## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1[st] April 2023 Period start date To Period end date**
## **Charity name: PACT House Stanley**
## **Charity registration number: 1172612**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Fighting poverty in all its forms**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Foodbank, free hot meals, affordable**
**lunches, social sessions, LGBTQ+**
**support, direct mental health and**
**wellbeing, addiction drop-in, health**
**support, advice and guidance**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The PACT House Trustees confirm that**
**they have considered the Charity**
**Commission’s public benefit guidance**
**and have taken it into account and have**
**had no reasons to departing from.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**PACT House would like to recognise the**
**contribution volunteers make. Once a**
**year to once a day, volunteers are the**
**life blood of our charity and do more**
**than any community could ask to help**
**others.**|
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**PACT House is built around ease of**
**access and wide opening hours, this**
**have proved the perfect way to address**
**people in crisis. Dealing with issues of**
**poverty, providing people with routes to**
**maximise their incomes, take part in**
**training, be better prepared to budget**
**finances, know their rights and**
**entitlements, save energy, batch cook,**
**open up routes to better physical and**
**mental health.**
**Building resilience into a community in**
**order for it to self-support itself.**
**As an anchor and connector**
**organisation bringing local, regional**
**and national strategies into play for the**
**benefit of residents**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21||
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The policy allows for a up to 12 months**
**running costs reserves with a**
**contingency fund allocated for**
**unforeseen circumstances building**
**repairs and**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Grant funding, commissioned contracts,**
**public donations and fundraising**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Rising costs, utilities, rents and staffing**
**overheads, plus the general rise in**
**purchasing materials and resources**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Memorandum and articles of**
**association**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated charity**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are appointed on application**
**and subject to interview via the current**
**trustees and management committee.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|PACT House Stanley|
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|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1172612|
|Charity’s principal address|PACT House
39 Front Street, Stanley, Co. Durham DH90JE|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||David Clarke|Chair|||
||Bryan Fergus
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||Julie Green||||
||Sharon Mcilvaney||||
||Daniel Clark||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**adviser**|||
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
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||Bryan Fergus Irving|Sharon McIlvaney|
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Trustee|Trustee|
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## PACT House
## Cafe • Community Hub • Meeting Space
## **TRUSTEES REPORT 2023-24**
PACT House continues to grow, finding it’s place in the heart of the community as the ‘go to’ place for help and support of any kind. The cost of Living crisis was cemented the robust support base that PACT House provides locally.
Food poverty continues to be a huge issue, running alongside problems with Universal Credit and other benefits issues and low incomes. The cost of living crisis and huge rise in energy costs has impacted PACT House with more families asking for support.
Sunday Socials and Chatty Tuesdays are newer sessions filling most of the PACT House opening hours and providing a 7 day a week support route and providing much needed weekend availability within our community
PACT has extended support for mental health and well-being, finding this area of need rising faster than any other. Think Positive Durham is now in place offering community mental health support, well-being activities and peer support sessions, PACT delivery reaches the whole community, providing an increasing amount of clubs and activities, some purely recreational, some addressing addiction, sexuality, mental health and social interaction.
We are providing 2 free community meals each week, offering hot food and giving a safe, warm and welcoming place for anyone in our community to enjoy.
Fun and Food Sessions have been a great success, providing school holiday activities with food for children and families, these have provided a lifeline for many of the families we work with.
Our foodbank crisis packs are supplemented by daily end of life / fresh food items that we are encouraging people to access as a way of combating food waste and not just for those facing food poverty.
The PACT House Trustees confirm that they have considered the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance and have taken it into account, and have had no reasons to depart from the guidance.
Dave, Sharon, Danny, Julie and Bryan - Trustees
PACT House: 39 Front Street, Stanley DH90JE Charity Number: 172612
Trustees: David Clarke, Sharon McIlvaney, Bryan Irving, Danny Clark and Julie Green PACT House operates primarily with volunteers, governed by five trustees plus a management committee of volunteers, local community activists and councillors.
Application for trustees is by telephone / email and arranged interview.
@PACTHouseStanley 39 Front Street, Stanley DH9 0JE pacthousestanley@outlook.com
## PACT House
Cafe • Community Hub • Meeting Space
@PACTHouseStanley 39 Front Street, Stanley DH9 0JE pacthousestanley@outlook.com
## **PACT House**
## **Financial Statement as at 31 March 2024**
|Income|£||Expenditure|£|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations|5,444.17||Bank Charges|238.50|
|DCC|61,781.00||Insurance|756.00|
|CDCF|47,425.63||Electricity|10,985.76|
|Stanley Events|11,020.00||Water Rates|778.83|
|Misc Grant Funding|15,805.00||Telephone & IT|3,968.29|
|Home Group MGT Ltd|54,574.93||Repairs and Maintenance|3,308.48|
|Pioneering Care Partnership|7,389.60||Salaries|117,194.05|
|Room Hire|4,000.00||Supplies and Community Support|39,555.94|
|Buffet and Café Income|8,194.22||Co-ordinator|27,300.00|
||||Motor Expenses|2,908.07|
||||Projects and Activities|26,676.98|
||||Printing & Stationery|717.09|
||||Counsellors Fees|14,285.00|
||||Room Hire|500.00|
||||Radio Project|396.85|
||||Fareshare|1,460.00|
||||Home Group Manangement Fee|2,554.69|
||||Sundries|37.51|
|Total|215,634.55||Total|253,622.04|
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|Signed|||Balance b/f 1/4/2023|164,177.69|
||||Income|215,634.55|
||||Expenditure|253,622.04|
|Print|||Total|126,190.20|
||||Balance at Bank 31/03/2024|125,890.20|
|Signed|||Cash in Hand 31/03/2024|300.00|
||||Balance 31/03/2024|126,190.20|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** PACT House Stanley **On accounts for the year** March 2024 **Charity no** 1172612 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2024
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**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:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Date:** 21/02/2025 **Signed: Name:** Angela Hanson **Relevant professional** ATA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** c/o 39 Front Street, Stanley DH90JE
**October 2018**
1
**IER**
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight 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** .
N/A
**October 2018**
2
**IER**