fe.dish REDISTRIBUTING GOOD STUFF AROUND REDDISH fcth + dcthiro * fumiture 4 thILs ANNUAL REPORT 2024.2025 ## Table of Contents 3 4 Intro Our Story So Far 3 4 Intro Our Story So Far 5 8 2024-25 Food Action Overview 15 10 16 10 Goodshare Hub Wellbeing 18 19 2025 -26 Partners & Projects Supporters ## Introduction I am delighted to once again write the introduction to our annual report Our small charity continues to flourish and develop and of course we are constantly indebted to our wonderful dedicated band of volunteers who actually make our organisation work, and without whom we could do nothing. We have all sorts of volunteers from all walks of life, young & older. Whatever service we provide we have volunteers who step forward to run our various services. This year we celebrated our 10th anniversary and to celebrate this milestone we had a lovely afternoon tea. We were delighted to welcome to this event the Rev Angie Stanton, the founder of Re:dish who retired several years ago. Angie made a short speech reminding us all how far we have travelled since our beginning actually more than 10 years ago. She also reminded us of our most prestigious award of the Queens Award for Voluntary Service which recognised the huge amount of work our volunteers put in to keep Re:dish continually developing. This year we opened our Social Supermarket ‘Good Stuff’ which aims to support local people and also supplement our food bank this is an exciting project and it is already supporting many local people. I must pay tribute to Laura our ‘Good Stuff’ coordinator who launched this project moving on from volunteering to employment. It is always fantastic for us to play a small part in our volunteers journey to employment. This year we also opened the ‘Lily Room’ at the hub. This creates a new space for our groups and is also available for other services to rent out. The services we provide continue to expand - we introduced a second exercise group this year due to the demand and we also have a digital group providing support to those who are digitally excluded on a weekly basis. In total, we have 100+clients at one of our 7 weekly wellbeing sessions. I also have to pay tribute to our wonderful small band of dedicated staff who are responsible for keeping everything we do ‘on track’ and without their service much of what we do would fall apart. The team is led by our Chief Executive Lynn supported by Community Worker Kelly, Shop Manager Yazz, and our Good Stuff co-ordinator. Their immense contribution to all that we do is the reason why we continue to develop. We thank all our external stake holders, funders, and general supporters. Andy Verdeille, Chair of Re:dish Trustees We shall continue to support all the people in our community If you need we help will be there for you. Andy Verdeille, Chair of Trustees ## Our Story So Far ## O U R V I S I O N To re-distribute good stuff around Reddish ## O U R A I M S O U R V A L U E S The work of Re:dish has grown . from a Christian and Co-operative ethos which is reflected in our values today: Working together we aim: • To improve the quality of life for the people living within the wards of Reddish North Reddish South and Heatons Norris, in the Borough of Stockport. • To create a sense of community pride • To become known as the place to go to for support if you have a problem or crisis (and offer either signposting elsewhere or own services to help) Self help Passion Respect Inclusivity Pioneering ## OUR TRUSTEES Andrew Verdeille (chair) Val Copley (treasurer - resigned 2025-26) Christopher Hill Tim Wane Susan Gibbins Rev’d Alison Mitchell Alan Penny Sandra Gaskill Lily Axworthy - specialist advisor ## Our 2024-25 Goals In 2024 - 25 our focus has been on the opening of our second food project - a social supermarket developed in partnership with Greater Together Manchester. **1** Opening our ‘Good Stuff’ social supermarket As well as the supply of food we have been working with services to provide support to our clients and developing the hub to provide space for this. Provide low cost, healthy food to our local community **2** **3** Identify and work with services that can compliment existing Re:dish projects Strengthen and develop Re:dish projects Establish relationships with likeminded partner organisations to build capacity and respond to community need. Continue to support our existing projects so that they are sustainable. ## 2024-25 Re-dish ## Organisational Structure 4 staff members (3 part time) In 2024 - 25 our staff team increased with the recruitment of a part time supermarket coordinator to manage ‘Good Stuff’. In August 2025 Laura left and the post was taken up by one of our longstanding volunteers, David. 8 trustees **+** 1 Specialist Advisor 73 volunteers ## Future Developments We have received funding for a part-time hosted role on behalf of the Stockport Food Partnership and will be recruiting for this position starting summer 2025. Our trustees remained the same during 2024-25. We regularly complete skills audits to ensure that we can recruit trustees to fill gaps using local (VCSFE) networks, our NetworkIn business network membership and LinkedIn to recruit. In 2025 our treasurer, Val Copley, stepped down and the position was taken up by former accountant Tim Wane (already a trustee). We were also joined by Rev Amy Cornell who took up the ex-officio position when she was appointed Rector of the benefices of St Agnes, St Mary, and St Elisabeth, Reddish. ## 2024-25 Re-dish Financial Overview In 2024 - 25 our income exceeded our expenditure leaving us with a healthy amount of 6 months of unrestricted reserves (in line with our policy) We began to develop new income streams from our social supermarket membership fees and from renting out our rooms to other organisations. This went some way to compensate for lower trading income from the charity shop which is a consequence of having less space available for sales events (due to the supermarket expansion) and much lower income from rag sales due to the cost pressures faced by the sector. Income **£** 126,140 Expenditure **£** 119,818 The majority of costs for setting up the social supermarket fell in 2024-25 so we saw an increase in expenditure overall. The charity does not have any debt or liabilities. **£** 72,950 cash in bank (of which **£** 52,691 unrestricted funds) ## Future Developments In 2025-26 we will continue to grow our unrestricted income streams - in particular room rentals and pop up shop opportunities at other venues. We are also actively pursuing gift aid as once implemented this will give us additional unrestricted income. We continue to apply for relevant grants to fund both new and existing projects although we are mindful that this has become increasingly competitive and is difficult to rely on. ## Food Action ## Foodbank - During 2024-25 the Reddish part of Stockport foodbank continued to serve clients from across Stockport who were in need of emergency food. - On average we saw between 12 - 15 clients per session. Our busiest times were Christmas and the school holidays when we were able to serve families that we supported through the holiday hunger scheme. - We continued to be well supported by our local community with donations from individuals, local groups, businesses, churches and schools. 104 sessions 30 volunteers - As well as food we also operated uniform and winter clothing voucher schemes. At Christmas we gave out hot chocolate mugs as stocking fillers. - Morrisons continued to act as a collection point for food donations. - We were able to provide support for foodbank clients via a funded Citizen Advisor as part of the Stockport Foodbank network. Our Citizen Advisor also issued fuel vouchers to clients over the winter. ## Food Action ## Good Stuff Social Supermarket - In June 2024 we were delighted to open our social supermarket ‘Good Stuff’ offering low cost, health food to residents in Reddish and Heaton Norris. - We were so grateful for the support of Greater Together Manchester who worked in partnership with us to develop the model - It is £5 to join including the first shop and £4 per shop thereafter for £20 - £25 of food which includes fruit and veg, chilled and frozen items. We are open Weds and Fridays - We launched to volunteers, and clients of our wellbeing groups in June 2024. We have gradually grown the number of members and shops since then predominantly via word of mouth. - In July 2024 we appointed, Laura Hindmarsh as Supermarket Coordinator which enabled us to establish operational routines 80 sessions 274 members 1971 shops - We secured an initial slot to collect food from Fareshare on a weekly basis which then increased to twice a week once established - In January 2025 we ran a 6 week cookery course with Groundworks using ingredients from the supermarket which encouraged experimenting with new products, developing skills and formed new friendship groups ## Future Developments Secure funding for van to help us manage stock more easily Look at opportunities for growing produce in the local area to increase supply Liaise with services like Citizen’s Advice to compliment the food offer ## Wellbeing ## Dementia Friendly Cafe Our Dementia Friendly Cafe welcomes those living with dementia and their carers. We offer a delicious 2 course lunch and a fun activity that is suitable for everyone. We enjoyed music sessions, visit from local school choirs, a summer carnival, an exercise taster class as well as celebrating seasonal occasions such as Christmas and Easter. We were pleased to be able to run our cafe for both previous clients and new faces. A number of clients continue to attend once their loved ones have passed away or have moved into residential care. They are are able to provide vital support and signposting to other carers. 38 sessions 20 clients 11 volunteers ## Future Developments Continue to promote the DFC within Reddish and throughout our Stockport networks so that we can support more clients. Continue to look at new enrichment activities including trips and a potential partnership with Dementia Disco to set up a monthly session in South Reddish ## Wellbeing ## Crafty Women Our Crafty Women group has been growing with a core number of members. Attendees can bring a craft, share a craft, learn a skill or simply come and have a chat and a cuppa. The group is so creative with inspiring ideas for upcycling items such as turning damaged jeans into bags or repainting or recreating art work that has been donated into something more saleable. The group has attended events to sell the items which raises funds for materials and the occasional lunch out. 48 sessions 2 volunteers + 10 clients weekly ## Future Developments Continue to experiment with different products and learning about what sells best at events they attend. Run social events using the funds raised from the sales to pay for these ## Wellbeing ## Active with County Our exercise for all programme with partners Stockport County Community Trust changed day to Tuesday morning in Oct 2024. This change meant a change in coach but means it can continue through the school holidays Due to the popularity of the sessions a second session was also added on Thursday mornings in March 2025 and the number of attendees continue to increase... The group also started to hold a coffee morning on Weds mornings at the hub (unless the room is needed for another event or booking) and have been on several social outings funded by Warm Spaces 42 sessions 1 sports coach 15 clients ## Future Developments Explore outdoor exercise options (walking group) to compliment the indoor programme. ## Wellbeing ## Youth Group We continued to work in partnership with Make a Difference during 2024-25 using the North Reddish Park Pavillion in the summer months. In January we moved to the Community Centre. This is a larger space but still with access to the outdoor facilities within North Reddish Park. Due to the availability of the venue we moved the session from Thursday to Wednesday. The new session followed a SEN family sessions being run by Autisk at the same venue. A second SEN session for young people was also offered on Fridays whilst funding allowed. The young people have enjoyed preparing and cooking their own snacks as part of the session. Sports and board games are favourite activities. The term time sessions are complimented with the Holiday Activity Food sessions that are offered by Make a Difference in the school holidays. 34 sessions (term time) 2 youth workers (minimum) Up to 20 young people ## Future Developments Continue to develop the programme of activities in accordance with the interests and needs of the young people attending including exploring options for art ## Wellbeing ## Empower Our Empower group for people of all abilities is attended by a regular group of 8 people . The group supports each other and take part in different activities each week - arts & crafts, quizzes and games. They have enjoyed a number of trips Christmas and Easter panto at Stockport Plaza funded by having stalls at local events for fundraising activities. 4 volunteers (including digital empower ) 8 members each week In March 2025 Digital Empower started out alongside this group offering drop in support to clients with digital questions. This was put together in partnership with Starting Point with volunteers who have accessed their digital training programme. The first session was an information session about the use of the NHS app. ## Future Developments Continue to promote the group and digital empower so that we can grow membership Look at the other digital support that can be offered (eg data cards, mobile wifi) to help combat digital exclusion ## Goodshare ## Re:dish Shop The charity shop continues to provide valuable unrestricted income to support our community projects. We sell bikes on behalf of Men in Sheds - in Spring and Summer this can be one a week. We are pleased to support another local organisation and encourage people to exercise and use a form of transport that is better for the environment. As well as our seasonal window displays we are developing a reputation for a number of other events including kilo and 50p sales which tend to happen at the end of each season. **£** 50,000 income 440 bags of donations We also had a late night opening to support the Reddfest and the Christmas Light Switch On and capitalise on the increased footfall. Our Winter Wonderland is a 3 day Christmas Extravaganza which is much awaited by our regular customers. We are also well known for Window Santa - we saw 176 kids on the Sundays leading up to Christmas this year. As well as a lovely free family event Santa and his elves love waving at passers by and making them smile. ## Future Developments Look at attending other sales opportunities across Stockport to raise our profile and increase our sales Support local events such as Reddfest and the Reddish Christmas light switch on by hosting sales events and adjusting our hours to fit the events. Explore other sales channels such as Vinted as an alternative to ebay ## Hub In August 2024 we were able to refresh the signage on the exterior of the building. We are now much easier to find and will be much less likely for us to be confused with an estate agent! In January 2025 we completed work on our smaller 121 meeting space which we plan to use as a breakout room for our larger sessions, as well as offering it as a space for relevant services to use for meeting clients. We were grateful to the Vernon team for helping with the decoration and St Josephs school for raising funds for the new carpets and blinds. We have named it the Lily room as this is flower associated with St Joseph. We also had an Evac Chair fitted and staff have been trained in its use. This is a safe way of evacuating clients and volunteers with mobility issues should there be a fire and we are unable to use the lift. ## Future Developments Turn the derelict at the rear of our hub into a ‘pocket park’ for use by the community and as a growing space for ‘Good Stuff’ ## Hub Our programme of hub activities continues to grow with the inclusion of a second exercise group on Thursday, a coffee morning on Wednesday and the new digital empower group on Friday . Our Peacock room continues to be rented by Banter & Brews on Tuesdays - it is well attended by men of all ages welcoming new and old members alike. We also have a regular booking with CAP who have now held 2 life skills courses (including cookery) and a job club in the space. We also hosted one off events. This included a money maximising roadshow with 9 organisations attending to share their services with clients. We are slowly becoming known as a meeting venue and are increasingly being approached by organisations wishing to use the space! ## FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS Continue to work with services and organisations to deliver the support and groups that our community need. Rent out venue to like minded organisations to generate income ## Our 2024-25 Projects & Events ‘Good Stuff’ social supermarket Our primary focus has been on the opening of our social supermarket we are so proud of the positive feedback we have had from our community. We will continue to improve the operation, grow the number of members and work with clients to provide them with other support Outreach This year we attended events a across Stockport including .. Taking part Reddfest and the Christmas light switch on Wellbeing event with Public Health in North Reddish Park St Josephs Christmas fayre Vintage Markets in Stockport Warm & Well on Lancashire Hill (Dec and Feb) ## Our 10th Birthday In May 2024 we celebrated our 10th birthday with a static 500 mile cycle ride in 5 days, a colouring competition and an afternoon tea for our amazing volunteers. The celebrations ended with a birthday party for all our supporters. We’re looking forward to what we can achieve in the next 10 years... Ouf pactnecs & supporters Reddish Porfol_ts . GREATER TOGETHER MANCHESTER Events reddishevents.com 83 Community Trust ernon Building Society DIFF E Elliott EPOS m•dla GREATER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER DOING THINGS DIFFERENTLY Ine vni¥er51Ty QT Niancne51er GMCVO IV Lions Accountancy Services GEOFF CAPES Driving School broadstones STOCKPORT METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL ## Our partners & supporters St Joseph’s RC Church We thank you for your continued support ## Our year in photos Sector 3 helping with a Spring Clean hac = ~~ 6S Y VA i Outdoor events in the rain Events at the shop Good Stuff Supermarket 3 day winter wonderland sale For more information contact : Lynn Brandwood Re:dish 2 Gorton Road, Reddish, SK5 6AE www.redish.org.uk |||**Re:dish (draft)**|||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||**CC16a**|| ||**For the period**
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**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|| |||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||| |Unrestricted Donations||**20,989**||||||**20,989**||**39,156**|| |Restricted Donations||||**42,718**||||**42,718**||**20,048**|| |TradingIncome||**50,000**||||||**50,000**||**57,019**|| |Social Supermarket MembershipIncome||**7,874**||||||**7,874**|||| |Events & Activities Income||**1,829**||||||**1,829**|||| |Bank Cashback||**26**||||||**26**|||| |Business Rates Rebate||**2,472**||||||**2,472**|||| |Heldpayments/deposits||**231**||||||**231**||**2,760**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_||_(Gross income for_|||||||||| ||_AR)_|_AR)_**83,422**||**42,718**||**-**||**126,140**||**118,983**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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**_Total receipts_ 83,422**
**42,718**
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**126,140**
**118,983**
~~——————~~|||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |Charitable Activities & Projects||||**32,320**||**-**||**32,320**||**20,734**|| |Safeguarding& DBS||||**510**||**-**||**510**|||| |Training||||||**-**||**-**||**275**|| |RE:DISH Hub RunningCosts||**6,718**||||**-**||**6,718**||**9,023**|| |Insurance||**1,835**||||||**1,835**|||| |IT Broadband & Phones||**2,553**||||||**2,553**|||| |Licences & Subscriptions||**614**||||**-**||**614**|||| |Tradingsupplies and expenses.||**494**||||||**494**||**607**|| |Salary& HMRC||**67,806**||||**-**||**67,806**||**64,665**|| |Pension||**4,226**||||**-**||**4,226**||**3,479**|| |Business Rates||**1,824**||||||**1,824**|||| |Stationery, Printing, Marketing||**583**||||||**583**|||| |Equipment, fixtures and fittings|||||||||||| |Professional Fees and Services.||**106**||||**-**||**106**||**235**|| |Bank Charges||**5**||||||**5**|||| |EbayRefunds||**224**||||||**224**|||| |Kick Start Apprentice Salary& NI||||||**-**||**-**|||| |Kick Start Apprentice Pension||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |GMCVO Loan Repayment||||||||||**1,714**|| |Heldpayments/Transfers||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**4,160**|| |**_Sub total_ **||**86,988**||**32,830**||**-**||**119,818**||**104,892**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**_Total payments_ 86,988**
**32,830**
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**119,818**
**104,892**
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**9,888**
**- 6,322**
**14,091**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**56,257**
**10,372**
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**66,629**
**52,538**
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**52,691**
**20,260**
**72,950**
**66,629**
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Andrew Verdeille| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 26/01/2026 2 ## Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Re:dish I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Re:dish for the year ended 31 March 2025. ## _Responsibilities and basis of report_ As the charity trustees 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 accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all 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 giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: _Nick Shearman AAIA ACCA._ Name: Nick Shearman Address: The Courtyard, Earl Road, Cheadle Hulme, SK8 6GN Dated: 13th January 2026