**Green Tree House** (Registered charity, 1090871) **Financial Statements For the year ended 31 July 2023**
|**Page**|**Contents**|
|---|---|
|2|Administrative Details|
|3 - 4|Trustee report|
|5|Independent Examiner’s Report|
|6|Receipts & Payments Account|
|7|Statement of Assets & Liabilities|
|8|Notes to the Accounts|
## **Green Tree House Administrative Details for year ended 31 July 2023**
**Full name** Green Tree House
**Registered charity number** 1157178
**Company Number** CE001976
**Principal address**
72 High Street Biddulph Stoke-on-Trent ST8 6AS
## **Trustees**
Amanda Beech Sean Butler-Dodd-Thompson Kathleen Wilshaw Patricia Eggington Helen Mavin
Chair Treasurer Secretary Trustee Deputy Chair
**Bankers** Natwest
## **Independent examiner**
Daryl Denson ACMA Employee of VAST The Dudson Centre Hope Street Hanley ST1 5DD
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## **Green Tree House Trustees Report for the year ended 31 July 2023**
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Nature of governing document**
The organisation was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) on 23 May 2014.
## **Aims and objectives**
To Provide activities for the young and older community people within Biddulph and Congleton communities, irrespectively of age, disability, and gender.
## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit**
Aim to support the community of food poverty or hardship with using our food clubs and food banks in Biddulph and Congleton.
The food clubs’ annual numbers for the whole year of the community we support are as follows:
## **Biddulph**
Food Club/Bank Tickets - 3560 tickets Beneficiaries - 1780 beneficiaries Expanded Beneficiaries - 5338 expanded (family members) Increase - 23.5% increase on previous year **Congleton** Food Club/Bank Tickets - 5695 tickets Beneficiaries - 1891 beneficiaries Expanded Beneficiaries - 8542 expanded (family members) Increase - 79.8% increase on previous year
These increases are due to the cost-of-living crisis.
## **Public Benefit**
The trustees of the Charity are aware of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and have had regard to it in their administration of the Charity.
## **Use of volunteers**
All our volunteers have given their free time to help to support the group activities and support the food clubs/bank in Biddulph and Congleton.
## **Summary of the main achievements during the year**
The Biddulph Food club/bank is well established in Biddulph and used very well. The Congleton Food club/bank has now got established roots in Congleton. Last year we were given a small room from another charity for free rent but unfortunately that option came to an end and the food club/bank had outgrown the room. On this basis we gained the option to lease our own shop in Lawton Street Congleton. It has turned out to be a success and allow us to keep supporting the community of Congleton. This has allowed the charity to have stability in Congleton.
The support group outings and activities have gained more attendees, i.e. Craft Club, Warm place project (in conjunction with Biddulph Town council), These support activities have been a massive lifesaver for the vulnerable persons of the community.
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## **Green Tree House Trustees Report (continued) for the year ended 31 July 2023**
## **The charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity has implemented a policy to hold a level of reserves of approximately £2,000 to cover the core overhead bills.
The total unrestricetd funds held at the year end were £4,355 (2022: £1,421) and the total resticted funds held at the year end £nil (2022: £3,819).
30/05/24 The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on .................... and signed on its behalf by:
Signed ~~................................~~ Sean Butler-dodd-thomson (May 30, 2024 11:06 GMT+1)
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30/05/24
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the trustees of Green Tree House for year ended 31 July 2023**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 July 2023.
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination 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
I have no concerns 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 the accounts to be reached.
...................................... Daryl Denson ACMA
VAST The Dudson Centre Hanley Stoke-on-Trent ST1 5DD 30/05/24 Date:.............................
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## **Green Tree House Receipts & Payments Account for the year ended 31 July 2023**
|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**_Notes_**
**Receipts**
Grants
**_2_**
3,844
Sales
31,422
Donations
6,884
Sundry Income
551
**Total receipts**
**42,701**
**Payments**
Cost of Events
52
Support Group
355
Printing and Stationery
761
Cafe Consumables
3,359
Leases and Contracts
12,543
Utilities
4,792
Advertising & Promotional
-
Miscellaneous
52
Waste disposal
465
Insurance
807
Licences
-
Accounting Services
240
Independent Examination Fee
422
Professional Fees
146
Cleaning
177
Website costs
-
Telephone Costs
511
Volunteer Expenses
1,822
Donations
-
Stock
-
Food Club Stock
3,975
Equipment
2,541
Vehicle Purchase
-
Motor Running Costs
4,437
Repairs and Maintenance
595
**Total payments**
**38,052**
**4649**
Cash funds at start of this period
1,421
Transfers between funds
(1,715)
**Cash funds at end of this period**
**4,355**
**Net receipts/(payments)**|**Restricted**
**Funds**
44,410
-
-
-
**44,410**
-
1,176
9
90
2,800
1,116
200
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
26,006
-
12,746
2,587
3,214
**49,944**
**(5,534)**
3,819
1,715
**-**|**2023**
**£**
48,254
31,422
6,884
551
**87,111**
52
1,531
770
3,449
15,343
5,908
200
52
465
807
-
240
422
146
177
-
511
1,822
-
-
29,981
2,541
12,746
7,024
3,809
**87,996**
**(885)**
5,240
-
**4,355**|**2022**
**£**
21,920
19,476
506
-|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**41,902**|
||||2,108
858
2,451
4,277
5,100
3,181
165
9
484
1,046
76
246
420
903
946
65
782
2,091
610
600
15,464
1,375
-
4,734
729|
||||**48,720**|
||||**(6,818)**
12,058
-|
||||**5,240**|
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## **Green Tree House Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31 July 2023**
|**Cash Assets**
Bank accounts|**2023**
**£**
4,355
**4,355**|**2022**
**£**
5,240|
|---|---|---|
|||5,240
|
The financial statements 5 to 7 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 30/05/24 .................... and signed on their behalf by:
Signed ~~................................~~ Sean Butler-dodd-thomson (May 30, 2024 11:06 GMT+1)
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## **Green Tree House Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 July 2023**
## **1. Receipts & payments accounts**
Receipts and payments accounts are statements that summarise the movement of cash into and out of the charity during the financial year. In this context “cash” includes cash equivalents, for example, bank accounts where cash can be readily withdrawn to pay for debts as they become due. For the purposes of understanding a statement of assets and liabilities at the year-end has been included.
## **2. Grants**
|**Grants**
Cheshire Community Foundation Grant
National Lottery Grant
Community Foundation Grant
Groundworks Grant
Arnold Clark Grants
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council - Covid grant
Redrow Housing Grant
Congleton Town Trust
Congleton Town Council
Congleton Inclosure Trust
Cheshire East Council
Neighbourly Community Grant
Rotary Club of Biddulph
Charities Aid Foundation
Your Housing Group
Co-Op Funding
Local Giving Ltd
Wates Family Enterprise Funnding
Coalfileds Regeneration Funding Grants
Leek United Buiilding Society Grants|**2023**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
7,400
-
10,000
-
9,500
-
-
500
-
2,500
-
2,667
615
-
1,000
-
750
2,966
900
-
9,860
5,000
-
1,000
-
450
-
633
-
1,900
2,229
304
500
500
500
-
5,000
2,000
-
1,500
**48,254**
**21,920**|
|---|---|
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