Parson Cross Initiative Projects Annual Report 2022 Registered Charity 1172288 ## **Report from the Chair** Every year I seem to say it, but it really has been another eventful year where we have seen things change. Some things have grown and taken on new life and meaning, some things have struggled and been cast off. People likewise have come and gone, new faces have appeared and familiar faces have moved on to other challenges. Throughout all this our central work continues; the task of helping to make people within the communities we serve feel more included, more valued and dare I say it more loved and wanted. One of the personal highlights for me over the last twelve months has been the post pandemic success of our community allotments. As you will remember during the pandemic the site was used for youth work and a partnership with Brightbox, whilst both these initiatives have now ended they have been replaced with link to local community mental health services, residential care services, local health surgeries as well as a rise in numbers of community participants. Likewise the growth of the Community Food Hub has been both something to celebrate, in terms of people supporting it and its stand alone financial viability, and also something that causes us all much concern with the clear rise in the past few months of households who are relying on the hub for food to help stretch the household budget in these economically demanding times. The rise in the cost of living seems likely to continue throughout 2023 and as such will undoubtedly stretch us further as a charity once again. There are also some important challenges that lie ahead for the charity. The first of these is the need to recruit and retain reliable session hosts for our regular sessions, much of this has in the past fallen on Trustees, but this feels increasingly unsustainable as a model and the need to find other solutions whether from voluntary sources or elsewhere and is something that the charity will need to give serious thought to in the next twelve months. The second big issue facing the charity and the Trustees is the future of our office base and many of our activities at Mount Tabor. We have known for sometime that the existing Church Trustees were an ageing and diminishing number, and the past couple of years have brought this to a head. Discussions are underway between the Church Council and Methodist Circuit about the future. Whilst we’ve been assured the building (and our presence) is not under any immediate threat, we are also aware that any changes in the management and trusteeship of the space will have a significant impact on the charity as the prime user of the space, it is something that again PXI Trustees will need to give significant thought to going forward. Finally I’d like to thank everyone who has been supportive of our work in the last year. Firstly, our trustees, volunteers, helpers and participants and to our partners and fellow travellers, and also to our donors, funders and supporters who have given generously once again. I look forward to another year of working with you all. Nick Waterfield (Chair of Trustees) October 2022 ## **Community Food Hub & Social Café** As we reported last year the Community Food Hub and Social Cafe restarted (post pandemic) in May 2021, this therefore has been its first full year since then. The Fareshare delivery remains the bulk of the food supplied, and we were pleased this year to be able to add fresh fruit and vegetables into the hub following agreement with Fareshare. Meanwhile we continue to offer the Foodworks frozen meal service on both a pre order and cash payment basis, we also offer these meals as part of our ”emergency response” to those in an immediate need of food. Demand has continued to rise, both as more people have heard about the food hub, but also as the “cost of living crisis” has had a greater and greater impact on peoples household budgets. So many of those coming have told us how valuable they find the service in just helping out that little bit in making the weekly budget stretch a little further. The Social Cafe continues to be the focal point around which we offer support to people who come for more than just food. Every person and every week is of course different and that is both the joy and the challenge but once again in the past twelve months we have dealt with issues as wide ranging as; family bereavement, physical and mental ill health, preventing eviction and accessing adult learning opportunities. ## **Tuesdays at Tabor** As well as being Fareshare and Foodworks delivery day, Tuesdays focus at Mount Tabor is the Social Cafe and community lunch as well as creative arts activities. Although the crafting side of this offer has been slow to return to its pre pandemic levels of involvement, the music group has bounced back and has seen new participants, and opening up even more musical diversity. In May 2022 our Reasons To Sing! Projects concluded with an amazing community concert featuring Steel City Choristers and our own community singers. The concert itself was a great success with over a hundred and fifty people attending. The project as a whole drew together the shared stories from local people and reflections from Steel City Choristers as well as and was a great way of moving on from the restrictions of the pandemic. Our relationship with the Choristers continues with a Carol Concert planned for this December and links to local schools in the area. ## **Community Allotments & Growing Spaces** Although we still retain the growing space at Mount Tabor, we have since the pandemic concentrated our work on the community allotments at Norwood. Our partnership with Brightbox ended in December 2021, although some elements such as the shed painting project have continued to run through to this year. The return of “normal” saw most of the youth involvement also leave the site with a return to other venues and activities. But as one thing ends another chapter begins and since spring 2022 we’ve seen new partnership links with a local community mental health team, local adult care providers, local GP’s and other community groups. Our weekly sessions now host around 20 people engaged in the community site. Much of this years fruit and vegetable harvest has found its way back into the food hub at Tabor, with the rest going to volunteers and helpers on the community allotments. Next year we’re looking at further improvements to the site including building a new compost urinal. We were rewarded for all our efforts this summer with second place in the City Councils allotment competition (Allotment Society & Community Group Section) for which we were very proud. ## **Autism Hope** This last year has been the busiest yet for Autism Hope! Our weekly coffee mornings started in September 2021 and these have got busier every week, now we are regularly having 25+ people attending. We have had guest speakers from Autism Plus and Shaped come along to talk about the work they are doing. In March we had our own Mothers Day Celebration which included flowers and hand massages for all the Mums in the group. In May we celebrated the Jubilee with a special tea party and in June we held our first Stress and Wellbeing Workshop. In August we had our first coach trip to the seaside which was a wonderful day out for some of the families we support. It has certainly been a fun and busy year for the group! ## **Safeguarding** We’ve spent quite some time this year considering our safeguarding practices and policies, we have considered this important because much of the work we do brings us into contact with vulnerable people. Our policies stand in line with those of the Methodist Church because of both our historic links and our use of Methodist premises at Mount Tabor for much of our work. Good safeguarding keeps everyone safe, our trustees, our volunteers, our helpers and our participants. We will continue to work hard to develop both our policy and our practice and offer a safe and supportive environment in which everyone can thrive. **Appendices:** ## **Trustees 2021-22** Nick Waterfield (Chairperson) Iain Cloke Alison Charlesworth (Treasurer) Cheryl Hattersley (Resigned August 2022) Carlie Brough Carlton Reeve Jonathan Buckley Janet Shepherd Teresa Buckley (non voting members) Alan Bettison Jane Offord (Safeguarding Officer) ## **Grant Funders 2021-22** St Agatha’s Freshgate Foundation James Neil Trust Sheffield Town Trust Groundworks UK (Jack’s Store) Asda Arnold Clark Sheffield City Council 500 together ## **Social Media Links** Follow us on Twitter: **@pxiprojects** Or on Facebook: **PXI – Parson Cross Initiative Projects** Visit our website: **https://pxiprojects.wordpress.com/** CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Receipts and payments accounts CC16a Fprth• pgrfod Iro 1s1 S le￿￿er 2021 31$1 Augusi 2D22 Section A Receipts and payments Unrulrfci•d Rttirfctqd lund• Endowm•nt lunds Total lund• Last y••r toth• r**rMI ¢ t•lt* r*•rMI É tr• r••r•M £ to thi nMr4it£ A1 R￿•1 t Incom tr￿￿￿11&￿ antAblo AcliYilB5 Incor Affld 13.290 Iri. 22.310 Irha 241 241 Sub totallGn)55 iThcomb forAR 1J,5)1 19.935 22,3iri A2 Asset and Inv•stm6nt 8alt* SO& table . 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I report in réspect of my èxamination of the Trust's accounts carried out und8r section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the appllcable Dlrecllons given by th8 Charlty Commission under section 145{5llb) ol th8 Act. I have completed my examinallon. I confirm that no material matters have come lo my attention (other than that disclosed below ') In connection with the examination whlch glves me cause to believe that In, any materlal respect: accounting records were not kept In accordance with secllon 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord wlth the aceountlng records Independent examiner's statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which altenllon should be drawn in order lo enable a proper underslandlng of the accounts to be reached. Please delele the ds in th8 brack&ts If they do not apply. Slgned: Date: 15 Name: IA Relevant professlonal quallflcatlon(sl or body (if any): A.Tr. Lfio&sJ Address: CAQT&ft gm IT4 Iz ILtr C44URCdd s'r, bl￿F61£Ll) eccLegfjiLf L IER October 2018 Secllon B Dls¢loJuro Only CA)mplele rf the examtner needs lo hpahfight matters of concern {see CC32. Indepèndent ex3minat*)n d charTty acccrtmts.. rfffections and guidance for eyaminers). GSve here brlel delall8 of any Item8 that thè examlner wlshes to dlsclose. IER October 2018