2021-03-31-accounts - Wrexham Foodbank / Banc Bwyd Wrecsam

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Section A

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 April 2020 To 31 03 2021

From

Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) Charity's principal address	Wrexham Foodbank / Banc Bwyd Wrecsam	Wrexham Foodbank / Banc Bwyd Wrecsam


	1162262
	Unit 1A Puleston Industrial Estate
	Ruabon Road
	Wrexham
	Postcode	LL13 7RF

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Campbell Edmondson	Chair of Trustees
Robert Opper
Gerard Doyle	Treasurer
Suzanne Nantcurvis
Margaret Monaghan		From 01/07/2020	The Board of Wrexham Foodbank Trustees

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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March 2012

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B

Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

CIO Foundation Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

By invitation and election by Trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

The Charity is affiliated to the Trussell Trust and draws on it for You may choose to include advice and policy matters from time to time. Many of the written policies of additional information, where the Foodbank are derived from the Trussell Trust operating manual. relevant, about: The Trussell Trust has collaborations with Tesco, ASDA and Sainsburys • supermarket groups and these provide a consistent source of financial policies and procedures adopted for the induction and income for the work of the Wrexham Foodbank. training of trustees; Food received by public donation is controlled and weighed in and out in accordance with policy agreed with the Trussell Trust. • the charity’s organisational the charity’s organisational New Trustees are given written information from the Charity structure and any wider Commission on the roles & responsibilities of Trustees.

the charity’s organisational the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C

Objectives and activities

To relieve persons in Wrexham county borough that are in financial hardship in such ways as the Trustees from time-to-time think appropriate, in particular but not exclusively by:

Summary of the objects of the a) providing emergency food, essential toiletries, and household charity set out in its items to individuals and families in need and/or for distribution by governing document other charities and organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.

b) such other means, including (but not limited to) the provision of support, or signposting to, relevant information and other advisory services.

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Provision of emergency food parcels; signposting for clients in need of debt management or other forms of personal support. Advice on budgeting and Eat Well Spend Less courses to provide clients with basic cookery skills to support cost savings. Addressing issues of “Period Poverty” by providing sanitary products through collaboration with a local charity called WINGS. Provision of baby food and other products for new mothers struggling to cope through our Baby Essentials programme in conjunction with local Health Visitors. Budgetary and debt management support through our Community Money Advice Connect Centre. In carrying out this work the Trustees have had due regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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March 2012

Although we have two part time employees, a Project Manager and a Warehouse manager, the everyday delivery of the work of the Foodbank remains reliant on several teams of volunteers. In total there are between 80 -100 volunteers

These teams of volunteers are responsible for:

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

a) sorting, dating and weighing of all food donations in our warehouse b) at satellite distribution centres, befriending clients and providing drinks for them together with signposting help and advice in addition to handing out food parcels

c) preparation of food parcels

d) participation in supermarket food donation collections e) transport of food donations to and from the warehouse

f) running Eat Well Spend Less cookery & budgetary courses

g) data input to our database recording the warehouse stock in /out and client voucher data.

h) acting as drivers for our Home Delivery service

i) acting as Money Mentors in the Community Money Advice Connect Wrexham centre.

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March 2012

Section D

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Achievements and performance

Despite the restrictions imposed by the Covid pandemic with the constraints on availability of volunteers due to lockdown (as over 65% of our volunteers are over 70 years old) and with the loss of access to the properties where we distribute food parcels we still managed to deliver on our core objectives.

a) Food distribution: A total of 2981vouchers were received from our referring agencies requesting food parcels.This represents 4407 adults and 2602 children, a total of 7009 people, being fed. A 20.5% increase from 2019-20. The main reasons for the request for a food parcel were similar to previous years however low income is now the major (and increasing) reason for requests followed by Benefit delays and changes. Debt and ‘other reasons’ remain the other two main drivers for referral. The demographics of those presenting with vouchers were essentially unchanged {Single Person 42.6%, Single Parent 19%, Family 17.8% and Couples 12.9%]. b) Food stock: at the beginning of this year there were initial difficulties in securing food supplies due to unavailability from a local wholesaler and tight restrictions on supermarket purchases. Donations via our collection bins in the local supermarkets were also significantly reduced and the annual Harvest collections in schools and churches were also severely negatively impacted by Covid restrictions. This necessitated establishing new supply lines through two distant wholesale outfits. As we progressed into May 2020 at a national level Tesco organised food deliveries to our warehouse in conjunction with British Gas and for several months of the lockdown period we received 1000kg per week of supplies. Despite these problems a total weight of 64,594.7 kilograms of food was received in the warehouse an increase of 23.7% from 2019-20. Despite the reduced number of volunteers at the warehouse the supply chain was effectively maintained, and we needed to secure extra storage space to cope with the supply. A total of 865 kgs of damaged or out of date stock (nominal value £1470) had to be disposed of. Compared to 2019-20 this was a significant decrease from 1305 kgs

c) Distribution sites: The arrival of the Corona Virus pandemic and subsequent national restrictions had a significant impact on our ability to distribute food parcels as we did not have access to some of the buildings. Where possible, we continued to use our Satellite distribution locations but relied upon using outdoor areas (from our Foodbank van) at these centres to abide by prevailing restrictions. In addition, we established a Home Delivery service to ensure that clients who were forced to self-isolate or shield were still able to receive food deliveries. This was achieved through a partnership with a local business who provided the drivers and over 1500 deliveries were made in the 12 month period. This did impact negatively on our usual befriending and signposting of clients for additional help however as many agencies were not seeing clients face to face the impact of this is hard to quantify. We did include printed information on available support in all our parcels.
d) Other activity: Eat Well Spend Less programmes to provide training in basic cooking skills using items from our standard foodbank parcels continued but in a much-restricted way due to the pandemic.

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March 2012

f) Our Community Money Advice (CMA) Connect Centre opened in December 2020. 7 volunteers were trained to become Money Mentors in order to give help and support for individuals struggling with their monthly budgets and to facilitate access to trained debt adviser at the CMA Hub. Our intention was to provide face to face appointments however within 6 weeks of start-up the lockdown restrictions meant we were unable to do so until May 2021. Despite attempts to assist clients remotely via Zoom or WhatsApp this proved largely ineffective.

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March 2012

Section E

Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The Trustees ensure there is minimum of 6 months calculated budget in our accounts to cover rent, utilities and other essential outgoings which includes salaries for 2 part time employees. This has been achieved throughout this financial year thanks to a significant increase in income.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Nil

Further financial review details (Optional information)

The onset of the pandemic brought unprecedented financial support in
You may choose to include addition to our normal annual income from i) the Trussell Trust which
additional information, where provides funds via collaboration with Tesco, ASDA and Sainsburys
relevant about: supermarkets ii) individual (public) donations and iiii) church donations.
• the charity’s principal We were also in receipt of grants from the Trussell Trust to finance part
sources of funds (including of our salary costs and the extra warehouse storage.
any fundraising); Several large corporations donated significant sums and there was also
• a major increase in both individual regular and ad hoc donations. how expenditure has We also had 2 bids for funding from The Wales Community Fund and
supported the key objectives one from The Peoples Postcode Lottery approved.
of the charity; Expenditure included the continued employment of a part time Project
• investment policy and Manager (PM) and a Warehouse Manager. These appointments have objectives including any facilitated all aspects of the Foodbank activity from volunteer training, ethical investment policy rota management and increased public awareness of our work through adopted. local media and social media. Through the efforts of our PM we have -
been able to expand our electronic (e) referral system from agencies which was especially important during lockdown and an essential component of our Home Delivery Service. The warehouse is efficiently managed thereby ensuring our distribution satellites are reliably stocked. The Peoples Postcode lottery funding enabled all the costs of setting up the CMA Connect Centre to be met. The initial Wales Community Funding enabled us to maintain our service and covered our month to month revenue costs whilst the second grant award stream, entitled Repair and Recovery, is aimed at facilitating development pf our CMA Connect project

Section F

Other optional information

Section G

Declaration

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March 2012

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) W Campbell Edmondson Full name(s) William Campbell Edmondson Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 21/01/2022

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Charity Name No (if any) Wrexham Foodbank / Banc Bwyd Wrecsam 1162262

Receipts and payments accounts

CC16a

For the period Period start date Period end date To from 1st April 2020 31st March 2021

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 86,037 3,435 25,713 3,848 1,312 1,913 243 122,501 - - - 122,501 9,555 # 195 677 596 - # 360 13,698 698 885 7,046 518 41 730 66 230 1,922 118 - # - 37,335 - - - 37,335 85,166 - 47,846	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - 16,184 36,560 - - - - 52,744 - - - 52,744 14,884 - - - # - 5,000 649 710 - - - - - 1,178 # 3,931 26,351 - - - 26,351 26,392 - 16,183 1	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 86,037 19,619 62,273 - 3,848 1,312 1,913 243 175,244 - - - 175,244 24,439 195 677 596 360 18,698 649 710 698 885 7,046 518 41 730 66 230 1,922 118 1,178 - 3,931 63,686 - - - 63,686 111,558	Last year to the nearest £
Public Donations	86,037				35,891
Trussell Trust / ASDA Grants	3,435				25,477
Coroprate donations and Grants	25,713				28,150

Communitydonations	3,848				-
Church donations	1,312				-
Gift Aid	1,913				-
Interest Received	243				-
*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	122,501				89,518

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					89,518

Staff Wages /pension	9,555		-	24,439	23,132
IRIS Payroll	195		-	195	95
Phone /Broadband	677		-	677	768
Bank Charges	596		-	596	25
Fire / electric installation	-				2,079
Trussell Trust	360		-	360	360
Warehouse Rent	13,698		-	18,698	18,026
ExtraStorage			-	649	.
Eat Well Spend Less			-	710	346
Satellite essentials / rent	698		-	698	936
Stationery	885		-	885	414
Warehouse essentials	7,046		-	7,046	2,444
Sundries	518		-	518	197
Home deliveries	41		-	41	-
Clothing	730		-	730	474
Training	66			66
Public Liability/ Contents Insurance	230		-	230	221
Van(includingfuel)	1,922		-	1,922	16,974
Outreach Parcels	118			118	-
Extrafood			-	1,178	-
Travel&Delivery costs	-		-	-	382
CMAcosts	-		-	3,931	-
**Sub total **	37,335		-	63,686	66,873
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A4 Asset and investment purchases (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
					66,873

	85,166	26,392	-	111,558	22,645
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	47,846	16,183 1	-	64,029	41,384 23/01/2022

Cash funds this year end 133,012 42,575 - 175,587

64,029

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

23/01/2022

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

Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Reliance Bank Account PayPal Petty Cash Details Redwood Deposit Bank Details Details Gerard Doyle Signature W Campbell Edmondson ~~3~~	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 79,698 42,577 10,048 - 43,243 21 - 133,011 42,577 Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name William Campbell Edmondson Gerard Doyle	Endowment funds to nearest £
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		Date of approval
W Campbell Edmondson	William Campbell Edmondson	20/01/2022
Gerard Doyle ~~3~~	Gerard Doyle	20/01/2022 ~~23/01/2022~~

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name Wrexham Foodbank members of On accounts for the year 31[st] March 2021 Charity no 1162262 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1&2 attached (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2021 .

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: F P COLLINS Date: 25[th] January 2022

Name: Francis Peter Collins

Relevant professional FCA Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 15 Acton Road Wrexham LL11 2NA

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

October 2018

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