ANNUAL RETURN: THE BESOM IN BARNET 01/01/20 - 31/12/20
Besom in Barnet had a very difficult year in 2020. The national lockdown in March 2020 ultimately contributed significantly to little or no new work getting off the ground during the year.
Besom in Barnet started 2020 in a very encouraging manner with a meeting of c.20 supporters and volunteers in January at St Peter’s Bourne, (a local Christian community which has been very supportive of the work in a number of different ways). The purpose of this meeting was to be a launchpad to restarting the regular work and service. In addition, the core team strongly felt the need to be strengthened prior to restarting the work. By early 2020, the core team had not fully recovered its previous strength following in particular the departure of a couple of key individuals due to their moving out of the area. We were however blessed with the funds, received through donations, to buy a replacement van and therefore planned to relaunch the regular van runs just a few weeks later. A replacement van meeting all of our criteria including our budget was sourced for £4,850 which added to our overall excitement. All was moving in the right direction when the national Lockdown due to the impact of the Coronavirus was imposed.
Income apart from donations was relating to a payout from the van insurance for an historic minor accident writing off the old van. The costs were kept to an absolute minimum. The expenditure beyond the purchase of the van during the course of 2020 relate to van insurance (for the remainder of the insurance year), liability insurance and DVLA costs.
The lockdown came at a time when the core team was understaffed and the regular business had been stopped resulting in the further suspension of all proactive activities during the course of 2020. The core team including all the trustees continued to meet on a regular basis (virtually) also looking ahead and seeking guidance for the future of Besom in Barnet. Summer 2020, one of the remaining 3 Trustees announced their plans to step down Summer 2021 in order to commit more time to another Christian charity and a potential trustee shared his plans to move to the West Country.
All of this led those with a heart for the work of Besom in Barnet to look for more guidance as to the way forward for the work. Support from the wider Besom network and in particular regionally has been extremely helpful, although this was necessarily online from the point of the initial lockdown.
This continued into 2021 when there has been an excitement by a former van volunteer looking to step up and drive the rebuilding of the work of Besom in Barnet. At the time of writing in 2021, this rebuilding is taking shape, step by step which is hugely exciting for everyone with a heart for God’s work through Besom in Barnet
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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR BESOM IN BARNET 2020 (31.12.2020)
Date Income £ Date Exp Ref £ Notes Balance
2020 2020
01/01/2020 5,992.79
31/01/2020 INT 0.06 5,992.85
12/02/2020 DPC 4,850.00 Van 1,142.85
28/02/2020 INT 0.06 1,142.91
Zurich
09/03/2020 C/R 280.00 Insurance 1,422.91
09/03/2020 DPC 260.00 DVLA 1,162.91
Zurich
09/03/2020 DPC 249.56 Insurance 913.35
16/03/2020 DPC 125.00 Van Sale 1,038.35
31/03/2020 INT 0.07 1,038.42
30/04/2020 INT 0.06 1,038.48
21/05/2020 BAC 100.00 Stewardship 1,138.48
29/05/2020 INT 0.06 1,138.54
31/07/2020 INT 0.01 1,138.55
30/09/2020 INT 0.01 1,138.56
30/11/2020 INT 0.01 1,138.57
Liability
04/12/2020 DPC 65.23 Insurance 1,073.34
Totals 505.34 5,424.79 1,073.34
2019 2019
01/01/2019 1,098.36
31/01/2019 INT 0.06 1,098.42
08/02/2019 10.00 Donation 1,108.42
20/02/2019 DCP 250.00 DVLA 858.42
28/02/2019 INT 0.06 858.48
01/03/2019 BAC 50.00 908.48
Fuel/Expens
04/03/2019 DCP 40.01 es 868.47
29/03/2019 INT 0.06 868.53
30/04/2019 INT 0.07 868.60
Zurich
03/05/2019 CDM 820.00 Insurance 1,688.60
31/05/2019 INT 0.17 1,688.77
Van
26/06/2019 634.00 Insurance 1,054.77
28/06/2019 INT 0.14 1,054.91
31/07/2019 INT 0.07 1,054.98
30/08/2019 INT 0.06 1,055.04
30/09/2019 INT 0.06 1,055.10
31/10/2019 INT 0.06 1,055.16
29/11/2019 INT 0.06 1,055.22
Liability
17/12/2019 62.50 Insurance 992.72
19/12/2019 5,000.00 Stewardship 5,992.72
31/12/2019 INT 0.07 5,992.79
Totals 5,880.94 986.51 5,992.79
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