**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 07 04 2024 06 04 2025
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Helping Hands of Birmingham **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1179507 Charity's principal address** 3 Luce Close Castle Vale Birmingham **Postcode B35 PJ**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Clare Whitaker|Founder||Clare Whitaker|
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**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**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
The charity acts in accordance with the governance and structure within Type of governing document the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation constitution as (eg. trust deed, constitution) lodged with the Charity Commission. The charity is constituted as a CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a Trustee selection methods resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. (eg. appointed by, elected by) In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
- (eg. trust, association, company)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
For the public benefit, the relief of poverty amongst homeless people and rough sleepers in Birmingham by the provision of food, drinks, clothing and toiletries to help relieve their suffering. The charity goes into Birmingham three times a week where volunteers provide food, clothing and provisions for the rough sleepers and those in need
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The key activities include the purchase of insurance and hosting of website to support the charity. All resources in terms of time are provided by volunteers, and any purchases they make to purchase food, clothing to support the charity is refunded on the production of receipts. The charity rents a unit to store some of the clothing, toiletries etc.
The trustees all adhere to the governing document approved by the Charity Commission which identifies the public benefit the charity provides
**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)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- 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**
The charity has helped numerous people who were on the streets, providing food, clothing and provisions to support them when they were at their lowest. The charity is now recognised by other organisations who are supporting the charity with donations including food and other provisions. Individuals continue to be signposted to other organisations who can help them with housing and rehabilitation. During severe weather conditions the charity has continued to provide an outreach support to rough sleepers. The charity has been invited to schools and other organisations to give talks about what the charity does and how people can support it. The charity has seen a significant amount of donations during this year, however, this cannot be guaranteed in any given year, hence why reserves are held to ensure future demand can be met. During the financial year the unit rented by the Charity was involved in a fire which required a new unit to be sourced during the year. There is a refund due relating to the prepayment for the unit which is going through an insurance process.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
As the charity is reliant on donations and fund raising, it holds reserves to ensure that there are funds in place to enable it to continue to meet its objectives. Demands on the charity in terms of clothing, food and toiletries are dependent on the number of rough sleepers, homeless people on the streets. There continues to be an increase in demand during winter and summer months. The charity works to ensure that it has sufficient funds to enable it to continue with its outreach work as donations are not guaranteed and are not regular enough to be totally dependent purely on donations
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include 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**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Clare Whitaker
**Full name(s)** Clare Whitaker **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Founder **etc)**
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|**Helping Hands of Birmingham**|**Helping Hands of Birmingham**||**1179507**|||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
7th April 2024|**To**|Period end date
6th April 2025|||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
24,672
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,672**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,672**
**14,439**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,439**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,439**
**10,233**
**-**
**30,930**
**41,162**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**24,672**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,672**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,672**
**14,439**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,439**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,439**
**10,233**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**24,672**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,672**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,672**
**14,439**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,439**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,439**
**10,233**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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|Charitable Activities|24,672|||||**28,461**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**24,672**|||||**28,461**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
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|Charitable Objectives|**14,439**|||||**16,686**|
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||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**14,439**|||||**16,686**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
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||**10,233**|**-**|**-**|**10,233**||**11,775**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**30,930**|**-**|**-**|**30,930**|||
||**41,162**|**-**|**-**|**41,162**||**11,775**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Cash funds
Insurance Receivable|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**39,849**
**1,313**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Cash funds|**39,849**|**-**|**-**|
||Insurance Receivable|**1,313**|**-**|**-**|
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||**_Total cash funds_**||**41,162**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||||
||account(s))||OK||OK||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**charity’s own use**|||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name|||Date of
approval|
||||Clare Whitaker||||04.01.25|
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