## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 06/04/2023 Period start date To 05/04/2024 Period end date** **Charity name: Fallowfield and Withington Foodbank** ## **Charity registration number: 1173202** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve persons in Fallowfield**
**a n d W i t h i n g t o n a n d t h e**
**surrounding area that are in**
**financial hardship.**| |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|**Provide relief by:**
**a) providing emergency food,**
**essential toiletries, and household**
**items to individuals and families in**
**need and for distribution by**
**charities or other organisations**
**working to prevent or relieve**
**poverty**
**Collecting and distributing food**
**donated by the public**
**Preparing “food parcels”**
**Engaging with referred clients,**
**providing them with signposting to**
**other agencies.**
**Supporting community cooking**
**projects and Organsing residents in**
**temporary accommodation.**
**Liaison with local schools to provide**
**targeted help to pupils in need.**
**Provide in house budgeting and**
**financial inclusion support via**
**Citizens Advice.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Our trustees have had regard to**
**the Charity Commission’s**
**guidance on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/a**| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/a**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers support in warehousing,**
**donation collections and processing,**
**operating our foodbank sessions and on**
**our Organising and community outreach**
**programmes.**| ## **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|**From April 2023 to April 2024 the**
**charity provided over 2405 emergency**
**food parcels supporting 5754 people to**
**overcome immediate food poverty.**
**Uniform grants were again provided to**
**the local Primary Schools as well as**
**and expanded provision for our**
**‘Holiday Hunger’ project.**
**15,989 kg of food/toiletries have been**
**donated, collected, sorted and stored,**
**showing the generosity of the local**
**community and their desire to help**
**their neighbours during these difficult**
**times.**
**29,632 kg of food/toiletries have been**
**distributed.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**While we have no targets set for service**
**usage we are pleased to to have been**
**able to consistently provide quality**
**support throughout the year. Overall**
**demand for the services has increased**
**significantly.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We are pleased to note that we have**
**received £48,742 of unrestricted**
**donations from 2023 to 2024. This has**
**supported our foodbank in the current**
**calendar year.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/a**| |---|---|---| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Against a backdrop of steeply rising**
**demand the we have maintained a**
**strong balance sheet. Our total funds**
**for the end of year 2024, 80,603 (£), was**
**a small decrease from the previous year**
**and represents a relatively secure**
**overall balance reflective of the rising**
**demand and for implementing our**
**ongoing services.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Sufficient funds have been ring fenced**
**to enable to Foodbank to keep**
**operating for up to 6 months if there is a**
**significant reduction in donations and**
**grants.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/a**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/a**| ## **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|**- Donations from individuals and local**
**organisations**
**- Grants awarded by the Trussell Trust**
**- Grant awarded by the Local Authority**
**and subsidiaries.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/a**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Principal risks include:**
**Significant and unsustainable increases**
**in foodbank demand.**
**Sudden loss of staff impacting day-to-**
**day and medium term operations.**| **N/a** Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Foundation**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**Apart from the first charity trustees,**
**every trustee must be appointed for a**
**term of three years by a resolution**
**passed at a properly convened meeting**
**of the charity trustees.**
**In selecting individuals for appointment**
**as charity trustees, the charity trustees**
**must have regard to the skills,**
**knowledge and experience needed for**
**the effective administration of the CIO.**| ## **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|**N/a**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Charity is a CIO. It is affiliated with the**
**Trussell Trust network of foodbanks.**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**Several of our trustees our City**
**Councillors. Their interests are know and**
**declared at each Trustee meeting.**| |Other||**N/a**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** ||Charity name
Fallowfield and Withington Foodbank
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number
1173202
Charity’s principal address
c/o Union Chapel,
2b Wellington
Road, Fallowfield,
Manchester,
M14 6EQ| |---|---| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1
2
3
4
5
6
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8
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20|Linda Ann
Mary Foley|||| ||Claire Crawley|||| ||Simon Nichol|Chair||| ||Rachel Watson|||| ||Alice Niamh
Kennedy|||| ||Rebecca
Chambers|||| ||Rebecca
Kennedy|||| ||David Colin
Walker|Treasurer||| ||Neelam
Mehmood|||| ||Max Turton|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/a** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| **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 Name Address 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** |||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Charity Name**|||||**No(if any)**|||**CC16a**| |||**Fallowfield and Withington Food Bank**|||||1173202|||| |||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| |||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| |||||4/1/23||||3/30/24||| |||||||||||| ||**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|**3,411**||**-**||**-**||**3,411**||**3,500**| ||Regular donations|**6,099**||**-**||**-**||**6,099**||**6,737**| ||Other donations|**27,489**||**6,665**||**-**||**34,154**||**31,901**| ||Trussel Trust|**11,743**||**27,350**||**-**||**39,093**||**45,479**| |||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**48,742**||**34,015**||**-**||**82,757**||**87,617**| |||||||||||| ||**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| |||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |||||||||||| ||**_Total receipts_ **|
**48,742**||**34,015**||**- 0**||**82,757**||**87,617**| |||||||||||| ||**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||Food/toiletries purchases|**27,102**||**-**||**-**||**27,102**||**4,990**| ||Equipment|**1,436**||**6,663**||**-**||**8,099**||**391**| ||Insurance/Fees|**982**||**-**||**-**||**982**||**1,299**| ||Venue costs|**900**||**-**||**-**||**900**||**2,950**| ||Salary costs|**14,383**||**41,814**||**-**||**56,197**||**57,192**| ||Training|**834**||**-**||**-**||**834**||**320**| ||Expenses|**346**||**-**||**-**||**346**||**184**| ||Goods transport|**1,440**||**-**||**-**||**1,440**||**1,800**| ||Schools project|||||||||**3,076**| ||Other costs|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**233**| ||**_Sub total_ **|
**47,423**||**48,477**||**-**||**95,900**||**72,435**| |||||||||||| ||**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||| |||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |||||||||||| ||**_Totalpayments_ **|
**47,423**||**48,477**||**- 0**||**95,900**||**72,435**| |||||||||||| ||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**1,319**||**-**
**14,462**||**-**||**-**
**13,143**||**15,182**| ||**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**62,232**||**31,514**||**-**||**93,746**||**78,563**| ||**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**63,551**||**17,052**||**-**||**80,603**||**93,745**| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| ||**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||| ||**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| ||**B1 Cash funds**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**_Total cash funds_**||||**63,551**||**17,052**||**-**| |||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK| |||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**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**|Shelving||||||**1,920**||**-**| |||Secure store||||||**1,440**||**-**| |||Computer/phone||||||**1,440**||**-**| |||Bike transporter||||||**6,500**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||| |||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| |||||||||**-**||| |||||||||**-**||| |||||||||**-**||| |||||||||**-**||| |||||||||||| ||Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Roport to tho trustses Fallowfield and Withington Food Bank On accounts for the yoar ended 3010312024 Charity no (if any) 1173202 Set out on pages I report to the trustees <)n my examination of the accounts of the above charty {Ihe Trust") for the year ended 3010312024. Rasponsibilitie$ and ba818 of report As the ¢harty'S trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of the Chari(ies Act 2011 1.the Actl. l ￿pOrt in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carned out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection V￿th the examinalion tot1￿ -dBeIo￿￿vth1Ch gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect." the accounting records V￿re not kept in a¢¢ordan¢e with section 130 of the Charrties Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records" or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the fom and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue 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 vthich attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: ¥L_ Date: 2810112025 Name: Tristan Robinson Relevant professional qualification(s) or body ICAEWACA ts'me and exam qualified,. pending submission and admission to full membership IER Oct 2018 (if any): Address: 49 Hopton Wood Way, Buxton, SK17 9GT Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief dotails of any items that the examinorwi8hes to di8cIoso. NIA IER Oct 2018