## **Stratford Avon Foodbank -­‐upon-­‐ Registered charity number 1153297** ## **Report by Chairman of Trustees April 2022** ## **Charity Commission Report** This report is for our financial year ending 30 November 2021. This has again been a complicated year dominated by the ongoing COVID pandemic. We were grateful to the Methodist Church for the continued use of their facilities until September. At that time, they required to return to the use of their building, and we moved the Foodbank operations back to our cabins in the Tesco car park. This was a temporary situation as our new facilities in the Fred Winter Centre had not been completed this year. A further complication was the movement and storage of food – we were indebted to Sitel for their continued help in this, but also had to pay for some professional services for both movement of food and additional storage. Another difficulty during the year was that our full -­‐time manager had a period of time off due to illness. This highlighted the risk involved in having only a single point of control, and we decided to restructure with two part time managers. Our original manager took voluntary redundancy in August, and we were able to take on two new managers in September. The new structure with a manager for operations and the other for projects (with scope for overlap and mutual back up) proved successful and we thank the new managers for their hard work in implementing this. Major thanks are also due to our willing cohort of volunteers whose support is central to the effective running of the Foodbank. This year we provided a total of 3301 food parcels. This was a lower figure than last year (4515), almost certainly due to the complex arrangement prevailing. It was greater than the last “more normal” year in 2019 (3159). In addition to this we were able complete the delivery of fresh food parcels to more than 90 families each Monday – this enabled by funding from Warwickshire County Council. We also commenced our Money Advice programme funded by the Trussell Trust ASDA fund. This year one trustee resigned – Julie Crawshaw. One new trustee was appointed – John Dodge. The total trustee number was then seven – Nick Barter, Caroline Sampson, Patty Page, Peter Jones, Julian Franey, Lavinia Derrick and John Dodge We ended our financial year in November 2021in a good financial position with £185,226 of funds. This number being slightly exaggerated by funds received but not yet spent on the Money Advice project. Our thanks are due for grants and help from The Town Trust, The Trussell Trust ASDA fund, Orbit Housing, L&Q Foundation, EH Smith Charitable Trust, Toyota Charitable, National Grid, Roscon Foundation, Lodders Charitable Foundation, Alcester and Stratford Round Table, Stratford Rotary Club and generous donations from individuals and other local companies. Donations from individuals and companies continued to be higher than in previous years, and now represents a key part of our funding. We thank these individuals and companies for their crucial support. 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