MADE IN
HACKNEY
COMMUNITY
COOKERY SCHOOL
IMPACT REPORT 2022-2023
## founderS welcome
_Sarah Bentley, Made In hackney Founder_
**This year is all about change, evolution and the start of an exciting new chapter for Made In Hackney.**
Our first international project Global Plant Kitchens went live. It consists of an online training platform and toolkit that shares our learning from the last decade and offers mentoring to collectives looking to set up or grow a plant-based community cookery school. The course already has attendees from 20 countries and mentees from Exeter, Cambridge and Folkstone in the UK, and Macau and Peru internationally.
There is much opportunity for this programme to grow with language translations (it is currently only available in English), international workshops and participants from all over the world – so watch this space!
After three years of dedicated service, our community meal service at the Queen of Hoxton cooked its final batch of meals. It was a tough decision to end the service in its current form (with 26% of Hackney households living in food insecurity, 8% more than the national average – it was still very much needed), but the team should be extremely proud of the 240K meals we provided over the last 3 years from an initiative we’d planned to last just 3 months!!
We’re now restructuring the service to be more cost and capacity efficient. This new approach, based at our Liberty Hall HQ, combines a batch cooking class with the creation of 200 meals to be distributed to the community, with 38 housebound residents still receiving meals to their homes.
To reflect our commitment to learning and unlearning, this year we updated our Eat Well Plate to include more culturally diverse ingredients, and updated our Food Policy document to Our Food Culture to better reflect the collaborative, conversational approach of our classes. You can view these both here.
After six years in post we offered sincere gratitude and a fond farewell to our Community Programme Manager Veryan Wilkie-Jones and
Classes Assistant & Enterprise Development Manager Vivianne Pontes, and welcomed the arrival of Raha Eskafi as Community Programmes Manager, Sonali Tailor as Classes Assistant and Sean O’Callaghan in new post Community Partnerships Manager. With his activism work as FatGayVegan, Sean has supported MIH’s work since its launch so it’s wonderful to welcome him onboard in an official role.
This year I also announced my exit from day-to-day work at Made In Hackney into a more ambassadorial role, with a plan to secure us a cookery book deal and continue promoting our work however best I can. It has been the greatest honour to work alongside the MIH community for the last 11 years. Never did I imagine that the little plant-based community cookery school started from a health food shop basement would become such a catalyst for positive change. For everyone that believed in the mission and joined us along the way, I bow down. Without you all, MIH would not be.
**With hope, gratitude and excitement for a new chapter,**
## Sarah Bentley
Made In Hackney Founder
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## aBout made in hackney
## _**How do we do this?**_
## our ViSion
## **Inspire & educate**
Made In Hackney believes in a world where:
In our community cookery school we inspire people to grow, cook and eat more plants. Our online and in-person classes showcase nutritious, culturally diverse, planet-friendly food.
- Everyone has access to enough health-supporting, nutritious food of their preference
- Plant-centred eating is the norm not the exception
## **Support & care**
- The food system is equitable and supports people, planet and animals to thrive
We provide sessions for people to batch cook meals for themselves and the wider community. We work with marginalised communities to ensure no one is left behind in the transition to a climate friendly food system.
**Everything we do strives to make this vision a reality** .
## our miSSion
## **Train & change**
Our Plant Prospects programme offers consultancy and training to civil society, businesses and healthcare to inspire changes to menus, food policy and culture to go more plant-based.
Reduce health inequalities, increase access to climate friendly food and bring communities together using the power of plants.
## **Movement building**
Our Global Plant Kitchens programme offers training and mentorship to collectives to build an international movement of plant-based community kitchens.
We strive to do all this with joy, respect and collaboration.
## **Our three pillars of impact are:**
**HealtH & wellbeing**
## **environment**
## **Community**
Our community work, although open to everyone, focuses on working with communities experiencing food, health, social and economic injustice and marginalisation.
Our programmes include:
- The Community Cookery School – online and in-person cooking classes
- The Community Meal Service – direct to household meal delivery service
## Groups we worked with this year:
- Plant Prospects (formally known as Plant Futures) – influencing and training organisations and businesses to go more plant-based
Low-income households **•** Asylum seekers **•** Cultural and religious groups
**•** LGBTQIA + community members **•** Girls and young women affected by the care system **•** Domestic abuse survivors **•** Carers **•** Former prisoners
- Global Plant Kitchens – an international mentoring scheme and online training course to build a movement of plant-based community kitchens
- People with type 2 diabetes **•** People
- with long-term health challenges **•** Young diverse women **•** Youth groups
- School children **•** Elders **•** Families **•**
- Women experiencing peri/menopause
Over the last year our services have helped over 5,423 people to lead healthier, happier, more environmentally sustainable lives. These people either attended a cookery class, course or event (face-to-face or online), received one-on-one coaching over the telephone, volunteered with us, attended a community feast, received community meals, participated in our Plant Prospects training programme, took our online Global Plant Kitchens training course or received mentoring to support them to set up a plant-based community kitchen.
We support people with health conditions such as asthma, IBS, high blood pressure, weight management challenges, type 2 diabetes, various types of cancer, SIBO sufferers, anaemia, stroke survivors, anxiety and depression, PTSD and bipolar disorder. People tell us our services have changed their lives and overall health and wellbeing for the better. In some cases people have said it’s saved their lives.
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## laSt year at a glance
In our eleventh year we:
Hosted **49 team-building events** attended by **581 people**
Worked with **5,423 people**
Launched a **global training programme** with participants from **20 countries**
Provided **52,067 free community meals** to **300 people**
Hosted **346 events** , 250 of which were cookery classes
Facilitated **6,346 volunteer hours** Held **8 community feasts**
Provided **49 training sessions** to **581 food service professionals** via our Plant Futures project
Worked with **329 volunteers**
_Made In Hackney classes have made a huge difference to how I shop and cook for myself and family. One example of this is how now I don’t use so much oil, but steam my vegetables._ Hemma, class participant
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Delivered **42 one-to-one food and cooking related coaching sessions** to **17 people**
Delivered **78 Public Health funded cookery classes** attended by **267 people**
Hosted our second fundraising **Veg Dash race** which raised **£5,000**
Completed **volunteer induction and training** in food hygiene, child/vulnerable adult safeguarding and first aid for **94 people**
_The classes have played a significant role in positively influencing my ability to improve my health condition. The valuable insights and practical skills I gained from the classes, especially in terms of healthy cooking and lifestyle choices, have empowered me to make positive changes. I’m truly grateful for the impact MIH has had on my health journey._
Joanna, Cooking on a Budget course participant
Made **2,200 plant-based desserts** via our Pudding Club programme
Hosted **27 outreach events**
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## our impact
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we do all this by promoting **planet-friendly, plant-based** and **culturally varied** food.
## what we do
## **The Community Cookery School**
These classes are always 100% vegan to normalise what a nutritious and flavoursome plant-based meal is and build the skills and confidence to eat like this. We run these classes in-person in our cookery school HQ Liberty Hall, online, and in venues across London.
In our community cookery school we provide classes that inspire people to grow, cook and eat more plants. We offer a range of bespoke courses and classes including multicultural cuisines, health issue specific programmes, core skills such as plant-based baking, fermentation, nut cheese making, bread making, and classes that aspire to tackle barriers to healthy, plant-based eating relating to cost, time, skills, picky eating and scale (e.g. cooking for one or cooking for large groups).
Besides the obvious life, health and environment supporting skills these sessions develop, the opportunity to build bridges and connect with the wider community has always been a key outcome of the community cookery school sessions – and is a key reason for people returning.
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## **Community classes**
Our community classes are a 2-3 hour hands-on cooking experience. Participants are supported in a joyful and collaborative style to learn a range of plant-based cookery skills and share a meal at the end of the session – this social aspect of sharing food is as important as the class itself.
We held 47 one-off community classes with 473 attendances.
## **Class themes**
The diversity of our classes continued to grow, ensuring that we meet the cultural needs of many people in Hackney, and beyond. Over the year we had over 45 different topics including: One Pot Cooking, Budget Cooking, Cooking for Wellbeing, Fermentation, Zero Waste, Soups & Salads, Foraging, Wild Food Cookery, Going Vegan, Vegan Christmas, Veganuary Special, Vegan Cheese, Vegan Meats, Vegan Baking, Bread Making, Sourdough Bread, Food Growing, Beans & Pulses, Cooking For Gut Health, Cooking for Hormonal Health and Vegan Comfort Bowls.
Courses: Budget Cookery, Harvest to Jar, Cooking to Support Type 2 Diabetes, Hackney Take Away. International cuisines: Spanish – Tapas, Scottish – Burns Night, West African, Czech, Indian, Ethiopian, Italian, Middle Eastern, Palestinian, Punjabi, Southern Indian, Brazilian, Caribbean, Mexican, English, Irish, Afghan, Trinidadian and Korean.
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473 people attended
47[community classes] 466 people attended 33 community courses
## **Community courses**
Our community courses are an opportunity for participants to develop their skills on a deeper level and go on journeys of culinary and dietary transformation. The courses are one 2-3 hour session run over a 4-6 week period. Some courses are open to the general public and others delivered in conjunction with partner organisations where everyone attending has been signposted to the course by a specific service provider such as a children’s centre, school, mental health support service, cultural group or health support service. Each course is adapted so it meets the unique needs of the attending people e.g. cultural needs, kitchen set up or health conditions.
We ran 33 courses attended by 466 people attending 1417 times.
## **Diabetes support**
In partnership with Hackney Diabetes Centre we continued to deliver our Cooking for Diabetes course. Through this programme, participants gained an understanding of how to manage their diabetes through nourishing and simple plant-based dishes. We ran classes that focused on different cuisines to ensure people’s cultural needs were being met.
We had some fantastic results from this programme – one participant saying her insulin requirements had lowered after just 3 weeks of participating in the programme.
_I am writing to express my gratitude for the incredible support and positive impact your diabetes management program has had on my life. The focus on healthy cooking and eating has been a true game-changer, particularly considering my African background where diabetes is unfortunately prevalent due to our carbohydraterich diet. The incorporation of cooking sessions tailored to Afro-Caribbean cuisine has been exceptionally beneficial. These sessions have not only enlightened me on using less oil, increasing vegetable consumption, and reducing starch but have also allowed me to continue enjoying our cultural foods in a healthier way. It’s been a transformative experience that has struck the right balance between health and cultural authenticity._
**Margaret** , Cooking for Type 2 Diabetes course participant
## **Hormonal health**
Made In Hackney teachers and mother-daughter duo, gynaecologist Dr Nitu and nutritionist Rohini Bajekal, ran an online class exploring hormonal health for women with topics
including cooking for menopause and perimenopause. This live online class was recorded and offered as a pre-record for the rest of the year.
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## **Working with carers**
This year we worked extensively with carers in collaboration with partners East London Cares, Carers First and the City and Hackney Carers Centre. The sessions were a vital vehicle for carers to focus on nurturing and supporting their own wellbeing through positive diet choices and having a space to relax, connect, and dine with other carers. The courses were either Cooking For Life or Cooking On A Budget themed.
## **NHS and Public Health**
We have continued to deepen our partnership with both the NHS and Hackney Public Health teams. In addition to providing cook and eat sessions on a contractual basis for Hackney Council Public Health, we delivered a range of fun outreach activations at community health events. These included coffee mornings at GP surgeries, NHS Community Lifestyle events and Healthier Lifestyle events organised by Community Health Champions. We remain the only provider locally with an exclusively plant-based food policy and are proud of the fact we are now an accepted and welcome service provider in the local community health ecosystem.
We delivered 15 courses, totalling 78 classes, funded by Hackney Public Health which were attended by 267 people who attended 758 times.
Our courses and outreach stalls are often about planting seeds of change within people.
_Carers Community Cookery Course participant_
## caSe Study Murude
I’ve been vegetarian for 15 years and am trying to be more vegan. I was going through a bit of a difficult time with my mum who has Alzheimer’s. I wasn’t getting any time to myself. The two hour cookery classes saved my sanity and were something to look forward to.
_The two hour cookery classes saved my sanity and were something to look forward to._
Sharon [the cookery teacher] was absolutely amazing. She was very articulate and passionate. The classes helped me to clean up my diet – for example now I make my own pasta sauce instead of getting it in a jar. Sharon told us things to look out for [avoid] on the back of the jars. Now I always read the ingredients.
I loved how we came together each week, it was like a little family. Sharon made everyone feel at ease and included. I made some new friends who I now meet up with for lunch or coffee. I felt safe in this group. I find a lot of things difficult to talk about and I wear a hearing aid. This course was the first time I said it out loud in a group [that I wear a hearing aid]. I found it really liberating. I don’t think anyone realised how hard it was to do.
_The course has also benefited my mum; as her carer I do all her cooking and her diet has greatly improved._
Since doing the course my arthritis has improved in my hands and neck. I learnt coffee was bad for arthritis [from Sharon] and now I have less pain as I rarely drink it. I also have angina and used to get a lot of angina episodes but now have less of them. I use a lot
less salt now. I was diagnosed this year with osteopenia and salt is bad for it. I didn’t realise how bad ultra processed food was for you. When you take it out of your diet you really notice the difference. I feel less lethargic. More energised. You know exactly what you’re putting into your body. I cook mostly everything from scratch. If I ever feel I’m going to fall off the wagon, then I get Sharon’s recipes out. The course has also benefited my mum; as her carer I do all her cooking and her diet has greatly improved thanks to these classes.
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not only a fantastic opportunity to inspire the next generation about crucial plant-based cookery skills, but to upskill and boost the knowledge of teachers and support staff who can share this information within the school setting on an ongoing basis.
_Eating less meat and dairy, and more fruits and vegetables has helped me to fit back into my old clothes. I’ve enjoyed exploring the different combinations of vegetable-based meals you can make. Eating healthier has made me feel better about myself._
_The courses have been inspiring and I’ve put more effort into cooking plant-based dishes for me and my child and making it more presentable. My child’s uptake in a variety of foods has increased which has reassured me that they can, and will eat healthier foods._ **Vera** , Family Cooking class participant
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## **Working with schools**
This year we worked with two schools delivering students-only classes at Oakland Secondary, and family sessions afterschool at De Beauvoir Primary School. These sessions are
## caSe Study Leonie
_Since attending MIH_ Since attending MIH classes I have whittled down my weight from 91.2kg to _classes I have whittled_ averaging 73kg. My glucose levels have _down my weight_ [and] dropped and my arthritis has gotten a _my glucose levels_ bit better as the body is not carrying so _have dropped._ much weight. I have thoroughly enjoyed all the classes I’ve attended and have had
the pleasure of meeting many different people from all walks of life so as to enrich my own life and my understanding of different cultures.
The recipes and foods have always been well thought out with more than enough to eat in class with some left over to bring home. The fact the classes are free is a real boon, especially for people who are on low budgets but who wish to cook well and healthily. The themed classes around illnesses are of special interest as they encourage you to eat foods that will lower GIs and reduce weight which will in turn help us be healthier in the long run. Thank you MIH!
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## **Czech School Without Borders**
We continued our relationship with the Czech School Without Borders project. A weekend based school for young people of Czech heritage, the sessions were an opportunity to offer authentic and traditional Czech dishes but with an entirely plant-based menu.
## **Youth sessions – Peng Patties**
We were delighted to continue to support the Peng Patties project with 22 sessions delivered this year. Conceived and delivered by father and daughter duo Ekowa and Zahira Paul, these sessions combine practical cookery with enterprise skills for
young people aged 11-18 years. We were delighted to support this start-up project with funding acquisition, admin, a venue and impact and evaluation monitoring.
We continued our relationship with the Chatsworth Road Youth Club where we ran cookery sessions for young people.
_Peng Patties is about nurturing all young people so that they can achieve their excellence regardless of where they are from and what messages society might be telling them about what they can achieve._
**Zahira** , Peng Patties co-founder
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## **Online classes**
During the COVID-19 pandemic we ran all our cookery classes online. Once the lockdowns ended demand for online greatly reduced yet for some beneficiaries remained a preferred format due to access needs, physical and mental health conditions and the practical benefit of cooking in your own kitchen. This year we ran 9 classes online.
## **Telephone support sessions**
Two years ago we recognised that for many people attending a cooking class wasn’t possible, but they still urgently needed support with diet and lifestyle change. In response to this we set up a one-to-one telephone coaching service where people could receive bespoke support from one of our
teachers who is a former NHS dietician. This year we supported 17 people who completed 42 one hour sessions with our food and cookery coach.
_Hannah was able to provide nutritional information that was specific to my diet and needs. She is very helpful and explained everything very clearly. She was AMAZING. I hope to have more sessions with her in the future, either one-to-one or in a group._
**Rama** , telephone coaching participant
Participants motivations for doing the telephone coaching included being Type 2 diabetic/pre-diabetic or having children who were, having multiple allergies, having anaemia, sugar addiction, constipation, autism, acid reflux, a desire to lose weight and mobility issues which made participating in a class not practical.
_I’ve noticed a difference in my health and wellbeing. My intolerance was quite serious. Now I feel much more confident and back to my normal self. My awareness_ [of what I can/can’t eat] _is more profound…I feel very grateful and very lucky to have got that information and have that input from Hannah. I think it’s an incredible experience._
**Didi** , telephone coaching participant
Emma joined the telephone sessions as she had accessibility challenges which limited her ability to shop and prepare fresh food. She described herself as being addicted to sugar and recognised she didn’t eat a varied and balanced diet. Of the programme Emma said:
Hannah understood the difficulties of my situation when it came to not being able to cook or source ingredients. She had many alternatives to help with my addiction to sugar. She both gave recipes and explained what was going on in my gut microbiome that made me feel low in energy and why I had sugar cravings. She adapted to all my issues, like when I couldn’t chew due to a dental procedure. Her knowledge is vast and she is patient and kind.
## **Community feasts**
We held 8 community feasts to share joy, build bridges and showcase different multicultural plant-based cuisines. These feasts often utilise donated food surplus – saving food that would otherwise be wasted. This year we held beautiful alfresco feasts on the common surrounding Liberty Hall in collaboration with Clapton Commons and the incredible Amity Project who specialise in poems, singing, dance and games to enrich the lives of elders. We also held feasts at Limetree Court care home and in collaboration with Hackney Quest.
## **Windrush Day**
This is now the fifth year we have had the honour to participate in the annual Hackney Council organised Windrush celebration event. This year we prepared a delicious Caribbean plant-based dessert with take home recipe sheets. We also held our own Windrush celebration community feast on the common.
## **Employability and career training**
This year we held our first Careers In Hospitality training sessions led by chef Sareta Puri in partnership with training providers Saira Hospitality and Springboard. These were attended by 15 people with an interest in working in the hospitality industry as a career.
## **Outreach events**
This year we attended 27 outreach events attended by 2804 people. These events are an opportunity for us to share our knowledge about the benefits of plant-centred eating via a fun food activity, provide inspiring recipes and food tasters, distribute our 100% Plant-Based Eat Well Plates and spread the message about our work and impact. Some events are to attract new beneficiaries to our services and others to attract new customers and supporters for our masterclasses and employer programmes.
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Out in the community we attended the Hackney Caribbean Elders Association – Commit To Health event, Gypsy Roma Traveller community health event, Leaside Community Fun Day, Anne Taylor Children’s Centre Family Fun Day, The Hidden River Festival, Hackney Sustainability Day, Rise Community Action Health and Wellbeing Event, Windrush 75 Celebration Event, Lordship Estate Community Fun Day and the Inspire! Health and Wellbeing event.
To share the message about our work, it’s impact and to attract new supporters, we attended Plant-Based Social at Bohemia Place, CopV11 Climate Healers Online Festival, Amazon Pop-Up Kitchen For Good, Mind Body & Soul Festival, Hackney Co-Op Store, Overheated festival and the Climate Friendly Pop-Up Kitchen.Our founder Sarah Bentley also hosted a panel discussion about plant-based food education in the community at plant-based health professionals debut VegMed conference alongside our teacher Sharon Gardner who was a panellist.
## **Who are we reaching?**
Our beneficiaries are a diverse mix of ages and ethnicities but not gender. 82% of people who completed our annual survey identified as female. Having noted this we will do more to outreach to men and other gender identities.
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Community cooking classes Community services
attendees by age beneficiaries by ethnicity
1% Prefer 33% 42%
12%
not to say Black/Black White British/
13% Under 18 British, African, Irish/European
Over 65 Caribbean
7%
18-24
17%
55-65
21%
25-34
13% 15%
45-54 16% Asian/Asian British/ 10%
35-44 Pakistani/indian/ Mixed heritage/
Bangladeshi Other identity
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## **Our community partners**
Project Indigo (LGBTQIA + youth support group), Amity Project, Czech School Without Borders, East London Cares, Peng Patties, Chatsworth Road Youth Club, You Make It, Peabody Trust, Ihsan Women, Anne Taylor Children’s Centre, Springfield Centre for Young People, Alexandra Rose, Lighthouse & Gardens, Bohemia Place, Hackney Caribbean Elderly Association, Hackney Council, Yorkshire Grove Estate, Hackney Circle, Esdale Street GP Surgery, National Parents and Youth Open Forum, Hackney CVS, City and Hackney Carers Centre.
## **New resources**
This year we updated our Eat Well Plate to include more culturally diverse ingredients. We discussed the benefits and practicality of having multiple plates to represent different cultural cuisines at length but decided this wasn’t a practical approach. Instead we added a myriad of culturally diverse ingredients to one plate. This was done in collaboration with former NHS dietician Hannah Walker and Co-founder of the Diverse Nutrition Association Melissa Saint Hill.
We also updated our Food Policy document which is used by our teachers and facilitators, renaming it Our Food Culture. We updated the content based on evolving health recommendations, our evolving collaborative approach and our journey to being an anti-racist organisation.
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## **Enterprise**
We offer a range of paid for services that, like our community work, build skills and inspiration for people to grow, cook and eat more plants – but also to bring income into the organisation.
## **Pudding club**
To support our community meal service we offer a corporate volunteer experience called Pudding Club. Half vegan baking lesson, half batch cooking volunteering, teams get together to make 100 plus portions of a delicious plant-based dessert which goes out to our community meal service recipients as a bit of plant-based comfort food.
We held 22 Pudding Club sessions this year attended by Adobe, Daiwa Capital Markets, Sodexo, Salesforce, Jeroboams, Debt and Apple – helping us to make and serve 2200 puddings.
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## **Celebrity webinars and classes**
We were delighted to host classes with celebrity chef supporters Sami Tamimi, vegan cheese queen Miyoko Schinner, fermentation legend Sandor Katz and zero waste vegan curry entrepreneurs DabbaDrop.
Miyoko joined us online from California to deliver The Big 3 Vegan Cheese class and Sandor Katz delivered Fermentation Journeys. Both sessions were attended by over 100 people from around the world – many of whom were introduced to Made In Hackney and our work for the first time.
We were thrilled and grateful to Sami Tamimi for delivering an in-person session ‘The Ultimate Palestinian Falafel Experience’ at Leiths Cookery School. This magical session was attended by 32 dedicated Sami fans and was a deeply inspiring day of cooking and sharing.
Finally, local zero-waste legends DabbaDrop delivered a stunning Cook Punjab class online for fans old and new of the vegan zero-waste take-home curry club.
## **Masterclasses**
We ran 36 masterclasses this year, 3 of which were online and 33 of which were held in-person at our Liberty Hall HQ. These 4-6 hour classes were attended 777 times by 410 different people. As well as cooking they include our Wild Food Walk held in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park.
_Made in Hackney’s Vegan Ethiopian Masterclass is a joyful exploration of Ethiopian cuisine and culture. In an action packed afternoon, our inspiring teachers Bersy and Nishma gently coached us in the preparation of five (yes five!) different dishes. All were made with readily available ingredients, but each one tasted unique – and delicious. It was wonderful to bond with new people while chopping, stirring and drinking Ethiopian tea, all the while knowing that the community would be benefiting from our efforts. I really couldn’t recommend the experience more highly!_
**Rachel Hatton** Vegan Ethiopian Masterclass attendee
## **Team-building and employee wellbeing**
We ran 49 team-building and employee wellbeing events attended by 581 people. These events are a fantastic opportunity to influence businesses and their teams to adopt a more plant-centred approach to food in the workplace.
Our clients included: Euroclear, Here Design, People Opportunities, The Intrepid Collective, Winnow Solutions, B Engaged, Impact Invest, Mr Organic, Eating Better, Commerz Bank, Pangaia, Ernst & Young, Ralph LDN, Redemption Roasters, ATCC, Isla, Salesforce, Amplify, Greene King, Ralph Luren Creative, Vegan Friendly UK, Vegan Runners, John Howard Centre, Westfield Good Festival and Zaytoun who did our wild food walk.
## **The Community Meal Service**
Our community meal service continued for another year. Started as an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we continued the service because of rising levels of hunger in the borough due to the cost of living crisis. In 2022 26% of households in Hackney were food insecure – 8% more than the national average.
The service supports 200 people with 6 nutritious, culturally diverse pre-cooked plant-based meals delivered direct to their homes by cycle courier. Cooking and delivery days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. This year we cooked 52,067 free meals and supported 300 people.
_I really want to say a big thank you to MIH and the Meal Service volunteers. Their smiling faces at my door every week have been a real lifeline._
## Anne-Marie
Despite the great need for the service it was becoming increasingly difficult to fund – both from the general public and from grant giving foundations. The scale of the operation, rising monthly costs and challenging winter venue circumstances, meant we had to make the difficult decision to scale back and reimagine the service in a different, lower cost, less resource intensive but just as impactful programme.
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In September 2023 we cooked and delivered our last batch of 600 meals at the Queen Of Hoxton nightclub, an emotional moment for all involved. To date we had provided 248,000 emergency meals, an incredible achievement given the service was originally started as a 3 month intervention.
We restarted the revised programme on 9 October from our Liberty Hall HQ combining a community batch cooking class with the opportunity for participants to take meals home for the week, with ~120 portions delivered to ~38 housebound residents (3 meals per person) with a direct to door cycle courier delivery service. Any remaining portions were delivered to local hostels or food banks.
_I have stage 4 cancer and I am very grateful for the meals provided by Made in Hackney. They’ve really supported me at my lowest points._ Julie
We envisage this to be a period of learning for the programme – both the team, community members, volunteers and beneficiaries needing to come together to fine tune this new iteration of the service. Watch this space in next year’s report.
## **Andi’s here**
Hackney local, TV chef and author the legendary Andi Oliver became our ambassador this year and visited the community meal service for a guest shift. She mucked in for the whole session making a delicious eddoes and plantain dhal and even came out on the delivery shift to meet and chat with community members who received the food. Thank you Andi!
## **Plant Prospects**
Launched in 2021, our Plant Prospects Programme (formally Plant Futures) offers support to organisations, businesses and civil society to evolve their offer to a more plant-centred eating approach.
We provide recipe and menu development, plant-based cooking expertise, online and in-person chef training, ingredient sourcing expertise, discussion workshops, team and front of house training and community event hosting.
_Mind – and tastebuds – blown!_
_It was a game-changing experience!_ **Kemi,** Paxton Green Time Bank
Our Plant Based Toolkit is a practical manual for creating delicious, nutritious, budget conscious plant-based food. This kit has been distributed nationally to thousands of businesses, organisations and collectives in ‘food power’ positions.
_A fantastic course with knowledgeable leaders. Really refreshing and reflective._
**Helen,** Healthy Living Platform
This year we held 16 events, attended by 171 people. These attendees are ‘food power players’ and influence what thousands of people eat every year so have an estimated collective reach of 90,000 plus people.
This year we provided post-programme support in the form of resources and one to one coaching and deepened relationships with our year one cohort and finished delivering our national touring programme in Southwark, Exeter, Lancaster and Eastbourne. These workshops were attended by 66 people with a collective reach of 82,000 people.
_The toolkit provided is extremely thorough and valuable. It holds key information in a really accessible way. Thank you!_
**Katrina,** The Bridge (Southwark, London)
We developed Public Sector partnerships with London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, King’s College London and public sector campaign groups – Plant Based Universities and Plant Based Health Professionals and fostered cross sector connections. Across these partners we delivered a mixture of training workshops, chef cooking skills and consultancy to accelerate their evolution to offering more plant-centred menus.
_Informative and fun._
_No sense of being preached to. Really excellent. Thank you!_
**Alex,** Pecan (Southwark, London)
Corporate partnerships and training workshops were delivered to 40 GLA employees and 10 chefs from the Harvey Nichols Group.
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## **Global Plant Kitchens**
From conversations with programme members and our 6 month evaluation, we confirmed that Global Plant Kitchens inspires and supports people all over the world to start their own vegan food initiative. People from over 20 countries have registered to get free access to the course and toolkit. In the evaluation we spoke with 15 people from 7 countries, who are in different stages of preparing and starting plant-based food initiatives.
This exciting new programme has been a long time coming. For many years we dreamt of having a formalised international training and mentoring scheme to accelerate a movement of plant-based community kitchens, and in May this year it finally went live!
Global Plant Kitchens was launched and is managed by Jacqueline Castelijns, our first international employee who joined us in February 2022 and is based in The Netherlands. It’s an online training course and toolkit that shares the learning of MIH’s 11 year journey and provides mentoring to individuals and collectives in the process of setting up or growing a plant-based community cookery school.
During these conversations we identified four stages which the GPK programme can provide support with – Exploring, Start-up, Adapting & Sustaining.
## **Exploring stage**
People are excited to set up a vegan cookery school like Made In Hackney, they see opportunities for their community, develop ideas and are looking for team members and piloting cookery sessions.
_When I was living in London years ago I joined MIH classes and workshops. The classes really made a big difference in my life, supporting not only my physical health but my mental health and the feeling of community. MIH was the inspiration to become a Natural Chef in London and to run cooking classes for kids. My food journey led me to quit my job as a consultant and I currently run a Culinary Mindfulness Coaching practice. In the future I see myself setting up a community cookery school like Made In Hackney, which is why I joined the GPK._
**Claudia Martinez,** Cambodia member
Most people we have spoken to in our evaluation are in this stage. Their biggest challenges are to find someone to partner with and to take the step to setting up an organisation. We’ve been able to connect people in the same area or who can be ‘remote’ sparring partners for each other. People say that the support of the GPK programme gives them the confidence to take steps.
## gloBal plant kitchenS in numBerS
one-to-one mentoring 60 sessions
UK mentees in 5 Manchester, Exeter and Cambridge
international mentees in 2 Macau and Lima in Peru
6 newsletters
- 6 webinars
webinar 102 attendees
96 registrations
participants from 20 20 countries
Ollas Comunes Veganas, Peru
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They have secured funding, contracted a vegan teacher, are building a kitchen and have run a crowdfunding campaign. They find that the mentoring sessions and the examples save a lot of time setting things up.
_It is very helpful to have sample documents, we used the templates in the toolkit and these were definitely helpful to get started._
Mentee, Cambridge
We have started mentoring a successful Vegan Restaurant in Folkestone to build their community cookery programme, they expect to be running soon with the support of Global Plant Kitchens.
## **Start-up stage**
mentorship from the start-up stage on. In the first 6 months of the GPK programme both mentees in Peru and in Manchester prepared to register their organisation and apply for funding.
People are registering their initiative, applying for funding / organising a crowdfunding campaign, looking for a venue and planning their programme.
_The GPK programme ticks all the areas we hope and strive to make an impact in. We also have a huge interest in future partnerships/cookery classes._ Mentee, Folkestone
_The programme is extremely helpful. It supported me to register my CIC and now I am scheduling the first plant-based community classes. It is amazing. In the modules and toolkit Made In Hackney shared everything, it makes setting up my own easier._ Mentee, Manchester
_Mentoring has helped us stick to an every other week commitment. We gather at 6am Peru time before everyone goes off to work. The modules are like the glue in our process and the documents in the toolkit have been very helpful. I’ve translated them to Spanish and put them into context. It is great that we can watch the recorded online events with Spanish subtitles._
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## **Adapting stage**
Organisations have existed for a while but are now adapting to also be a plant-based cookery school.
Mentee, Peru
We aim to build a movement of sustainable cookery schools that are run by a team and are well-funded. To support people to take this step to set up a formal organisation, we offer
We are mentoring a non-vegan sustainable food project in Cambridge to set up a vegan cookery school.
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## **Sustainable stage**
Initiatives are running successful programmes, are funded, have a venue and are well connected in their community.
Our mentee in Exeter has successfully applied for bigger funding and is running a successful crowdfunding campaign to open their own venue:
_The mentoring programme was just what I needed to grow my initiative. Made In Hackney linked me with a plant-based nutritionist and teacher who lives nearby who has delivered popular classes for us._
## Mentee, Exeter
This year the Global Plant Kitchens and Plant Prospects Teams started working together to share their ideas, contacts and working processes. We are very excited about how both these programmes can grow together in 2023-2024 and beyond.
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_class participant, community meal_ caSe Study _service beneficiary, and now volunteer_ Lynn
I’m not normally a volunteering kind of person, having worked in charities for such a long time. But I felt I owed MIH a lot as I had benefited firstly from the community classes and then the brilliant support during the first lockdown. It [the free meal service] was quite a lifeline. I thought I should “give back” although I hate that phrase!
I like the way the charity is organised, it’s smart, innovative and forward thinking. I enjoy being in that well organised environment and I felt that with the volunteering as well. Sukhin is very good at making things run smoothly and making sure we’re thanked. Everyone is
Lynn (right) with fellow volunteer
_Everyone is kind and supportive and always a lot of fun._
kind and supportive and always a lot of fun. My favourite part of volunteering is the social aspect, meeting people, being busy. I like to be up and doing something, a combination of feeling useful whilst meeting lots of nice people. I do like the approach of MIH, encouraging people to try more vegetables, pulses, beans etc. It does sink in and I think over the years I have greatly reduced the amount of meat I eat.
What I value about volunteering is that I feel needed and wanted and I can do something useful. And that there are regular offers (at the moment I’m doing about one cookery class a week). Regular fixtures/ routine are what you miss when you’re not working. In some weeks it may be the most sociable thing I do. I’ve been quite interested in new ingredients in the classes. It boosts you to learn new things. I think it’s important for older people – there’s so much to learn and so little time! Once you’re retired you have to find purpose in life, but I don’t have children, grandchildren or relatives so I’m very much dependent on social activities and friends and neighbours. I really appreciate MIH as a local community resource and facility.
_Volunteering is good for my mental health._ Kenneth Law, volunteer
## **Volunteering**
This year our volunteer manager Sukhin Tye worked with a staggering 329 volunteers who completed 6,346 volunteer hours over 1,515 volunteer opportunities. Wow.
Volunteer roles included: online class host, in-person class host, meal service kitchen assistant, meal service logistical support, Liberty Hall project assistant, meal delivery cycle buddies and meal delivery cargo bike riders.
Volunteers report positive outcomes in all MIH’s key impact pillars of health, environment and community. Many improved their plant-based cookery skills and decreased their
consumption of meat, developed an enhanced sense of wellbeing and purpose, a greater connection to their local community, improved mental health or the development of employability skills.
_I work in customer services so I_
_feel the work I’ve done has helped me more than I’ve expected, e.g. speaking to people from different backgrounds. I’ve noticed some benefits I’ve been able to take into my job that I didn’t expect._
## Josh Hanson, volunteer
52% of volunteers increased their consumption of fruit and vegetables because of their involvement with
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Made In Hackney. 70% said their mental wellbeing had improved, 43% said their physical wellbeing had improved and 43% said they decreased their consumption of meat. This is lower than the participant rate as many people who volunteer at MIH are already vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian and this is a key attractor to volunteering.
We offer self-development and training in the form of Food Hygiene, Working with vulnerable adults, child safeguarding and first aid training.
_I needed to volunteer for my mental wellbeing. It helps and supports my mental health._ Gloria Benayas, volunteer
61% of volunteers gained skills and experience that enhance their future prospects and 26% have used their volunteering experience at MIH to get a job.
Many volunteers expressed appreciation for the social events we hold – so this year these became a more regular fixture with gatherings in community gardens, restaurants and cultural centres.
_I felt like I was involved in the life of the neighbourhood and made me feel useful, and made me feel useful in the community._ Agata Giardina, volunteer
Because of their involvement with MIH 87% of volunteers agreed they felt more connected to their community and 96% agreed they met people they wouldn’t normally meet.
Some volunteers fed back that they were required to do too much in the cookery school. We looked at this and implemented steps to try and increase the number of volunteers in sessions.
## **Volunteer outreach**
This year our volunteer manager and team attended three volunteer and careers fairs to promote our volunteer opportunities and share MIH’s impact and work. These included the Voyage Careers Fair, Volunteer Outreach Fair at Uni of Westminster and the Elaat Jobs and Careers Fair.
## **Corporate volunteers**
We appreciate the efforts from our corporate supporters and volunteers. This year they included teams from Atis, Instructure, MAPP Property Management, Motability Operations, Provenance, Sage, Satigo, Salesforce, Social Value Portal, Sodexo, The Good Side, Too Good To Go, Ustwo, Higgings Partnership, S&P Global.
## **Awards**
We were delighted to be nominated for the The Adiaha Antigha Community Achievement Award for the individual or community that has supported people during the cost of living crisis and/or has campaigned against poverty.
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cookery class and provided recipes and expertise for content.
## **Immortalised!**
In June 2022 Made In Hackney was immortalised by street artist Jimmy C on the garden walls at the Hackney branch of Planet Organic (pictured). The mural features founder Sarah Bentley alongside Community Meal Service head chef Shaki Mbisa, Peng Patties Co-Founder Ekowa Paul and MIH cookery teacher and special projects manager Sareta Puri.
## **Our funders**
Karuna Foundation, Hackney Public Health, Garfield Weston Foundation, Esmee Fairburn Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The David & Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust, City Bridge Foundation, Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, Animal Charity Evaluators, Bupa Foundation, Forrester Family Trusts, Investec, Worshipful Society of Insurers, VegFund, Veg Trust, Support + Feed, The Merchant Taylors’ Foundation, L&Q Foundation, The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust, City & Hackney Together, Action Funder, M&S, Matrix, Tesco, The Big Give Trust, The Holroyd Foundation.
## **Alliances**
We continued our membership of The Eating Better Alliance, this year collaborating and supporting them with their Anything Is Pulse-Able Campaign. We hosted the team for a pulses and lentils themed Trinidadian
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## our team
## **Leadership team**
leading the organisation given Sarah will leave the organisation this year. Members of the leadership team remain on the same pay-scale as other lead staff members but are paid for extra hours. We will evaluate this trial method of leadership.
This year we formed an interim leadership team as a way of collaboratively steering the organisation on issues of strategy, HR, finance and other leadership centred issues. Formed during the period our founder had to have unexpected time off due to health and caring challenges, it has proven an opportune moment to trial a way of collaboratively
## **Leadership team members**
Sarah Bentley, Fran Humber, Rashmi Joshi, Jacqueline Casteljins
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Jacqueline Casteljins
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Veryan Wilkie-Jones
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**Roshni Shah** Partnerships Manager
**Sukhin Tye** Volunteer Manager
**Raha Eskafi Sean O’Callaghan** Community Community Programmes Manager Partnerships Manager
**Laurie Magnus** Interim Community Food Manager
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Vivianne Pontes
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## **Our Community Meal Service chefs**
Ekowa Paul **•** Flo Francis Matt Butler **•** Marcus Byfield Jordan Bourzig
## **Our Cookery School teachers**
Amandeep Verding **•** Ekowa Paul Asa Simonsson **•** Fiona McAllister Flo Francis **•** Hannah Walker Linda North **•** Mark Breen Nena Ubani **•** Nishma Shah Sara Shah **•** Sareta Puri Sharon Gardner **•** Tessa Christian Zoe Marks **•** Ken Greenway
## **Our Trustees**
**Chair:** Clare Preedy
**Treasurer:** Irina Nedashkovskaya **Board members:** Sarah Biggs **•** Jenny Chu Carla Garnelas **•** Pranay Manocha Ned Mendez **•** Ash Pollock Melissa Saint Hill **•** Bianca Stewart Tara Sukumar
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2022-2023 2021-2022
Income & Expenditure
£ £
Grants & Contacts 436,326 341,674
Enterprise 74,597 72,735
Fundraising donations 204,201 252,229
Other 28,840 29,817
Total Income 743,964 696,455
Total Expenditure (758,369) (656,325)
Net Income (Expenditure) (14,405) 40,130
Total Funds Bought Forward 556,010 515,880
Total Funds Carried Forward 541,605 556,010
Assets & Liabilities
Fixed Assets 38,962 56,640
Current Assets 525,357 539,347
Current liabilities -22,714 -39,977
Total Net Assets 541,605 556,010
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## thank you
A big thank you to everybody we have worked with over the last year. The people who have attended our classes, the volunteers who give their time so generously, the chefs and teachers who share their valuable knowledge, our delivery partners, and to all of the people and organisations who have supported us financially. We couldn’t do it without you!
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MadeInHackney
www.madeinhackney.org info@madeinhackney.org 020 8442 4266
Registered charity number 1176690 Design and layout: www.causeffectdesign.co.uk
## **Made in Hackney**
Annual Financial Review and Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 October 2023
Charity Registration Number: 1176690
## **Made In Hackney**
## **Content**
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|Trustees Report|3-8|
|Independent Examiner Report|9|
|Statement of Financial Activities|10|
|Balance Sheet|11|
|Statement of Cash Flows|12|
|Notes to Financial Statement|13-22|
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## **Made In Hackney**
## **Charity Information for the year ended 31 October 2023**
|Status
Charity Name
Charity Registration Number:
Registered office
Board of Trustees
Founder and Project Director
Independent Examiner
Bank
Website Address|Made in Hackney is a registered charitable organisation incorporated
on 16 January 2018
Made in Hackney
1176690
Liberty Hall
128 Clapton Common
Spring Hill, Clapton
LONDON E5 9AA
Jenny Chu
Carla Garnelas
Pranay Manocha
Ned Mendez
Irina Nedashkovskaya Basile (Treasurer)
Ashley Pollock
Clare Preedy (Chair)
Melissa Saint Hill
Sarah Simpson (Board Secretary)
Bianca Stewart
Tara Sukumar
Sarah Bentley
Olayinka Tomori
Longmeade Consult Ltd
The Old Rectory, Springhead Road
Northfleet, Kent, DA11 8HN
Triodos Bank
Deanery Road
Bristol, BS1 5AS
CAF Bank
25 Kings Hill Avenue
West Malling
Kent ME19 4JQ
www.madeinhackney.org|
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The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the period ended 31 October 2023. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (Second Edition effective 1 January 2019).
Made in Hackney (“MIH”) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission (registered number 1176690).
The governing document is a Constitution dated 16th January 2018. MIH registered with the Charity Commission on 16th January 2018.
These financial statements cover the year from 1st November 2022 to 31st October 2023.
## Objectives and Activities
At Made In Hackney we believe everyone should have access to nourishing, health-supporting food through an equitable, plant-centred food system that supports people, planet and animals to thrive.
Our mission is to reduce health inequalities, increase access to nutritious, climate friendly food and bring communities together using the power of plants.
To make this possible we deliver the following key programmes:
- **Community Cookery School** – online and in-person cooking classes
- **Community Meal Service** – direct to household meal delivery service
- **Plant Prospects** _(formally Plant Futures)_ – training and consultancy
- **Global Plant Kitchens** – an international mentoring scheme and online training course
Through which, Made in Hackney is:
**1. Inspiring & educating.** In our community cookery school we inspire people to grow, cook and eat more plants. Our online and in-person classes showcase nutritious, culturally diverse, planetfriendly food.
**2. Supporting & caring.** We provide sessions for people to batch cook meals for themselves and the wider community. Working with marginalised communities to ensure no one is left behind in the transition to a healthy, climate friendly food system.
**3. Training & facilitating change.** Our Plant Prospects programme offers consultancy and training to civil society, businesses and healthcare providers to influence and inspire changes to menus, food policy and culture to make them more plant-based.
**4. Movement building.** Our Global Plant Kitchens programme offers training and mentorship to collectives to build an international movement of plant-based community kitchens.
5. Furthermore, we always strive to deliver everything we do with joy, respect and collaboration.
You can read more about out impact over the last year in the Made in Hackney Annual Impact Report 1 November 2022 - 31 October 2023.
## Fundraising Events
Notably during the year, MIH held two successful crowdfunders for the community meal service and cookery school which raised over £77,000 to October 2023, and took part in the Big Give Christmas challenge for the first time, raising a further £25,170. We also held 20 corporate volunteer donation events (Pudding Clubs) to cook desserts and raise money for Made In Hackney. In addition, MIH hosted its second fundraising Veg Dash race, raising £5,000 to further support the community meal service. Funding of £4,221 was also raised by Club Mexican restaurant during a winter £1/table campaign.
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## Volunteers
The invaluable support and contribution of volunteers was further demonstrated this year. They are giving up their time to help with community meal preparation and delivery, assisting with classes at our cookery school and online, and providing outreach in the community. In addition, our volunteers support essential administration and fundraising activities. At the same time volunteers have benefitted from learning new skills, making a difference in their community, and also improving their mental health through volunteering.
This year we:
- Hosted 6,346 volunteer hours
- Created 1,515 meaningful volunteer opportunities for 329 different volunteers
- Delivered 17 volunteer inductions for 103 new volunteers
- Inspired 52% of volunteers to increase their consumption of fruit and vegetables through their involvement with MIH
Compared to the previous year, there was a decrease in volunteering hours (from 8,794 in 2022 to 6,346 in 2023) due mainly to the meal service operations relocating and merging with the cookery school in September/October 2023, resulting in a significant drop in the number of meals cooked, the number of kitchen volunteers required for the meal service, and less need for volunteers for meal deliveries.
While the number of meaningful volunteer opportunities decreased from 1,874 (in 2022) to 1,515 (in 2023), the number of volunteers slightly increased, due to more small companies providing staff to volunteer as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility employee volunteering initiatives.
The Trustees are hugely grateful to all of MIH’s volunteers for their time, skills and dedication. More information on how they support our charity can be found on pages 29-30 of the MIH Annual Impact Report 2022-2023.
## Public Benefit
The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives, and in implementing current and future activities. The Trustees have considered this matter and concluded:
- That the aims of the organisation continue to be charitable;
- The aims and the work done give identifiable benefits to the charitable sector and both directly and indirectly to individuals in need;
- That the benefits are for the public and not necessarily restricted in any way and certainly not by ability to pay; and
- There is no detriment or harm arising from the activities.
## Financial Review
This Trustees’ annual report and financial statements cover the 12-month period ended 31st October 2023.
MIH received £743,964 in income during the year (2021/22: £696,455), with £624,320 from grants and donations (2021/22: £578,723); £74,597 of trading income from online and in person classes (2021/22: £72,735); £31,955 of income from contracts (2020/21: £30,977); and £13,092 from other income (2021/22: £14,020).
Income has increased vs. the previous year by £47,509. Income from grants in the financial year ending 31st October 2022 was £93,674 higher than the previous year, while income from donations was £48,027 lower than the previous year. The income from trading activities stayed similar, increasing by £1,862, as MIH maintained the same level of activities.
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During this period the charity had four key programmes – running a Community Cookery School and Community Meal Service, the Global Plant Kitchens project, launched in May 2023 and Plant Prospects (previously referred to as Plant Futures).
This financial year MIH was focused on the following initiatives within these programmes:
- Launch of the Global Plant Kitchens’ online training platform and toolkit to support others to set up
- or grow a plant-based community cookery school
- Restructuring the Community Meal service, a project born during the Covid Pandemic, lasting for
- 3 years, and adapting our approach to one based one batch cooking classes.
- Collaborating with Public Health in providing cookery classes
- Developing cookery classes themed around health conditions such as asthma, type 2 diabetes,
- weight management, various types of cancers and others.
Total expenditure amounted to £758,369 (2021/22: £656,325), resulting in net expenditure of £14,405 (2021/22: net income of £40,130) for the period. Of this, £46,109 is restricted and neutralised by a surplus of £31,704 in unrestricted funds (2021/22: £333 restricted and £39,797 unrestricted).
Total Funds Carried Forward at 31[st] October 2023 were £541,605, with £243,489 restricted and £298,116 unrestricted reserves (2021/22: £289,598 restricted and £266,412 unrestricted).
The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern. This included giving due consideration to the continued rising inflation, cost of life crisis and U.K. general economic downturn on income and expenditure as well as its long-term effect on the charity.
## Reserve Policy
The trustees have set a reserves policy whereby the free reserves (unrestricted funds after deducting tangible assets) held by MIH should be equivalent to six months’ core operating costs (which include Salaries & Wages, Premises Costs, Administrative & General / Office Costs as well IT, Digital & Telephone), £20,000 towards wrapping up committed activities, £20,000 to support innovation and development together with £10,000 to provide for prolonged staff sickness, which equates to £272,000. This provides some stability for the organisation were it to experience a fall in income from grants, fundraising and class sales, or a significant shock again such as the pandemic. At the end of FY23 we were meeting our reserves policy (£259,153 - unrestricted funds less fixed assets) with a small deficit. The trustees review the reserves policy annually, as well as the figures required to meet that policy. The 2023 Reserve policy has not changed from the previous financial year.
## Going Concern
The Trustees have not identified any circumstance that will hinder the charity from meeting any of its financial obligations in the immediate future.
The trustees are confident of the ability of the charity to continue as a going concern in the foreseeable future.
## Structure, Governance and Management
Made In Hackney is a charity registered in England and Wales (1176690) regulated by the Charity Commission.
Made In Hackney is governed by a Board of Trustees (11 individuals) who are responsible for determining the strategic direction and policies in conjunction with the core staff team led by the founder – Sarah Bentley. The Board meets a minimum of four times a year to review the organisation’s activities and to track progress against strategic targets. The board has delegated day to day running of the charity to the core staff team.
The board is led by a Chair of Trustees, Clare Preedy. The board also includes a named Treasurer (Irina Nedashkovskaya Basile) and Secretariat (Sarah Biggs).
Three Trustees resigned from the Board and one new member was appointed:
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- Tara Sukumar resigned November 2022
- Carla Garnelas appointed December 2022
- Melissa Saint Hill resigned October 2023
- Ashley Pollock resigned October 2023
As of December 2022, Carla Garnelas was a safeguarding representative. Bianca Stewart became a risk lead and GDPR representative. A “Resource and Remuneration” sub-committee was also formed in May 2023, with Clare Preedy, Ashley Pollock and Irina Nedashkovskaya Basile together with Rashmi Joshi as the MIH staff representative.
Made In Hackney considers each of the trustees to be independent in character and judgement and understands that they have no relationships that are likely to affect, or could appear to affect, their judgements with regard to the charity. Declarations of interest are required from new Trustees upon appointment and every meeting of the Board requires that any new interests are declared. No remuneration is provided except for reasonable travel and subsistence costs. Trustees regularly review the progress of the charity and its funding. Trustees are responsible for setting the strategy for Made In Hackney and securing both the public benefit delivered through its outcomes and impact, as well as the sustainability of the charity.
## Recruitment of Trustees
NCVO recommends trustees only sit on a board for as long as they are effective and this should be reviewed after a term of three years. The last full review was in December 2022 when 1 new trustee was recruited. The review process is continuing on a rolling basis.
## Risk Management
Made In Hackney’s approach to risk management is proactive and integrated into day-to-day working. Risk management is a key strategic activity for the Board. It is routinely woven into Board meetings, Committee meetings, and operational team meetings. Risks may arise from the environment in which Made In Hackney operates, whilst others may relate to the strengths and weaknesses of the charity at this point in its development. The major risks to the charity have been identified in a comprehensive risk register (governance, operational, financial, environmental) and management of these are monitored and reviewed by the Risk Management Committee as part of the papers for each Committee meeting. Risks are considered in the categories of strategic and operational risks. Risks are assessed by their impact and likelihood and the register also includes a summary of the mitigating actions and the risk owner to ensure responsibility.
There have been a number of changes to address organisational risks, including:
- Specific focus on fundraising. As the organisation is growing it is crucial that all staff can play their part, so we have upskilled more members of the team to feel comfortable submitting grant applications.
- Changing location to reduce costs and bring all programmes together physically, with the full meal service and cookery classes now held at our office, Liberty Hall
- Creating stability through change, to ensure staff movements do not impact Made In Hackney’s ability to meet its aims and objectives, the Board have been working more closely to support the staff team as needed.
- Made in Hackney refers to the Charity Commission guidance for its risk management policy. Some risks are mitigated by holding insurance, which is comprehensive. Insured risks include public and employers’ liability, professional indemnity and Trustees’ liability.
## Safeguarding
The safety of participants, many of whom are at risk of harm, is of paramount importance and the charity’s services and activities are developed to support the welfare and safety of children, young people and adults at risk of harm. Our safeguarding policies and procedures are reviewed annually by the core team and board of trustees and safeguarding issues are reported and monitored in line with these procedures. All
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staff, volunteers and trustees are DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checked and have regular training in safeguarding. All Board members conducted refresher training in child and adult safeguarding this year. The Operations Manager is the Designated Safeguarding Lead for the organisation, reporting to the board’s lead trustee responsible for safeguarding.
## Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
At Made In Hackney we celebrate our differences across our community of teachers, staff, board members, volunteers, participants, partners and friends. We strive to ensure that equality, diversity, inclusion, and equity are actively promoted in everything we do.
Creating a safe, supportive, and discrimination-free environment is one of our goals, as well as ensuring that individuals with inadequate access to physical, socioeconomic, and mental health outcomes and low levels of food knowledge have greater access to resources. To maximise our impact, we work collaboratively with the community to identify under-served groups.
By continuously reviewing our practices and policies, we aim to empower and enable people to speak out when they encounter discrimination and act appropriately when addressing discriminatory behaviour. Our goal is to be forward-thinking in all aspects of equality, diversity, inclusion, and equity (EDIE).
Following 31st October 2023 the board of trustees formalised the creation of an EDI working group to further support this important topic, with Jenny Chu now acting as lead trustee working with members of the staff team.
## Staff
As of 31st October 2023, Made in Hackney had a total of 12 staff on PAYE (FY22:12), as follows:
- 1 staff member on 5 days a week (FY22: 2)
- • 1 staff member on 4.5 days a week (FY22: 1) • 5 staff members on 4 days a week (FY22: 6) • 1 staff member on 3 days a week (FY22: 1) • 1 staff member on 2.5 days a week (FY22: 0) • 3 staff members on 2 days a week (FY22: 2)
In September 2023, Made in Hackney’s founder, Sarah Bentley, stepped down from day to day operations into an ambassadorial role for the charity, through which she continues to promote MIH’s work.
Sarah also continues to provide support to some key projects into 2024, to ensure full delivery and a smooth transition of responsibilities to the rest of the team.
## Future Plans (WIP)
Looking forward into 2024, MIH will continue to build on the great success of its core programmes in order to extend reach and further deepen our impact across our primary areas of focus: health and wellbeing, environment and community.
However, recognising the significant evolution of the charity over the last 3 years, in response to external factors such as the COVID pandemic, the board of trustees will undertake a full strategic review in 2024 in order to ensure the charity's strategic objectives remain relevant and continue to be met.
Furthermore, the organisation's structure and resources will be reviewed to ensure the continued strength of the core team, with effective support and leadership to achieve our goals.
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## Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements
Charity law requires the charity trustees to prepare financial statements for each accounting period which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity for the income and expenditure for the period. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:
● select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
● state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
● prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The financial statements on the below pages were approved by the Board of Trustees on 29[th] August 2024 and signed on its behalf by:
Clare Preedy (Chair)
Irina Nedashkovskaya Basile (Treasurer)
Trustee Trustee
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## **Made In Hackney**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report for the year ended 31 October 2023**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 October 2023 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and related notes.
## **Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner**
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Charities Act”) and that an independent examination is needed. The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention
## **Basis of Independent Examiner’s Statement**
My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Olayinka Tomori ACA DChA**
**Longmeade Consult Ltd Springhead Road Northfleet Kent, DA11 8HN**
**29[th] August 2024**
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## **Made in Hackney**
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
**For the Year Ended 31 Oct 2023**
|**Made in Hackney**
**Statement of Financial Activities**
**For the Year Ended 31 Oct 2023**|**Made in Hackney**
**Statement of Financial Activities**
**For the Year Ended 31 Oct 2023**|**Made in Hackney**
**Statement of Financial Activities**
**For the Year Ended 31 Oct 2023**|
|---|---|---|
||||
||**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Endowments**
**Funds**
**Total 2023**|**Total 2022**|
|**Note**
**s**|**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|
|**Income From:**
_Donations and legacies_
**2**
Grants
**3**
Donations
**4**
Donated Goods / Services
_Other Charitable Activities_
**5**
Contracts
_Other Trading Activities_
Cookery Classes
**6**
_Investments_|374,258 30,113 - 404,371
106,641 97,560 - 204,201
15,710 38 - 15,748
31,955 - - 31,955
- 74,597 - 74,597
- 1,852 - 1,852|310,697
252,229
15,797
30,977
72,735
263|
|**6a**
_Other Income_|- 11,240 - 11,240|13,757|
||||
|**Total Income**|**528,564 215,400 - 743,964**|**696,455**|
|**Expenditure on:**
**7**
Expenditure on raising donations and legacies
**8**
Expenditure on charitiable activities|- 57,911 - 57,911
548,519 - - 548,519|85,839
480,268|
|**9**
Expenditure on contracts
**10**
Expenditure on other trading activities|26,154 - - 26,154
- 125,785 - 125,785|20,046
70,172|
|**Total Expenditure**|**574,673 183,696 - 758,369**|**656,325**|
||||
|**Net Income (Expenditure)**|**- 46,109 31,704 - - 14,405**|**40,130**|
|**Reconciliation of Funds**|||
|**Total Funds Brought Forward**|**289,598 266,412 - 556,010**|**515,880**|
|**Total Funds Carried Forward**|**243,489 298,116 - 541,605**|**556,010**|
||||
All activities are continuing.
All gains and losses recognised in the year are included above.
The notes on pages 13 to 22 part of these financial statements.
The accompanying accounting policies and notes form an integral part of these financial statements. Full comparative figures for the year ended 31 October 2023 are shown in note 17.
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~~**Made in Hackney**~~ **Balance Sheet As at 31 Oct 2023**
||**Restricted**
**Unrestricted**
**Endowment**
**Total 2023**||**Total 2022**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**s**|**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**||**£**|
|**Fixed Asset**||||
|Tangible Assets|38,762
200
38,962||56,640|
|**12**
**Total Assets**|**38,762**
**200**
**0**
**38,962**||**56,640**|
|**Current Asset**
**13**
Cash at bank and in hand
**14**
Debtors|192,516
301,925
494,441
28,185
2,731
30,916|
|501,502
37,845|
|**Total Current Assets (Net**
**Current Assets)**|**220,701**
**304,656**
**0**
**525,357**||**539,347**|
|**15**
**Current Liabilities**
Creditors amounts falling due
within one year|15,974
6,740
22,714||39,977|
|**Total Current Liabilities**|**15,974**
**6,740**
**0**
**22,714**||**39,977**|
|||||
|**Net Current Assets**|**204,727**
**297,916**
**0**
**502,643**||**499,370**|
|||||
|**Total Net Assets**|**243,489**
**298,116**
**0**
**541,605**||**556,010**|
|**Charity Funds:**
Endowment Funds
Restricted Funds|0
0
0
0
243,489
0
0
243,489|
|0
289,598|
|Unrestricted Funds|0
298,116
0
298,116||266,412|
|**Total Charity Funds**|**243,489**
**298,116**
**0**
**541,605**||**556,010**|
|||||
Approved by the Trustees on 29[th] August 2024 and signed on their behalf by:
Clare Preedy (Chair)
Irina Nedashkovskaya Basile (Treasurer)
Trustee
Trustee
The accompanying accounting policies and notes form an integral part of these financial statements.
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## **Made in Hackney Statement of Cash Flows For the Year Ended 31 Oct 2023**
||**Total 2023**
**Total 2023**||**Total 2022**
**Total 2022**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**£**
**£**||**£**
**£**|
|**Cash Flows from Operating Activities**||||
|**Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities**|**- 8,913**||**63,149**|
|**Cash Flows from Investing Activities**
Interest Received
Purchase of a Tangible Fixed Asset
**Net Cash in Investing Activities**
**Cash Flows from Financing Activities**
**Net Cash from Financing Activities**|1,852
0
**1,852**
**-**||263
- 5,790
**- 5,527**
**-**|
|**Change in Cash and Cash Equivalent in the**
**reporting period**|**- 7,061**||**57,623**|
|Change in Cash and Cash Equivalent at the beginning
of the reporting period|501,502||443,880|
|**Change in Cash and Cash Equivalent at the End of**
**the reporting period**|**494,441**||**501,502**|
|**Note:**
**Cash Flows from Operating Activities**
Net Income (Loss) for the year
Adjustments for:
Depreciation Charged||||
||- 14,405
17,678||40,130
16,521|
|Interest Received
Decrease (Increase) in Debtors
Increase (Decrease) in Creditors
Decrease (Increase) in Donated Assets|- 1,852
6,929
- 17,263
-||- 263
6,369
392
-|
|**Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities**|**- 8,913**||**63,149**|
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**Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## 1. Accounting Policies
## **1.1 Charity Information**
The principal accounting policies have been applied consistently in dealing with items which are considered material in relation to Made in Hackney’s Financial Statements. Made in Hackney is a registered charity in England and Wales and is a public benefit entity. Made in Hackney’s registered office and operational address is: Liberty Hall, 128 Clapton Common, Spring Hill, Clapton, LONDON E5 9AA.
## **1.2 Basis for Preparation of Accounts**
The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS102) applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS102 the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (Second Edition effective 1 January 2019) and UK Generally Accepted Practice.
At the time of approving the financial statements, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, the trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
## **1.3 Charitable Funds**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of their charitable objectives.
Restricted funds are subject to specific conditions by donors as to how they may be used.
## **1.4 Income**
Income is recognised and included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the income, receipt is probable and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Grant income: Grants are credited to the SOFA when the charity is entitled to the funds. Income is only deferred where there are time constraints imposed by the donor or if the funding is performance related.
Grants that have specific restrictions placed upon are credited to restricted income within the SOFA on an entitlement basis. Unspent balances are carried forward within the relevant restricted fund.
Donations: Individual donations are recognised in the period in which they are received. Fundraising events income is included in donation and legacies income as the funds received are by nature donations rather than funds paid to gain a benefit. Event income to which the charity has a legal entitlement and that is being held by a third-party agent is recognised on a receivable basis.
Donated Goods / Services: facilities and services donated for the charity’s use, where the benefit is quantifiable and the goods or services would otherwise have had to be purchased, are recognised in the Financial Statements, as both income and expenditure, at a reasonable estimate of their value in the period in which they are donated.
Contracts: Contracts are credited to restricted income within the SOFA on an entitlement basis. Unspent balances are carried forward within the relevant restricted fund.
Cookery Classes: Income from classes is recognised when they are invoiced, income from vouchers is recognised on purchase date and the income that is being held by a third-party agent is recognised on a receivable basis.
Online Classes: Income from online classes is recognised when they are invoiced, income from vouchers on purchase date and the income that is being held by a third-party agent is recognised on a receivable basis.
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## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
## **1.4 Expenditure**
Expenditure is recognised in the period in which it is incurred on an accruals basis.
Resources expended are recognised in the period in which they are incurred. Resources expended are allocated to the particular activity where the cost relates directly to that activity. Certain costs, which are attributable to more than one activity, are apportioned across cost categories on the basis of an estimate of the proportion of time spent by personnel on those activities.
## **1.5 Taxation**
Charity is VAT registered and adopts a Fixed Rate Scheme, set at 7.5%. The charity charges 20% to their trading customers.
## **1.6 Fixed Assets**
Tangible assets are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year, and cost at least £400.They are valued at cost or, if gifted, at their value on receipt.
Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write down the cost of each asset to its estimated residual value over its expected useful life. Assets are depreciated on straight-line basis.
The depreciation rates in use are as follows:
|Donated Assets:|5 years|
|---|---|
|Fixtures and Fittings:|5 years|
|Computer Hardware:|5 years|
|Fixtures and Fitting of New Kitchen:|5 years|
|Equipment:|5 years|
Assets are reviewed for impairment if circumstances indicate their carrying value may exceed their net realisable value and value in use.
## **1.7 Cash at Bank and in Hand**
Cash at bank and in hand is held to meet short-term cash commitments as they fall due rather than for investment purposes.
## **1.8 Debtors**
Debtors and other receivable are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment is established when there is objective evidence that the charity will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.
## **1.9 Creditors**
Creditors are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors are normally recognised at their settlement amount, usually the invoice amount.
## **1.10 Pension**
Made in Hackney operates a defined contribution scheme through NEST. Contributions are charged to the SOFA as they become payable.
## **1.11 Staff Costs**
No Employees earned more than £60,000. All staff are paid the same full time equivalent of £35,000pa.
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## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
|**Notes to the Financial Statements(Continued)**|||
|---|---|---|
|**2**
**Income From Grants:**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Endowments**
**Funds**|
**Total 2023**|
**Total 2022**|
|**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Karuna Foundation
80,524
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
3,639
L&Q Foundation
15,802
Bupa Foundation
25,000
Adobe Foundation
15,113
Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation UK
22,000
David & Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust
15,000
Investec
5,380
The Worshipful Company of Insurers
5,000
City Bridge Trust
41,000 -
National Lottery Community Fund
28,185 -
Garfield Weston Foundation
25,000 -
The Forrester Family Trust
20,000 -
Support & Feed
15,754 -
Greenbaum Foundation
15,736 -
Animal Charity Evaluators Movement Grants
15,499 -
The Holroyd Foundation
- 10,000
London Borough of Hackney VCS Grants
8,938 -
The Big Give Trust
6,250 -
Other grants £5k or Less
25,551 5,000
Postcode Society Trust
MCKS Charitable Foundation UK
The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity
London Borough of Hackney*
Broadgate Community Fund|80,524
3,639
15,802
25,000
15,113
22,000
15,000
5,380
5,000
41,000
28,185
25,000
20,000
15,754
15,736
15,499
10,000
8,938
6,250
30,551
-
-
-
-
-|95,197
36,392
16,628
15,860
15,769
15,000
10,000
6,000
6,000
37,004
19,769
10,000
10,000
8,938
8,140|
|**Total to October 2023**
**374,258 30,113 -**|**404,371**||
|**Total to October 2022**
**276,766 33,931**||**310,697**|
|**3**
**Income From Donations:**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Endowments**
**Funds**|||
||
**Total 2023**||
|**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Crowdfunding Income
104,991 8
Donated Income
1,650 82,399
Gift Aid
- 15,153|104,999
84,049
15,153|164,763
63,188
24,279|
|**Total to October 2023**
**106,641 97,560 -**|**204,201**||
||||
|**Total to October 2022**||**252,229**|
||||
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## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
Donated Items include ingredients and free space for the meal service
|**5**
**Income From Contract:**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Endowments**
**Funds**|
**Total 2023**|
**Total 2022**|
|---|---|---|
|**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|
|London Borough of Hackney
31,955 - -|31,955|30,977|
|**Total to October 2023**
**31,955 - -**|**31,955**||
|**Total to October 2022**
**30,977 - -**||**30,977**|
|**6**
**Income From Investments:**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Endowments**
**Funds**|||
||
**Total 2023**||
|**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Bank Interest
- 1,852 -|1,852|263|
|**Total to October 2023**
**- 1,852 -**|**1,852**||
|**Total to October 2022**
**- 263 -**||**263**|
||||
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## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
## **Analysis of Expenses**
|**Analysis of Expenses**|||
|---|---|---|
|**7**
**Expenditure on raising donations and legacies**
**Restricted**
**Unrestricted Endowments**|**Total 2023**|
**Total 2022**|
|**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Direct Costs
- 9,916 -
Staff Costs
- 42,013 -
Support Costs
- 5,982 -|9,916
42,013
5,982|26,526
56,032
3,281|
|**Total to October 2023**
**- 57,911 -**|**57,911**||
|**Total to October 2022**
**- 85,839 -**||**85,839**|
|**8**
**Expenditure on charitiable activities**
**Restricted**
**Unrestricted**
**Endowments**|||
||**Total 2023**||
|**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**From Meal Service:**
Direct Costs
107,254 - -
Depreciation and Amortisation
1,158 - -
Staff Costs
65,482 - -
Support Costs
16,894 - -
**Sub Total**
**190,788 - -**
**From Main Charitable Activities:**
Direct Costs
113,545 - -
Depreciation and Amortisation
16,320 - -
Staff Costs
173,159 - -
Support Costs
54,707 - -
**Sub Total**
**357,731 - -**|107,254
1,158
65,482
16,894
**190,788**
113,545
16,320
173,159
54,707
**357,731**|92,982
-
56,550
14,482
**164,014**
75,626
16,321
176,367
47,940
**316,254**|
|**Total to October 2023**
**548,519 - -**|**548,519**||
||||
|**Total to October 2022**
**480,268 - -**||**480,268**|
|Independent Examiner fee for the year was £1,350 (2022: £1,250)
**9**
**Expenditure on contracts**
**Restricted**
**Unrestricted Endowments**|||
||**Total 2023**||
|**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Direct Costs
21,142 - -
Staff Costs
4,657 - -
Support Costs
355 - -|21,142
4,657
355|12,581
6,765
700|
|**Total to October 2023**
**26,154 - -**|**26,154**||
|**Total to October 2022**
**20,046 - -**||**20,046**|
||||
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## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
|**Notes to the Financial Statements(Continued)**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**10**
**Expenditure on other trading activities**
**Restricted**
**Unrestricted **|**Endowments**|**Total 2023**|
**Total 2022**|
|**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Direct Costs
- 27,526
Depreciation and Amortisation
- 200
Staff Costs
- 79,529|-
-
-|27,526
200
79,529|28,362
200
38,326|
|Support Costs
- 18,530|-|18,530|3,284|
|**Total to October 2023**
**- 125,785**|**-**|**125,785**||
|||||
|**Total to October 2022**
**- 70,172**|**-**||**70,172**|
|**11**
**Salaries and Wages and Related Parties**||||
||**Total 2023**|||
||**£**|**£**||
|Salaries|328,864|300,081||
|Social Services (NI)|23,910|22,434||
|Pension
Furlough|12,066|11,526||
||**364,840**|**334,041**||
|||||
## No Employees earned more than £60,000
Key personnel, being the founder, received a salary of £34,742 for this reporting period. Previous year this was £25,566 No trustee member were paid any renumeration
Number of Employee, FTE, at the year end was 8.2 (2022: 9.1)
At year end on 31 Oct 2023, Made in Hackney 12 had staff on PAYE.
|Days a Week
Employed for (Number of Days per Week):
5
Employed for (Number of Days per Week):
4.5
Employed for (Number of Days per Week):
4
Employed for (Number of Days per Week):
3
Employed for (Number of Days per Week):
2.5
Employed for (Number of Days per Week):
2|Number of
Staff 2023
FTE 2023
1
1
1
0.9
5
4
1
0.6
1
0.5
3
1.2|
|---|---|
||**12**
**8.2**|
## **11a Related Party**
No trustee members received funds for any work they carried out for Made in Hackney.
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## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
|**Notes to the Financial Statements(Continued)**||
|---|---|
|**12 Fixed Assets**
**Donated**
**Assets**
**Fixtures and**
**Fittings**
**Computer**
**Hardware**
**Equipment**
**Costs**
**New**
**Premises**||
||**Total 2023**|
|**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|**£**|
|**Costs**
At 1 Nov 2022
18,396
998
2,246
5,790
60,960
Additions
-
-
-
-
-|88,390
-|
|**At 31 Oct 2022**
**18,396 998 2,246 5,790 60,960**|**88,390**|
|**Accumulated Depreciation**
At 1 Nov 2022
7,358
599
659
-
23,134
Additions / Disposals
3,680
199
449
1,158
12,192|31,750
17,678|
|**At 31 Oct 2022**
**11,038 798 1,108 1,158 35,326**|**49,428**|
|**NBV**
At 31 Oct 2022
11,038
399
1,587
5,790
37,826|56,640|
|**At 31 Oct 2023**
**7,358 200 1,138 4,632 25,634**|**38,962**|
|||
## **13 Cash at Bank and in Hand**
Amounts falling due within one year:
|Amounts falling due within one year:|||
|---|---|---|
||**Total 2023**|**Total 2022**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Cash on hand
Paypal
Triodos Bank
CAF Bank|111
6,244
291,239
196,847|194
25,242
352,646
123,420|
|**Total Cash at Bank and in Hand**|**494,441**|**501,502**|
||||
## **14 Debtors**
Amounts falling due within one year:
||**Total 2023**|**Total 2022**|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|
|Trade Debtors
Other Debtors|30,916
**-**|37,845
**-**|
|**Total Debtors**|**30,916**|**37,845**|
||||
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Charity Registration Number: 1176690
## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
## **15a OPERATING LEASE COMMITMENTS**
At the year end, the charity had the following minimum future operating lease commitments
|Leases which expire:
Within one year
Within two to five years
Over five years|**2023**
**2022**
£
£
Premises
Premises
9,600 9,600
26,000 36,000
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|
||**35,600 45,600**|
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Charity Registration Number: 1176690
## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
**16 Analysis of Restricted Funds**
|**16 Analysis of Restricted Funds**||
|---|---|
||**Balance at 1**
**Nov 2022**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Transfers**
**Balance at**
**31 Oct 2023**|
||**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**|
|Karuna Foundation (Mentoring Programme)
Karuna Foundation
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - National
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - General Grant
L&Q Housing Trust
Bupa Foundation
Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation UK
David & Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust
Investec
The Worshipful Company of Insurers
National Lottery Community Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Forrester Family Trust
Support & Feed
Greenbaum Foundation
Animal Charity Evaluators Movement Grants
London Borough of Hackney VCS Grants
The Big Give Trust
Other grants £5k or Less
London City Airport Community Fund
City of London (Citybridge)
Vegan Campaign Ltd
Rank Foundation
Bulldog
Fidelity
Veganuary
In Kind Donated Good (Queen of Hoxton, Felix Project,
Clear Spring)
Crowding Funding (Meal Service)
Mr Organic
Second Growth
London Borough of Hackney (Public Health)|64
80,523
34,383
-
46,204
16,448
-
16,448
-
-
52,993
-
27,587
-
25,406
-
3,640
3,640
-
-
-
15,802
6,399
-
9,403
13,192
25,000
38,192
-
-
-
22,000
22,000
-
-
-
15,000
15,000
-
-
-
5,380
5,380
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
-
-
-
28,185
28,185
-
-
-
25,000
25,000
-
-
-
20,000
20,000
-
-
-
15,754
15,754
-
-
-
15,736
15,736
-
-
-
15,499
15,499
-
-
-
8,938
8,938
-
-
-
6,250
6,250
-
-
-
25,552
9,801
-
15,751
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
-
-
98
-
41,000
41,254
-
352
-
13,750
13,750
-
-
1,000
1,000
-
-
5,000
5,000
-
-
10,000
10,000
-
-
34,720
34,720
-
-
-
15,710
15,710
-
-
91,069
104,991
103,259
-
92,801
-
1,150
1,150
-
-
-
500
500
-
-
48,460
31,954
26,138
54,276
289,598
528,564
574,673
-
243,489|
## Restricted Grants received were for:
Karuna Foundation: To support new community kitchens through our Global Plant Kitchens programme.
L&Q Foundation: To carry out 30 cookery sessions for 12-18 year olds.
Bupa Foundation: To increase businesses and organisation's plant-based offer through our Plant Prospects programme.
Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation UK: Towards core costs of Made In Hackney.
David & Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust: Towards programme costs of cookery classes, Global Plant Kitchens and free meals service.
Investec: Towards intergenerational cookery classes and courses.
The Worshipful Company of Insurers: Towards costs of Made In Hackney.
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Charity Registration Number: 1176690
## **Made In Hackney**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements (Continued)**
City Bridge Trust: Towards intergenerational cookery classes and courses.
National Lottery Community Fund: Towards cost of living support for community through provision of free meals.
Garfield Weston Foundation: Towards the cost of our cookery class programme over 12 months.
The Forrester Family Trust: Towards cost of living support for community through provision of free meals and budget cooking classes.
Support & Feed: Towards the provision of free vegan meals to the community.
Greenbaum Foundation: Towards the Global Plant Kitchens programme supporting new community kitchens.
Animal Charity Evaluators Movement Grants: Towards the Global Plant Kitchens programme supporting new community kitchens.
London Borough of Hackney VCS Grants: Towards the cost of cookery classes and courses for carers The Big Give Trust: Towards cost of living support for community through provision of free meals.
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