## **VOLUNTARY HELP CENTRE** Stella Peskett Millennium Hall, Mights Road, Southwold, Suffolk. IP18 6BE Registered Charity No. 1164155 hello@southwoldvhc.com. www.southwoldvhc.com ## **Trustees Annual Report March 2025** Over the last twelve months our volunteer drivers have again been very busy. The Voluntary Help Centre has continued to provide transport to appointments at hospital or medical centres for those people, mainly the more senior members of the local community, who have no other means of transport. As we recruit new drivers we also lose some, who then sometimes become users of the service. We have, on occasion, been unable to meet all requests, which is disappointing both for us and the user. The drivers use their own vehicles and are remunerated by the passenger at 45p per mile, the maximum allowed by the Government. This figure has remained the same since 2011. We continue to try to recruit cooks for the lunch club as well as additional volunteer drivers but this is proving to be quite difficult despite there being a large number of young retired people in the area. We continue advertise with all available methods. The fortnightly lunch club continues, with numbers varying but generally showing a slight increase during the past year. During the summer we arranged an afternoon tea on Southwold sea front for lunch club regulars The trustees really do appreciate the continued commitment of all our volunteers for getting local residents to their destinations at a variety of locations and helping with providing lunches. New laptops have made our car service booking system much easier and more efficient to use. Our reserves remain healthy for the moment but we continue to run with an annual loss. This is partly due to the difficulty in meeting terms for grants and also reduced donations reflecting the current financial situation. Our thanks go to our Coordinator Flic, and Car Service Administrator Jane, and the two volunteers Carol and Carole who help out in the office, ensuring the service runs smoothly. Graham Scriven Chair of Trustees ||**Charity Name**
**Voluntary Help Centre**|**Charity Name**
**Voluntary Help Centre**|**Charity Name**
**Voluntary Help Centre**|**Charity Name**
**Voluntary Help Centre**|**Charity Name**
**Voluntary Help Centre**|**No (if any)**
**1164155**|**No (if any)**
**1164155**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01.04.24||**To**||Period end date
31.03.25|| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,058**
**8,278**
**475**
**4,282**
**298**
**1,602**
**-**
**-**
**14,324**
**-**
**41,317**
**15,000**
**-**
**15,000**
**56,317**
**26,951**
**2,930**
**4,101**
**7,105**
**1,108**
**24**
**398**
**3,549**
**1,145**
**-**
**74**
**47,385**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,385**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**818**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**818**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**818**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,058**
**8,278**
**475**
**5,282**
**298**
**1,602**
**-**
**-**
**14,324**
**-**
**42,317**
**15,000**
**-**
**15,000**
**57,317**
**26,951**
**2,930**
**4,101**
**7,105**
**1,108**
**24**
**398**
**4,367**
**1,145**
**-**
**74**
**48,203**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48,203**

**9,114**

**-**

**2,020**

**11,134**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations|**12,058**|||||||**7,418**| |Car service receipts|**8,278**|||||||**8,778**| |Fundraising|**475**|||||||**723**| |Lunches|**4,282**|||||||**3,668**| |Sale of Christmas cards|**298**|||||||**507**| |100 Club subscriptions|**1,602**|||||||**1,656**| |Christmas|**-**|||||||**50**| |Sundryincome|**-**|||||||**3,362**| |Interest received|**14,324**|||||||**9,563**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**41,317**|||||||**35,725**| |||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||| |Income units|**15,000**|||||||**12,000**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**15,000**|||||||**12,000**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||| |||||||||**47,725**| |||||||||| |
Salaries|**26,951**|||||||**25,826**| |Rent and rates|**2,930**|||||||**3,054**| |Office expenses|**4,101**|||||||**4,106**| |Car service expenses|**7,105**|||||||**11,477**| |Advertising|**1,108**|||||||**1,133**| |PrintingChristmas cards|**24**|||||||**-**| |Accountancy|**398**|||||||**-**| |Lunch Club expenses|**3,549**|||||||**2,889**| |100 Clubprizes|**1,145**|||||||**1,070**| |Sundryexpenses|**-**|||||||**1,179**| |Fundraising|**74**|||||||**120**| |**_Sub total_ **|**47,385**|||||||**50,854**| |||||||||| |**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_**||||||||| |||||||||**50,854**| |||||||||| ||**8,932**||**182**||**-**||
**9,114**|**(3,129)**| ||**302**||**(302)**||**-**||
**-**|**-**| ||**1,897**||**123**||**-**||
**2,020**|**5,149**| ||**11,131**||**3**||**-**||
**11,134**|**2,020**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 07/05/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**
Income units
Income units
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Current accounts
Deposit accounts
Petty cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**915**
**3**
**9,981**
**-**
**235**
**-**
**11,131**
**3**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**162,131**
**54,869**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Graham Scriven
Patricia Hendrickson|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Graham Scriven|17/7/2025| |||Patricia Hendrickson|17/7/2025| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 07/05/2025 2 Indepandont examiners report to the trustees ol the Voluntary Help Centrn ('The Charity,) Charlty Numbor 1164155 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (The Trust) for the year ended 31 March 2025 R•spon•lbllitlo$ and bas18 of rnport As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparalion of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charrti8s Act 2011 ('the Acl.). I report in respect of my examination of your tharity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the Act. Ind•pond•nt ¢xamln•f• Statoment I have completed my examination. l Confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any malerial respect: 1. th8 accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of The Charities Act., or 2. the a¢¢ounts did not accord with the accounting records.. or 3. the ac¢ounts did not comply with the applicable requirements can￿Ming the form and contenl of accounts Set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other Ihan any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which 18 not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Mrs R H Carter F.C.C.A. 37 Southwold Road Wrentham Beccles Suffolk NR34 7JE Dato 9 July 2025