## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/08/24 Period start date To 31/7/25 Period end date** **Charity name: CHEDDAR VALLEY FOODBANK** **Charity registration number: 1157959** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The prevention of relief of poverty in the**
**Cheddar Valley and the surrounding**
**area, in particular, but not exclusively,**
**by providing emergency food supplies**
**to individuals in need.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Provision of food parcels (food plus**
**additional toiletries and/or household**
**cleaning products where needed) food**
**vouchers and Christmas vouchers, for**
**people in need in the Cheddar Valley and**
**surrounding area, a radius of 8 miles**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference| |---|---| |

Policy on grant making

|

Para 1.38| |

Policy on social investment|

Para 1.38| |including program related|| |investment|| |

Contribution made by
volunteers

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Para 1.38|| |---|---|---| |||| |Other

||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |


Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|




Para 1.20|**755 food parcels were distributed in this**
**financial year. Demand for food parcels**
**has reduced slightly compared with last**
**year despite the significant increase in**
**the cost of living. The number of**
**Ukrainian clients has virtually dried up**
**as those living in our catchment area**
**have got jobs.**

**The foodbank worked closely with**
**several local agencies, schools, medical**
**centres, and Village Agent to ensure that**
**local people in need could obtain food**
**parcels in emergencies. Talks to**
**schools and local voluntary**
**organisations about the work of the**
**foodbank were undertaken.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41 Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 |

Investment performance
against objectives

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Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |
Other

||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**There has been a slight rise of 6% in the**
**number of financial donations from the**
**local community while donations via the**
**‘local giving’ portal have fallen by 21%.**
**Donations represent 64% of our income**
**while local giving represent 36%,**
**whereas last year it was 57%/43%.**

**However, the foodbank remains in a**
**good financial position to be able to**
**continue to support our regular and any**
**new clients.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**An amount is held in reserve to cater for**
**any major unexpected events that could**
**affect the foodbank. This sum also**
**covers rent, utilities, and purchase of**
**additional food stock.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£16,000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**There are currently no uncertainties**
**about the charity continuing as a going**
**concern.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

The
charity’s
principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)
|



Para 1.47|**No actual fundraising has taken place**
**however, we have received several**
**donations from local charities, local**
**businesses and individuals.**| |---|---|---| |

Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted
|



Para 1.46|| |---|---|---| |

A description of the principal
risks facing the charity

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Para 1.46|**The principal risk to the charity would**
**be any long-term significant reduction in**
**financial donations received.**| |
Other

||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|
Para 1.25
|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?(e.g
unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO)**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Election to post**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

Policies
and
procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees
|




Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |

The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works

|



Para 1.51|| |

Relationship with any related
parties

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Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |
Other

||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Cheddar ValleyFoodbank| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|| |Registered charitynumber|1157959| |Charity’s principal address|Tamarisk, Round Oak Road, Cheddar, Somerset, BS27 3BN| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any) **| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Elaine Reynolds|Chair||Trustees/CIO| ||Penelope Cooke|Secretary||Trustees/CIO| ||Katherine Bishop|Trustee||Trustees/CIO| ||Nigel Lakin|Safeguarding Officer||Trustees/CIO| ||Philip Holden|Trustee||Trustees/CIO| ||Julie Morris|Safeguarding Officer||Trustees/CIO| ||
Bruce Rance|Treasurer||Trustees/CIO| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** ||| |---|---| |Description of the assets
held in this capacity
|| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects
|| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets

|| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** B J RANCE **Full name(s)** Bruce John Rance **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Treasurer **Date** 16 Sept 2025 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Cheddar Food Bank Recei tsand ments accounts CC16a Forthe period from 01108r2024 31J07r2025 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restrlcted funds Endowment fund• Totsl funds Last year to the n•arMt to th• n*•￿tE to th• nearest£ to the near••l £ to th• n•thM•t£ A1 Recei DonalonB, Tru8ts & Locd Gmng Grft Inter88t 31.217 &186 33 31,217 33,031 ross Income AR) 36,437 33,031 Sot an Inv••tmont 84 36N37 ,437 33,031 A3Pa ments Food and consumob Unrt r¢nt Water and de¢trl InBurance Sl1￿¢[1p￿'0nB,sta1Qnfjry and T•lephon• Sundrie8 Unrt malnlenance 14.S24 14.524 37,966 4628 613 255 1.170 349 1,170 349 291 291 328 3.136 Sub total 21.397 21,397 47.513 A4 Assot and investm•nt Sub total 21,397 21,397 47,513 Net of recelpts/{payments) A5 Transfers bet*Ten funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this end 15,040 15,040 14A82 36 46.27 46,276 31236 CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 04108r2025 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted funds lo n￿l￿t £ Restricted funds to npare8t£ Endowment funds to nearest É B1 Cash funds Bank Account 21,243 5 Day Notice DeFthrt Account 24033 Total cash funds 46,276 l•Jre¢ ¥AknBèB and F•yrnnt8 Unrn8triet•d funds to nearnst£ Restrictsd funds to n•ar•$t £ Endowment funds to nMr••t£ Details B2 Other monetary a88ets Fund to whlch asmt belon Details Colt IWlon•ll Current valu• tbonal 83 Invo¥tment assets Fund towhkh as••t ￿lon Details Cost loptlon•ll Curr•nt valu• B4 Assets rntalnod for the harlty's own us• Fund to which Ilabll Amount duè Ilonal Details Wh•n du• B5 Llabllltles Signed by one or hvo trustees on behalf of all the twstees Signature Print Name Dale of roval Bnjce Rance Elalne Reynolds IL o CCXX R2 a¢¢ounts (SS) 04108r2025 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 Cheddar Valley Foodbank On accounts for tho year ended 31. July 2025 Charlty no (If any) 1157959 Set out on pages 1and2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('Ihe Trust") for the year ended 3110712025 Responslbllftles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for Ihe preparation basls of roport 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 accounls carri8d 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 (other than that disclosed below ') in connection with the examination whlch 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 Independent examinerfs statement 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. Pl88se delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Slgned: Dat8: 29" August 2025 Name: Gerald Cox Relevant professional quallflcatlon(s) or body (If any): FCCA Address: Ripple Farm Henton Somers8t BA5 1 PD IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brlef detslls of any Items that th8 examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018