## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023** ## **Charity name: Lincoln Community Larder Charity registration number: 1175176** ## **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 Lincoln and the
surrounding area by the provision of basic
nutritious food and other basic amenities.| |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|LCL provides food parcels for people who
need short-term help to make ends meet.
Frontline professionals, who are best
placed to identify people in need, refer
them to LCL via an online system, so food
parcels can be collected at one of LCL’s
distribution centres;

YMCA Annexe, Lincoln

St John the Baptist Parish Church Hall,
Lincoln

St Giles Methodist Church, Lincoln

St Mary's Church, Welton

Martin Village Hall, Martin

All Saints Church, Wragby
The size of parcels is increased for families
based on the number of individuals in
need. In some special cases LCL goes
beyond the basic food parcel, supporting
people with other essential items (e.g.,
toiletries and fuel vouchers for cooking).
LCL also caters for those suffering from
illness or special needs and provides
individual food parcels to meet such
referral requests.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|In setting our objectives and planning our
activities the LCL trustees have given
serious consideration to the Charity
Commission’s general guidance on public
benefit and all its activities are undertaken
to further its charitable purposes for the
public benefit.| ## **Additional information** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|When finances allow, LCL financially
supports projects, in Lincoln and
surrounding areas, designed to relieve food
poverty, such as the Food in School
Holidays (FiSH) project.| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The volunteer team, which includes the
Trustees, has continued to grow and in
some cases take on additional
responsibilities. Without their dedication,
LCL could not function as it does.
The Trustees are very grateful to all the
volunteers, in the warehouse and the
distribution centres, for their enormous
contribution helping to relieve food poverty
in Lincoln and the surrounding area.| |Other||LCL is a member of the Greater
Lincolnshire Food Partnership which is a
partnership of organisations across Greater
Lincolnshire working together for greener,
fairer and healthier food for all, through
sustainable local action.
Under the Partnership, LCL has been an
active member of an Emergency Response
Group, made up of the main foodbanks in
Lincoln. Together, they operate a joint on-
line referral system which enables people
in need to collect food parcels from their
nearest distribution centre.| ## **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|The main achievements during this period
of operation were as follows:

Operating a warehouse facility for
storage of donated food and for packing
food parcels;

Managing over 50 volunteers who
serve each week in LCL's activities;

Attracting financial support from
individuals and organisations who make
cash donations and grants to
supplement the food donations;

Maintaining contact with approved
agencies in the Lincoln area with whom
the LCL partners to support those in
financial crisis;

Collecting donated items of food from
individuals, schools and commercial
organisations.

Distributing food parcels to individuals
and family groups in crisis situations.
Between April 2022 and March 2023, LCL
distributed 8,090 food parcels of which
5,574 were to adults and 2,516 were to
children.
In addition to food parcels, LCL distributed
£6,228 worth of fruit and vegetable
vouchers, £6,809 worth of energy vouchers
to enable food to be cooked, and £1,148
worth of Self-heating meals for the
Homeless or those without cooking
facilities.| ## **Additional information** |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|The LCL Business Plan sets out the
Trustees' objectives which are reviewed
annually. These are to:

ensure thelong-term sustainabilityof
our service to the community

maintain our individual identity so as
not to be seen as part of another
service

maintain a city centre presence for our
main distribution site

ensure warehousing is always
available

provide more distribution centres in
areas of need

increase relationships with other
organisations working to challenge food
poverty

help solve clients’ long-term issues - by
referral to other organisations

promote the idea of healthy eating

financially support other organisations
in providing food for children
These high-level objectives are
underpinned by strategies and goals
designed to assist in measuring
achievements against objectives.
The Trustees are very satisfied that these
objectives continue to be met.| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|One of LCL’s objectives was “to ensure the
long-term sustainabilityof our service to the
community” and for the year 2022-2023 the
goals included:

if available, apply for grant aid for both
core and one-off funds at least twice a
year

attract at least 6 regular donors per
annum by introducing a patronage
scheme
LCL has been successful in attracting
funds through online fundraising services,
such as Just Giving, Local Giving and
receiving Gift Aid. The proposed patronage
scheme was not required during the year
due to the receipt of a substantial legacy.| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Net of Receipts/(Payments) at the end of
the financial year were -£8,885. After
deducting reserves, at 31stMarch 2023 the
bank balance was £98,520.82| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The LCL Trustees seek to maintain
adequate reserves so as to ensure all
reasonable day to day running costs can be
met as and when they fall due, recognising
the basic financial principle that the
Trustees are responsible for ensuring that
solvency is maintained.
“Adequate reserves” are deemed to be
sufficient funding for 12 months of normal
operational expenditure plus annual
warehouse rental.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|This has been set at £30,000| ## **Additional information** |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|In the period April 2022-March 2023,
financial donations totalled £602,313.47,
which included a substantial legacy of
£524,898.
Handled responsibly and carefully, these
monies can potentially help create a stable
and sustainable financial platform for the
charity, which will underpin its ability to
strengthen its operations in future years.
We are currently taking professional advice
in relation to the legacy.
In addition, food and other non-monetary
items were gifted to LCL from numerous
sources, with an estimated value in excess
of £8,700| |---|---|---| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The principal risk facing LCL is the
continuation of the huge increase in
demand for its services, due to rises in the
cost of living.
As the charity is run entirely by volunteers,
the increase in demand will need to be met
by a corresponding increase in volunteers.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation
(Foundation)| |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 four
years by a resolution passed at a properly
convened meeting of the charity trustees.
In selecting individuals for appointment as
charity trustees, the trustees must have
regard to the skills, knowledge and
experience needed for the effective
administration of the CIO.| |**Additional information**||| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|Each new charity trustee, on or before his
or her first appointment receives:
(a) a copy of the current version of LCL’s
constitution
(b) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’
Annual Report and Statement of Accounts
(c) a copy of the Charity Commissions
Guidance, “The essential trustee: what you
need to know, what you need to do.”
Trustees also receive briefings, updates
and guidance issued by the Charity
Commission (e.g., the 5-minute guides for
charity trustees).| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The charity is an independent organisation
managed by a voluntary board of trustees
and run entirely by volunteers.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|LCL is a member of the Greater
Lincolnshire Food Partnership, as
described above under the heading,
“Objectives and Activities” (Other).| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Lincoln Community Larder| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|n/a| |Registered charity number|1175176| |Charity’s principal address|YMCA Annexe
Rosemary Lane
Lincoln LN2 5AR| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13|**Trustee name**|**Office**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mr Alan Wilson|Chair||| ||Mrs Karen Mayor|Treasurer||| ||Mrs Viv Bennett|Secretary||| ||Mrs Dawn Nightingale|||| ||Mrs Joan Bennett|||| ||Mr Dave Pemberton|||| ||Mrs Jennifer
Pemberton|||| ||Mrs WendyMason|||| ||Ms MandyLaurence|||| ||Mr HarryCampbell|||| ||Miss Sophie Wilesmith||1/04/22 -31/07/22|| ||Mr Neil Rhodes||15/2/23 – 31/3/23|| ||Mrs CaySherlock||15/2/23 – 31/3/23|| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members** Mrs Dawn Nightingale – Larder Co-ordinator ## **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**||| |---|---|---| |||| ||Alan Wilson|Karen Mayor
Treasurer| |||| ||Chair|| |||| |||| **Lincoln Community Larder No (if any) 1175176** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/22 31/03/23 |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Uid**|**Rid**|**Ed**||| |**A1 Receipts**
Grants & Donations
**48,910**
Legacyof DorothyChambers
**524,898**
Refunds
**1**
HMRC Gift Aid
**-**
Donations via Just Giving
**7,537**
Donations via Local Giving
**18,468**
Western Power Grant
**-**
Interest on Deposit Account
**3,147**
**602,961**
**-**
**-**
~~**_Sub total_**~~**-**
**_Total receipts_ 602,961**
**nrestrcte**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
~~**_Sub total_**~~~~_(Gross income for AR)_~~
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**-**
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**estrcte**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**nowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**48,910**
**524,898**
**1**
**-**
**7,537**
**18,468**
**2,500**
**3,147**
**605,461**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**605,461**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**48,910**|**20,082**| ||||**524,898**|**-**| ||||**1**|**21**| ||||**-**|**2,136**| ||||**7,537**|**8,252**| ||||**18,468**|**12,225**| ||||**2,500**|**-**| ||||**3,147**|**-**| ||||**605,461**|**42,716**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| ||**2,500**|**-**|**605,461**|**42,716**| |**A3 Payments**
Food Purchases
**55,095**
Volunteer Expenses
**958**
Insurance
**301**
Admin/Runningcosts
**2,345**
Sundry/Miscellaneous Payments
**450**
Rent for Warehouse
**16,136**
EnergyVouchers
**7,929**
Purchase of Fridge Freezers
**588**
**_Sub total_** **83,802**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_** **-**
**_Total payments_ 83,802**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**519,159**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**|**A3 Payments**
Food Purchases
**55,095**
Volunteer Expenses
**958**
Insurance
**301**
Admin/Runningcosts
**2,345**
Sundry/Miscellaneous Payments
**450**
Rent for Warehouse
**16,136**
EnergyVouchers
**7,929**
Purchase of Fridge Freezers
**588**
**_Sub total_** **83,802**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_** **-**
**_Total payments_ 83,802**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**519,159**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**|**A3 Payments**
Food Purchases
**55,095**
Volunteer Expenses
**958**
Insurance
**301**
Admin/Runningcosts
**2,345**
Sundry/Miscellaneous Payments
**450**
Rent for Warehouse
**16,136**
EnergyVouchers
**7,929**
Purchase of Fridge Freezers
**588**
**_Sub total_** **83,802**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_** **-**
**_Total payments_ 83,802**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**519,159**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**|**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**-**|**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**-**||**57,595**
**958**
**301**
**2,345**
**450**
**16,136**
**7,929**
**588**
**-**
**86,302**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**86,302**
**519,159**
**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**57,595**|**26,496**| |||||||**958**|**682**| |||||||**301**|**299**| |||||||**2,345**|**1,743**| |||||||**450**|**9,764**| |||||||**16,136**|**6,607**| |||||||**7,929**|**5,380**| |||||||**588**|**-**| |||||||**-**|**-**| |||||||**86,302**|**50,971**| ||||||||| ||||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| |||||||**-**|| |||||||**-**|**-**| ||||||||| ||||||**-**|**86,302**|**50,971**| ||||||||| ||**519,159**||**-**||**-**|**519,159**|**- 8,255**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**519,159**||**-**||**-**||**519,159**||**- 8,255**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
Deposit Account Interest
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**3,147**
**-**
**-**
**3,147**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**##
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| ||**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
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**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Date of
Signed by one or two trustees on Signature Print Name
approval
Alan Wilson
Karen Anne Mayor
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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts ••• Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance wth 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 carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below") 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 Independent examiner's statement I have no concems 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. Signed: Date: zs Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: AU LZ NJLI LI NJCL)i IER October 2018