|Trustee name|Office Iif any)|bates acted if not for whole
year|
|---|---|---|
|Bob Chapman|Secretary||
|Mel Emmet|Chair||
|Helen Gardner|Treasurer||
|Scott Jones|||
|David
Lakin|||
|Ann Mayer|||
|Sian Paul|||
|Lauren Roberts|||
|Alison White|IV!embership Secretary||
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|ames and addre|ames and addre|sses
ofadvise|rs||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Type ofadviser||Name|||Address||
|Bank||TSBBank|||19Talbot|Street, Maesteg, CF34 9BS|
|Accountant||The Chartwell|Practice||4St Pauls|Square,
Burton on Trent, DE142EF|
|Solicitors||Hutchinson
Thomas|||Pendrill
Court, 119London Road, Neath, SA11 1LF||
|Architect||Kevyn Davies|BA(Hons)||Red Kite|Homes,
Llys-Y-Coed,
Cornish
Row,|
|||BArch RIBA|ARB||Cwmafan,|Port Talbot, SA12 9YB|
|Building||CJ Construction
(Wales)||Ltd.|P0 Box|71,The Builders Yard, Somerset Lane,|
|Contractor|||||Taibach,|Port Talbot, SA13 1UA|
|~|a|||~~||~|
|Trustee|selection|methods
Trustees are elected from the membership
at Annual
General
Meetings for a|methods
Trustees are elected from the membership
at Annual
General
Meetings for a|methods
Trustees are elected from the membership
at Annual
General
Meetings for a|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||three year term with a third oftrustees
retiring at each AGM
They can also be|
|||||appointed
until the next AGM by existing trustees
between
annual
general|
|||||meetings.|
|||||In the 2021-22 year the Trustees met 7 times, all via the Zoom video-|
|||||conference
facility.|
|Additional|governance||issues||
|||||As reported
last year, the plans to develop an 'over-arching
body" for third|
|||||sector organisations
in the Upper Afan valley have been delayed
by the|
|||||Covid-19 pandemic.|
|||||Trustees have been supported
in their work by the Neath Port Talbot Council|
|||||for Voluntary
Service.|
|||||Trustees have adopted a suite of policies to guide our operations
and|
|||||practice. Whilst the regular
review ofthese was not possible dunng
Covid-19|
|||||the review programme
was re-instated
in November 2021.|
|||||Trustees continue to consider major risks to their business
as part ofthe|
|||||Strategic Planning
process, Totake account ofthe significant
changes to our|
|||||work since Covid-19 a further
review ofour Business Plan has been|
|||||scheduled
to take place a year early,
in the spring of2023.|
|Summary ofthe
objects ofthe
charity set out in||"Sr~~~~~~Top~
8zE~ruri~R~
Our current objects are:|||
|its governing||~||To promote social inclusion
for the public benefit by preventing
people from|
|document||||becoming
socially excluded,
relieving the needs ofthose people who are socially|
|||||excluded
and assisting
them to integrate
into society.|
|||||For the purpose ofthis clause 'socially excluded'
means
being excluded
from|
|||||society, or part ofsociety, as a result of being a member
ofa socially and|
|||||economically
deprived
community.|
|||~||To promote for the benefit ofthe inhabitants
ofthe electoral
ward of Cymmer
and|
|||||the surrounding
areas the provision
offacilities for education,
recreation
or other|
|||||leisure time occupation
of individuals
who have need ofsuch facilities by reason of|
|||||their youth, age, infirmity
or disablement,
financial
hardship
or social and|
|||||economic circumstances
or for the public at large in the interests
ofsocial welfare|
|||||and with the object of improving
the condition
of life ofthe said inhabitants|
|||~||To advance education
ofthe public
in electoral ward ofCymmer and surrounding|
|||||areas generally,
by the running
and management
ofa community
library for the|
|||||benefit ofthe said residents.|
|||Our||overall approach to developing
our community
library has two major strands. We|
|||will:|||
|||~||build on our core purpose
of providing
library services to the community
ofthe|
|||||Upper Afan Valley; and|
|||~||develop other uses ofthe building,
Library Plus!, in keeping
with that core purpose|
|||||which
will contribute
towards the creation ofthe library as a Community
Hub - a|
|||||multi-purpose
community
facility.|
|Summary
ofthe
main activities
undertaken
for the
public benefit in
relation to these
objects||2021-22 has been a year of significant
changesl
At the beginning
ofthe year were we
still under some restrictions
resulting
from the Covid-19 pandemic.
We were still open
as a Community
Help Hub for emergency
support to our community
(printing,
photocopying,
food bank etc.)and making
plans to recruit a Development
Officer to
help us re-establish
our work as the pandemic
restrictions eased. We started to re-|||
|Cymer Afan Community||Library
1"April 2021 —31"March 2022|||
|Summary|of||open our services through
the autumn
of2021 but it had to close again
in January|
|---|---|---|---|
|activities|||2022 for a major refurbishment
ofthe building
which lasted
until May 2022.|
|continued,|||During the pandemic
it became apparent
that our community
would
need ongoing|
||||support
and we took over the food bank and ran a Community
Help Hub from the|
||||building.
We are members
ofthe Independent
Food Aid Network,
and have developed|
||||a "social supermarket'
(The Food Cupboard)
to run alongside
the Food Bank.|
||||To use the Food Cupboard
users make a small payment
in return for some choice|
||||over the food they received. This was to reduce the stigma attached to being the|
||||recipient of charity from the food bank and had the benefit of promoting
a feeling of|
||||being a customer
with some limited choice. The Food Cupboard
nearly doubled
its|
||||membership
during
the year, from 25 to 48.|
||||The Food Bank remains
available
to anyone who can afford even a small contribution.|
||||The main source ofour food was the FareShare
charity which collects surplus|
||||supermarket
food|
||||We continued
to work closely with Neath Port Talbot Council for Voluntary
Service,|
||||Gwynfi
Miners'
Community
Hall, the County
Library Service, the local councillors,
and|
||||we also kept in touch with our MP, Stephen
Kinnock and Senedd Member,
David|
||||Rees.|
||||In July 2021 Lindsey Thomas, (Development
Officer, 30 hrs)) joined our paid staff|
||||team, alongside
Tym Thomas (Centre Coordinator,
30 hrs); Peter Lakin (Bookkeeper,|
||||3 hrs) and Sharon Ackery (Cleaner, 5 hrs). We are grateful to all ofthem for keeping|
||||our operations
running
during
what has been a year of many changes.|
||||Since the easing ofthe Covid-19 restrictions
we have started to rebuild
our volunteer|
||||team. Thanks for their contribution
during
the 2021-22 year are particularly
due to:|
||||Bob Chapman,
Julie Connick, Gloria Davies, Melanic Emmett,
Alan Furnell,
Andrew|
||||Hooper,
Debra Jenkins,
Ann Mayer, Eunice Newing,
Sian Paul, Eunice Phillips,
Nick|
||||Taylor, Ceri Ellen Thomas,
Alison White &Jean White.|
||||Throughout
the year (apart from during the refurbishments)
we have continued
to|
||||benefit from free electricity from the solar panels installed
by the Egni Cooperative
on|
||||our roof.|
||||ln planning
and delivering
ail these individual
activities,
and during the process for|
||||reviewing
our strategic
plan, the Trustees
have considered
and had regard to the|
||||public benefit guidance
issued
by the Charity Commission.|
||||~ ~-
~|
|Summary|of|the|There have been three main phases to our work during 2021-22.|
|main
achievements
of
the charity during
the year|||April to July 2021:during
this period the Community
Help Hub was open every
weekday
managed
on a day to day basis by our Centre Coordinator
with help from
volunteers
to run the Food Bank and Food Cupboard
and other emergency
support
services (such as printing,
copying
and provision of hearing
aid batteries.
During this|
||||period Tai Tarian refurbished
our kitchen area.|
||||August to December 2021:during
this second period we started to turn the|
||||Community
Help hub back into Library Plus!, our new name for our building,
providing|
||||all the usual
library services and beginning
to.reinstate the activities and services we|
||||had been running
prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
We re-started
the yoga class, film|
||||shows, book club and primary
school class visits as well as starting a new evening|
||||class in Psychology
and Criminality.|
||||Queens'
Award for Voluntary
Service: In June 2020 we had been chosen to|
||||receive the Queens Award for Voluntary
Service, equivalent
to an MBEfor voluntary|
||||organisations,
the highest
award a voluntary
organisation
can achieve. The formal|
||||presentation
ofthe award
by the Lord Lieutenant
ofWest Glamorgan,
Mrs Louise
Fleet, was delayed
until Monday 16"August 2021.|
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