2022-12-31-accounts - Aylesbury Foodbank

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AYLESBURY FOODBANK CIO

TRUSTEES AND MANAGEMENT REPORT AND ACCOUNTS

YEAR END 31[st] DECEMBER 2022

CHARITY REGISTRATION No 1179692

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AYLESBURY FOODBANK ANNUAL REPORT 2022

Report Prepared by Heather Joy Garrett (Operations Manager)

1.Management and governance arrangements

Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each fiscal year, which show a true and fair view of the charity's situation and its financial activities for that period. In preparing this the trustees are required to:

Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently
Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
Follow applicable accountancy standards, and departures being disclosed in financial statements.
Prepare annual financial statements if the charity continues in operational existence.

Aylesbury Foodbank during 2022 was governed by the following trustees Board

Mr Kevin Piper – Chairman (Trustee since 24/4/2018)

Mr Simon Weaver – Treasurer (Trustee since 24/4/2018 - resigned)

Mrs Anne Vujanic – Secretary (Trustee since 24/4/2018)

Ms Jennet Dixon (Trustee since 24/4/2018 - resigned)

Rev Pete Wheeler (Trustee since 17/10/2018)

Mr Tim Dixon (Trustee since 9/2021)

Mr Jeremy Holmes (Trustee since 5/12/2018)

Ms Ellen Knight (resigned during 2022)

Mr Andy Rotherham (joined 2022)

Ms Emma Chigwell (Joined 2021)

Aylesbury Foodbank maintains its membership of the Foodbank Network run by Salisbury-based The Trussell Trust (TT) and in March 2022 there were over 1,200 foodbank centres across the network. Through the TT, we continue to be involved in lobbying the government about the inadequacies, inefficiencies and unfairness in the benefits system, as well as generating local media coverage that has helped build support for the Foodbank both in donations and volunteering.

2.Report on the activities of Aylesbury Foodbank to 31[st] December 2022

Aylesbury Foodbank continues to be extremely grateful to the public and to the many organisations and businesses that have supported us with food and financial donations to meet our clients' increased need and keep our volunteers safe.

From April 2022 we were fortunate to be adopted as one of the Aylesbury Town Mayor, Cllr Tim Dixon’s Charities. He promoted a 10 Tonne Challenge for the people of Aylesbury to donate at least 10 tonnes of food to the food bank during his mayoralty. As 2022 drew to a close this total had been more than met several times over.

However, 2022 was a challenging year for everyone as the cost of living rose throughout the year and the cost of fuel for cars and domestic heating more than doubled as the autumn months arrived. This

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increase was reflected by an increase in clients, and by December for the first time ever we served over 1000 people in one month. Despite an increase in donations from the Mayor’s challenge and other promotions it became necessary to purchase an increasing amount of food in order to fulfil requirements. The money for this is held in reserved accounts which we are fortunate to hold and have frequently augmented by donations and grants.

Special mention must be given to the band Marillion who asked their fans to bring a tin to their concert at the Waterside in September resulting in over a ton of food donated in one night. The band also made a financial donation to the Foodbank.

We continue to operate from a central Warehouse at 44 Rabans Close Aylesbury serving 9 distribution centres around Aylesbury, an increase of 2 from 2021 despite the closure of the centre at the Church of the Holy Spirit due to the death of their centre manager. The existing centres operate from St Peter’s Church Quarrendon, Southcourt Baptist Church, More + and Oaks Community Cafes, Buckingham Park Community Centre, and Esquires Coffee Shop Berryfields. The new centres operate from Aylesbury Methodist Church, The New Testament Church of God, Rickfords Hill, and the Petri Dish, High Street. We are continuing to establish formal “agreements” with each centre to ensure consistency of service provision and signposting. We are grateful for the continued commitment of the Christian Community in Aylesbury which operate most of these centres as volunteers.

We are pleased to have continued with and expanded the use of Bar-Coding technology in the Warehouse gaining greater efficiency in weighing new stock as well as box management and distribution. We would like to thank Peter Holliday and the planning team for developing and implementing this system.

We provide 3-day boxes of nutritionally balanced food, in boxes sized and categorised as: Homeless, Single, Couples Small and or Large Families. All food provided is long-life and within date.

2.1 Client Statistics

2022 saw an increase of 33% in the number of people fed, and an increase of 26% in the number of children fed which indicates the continuing strain experienced by low-income families.

Client Trends

Client Trends
	Households	Adults	Children	TOTAL	Meals
2016	243	342	147	489	4,401
2017	515	762	367	1,129	10,161
2018	924	1,374	596	1,970	17,730
2019	1,435	2,076	1,029	3,105	27,945
2020	1,999	3,047	1,709	4,756	42,804
2021	2,461	3,991	2,532	6,523	58,707
2022	4,067	6,315	3,397	9,712	87,408
TOTAL	11,644	17,907	9,777	27,684	249,156

Reasons Given for need:

	Benefit Issues	Debt	Homeless	Low Income	Sickness
2016	240	29	44	135	15
2017	418	84	40	472	34
2018	630	106	103	941	54
2019	1,157	159	262	1,112	205
2020	825	97	113	3,016	332
2021	515	2,392	163	1,368	1,703
2022	537	4,696	503	1,513	1,988

Clients with benefit issues in 2019 reflect the system changes to Universal credit in that year. We have worked hard in recent years to redefine Low Income and to better categorise the reasons for

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people living on low incomes even while they are in work. We understand that many of our clients are on zero hour contracts or minimum wage. Through this work we have improved the reporting of debt and sickness as the driver for low income and are now able to report this more accurately. Improvements in the Trussell Trust online data collection system are expected in April 2023.

Debt has increased as austerity has continued, and we are likely to see this increase further into 2023 as incomes continue to come under pressure from inflation as well as utility price increases.

It is also notable that the number of homeless claims decreased over lockdown. This was a direct result of government initiatives to house the homeless during the pandemic in temporary accommodation. Now that the pandemic is over, we are starting to see a continual rise in Homeless demand.

Longer term users of the Foodbank

Although our aim is to provide 3 days of emergency food provision to our clients, we know there is a small number of clients who use our services frequently. We define those as clients who have used the foodbank more than 5 times in a 6-month period.

We began monitoring the statistics for this grouping in 2021 when there were 58 households and 166 people that were frequent users. In 2022/23 this number has increased to 187 households, which include 288 adults and 133 children.

The number of these clients who needed foodbank assistance over the entire 12-month period is 64. Of the overall number of vouchers issued in 2022/23, 59% were to people in acute, long-term need and 9% cited homelessness.

The primary reasons frequent users need the foodbank are due to high utility bills, long-term sickness and high rent or mortgage bills. Over 50% of people cited debt as a reason for needing a foodbank voucher, but low income overall is a continuing issue from previous years. The state benefits provided to people who are either in low-paid or infrequent employment or are unable to work due to long term sickness are inadequate to meet living costs.

An example of this is the lack of availability of Housing Association properties where the waiting list continued to increase in 2022. This is against a backdrop of the profile of available rental properties on Zoopla which shows the vast majority over £1000 per month for a 2-bedroom property, the Local Housing Allowance for Housing Benefits however, remained at £800 for 2 bedroomed properties. Increased debt or homelessness is often the result.

2.2 Food donations and distribution

Food donations and Distribution (Figures Rounded and in Tonnes)

Source / Year	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Charities	0.027	0	0.541	0.340	1.675	0.599	0.870
Churches	2.486	3.515	4.807	4.944	6.900	6.262	10.693
Community Groups	0.086	0.742	0.678	1.734	3.670	2.575	7.417
Business	0.468	2.019	3.685	8.850	3.299	3.916	6.100
Education	1.288	1.345	1.674	1.907	1.017	2.417	3.736
Individuals	0.650	551.7	1.957	3.232	11.497	8.626	19.583
Supermarkets	1.420	3.662	6.174	12.023	20.495	18.101	24.353
Purchased	0	0	0	0.121	0	3.713	13.180

TOTAL	8.666	11.837	19.521	33.183	48.556	45.894	85.886

Total Stock In / Stock Out (Figures rounded and in Tonnes)

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	Stock In	To Clients	Out of Date	TOTAL Out	Difference
2016	8.666	3.943	0.405	4.348	+4.317
2017	11.837	10.489	0.619	11.109	+0.728
2018	19.521	17.696	0.954	18.924	+0.596
2019	33.183	26.796	1.081	27.879	+5.304
2020	48.556	41.919	1.551	43.470	+5.086
2021	45.894	51.961	1.129	53.090	-7.241
2022	85.886	80.835	0.902	81.736	+5.051

Aylesbury Foodbank continues to be generously supported by the local community, with donations made by the public at Waitrose Aylesbury and Tesco Broadfields, who became our partner in 2021. Collectively supermarket channels represent 28% of donations received. Tesco also provides a financial contribution based on the weight of goods donated by their customers.

Donations made by individuals to our warehouse or collection bins represent 22%, and Churches, Schools, Corporations and Community groups represent a further 32%.

The Mayor’s Challenge has assisted us to raise our profile and increase the number of places hosting a Collection Point basket to around 45 by the end of 2022. These sites include, among others, Aylesbury Library, shops, schools, gyms and the Town Council. We are grateful especially to our volunteer Cllr Sherrilyn Bateman for the hard work that has made this possible.

We also began a new initiative following the example set by one of our newer trustees Andy Rotherham, who set up a box outside his house for his neighbours to donate easily to the Foodbank. Plans are now underway to roll out this initiative to other neighbourhoods in the area during 2023.

As well as the provision of food boxes to our clients, we supported the collection of food for over 150 dinners at the Community Christmas Meal 2022.

The trustees under Andy Rotherham also devised another initiative for the winter to alleviate the problems faced by the increasing number of homeless people. This consisted of a Wash ‘n Warm pack with socks, gloves, hats, microwavable mugs, and other items. There were 150 packs made up and 125 of them were distributed via agencies such as Connection Support and Aylesbury Homeless Action Group.

We are pleased to say we continue to only need to throw away a small number of out-of-date (OOD) items as this is now offered to a local pig farmer. Thanks to strong stock controls established by our planning team, the only OOD food we encounter is whatever is donated to us already OOD by the public.

Sadly, despite this generosity we were forced to buy 13.180 tonnes of food this year to ensure that we were able to maintain continuity of supply of all items on the Foodbank provision list.This year we have seen a further significant erosion of our stock holding at year end with 85.886 tonnes of stock received and 82.638 tonnes of stock used.

2.3 Referral partners

During 2022 a review was made of Referral Agencies and those which no longer existed were removed from the list. Aylesbury foodbank now has 67 referral partners able to issue electronic vouchers. Most of our distribution partners can issue vouchers. During covid, we saw a significant decline in the number of referrals from agencies. The Foodbank distribution centres, particularly SBC, dominate voucher issuing.

dominate voucher issuing.
Referral Agencies	No.
StatutoryAgencies	32
Charities	16
Churches	10
VoluntaryAgencies	5
CommunityGroups	4
TOTAL	67

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Vouchers by Agency/ Distribution Centre (Top 5)

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total	245	518	937	1437	1985	2395	4009
1st	CAB	SBC	SBC	SBC	SBC	SBC	SBC
	30%	43%	54%	48%	51%	72%	67%
2nd	SBC	CAB	CAB	AHAG	St Peters	St Peters	St Peters
	16%	19%	9%	12%	9%	11%	11%
3rd	ORB	AHAG	AHAG	St Peters	Family Sup	Berryfields	Con Sup
	9%	6%	6%	9%	8%	6%	5%
4th	AHAG	LES	St Peters	CAB	AHAG	Bromford	Berryfields
	9%	4%	6%	6%	3%	4%	3%
5th	Probation	Probation	ORB	Amicus	Whiteleaf	Exchange	AMC
	7%	3%	4%	3%	2%	2%	3%

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CAB – Citizen Advice Bureau SBC – Southcourt Baptist Church AHAG – Aylesbury Homeless Action
ORB – One Recovery Bucks LES – Local Emergency Services Con Sup – Connection Suppport
AMC - Aylesbury Methodist Church
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2.4 Employees and Volunteers

During 2022 we employed 2 part-time employees. Heather Joy Garrett as Operations Manager (4 days a week) and Kim Hopping as Finance Manager (2 days per week). We opened for the first time on a Friday due to demand and now run a 5 day a week operation.

We operate a weekly rota with 32 volunteers at the warehouse and a further 14 at our distribution partners. Our volunteers are well-trained and enthusiastic. We also support local students doing their Duke of Edinburgh award with volunteer opportunities.

The Trustees are profoundly grateful for the extremely hard work of our employees and volunteers.

2.5 ACTS 435

In November 2021 we successfully launched a Peer Gifting Service – ACTS 435. We launched this as a trial with the St Peters Church distribution centre. This enables us to offer payments of up to £150 to users of the foodbank who are facing financial difficulties for a specific reason and is designed to offset this cost. Aylesbury Foodbank gives the full payment at the time of distress and seeks recovery of the funds from ACTS 435 supporters. This scheme proved helpful and has continued throughout 2022 although it is not widely publicised to enable demand to remain manageable.

A financial analysis of this scheme is given in the financial report.

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Accounts Year Ending 31/12/2022

Aylesbury Foodbank is situated at 44 Rabans Close Rabans Lane Industrial Estate Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP19 8FJ

This is a rented warehouse and office, where donated food etc. is stored and packed into boxes for distribution from seven centres around the town.

Its objectives are the relief of financial hardship amongst people in Aylesbury and the surrounding area or in other parts of the United Kingdom in such ways as the trustees from time-to-time think fit, in particular, but not exclusively by:

a) providing emergency food, essential toiletries, and household items to individuals and families in need and/or for distribution by charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty
b) such other means, including (but not limited to) the provision of support or signposting to relevant information and other advisory services

Aylesbury Foodbank was set up in October 2015 with the support of the Putnam House Trust as a franchise of The Trussell Trust and started working from a rented warehouse in Smeaton Close, Aylesbury in April 2016. In September 2018 it moved into a larger warehouse premises to be able to meet the increasing demands brought about by the roll-out of Universal Credit.

The Foodbank became a charity in August 2018. It has two part-time employees; an Operations Manager, and a Finance & Fundraising Manager, and has been managed by an Operations Group of three people: Mr. Kevin Piper; Ms. Heather-Joy Garrett; Ms. Kim Hopping, who meet weekly. It has a Board of Trustees who meet every other month. The Trustees for 2022 were Mr. Kevin Piper, (Chair); Mr Simon Weaver, (Treasurer) resigned October 2022; Mrs. Anne Vujanic, (Secretary); Ms. Jennet Dixon; Rev Peter Wheeler; Mr. Jeremy Holmes; Mr. Jake Crane, resigned January 2022; Mr. Tim Dixon, Mr. Christian Corby, resigned March 2022; Ellen Knight, from April 2022; Mr Andy Rotherham, from October 2022, Emma Chignell, from October 2022.

During 2022, requests for help from the Foodbank continued to increase and although food donations did not drop off, they were not sufficient to make up all the emergency parcels needed. The Foodbank continued to secure funding to allow us to top up the Designated Fund for the purpose of buying in food ourselves to ensure it was able to continue to meet all needs.

ACTS435 - In November 2021 we signed up as a partner to ACTS435, https://www.acts435.org.uk/ ; an allocation of £2,000 was set aside to allow us to offer small grants to some of our clients. Grants are posted on the ACTS435 website and donations are made by the public to cover the grants made.

The Foodbank was nominated as one of the Mayor of Aylesbury’s Charities of the Year for 2022/23. At the start of his term of office in May 2022, the Mayor issued a challenge to the people of Aylesbury to collect 10 Tonnes of food for the Foodbank. The Challenge also encouraged fundraising for us and monetary donations to be made.

This year it was also fortunate to be chosen as the Charity Partner of Aylesbury United Football Club.

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

	2022	2021
Current Account (03314251)	£81,707.94	£58,871.43
Holding Account (93846253)	£71,274.73	£27,887.28
Petty Cash Account	£94.09	£75.30
ACTS Float	£280.00	£500.00
Total	£153,356.76	£87,334.01
General Fund	£95,915.17	£62,216.94
Restricted fund	£280.00	£675.18
Designated Funds	£27,161.59	£4,441.89
Reserves	£30,000.00	£20,000.00
Total	£153,356.76	£87,334.01

Foodbank Assets (Current Value) 21

	Purchase		2021 value	2022 Value
	Date
HP Elitebook Laptop	May-18		£50.00	£0.00
Monitor	May-18		£17.00	£0.00
A3 HP Printer	Nov-18	Broken-replaced 2022	£50.00
CHUWI Herobook Pro Laptop	Apr-20		£200.00	£134.50
HP EnvyPrinter	Aug-20		£45.00	£30.00
Mercedes Van	Sep-20		£6,655.00	£5,780.00
Thermal Label Printer	Feb-21	Broken-replaced 2022	£109.00
CHUWI Herobook Pro Laptop	Apr-21		£299.00	£224.25
Bar Code Scanner	Jun-21		£64.00	£47.98
Dell Inspiration Computer	Nov-21		£449.00	£336.75
Dell Monitor	Nov-21		£99.98	£74.98
A3 HP Printer	Sep-22			£282.00
2 x Thermal Label Printers	Nov-22			£218.00
CHUWI Herobook Laptop	Dec-22			£179.00

Warehouse Fixtures and Fittings £9149.86 Purchased between 01/01/2019 (Shelving, Dollies, Scales, Furniture and 31/12/2022 etc.) Value of stock held at 31/12/22 £28,571.15 12,055.34 kilograms (Valued at £2.37 per kilogram)

Receipts & Payments Account

Summary	2022	2021
Brought forward from previous year	£87,334.01	£61,875.21
Total Incoming Resources	£158,872.85	£87,138.84
Total Outgoing Resources	£92,850.10	£61,680.04
Balance Carried Forward to next year	£153,356.76	£87,334.01

Receipts	2022	2021
Income from generated funds – Voluntary Donations
Donations (Recurring)	£28,677.39	£18,864.16
Donations (Non-Recurring)	£48,543.20	£33,894.28
Grants1	£66,846.21	£22,126.58
Gift Aid Refunds	£4,906.88	£7,867.57
Total	£148,973.68	£82.752.59
Income from activities for generating funds
Fundraising	£3,655.91	£2,387.38
Total	£3,655.91	£2,387.38
Income from investments
Bank Interest	£50.05	£2.45
Total	£50.05	£2.45
Other incoming resources
General Refunds2	£396.40	£1,054.42
Sundries3	£811.81	£422.00
Total	£1,208.21	£1,476.42
ACTS 435 4	£4,985.00	£520.00
Grand Total	£158,872.85	£87,138.84

Payments	2022	2021
Cost of generating funds
Fundraising Expenses	£0.00	£0.00
Total	£0.00	£0.00
Investment Management Costs
Bank Charges	£0.00	£0.00
Total	£0.00	£0.00
Charitable Activities
Employees5	£33,602.80	£27,923.39
Office Consumables	£263.48	£363.78
Printing6	£2,727.03	£341.84
Rent7	£9,485.60	£11,771.38
Rates8	£0.00	£611.48
Facilities	£818.36	£725.87
Phones/Internet	£947.83	£1,021.74
Maintenance & Cleaning9	£4,537.42	£1,105.37
Utilities10	£1,928.60	£1,539.23
Warehouse Consumables11	£2,551.41	£208.80
Equipment12	£6,241.06	£2,928.33
Food Purchases13	£19,452.40	£8,970.42
Van Maintenance14	£970.88	£564.00
Van Running Costs15	£1,445.97	£991.09
Annual Subs/Licences16	£1,274.66	£936.32
Training/Conferences/Workshops17	£396.00	£480.00
Mileage Expenses	£30.00	£0.00
Total	£86,673.50	£60,483.04
Other resources used
Sundry18	£691.60	£677.00
Total	£691.60	£677.00
ACTS 435 Grants4	£5,485.00	£520.00
Grand Total	£92,850.10	£61,680.04

Notes to accounts

Grants – During the year grants were received from the following bodies: -

Bucks CountyCouncil – Food Support	£9,680.00
Trussell Trust Ex Gratia	£2,366.21
Rothschild Foundation	£5,000.00
Trussell Trust Winter Grant	£5,000.00
The Talent Fund	£2,500.00
The David Foundation	£10,000.00
VAHT(now Fairhive)	£15,000.00
Blevin Franks	£1,100.00
Hickman Trust	£7,000.00
Charter Trustees	£6,000.00
William HardingTrust	£1,500.00
Waitrose	£700.00
Charles Hayward Foundation	£1,000.00
Total	£66,846.21

General Refunds – Refunds were received from The Trussell Trust in respect of Subscription Fees taken by Direct Debit, which were not due and there were three small refunds from Sainsburys.
Sundry income was in respect of monies paid by staff and volunteers for the Christmas meal and a returned payment from Akeman Management, which came back to us when they were having issues with their bank account.
ACTS435 - In November 2021 we signed up as a partner to ACTS435, https://www.acts435.org.uk/ ; an allocation of £2,000 was set aside to allow us to offer small grants to some of our clients. Grants are posted on the ACTS435 website and donations are made by the public to cover the grants made. Forty-Four grants were made to the end of December totaling £5,485.00. £4,985.00 was received back from ACTS before 31/12/22.

	2022
Grants Made	£5,485.00
Donated through ACTS	£4,985.00
Cost to Foodbank	£500.00

During the year there were two paid employees. One extended their hours to four days a week when the Foodbank found it necessary to open for an extra day each week. The figure includes payments of tax and NIC owed to St Mary’s Church, who run the payroll.
Printing – Costs increased in 2022 due to the Mayor’s 10 Tonne Challenge (see note 20)
Rent – the Invoice normally paid in December did not arrive until January, so will be reflected in 2023 Accounts.
Rates – No rates were paid in 2022 following the review carried out by Buckinghamshire Council in 2021.
Maintenance & Cleaning – During 2022 we required two plumbing repairs and a repair to the main door. Electrical work was carried out to facilitate a defibrillator and some extra sockets in the warehouse. A Fire Alarm system was put in with a grant from the Hickman Trust. In addition, the annual Fire Check, PAT test, Stairlift and Boiler Services were carried out.

Utilities – In September 2022 we changed suppliers to Opus Energy to get a better rate for our Gas and Electricity. Opus Energy are 100% Green.
Warehouse Consumables – Having used up the additional materials purchased from Covid emergency grants received in 2020, we needed to buy boxes/tape etc in 2022. Boxes went up from £1.30 to £1.80 each during the year.
Equipment – The total includes the cost of materials and equipment purchased for The Mayor’s 10 Tonne Challenge – see note 20. An additional laptop was bought for volunteers doing Admin work and it was necessary to replace the A3 printer and the Thermal Label Printer. The Foodbank also purchased a Sum-up machine to enable it to take card payments.
Food Purchases – These went up significantly for 2022 as demand outstripped donations of food. We needed to order food on a regular basis and have an arrangement with Sainsburys to be able to make bulk purchases. Items for our Wash & Warm initiative are also included here (see note 19)
Van Maintenance – Costs include two repairs and the cost of hiring a van whilst repairs were undertaken.
Van Running Costs – Includes Insurance, Road Tax, MOT and diesel.
The Foodbank bought a license for Adobe for one staff member.
Two volunteers did First Aid training with St John’s Ambulance
Sundry Expenses – includes the money for the Christmas Meal (see Sundry income – paid for by staff and volunteers attending)
Wash & Warm Initiative - The Trussell Trust gave us a Winter Grant of £5,000.00 to help with the increased costs of heating and food and any other initiatives to help clients over the winter period. The Foodbank allocated some of that grant to put together Wash & Warm packs, which were given to organisations dealing with the Homeless in the area. The packs included food, warm clothing and toiletries; £1,241.13 of the grant was used for this purpose. The balance of the grant has been used for food purchases.
Mayors 10 Tonne Challenge – In 2022 the Mayor of Aylesbury nominated the Foodbank as one of his Charities of the Year. At the start of his year in office he issued a challenge to the residents and businesses in the town to donate 10 Tonnes of food during the year. To help achieve this the Foodbank has bought collection baskets and other equipment, and had posters, banners, signage, stickers and t-shirts printed. The cost to the Foodbank to 31/12/22 is £4660.23. The Challenge will end in May 2023 at which point it will be evaluated.
Assets – Current Value calculated after researching the current market value of the van and applying 25% depreciation to the computers and other equipment. Fixtures & Fittings – 25% depreciation applied as per guidance from internet search. Food stock at 31/12/22 is valued at the rate set by The Trussell Trust.

Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities Act 1993, accounting standards and the Statement of Recommended Practice “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (revised 2005)

The receipts and payments account shows the movement of cash into and out of the charity during the 2020 financial year.

Accounting policies Funds

There is currently one unrestricted, general fund and one restricted fund relating to four grants and one designated fund held.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the accounts when the charity receives the income.

Resources expended

Expenditure is recognised when there is a legal or constructive obligation to pay for goods or services.

All expenditure is shown inclusive of VAT.

Kevin Piper, Chair ……………………………………………………………

, Treasurer ………………………………………..

Agreed on ………………………………………

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Aylesbury Foodbank members of On accounts for the year 31[st] December 2022 Charity no 1179692 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1-8

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2022

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Date: 23.05.2023 Signed: Name: Paul C Vaughan Relevant professional CPFA (Retired) qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 7 Mill Lane Wingrave Aylesbury HP22 4PL

October 2018

IER

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

NOT APPLICABLE

October 2018

IER