## **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**
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|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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|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|
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|**Achievements and Performance**|||
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|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|
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|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|
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|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**|||
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|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|
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|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:|||
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|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|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction
|and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|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||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|PANTRY CWMTAWE|
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|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|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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3
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6|**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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||Steve Hayes|Chair||AGM|
||Sioned Williams MS|||AGM|
||AnthonyRichards|||AGM|
||Julie Durham-Morgan|||AGM|
||Nia Rogers|||AGM|
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## – 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**||
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|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
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **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
## **Other optional information**
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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Signature(s)
Full name(s) Steve Hayes
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Position (eg Secretary, Chair
Chair, etc)
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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
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Awel Windfarm shares given as a donation 2,000.00
## **Independent Examiner’s Report**
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