2023-01-31-accounts - Splott Community Volunteers

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Splott Community Volunteers’ Trustees’ Report 2022 - 2023

Governance

We meet monthly as trustees and have sought to address skills gaps by advertising for additional trustees following a previous skills audit. We have moved to our own premises this year and now have premises, health and safety and safeguarding as standing items on our agendas. We use a health and safety management system to log everything and go through at trustee meetings. We have DBS checks in place where required.

We have recently (2023-2024 financial year) taken on two members of staff, funded by the Community Lottery Fund, and have a set of policies in place for this.

Staff members, supported by volunteers, deliver one breakfast club and 3 warm clubs a week, plus other events. We work closely with the Trussell Trust, Fareshare Cymru, Neighbourly, Food Cardiff and other organisations tackling food poverty. We also work closely with organisations such as Cardiff Council, National Energy Action and Seren in the Community.

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The prevention and relief of poverty in the Cardiff area by providing free meals, foodbank facility and advice to disadvantaged individuals. Provision of volunteering opportunities for members of the local community.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The aim of Splott Community Volunteers is to offer affordable, healthy, food services to disadvantaged community members, or those who simply struggle to eat on a working wage. Our Breakfast Clubs provide for disadvantaged families, ethnic minority groups, the homeless and unhoused, elderly and isolated people. We have 20 plus dedicated volunteers and run a Breakfast Club in the Splott area, providing hot meals for an average of 90 people. Our volunteers form core

groups to run the Breakfast Clubs and come together for fundraising events, covering holidays and sickness, etc., on an ad hoc basis, as some also hold fulltime jobs. We also raise funds to combine a range of affordable entertainment and food services such as Santa's Grotto, Community Meals, Quiz and Curry evenings, using food as a great icebreaker and leveller for multi-generational and cultural groups. We believe that sharing good practice is key and work together with partnership organisations to provide progressive pathways for volunteers of all ages and varied abilities, some of whom are on a journey to recovery from alcohol, drugs, mental health or isolation. We help them to feel more positively integrated and included within the community, which builds confidence and prepares them to move forward in their journey and hopefully into the workplace. Other volunteers have backgrounds, or are currently working in, community development, dietetics, HR, office management and H&S and utilise their skills for the benefit of the charity.

We have taken on two staff members which has helped us respond to increased demand for our services as well as deliver 3 Warm Clubs a week where people can come along stay warm, eat and learn. We are offering IT skills at the moment as well as information on keeping warm.

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

We have no formal policy on reserves. Our staffing costs are covered by quarterly payments from the community fund and contracts run for the duration of the funding. We have always ensured a sufficient balance to cover insurance, food and running costs for the foreseeable future.

Edward Stubbs

Chair

Splott Community Volunteers

CHARIIY COMMISSION ' FOR ENfjLANO AND WALES Splolt Communlty Volunteer$ Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period frorn To 01102r2022 31101r2023 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowineiit fund$ Total fund$ Lastyear lo th• nearoJl£ lo Iho nearest£ tolh4 nearest£ A1 Recgl ts Oonai*)ns 24,153 37.782 2),100 Sub total(Gross income for AR) 47.760 47.760 J7,282 A2 Assel and Investment $ale$. Isee table). Sub lolal Total receipts 47.760 47,760 37,282 A3Pa ment$ consumae5 Rent 7.706 3,000 1,787 762 7,766 3,ODO 1.767 IS2 13,3fO Expensts siaff EnlertaSnmenl ID$ufafj SubScllpn3 1.fj25 788 291 1,625 SulldryEApBll5el 291 Sub totol 17,092 17.092 13,310 A4 A$$et and Investment yr¢hase5, Ise& table PnI& •AaCn+ 1,912 1,912 Sub total 1,912 1.912 Total payments 19,004 19,004 1J,310 Net of recelpts/(paym•rtts) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds thls year 8nd 28,766 78,766 23.972 39.603 68,259 39,603 eB.2S9 16,531 J9,603 CCXX R1 accounts ISSI 23108f2023

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Uiir8slricl8d funds to nearg51£ Reslricta funds to ngArèst£ Endowinénl funds to n•aT•gt£ alegories Details B1 Cash funds CurMnlAecouni fj3,391 Saww5Ac¢ounl 14.108 C8gh 760 Total cash funds 68.269 QK Endowmenl fund$ to nfrarèst£ Unreslrlctèd funds to ngJr•s1 E Restrlcted funds to narèst£ Details Piepaymenis B2 Othr mongtary assets 61Tr FundtOwhl¢h Currentvalue D&lai15 Fund towhl¢h Delalls Generaiof Coit loptlonall Cuirenlvalue B4 Assets relalned for the charlty's own usè UnrstAtted 1,000 000 unreStle6 468 374 GIKld Unlested 355 Furtd to Ythlch Amtsunt rfu9 tbnal hen due Oetails 85 Ll8bllltlè$ unles1tEd 6QO SJned byone OT fvffjtruslees on beh81f of all truslee5 SLqnalur8 Print Nam8 Dale or roval CCKX R2 accounls ISSI 2310812023

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustee5 Sploti Community Volunteers On a¢¢ounts for the year ended 31 January 2023 Charlty no Ilf any) 1177771 Set out on pages I report lo the Iruslees on my examination of the account8 ol the above charity ("Ihe Trust") for the year ended 31 January 2023. Responsibillties and basis of report As Ihe charity's trustees, you are responsible for the prep2ralion of Ihe accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Acl 2011 I"Ihe Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by Ihe Charity Commission under section 14515llb) ol the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material mallers have examiner's statement come lo my attenlion in conneclion with the examination which gives me cause to believe Ihal in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kepl in accordance with section 130 of the Charilies Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records.. or the accounls did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and conlenl of accounts sel out in Ihe Charities {Accounls 2nd Reports) RegLslalions 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'lrue and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination lo which allenlion should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounls lo be reached. Slgned,. 1710812023 Name: Leanne Euslace Relevant professional qualiflcatlonlsl or body (If any): IFA, FCCA, FMAAT Address: Accounted For Ltd Unit 2 Rverbrfdge Business Cenlre, Rhymney River Bridge Road Cardiff, CF23 9FP IER Oct 2018

Section 8 Disclosure Only complete il Ihe examiner needs lo highlight material mallers of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidanc8 for examiners). Glve here brief details of any items that the examiner wlshes to disclose. NA IER Oct 2018