CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Blshop's Stortford Foodbank
1154800
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period
from
CC16a
01-
r-24
To
31-Mar-25
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
fund8
Restricted
funds
to th• near•st £ to the nèarnst £
Endowment
funds
Total funds
Last y￿r
A1 Receipts
Donations
Reimbursement {di￿t costs)
Bank interest
Grants received
to the near￿1 £
to tho n•are8t £
to the nearest £
80.378
80.378
76,613
9,315
411
1.030
1.125
15.000
1,030
16.125
tota
ross income
ARJ
15.(￿10
97,534
A2 Asset and investment sales.
(see table}.
06,339
rotal receipts
A3Pa
ments
Fuel support costs
Food voucher costs
Food parcel costs
Other support costs
Adviser project costs
Contributions to other a
General office eosts
Training costs
Staff Gosls
Insurance
Professional servi
Bank fees
Premises
8.329
25,205
21.035
8.329
25.205
21.035
16.924
39,590
26,281
349
2,500
1.000
4.088
1,250
109
enttes
10.511
11.761
109
2,963
144
29.216
549
144
1,596
27.620
S49
22,711
$34
913
60
1,027
115.978
60
Sub total
88,130
11550
100.679
A4 Asset and investment
urchases
see tsble
Sub total
88.130
12.550
1(Kl.679
115,978
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
3.146
29.639
88,960
91.410
94,55
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories
B1 Cash funds
Deiails
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nèarest £
Endowment
funds
to neare8t £
Cash * bank
88.894
Total cash funds
88,960
ats)Wsll
Unrestricted
funds
to nèarest £
2.225
Restricted
funds
tt> n•arest £
Endowment
funds
to nèarest £
B2 Other monetary assets
Details
SU[￿rk* vouctE
B3 Investment assets
Details
Fund to T*thich
asset bèlon
eost loptlontll
Curr•nt value
tional
B4 Assets retained for the
charity'8 own use
Detsils
Fc*)d st(Kks Inol valued}
Fund to Tfflthich
asset bglon
Unrestric
Cost loptionall
Current val
lional
Office epuipnEnl aThJ fvmiture Irk)t valwi
un￿strICted
B5 Liabillties
Details
Fund to which
relates
Amount duè
o tronal
Whèn (lu•
Signed by one or trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Pnnt Name
Date of
roval
TA1CHLLL
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Trustses, Annual Report
Period covered by report: From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025
Charity name: Bishop's Stortford Food Bank
Charity address: The Methodist Church, 34b South Street, Bishop's Stortford,
Hertfordshire CM23 3AZ
Charity registration number: 1154800
Objectives and Activities:
The Bishop's Stortford Food Bank's ("the Food Bank") charitable objectives are:
The p￿ventIOn or relief of poverty in Hertfordshire and Essex in particular, but not
exclusively, by providing emergency food supplies and related provisions to
individuals in need and to charities or other organisations worting to prevent or
relieve poverty.
In fulfilling our charitable objectives, the Food Bank's main activity during the year
was the distribution of food, household essentials and supermarket vouchers to
individuals and families in need of support in Bishop's Stortford and the surrounding
area.
Food parcels of long shelf-life food are provided from donated and, where
necessary, purchased food. Throughout the year we continued to partner with
Harlow Food Bank to collect, sort and warehouse donations. We are also able to
provide clients with supermarket vouchers to enable the purchase of fresh food,
toiletries and household goods and to enable agency and choice.
In addition, during the year the Food Bank also
Provided assistan￿ to households in fuel povety by purchasing credit on the
card or key of the client's pre-payment gaslelectricity meter
Continued a collaborative project with Citizen's Advice East Hertfordshire to
provide access to a dedicated Food Bank Adviser to support Food Bank
clients with issues including debt, benefits, budgeting and signposting to other
services.
Clients are referred to the Food Bank by local partner agencies. In addition, Clients
may self-refer for their first food parcel and are signposted to other agencies or to the
Food Bank Adviser where further support is indicated. Food can either be collected
in person or delivered by a team of volunteer drivers. The Food Bank also
maintained a stock of emergency food boxes which can be provided by other
agencies in the community outside of our opening hours.

The Trustees take into account the commission's public benefit guidance when
making any relevant decision.
Achievements and Perfonnance:
During the twelve months covered by this report the Food Bank supported 1 ,343
referrals for food support (1,466 23124) and 118 referrals for fuel support (241
23124). While this represented a decrease to the prior year's record levels of
demand the Food Bank is continuing to see high levels of demand when considered
in a longer-temi context.
While the core focus of the Food Bank has been on short tenn relief for those in food
crisis, Trustees have a longer-tem strategic goal to do more to support clients to
prevent and resolve the issues that result in food povety. We were pleased to
extend our project with Citizen's Advice East Herts to provide a dedicated adviser for
Food Bank clients. The project aims to bridge the gap between the Food Bank's
frontline support and Citizen's Advice expertise and specialist advice. By providing a
dedicated adviser physically based in the Food Bank for one day a week we can
work together to build trusted professional and client relationships in order to reach
and help those clients who may struggle to engage with or access support. We are
grateful to the Hertfordshire Community Foundation and to Community Alliance
Broxbourne and East Herts for the grants re￿IVed to support this project.
The Food Bank has continued to maintain its profile in the community, our
relationships with schools, churches, community groups and individuals are vital to
the support we provide. Our slogan of "Give Help, Get Help" emphasises our role as
a conduit for the community to support for each other. and the donation of food
items. financial support and hours of work by dedicated volunteers has continued to
allow us to meet the need of households requiring our assistan￿.
Financial Review of the Year:
Trustees prepare receipts and payments accounts. Receipts only reflect monetary
receipts and do not include a valuation for food or other goods donated nor the many
hours of time provided by our team of volunteers. Without these donations our costs
would increase considerably. Other than grant re￿IptS, monetary receipts are
almost exclusively from donations by individuals, community groups and local
businesses.
Trustees continue to be humbled by the local community's response to the need for
our seNices.
Receipts in the year ended March 2025 were £97,534 (£86,339 - 23124). Receipts
for the year included £16,125 of grant income (£nil- 23124), of which £14,510 was
restricted for the Food Bank Adviser project costs. We would like to thank Herts
Community Foundation and Community Alliance Broxbourne and East Herts for their
support with this project. A further £490 was received from Community Alliance
Broxboume and East Herts in respect of Trustee and Volunteer training and support.
The grants were received for costs incurred between 1 September 2024 and 31

August 2025 and a restricted reserve of £2.450 has been carried forward to the
25126 year end when it is expected to have been fully spent.
Direct costs of support fell as a result of the decreased demand, total expenditure for
the year was £100.679 (£115,978- 23124)
Overall, the year to 31 March 2025 saw net expenditure of £3,146 (net expenditure
of £29,639 23124) with reserves at 31 March 2024 standing at £91,410 (£94,556 at
31 March 2024).
Trustees have a policy of maintaining approximately one year's regular expenditure
in reserve. Reserves at the year end represented 91 % of the year's total
expenditure.
Trustees have a very prudent approach to investment of surplus fvnds. Cash not
required for day-to-day operations is put on interest bearing deposit.
Structure, Governance and Management:
The Food Bank is established as a CIO under a constitution document and is
govemed by a Board of Trustees who hold formal meetings as required, but at least
every three months.
The Trustees have appointed a Chair. Treasurer, Secretary and a Community
Ambassador. At the date of signing this report the position of Secretary was vacant.
New Trustees are appointed by the existing Trustees under the terms of the
constitution and are appointed on the basis of their background, interests,
experien￿ and expertise, as well as their commitment to the Food Bank, its values
and charitable objectives. New Trustees re￿1ve an informal induction including
meeting with the Chair and other Trustees.
Trustees attend meetings and may work in sub-groups set up to consider specific
areas of policy I strategy. As we are a small charity with limited resources, Trustees
also assist directly by contributing to a number of operational and promotional
activities in line with their skills and experien￿.
Trustees acting during the year and at the date of approval of this report:
Bill Macdonald (Chair to January 2025)
Jim Tatchell (Treasurer to January 2025, Chair from January 2024
Jane Towns (Community Ambassador)
Alison Jones
lan Williams (Term ended October 2025, Secretary, from January 2024
Louise Taub (Secretary, to January 2025)
Gillian Turner (freasurer, from January 2025)
Hana Hainsby (Resigned December 2024)
Keith Irvine (appointed September 2025)
Lucinda Boon (appointed June 2025)

During the period covered by this report, the Food Bank employed two part time
members of stsff - a Manager and an Assistant Manager- to manage the
operational activities of the Food Bank. Trustees would like to recognise the
fantastic job that our staff do and the very real impact that their work has.
The heart of the Food Bank is our dedicated and hard-working volunteers who do so
much to support our clients and our community. There would be no Bishop's
Stortford Food Bank without them.
Signed on Behalf of the Trustees
Jim Tatchell
Chair
Date
2J/, l ￿L6

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
amE
Bishop's Stortford Food Bank
On accounts for the year
ended
31st March 2025
Charity no
(if any)
1154800
Set out on pages
Attached 2 pages - Receipts and Payments Accounts
Iremember Its include the page nJmbers of - Idi.:It)-,.al sheE,..
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ('the Trusy,) for the year ended 31st March 2025.
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
of the accounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of the Charities Act
2011 ("the Act.).
Responsibilities and
basis of report
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5){b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination (otheFth
dFsGIa￿. which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
conceming the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities
(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.
Independent
examiner's statement
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of Ihe accounts to be reached.
Please delete the words in th8 brackets rf they do not apply.
Signed:
Dats:
2010112026
Name:
Jeremy Fozzard
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
I LAIA CÉA I IK i£b
Address:
5 Ducketts Wharf, South Street
Bishop's Stortford,
Hertfordshire, CM23 3AR
IER
October 2018

Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for
examiners).
Give here brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018