1 ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: Period start date To 1.1.22 Period end date 31.12.22 Charity name: FRESH HORIZONS CNB Charity registration number: 1167809** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|1. The relief of poverty through the
provision of accommodation and
other amenities and services.
2. To advance the Christian faith in the
United Kingdom as the trustees may
from time to time think fit.
3. The furtherance of the charitable
work of the charity by the
advancement of such other
charitable purposes as the trustees
may from time to time decide.| |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|**Accommodation for the homeless**
The provision of accommodation for persons
previously street homeless and/or under the
care of a night shelter.We offer a stable and
secure living environment for individuals who
find themselves without accommodation.
Residents stay with us for a period of six to
eighteen months.
**Faith based**
Advancing the Christian faith by offering
literature, information and opportunity for
worship to those interested or sympathetic to
the Christian faith.
**Life skills Support**
Residents commit to a support programme
throughout the duration of their stay. Our
program helps to restore life skills & self-
confidence. Enabling residents to return to
mainstream living, including education,
employment and independent living.| 2 |||**Residents Receive**
Life skills training.
Help accessing educational and employment
opportunities.
Advice on financial budgeting and overcoming
debt.
Assistance with accessing health and social care.
Guidance in finding community facilities and
resources.
Support with resettlement into independent
accommodation.
**Food Bank**
Fresh Horizons CNB runs a weekly stationary
food bank and a bi-weekly mobile food bank
which complements its work with the homeless.
Supplies are provided to residents, families,
individuals, churches and other help centres
working to reduce food poverty. Supplies are
provided by local grocers and food share
schemes.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN FOR THE PUBLIC**
**BENEFIT**
The trustees have fully complied with guidance
to have due regard to the Public Benefit
published by the Charity Commission in
executing the duties of the charity.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Not applicable.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not applicable.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteer Contribution**
Volunteer contribution has been invaluable in
the running of the charity activities. Over the
year 24 volunteers have willingly contributed
more than 12,030 man hours, enabling the
homeless accommodation and food banks to run
successfully. In addition, over this time they
have covered over 18,200 miles in their own
vehicles to enable the food bank to run and to| 3 offer help and support to residents. This year, as last year, the Café did not run, in order to adhere to COVID safe practice. Food bags were distributed at the door observing safe social distancing, rather than clients entering the building. Other ## **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|**Accommodation:**
Occupancy rate was 82.5%
throughout the year, The Council has now
recognised Fresh Horizons Supported housing as
an important partnership in their homeless
strategy. 89% of residents remained with us for
at least 1 year before moving on to alternative
accommodation. 59% remained in part time
work through the year. Accommodation is open
to residents of all faiths, previous and present
residents are from multi-cultural, multi faith
backgrounds. Residents have dwelt
harmoniously together. Some have shown a
particular interest in the Christian faith, and
have stated that reading materials and
participation has been beneficial in providing a
sense of purpose, focus and calm.
**Food Banks:**
Attendees of the local food bank are supplied
with up to two shopping bags of food. This year
the food bank has distributed 15,000 shopping
bags of re-purposed food. Recording was
restricted to the number of bags distributed
only.
There are 23 volunteers on our foodbank rota, a
mixture of local residents & members from local
churches - their help has been invaluable. The
food bank is supplied with re-purposed food by
The Felix Project, City Harvest and Tesco (via
Fareshare Food Cloud), as well as local grocers.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 4 |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**OBJECTIVE 2. To see 45% of residents**
**moved to permanent housing. 50% of**
**residents moved to alternative or**
**permanent accommodation.**
**OBJECTIVE 3. At least 45% of residents**
**entering work or education. Forty percent**
**of residents are in work at the time of**
**writing, the number gaining employment**
**has been affected by resident’s health or**
**disability issues this year.**
**OBJECTIVE 4. To increase the number of**
**families in need helped with re-purposed**
**food by 25%. There has, been an overall**
**increase of 20% across our stationary**
**and mobile foodbanks through the year,**
**reflected by the increase in bags of food**
**distributed, following economic hardship**
**brought on by the cost of living crisis. An**
**increase in food supplies helped us to**
**support those in need.**
**OBJECTIVE 5. Increase the number of**
**volunteers completing the Food safety**
**course, enabling them to work across**
**both the Food bank and the Café. We**
**were able to achieve a 10% increase this**
**year as most volunteers have previously**
**completed the course. The café currently**
**remains closed.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**OBJECTIVE 1. To increase the number of**
**individual donors by 20%. We were not as**
**successful in increasing donors this**
**year, the cost of living crisis may have an**
**ongoing influence here.**
**OBJECTIVE 2. To increase the number of**
**individual fundraiser initiatives by 20%.**
**We successful in procuring a total of**
**£48,435 in grants towards our work from**
**the Post Code lottery (£20,435), Mrs smith**
**& Mount Trust (£3,000) and Lloyds**
**Foundation (£25,000). This was**
**invaluable in allowing us to continue**
**offering our services and paying staff**
**salaries.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Not applicable.**| |Other||| 5 ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**End of year financial position £35,577.78**
**bank balance. The charity took a 6 month**
**lease payment holiday on one of our**
**properties towards the end of the**
**pandemic. This is being repaid to our**
**partner charity (Green Pastures) over 24**
**months No other outstanding debts or**
**monies owed to or by the charity.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity’s policy is to reach a position where**
**there are sufficient reserves to allow the**
**charity to run for a minimum of 3 -6 months.**
**This includes meeting the cost of staff salaries,**
**property repairs, utilities and budgeting**
**forecast requirements for the coming financial**
**year, including resident support, staff and**
**volunteer re imbursements, training and travel.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£10,000 included in above amount**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The Charity remains confident about its**
**continuation as a going concern due to**
**the steady income received from**
**resident’s housing benefit (the main**
**source of income at present). The**
**forecast is that homelessness reduction**
**services such as ours will be increasingly**
**in demand as the end of the universal**
**credit support, furlough scheme and the**
**cost of living crisis are set to increase**
**homelessness unless a roust national**
**initiative is set in place to reduce this.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The principle source of funding comes**
**from housing benefit payments for our**
**residents amounting to 56% of income**
**this year. Donations and funding, have**
**made up a further 46.6% of received**
**funds.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**The Charity does not adhere to an**
**investment policy at this time.**| |||**Principal risks include a reduction in**
**referrals to the charity, comprising of**| 6 |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**individuals who are street homeless, or**
**threatened with street homelessness. A**
**change in policy by local or national**
**government affecting Exempt**
**Accommodation or payment of housing**
**benefit for our residents would also pose**
**a significant risk. Following the end of**
**the pandemic and its associated local**
**government policies, homeless referrals**
**to the charity have exceeded capacity.**
**The present cost of living crisis is likely**
**to increase homelessness. The increase**
**of services will depend on robust staffing**
**and procuring further suitable bed**
**spaces.**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Not applicable.**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation.**| |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|**Trustees are selected by the Trustee**
**Board.**| ## **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|Induction and training of trustees is carried
out through membership of
The National Council for Voluntary
Organisations (NCVO). Trustees are
required to complete the ‘Trustee’s Role &
Responsibilities’ course and
attend at least one additional course per
year, with ongoing refreshers.| |---|---|---| |||Risk management training is given to all staff
& volunteers. Our| 7 |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|accommodations are risk assessed and
carry relevant insurance and
safety protocol. Our food banks also have a
written risk assessment which
is reviewed annually.
To accomplish its objectives Fresh Horizons
CNB works in collaboration
with the following organisations:
HOUSING: Firm Foundation Night Shelter,
Growth Night Shelter,
Salvation Army, CRISIS, Shelter, Refugees
at Home, Hope World Wide,
Brent SHiPs, Harrow Council, Voluntary
Action Harrow and Harrow Churches
Together.
FOOD BANK: Fareshare (inc Tescos, Asda
and smaller independent food stores), Felix
Project, City Harvest,| |---|---|---| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**Fresh Horizons CNB works closely with**
**Green Pastures, a Charity committed to**
**ending homelessness through**
**collaboration with local churches through**
**out the UK. We lease our homes from**
**Green pastures for the purpose of re**
**housing the homeless.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|FRESH HORIZONS CNB| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charity number|1167809| |Charity’s principal address|31A Heather Park Drive,
Wembley
Middlesex
HA0 1SP| ||| ## **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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||ANDREW
LAMBERT|TRUSTEE||TRUSTEE BOARD| ||ATHINA INNEH|TRUSTEE||| ||RAPHEL
HEADLAM|TREASURER|5.3.22 to present|| ||GEETA SANDHU|TRUSTEE|4.3.22 topresent|| |||||| |||||| 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 – 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
held in this capacity|N/A| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|N/A| 9 ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **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)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |**Homeless**
**Consultancy**|Rose McGowan|31A Heather Park Drive, Wembley. HA01SP| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Andrew Lambert|| ||
CHAIR|| ||13.1.23|| ||13.1.23|| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES CPiÈ."ity Natr,e No (if 3nyl 1167809 FRESH HORIZONS CNB Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the perlod from Èriod Slarl dale Pori=e Ènd dal& To 0110112022 3111212022 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestrlcte(I funds toV* nearg•t Restrficted funds Endowment funds Total funds Last y8ar to tho n8ar8gt £ to tho nearest£ to the noargst£ tothe noare5t£ A1 Recel ts Housing Benefit- HarTowCouncil FU￿Ing & Donations Other- i.è. Gift aid, Refunds etG Residenf5 Service chargp 77,702 59,024 1.926 77,702 59,024 1.926 82,400 15,183 31,124 1,050 Sub total (Gross income forAR) A2 Asset and inve¥tment sales. 18ee table). 131,652 134652 99,757 Sub total 138,652 138,652 99,757 A3 Payments COUNCIL TAX WATER FIATES GROSS WAGES & SALARIES STAFF & VOLUNTEER TRAINING WEBSITE LEASE INSURANCE (BUILDINGS & GOOOSI FUNDRAISING TV LICENSE GAS & ELECTRIC TELEPHONE & BROADBAND M081LE PHONE OFFICE ADMIN CLIENT SUPPORT FOOD BANKS MAINTAINANCE & REPAIRS ThAISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL FEES Over payTnent rebjrn to (Harrow Council 4.048 881 26,575 1,36# 686 S1,032 947 4.181 715 32.724 313 1,231 S4.299 881 26.575 1,369 686 51,032 4.603 323 3,776 323 3.776 336 919 78 B8S 393 829 12,272 B7 455 143 1,616 8.067 1,240 589 274 107,706 455 143 1,616 1,240 595 274 107,709 113,661 A4 Asset and Investment purchases, (see table) Sub total 107.706 107,T09 113.661 Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Tran8feT¥ be￿¢en funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds thls year end 30.946 30,943 13.904 5,677 36.623 5.677 36,620 19,581 5.677 CCXX R1 accounts ISSI 0110212023 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrlcted funds to n￿rest£ Restrlcted funds to nearest£ Endowment funds to n8or88t£ Categorfes Detslls 81 Cash funds Barclay5 B3nk- Current 36.623 Total cash funds 36,623 bal*1￿141￿11tt￿pt5 snd paytnEll ac￿￿￿tI&ll 01 UnrestTiCted funds to nearest e OK Restrfcted funds to nearest£ Endowment funds to neor88t£ Detslls Fund towhich a&set belon Cr*St {optionall Current valuè tlonal Detai15 Fund to whlch asset belon Curront valu• tional Detalls Costloptlonall B4 Assets retalned for the charity's own use Fund towhl¢h relats5 Amountd tiona W￿￿ due tlonal Dètails B5 Liabilities Signed by One oriwo trustEe5 on beha of all the trustse5 Dale of roval Slgnature Print Name Ra h81 Headlam 0110212023 CCXX R2 acLounts ISSI 01102r2023 Examiner Report The Trustees Fresh Horizons CNB 31A Heather Park Drive Wembley, Middlesex HAO ISP Independent examlnerfs report to the trustees of Fresh Horizons CNB I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Fresh Horizons CNB for the period l January 2022 to 31 December 2022. Responsibilities and basls of report As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111'the Act'l. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515llbl of the Act. Statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concerns and have come acr055 110 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. Yours faithfully, Ekaete Onipillla 93 Kempe Road, London NW6 65N 3 February 2023