Charity Number: 1160750 

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2022 

Charity name:  Hope4BarkingDagenham 

Other name charity is known by: H4BD Registered charity number: 1160750 Charity’s principal address: Bethel Christian Centre 170 Bennetts Castle Lane DAGENHAM RM8 3XP 

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity 

|Trustee name|Office|Dates acted if not the<br>whole year|Name of person (or body)<br>entitled to appoint trustee|
|---|---|---|---|
|Nicholas David<br>Hilliard|Chair||Trustees|
|Jeff Potter|Vice Chair||Trustees|
|Arthur Berrian|Trustee||Trustees|
|Rev Unesu Audrey<br>Chindabata|Trustee||Trustees|
|Ben Stock|Trustee||Trustees|



Structure, governance and Management 

Description of the charity’s trusts 

Type of governing document: Charitable Incorporated Organisation(CIO) Constitution How the charity is constituted: Charitable Incorporated Organisation(CIO) Constitution Trustee selection methods: Appointed by Trustees 

## Additional organisational structure. 

An operational Manager was engaged by means of a service level agreement (SLA) in March 2015 to provide overall management of the night shelter and to assist guests into benefits and accommodation (on going). Night Shelter managers have also been engaged by means of a service level agreement (SLA) to manage the Night Shelter each night and to ensure the smooth 



running and safety of the guests and volunteers. The Operations Manager line-manages the Night Shelter Managers. The night Shelter Managers and the Operations Manager are line-managed by the Chair of Trustees. This structure was implemented to manage risk more effectively. The Operations Manager reviews policies and procedures and establishes effective links with local agencies, the council, housing partners and the police. 

H4BD work closely with the voluntary sector, local churches and Barking Churches Unite. These churches provide volunteers to help each night with cooking, cleaning and providing other appropriate support to service users. Volunteers undergo appropriate Night Shelter training, safeguarding training and DBS checks. 

The Source provides a postal address for benefit applications. 

## Objectives and activities. 

The relief of poverty and distress among people including (but not restricted to) those who have become homeless as a result to release from prison, addiction issues, or relationship break ups, through the provision of a night shelter refuge, counselling, advice, guidance and other support responsive to their needs and in accordance with Biblical principle. 

In summary, following support is provided to guests attending the night shelter: 

1. Assistance to apply for benefits. 

2. Assistance to gain accommodation. 

3. Provision of a food from form the food bank 

4. General support given for the emotional and spiritual well-being. 

5. Clothing assistance provided. 

6. Sign posting to other services. 

## Achievements and Performance 

Outcomes for the period from 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2002: 

During this period of time Hope 4  Barking and Dagenham provided Advice and advocacy services for people who are either homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or who have insecure living arrangements.  We have provided a telephone advice service which provides advice and assistance tailored to the individual needs of the individual.  During the year we have received several hundred calls. 

## Food Bank 

During the year the year the charity took over the running of a the Food bank which is run out of the Bethel Christian Centre.  As well as being a service used by many of those facing potential homelessness, the food bank provides an additional point of contact and an additional opportunity for provide assistance. 

## Declaration 

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees report above. 



Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees. 

|Signatures||
|---|---|
|Full Name|Nicholas Hilliard|
|Position|Chair of Trustees Board|



Date 24[th] May 2024 



||**Hope4BarkingDagenham**|**Hope4BarkingDagenham**|**Hope4BarkingDagenham**|**Hope4BarkingDagenham**|**Hope4BarkingDagenham**|**1160750**|**1160750**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||1st November 2021||**To**|3|1st October 2022|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Brought Forward Accounts|**17,441**||**3,650**||**-**||**21,091**||**5,604**|
|Donations|**2,541**||**-**||**-**||**2,541**||**1,354**|
|Grants|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**25,000**|
|Stripe Payments|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**33**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**19,982**||**3,650**||**-**||**23,632**||**31,991**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment**<br>**sales, (see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**19,982**||**3,650**||**-**||**23,632**||**31,991**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Operations Manager|**8,900**||**1,000**||**-**||**9,900**||**9,900**|
|Rent deposit Gaurentee|**-**||**1,500**||**-**||**1,500**||**1,000**|
|Food Bank|**1,357**||**-**||**-**||**1,357**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**10,257**||**2,500**||**-**||**12,757**||**10,900**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_**|**10,257**||**2,500**||**-**||**12,757**||**10,900**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**9,725**||**1,150**||**-**||**10,875**||**21,091**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**9,725**||**1,150**||**-**||**10,875**||**21,091**|





## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at bank||||**9,725**||**1,150**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**9,725**||**1,150**||**-**|
||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||||||N D Hilliard||||24-May-24|
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