Kimblesworth and Nettlesworth Community Task Force (registered charity no. 1163966)
Annual Trustees’ Report, July 2022
Current Trustees: John Barclay, Papi Taieb, Heather Liddle, Emlyn Lofthouse, Robert Kirton-Darling
At the time of our last AGM (July 2021) we were in the last phases of the ‘Food for Thought’ programme. The cooking and delivery of hot meals finished in August 2021, and we transitioned back to the regular Monday Community Café + bingo, which started again in September 2021. By agreement with the AAP, their Food for Thought funding was allowed to continue until March 2022: that covered both the costs of the Café and the rent of the room in the Nettlesworth Community Centre where the Food for Thought care packages were stored. On request, we gave a full account of our spend of the £10,000 we had received from the AAP and that has now been signed off.
The Café has been going well, with a mixture of new and regular members. A special Christmas meal was staged in December. In March this year we applied for funding from the AAP from their Older People Social Isolation Fund (OPSIF), and were granted £5100 (to run up to September 2023). That covers the rent and basic costs of the Café, together with bus trips (two have been organised this summer: one to Whitby and the other to York). The project includes a partnership with Karbon Homes to bring residents from local sheltered housing, a service which we hope to start soon.
Our other regular activity is Little Stars, on Thursday mornings. That has been running post-Covid since April 2021 during the school terms (not the holidays). Since restarting, numbers have been smaller, but those who have attended have appreciated it very much, not least the small size of the group. We are extremely fortunate to have had the regular and reliable leadership of Kelly Lofthouse for several years, but for good reason she feels this is the time to step away from her regular involvement. There is now a Friday SYP carers’ and toddlers’ group in Nettlesworth Centre, and we need to consider whether Little Stars should now cease, or whether we should continue it, if we can find new leadership (and funding).
The Task Force was able to support the Jubilee Celebration Community Fun event on June 5[th] , by increasing funding for the Café (which cooked burgers etc. for the day). In fact, almost all that money was recouped by takings on the day.
There is a good pattern of partnership between the Task Force, the SYP, Kimblesworth Church, and the Community Association, and it seems valuable for each to remain separate, so that each can apply for funds for
their own and for collaborative projects. Thus, even if our activities are currently limited in scope, it seems worthwhile to continue in operation as a charity, though this is something we should keep under review each year.
We continue to be very grateful to Emlyn Lofthouse, our treasurer, for his highly effective work throughout the year, and to Papi Taieb for her minute-taking and secretarial work.
John Barclay, Chair of Trustees
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