Wisbech
foodb
Annual
Report
2023
Registered Charity 1172525
## **The Wisbech Food Bank ................................. Registered Charity No.1172525**
## **Annual report of the activity of The Wisbech Food Bank covering the period 1[st] April 2022 until 31[st] March 2023**
## **Legal and Administrative Information**
The Wisbech Food Bank was set up in 2013 as a part of Churches Together in Wisbech. In 2017, the trustees sought and achieved CIO status.
The Trustees of The Wisbech Food Bank present their annual report and accounts for the year ended 31[st] March 2023 and confirm they comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011, the Wisbech Food Bank constitution and the Trustees Act 2000.
## **Trustees**
The Trustees of The Wisbech Food Bank who served during the period from 1[st] April 2022 to 31[st] March 2023 were :-
Bryan Baker
Chantelle Fiddy Eilis Gardner Susan Hillyer Simon King Catherine Noonan Jeremy Pallent - appointed 12.4.22.
Paul Unwin – appointed 15.8.22.
Julie White
## **Address**
The correspondence address for the charity is 358 High Road, Newton in the Isle, Wisbech, PE13 5HS
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## **The Objects of the Wisbech Food Bank as set out in the Constitution are:**
_The relief of hardship for people in Wisbech and the surrounding area or in other parts of the United Kingdom in such ways as the Trustees from time to time think fit, in particular, but not exclusively by:_
_a) providing emergency food, essential toiletries, and household items to individuals and families in need and / or for distribution by charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty._
_b) such other means, including (but not limited to) the provision of support or signposting to relevant information and other advisory services._
## **Review of Activities and Achievements during the year**
- The Distribution Centre at the Wisbech Baptist Church was open for two hours on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. A total of 39.036kgs of food was distributed to 5239 clients, of which 3252 were adults and 1987 were children. Fresh fruit and vegetables along with meat vouchers for the local butchers were distributed along with food parcels.
- Due to grants from Trussell Trust we were able to :- give out either a slow cooker or a microwave per household and a fleece blanket to each member of the household in December. We have employed a Citizens Advice advisor and a “buddy” to help maximise our client’s income and minimise their outgoings and support them to achieve this. We have also employed an Assistant Project Manager to oversee volunteering and the warehouse.
- Trustees have maintained contact with referral agencies and all agencies are now signed up to an E voucher system to allow them to issue vouchers to clients without the need to see them in person. The number of referral agencies has continued to increase and the database of referral agency contacts has been updated to comply with the General Data Protection Regulations.
- Collections have, once again, been arranged in the local supermarkets with a total of 4974kgs collected.
- Trustees have, during the Harvest Festival period, given talks about food poverty to local schools and organisations.
- Two new Trustees were appointed: Jeremy Pallent with responsibility for Health & Safety and Paul Unwin with responsibility for Safeguarding.
- The trustees secured further grant funding of £5,200 per year from the Elizabeth Wright Charity towards the staffing costs.
- The Trustees have renegotiated their relationship with Wisbech Baptist Church in the light of increased Food Bank usage and the associated increase in heating and lighting costs.
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- The trustees held eleven quorate, minuted, Trustees’ meetings in order to arrange the collection and distribution of food, to purchase food to balance demand to supply and to deploy our team of volunteers to store, pack and distribute food to our clients.
- The charity regularly entered data on the Trussell Trust management information system to allow monitoring of the supply and demand for food and to understand the needs of its clients.
- The trustees have regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit in their administration of the charity.
- The Trustees have reviewed their policies for Health and Safety and Safeguarding and associated Risk Assessments.
## **Future Plans**
The trustees will:-
- consider options to expand the service and to maximise the impact for beneficiaries;
- explore the potential for new partnerships with the County Council and other statutory agencies;
- develop additional signposting materials;
- organise training and support for volunteers and Trustees; and
- continue to update the volunteer and client records to ensure compliance with GDPR.
## **Financial Position**
The trustees believe that the charity’s financial position is strong. The accounts show income of £106,590 set against expenditure for the year of £64,525, resulting in a surplus of income over expenditure for the year of £42,065 and total funds held of £84,844.
The main sources of income are donations from supporters, either on a regular basis through standing orders, or in one-off donations, online giving via Give.net, grants from local charities, and donations from Tesco plc and Asda Stores Ltd based on the quantity of food collected at their stores through a scheme run by the Trussell Trust.
The main areas of expenditure are food, meat vouchers, salaries, rent, insurance, and administration costs.
The charity continues to benefit greatly from free use of storage facilities both at Fenland Haulage & Storage and the Remo Eco Superstore, also from the use of facilities at Wisbech Baptist Church at minimal cost.
The charity holds sufficient reserves to provide alternative facilities for warehousing and distribution whilst they seek alternative sources of funding, should the need arise.
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## **The Trustees would like to record their thanks to the following:-**
Our team of hardworking volunteers The Trussell Trust Margaret Gibbs and Derek Carter Wisbech Baptist Church Nikki & Marcus from Remo Eco Superstore Fenland Haulage & Storage JS Holmes Robin Hine Ivan Cooper Dave Gibbs Monika Mazeikaite Adriana Vysniauskaite Aija Zemdega Citizens Advice Rural Cambs The Trustees of the Elizabeth Wrights Charity The Paragon Charitable Foundation Rotary Club of Wisbech Jayde Darlow Dance Fit with Conan The Black Bear public house Cubico Sustainable Investments The Lodge of United Good Fellowship 809 The Masonic Charitable Foundation Kevin Smith from the Horsefair Shopping Centre Our network of donors, collectors and our network of referral agencies Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Heron Foods, Wisbech Library, and Nationwide Building Society
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|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|**The Wisbech Foodbank**|**1172525**|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
01/04/2022|Period end date
**To**
31/03/2023|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**30,163**
**1,530**
**6,725**
**3,679**
**1,135**
**1,388**
**-**
**-**
**44,620**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,620**
**4,940**
**290**
**854**
**345**
**327**
**1,040**
**18,609**
**867**
**866**
**-**
**28,138**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,138**
**16,482**
**-**
**42,779**
**59,261**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**61,970**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**61,970**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**61,970**
**6,580**
**-**
**451**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,938**
**22,418**
**36,387**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**36,387**
**25,583**
**-**
**-**
**25,583**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**30,163**
**1,530**
**68,695**
**3,679**
**1,135**
**1,388**
**-**
**-**
**106,590**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**106,590**
**11,520**
**290**
**1,305**
**345**
**327**
**1,040**
**18,609**
**867**
**7,804**
**22,418**
**64,525**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**64,525**
**42,065**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**30,163**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**30,163**||**13,094**|
|Gift Aid|**1,530**|||**1,530**||**995**|
|Grants|**6,725**|||**68,695**||**5,200**|
|Trussell Trust|**3,679**|||**3,679**||**2,588**|
|Bank Interest|**1,135**|||**1,135**||**381**|
|SundryIncome|**1,388**|||**1,388**||**213**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**44,620**|||**106,590**||**22,471**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**106,590**||**22,471**|
||||||||
|Salaries & Wages|**4,940**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**11,520**||**12,444**|
|Fees|**290**|||**290**||**620**|
|Admin Expenses|**854**|||**1,305**||**928**|
|Equipment Purchases|**345**|||**345**||**192**|
|Insurance|**327**|||**327**||**321**|
|Premises Costs|**1,040**|||**1,040**||**520**|
|Food Purchases|**18,609**|||**18,609**||**4,121**|
|Carrier Bags|**867**|||**867**||**21**|
|Other Costs|**866**|||**7,804**||**176**|
|Financial Inclusion Project|**-**|||**22,418**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**28,138**|||**64,525**||**19,343**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||**-**|**64,525**||**19,343**|
||||||||
||**16,482**|**25,583**|**-**|
**42,065**||**3,128**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**42,779**|**-**||**42,779**||**-**|
||**59,261**|**25,583**|**-**|**84,844**||**3,128**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
07/01/2024
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|Stewardship
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
NatWest Bank
Redwood Bank
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
S King|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,785**
**-**
**51,274**
**25,583**
**48**
**-**
**154**
**-**
**59,261**
**25,583**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Simon King|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||S King|Simon King|23.5.23|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
07/01/2024
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## 0B **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Charity Name
The Wisbech Food Bank|Charity Name
The Wisbech Food Bank|Charity Name
The Wisbech Food Bank|
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||31 March 2023|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1172525|
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||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 March 2023|||
**Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
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 145(5)(b) of the Act.
1B **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
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.
**Signed:** I Cooper **Date:** 28.4.23 **Name:** Ivan Cooper **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
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**Oct 2018**
**IER**
86 Foxglove Way
March
PE15 8RU
## 3B **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**Oct 2018**
**IER**