATFORD ST MARY PRIMARY SCHOOL SUBWAY Swan Housing Association Taylor and Davis Accountants Taylors Dance Company Tendring Eldercare
TESCO BRIGHTLINGSEA Tesco Colchester 2 Tesco Colchester Extra TESCO TIPTREE The Bell Inn Panfield The Gym The Maltings, Essex University The Well Methodist Church Thomas Lord Audley School THOMPSON, SMITH AND PUXON Tiptree Community Tiptree Jam Factory Titon Hardware TK MAX Tollesbury Tea Rooms Turtle Tots UNITY PRIMARY ACADEMY University Library University of Essex Students Union Waitrose Colchester WALNUT DRIVE RESIDENTS Wavell Avenue Residents WEST BERGHOLT C O-OP WEST BERGHOLT GREEN GROCER WILKO Wimpole Road Coop Wivenhoe Allotment Association Wivenhoe Co-op Wivenhoe Community Group Wivenhoe Congregational Church Wivenhoe Foodbank Wivenhoe Football Club Wivenhoe Methodist Church Wivenhoe Park Nursery World Food Aid YMCA
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## **Contact Us**
## **Colchester Foodbank**
3 Tollgate Retail Park, Tollgate West, Stanway, Colchester CO3 8RG.
T: 01206 621 998
@FoodBankColchester @Colchfbank @FoodBankColchester
LinkedIn.com/company/Colchester-Foodbank
**www.colchester.foodbank.org.uk**
Colchester Foodbank is a registered charity in England number 1152387COLCHESTER.FOODBANK.ORG.UK