## Trustee Report for 2020
As with just about every charity organisation, the pandemic totally decimated our event support calendar and therefore our means of fundraising in 2020.
With the exception of a couple of events in January and February our income stream withered to nothing!
That is not to say that the team had entirely stagnated because once the government lockdown began in late March, we worked alongside The Teapot Project - a local group who collect edible unwanted food from restaurants and supermarkets - redistributing it to those in need. We assisted TP by collecting that unwanted food and then delivering prepared food parcels across the county. Our 4x4 members with trailers and vans at their disposal also went further afield collecting bulkier loads of potatoes and onions, sometimes up to two tonnes at a time!
Sadly our AGM, set for mid-February was rightly cancelled due to the ever-increasing Covid cases and there was never sufficient confidence to re-book it in 2020, so it will be deferred into 2021, once Covid measures mean we can practically and safely reschedule it.
In September we did finally manage to run some Covid-safe training events: Traffic Management, which was aimed at keeping our members safe during events where we carry out on-site car parking, radio use and procedures and a navigation exercise; all of which were warmly welcomed. We also ran an accredited first aid course renewal.
On the weekend before Christmas we attended a drive-in Fireworks event to assist with socially-distanced parking of over a thousand vehicles over two evenings in four sittings. Well over two-thirds of those vehicles had to be towed off the parking area due to rainfall.
We thought that was an end to a most unusual 2020 until a call from a village in the North of the county on Christmas Eve, where after sudden heavy rain on top of saturated ground, found the low-lying part of the village under two feet of water with no support from local government or hard-pressed emergency services! Members rallied to the scene and after a briefing on water safety from a Search & Rescue-trained member of EA-CAT, quickly began towing vehicles to safety and carrying sand bags through floodwater, to dwellings threatened with inundation.
Membership of the team remained stable throughout 2020.
It was decided to purchase a box trailer in order to keep all team kit in one place and to double up as an event support/control unit. It was fitted out with a workstation, batteries, solar panels and 240v electrics. This was liveried with vinyl graphics to add a promotional element.
Accounts report 2020
|||**2020**|**2020**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**CODE**|**Cash**|**Bank**|**Total**|
|**Income**|CHARGES|£ -|
£ -|
**£0.00**|
||DONATIONS|£ -|
£ -|
**£0.00**|
||EVENTS|£ -|£ 1,894.60|**£1,894.60**|
||INTEREST|£ -|
£ -|
**£0.00**|
||MEMBERSHIP|£ -|
£ 40.00|
**£40.00**|
||OTHER|£ -|
£ 0.01|
**£0.01**|
|||**£0.00**|**£1,934.61**|**£1,934.61**|
||||||
|**Expenditure**|ADVERTISING|£0.00|
£0.00|
**£0.00**|
||CLOTHING|£0.00|
£0.00|
**£0.00**|
||COMMS|£0.00|
£238.28|
**£238.28**|
||FUEL/MILEAGE|£0.00|
£640.55|
**£640.55**|
||INSURANCE|£0.00|
£538.33|
**£538.33**|
||PPS|£5.50|
£0.00|
**£5.50**|
||SAFETY|£0.00|
£73.28|
**£73.28**|
||SUNDRY|£0.00|£1,413.82|**£1,413.82**|
||WEB|£0.00|
£0.00|
**£0.00**|
||Total|**£5.50**|**£2,904.26**|**£2,909.76**|
||||||
|||**Cash**|**Cheques**|**Total**|
|Deposits|BANKING|£0.00|
£0.00|
**£0.00**|
||||||
|**Balances**||**Cash**|**Bank**|**Total**|
|Opening balance||£14.83|£4,222.45|£4,237.28|
|Closing balance||£9.33|£3,252.80|£3,262.13|