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2024-03-31-accounts

Elshaddai My Helper

Charity registration number: 1173678

Annual Trustees Report: For the year ended 31st of March 2024

Table of content:

Charity Name : Elshaddai My Helper

Registered Charity No : 1173678

Registered Office : 1 Morris Court, Waltham Abbey, EN9 3DX

Reference and Administrative details

Report of the Trustees includes activities during the year ended 31st of March 2024

Reference and Administrative details

TRUSTEES:

Mrs Beatrice O Fasoranti

Mrs Esther Okon Williams

Mrs Adefunke Adetunji Huntley

Mrs Moji Felicia Malomo

Mrs Morenike Amudoaghan

The Trustees of the charity present their annual report and financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31st March 2023. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of the statements of Recommended Practice (SORP) ‘Accounting and reporting by charities’ issued in March 2005 in preparing the report and financial statement of the charity.

Structure, Governance and Management

Elshaddai My Helper is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation formed on 5th July 2017 and has now commence active operation.

The charity is controlled by its governing document and by a board of trustees. Trustees are appointed on the basis of the contribution that they will make to the governance of the organisation and the skills that they will contribute. They are provided with the copies of the Charity Commissions’ guidance to Trustees and the constitution.

Objectives, activities, and achievements:

The objectives for which the charity is established as set out in its governing documents are:

Financial Review:

Donations are from trustee members, friends, and families. In addition, to the financial donation, trustees’ members and friends also contributed goods (snacks, toiletries, socks, etc.) for the outreach and Christmas presents. Christian Kitchen (CK) also provides starters soup.

Example 1: General Update: 22nd of July 2023 present to the Trustees:

Finance : Balance as @ 22nd of July 2023 (no outstanding bills): £2265.15.

Expenditure items includes:

Food, Desserts: puff puff/ cake, Bread, Drinks/water: Elshaddai

Soup: Christian Kitchen

Specific financial contribution : Socks, Toiletries

Outreach : Presently @ Walthamstow under the umbrella of Christian Kitchen.

*Prepacked food by the caterer: ongoing.

*Soup: Prepacked at the kitchen via C/K

*Water/drinks: served as individual.

*Puff-Puff: prepacked by the caterer

*Bread: pre packed

*Cutleries: served with food.

Specific tasks

*Servers : see regulars volunteers: tasks are distributed on the day.

*Shopping/packing: B

*Transportation of items: CK/B

Friends /Family interest* :

Various people have expressed interest to support: such as A & friends: promised fulfilled

Awaiting others to action their interest.

AOB :General

Lunching: to be discussed further

Grant application To be revisited

Stratford/Hackney: Pending - subject to availability of manpower

Clothes distribution: Pending - subject to availability of manpower.

■To restart breakfast packs for Stratford

■Start meals in Hackney: To be revisited

■Launch the charity in 2025 tbc.

Example of Saturday Outreach: Outreach summary Report :

Walthamstow Outreach. 27th January 2024.*

* Specific Funding by*

Specific Task*

*Driver: Mr W

Jollof Rice/chicken/mixed veg (paid Caterer) ** Chef Soup : M CK

Servers

*Goodies/puff puff/ bread bags' Distribution: A

*Chocolates/Sanitizers: B

Background work for the Outreach

Outcomes

~ we gave out 46 take away food( including few second.

□Presentation of food/drinks/ fruits/ Cholate sweets.

Example :Walthamstow Outreach. 24th Feb 2024.

Specific Funding by

Jollof Rice/chicken/Dessert: Elshaddai

*Water : M

*Bread : Elshaddai

*Soup: CK

* SPECIFIC TASKS*

*Driver: Mr W

Jollof Rice/chicken/mixed veg (paid Caterer) ** Chef

*Soup : M CK

*Packs: Food/ desserts: B

*Drinks Distribution: Mr W.

*Goodies: not serve this month due to availability of transportation.

Clothes Distribution :not serve this month

Background work for the Outreach** *

*Food : Chef

*Clothes Collection: N/A

*Soup : M [ CK]

Outcomes

~ we gave out 47 take away food( including few second).

Activities of the charity:

Walthamstow: Once a month: We use CK Mobile van to serve three course meals, toiletries, socks, and Christmas gifts.

Stratford : (once a month) Suspended.

Volunteers : During this financial year, apart from the 2 Trustee members, we also had about two volunteers (stable between 2-4 on each night)

Service users : 30-46 adults that presents with homelessness, including rough sleepers (males and females). However, some service users collect food/packs for their friends and family members. However, numbers fluctuate.

Snacks/toiletries/mugs, etc were also donated by some volunteers work colleagues.

few bags were sent to by a colleagues parent.

Pictures of Christmas snacks/gift not available.

Building/Venue:

Walthamstow: The charity does not have its own building; however, we serve the service users under the umbrella of Christian Kitchen once a month and uses its Mobile van and Church Hall to arrange prepared meals and one of the trustees houses to do the packing of the variety’s bags. Soup is prepared by the CK volunteer and coordinator.

Stratford: Suspended.

Trustees Responsibility : Trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report, discussing any concern, and the financial statement, including keeping proper accounting records.

Approved by the board on of 22nd January 2025

Signed on Behalf of the Trustees of Elshaddai My Helper

Mrs Beatrice O Fasoranti

Trustee.