2025-03-31-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 1[st] April 2024

To 31[st] March 2025

Charity name: PANTRY CWMTAWE

Charity registration number: 1167724

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	PANTRY aims to alleviate distress and poverty by providing critical living items to individuals or families residing within the PANTRY area in a timely, confidential, and sensitive manner, and to draw attention to and challenge the root causes of poverty and hardship
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	Provision of food and essential household items Provision of vouchers to assist with heating costs Publicising issues around hunger and poverty
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	All the trustees have been provided with, and have read, the guidance

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	SORP reference
Policy on grant making	Para 1.38	Financial grants are not made. Vouchers towards the cost of gas and electricity are offered to users during the coldest months
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38	The sums of money held in reserve are not suitable for planned investment. However, a significant amount of the reserves is held in the local credit union to offer some further support to local people
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	The entire work of the charity is undertaken by volunteers. There are no salaries or wages, and though there is a clear policy to pay legitimate expenses, no such claims have been made in the past twelve months

Other		After more than ten years “rent free”, the Tabernacle Independent Chapel, Pontardawe, is to start to charge PANTRY for accommodation, a cost of £300 pcm. This is a significant additional cost over previous years. Other than that, our expenses include office equipment, telephones, and publicity. Other than the cost of accommodation, 95% of expenditure continues to be on the direct provision to local people. Vouchers to assist with the cost of heating bills were introduced in the winter of 2022-23 and have continued this year
Achievements and Performance
	SORP reference
Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	PANTRY has been providing a service since 2014. After more than ten years we have seen demand for the service rise annually. We do not have a standard pack of food but encourage service users to “shop” from a pick list of available items, endeavouring to provide enough food for the individual or family for a week. 2,249 people were provided with food sufficient for a week, a 14% increase in the number provided for in the previous year

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41	A budget is set each year. There is always some uncertainty about this as we must make assumptions about donations and demand. It seeks to gauge demand for the twelve month period, noting the continuing trend of increasing use of the service, and makes assumptions about our expected income based on the experience of the previous year. The management committee reviews this at each meeting and reports quarterly to the trustees. This enables the charity to make judgements about further developments of the service and potential shortfalls
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	The local Town Council has committed a “safety net” of £5000 should demand outstrip donations. This has never been needed as the generosity of the local community continues to provide amazing support. However, expenditure is beginning

		to exceed income, and we are actively seeking further support. Should we be unable to ensure our long term financial ability to operate, our clear plan will be to announce an expected date of closure and use our reserves to fund the usual service until then. Statutory services, which will have been given notice of this, will then have to address the issues that arise
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41	Not applicable in our case
Other		Once again, the trustees are obliged to record here their concern that the years of economic austerity, cuts to local services, rising fuel bills and food inflation has hit those people who use our service hard. Services like ours can only offer short term solutions to the challenges an increasing number of people face. Our risk assessment indicates that our service is sensitive to a potential fall in donations, an increase in demand, an inability to attract sufficient volunteers and issues that may arise regarding our present accommodation

Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	Healthy, due entirely to an unexpected grant from a local company of £30,000 provided to be spent exclusively on food. Without that reserves would be significantly lower than last year, expenditure being more than £5500 greater than all other income. Our finances remain sensitive to local donations and demand
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	The year on year demand for services is currently increasing at a greater rate than our income from grants and donations. Our reserves allow us to have a planned exit strategy should financing becoming unsustainable
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£8.5k is held in a local Credit Union
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	Not applicable
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	Not applicable
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23	As reported last year, our current reserves allow us to continue to operate for the coming financial year. This is kept under review by the trustees

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	Donations of food from the local community Local authority grants Donations of money from local businesses, including a nearby wind farm Charity events eg auctions and concerts
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1.46	Not applicable
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46	Demand outstripping income We remain very dependent on an outside body for our accommodation Inability to maintain a sufficient pool of volunteers
Other

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document	Para 1.25	Trust deed
How is the charity constituted?	Para 1.25	CIO
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	Election by membership

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and training of trustees	Para 1.51
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51
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Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	PANTRY CWMTAWE
Other name the charity uses	PANTRY Foodbank
Registered charity number	1167724
Charity’s principal address	PANTRY Tabernacle Independent Chapel 14 Thomas St Pontardawe SA8 4HD

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Steve Hayes	Chair		AGM
	Sioned Williams MS			AGM
	AnthonyRichards			AGM
	Julie Durham-Morgan			AGM
	Nia Rogers			AGM

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name n/a

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name	Dates acted if not for whole year
n/a

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity

Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of Name Address adviser

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

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As chair of the charity’s trustees, I apologise for the delay in submitting these accounts. Entirely run by volunteers, ill health led to some administrative difficulties, now happily resolved

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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Date 5th April 2026

PANTRY end of year accounts 2024-2025

	Income		Expenditure	Expenditure
	Donations	18,348.80	Admin & stationary		665.89
	100 Club	3,475.00	Repairs & Equipment		434.89
	Collection boxes	836.31	Food & stock		2,2781.76
	Fundraising	4,822.99	100 Club		1,747.50
	Grants	33,214.00	Energy Vouchers		10,199.20
	Interest on Awel shares	100.00	Fundraising/Publicity		704.57
	Gift Aid	1,175.73	Miscellaneous:
	Sale of Oven	250.00	Volunteers’ Christmas Party		247.00
	Total Income		Total Expenditure		36,780.81
		62,222.83
			Excess of Income over
			Expenditure		25,442.02
	TOTAL	62,222.83			62,222.83
Balance brought forward 01.04.24 Add excess of income over expenditure Balance as at 31.03.24 18,747.46 25,442.02 44,189.48 Made up of: Lloyds Bank Balance as at 31.03.25 Credit Union Balance of funds held with Charis Balance as at 31.03.24 35,250.97 8,376.91 561.60 44,189.48 Assets ~~—~~

Awel Windfarm shares given as a donation 2,000.00

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