2024-05-31-accounts - Friends Of Essex & London Homeless

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day M Year Day Month Year 01 06 2023 To 31 05 2024

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Friends Of Essex & London Homeless

Other names charity is known by FOELH Registered charity number (if any) 1178366

Charity's principal address 233 Caspian Way Purfleet on Thames Essex Postcode RM19 1LB

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
		Steven A Stuart
		Donna S Bridges
		DorothyM Stuart

















		Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
		Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance, and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

CIO Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) By meeting legal requirements and adopting a governing document How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed By Existing Trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

All people facing volunteers have an enhanced DB.
You may choose to include additional information, where We have Policies and procedures in place….
relevant, about:  policies and procedures Safeguarding for vulnerable adults and children adopted for the induction and training of trustees. First aid and defibrillator training
the charity’s organisational Food hygiene
structure and any wider network with which the charity GDPR works.
relationship with any related Substance misuse parties. Health and safety
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system Equality, diversity, and inclusion
and procedures to manage them. Fire safety

Section C Objectives and activities

To offer relief of those in need by reason of homelessness, poverty, or other hardship because of social and economic circumstances by providing food, meals, clothing, support, advice, and information required Summary of the objects of the to meet the basic standard of living and who are situated in and around charity set out in its Essex and the London areas governing document

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Trustees have had the regard to the guidance by the charities commission on the public benefit.

We run two weekly soup kitchens incorporating an everyday essential food bank at one of these.

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)

We provide a range of outreach services and advice if required and always look to follow a good working partnership with any local authorities, outside agencies and voluntary organisations that we involved with and this in turn increases the range of services available to our service users.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

All our volunteers are extremely committed to helping those we see each week and take pride in what they do and will always go beyond to help service users

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grant making.
policy programme related investment.
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

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Section E Financial review

All reserves are fully allocated Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

Friends of Essex & London Homeless funds for 2023/2024 have come You may choose to include from donations, sponsors, grants, and fundraising additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising).
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity.
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

We have throughout the year continued to promote FOELH within Essex and London as we see so many people in need of our services, and this is on the increase due to the cost-of-living crisis

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date	S A Stuart
	Steven Andrew Stuart
	Co-Founder & Trustee
	27thFebruary 2025

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Charity Name No (if any) Friends of Essex & London Homeless Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 6/1/2023 5/31/2024

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds

Total funds Last year

to the nearest £

to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £

A1 Receipts

A1 Receipts
Donations	4,935	-	-	4,935	-
Grants	6,500	-	-	6,500	-
Sponsors	6,450	-	-	6,450	-
FundraisingEvents	4,800	-	-	4,800	-
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	22,685	-	-	22,685	-

A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
	-	-	-	-
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*Sub total*	-	-	-	-		-

**Total receipts **	22,685	-	-	22,685		-
A3 Payments
Storage	1,490	-	-	1,490	-
Utilities	1,920	-	-	1,920	-
Vehicle Repairs/Mainteance	1,776	-	-	1,776	-
Cleaning& Consumables	1,885	-	-	1,885	-
Staionary	450	-	-	450	-
Travel/Fuel	2,690	-	-	2,690	-
Foods/Foodbank Essentials	6,231	-	-	6,231	-
Insurances	1,420	-	-	1,420	-
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**Sub total **	17,862	-	-	17,862	-

A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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	-	-	-	-
**Sub total **	-	-	-	-		-

**Total payments **	17,862	-	-	17,862		-

**Net of receipts/(payments) **	4,823	-	-	4,823	-
A5 Transfers between funds	-	-	-	-	-
A6 Cash funds last year end	-	-	-	-	-
**Cash funds this year end **	4,823	-	-	4,823	-

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

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		Date of approval
S A Stuart	Steven A Stuart	2/27/2025