basics" Northampton 1168449 2022-2023 . basics" Northampton Table Of Content Page 1-3 Chair report Page 4-5 Treasurer report Page 6-7 Church support Page 8 Vicki Page 9-12 Operations Page 13-14 Social Media Page 15-16 Thank you Page 17-21 Photos Page 22-27 Analysis Page 28 Supported by Page 29 Trustees Page 30-33 Audit of accounts Page 34 The Impact in 2024 WORDS FROM OUR CHAIR OF TRUSTEES Baby Basics Northampton is pleased to have provided 396 baskets with essentiaL supplies for mums and newborns over the last 12 months. This is an increase of 100 baskets compared with the previous year. Our baskets are a life Line for so many families in need. The Longer term impact of the COVI D 19 pandemic coupled with the rising cost of living is creating an increase in the number of families needing support to ensure their basic needs are being met. We anticipate the need for our vital services to continue over the coming year, and our challenge is to ensure we receive sufficient funding and donations to meet this growing need. During the year we said thank you and farewell to our Trustee Treasurer Paul Murphy who supported the charity for 2 years. Paul worked closely with the Board and staff team to ensure strong oversight of our finances. Paul handed over the reigns to our new Trustee Treasurer Rebecca White. We welcomed Vicki Offin to our Board of Trustees, ensuring we have the expertise and experience on communications and fundraising to support our growing charity. .THE NAnONAL W••t North Northomplonshi C¢)uncll Northamptonshirt CommuThlty Foundatlon C￿￿￿1 WORDS FROM OUR CHAIR OF TRUSTEES A special thank you to our Trustee Lisa Talifero Smith for working closely with the staff team, fellow Trustees and the faith community to help raise vital funds and donations for the charity.we also said a special thank you and fareweLL to Julie Bainbridge who successfuLLy completed 10 years of working for Baby Basics Northampton. JuLie helped develop and grow the charity with the wider team of staff and volunteers. Her passion and commitment for the work of the charity was greatly appreciated by the Board of Trustees and the current team are busy building on Julie's Legacy of ensuring we support as many mums in need as possible across the county. The staff team continue to work tirelessly to raise the profile of the charity across the county, build strong working partnerships with healthcare professionals, heLp secure donations for the baskets and secure much needed funds to keep the charity running. Our staff team are supported by an incredible team of volunteers, without whom our vital baskets wouldn't be possibLe.On behalf of the Board a special thank you to all the volunteers and staff for everything you do. .THE NAnONAL W••t North Northomplonshi C¢)uncll Northamptonshirt CommuThlty Foundatlon C￿￿￿1 WORDS FROM OUR CHAIR OF TRUSTEES Thank you to all of our amazing supporters, every donation you make of items or funds truly makes a positive difference to a family in need. As the demand for our starter packs, and increased costs associated with the running of the charity our focus remains on securing funds to ensure the financial security of the charity. On a personal note l joined the Board of Trustees in 2020 and I have valued working with such a committed and passionate group of individuals alL driven by the commitment to improve the lives of others across the county. After 3 years as a Trustee I have taken the decision to step down from the Board at the end of November 2023.1 leave knowing that I pass on the legacy of developing and growing our charity to an experienced and highly skilled Board of Trustees. Thank you to everyone across the county for working with our charity to help support new mums across the county. Yours faithfully, Maya Maya Joseph-Hussain Chair of Trustees .THE NAnONAL W••t North Northomplonshi C¢)uncll Northamptonshirt CommuThlty Foundatlon C￿￿￿1 WORDS FROM OUR TREASURER This has been a chaLLenging year financiaLLy; we have just fallen shy of breaking even, with income of £71,824 and expenses totaling £73,594. As at the end of August our cash flow forecast gives us operating funds of just under 6 months. Fundraising has been difficult with the charity operating part of the year on a reduced team. Combining the 34% increase in referrals and high inflation, we have seen a 29% increase in costs. When we have a fuLL team in place, the aim for this year WILL be to gain a solid pipeline of grants, corporate support, and fundraisers, to fund the growing need for our services. We wouLd Like to thank aLI our supporters, with speciaL recognition going to: The National Lottery who continues to support us by covering our rent at The Keep House. Thomas Brington Foundation, through the Creating Good Foundations for Everyone grant, funded us with a huge £10,000. This has helped us buy starter pack items, pay for staffing for volunteer sessions and networking. .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM OUR TREASURER This has reaLLy been fundamentaL in covering the growing needs of our county. North Northamptonshire community funding of £5,000 to pay for starter pack items to enable our growth into the north of the county. Margaret Giffen Community Fund via NCF, their funding has enabled us to build our connections with Kettering and Corby £3,000. Skipton Building Society provided us with £3,000 to buy Moses baskets and baths. Albert Hunt Fund has supported our weekly voLunteer sessions with £2,000. Delapre Ladies Golf Club; where we were privileged to be their chosen charity for the year, they raised a massive £2,310, as weLL as donating items for our starter packs. We were delighted to reap the benefit of both a fun night out and the funds that were raised by our supporting band, Midlife Crisis raising £1,020. We are extremely grateful for aLL our supporters, these include a number of Churches in Northamptonshire, local clubs and businesses, every penny of your support goes towards a better start in Life for the babies of Northamptonshire. Becky White Baby Basics Northampton Treasurer .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM OUR CHURCH SUPPORT TRUSTEE The charity has been very blessed throughout the year by local churches. In addition to the wide range of churches who collect donations, through special initiatives like the Christmas campaign, we also have several churches who support us on a more frequent basis, arranging special coLLections at regular intervals through the year, for which we are hugely grateful. Some of these partner churches invited us to speak at their Sunday services during the year. Our Trustees spoke at family Christmas services at St Bartholomew Greens Norton, and St George the Martyr in Wootton Iwho also invited us back to lead a family service Later in the year), contributed to a Mothers Day service St Peter and St Paul's in Abington, and spoke at services at Kingsthorpe Baptist Church, St Andrews Church Spratton, Wellingborough Salvation Army and our home church, Grange Park Church. We are so grateful for these opportunities to share the work of Baby Basics. .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM OUR CHURCH SUPPORT TRUSTEE Grange Park Church, where the charity started, continues to support us with financial gifts, a donation point in the Kairos Centre and regular coLLections, as well as delivering talks about the charity in their Sunday services. The church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints in Duston have supported us by having voLunteering days, where they got stuck in in a hands-on way, building starter packs as a team effort. We are so blessed by all the churches who partner with us. In addition to all the practical support and donations, we know that these congregations pray for the Mums and babies in need and this makes such a difference to the work we do, THANK YOU! Lisa .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM OUR TRUSTEE VICKI It has been a privilege to be part of the trustee team at Baby Basics Northampton for the last year. With a background in the charity sector, particularly in fundraising and communications, I've seen in my own work the impact of the rise of the cost of living on grass roots organisations. More and more people are turning to charities to fill gaps in support and to meet a need, and organisations like Baby Basics Northampton have been there to respond. The increase the charity has seen in demand for our services is significant and the team and volunteers have responded with incredible tenacity and compassion, especiaLLy at a time when resources are so stretched. A true team effort. Thank You North Northomptonshl Z Councll Northamptonshl Communlty Foundatlon NATIONAL NorthamptonthSr• Councll WORDS FROM SABRINA During our 10th year we have experienced our largest amount of corporate volunteering. We have worked cLoseLy with a few businesses including Simply business and Scott Bader who have helped us revoLutionise our volunteer sessions. We held a number of successful pack making sessions with both these business teams and a number of church groups showing us how we can get our community more involved with the charity. These have been hugely beneficial for the charity and have opened several avenues of alternative support including fundraising and media options. From these sessions we have also received ongoing support from business voLunteers including weekly support with our washing donations. The Scott Bader team regularly collect, wash, dry and fold our donations making the starter pack process much quicker and easier. This has been especially important giving the increase in referrals we have experienced this year. .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM SABRINA We held our first"Big Help Out" sessions which were hugely successful and not only allowed peopLe to come and support on a one off and Learn about the charity, but we recruited 3 more permanent volunteers through this. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints in Duston held a pack making help out session in which we were privileged to have the support of the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire James Saunders Watson, he kindly volunteered his time to support the charity. Our volunteer induction in November successfully recruited 2 more permanent volunteers one of which has helped us with our new Corby donation point. Our volunteers have developed such a wonderful amount of confidence reaLLy leading the rooms and areas that they are in. We can't thank them enough for always going above and beyond to support the charity. We are aLso incredibly proud to see one of our volunteers start new employment within another charity. Her Leadership and skills shown throughout the volunteering session have made her a perfect candidate for the new role she has stepped into. We wish her all the best with her future endeavours. .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM SABRINA We held a wonderful thank you lunch using the amazing Local facilities within WoLLaston, Aubrey's tearoom. It was a Lovely opportunity to thank our wonderful team. We also took this opportunity to present them with our Baby Basics Northampton aprons, worn by and designed for Princess Kate. This year marks 5 years since having our Baby Basics volunteers, we feel privileged that some of our original volunteers are still part of the team today . Our donation points have all been amazing this year and a true Lifeline to the charity. Our 2 newest points to be established are St Peters and St Pauls church and our first ever Corby point within The Cube. The Library has been incredibly supportive, and we are excited to see what the amazing community of Corby can offer in way of support. This has been an area that we have been keen to reach into more for some time. The team at Abington church has been supporting us throughout the whole year with fundraising events on Mothers day, summer fete's and through awareness, we are so grateful for their incredible support this year. .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM SABRINA AIL of our donation points are very important to us, having a wide variety enables us to receive more donations and allow the Northamptonshire community learn about how they can support us and how we can support them. Thank you for all of their time and support. As a charity we have experienced our biggest increase in referrals this year, i would Like to thank the staff team, volunteers, referrers, donation points and our supporters for their time, care and dedication into ensuring every baby in Northamptonshire has a safe place to sleep. Your support has shown families that they are not alone, that the community of Northamptonshire can puLL together to show Hope and Love to those in need. We've had the the pleasure of raising awareness of our charity on the radio, featuring in the newspapers and attending some brilliant events including the NHS 75th celebration at Westminster abbey, the DeLapre golf baLL and the BB UK conference. We celebrated how the team have supported over 2000 families and said a sad farewell to our co-founder Julie. .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM GEMMA Social Media Our social media pages reach individuals, businesses, community groups and other charities. Using a variety of platforms we engage with different accounts and our main supporters vary across the platforms. Our Facebook, Instagram & Twitter audiences continue to grow and this year Linkedln has proved to be an effective way to engage with businesses to provide volunteering and donation support. Our two most popular posts this year have related to knitting- there is a dedicated team of local and national knitters who make items for us and they are very engaged when we post about knitting. Facebook continues to be our biggest audience with 7.lk followers and our most successfuL post reached 19.3k accounts. Facebook posts have the most interaction too with comments and direct messages coming through from this platform daily. Our appeal posts are always engaged with and shared and we see the impact of this on donations that we receive. We regularly share our WishLists from Amazon and For Common Good to allow direct donations. .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 WORDS FROM GEMMA The Facebook donation button has raised nearly £400 this year. Our Facebook followers have increased by approximately 400 this year and the online community continues to grow across aLL platforms. Our Linktree holds important information, documents and links and this has been a useful free resource with over 2.6k clicks. The conversations we have through social media continue to help us share, Learn and engage with our community as weLL as sharing our gratitude for their support and generosity. SocL•l Medla Inslthts Facebook Reach Instagrnm Reach 106.590 f 1.8% 1.024 &55.7% ',FB Page Visits Instsgram Page Wisits 31.304 t197.8% 684 *90% New F8 Likes New Instagram Followers 537 t38.8% 82 Calling all knitters! We are in need of blankets... 19.3k Thank you to the wonderful Warm Baby Projert 11.lk Every single starter pack 15 important...120C#)th starter pack) 8.7k 202 125 149 176 429 24 15 ,.Audience 7.111 Facebook Followers 731 Instagrnm Followers L395 Twitter Follower5 .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 Th&nk Yo THANK YOU TO 9 6ks Outh ￿ & Adhs Na* Wl l%arxe Gof Ckb Lacks Team g Poer & g P￿S OKffch AbYgth7 Wwes Far¥4 Ckb OK6 Crats .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 Th&nk Yo THANK YOU TO Thank you to the Northamptonshire Community Foundation Gi¥ing back to oui iounty Constance Travis Endowment Fund for Northamptonshlre For supporting . ba8lCS" Northampton Our starter packs are Dwdeliv8r8d by Kèvln. our delivery .THE NATIONAL North Northamptonshir• Councll Northamptonshirt Communlty Foundatlon Northamptonthlrn Cour￿1 ## **Baby Basics Northampton** ## **Income statement for 12 months from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023** |**Income**
Grants & Donations
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Salary
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**Net Income/Expenses current year**
**Balance sheet As At 31 August 2023**
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Amazon Smile
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