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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Ribble Valley Gateway Trust
Other names charity is known by RVGT
| Registered charity number (if any)1167261 Charity's principal address The Nazareth Room, St James Church St James Street Clitheroe Postcode BB7 1HH ~~——~~ |
Registered charity number (if any)1167261 Charity's principal address The Nazareth Room, St James Church St James Street Clitheroe Postcode BB7 1HH ~~——~~ |
Registered charity number (if any)1167261 Charity's principal address The Nazareth Room, St James Church St James Street Clitheroe Postcode BB7 1HH ~~——~~ |
Registered charity number (if any)1167261 Charity's principal address The Nazareth Room, St James Church St James Street Clitheroe Postcode BB7 1HH ~~——~~ |
Registered charity number (if any)1167261 Charity's principal address The Nazareth Room, St James Church St James Street Clitheroe Postcode BB7 1HH ~~——~~ |
Registered charity number (if any)1167261 Charity's principal address The Nazareth Room, St James Church St James Street Clitheroe Postcode BB7 1HH ~~——~~ |
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| Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity | 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) |
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| 1 | Canon Ruth Haldane |
Chair | Co-opted | |||
| Dr Nicholas | Lead Trustee for | St. James’ Church, Clitheroe | ||||
| 2 | Shelley | Safeguarding, Link Trustee for Gateway |
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| Trust Counselling | ||||||
| 3 | Alan Meyer | Health and Safety Officer |
Clitheroe Christians in Partnership |
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| 4 | Rev Norman Ivison | Communications Officer |
St. James’ Church, Clitheroe | |||
| 5 | Sue Dugdale | Foodbank link Trustee |
Churches in Longridge | |||
| Patricia Diane | Secretary to RVGT | St Paul’s Church Low Moor | ||||
| 6 | Steer | and Art4All Link | ||||
| Trustee |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
| Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) | Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) | Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) |
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| Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) | ||
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document
CIO Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Association How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Nominated by local churches and Christian groups in Clitheroe, Ribble Trustee selection methods Valley plus up to 2 co-optees
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
The Trust has established an inclusive organisational structure based on active and enduring links with Christian churches in Clitheroe and Longridge. This is reflected in strong levels of volunteering, donations of food and finance and promotion of the Trust’s services within the Ribble Valley communities.
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
The Trust has practical links with around 40 referral agencies and two local authorities.
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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The Trust has adopted formal policies regarding safeguarding, risk
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network with which the charity management and health and safety and has put in place broader policies
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works; and handbooks including staff and volunteer handbooks and a Trustee
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• relationship with any related handbook. parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
The objects of the charity are for the benefit of people primarily in the area currently administered by the Ribble Valley Borough Council :- Summary of the objects of the To prevent or relieve poverty including but not exclusively by the charity set out in its provision of food parcels, guidance and support; governing document
To help combat social exclusion and support those who are disadvantaged or with special needs;
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To advance Christian faith and practice including, but not exclusively, to promote collective and personal training, outreach services and ecumenical worship and mission.
| To advance Christian faith and practice including, but not exclusively, to promote collective and personal training, outreach services and ecumenical worship and mission. |
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| 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) |
Ribble Valley Foodbank: - Work with local partners to Change Communities, so that we reduce the need for the Ribble Valley Foodbank locally, helping people to access targeted support that addresses the underlying reason for their crisis. - Work with and within the local community to Change Minds and increase levels of understanding and empathy amongst the public, locally and UK-wide, to build a movement that is willing to take action to create a just and compassionate society without the need for food banks. - Work with the Trussell Trust and other partners to Change Policy, as we provide stronger evidence of the drivers of extreme poverty (or ‘destitution’) and pushing for positive solutions that will help tackle these. - Prevention or relief of povertyincluding but not exclusively by the provision of food parcels, guidance and support with specific reference to locality needs. Clients are provided with food parcels and signposting. Gateway Trust Counselling :weekly or fortnightly one hour counselling sessions offered by professionally qualified persons to individuals who self-refer having been signposted by doctors, churches, businesses, friends, family and other care agencies. Ribble Valley Art4All :weekly art classes led by an Art Teacher and Volunteers for students who are disadvantaged or who have special needs and their carers.. Each service is provided to the public at large subject to the recipient’s need for the specific service being clarified on referral in line with Charity Commission guidance. |
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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The Ribble Valley Gateway Trust does not provide grants to third parties. Grants and donations received for each service are restricted to the service specified unless earmarked as unrestricted.
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
The Trust’s services are mainly delivered through volunteers under the leadership of three part time Managers who are paid for their services and are accountable to the Chair and Trustees.
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Ribble Valley Foodbank 1. 1862 parcels for adults and children in total were provided (1316 the previous year), providing food for 4781 people (3505 the previous year).. 2. Financial Inclusion Advice Café successfully running at one of the Foodbank centres. Services include Benefits, Health, Mental Health, Housing, Citizen’s Advice, Debt, Drug and Alcohol Addiction. 3. Financial Inclusion officer appointed, in partnership with another local foodbank. Based at one centre. 4. Regular awareness sessions from the above for volunteers. 5. Continued partnership work with the Trussell Trust and other partners to tackle the issues that bring people to the foodbank. 6. Our Foodbank Manager left us in July 2024, and interim management was put in place. We appointed a Foodbank Manager to begin at the start of the financial year 2025. Gateway Trust Counselling 1. Continuing to provide hour long sessions, we have completed 578 hours of counselling over this year. 2. We now have 2 students doing their 100 hour placement with us with 4 counsellors who are now fully qualified after their placement with us and are still on staff. 3. Alison Groves and the deputy manager ended their employment with us and we have appointed Jacqui Craine as the manager to begin employment just after the financial year end in April 2025. Student mentoring is overseen by the manager. 4. We now have 11 counsellors volunteering with us and we are counselling both online and in person on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. 5. We continued to work with social prescribers and a number of other NHS professionals who are signposting and supporting their clients to make the self-referral to Gateway Trust Counselling. 6. The funding for our formal rental agreement to use the rooms in St James’ Church has been renewed by the Lancaster Foundation for 2025-28. 7. We have updated the welcoming role so that where possible each welcomer works with the same counsellor on a fortnightly basis, helping the team to bond. There is a small team to cover absence when required. 8. We continue to seek out and apply for grants to help us with our future funding streams. Ribble Valley Art4All 1. Weekly art classes continue to be held at The Salvation Army during term times for 26 students. We run 2 classes, from 10am to 12 midday and 1pm to 3 pm. 2. We have 25 Volunteers who support classes on a rota basis. 3. We have formed a small finance group to help with administration and fund raising activities holding monthly planning meetings. 4. We have a second teacher who works with textiles, teaching, sewing, weaving and embroidery skills 5. A secretary has been employed on a part time basis to help with administrative work and grant applications. 6. Due to art funding grants we were able to plan and go on a day trip to Salts Mill, Saltaire where we had a workshop and visited
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the David Hockney exhibition. From this we created our own Hockney inspired work and held an exhibition at Clitheroe Castle for 1 month.
- Successful grant applications and fundraising initiatives over the last year have helped ensure the ongoing financial viability o the service. However fund raising remains a continued priority.
RVGT trustees, policies and management
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The RVGT is very grateful for the contributions made by each person who has served as a Trustee with the RVGT both those who are serving as trustees and those who have retired.
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New trustees have been appointed either by the Ribble Valley churches or have been co-opted on. Each trustee has taken on responsibility for a specific aspect of the work of the RVGT, often linked to their skills, experience, and interests. These are: Chair of Trustees (Ruth Haldane) Link Trustee for Foodbank (Sue Dugdale), Link Trustee for Counselling and Lead Trustee for Safeguarding (Nick Shelley), Secretary to Trustees and Link Trustee for Art-for-All (Diane Steer), Health and Safety (Alan Meyer), Communications (Norman Ivison).
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The Trustee Handbook has also been reviewed and updated and provides key information on the Trust and the roles and responsibilities of the Trustees.
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The RVGT has benefited from the advice and support of Jo Jowett who is an experienced independent trustee who has provided invaluable advice, support and training on all aspects of running a Charitable Trust.
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All key policies are regularly reviewed and updated, where appropriate.
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Good financial processes and controls are key to responsible financial management and ensuring the integrity of the RVGT’s transactions and financial records. Rachel Massey has been replaced by Tax Assist Accountants who manage the finance processes and controls.
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The Trustees are currently looking to appoint more trustees to strengthen the work of the RVGT and spread responsibilities.
Section E Financial review
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There is no formal reserves policy, but the trustees aim to follow good charitable practice to hold at least 3-6 months funding in reserves.
Brief statement of the
charity’s policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially in deficit
None.
Further financial review details (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Principal sources of income are grants, donations and gifts from Counselling clients.
Grants and donations are generally restricted to the specific service for which they are earmarked by the grantor or donor. In each instance such funds are used to meet the running costs of that service including rents, insurance, training, subscriptions and staffing costs for each of the projects.
The RVGT is responsible for certain expenditure that benefits all of the projects eg insurance premium, external adviser charges, external accountant costs, and financial administrator costs etc. These costs are recharged back to the projects on a fair and equitable basis.
The Trustees’ strategy is to encourage the proactive promotion of each service to attract local donations and to be alert to opportunities for grant applications so that each service is financed sufficiently to meet at least the next twelve months’ costs.
Section F Other optional information
Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Ruth Kathleen Haldane
Full name(s) Ruth Kathleen Haldane Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 14 January 2026
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|Section A Receipts and payments|||||||||||||
||Unrestricted
funds|Unrestricted||Restricted
funds||Endowment
funds||Total funds|||Last year||
||to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £|||to the nearest £||
|A1 Receipts|||||||||||||
|Grants|-|-||26,127||-||26|26,127||10,605||
|Donations|-|-||85,687||-||85|85,687||66,156||
|Clients|-|-||7,105||-||7|7,105||9,414||
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|Sub total(Gross income for|(Gross income for||||||||||||
|AR)|AR)-|-||118,919||-||118,919|118,919||86,175||
|A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
Transferout Cookery Club
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|A3 Payments|||||||||||||
|Equipment & Maintenance|-|-||113||-||113|113||14,354||
|Rent|-|-||17,416||-||17|17,416||7,308||
|Salaries & Supervision|-|-||48,937||-||48|48,937||60,992||
|Expenses & Materials|-|-||27,590||-||27|27,590||12,600||
|Office|-|-||4,972||-||4|4,972||4,965||
|Insurance & Overheads|-|-||17,020||-||17|17,020||10,901||
|Client Services||||20,848||-||20|20,848||-||
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|Sub total |-|-||136,895||-||136,895|136,895||111,120||
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|Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end|-
- 17,977
- - 17,977
- 24,945
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- 217,906
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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 |
Art4All Account Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Foodbank Account Counselling Account Details Details Details Signature |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - 170,731 - 25,550 21,625 - - - 217,906 OK OK 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 |
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(HARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Ribble Valley Gateway Trust On accounts for the year ended 31.03.2025 Charity no (if any) 1167261 Set out on pages CC16cL lh I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Trust") for the year ended Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Yhe ACV,). I report in respect of my examination of the Trusf s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent Ffhe Gharity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. Delete [ ] rf not applicable. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection wtth the examination (other than that disclosed below ") which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordan with section 130 of the Charities Act" or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records. or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns 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 understsnding of the accounts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not apply. Signed: Date: 15.09 1£ Name: CQs)LEY Relevant professional qualification(s) or body IER Oct 2018
{if any): Address: qi Q7 EMPL@ VIÉL) LityÉc Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of conrn (see CC32, Independent examination of charty accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018