## **Tameside East Foodbank**
## **(A Charitable Incorporated Organisation)**
## **Trustees Annual Report**
## **And**
## **Financial Statements**
For the Year Ended 31 December 2022
Charity Number 1161048
## **Legal and Administrative Information**
|**Charity Name**|Tameside East Foodbank|Tameside East Foodbank|Tameside East Foodbank|Tameside East Foodbank||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Charity registration number**|1161048|||||
|**Registered Office**|Holy Trinity &|||Christ Church||
||19 Corporation Street|||||
||STALYBRIDGE|||||
||SK15 2JS|||||
|**Board of Trustees**||||||
|Mr David Carter||||||
|Mr Peter Devlin||||||
|Mr Stuart Gosling||||||
|Mrs Patricia Jarman||||||
|Mrs Pamela Jeffrey|Resigned||31 December 2022|||
|Mr Ian McIlvanney||||||
|Mr Ian Pickering||||||
|Mrs Kirsty Gosling||||||
|**Independent Examiner**|Longmire Consultants Ltd|||||
||4a Paul House|||||
||Stockport Road|||||
||Timperley|||||
||WA15 7UQ|||||
|**Bank**|NatWest||Bank|||
||20 Melbourne|||Street||
||Stalybridge|||||
||Cheshire|||||
||SK15 2JQ|||||
|**Partner churches**|Holy Trinity Stalybridge||||0161 304 9308|
||New Life, Ashton-under-Lyne||||0161 339 7924|
||St John’s, Dukinfield||||0161 338 8199|
||Reach Church, Millbrook|||||
|**Website**|www.tamesideeast.org.uk|||||
|**Contact**|info@tamesideeast.foodbank.org.uk|||||
## **Tameside East Foodbank**
## **Trustees’ Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2022**
## **Structure, Government & Management**
Governing Document/Constitution
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Foundation) Registered on 24 Mar 2015, amended 20 Oct 2016
Trustee selection method
Election by Trustees
## **Charity Objectives**
The prevention and relief of poverty in the East Tameside area, in particular (but without limitation):
1. By providing emergency food to individuals and families in need and
2. By such other means as the Trustees may from time to time determine, including (but not limited to) the provision of support or signposting to relevant information and other advisory services.
## **Aims of the Charity**
Our aims are to alleviate poverty through the provision of food parcels to those in crisis, in partnership with local care agencies who refer clients in crisis to us. By signposting to care agencies, advice services and other support agencies, we aim to help solve a client’s immediate crisis, which is causing their need to use the Foodbank. Anyone in need can be referred to the Foodbank.
## **Charitable Activities**
Tameside East Foodbank has now been in operation since December 2012 - working initially as a partnership of three local churches: Holy Trinity Church, Stalybridge, St John’s Church, Dukinfield and New Life Church, Ashton under Lyne. In September 2021, we were joined by another local church - Reach Church, Millbrook, Stalybridge – allowing the foodbank to open a fourth distribution centre. We continue to work in partnership with the Trussell Trust and follow their operational procedures.
The Foodbank provides 3 days of emergency food on production of a foodbank voucher. A facility to issue vouchers digitally has been added to our system. Tameside East Foodbank has over 105 agencies in Tameside who supply vouchers to people identified as being in crisis. These agencies vary from national organisations, such as Citizens Advice and the Probation Service, to small local charities working with specific demographic groups such as victims of domestic violence or homelessness.
## **Achievements and Performance**
## **Overview**
Since opening the doors of the Foodbank in 2012, we have received a total of 20,591 vouchers, resulting in the feeding of 45,452 people: 28,534 adults and 16,918 children.
During 2022 we fed a total of 5,861 people: this breaks down to 3,729 adults and 2,132 children (36.4% of those fed were children). This represents an increase of almost 20%, compared to the number of people using the Foodbank in 2021 – we have attributed this to the continuing cost-of-living crisis.
The main reasons for clients requiring the support of the Foodbank continue to be changes and delays to welfare benefit payments. Other reasons include low income, debt, sickness/ill health, homelessness and domestic abuse.
## **Stock levels**
Manned supermarket collections have returned at Asda and Tesco. A local company, Smurfitt Kappa, has been providing monthly donations and havs also supported us with volunteers and transport when required. The Amigo/Compass shop within Tameside Hospital has also been collecting for us on a regular basis.
The social housing group, Jigsaw, has continued to support the Foodbank by allowing us to use one of their properties as a warehouse – for which we are extremely thankful. However, it has been apparent for some time that we need larger premises to store the increasing level of donations we are receiving (along with the provisions we are also having to buy in, using Foodbank funds)
New Life Church, Dukinfield Methodist Church, Selby Marketing and Norcom have continued to provide storage facilities on a temporary basis and we have been very grateful for this. However in October 2022 - following a protracted search for larger premises - we were pleased to take possession of a new, much larger, warehouse facility in Ashton-under-Lyne, on a three year lease from Tameside MBC. This has enabled us to consolidate all our stock in one place, and has provided a much-improved working environment for staff and volunteers.
Our thanks go again to local supermarkets who are supporting us by having an in-store collection point, currently these are Tesco, Morrisons, Asda and Sainsburys. We have also continued to have great support from the Community Champions in the stores. Thanks also
to Greggs and Tesco who supply the Stalybridge centre with bread and pastries and Sainsburys for donations of bread and fresh vegetables.
At 31 December 2022, we had stock levels of 11,500 kg, with a value of £27,248.
## **Operational Issues**
The centres opened back up fully in 2022, enabling volunteers to welcome clients and offer conversation and refreshments again.
## **Staff and Volunteers**
## **Foodbank Coordinator**
The current Foodbank Coordinator took up post in December 2020. During 2022 she has consolidated her position within the foodbank and in the wider Trussell Trust network, and has played an active role in the local voluntary and faith sector groups. In particular, she was involved in securing finance to create a Financial Inclusion Hub, which will be supported by The Trussell Trust and delivered, in partnership with Citizens Advice, in foodbank sessions - with the aim of providing support and advice to customers with anything from benefits, energy bills, general debt advice or deeper rooted debt and money problems.
## **Warehouse Manager**
A new Warehouse Manager took up post in December 2020 and has been active in reorganising the work of the warehouse team, enabling them to work Covid-safely, and in the redistribution of the stock.
## **Volunteers**
As covid restrictions have lifted, many of our volunteers have returned to support the foodbank, whilst others took the opportunity to retire from the work and we are grateful to the work they have put in over the years, wishing them a long and happy retirement. Several new volunteers have joined us as the centres have re-opened. The volunteer coordinators continue to assess prospective volunteers and support the centre managers and warehouse manager in placing suitable volunteers.
## **Financial Review**
## **Summary of financial position**
The supporters of Tameside East Foodbank have continued to be extremely generous in their giving. This year we have seen an increase in the number of individuals choosing to give regular financial donations. Donations of food to our collection points in supermarkets have also been well supported. We are enormously grateful for all this support. Without this generosity we would find it increasingly difficult to provide help to those in our local community who need to access the service.
Total receipts on unrestricted funds in 2022 were £39,505 (£35,620 in 2021). Of this total, £29,238 were unrestricted voluntary donations (£28,300 in 2021). Donations from organisations were £4,000 higher this year than last. A further £1,989 was tax recovered under Gift Aid (£2,457 in 2021) and Tesco and Asda ‘Top up’ payments amounted to £2,777 (£4,628 in 2021). In addition, we received £5,500 in grants for general use from DEFRA and the Duchy of Lancaster.
£29,660 was spent from unrestricted funds in 2022, compared with £26,405 in 2021. This increase was mainly due to the cost of securing alternative warehouse premises. The net result for 2022 was a surplus of £9,845, leaving £95,200 in unrestricted reserves at the end of the year.
The Foodbank had £12,250 in Restricted Funds on 31 December 2022.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity’s unrestricted reserves increased again during 2022 and amounted to over £97,000 at 31 December 2022. The Trustees are mindful of the need to carry a sufficient reserve to enable the charity to weather emergency situations and to smooth out cash flow fluctuations. A reserve of £10,000 has been designated by Trustees for food purchases.
We expect to see this level of reserve reduce significantly during the next three years, for two main reasons:
- The additional costs of the new warehouse, which are only partly being met by grants
- Continuing cost-of-living pressures, which have meant that we can no longer operate purely on the basis of food donations, and are having to buy in a range of commodities to keep up with demand.
Trustees receive regular reports outlining the charity’s financial position, and they will continue to monitor levels of reserves closely.
## **Donors and Partners**
We are privileged to receive donations from many individuals within the community, along with a number of local organisations and businesses. In 2022, these included Bromley's Solicitors, St Damians School, Dukinfield Baptist Church, McColls, 'Gin and Tonic' shop, CIL Geotecnics, Fitchner Engineering, Old Chapel, 2G Fabrications, Hollingworth Methodist Church, and Mellors Mindcraft.
## **And finally**
Our vision is to provide emergency food and support to local people in crisis and we will continue to promote the Foodbank within the local community and beyond. We will also continue to forge links with local businesses, employers, community groups and strategic agencies.
Approved by the Trustees on 12 July 2023 and signed on their behalf by Ian McIlvanney (Chair) on 12 July 2023.
||**Charity Name**
**Tameside East Foodbank**|**Charity Name**
**Tameside East Foodbank**|**Charity Name**
**Tameside East Foodbank**|**Charity Name**
**Tameside East Foodbank**|**Charity Name**
**Tameside East Foodbank**|**No (if any)**
**1161048**|**No (if any)**
**1161048**|**No (if any)**
**1161048**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01-Jan-22||**To**||Period end date
31-Dec-22|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Regular donations individuals|7,078||||-|
|**7,078**|
|**6,343**|
|One-off donations individuals|9,873||||-||**9,873**||**14,014**|
|GivingPage|2,530||||-||**2,530**||**2,957**|
|Charities Aid Foundation|672||||||**672**||**-**|
|Donations from Organisations|9,085||||-||**9,085**||**4,986**|
|Grants|5,500||17,685||-||**23,185**||**1,983**|
|Tax recovered|1,989||||-||**1,989**||**2,458**|
|Tesco & Asda Top-Up|2,777||||||**2,777**||**4,628**|
|Other Income|-||||-||**- **||**234**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**39,505**||**17,685**||**-**||**57,190**||**37,603**|
||**-**
**-**
**-**
**39,505**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,685**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||**57,190**||**37,603**|
|||||||||||
|
Salaries and related costs|22,320|
||
|-|
|**22,320**|
|**21,404**|
|Equipment|472||||-||**472**||**1,284**|
|Food Bought|102||5,000||-||**5,102**||**86**|
|Toiletries bought|363||||-||**363**||**359**|
|Insurance|786||||-||**786**||**723**|
|RunningExpenses|1,836||||||**1,836**||**804**|
|Other|30||||-||**30**||**544**|
|New Warehouse|1,550||528||||**2,078**|||
|Freezer Cost|-||||-||
**-**||**881**|
|NeighbourlyGrant 2021|-||462||||**462**|||
|Volunteer Celebration 2022|||456||-||**456**||**90**|
|Storage|2,200||||-||**2,200**||**1,200**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**29,660**||**6,445**||**-**||**36,105**||**27,375**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**27,375**|
|||||||||||
||**9,845**||||||||**10,228**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**85,350**||||||||**29,285.95**|
||**95,195**||||||||**39,514**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
13/06/2023
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank Account
**Details**
**Details**
Food at warehouse
Storage equipment
Office equipment and furniture
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**95,195**||**12,250**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**95,195**||**12,250**||**-**|
|||||||OK|
|||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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|||||||Date of
approval|
|||Ian McIlvanney||||12-Jul-23|
||||||||
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
13/06/2023
2
## **TAMESIDE EAST FOODBANK 2022 ACCOUNTS - FUNDS**
|**Fund**|**Fund Type**|**1 Jan 22**
**Balance**|**2022**
**Receipts**|**2022**
**Payments**|**2022**
**Transfers**|**31 Dec 22**
**Balance**|**Notes**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||
|Food Purchases
General
Neighbourly Project Grant
Volunteer Celebration Grant
Food Purchases
Warehouse Grant
**Total**
**Overall Fund Totals**|Designated
Not designated
Restricted
Restricted
Restricted
Restricted
**Restricted**|£10,000.00
£75,350.00
£600.00
£410.00
£0.00
£0.00
**£1,010.00**
**£86,360.00 **|£0.00
£39,504.87
£500.00
£475.00
£5,000.00
£11,710.00
**£17,685.00**
**£57,189.87 **|£0.00
£29,660.00
£461.68
£455.64
£5,000.00
£528.00
**£6,445.32**
**£36,105.32**|£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
**£0.00**
**£0.00 **|£10,000.00
£85,194.87
£638.32
£429.36
£0.00
£11,182.00
**£12,249.68**
**£107,444.55**|Designated by Trustees in 2019|
' (HARIIY
(OM
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteosl
members of
Tameside East Foodbank
On accounts for the year
ended
31° December 2022
Charity no
(if any)
1161048
Set out on pages
Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of Ihe accounts.
responsibilities of The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year
trustees and examiner under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an
independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility lo..
examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act.
to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (under section 14515)(bl of the Charities Act, and
to slate whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given
examiner's statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the
accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts
presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual
items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the
trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not
provide all the evidence Ihat would be required in an audit, and
consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true
and fair, view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the
statement below.
Independent In connection with my examination, no malter has come to my attention
examiner's statement 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect,
the requirements..
to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the
Charities Act,. and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and
comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
have not been mel., or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date:
5" June 2023
Name:
Sarah Steel
Relevant professional
qualificationlsl or body
(if any):
CIMA- Fellow
Address:
181a Park Road, Timperley, Allrincham, WA15 6QZ
IER
March 2012