Trustees’ Annual Report
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For the period 1 [st] Jan 2024- 31 [st] Dec 2024
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A) Reference and Administration Details
Charity Name: Stretford foodbank
Registered Charity Number: 1167416
Charity’s principal address: The Leathwaite Centre, 229 Winchester Road, Stretford, Manchester M32 9PT.
Charity Trustees
| Charity Trustees | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trustee Name ~~a~~ |
Office (if any) ~~ee~~ |
Term of Office ~~ee~~ |
Date appointed ~~ee~~ |
Name of person/ body to appoint trustees ( if) ~~ee~~ |
| Kay Kitchen ~~a~~ ~~a~~ ~~a~~ |
~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Three years ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
9/2/23 ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~ee~~ |
| John Kay ~~a~~ ~~a~~ |
~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Three years ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
20/2/23 ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~ee~~ |
| Sharon Lea ~~a ~~ ~~a~~ |
Secretary ~~ee ~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
Three years ~~ee ~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
9/02/23 ~~ee~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~ee~~ |
| Gennie Rooke ~~es~~ ~~a~~ |
~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
Three years ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
15/5/24 ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
| Hannah Zyczynska ~~a ~~ ~~a~~ |
~~ee ~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
Three years ~~ee ~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
8/3/2022 ~~ee~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
| Sally Pawlik ~~es~~ ~~a~~ |
Chair ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Two years ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
8/3/2022 ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
| Julie Pennington ~~a~~ |
~~ee ~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Two years ~~ee ~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
8/3/2022 ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
| Matt Connery ~~ee~~ ~~a~~ |
~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Two years ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
8/3/2022 ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
| Rick Booth ~~es~~ ~~a~~ |
~~ee~~ ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
Two years ~~ee ~~ ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
8/3/2022 ~~ee~~ ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~ee~~ ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
| Martin Stevenson ~~a ~~ |
~~ee ~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
Two years ~~ee ~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
8/3/2022 ~~ee ~~ ~~e~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~ee~~ ~~ee~~ |
| Tom Pickles ~~es~~ |
~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
Two years ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
8/3/2022 ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
Trustees ~~es~~ ~~ee~~ |
B) Structure, Governance & Management
Type of governing document: Constitution
How the charity is constituted.
(E.g., trust, association, company): Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Trustee selection method (e.g., appointed by, elected by):
Appointed at AGM or co-opted by other trustees during the year.
The trustees delegate the day-to-day management of the charity to the Foodbank manager’s team. For this reporting period, the team was as follows:
| Name | Leadership Role |
|---|---|
| Louise Kershaw | Foodbank Manager and Treasurer |
| Christine Taylor | Warehouse Assistant |
| Steven Kitchen | Warehouse Assistant |
| Kay Kitchen | Social Media |
| John Kay | Church Liaison |
| Lesley Culf,Julie Pennington,Louise Boulton, Sharon Lea, Genny Rooke |
Admin Team |
| Sharon Lea | Secretary |
| Julie Pennington | Safeguarding Named Person |
C) Objects & Activities
The relief of financial hardship amongst people in Stretford and Urmston and the surrounding area or in other parts of the United Kingdom in such ways as the trustees from time to time think fit, in particular, but not exclusively by:
(a) providing emergency food essential toiletries and household items to individuals and families in need and/or for distribution by charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
(b) such other means, including (but not limited to) the provision of support or signposting to relevant information and other advisory services.
Activities in relation to our Charitable Objectives
During the reporting period, the charity interpreted ‘Stretford and Urmston and the surrounding area’ to be:
- Postcode areas: M32, M41, M16, M15(Trafford)
Summary of main activities this year, in relation to these objects:
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Collecting, sorting food, dating and stock rotation
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Stocking our warehouses and our foodbank distribution centre
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Provision of emergency food and other essential toiletries/ household items
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Financially securing the future of the Foodbank by grant funding, receipt of Direct Debits/Standing Orders and various events where the public could donate cash.
D) Achievement & Performance
Achievements: (A short history). The foodbank opened its doors in Oct 2013, in collaboration with local churches and the community and registered with the Charity Commission on 2[nd] June 2016
What have we done in 2024
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We have continued to deliver our food parcels as our preferred method of operating.
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We continue weekly collections at Stretford Mall to help boost our donations. This collection is staffed by a team of Saturday volunteers.
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Our partnership with Little Green Sock Charity continues.
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We have joined Brick by Brick, Lifeshare and Inkind direct which are organisations that redistribute goods to charities at little or no cost prices. We have received household products from them.
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We have three employees working a total of 50 hours between them.
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We have engaged with local schools who have identified families who need help through our ‘’Holiday Hunger’’project. We helped 80 families and 178 children with food parcels and supermarket vouchers to use during the school summer holidays, this is a significant increase from last year.
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We have continued to successfully obtain several grants from different bodies in both the public and the private sector that will cover our costs. This means we are now financially secure for the medium term.
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Our foodbank manager has been actively seeking out grants for food purchasing which has increased due to food donations decreasing significantly.
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An individual donates fresh sacks of vegetables on a fortnightly basis. Our clients are appreciative of this fresh food.
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Two of our Trustees, Matt Connery and Hannah Zyczynska resigned during the year due to work commitments. We have appointed a new trustee, Gennie Rooke and are hopeful to recruit a further two.
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We have reduced our premises costs by reducing the significant amount of stock we were holding, thus removing our need for a separate warehouse to our main premises.
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● The Financial Inclusion Service for Foodbank clients is running well. There has been positive engagement from clients and significant increases to household incomes from unclaimed benefits. We have made 340 referrals and there has been a 53% uptake for this service.
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Due to its age and increasing unreliability we anticipate our delivery van will need replacing in the near future and are exploring funding for this significant cost.
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● Trussell Trust rebranded in September 2024. We considered this an opportunity to change our name to Trafford North Foodbank, to be in line with our partner, Trafford South Foodbank, and to represent the area of Trafford we cover, which includes districts other than Stretford. We began operating under our new name in October.
● Performance: End of year statistics for the period 1st Jan 2024-31st Dec 2024
We are very grateful to all those individuals and organisations that have donated food and client goods over this reporting period.
Food donated 45,350.41kg
Client food/goods bought in 17,976.87kg
Vouchers fulfilled 2552 People helped* (3475 adults, 2080 children, total 5555)
The main causes of crises are, Rising Cost of Essentials, and Debt. For the period of reporting, we had 55 volunteers.
- Some people will attend more than once
E) Financial Review
Details of any funds materially in deficit: None
The charity’s principal sources of funding this year have been:
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Donations/Direct Giving £29,779.21
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Standing Orders £24,003.25
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Gift Aid not yet claimed
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Grants to the sum of £53,411.46
We have had tremendous support from many small and large organisations that have donated food or goods. Our thanks go to them all. However, we want to thank those corporates that have supported us throughout the year, these include:
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Asda Trafford Park for corporate donations
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Trafford Housing Trust for greatly reduced commercial rents for our warehouses.
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Asda, Sainsbury’s, One Stop, Aldi, Lloyd’s Pharmacy - these are partners that support us throughout the year with Permanent Collection Points.
Finance Statement
We are very grateful to all the individuals, churches, and organisations (too many to mention) that have supported us this year either financially or by giving in-kind.
We are very grateful to Simon Hayward for examining the accounts.
F) Declaration:
The trustees declare that they approved the trustees’ report above.
| Trustee Name | Signature | Position | Date |
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| Sally Pawlik | Chair | ||
| Treasurer |
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Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity’s trustees of the Company (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). In carrying out my examination, I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
[The company’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. Delete [ ] if not applicable.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that:
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accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; or
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the accounts do not accord with such records; or
• the accounts do not comply with relevant accounting requirements under section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 other than any requirement that the
accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
•the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS102).
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 understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
Stretford Foodbank 1st January - 31 December 2024
Opening Balance 1.1.24 (unaudited)
£85,866.05
| Income | January February March April May June |
|---|---|
| Direct Giving | £ 3,087.42 £ 2,775.39 £ 4,147.28 £ 4,195.97 £ 4,775.00 £ 3,274.39 |
| Indirect Giving | £ 35,941.46 £ 1,000.00 £ 1,116.84 £ - £ - £ - |
| £ 39,028.88 £ 3,775.39 £ 5,264.12 £ 4,195.97 £ 4,775.00 £ 3,274.39 | |
| Expenditure | |
| Client Goods | £ 1,922.58 £ 3,760.11 £ 3,413.69 £ 3,939.90 £ 2,868.17 £ 2,259.15 |
| Purchases, Repairs, | |
| Renewals, Cleaning | £ 870.58 £ 288.00 £ 263.24 £ 215.99 £ 506.77 £ 64.00 |
| Premises Costs | £ 1,488.18 £ 2,650.72 £ 60.98 £ 2,608.28 £ 1,116.74 £ 1,301.74 |
| Administraton | £ 260.87 £ 220.49 £ 139.49 £ 203.30 £ 175.36 £ 192.70 |
| Transport | £ 574.48 £ 96.33 £ 95.69 £ 98.78 £ 151.13 £ 326.25 |
| FI Project | £ 2,400.00 £ - £ - £ 1,325.42 £ 1,000.00 £ 7,546.69 |
| Payroll | £ 2,394.54 £ 2,649.12 £ 2,649.12 £ 2,649.12 £ 2,972.74 £ 2,894.93 |
| Misc | £ - £ - |
| £ 9,911.23 £ 9,664.77 £ 6,622.21 £ 11,040.79 £ 8,790.91 £ 14,585.46 | |
| Net =/- | £ 29,117.65 -£ 5,889.38 -£ 1,358.09 -£ 6,844.82 -£ 4,015.91 -£ 11,311.07 |
| Book Balance | £114,983.70 £109,094.32 £107,736.23 £100,891.41 £96,875.50 £85,564.43 |
| Statement Balance | £ 115,788.46 £ 109,143.29 £ 107,583.33 £ 100,838.98 £ 96,789.94 £ 85,346.68 |
| Outstanding Lodgements | £ 1,545.71 £ 229.12 £ 229.12 £ 249.92 £ 316.90 £ 331.25 |
| Cash In Hand | £ 740.95 £ 180.15 £ 382.02 £ 302.35 £ 402.46 £ 549.00 |
| Balance | £ 114,983.70 £ 109,094.32 £ 107,736.23 £ 100,891.41 £ 96,875.50 £ 85,564.43 |
| diference | £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 |
| July August September October November £ 3,143.80 £ 4,131.16 £ 4,095.45 £ 4,410.96 £ 4,981.23 £ 12,970.00 £ - £ - £ - £ 7,100.00 £ 16,113.80 £ 4,131.16 £ 4,095.45 £ 4,410.96 £ 12,081.23 £ 11,486.18 £ 3,094.25 £ 1,502.53 £ 1,979.60 £ 1,558.78 £ 144.00 £ 198.86 £ 164.94 £ 245.31 £ 174.00 £ 1,629.82 £ 1,447.24 £ 668.55 £ 1,268.55 £ 1,268.55 £ 256.60 £ 211.53 £ 352.67 £ 178.10 £ 220.74 £ 101.80 £ 618.18 £ 870.61 £ 944.40 £ 216.07 £ - £ - £ 7,546.69 £ - £ 450.00 £ 2,649.12 £ 2,649.12 £ 2,649.12 £ 2,731.06 £ 3,068.32 £ 16,267.52 £ 8,219.18 £ 13,755.11 £ 7,347.02 £ 6,956.46 -£ 153.72 -£ 4,088.02 -£ 9,659.66 -£ 2,936.06 £ 5,124.77 £85,410.71 £81,322.69 £71,663.03 £68,726.97 £73,851.74 £ 85,329.38 £ 80,964.81 £ 71,113.97 £ 68,642.70 £ 73,986.57 £ 249.92 £ 249.92 £ 249.92 £ 274.26 £ 345.28 £ 331.25 £ 607.80 £ 798.98 £ 358.53 £ 210.45 |
December £ 5,164.41 £ 1,000.00 £ 6,164.41 £ 1,726.41 £ 1,256.71 £ 1,268.55 £ 188.36 £ 131.19 £ - £ 2,675.70 £ 7,246.92 -£ 1,082.51 |
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| £72,769.23 | |
| £ 72,868.18 £ 257.95 £ 159.00 |
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| £ 85,410.71 £ 81,322.69 £ 71,663.03 £ 68,726.97 £ 73,851.74 | £ 72,769.23 |
| £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 |
£0.00 |
YTD Totals £ 48,182.46 £ 59,128.30 £ 107,310.76 £ - £ 39,511.35 £ 4,392.40 £ 16,777.90 £ 2,600.21 £ 4,224.91 £ 20,268.80 £ 32,632.01 £ 120,407.58 -£ 13,096.82
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