**NERUKA'S SOUL FOOD SOUP KITCHEN** Charity number: 1164484 – Annual Trustee Report 2021
## **It is with gratitude and hope that I can say:**
We've made it through an extremely difficult yet fulfilling year.
The number of individuals and families who are still struggling with food poverty, no job security, homelessness, hopelessness, loss and especially mental and emotional distress is still worryingly high.
## **Neruka's Soul Food Soup Kitchen continued to serve hot meals until the middle of the year when work started on the renovation of the kitchen and hall.**
Much gratitude goes out to all Neruka's Soul Food Soup Kitchen's partners: food providers, volunteers, funders’ local charity partners. Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic UK, Leeds Food Aid Network, Greg's Foundation, Leeds Christian Community Trust (LCCT),
FareShare, Leeds South and East foodbank, Asda supermarket, Tesco Supermarket,
Pret A Manger, KFC, Tina Leslie@freedomforgirls, Kingdom Government (TA Proverbs31Woman) for taking the management of the renovation project. All who have given support with food, clothing, appliances, furniture ect. Special thanks to Paul snr and Jr White, Joseph and Nakita, Petagaye, Dave Paterson, Amogene and the volunteers from Mustard Seed, Maureen from Harehills Lane Baptist Church, Kaneez Khan, Karen Chaggar from Tesco Supermarket Roundway and so many many more.
(Neruka's Soul Food) Soup Kitchen is dedicated to working with our partners in the city of Leeds and its surroundings to help and support each person who we interact with to know that someone genuinely care about their welfare and is willing to go the extra mile to add value to their lives.
(Neruka's Soul Food) Soup Kitchen is currently working on providing an online support through listening sessions that will be facilitated by five volunteers who have received training Reflective Listening and trauma awareness. Individuals will be able to book their sessions through our website at
## www.nerukassoulfood.co.uk, where they will be given the option to for telephone, Zoom or in person one hour sessions.
Neruka's Soul Food Soup received funding from Leeds MIND, The Black Fund and Inner East Housing HAP to set up, provide training and running cost for this project.
Neruka's Soul Food Soup Kitchen is reaching more people from multicultural backgrounds with needs for more than food. By partnering with other charities and organisations that provide additional resources eg. Education and training with Proverbs 31Woman, Mental group support and workshops with HumansBeing, pastoral support from local churches and other faith groups. We're hoping to help as many people as possible to see and realise a better future without the need for food banks and Soup kitchens. Until then, we continue to give of our best.
Neruka White
Charity Trustee (Chair)
## Profit and Loss **Neruka's Soul Food Soup Kitchen**
Date Range: Jan 01, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021
||**Jan 01, 2021**|
|---|---|
||**ACCOUNTS to Dec 31, 2021**|
|**Income**||
|Direct Public Support – Business Contributions|£31,750.0
0|
|Direct Public Support – Gifts in Kind|£721.5
2|
|Direct Public Support – Individual Contributions|£6,568.3
4|
|**Total Income**|**£39,039.**
**86**|
|||
|**Total Cost of Goods Sold**|**£0.00**|
|||
|**Gross Proft**
**As a percentage of Total Income**|**£39,039.**
**86**
**100.00%**|
|||
|**Operating Expenses**||
|Contract Services|£130.00|
|Food Stuf|£1,373.0
0|
|Ofce Supplies|£45.96|
|Payroll – Salary & Wages|£700.00|
|Postage & Delivery|£5.14|
|Repairs & Maintenance|£24,500.0
0|
|Toiletries|£354.50|
|Travel Expense|£1,143.
95|
|Uncategorized Expense|£718.
11|
|Utilities|£200.00|
|Proft and Loss - Neruka's Soul Food Soup Kitchen|Created on Oct 31, 2022|
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## **Operating Expenses**
**£29,170 .66**
**Total Operating Expenses**
|**Net Proft**
**As a percentage of Total Income**|**£9,869.**
**20**
**25.28%**|
|---|---|
|Proft and Loss - Neruka's Soul Food Soup Kitchen|Created on Oct 31, 2022|
|Date Range: Jan 01, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021|Page 2 / 2|
## **INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT - CHARITY FISCAL YEAR 2021**
**Charity Name:** Neruka’s Soul Food Soup Kitchen **Address:** Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic, 50 Gledhow Road, LEEDS, LS8 5ES
**Charity number: 1164484 31[st] October 2022**
This is to confirm that we now act as accountants for the above charity as its income for the fiscal year exceeds £25k. We can confirm the organisation is a registered charity as recorded on charity commissions and operates at 50 Gledhow Road, LS8 5ES West Yorkshire.
The records available in our possession, discloses and provides that the income of the charity came from both public donations and funding from both private and public bodies. The trustees confirm all income in the amount of **£39,039.86** was used for the furtherance of the organisations charitable purposes and to support the charity’s most vulnerable beneficiaries and service users.
We have reviewed the management accounts for the charity's activities, receipts reflecting income and expenditures were carefully examined and bank transactions; for January 2021, and leading up to December 2021 fiscal year, and we can confirm that the account balances do agree.
**Note: No discrepancy concerns, general advice and support given to the charity trustees regarding management of accounts, regarding the banking provision or access which is more modern and up dated and also to access a recommended accounting system which provides better labeling of transactions particularly incomes, that can be better labeled to reflect income from grants from private and public bodies and for future income sources anticipated to be better identified.**
The above information has been given in good faith and if you require any further information, requests can be made in writing to our address below.
Yours sincerely
George Madrara
## _G.Madrara_
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