**Trustees' Annual Report for the period From** Period start date **T** Period end date Day Month Year **o** Day Month Year 01 01 2021 31 12 2021 Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** THE BESOM IN HARINGEY **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if** 1156081 **any) Charity's principal address** ST JAMES CHURCH ST JAMES LANE MUSWELL HILL, LONDON **Postcode N10 3DB**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
SUSAN
1
SOCHART
HANNAH
2
WHITEHEAD
GUY
3
CARTER
RUTH
4
GUTHRIE
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
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Name Dates acted if not for whole year
none
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address none**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
CONSTITUTION Dated 19 Jan 2014 Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution) CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION WHOSE ONLY How the charity is VOTING MEMBERS ARE ITS CHARITABLE TRUSTEES constituted (eg. trust, association, company) APPOINTED BY EXISTING TRUSTEES AT MEETING Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
The Besom in Haringey is part of the wider Besom network of You **may choose** to include local initiatives. For more details see www.besom.com. additional information, where relevant, about:
- ●policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- ●the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- ●relationship with any related parties;
- ●trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The objects of the CIO are for the public benefit and are to relieve financial hardship and sickness and to promote and preserve good health by the provision of funds, goods or **Summary of the objects** services of any kind in Haringey and in such parts of the United **of the charity set out in** Kingdom or the world as the Trustees from time to time may **its governing document** think fit and to fulfil such other purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales and are connected with the charitable work of the Charity. The organisation exists to provide a bridge between those who **Summary of the main activities undertaken for** want to give time, money, skills or possessions and those in **the public benefit in** need. It is focused on doing this in the London Borough of Haringey. Those in need are frequently referred by social **relation to these objects** workers in Haringey and these needs are then matched with **(include within this** those willing to give. **section the statutory declaration that trustees** In organising and carrying out the work of the charity the **have had regard to the** Trustees have read the guidance issued by the Charity **guidance issued by the** Commission on public benefit. The Trustees are confident that **Charity Commission on** the work of the Charity fulfils these requirements. **public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include The Besom in Haringey has no policies on grant making or on further statements, where programme related investment. relevant, about:
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||The Besom in Haringey has no policies on grant making or on
programme related investment.
The execution of the Charity’s objectives takes place through
volunteers, whether giving time in the ofce to organise
collections and deliveries, time to go collect and deliver
furniture, time to organise and deliver Christmas hampers.|
|●policy on grantmaking;
●policy programme related
investment;
●contribution made by
volunteers.|The execution of the Charity’s objectives takes place through
volunteers, whether giving time in the ofce to organise
collections and deliveries, time to go collect and deliver
furniture, time to organise and deliver Christmas hampers.|
## Section D Achievements and performance
Despite the continued challenges posed by the Covid-19 **Summary of the main** pandemic, we were able to achieve a very high and consistent **achievements of the** level of operations throughout the year, culminating in another **charity during the year** successful Christmas hamper delivery. This was due to a dedicated ops team volunteer and a small but committed van run team, both supported strongly by the Trustee team.
We continued to be guided by our ‘Faith and Flow’ principle, putting our focus on praying first and trusting that there will be the required matching of needs with donations. A healthy financial balance also enabled us to make new purchases of
much needed items for families to fill any gaps. We continued to build relationships across the social worker base in Haringey who remain very grateful for the service we can offer their clients.
1. A total of 19 van runs were completed – more than double achieved in 2020 (7) and higher than 2019 and 2018 totals. We were able to deliver on almost all occasions more than 1 requested item and received many messages of thanks from social workers on behalf of their clients. Apart from Easter and summer break, we had at least one van run a month and usually 2-3. This was made possible by having an ops team volunteer providing ongoing day-to-day support and a significant commitment from a van team of about 7 volunteers, excluding Trustees, who were also heavily involved. We were also fortunate to have a volunteer co-ordinator on van run scheduling in the early part of 2021 which reduced the Trustee operational burden. We are hugely grateful to this team who showed enormous generosity in time-giving, flexibility and adaptability to Covid regulations.
2. Trustees and Volunteers: Our Trustee team was largely unchanged in 2021, however in November, one of the team stepped down as she moved on to a new employment role outside Haringey. We are so thankful for her support of Besom and the efforts she made to introduce Besom in Haringey to other churches in the borough and connect with the national Besom organisation. As regards volunteers, one of our van team co-ordinators moved away from the area in the summer so sadly was no longer able to be involved. For Christmas hampers, the same volunteer who has led these over the past few years took the role again. We are delighted she continues to have a commitment to this wonderful annual event.
3. Prayer: We continued to be supported by a small and dedicated group of prayer supporters who regularly met online throughout the year. The impact of Covid has reinforced that we operate through God’s grace alone and it has been a period of strengthening our personal commitment to the work Besom does in a community which has been particularly hit by the pandemic.
4. Christmas hampers: The Christmas hamper project was once again a blessing for all involved. We continued to partner with St Saviour’s church in Finsbury Park. A team of 6 volunteers delivered 36 hampers to single people, single parents, as well as large families across Haringey. As before, church families were extremely generous, families and home groups preparing beautifully presented hampers full of goodies and also providing books and toys for children. This initiative is something social
workers are now very aware of and they are keen to put forward clients who they believe will particularly benefit from this festive gift.
5. Van: We are very grateful that our van was fully operational over the year. Regular van runs and our committed team at the garage helped ensure we did not have any issues. We also maintained very low levels of items stored in the van to reduce risks of water leak damage. The van continued to be parked at the Salvation Army in Wood Green, whose generosity in this regard is greatly valued.
6. Finances: Our funds remained in a healthy state which enabled us to cover operational costs (including the new ULEZ charge for the van) and fill priority gaps between donations and needs. Priorities remained items for children and, in particular, beds and bedding. We collected, delivered and built these via the van runs to maintain personal connections with the families receiving items.
We remain completely dependent on volunteer time-givers and furniture to fulfill this much-needed work in Haringey.
## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The Besom in Haringey does not have any reserves and has no policy on this topic. The bank account is kept in credit by managing expenditure.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
The Besom in Haringey relies on donations from individuals and You **may choose** to include churches and its activity levels are determined to a large extent additional information, by the availability of the funding and time given by volunteers. where relevant about:
- ●the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- ●how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- ●investment policy and
objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
**Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** GUY CARTER **Position (eg Secretary,** TRUSTEE **Chair, etc) Date** 18 September 2019
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BESOM IN HARINGEY 1156081
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 1 Jan 2021 To 31 Dec 2021
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds Total funds Last year
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
REGULAR MONTHLY DONATIONS 2,200 - - 2,200 1,820
ONE OFF DONATIONS 200 - - 200
ADJUSTMENT - - 7
\ - - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 2,400 - - 2,400 1,827
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total receipts 2,400 - - 2,400 1,827
A3 Payments
RENTAL OF STORAGE - - - -
VAN EXPENSE, MOT, TAX, FUEL, INS ETC 652 - - 652 46
PURCHASE OF GOODS FOR BENEFICIARIES 2,000 - - 2,000
NEWSLETTER - - - - -
REPLACEMENT KEYS - - - - -
LIABILITY INSURANCE 63 63 65
- - - - -
Sub total 2,715 - - 2,715 111
A4 Asset and investment purchases,
(see table)
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 2,715 - - 2,715 111
Net of receipts/(payments) - 315 - - - 315 1,716
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 7,856 - - 7,856 6,140
Cash funds this year end 7,541 - - 7,541 7,856
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|**Endowment**|**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|**funds**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|HSBC CURRENT ACCOUNT
**_Total cash funds_**||**to nearest £**
**7,541**
**-**
**7,541**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**
|**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||OK|OK||OK||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|**Endowment**||
||||**funds**||**funds**|**funds**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**
|**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**||
|**own use**|||||**-**||**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|**When due**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|**(optional)**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the
trustees||Signature|Print|Name||Date of
approval||
||||Guy T|Carter||5 Oct 2022||