## Report of the trustees
Financial year ending 29th April 2024
## **Reference and administrative information**
Charity name
The South West Food Collective
Charity number 1179238 Principal office 63 Cowick Hill Exeter EX2 9NQ
Board of trustees Sophie Rose Napper C. Graham Snyder Jonathan Paul Curtis Kayleigh Marie Searle
## **Governance**
## **Governing document**
The South West Food Collective was granted charitable status on 18 July 2018, under charity number 1179238. It is constituted as a community interest organisation, the constitution having last been updated on 10th July 2018.
## **Structure**
The charity trustees are responsible for the general control and management of the charity and its activities. The trustees give their time freely and receive no remuneration or other financial benefits.
The charity has no paid employees; all charitable activities were carried out by the trustees and volunteers.
## **Appointment of trustees**
There were no changes to the board of trustees this year and SWFC is satisfied that the existing board represents a satisfactory range of skills and competencies for the administration of the charity.
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## **Review of activities**
## **Activities**
## How our activities deliver public benefit
SWFC’s primary activities of collecting and redistributing surplus food directly address its charitable aims of relief of disadvantaged people (whether by economic circumstances or otherwise, depending on the recipient charities) and the protection of the environment through the reduction of food waste, a major contributor to climate change. The trustees consider that these activities therefore provide meaningful benefit to both the recipients of the food and the wider public.
## Events scheme
This year due to the personal circumstances of the trustees who have thus far coordinated all of SWFC’s charitable activities, it was necessary to put those operations largely on hold and SWFC was not able to continue our food salvage operations from previous years.
We were able to assist in the running of a staff canteen at Glastonbury festival using only food that would otherwise have gone to waste.
## **Use of volunteers**
Since we have not been able to continue our food salvage operations this year we have also not had any volunteer involvement, with the exception of trustees, who give their time freely to the administration of the charity and management of operations.
## **Fundraising**
This year, although there was the possibility of continuing with the model established last year in our partnership with Festival Republic, we were ultimately unable to do so, and so we also did not raise any funds, which would have come from the associated service charges. We were able to cover operating overheads from reserves.
## **Future plans**
There is no resolution in sight for resuming operations in the immediate future; in the coming year we can look to find new trustees or volunteers with the capacity to take on the administration of the charity; otherwise we may need to look into dissolving it.
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## **Financial review**
## **Summary**
The financial statements show no receipts due to the lack of activity; payments represent reimbursements of out-of-pocket expenses, including expenses from previous years and ongoing overheads.
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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