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← Tameside East Foodbank

2023-12-31-accounts

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Tameside East Foodbank

(A Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Trustees Annual Report

And

Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31 December 2023

Charity Number 1161048

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Legal and Administrative Information

Charity Name 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
David Carter
Lesley Cook From 17 January 2023
Peter Devlin
Kirsty Gosling
Stuart Gosling
Zea Grantham From 12 October 2023
Patricia Jarman
Ian McIlvanney
Ian Pickering
Independent Examiner Stewardship Services (UKET) Ltd
1 Lamb’s Passage
London
EC1Y 8AB
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

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info@tamesideeast.foodbank.org.uk

Contact

Tameside East Foodbank

Trustees’ Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2023

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.

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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 23,960 vouchers, resulting in the feeding of 52,973 people: 33,217 adults and 19,756 children. During 2023 we fed a total of 7,526 people: this breaks down to 4,684 adults and 2,842 children (37.6% of those fed were children). This represents an increase of over 20%, compared to the number of people using the Foodbank in 2022 – 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 and also the rising cost of gas and electricity in the home. Other reasons include low income, debt, sickness/ill health, homelessness, no recourse to public funds (NRPF) and domestic abuse.

Stock levels

We continue to receive regular donations from our local churches and schools – especially during Harvest and Christmas seasons. Over the course of 2023 we received 53,043kg of donations – however, due to the increase in need, we gave out 60,153kg. This level of need meant that we purchased almost 10,000kg of required items.

Our thanks go again to our local supermarkets who continue to support us by having in-store collection points - currently these are Asda, Morrisons, Sainsburys and Tesco. During 2023 we also carried out manned collection weekends at Asda, Morrisons and Tesco which generated in excess of 3,500kg of donations. We have also continued to have great support from the Community Champions at the stores. Thanks also go to Greggs and Tesco who supply our Stalybridge centre with bread and pastries and Sainsburys for donations of bread and fresh vegetables.

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. The increased space has enabled vastly improved working conditions - however we do feel that we do not require a facility with this amount of space.

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Staff and Volunteers

Foodbank Coordinator

The current Foodbank Coordinator took up post in December 2020. During 2023 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. The Financial Inclusion hub, in partnership with Tameside Citizens Advice, went live in mid-April 2023. This has proved to be a success with our clients and greatly welcomed by our volunteers and Centre managers. Our CA advisor has seen just over 90 people (many have required more than one appointment) with a reported £23,600 of financial gains for clients. Clients have been supported with benefit queries, energy bills, general debt advice or more deeply rooted debt and money problems, as well as immigration queries and general advice. We have also been able to support our clients by funding fuel vouchers through the Tameside CA system.

Warehouse Manager

A new Warehouse Manager took up post in December 2020 and was instrumental in the warehouse move to our later warehouse premises in Autumn 2022.

At 31 December 2023, we had stock levels of 6224kg, with a value of £14,750.

Volunteers

The bank of volunteers has remained consistent in 2023. The main issue has been in adequately staffing the warehouse, as this requires a capacity for lifting. Acquiring suitable volunteers for this role will be a priority in 2024.

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 2023 were £37,605 (£39,505 in 2022). Of this total, £29,238 were unrestricted voluntary donations (£29,238 in 2022). A further £2,751 was tax recovered under Gift Aid (£1,989 in 2022) and Tesco and Asda ‘Top up’ payments amounted to £5,366 (£2,777 in 2022). In addition, we received £2,320 in grants for general use from Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and the Locala Community Project.

£48,579 was spent from unrestricted funds in 2023, compared with £29,660 in 2022. The majority of this increased expenditure related to food purchases, necessitated by increased demand for our services. The net result for 2023 was a deficit of £10,974, leaving £84,323 in unrestricted reserves at the end of the year.

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The Foodbank had £36,647 in Restricted Funds on 31 December 2023.

Reserves policy

The charity’s unrestricted reserves decreased during 2023 and amounted to over £84,000 at 31 December 2023. 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:

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 2023, these included Stalybridge Methodist Church, St John’s Primary School, Manchester United, MPH Inspection Services, MIS Security Systems, Konnect Media, St Marks Church, Dukinfield Old Chapel, Intrahealth and Gericke Ltd.

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 9 July 2024 and signed on their behalf by Ian McIlvanney (Chair) on 9 July 2024.

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Independent Examlnerfs Report TOTHE TRUSTEES OF TAMESIDE EAST FOODBANK I report to the trustees on my examinatlon of the accounts of Tameside East Foodbank I'the charity'l forthe year ended 310ecember 2023 on pages 8t0 10 following. Re$ponslbllltles and basls of report As the trustees of the charity. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts In accordance with the requlrements of the Charities Act 20111'the 2011 ACYI. I report in re5pert of my examination of the charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directlon5 glven by the Charity Commlssion under section 14515llbl of the 2011 Art. Independent oxaffllnerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in C¢)nnection wlth the examinatlon glving me cause to believe that in any materlal respect.. l. accountlng records were not kept in accordan￿ wlth settion 130 of the 2011 Act: or 2. the a¢￿untS do not accord wlth the accounting records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection wlth the exarnination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understandlng of the accounts to be reached. Sarah Crlspin ACA Stewardship l Lamb's Passage London ECIY 8AB Oate: IS 20 2 Pag¢7of ID

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Charity Name No (if any) Tameside East Foodbank 1161048 Receipts and payments accounts Period start Period end For the period date To date from 01-Jan-23 31-Dec-23

CC16a

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Restricted
funds
to the
nearest £		 Restricted
funds
to the
nearest £		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest
£		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest
£		 Total
funds
to the
nearest £
7,355
10,458
1,671
508
2,817
60,808
2,751
5,366
-
91,734
-
-
-
91,734		 Last year
to the
nearest £
Regular donations
individuals		 7,355




- - 7,355 7,078
One-off donations
individuals		 10,458 - - 10,458 9,873
Giving Page 1,671 - - 1,671 2,530
Charities Aid
Foundation		 508 - - 508 672
Donations from
Organisations		 2,817 - - 2,817 9,085
Grants 6,679 54,129 - 60,808 23,185
Tax recovered 2,751 - - 2,751 1,989
Tesco & Asda Top-Up 5,366
- - 5,366 2,777
Other Income - - - - -
Sub total(Gross
income for AR)		 37,605 54,129 - 91,734 57,190
-
-

-
37,605		 -
-
-
54,129		 -
-
-
-
A2 Asset and
investment sales, (see
table).
- -
- -
Sub total
-		 -
Total receipts
37,605 54,129 - 91,734 57,190

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A3 Payments

A3 Payments
Salaries and related costs 25,382 - - 25,382 22,320
Equipment 353 - - 293 472
Food Bought 16,373 3,494 - 19,867 5,102
Toiletries bought 277 - - 277 363
Insurance 546 - - 546 786
Running Expenses 3,650 - - 3,650 1,836
CAB- Advice worker - 13,000 13,060 -
Other - - - - 30
New Warehouse - 342 - 342 2,078
Neighbourly Grant 2021 - 87 - 87 462
Home Packs 156 - - 156 -
Fuel Voucher Scheme -
CAB 2,000 - - 2,000 -
Volunteer Celebration 2022 - - - - 456
Storage - 12,548 - 12,548 2,200
Sub total
48,737 29,471 - 78,209 36,105
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
-
- - - -
-
- - - -
Sub total
- - - - -
Total payments 48,737 29,471 - 78,209 36,105
Net of
receipts/(payments) (11,132) 24,658 - 13,526 21,085
A5 Transfers between
funds (46) 46 - - -
A6 Cash funds last year
end 95,297 12,148 - 107,445 86,360
Cash funds this year
end		 84,119 36,851 - 120,970 107,445

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at
the end of the period
Categories
Details
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
B1 Cash funds
Bank Account
84,119
36,851
-
-
-
-
Total cash funds
84,119
36,851
(agree balances with receipts
and payments account(s))
OK
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Details
to nearest £
to nearest £
B2 Other monetary
assets
Gift aid to claim
739
-
-
-
Details
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost
(optional)
B3 Investment assets
-
-
Details
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost
(optional)
B4 Assets retained
for the charity’s own
use
Food at warehouse
Unrestricted
-
Storage equipment
Unrestricted
-
Office equipment and
furniture
Unrestricted
-
Details
Fund to
which liability
relates
Amount due
(optional)
B5 Liabilities
CAB Quarterly Payment
Restricted
6,500
Independent Examination
Unrestricted
780
Signed by one or two
trustees on behalf of all the
trustees
Signature
Print Name
Ian McIlvanney
 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
Current value
(optional)
14,184
-
-
When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
9 Jul 24
Date of
approval
9 Jul 24

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