Registered charity number: 1175291
Annual Report of the Charity’s activities and accounts
For the year 1[st] October 2022 to 30[th] September 2023
Donnington Partnership Charity No. 1175291
Charity activities for the year ending 30[th] September 2023
Contents
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| 1. Reference and administration details | 1 - 2 |
| 2. Chair of the Trustees report | 3 |
| 3. Treasurer’s report | 4 |
| 4. Independent examiners report | 5 |
| 5. Receipts andpayments | 6-9 |
Donnington Partnership Charitable Trust Charity No. 1175291
Charity name: Donnington Partnership CIO Registered charity number: 1175291 Charity’s principal address: Donnington Community Hub, St Matthews Road, Donnington Wood, Telford TF2 7PR
Names of the trustees:
Rose Gregory, Trustee Vice-chair Liz Rees, Trustee Jane Hassall, Trustee Heather Cooper Trustee Sharon Watkins, Trustee Deb Wilding Trustee Mas Sowak Trustee Ian Harvey Trustee
Structure, governance and management
Donnington Partnership is a registered charity with 9 trustees who have overall responsibility for the Partnership’s business. Trustees are elected each year at the Donnington Partnership Annual General Meeting.
The organisation was established in 1997, became a registered charity on 28[th] February 2011, changed to a CIO in 2017 and is governed by a constitution dated 2017.
Charity objectives and activities:
The Charity’s objects are to promote such charitable purposes for the benefit of the inhabitants of Donnington Telford and Wrekin as the trustees shall determine, including the advancement of education, relief of poverty and the preservation and protection of good health.
The charity works closely with a locally organisations who meet with the trustees to help address local issues and help to meet the charity’s objects through the following ways:
1. The Charity runs a community centre which provides social, learning and training opportunities to the public and local residents.
2. The charity provides a volunteer managed community café; a successful community café with a team of volunteers, three employed positions. The cafe provides affordable healthy meals in the community hub daily and a meal delivery service to vulnerable individuals and older people’s clubs in the local area. The café volunteers receive valuable skills and confidence-building training along with work-based experience and it has supported many people back into employment through this route. The café also provides a meal delivery service, a buffet catering service and hosts food taster promotion events for the local community to try different types of food.
3. The charity provides a volunteer-led tool lending library; a small team of 2 volunteers look after a range of garden tools at the local community centre which can be hired by residents for a small charge. The library is well-used throughout spring and summer by residents. The Charity also looks after the local community Orchard with 3 volunteers.
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4. Organises other ad-hoc provision/ facilities as and when need arises, which is directed by the needs of local groups.
5. Throughout the year the Donnington Partnership also host several meetings and or events that are aimed to encourage and stimulate community engagement and involvement; a community engagement meeting is organised every 6 months, which is an open public meeting for all residents and people working in and around Donnington to attend.
6. The Charity has a fortnightly youth club run by volunteers, and all try to encourage other members of the community to take part.
7. The charity seeks and applies to external funding bodies, where appropriate, to support its charitable aims. It has a strong history of being very successful in obtaining grant funding and working with partner agencies to deliver projects and activities that have helped to address issues, provided improvements to services and facilities in the community and strengthened local community engagement.
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Donnington Partnership Annual General Meeting Chair of the Trustees report 2022-2023
Chairs Report 2023
The Centre is getting busier and room hire is now at pre – covid level, I would like to thank the Staff for all their hard work, and Richard for is work in getting in grants to support the local community.
We have had a busy year, we celebrated the Kings Coronation with the children painting planters at the Orchard, with Music and free Ice creams, the food was coronation Quiche and Trifle
The orchard volunteer has built a greenhouse and cleared more space for soft fruit, later in the year we ran some pruning sessions and started laying matting for wheelchair use.
The kitchen has new cooks and a new assistant café Manager.
The Youth club hired 2 buses for children and Parents to go Barmouth for the day and we hope this may become an annual event if we can get the funding. They also provide craft session and themed discos. We had a trip to Twycross zoo and Apley woods.
We attended the Donnington & Muxton Parish Council Christmas Lights switch on, this was very successful for fund raising, and advertising the events and courses taken place at the hub.
The Centre Manager secured some funding to run a warm hub over the winter months, this has proved very popular with lots of people attending the centre. He has also got some money for a community fridge where people can get free food this started in early 2023, there is also funding for a cooking course to show people how to cook some of the items that are in the community fridge.
The centre now has 4 charging points for electric cars, which we hope will help residents.
The tools form the tool library have been deployed down at the orchard, and the remaining monies transferred to the environment fund.
We joined with stronger safety communities to have a picnic and games day at the bell recreation ground.
We still hold some bingo sessions throughout the year at the request of centre users.
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DONNINGTON PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST AGM 19/03/24
Treasurers Report for Financial Year Ending 30[th] September 2023
The financial statements for this year show an operating deficit from last year, due to spending the grant money.
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Receipts
Overall receipts for the year were £114,477.00. a) The partnership received several grants during this financial year.
b) The Community Café received income of £45,160. during this financial year.
c) Grants Peoples Lottery £10,000 Couch to 5k £2,000. Warm Hub £10,000
Payments
Total payments for the year were £134.811.
Café expenditure totalled £61,239. The café did make profit this year due the purchasing of new equipment.
Cash Reserves
As at 30[th] September 2023 the balance of the current account stood at £60,625.99. In addition to this there is a further £28,035.56 held in an instant savings account, and we have put £20,000 into a 32day account.
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Mas Sowak Treasurer
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| SectionA Receiptsand | SectionA Receiptsand | payments | payments | ||||||
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| Unrestricted funds tothe nearest £ |
Restricted funds tothenearest£ |
Endowment funds tothenearest£ |
Totalfunds tothenearest£ |
Last year tothenearest£ |
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| A1Receipts CafeIncome hungerkids Interest evironment |
45,160 150 255 3,065 |
45,160 150 255 3,065 - |
42,997 5,840 7 1,000 6,750 |
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| supportingpeoplegrant | 10,553 | ||||||||
| covidsupport energize |
25 | 25 | 21,500 | ||||||
| minibusgrant couchto5k beactive/sportengland fundraising/grant |
2,740 1,797 13,125 |
2,740 1,797 13,125 |
200 13,487 8,512 1,600 |
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| MusicalMoversIncome CommunityHub warmhub C&yp |
32,456 | 10,000 5,704 |
32,456 10,000 5,704 - |
24,491 5,345 |
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| _Veolia_EnvGrant | |||||||||
| - | |||||||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
32,456 | 82,021 | 114,477 | 142,282 | |||||
| A2Assetandinvestmentsales, | - | ||||||||
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| Sub | total ,..----"!'132!!!"',4"'!"5!!!!"!6""''1 |
82,021I I | -11 | 114,477 1 | .. ,___ 14_2_,2_s2... 1 |
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| Total receipts | |||||||||
| A3Payments hungerkids fundraising warmhub CafeExpenditure beactive/sportengland couchto5k supportingpeople |
348 2,257 9,745 61,239 7,862 2,349 4,537 |
348 2,257 9,745 61,239 7,862 2,349 4,537 |
2,086 7,481 35,091 5,378 170 5,077 1,830 |
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| MusicalMovers | 34,719 | ||||||||
| covid | 6,190 | ||||||||
| brightideas C&YP minibus CommunityHub |
39,543 | 4,517 1,832 |
4,517 1,832 39,543 |
4,091 23,302 14,141 16 |
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| toollibrary enviroment energise |
130 452 |
130 452 |
1,313 9,572 |
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| VeoliaEnvGrant | - 39,543 |
95,268 | 134,811 | 150,457 | |||||
| Sub | total | ||||||||
| A4Assetandinvestment | |||||||||
| purchases,(seetable) | -. | ||||||||
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| Sub | total_r--~~ 39,543f1 |
9s,2sa1 _1----~-, | 1 | 134,8111__1____ 1_s_o_,4_s1_/ |
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to tho trust•esl t)onniroton Parthership Charitable Trust On accounts for the y•ar 30 September 2023 Charity no (If any) sot out on pag08 I report to the trustees on my examination of aounts of the above charity (Ihe Trusv) for the year erKled R•8ponsibiliti08 and As the charity trustees of the TTUSt, you are responsible for the preparation ba$18 of rnport of the accounts in tmth thè requirements of th8 Charitie8 A 2011 Acr). I report in reSd of my examlnation of tre Trust's accounts carried out under sadion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under se(bon 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have comwed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed b81ow ') in connection with the examination which gives m8 cau8e to b8li8vè that in, any material respect: aCUntij rec(xd5 were not kept in accordance ¥th section 130 of the Art or Ind•pendent examln•rfs statem•nt I have no concems arKI have come across no other matteTS in connection wrih the examination to thich attentlon should be drawn in ¢xder to ènable proper understanding of the accounts to te reached. ' Please dd8t8 the *r¥ds in the brackds rfthey do not apply. Slgned: 1211212023 Name: Jayne Edwards Relevant professional qualificatlon(s) or b¢>dy (if any): Address: 11 Church Walk, Donniffjton. Telford. Shropshire. TF2 8Er IER October 2018
ction B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlbght matter5 of COnM (see CC32, Independent examination of Charity accounts: direthons arKI guidance for examiners). Records were kept to a satisfadory level with no reason for question. Glve here brlef detslls of any items that the examlner wish•s to discloso. IER Oetober 2018