## **Chairman’s Report 2021**
When I wrote last year’s report we were two weeks into lockdown and little did I expect to be writing this one with the situation hardly changed. But there is hope now that things will improve; most of our users and volunteers will have had one, if not both, vaccination jabs which will help give some protection to us all.
Obviously over the last year the Voluntary Help Centre has had to adapt to the changing situation. We have been unable to resume lunch club, the office has remained closed for part of the time with both Flic and Sarah working from home, and this has worked well.
The car service has been quiet because most appointments at hospitals, dentists, GP surgeries and hairdressers were cancelled, but this has been picking up over the last few weeks as we all try to return to some sort of normality.
Some of our drivers continued their volunteering by helping out local shops with food deliveries during the first lockdown and the VHC took on the role of distributing food parcels from the Lowestoft Food Bank and also providing food for those in need especially during the first lockdown. To assist us in this we received generous funding from The Southwold Trust, The Reydon Trust and Wangford with Henham Parish Council. As always my thanks go to Flic and Sarah for their work in maintaining the services of the VHC and also Carole for her help on Fridays, as well as the Trustees for their continued support.
We were extremely grateful to receive another sizeable donation from the Friends of Old Southwold Hospital; along with other donations from a number of organisations and individuals, all of which are really are appreciated.
As can be seen from the accounts our finances are in good health and with the funds invested the future of the VHC is secure for several years to come.
This is likely to be my last report because at the end of March 2022 I will be stepping down from my role as chairman. Due to changes in our charity status I have been in office much longer than is normal, not that I am complaining as I have thoroughly enjoyed the last eight years. During that time I have seen many changes both in the office and to the membership of the trustees and I wish the VHC many more years of continued success in supporting the community.
To all of our volunteers and supporters on behalf of the Trustees, I would like to thank you for everything you do to support the work of the Voluntary Help Centre and it is my sincere wish that when next year’s report is written, life will have returned to normal.
Graham Scriven April 2021
||**Charity Name**
**Voluntary Help Centre**|**Charity Name**
**Voluntary Help Centre**|**Charity Name**
**Voluntary Help Centre**|**No (if any)**
**1164155**|**No (if any)**
**1164155**|**No (if any)**
**1164155**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
**01/04/2020**|**To**||Period end date
**31/03/2021**|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**14,760**
**2,040**
**300**
**1,666**
**-**
**2,538**
**-**
**7,624**
**28,928**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,928**
**23,810**
**2,520**
**3,144**
**2,718**
**466**
**443**
**-**
**-**
**875**
**-**
**1,020**
**-**
**48**
**35,044**
**91,000**
**-**
**91,000**
**126,044**
**(97,116.00)**
**2,600**
**103,014**
**8,498**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,400**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**462**
**-**
**3,862**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,862**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,387**
**-**
**-**
**1,323**
**-**
**429**
**300**
**4,439**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,439**
**(577.00)**
**(2,600.00)**
**3,585**
**408.00**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**18,160**
**2,040**
**300**
**1,666**
**-**
**2,538**
**462**
**7,624**
**32,790**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,790**
**23,810**
**2,520**
**3,144**
**2,718**
**466**
**443**
**2,387**
**-**
**875**
**1,323**
**1,020**
**429**
**348**
**39,483**
**91,000**
**-**
**91,000**
**130,483**
**(97,693.00)**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**14,760**||||||**150,563**|
|Car service receipts|**2,040**||||||**4,674**|
|Fundraising|**300**||||||**2,045**|
|Sale of Christmas cards|**1,666**||||||**1,369**|
|Lunches and teas|**-**||||||**6,265**|
|100 Club subscriptions|**2,538**||||||**3,087**|
|Shoppingservice|**-**||||||**-**|
|Sundryincome|**7,624**||||||**1,471**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**28,928**||||||**169,474**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
|Income units|**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**169,474**|
|||||||||
|Salaries|**23,810**||||||**23,039**|
|Rent|**2,520**||||||**2,520**|
|Ofce expenses|**3,144**||||||**4,744**|
|Car service expenses|**2,718**||||||**5,821**|
|Advertising|**466**||||||**908**|
|Christmas cardprinting|**443**||||||**249**|
|Covid-19 response|**-**||||||**49**|
|Summer outing|**-**||||||**797**|
|Christmas expenses|**875**||||||**632**|
|Lunch Club expenses|**-**||||||**6,233**|
|100 Clubprizes|**1,020**||||||**1,155**|
|Shoppingservice expenses|**-**||||||**-**|
|Sundryexpenses|**48**||||||**535**|
|**_Sub total_**|**35,044**||||||**46,682**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
|Income units|**91,000**||||||**170,000**|
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**91,000**||||||**170,000**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**216,682**|
|||||||||
||**(97,116.00)**|**(577.00)**|**-**||**(97,693.00)**||**(47,208.00)**|
||**2,600**|**(2,600.00)**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**103,014**|**3,585**|**-**||**106,599**||**-**|
||**8,498**|**408.00**|**-**||**8,906**||**(47,208.00)**|
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Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
VOLUNTARY HELP CENTRE
On accounts for the year
ended
3151 MARCH, 2021
Charity no
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1164155
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity {"the Trust'l for the year ended 31 $1 March, 2021.
Responsibilitles 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 Ilhe Act").
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's a¢¢ounts 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 sèction 145(5){b) of the Act.
I have completed my examinalion. I confirn thal no material matters have
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
Independent
examiner's statement
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order lo enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Slgned:
Date:
QOLL
Name".
BENJAMIN LYNES
Relevant professional
qualificationls) or body
lif any):
FCA
Address:
CUNNINGHAMS, 61 ALEXANDRA ROAD, LOWESTorr. SUFFOLK
NR32 1PL
IER
October 2018