## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
Charity number 1171402
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 December 2021
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 5|
|Examiner's report|6|
|Receipts and payments account|7|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|8|
|Notes to the accounts|9 to 10|
**Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2021
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates** Charles Laxton Chair Rev. Angela Hughes Rev. Joanne Lightowler Rev. John Rogers Rev. David Robinson Resigned 28 September 2021 Rev. Simon Jones Appointed 23 May 2022 **Charity number** 1171402 Registered in England and Wales **Registered and principal address** Stainbeck Church Stainbeck Road Leeds LS7 2PP **Bankers** CAF Bank Ltd 25 Kings Hill Avenue West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ **Independent examiner** Stephen Procter **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO** Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 1 February 2017.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a meeting of the trustees.
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2021
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
The objects of the CIO are:
(1) Relief and prevention of poverty for the public benefit in Meanwood, Leeds, in particular, but not exclusively, focusing on the ‘Meanwood 7 Estates’*, by
(a) The provision of recreational activities and activities that promote self-development and wellbeing, intended to improve the quality of life of the beneficiaries and tackle effects of financial and cultural poverty.
(b) The provision of activities to develop the capacity and skills of the beneficiaries, in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society.
- (2) The advancement of community development for the public benefit in Meanwood, by:
(a) The provision of activities that draw together a diversity of people from across Meanwood and its immediate surroundings, with the aim of promoting social cohesion and tackling exclusion resulting from hardship and cultural differences.
(b) The promotion of volunteering, by supporting local people to take active, voluntary roles in the management of the organisation and the running of its activities.
(c) The promotion of the voluntary sector, through active engagement with community forums and public sector bodies, to the benefit of the Meanwood community, and particularly the ‘Meanwood 7 Estates’*
- (3) The advancement of religion for the public benefit in Meanwood, by:
(a) Working as a partnership of Christian churches, operating and delivering activities in accordance with Christian principles.
* The ‘Meanwood 7 Estates’ is the name given locally to a number of areas in Meanwood, Leeds, which see higher levels of financial hardship and poor health in comparison to neighbouring areas. Most of them rank repeatedly in the top 2% of the Government’s indices of multiple deprivation.
## **The charity's main activities**
A wide variety of activities that bring people together from all parts of the community of Meanwood, Leeds, to help build relationships across social divides. Examples of activities include weekly youth club, craft sessions, play and learn, parenting support, family fun days, theatre and board games.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular:
Relief and prevention of poverty for the public benefit in Meanwood, Leeds, in particular, but not exclusively, focusing on the ‘Meanwood 7 Estates.’
The advancement of community development for the public benefit in Meanwood. The advancement of religion.
## **Achievements and performance**
2021 feels very much like a year of two halves for InterACT. The first half was dominated by COVID hub activity, as we continued to work with Leeds City Council and Voluntary Action Leeds. This meant coordinating volunteers in our area to deliver food, pick up prescriptions, make befriending phone calls and carry out other helpful tasks for people struggling with the impacts of the pandemic.
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2021
## **Achievements and performance (continued)**
We weren’t entirely limited to the Hub role in that first part of the year. We worked with the Barn Café at the beginning of the year to make food boxes with prepared ingredients and recipes, which we delivered each week for 8 weeks to around 15 different households. We ran it as a pilot to see if it was something we could do in future – a treat delivery which also helped people try out new foods and recipes. It was very well received and certainly something we’d love to do again. We did follow up with something similar at Easter, with food deliveries that included fresh chicken or a vegetarian alternative.
Throughout the year, we were working with Thrive Leeds, Carr Manor School and Community Action To Create Hope (CATCH) as we work towards a new youth project for the area that we hope will have a base in a modular building on the grounds of our member churches. The project will give young people an opportunity to take a lead, volunteering and taking on roles that will earn them badges and privileges. We’ve done some good groundwork and there should be some significant developments with this in 2022.
Also throughout the year, Holy Trinity Community Café, a joint activity with InterACT, managed to stay open, albeit with a limited menu of hot drinks and biscuits for much of the year. It was good to be able to keep the space available for those who wanted/needed it.
In April we erected a mammoth 32x12ft shed at the allotments in Meanwood Farm, the base for Meanwood Men Shed. By the end of the year, the shed was electrically powered and ready for a steady programme of activities as we go forward. Following a few low key but very enjoyable social events (COVID waves preventing anything larger), a group of men worked on our first project – making the structures for nativity scenes exhibited at the Farm over Christmas. Dressings for the structures were created by a very talented group of ladies meeting each week in the latter part of Autumn, making for some wonderful life-size nativity characters and a lovely community enterprise at the end of another difficult year.
In July, shortly after we finished our role as the Moortown and Meanwood Hub, we opened our food Pantry in a converted shipping container on the grounds of Meanwood Community Centre. It was hard work to get to opening day, but it has definitely been worth it. The Pantry holds to the ethos of dignity, choice and hope. It is different from a Food Bank in that it is not intended to be an emergency provision but rather a community shop and hub. It is a space where members make significant savings on the cost of shopping, have an opportunity to help run the shop as a volunteer, receive help and advice where needed, and pick up recipe ideas (or share their own with others!). The shop is open three times a week and is run by volunteers from the local area, some of whom joined us after working with us through the pandemic. There were around 50 members by the end of the year, and now the team are confident in running this new venture, we look forward to welcoming more in 2022!
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £16,165, including net receipts of £7,719 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £8,446 on restricted funds.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves at the year end were £28,516.
Our reserves policy is to hold four-and-a-half months core costs, plus an additional 5% for contingency and inflation, plus the cost of statutory redundancy payments, as they would be on 31st December of the accounting year.
The target figure is set at the beginning of the year based on our budget, although we may adjust this in line with projections if core costs look set to be higher than budgeted. For 2022, the target is £38,400.
Going forward, we aim to increasingly diversify our income to include more unrestricted donations and grants in order to meet our reserves target.
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2021
## **Funds or subsidiary undertakings materially in deficit**
The Pantry fund ws £6,938 in deficit at the year end, but funds were secured totalling £9,741; due to be received in 2022.
Signed on behalf of the board of trustees on 11/09/2022
John Rogers (Trustee)
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of InterACT Church and Community Partnership
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 December 2021, which are set out on pages 7 to 10.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's 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:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the CIO 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 across no 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.
Stephen Procter
15/09/2022
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Receipts and payments account
## for the year ended 31 December 2021
|Notes
2021
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
45,288
Sales and fees
8,980
Gift Aid
1,402
Holy Trinity Café and Stainbeck Church
624
**Total receipts**
56,294
**Payments**
Salaries, NIC and pensions
38,305
Payroll costs
84
Sessional staff
-
Staff travel
519
Training
120
Meeting expenses
44
Volunteer expenses
131
Rent
150
Website
403
Printing, postage and stationery
219
Phone and broadband
1,197
Materials and resources
85
Advertising and publicity
63
Events and activities
2,762
Pantry costs
-
Insurance
475
Bank charges
96
Other expenses
142
Independent examination
510
Covid-19 support expenses
3,270
Grant funding returned
-
**Total payments**
48,575
**Net receipts**
7,719
**Fund balances brought forward**
20,797
**Fund balances carried forward**
(3)
28,516|2021
Restricted
funds
£
58,163
-
-
-
58,163
6,533
-
-
-
83
-
91
1,100
-
-
40
548
-
6,825
33,035
-
-
-
-
299
1,163
49,717
8,446
9,616
18,062|2021
Total
funds
£
103,451
8,980
1,402
624
114,457
44,838
84
-
519
203
44
222
1,250
403
219
1,237
633
63
9,587
33,035
475
96
142
510
3,569
1,163
98,292
16,165
30,413
46,578|2020
Total
funds
£
67,864
23,428
501
-
91,793
43,083
294
403
751
99
462
59
788
127
626
1,200
1,421
-
9,193
-
785
66
194
510
31,658
-
91,719
74
30,339
30,413|
|---|---|---|---|
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 December 2021
2021
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
28,516
**Total cash funds**
28,516
**Amounts owed to the charity**
INW Committee Pantry capital grant
INE Committee Pantry capital grant
ABCD balance of grant
**Assets retained for the charity's own use (at cost)**
Converted storage container
Upright fridge x2
Glass door freezer
**Liabilities**
Independent examination|2021
Restricted
£
18,062
18,062|2021
Total
£
46,578
46,578
£
4,856
4,885
12,500
9,741
£
13,254
1,180
1,400
15,834
£
510
510|2020
Total
£
30,413
30,413|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 11/09/2022
John Rogers (Trustee)
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 December 2021
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## InterACT Church and Community Partnership
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2021
|**2 Grants and donations**
Leeds City Council (LCC)
Charities Aid Foundation
All Churches Trust
Leeds South and West Methodist Circuit
Awards for All - Covid
Leeds Community Foundation (LCF)
LCF - Covid Support
Church donations
General donations
**3 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
£
Awards for All
4,087
Awards for All - Covid
3,239
LCF - Winter
773
LCC HAP - Men Shed
1,517
Barn Café
-
Food distribution
-
Pantry
-
Stewardship
-
Covid support
-
ABCD
-
9,616|2021
Unrestricted
funds
£
4,762
12,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
12,775
5,751
45,288
Incoming
£
-
-
-
-
1,000
400
16,504
609
14,650
25,000
58,163|2021
Restricted
funds
£
44,604
-
10,900
-
-
-
-
-
2,659
58,163
Outgoing
£
4,087
3,239
773
1,517
1,000
400
23,442
609
14,650
-
49,717|2021
Total
funds
£
49,366
12,000
10,900
10,000
-
-
-
12,775
8,410
103,451
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2020
Total
funds
£
21,197
-
-
10,000
8,948
2,500
9,600
7,925
7,694
67,864
Balance c/f
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
(6,938)
-
-
25,000
18,062|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Fund name**
## **Purpose of restriction**
Awards for All Awards for All - Covid LCF - Winter LCC HAP - Men Shed Barn Café Food distribution Pantry Stewardship Covid support Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)
To provide activities for 0-18's and their families. To assist with Covid response and some running costs. Towards providing Winter wellbeing activities. Towards the costs of providing Men's activities and support. Towards a food project with the Barn Café. Towards food distribution costs.
To establish the food pantry, which helps relieve poverty and reduce waste. Towards staff costs on work supporting local people through crisis. Towards additional costs in supporting people with Covid.
For Asset Based Community Development work on the Beckhills, Jan 2022July 2023.
## **4 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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