## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] May 2023 Period start date To 30[th] April 2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name: PATH Torbay**
## **Charity registration number: 1173039**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The relief of poverty in Torbay, among**
**people who are homeless, or may soon**
**be homeless, or who are inadequately**
**housed, by providing support and advice**
**regarding accommodation and essential**
**items such as food, facilities and**
**essentials for hygiene and other basic**
**needs, and services to individuals or**
**charities and other organisations working**
**to prevent or relieve poverty.**|
|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|**PATH continues to work with Torbay**
**Food Alliance and the Torbay Helpline to**
**provide emergency food parcels to those**
**in crisis within the bay. The premises in**
**Union Street is open 5 days a week for**
**takeaway packed lunches, clothing,**
**hygiene products & personal equipment**
**eg sleeping bags, tents etc. Service users**
**can also find someone to talk to, kind and**
**gentle advice and advocacy and**
**signposting to statutory services.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**As seven new trustees had just been**
**appointed in the month prior to this**
**accounting period there was a period of**
**handover of duties and a steep learning**
**curve for some. However, with renewed**
**enthusiasm, all trustees have taken their**
**new roles very seriously and complied**
**with their duty to have due regard to the**
**Commission’s public benefit guide.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference|
|---|---|
||Para 1.38|
|Policy on grant making||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|---|---|---|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**PATH is managed and operated solely by**
**volunteers, without whom nothing would**
**have been achieved.**|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|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|**Operating 5 days a week, including over**
**bank holidays, PATH secured Fair Share**
**funding for the food bank through**
**membership of Torbay Food Alliance;**
**raised additional funding through**
**individual and corporate donations and**
**grants; collected end of day & public**
**donations from a number of**
**supermarkets and food outlets.**
**As a drop in service, PATH provides**
**invaluable support to people of a wide**
**variety of backgrounds who are facing**
**homelessness and/or food poverty.**
**Several of the service users also**
**volunteer at the centre providing them**
**with support, a safe space and a sense of**
**value within the community. PATH**
**operates solely on volunteers with no**
**paid staff.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
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**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The financial position at the end of the**
**period was good with £49,299 held in the**
**bank. There was greater expenditure than**
**usual during this financial period due to**
**essential work being carried out within**
**the centre to keep it compliant with food**
**and hygiene regulations. Successful**
**grant applications as well as**
**contributions from National Lottery funds**
**have helped a great deal with the**
**additional expenditure.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The Charity should hold in reserve,**
**sufficient funds to support its**
**commitments (rent, utilities etc) for at**
**least six months which equates to around**
**£20,000.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£49,299**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **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||
|---|---|---|
|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||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**|
|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|**Election**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
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|PATH Torbay|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|PATH|
|Registered charity number|1173039|
|Charity’s principal address|172 Union Street
Torquay
TQ2 5QP|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Kath Friedrich|Chair|||
||PollyJurksaitis|Treasurer / Secretary|||
||Ann Jenkins|Treasurer|||
||Jo Castle|Safeguarding|||
||Andrew Price|Safeguarding|||
||Christine Hannuth-
Savill||||
||GaryBusbey||||
||Mark Money||||
||Jo Money||||
||Ann Kempson||01.05.23 – 09.01.24||
||Rebecca Gingell||19.06.23 -present||
||KirstyCainey||19.06.23 – 17.10.23||
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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 held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for 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 adviser Name Address**
**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**
|**Signed** **on behalf of the**
**harity’s trustees**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|_Kath Friedrich_|_Polly Jurksaitis_|
||Katherine Friedrich|Polly Jurksaitis (Treasurer)|
||Chair||
||12.02.2025||
**1173039**
## CHARITY COMMISSION **PATH Torbay**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
## **CC16a**
||**For the period**
**from**|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01-May-23|**To**|Period end date
30-Apr-24||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**|
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||
|Grants||**68,042**|**-**|**-**|**68,042**|**26,004**|
|Torbay Lottery||**1,005**|**-**|**-**|**1,005**|**1,301**|
|Donations from Individuals & Companie||**21,465**|**-**|**-**|**21,465**|**10,463**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|_(Gross income for AR)_|**90,512**|**-**|**-**|**90,512**|**37,768**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||
|**(see table).**|||||||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**|**90,512**||**-**|**-**|**90,512**|**37,768**|
|**A3 Payments**|||||||
|Food & drink||**23,356**|**-**|**-**|**23,356**|**19,290**|
|Clothing & Personal equipment||**25**|**-**|**-**|**25**|**109**|
|Temporary Accomodation||**335**|**-**|**-**|**335**|**5,590**|
|Transport & fuel||**2,257**|**-**|**-**|**2,257**|**2,425**|
|PATH equipment & consumables||**6,009**|**-**|**-**|**6,009**|**4,006**|
|Waste Management||**3,712**|**-**|**-**|**3,712**|**4,223**|
|Premises costs inc Storage||**31,353**|**-**|**-**|**31,353**|**29,928**|
|Admin & training||**307**|**-**|**-**|**307**|**646**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**||**67,354**|**-**|**-**|**67,354**|**66,217**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total payments_**|**67,354**||**-**|**-**|**67,354**|**66,217**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**23,158**|**23,158**|**-**|**-**|**23,158**|**-28,449**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**26,452**|**26,452**|**-**|**-**|**26,451**|**54,900**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**49,610**|**49,610**|**-**|**-**|**49,610**|**26,451**|
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||
|||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
|**Categories**|**Details**|||**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|RBS balance|||**49,299**|**-**|**-**|
Cash in Hand
||Ch i Hd||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||as n an|**311**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**|**49,610**|**-**|**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK|OK|OK|
|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
|||**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
||**Details**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|||**-**|**-**|
|**charity’s own use**|||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
|||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**|**When due**|
||**Details**|**liability relates**|**(optional)**|**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print|Name|Date of
approval|
||_Kath Friedrich_|Kath Friedrich||27-Feb-25|
||_Polly Jurksaitis_|Polly Jurksaitis|||
|||||**27-Feb-25**|
Internal
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** P.A.T.H Torbay **On accounts for the year** 30/04/2024 **Charity no** 1173039 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 (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 **30/04/2024** .
- **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.
**Date:** 26/02/2025
**Signed: Name:** Steven Paul Scott ~~Cs~~ **Relevant professional** ACA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 13 Cromwell Road Ascot Berkshire SL5 9DG
**October 2018**
1
**IER**
Internal
**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** .
**October 2018**
2
**IER**