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**REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1154292** **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND FINANCIAL** **STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ## **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ||**Page**| |---|---| |**Report of the Trustees**|**1 to 9**| |**Income and Expenditure**|**10**| |**Balance Sheet**|**11**| |**Notes to the Financial Statements**|**12 to 14**| |**Report of the Independent Examiner**|**15**| **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** The Trustees present their report with the financial statements of the Harrow Foodbank for the year ended 31 March 2024. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' issued in March 2005. ## REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS ## Charity Name Harrow Foodbank ## Registered Charity number 1154292 (England and Wales) ## Registered office Harrow Foodbank Centre Unit H2, Phoenix Business Centre Rosslyn Crescent Harrow HA1 2SP ## Charity Trustees Brendan Timlin Rob Ogundere Kishor Dattani Nahid Boethe Lara Waywell Rachelle Goldberg Barry Wong Joint Chair Joint Chair Treasurer Networking Lead Safeguarding Lead Administrator / Secretary from 29 Jan 24 from 29 Jan 24 from 09 Dec 24 from 29 Jan 24 from 03 Nov 21 from 08 Dec 21 from 09 Dec 24 ## Independent Examiner Ms. Abigail Papadopoulos 78 Cannonbury Avenue Pinner HA5 1TT ## Bank Lloyds Bank Plc 286-288 Station Road Harrow HA1 2EB 1 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** ## **1. STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT** ## 1.1 Governing document Harrow Foodbank is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose only voting members are its charity trustees. The trustees adopted a constitution on 9 September 2013 in accordance with the “foundation model” published by the Charity Commission. The Harrow Foodbank achieved registered charitable status on 21 October 2013 and its registered charity number is 1154292. ## 1.2 Trustee selection and management The charity is managed by a board of trustees selected because they strongly endorse the charitable objectives of the organisation and support its Christian ethos. When selecting trustees, the charity aims to ensure there is a broad range of relevant skills, while also aiming to reflect a geographical spread across Harrow, particularly the areas of deprivation in Harrow. Trustees are appointed after interviews with existing trustees and formal visits to the organisation, to ensure they understand its vision and values. The Trustees meet approximately every 8 weeks to review performance and monitor the achievement of objectives. ## 1.3 Related Organisations The Harrow Foodbank is affiliated to the Trussell Trust - we are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. The Trussell Trust support a UK-wide network of more than 1,400 food bank centres and together we provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty in the UK, providing a minimum of three days’ emergency food and support to people in crisis. ## 1.4 Management of risk The Trustees have adopted a range of policy documents that are intended to manage and minimise risk. These include policies covering Health & Safety, Safeguarding, Lone Workers and Data Protection. The Trussell Trust carries out cycles of Governance Health Checks (GHC) biennial (every two years) across the network to ensure that everything meets its recommended standards. The GHC is a self-assessment designed for food banks to help keep up to speed with governance best practice. ## 2. OBJECTIVES, AIMS AND ACTIVITIES ## 2.1 Charitable Objectives The Harrow Foodbank has as its objective the prevention or relief of poverty in Harrow and surrounding areas in particular, but not exclusively, by providing emergency food supplies to individuals in need and to charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty. 2 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ## 2.2 Aims Our aims are to alleviate poverty through the provision of food parcels to those in crisis, in partnership with local care agencies who refer clients in crisis to us. By signposting people to care agencies, advice services and other support agencies we aim to seek resolutions to their immediate crisis, which is causing their need to use the Foodbank. Anyone in need can be referred to the Foodbank, regardless of race or creed. ## 2.3 Objectives for the year This was our 11[TH] year of operation. Our key objectives remain to be in a position to provide emergency food support for people experiencing crisis in the community. The soaring cost of living means more and more people are being pushed to crisis point and forced to use foodbanks. The cost-of-living crisis has affected Harrow foodbank with need exceeding donations. Objectives for the year include: - Distribute food to meet increasing demand and alleviate the food needs for people referred to our foodbank - Develop our signposting project and work closely with support agencies for referral - Develop our relationship with charities that aim to relieve food poverty and reduce food waste - Ensuring we have sufficient funds for the running costs of the charity for up to three years to continue as a going concern - Ensuring that we have sufficient resources and volunteers to help run the charity. - continuously developing and implementing robust processes for food distribution and redistribution and increasing organisational sustainability. ## 2.4 Strategies for achieving the objectives Working closely with the Trussell Trust programme for food banks in its network and aligning to its 5-year strategic development, including: - Considering and testing innovative projects that work towards ending the need for food banks locally - Consider partnering with Citizens Advice (CA) for them to provide a advisor to give specialist advice to at our distribution centres to clients attending our centres - Develop relations with specialist benefits and/or debt advice local agencies to address the under-lying causes of crisis and reduce the need for future food bank support in the community - Develop volunteers as part of a commitment to excellence in volunteer management - Engage in a wide range of locally driven activities aligned to providing support to people experiencing crisis in the community - Volunteer development – trained Advice First Aid (AFA) volunteer coordinators at all distribution centres, to lead on in-depth local research into the local drivers of poverty, to inform support agencies, and in the development of the signposting programme ## 2.5 How the Foodbank works The Harrow Foodbank works with professional Voucher Partners from organisations providing welfare and community support in the local area, such as: the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) and Help through Hardship. Voucher Partners identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher which they bring to any of our distribution centre in 3 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** order to redeem them for emergency food. - The Foodbank works with frontline professionals to identify people who need support and give them a food bank voucher. These professionals include local agencies like citizens advice and other advice centres, schools and children’s centres, GP surgeries, housing associations, and mental health teams, who are best placed to assess need. - Non-perishable food donations are donated at local supermarkets, in our permanent collection points. Donations are also dropped off by doners at our warehouse. - These donations are checked for “use by” dates, weighed and sorted by food type and stored in the warehouse. - Clients experiencing a food crisis are issued with a Harrow Foodbank voucher by a recognised Voucher Partner. - Our clients (Harrow residents who have found themselves, through no fault of their own, on hard times) bring their voucher to one of our distribution centres, where it is redeemed for an emergency food parcel. - The contents of emergency food parcels are selected using guidelines that aim to give clients a nutritionally balanced diet, providing sufficient food for 3 days. ## 2.6 Public Benefit The trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained in the Charities Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity's aims and objectives and in planning future activities. ## 3. ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE ## 3.1 Summary of the year’s activities to 31[st ] March 2024 The cost-of-living crisis has affected Harrow foodbank, with need for emergency food parcels ever-increasing. Need has increased to a record level up to 50% from Apr 2023 to Mar 2024. In 2023-24 we received 91.84 tons of food compared to in 2022-23 when we received 95.40 tons of food, an decrease of 3.73 tons on the previous year; we distributed 88.61 tons of food in 23/24 against 78.34 tons in 22/23, an increase of 14%. We distributed 8843 emergency food parcels to people locally (5863 parcels in 2022-23), of which 3703 were to local children (2469 to local children). Financially, through working with our partner churches, faith groups and schools, corporate and individual donors, and with a number of successful grant applications, we have improved the levels of funding and support year on year and built on a longer-term financial security. Since 2020 we’ve had a reduced pool of volunteers, with just over 20 volunteers; we lost some volunteers in 23/24 due to family and health issues. Our local relationships remain strong, we work with a number of partner organisations including the Citizens Advice Bureau, GP surgeries, various Harrow Council departments, schools and diverse faith organisations. All these activities were possible because of the generosity and continued support from individuals and groups giving food and monetary donations, and our volunteers’ hard work. The support from donors and volunteers has been incredible and admirable. We are fortunate to 4 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** ## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** have a warehouse with a large storage capacity, and with office space. We renewed the lease in May 2023 for a further three years at an increased rent (11.11%). ## 3.2 Voucher Partners We have 251 active Voucher Partners and between them they issued 3200 (2271 at y/e March 2023) vouchers which were fulfilled, that were exchanged for food at one of the four Harrow Foodbank Distribution Centres. ## 3.3 Recipients of food For the financial year ending on 31 March 2024, we provided 8843 parcels of emergency food. Table 1 provides an analysis of the crises that prompted their use of the Harrow Foodbank, as extracted from information completed on redeemed vouchers. 5 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** ## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** Reason for issuing vouchers. ## 3.4 Food donated The non-perishable food donated to Harrow Foodbank comes predominately from individuals, local businesses and corporate companies, other local organisations, schools and churches, directly to our warehouse, and from shoppers donating in our local supermarkets’ permanent collection points at: 1. Tesco Superstore Station Road 2. Tesco Superstore Pinner 3. Waitrose Harrow Weald 4. Waitrose South Harrow 5. Asda South Ruislip 6. Asda South Harrow 7. Asda Harrow Wealdstone 8. Sainsbury’s Stanmore 9. Aldi South Harrow 6 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** ## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** and from food collection drives held periodically throughout the year at supermarkets: Tesco, Waitrose and occasionally Asda. We are grateful for continued support from all our donors. |We are grateful for continued support from all our donors.|We are grateful for continued support from all our donors.|We are grateful for continued support from all our donors.|We are grateful for continued support from all our donors.|We are grateful for continued support from all our donors.|We are grateful for continued support from all our donors.|We are grateful for continued support from all our donors.| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Stock in source
Donated in
kg
Purchased
in kg
Source
total in kg
'% of
overall
total
Donations from donors - Charities
1,858.80
0.00
1,858.80
2.02%
Donations from donors - Churches
11,301.32
0.00
11,301.32
12.30%
Donations from donors - Community groups
1,420.15
0.00
1,420.15
1.55%
Donations from donors - Corporates
1,608.50
0.00
1,608.50
1.75%
Donations from donors - Educations
5,933.79
0.00
5,933.79
6.46%
Donations from donors - Individual(s)
5,846.49
0.00
5,846.49
6.37%
Donations from donors - Other bulk food
distributors
10,637.30
0.00
10,637.30
11.58%
Donations from donors - Supermarkets
51,131.56
0.00
51,131.56
55.67%
Purchased - Tesco Harrow 2
0.00
51.95
51.95
0.06%
Purchased - Tesco Harrow Apollo Exp
0.00
2,025.90
2,025.90
2.21%
Returns from food bank centre
N/A
N/A
29.69
0.03%
Totals
89,737.91
2,077.85
91,845.45
100%
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~~a~~|1,858.80|0.00|1,858.80|2.02%|| ||Donations from donors - Churches
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~~a~~|1,420.15|0.00|1,420.15|1.55%|| ||Donations from donors - Corporates
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~~a~~|1,608.50
|0.00
|1,608.50
|1.75%
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~~a~~|5,933.79
|0.00
|5,933.79
|6.46%
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~~a~~|5,846.49
|0.00

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|6.37%
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distributors
~~ee~~
~~a~~|10,637.30
~~ee~~|0.00
~~ee~~
~~ee~~|10,637.30
~~ee~~|11.58%
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~~a~~|51,131.56
~~ee~~|0.00
~~ee~~
~~ee~~|51,131.56
~~ee~~|55.67%
~~ee~~|| ||Purchased - Tesco Harrow 2
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~~a~~|0.00|51.95
~~ee~~|51.95|0.06%|| ||Purchased - Tesco Harrow Apollo Exp
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~~a~~|0.00|2,025.90|2,025.90|2.21%|| ||Returns from food bank centre
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~~a~~|89,737.91|2,077.85|91,845.45|100%|| ||~~a~~|||||| |||||||| ## 3.5 Communication and promotion ## PR activity and events We continue to operate a full programme of awareness raising with our referral agencies and other groups. ## Website and newsletters The website covers general information and details on how the foodbank works, including the locations of our distribution centres and sessions, as well as any agreed closure periods over Easter, Christmas & New Year. Additionally we benefit from some of Trussell Trust’s national PR activity and generation of news. ## 3.6 Fundraising activity In 2023/24 we continued to benefit from our grant applications, and from financial 7 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** donations received from donors, and from money collected at our Tesco food Collections. ## 3.7 Service offering In 2023/24 we continued our policy of ensuring that volunteers were signposting other local services (e.g., Citizens Advice, debt management coaching) as appropriate. ## 3.8 Volunteers We are fortunate to have a dedicated team of volunteers - from Trustees to warehouse teams, foodbank centres teams, supermarket collections teams, delivery teams, and admin assisting in the office. Without their effort and hard work, we would not be able to function and deliver the project as successfully. Our volunteers are the driving force behind our activities at the Harrow Foodbank. The Trustees are enormously grateful for the commitment of the volunteers and the expertise that they have brought to the organisation. ## 4. FINANCIAL REVIEW ## 4.1 Principal funding sources Funding for the Harrow Foodbank has come from voluntary financial donations and successful grant applications. ‘Give as you Live’ has proved to be a great platform for our donors to donate money more easily and efficiently. Harrow Foodbank is very grateful for the incredibly generous, continued, and vital financial support received from the many organisations and individuals donors during the year. In addition, Tesco generously tops up customer food donations, by making a financial contribution equivalent to 20%, of the value of the food donated by their customers in their stores. Waitrose and Asda also provide periodic top up grants relating to weights of food reported. Harrow Foodbank greatly appreciate this extra financial support. ## 4.2 How expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity The expenditure incurred by the Harrow Foodbank has been necessary to operate the Foodbank. In past years the Harrow Foodbank occasionally had surplus stock that they would redistribute to other Trussell Trust London Foodbanks experiencing shortages, and to other charities. The crisis has led to a shortfall in essential items at the foodbank and to the foodbank having to buy stock to make up for the shortfall. In recent times the foodbank has been reliant on financial contributions, alongside the items that people donate, to buy the essential items that are in short supply. ## 4.3 Investment policy and objectives Reserves are placed with the Charities’ Official Investment Fund (COIF) deposit fund, where they earn interest whilst not required immediately to cover expenditure. 8 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ## 5. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS ## 5.1 Communications In 2023/24 we continued to focus on targeting schools, churches and interest groups. We will continue to raise awareness of the importance of foodbanks for people experiencing a food crisis. We will continue to encourage donations from the local community as well as continue to work with voucher partners to ensure that clients in need of our service have access to it. ## 5.2. Fundraising For 2023/24 we continue to focus on bidding for corporate or charitable grants for new projects. The Foodbank aspires towards building up reserves that equate to up to three years of projected expenditure, and major operating costs, to ensure the continuous running of the Foodbank for the medium term. ## 6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - 6.1. A large partnership of churches and other groups worked together to develop Harrow Foodbank and with their ongoing support we have continued to deliver the project successfully. - 6.2. This report has detailed the successful running of the Harrow Foodbank during its eleventh financial reporting year. The Harrow Foodbank has become a mature and stable charity. We are indebted to our volunteers’, past and present, for the day-to-day running of the Foodbank, thank you. We are also indebted to the many individual donors, faith groups and other organisations that have organised events and appeals which have generated much of the income recorded in these pages. The Trustees are extremely grateful to everyone in the local community who has provided support and encouragement to this project. 9 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** 10 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** 11 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ## HARROW FOODBANK (Charity Number 1154292) Annual Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 ## Notes to the Accounts ## 1 Accounting Policies ## Accounting convention The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, in accordance with the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and Reporting by Charities. ## Incoming resources Voluntary income including donations, gifts and grants that provide core funding or are of general nature are recognised where there is entitlement, certainty of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability. Such income is only deferred when - the donor specifies that the grant or donation must only be used in future accounting periods; or - the donor has imposed conditions which must be met before the charity has unconditional - entitlement; - Gift Aid tax recovery is recognised when received. ## Volunteers and donated goods and services The value of services provided by volunteers is not incorporated into these financial statements. Where goods or services are provided to the charity as a donation that would normally be purchased from suppliers, these contributions are included in the financial statements as an estimate based on the value of the contribution. Goods donated and held as stock for distribution by the foodbank are recognised as incoming resources within voluntary income only when distributed, with an equivalent amount being included as resources expended. ## Resources expended Expenditure is recognised when a liability is incurred. Charitable activities include expenditure associated with providing services to the charity's beneficiaries and include both the direct costs and support costs relating to those activities. Harrow Foodbank is not VAT registered and any VAT incurred on its expenditure is included in the resources expended. ## Tangible fixed assets Depreciation has been provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life. Capital expenditure less than £2000.00 is written off in the year of acquisition. Fixtures and Fittings & Equipment 20% on a straight line basis Motor Vehicles 20% Reducing balance Basis ## Fund accounting Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees. 12 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes. Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. 13 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ## **HARROW FOODBANK (Charity Number 1154292)** **Annual Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2024** **Notes to the Accounts** |**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
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(Sbank|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**HARROW FOODBANK (Charity Number 1154292)**||||||| |**Annual Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**||||||| |**Notes to the Accounts**||||||| |**2**|**VOLUNTARY INCOME- DONATIONS**|||||| ||||**Total 2024**|**Total 2023**||| ||||**£**|||| ||Donations from individuals||41,707|12,293||| ||Donations from churches and other faith groups||3,774|9,314||| ||Donations from schools||-|1,057||| ||Donations at supermarket collections||-|-||| ||Donations Via give as you live||42,321|64,027||| ||Corporate donations||25,472|29,585||| ||||**113,274**|**116,276**||| |||||||| |||||||| |**3**|**VOLUNTARY INCOME- GRANTS**|||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**|**Restricted**
**Funds**|**Total 2024**||**Total 2023**| |||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**| ||City Bridge Trust||10,340.00|10,340.00||-| |||||||| |||**-**|**10,340.00**|**10,340.00**||**-**| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |**4**|**FIXED ASSETS**|||||| |||**Fixtures,**
**fittings and**
**equipment**|**Motor**
**vehicle**|**Total**
**2023/24**||| |||**£**||**£**||| ||Cost at 1/4/2023|6,067 19,404 25,471|6,067 19,404 25,471|6,067 19,404 25,471||| ||Additions during the year|0|0|0||| ||Cost at 31 March 2024|**£6,067**|**£19,404**|**£25,471**||| |||||||| ||Depreciation|||||| ||Accumulated Depreciation 1/4/2023|6,067|9,470|15,537||| ||Charge for year||1,987|1,987||| ||Accumulated Depreciation 31/3/2024|**£6,067**|**£11,457**|**£17,524**||| ||Net Book value 31/3/2023|£0|£9,934|£9,934||| ||Net Book value 31/3/2024|**£0**|**£7,947**|**£7,947**||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |**5**|**DEBTORS**|**2023/24**||**2022/23**||| |||£||£||| ||Rent Deposit (renewed lease / deposit increase)|5,000||3,000||| ||Rent in advance|-||||| ||Total|**5,000**||**3,000**||| |||||||| |||||||| |**6**|**CREDITORS**|**Creditors**||**Creditors**||| |||**2023/24**||**2022/23**||| |||£||£||| ||Total|**-**||**-**||| |||||||| |**7**|**RESERVES**|||||| |||||||| |||**Balances**
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**forward**|**Transfers**|**Incoming**
**resources**|**Resources**
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**forward**| |||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**| ||**Unrestricted Funds**|||||| ||Designated for warehouse works|||||0| ||Unrestricted|**226,362**||121,416|-85,971|261,807| |||**226,362**|**0**|**121,416**|**-85,971**|**261,807**| ||**Restricted Funds**|||||| ||Grants for specified purposes|**4,665**||10,340|-10,340|4,665| |||||||| ||**Total**|**231,027**|**0**|**131,756**|**-96,311**|**266,472**| |||||||| |||||||| 14 | P a g e **HARROW FOODBANK** **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** |**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
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**Charity no**|1154292|| ||**ended**|**(if any) **||| |||||| |||||| |**Set out on pages**|**Set out on pages**|10 - 14||| |||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above||| |||charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2024.||| |**Responsibilities and**||As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the||| |**basis of report**||accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011||| |||(“the Act”).||| |||I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out||| |||under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I||| |||have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission|have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission|| |||under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.||| |**Independent**||I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have||| |**examiner's statement**||come to my attention in connection with the examination (~~other than that~~||| |||~~disclosed below *)~~which gives me cause to believe that in, any material||| |||respect:||| |||•
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130||the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130| |||of the Charities Act; or||| |||•
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or|the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or|| |||•
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements||| |||concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities||| |||(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement|(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement|| |||that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter||| |||considered as part of an independent examination.||| |||I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection|I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection|| |||with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in||| |||order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.||| |||*_Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._|_Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._|| ||**Signed:**
**Date:**17 March 2025
**Name:**Abigail Papadopoulos
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