## **DELIVERING SURPLUS FOOD TO THOSE IN NEED** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/04/2023 Period start date to 31/03/2024 Period end date** **Charity name: FOOD FOR NOUGHT** **Charity registration number: 1179699** ## **Objectives and Activities** Food For Nought was started in mid-2017 and has worked with various Peterborough based charities and organisations to quickly set up a regular operation collecting surplus food and delivering this to a community fridges and other selected locations for the surplus to then be passed out to people in need. In the almost 7 years we have been running, Food for Nought redistributed close to 130,000 **tonnes** of surplus food to those who are in need. This is currently being collected from organisations including the following: - Tesco & M&S - Riverford Organic Farms - Waitrose - Serpentine Green - Barnack Distributions - Aldi Peterborough Further to the collection and redistribution of this surplus food, volunteers have also been running cookery courses to teach those in need, as well as others, how to cook a variety of meals with a view to better using the surplus food that is available through the Food for Nought scheme. ## **Key people and location** Food for Nought is driven by Cocoa Fowler. It is currently located at 3 Heather Avenue, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, PE1 3XN and 264 Gladstone Street, Peterborough, PE1 2BS. ## **Current operations** Food for Nought has been able to triple its supply of food to its food hubs. It is estimated that over 1,500 people are being helped weekly from the community fridges and 100s more from the food delivered by Food for Nought to other charities in the Peterborough and Huntingdonshire areas. Food for Nought has received significant support from the local media and several external Partners including Serpentine Green; PECT; Peterborough City Council; Huntingdonshire district council; City College Peterborough; PCVS; WestRaven Big Local; The Robert Dixon Trust; Print Solutions; PS Media; Children of Adam and The Social Echo Yaxley. ## **Additional information** We have applied for various grants and funding with varying levels of success. After the year end, we have received funding from Peterborough and Huntingdonshire city councils to help us expand into the Huntingdonshire area. Our volunteers have worked nonstop and with endless enthusiasm for the whole time to keep Food for Nought running. ## **Achievements and Performance** Over the past 12 months we have delivered surplus food to thousands of people in the Peterborough and Huntingdonshire area. ## **Additional information** At the AGM Cocoa gave a report that the quantity of surplus had dropped over the past year and this is costing the charity to much in fuel to travel over two counties. Trustees Emma and Thor have stepped down from there rolls. ## **Financial Review** During the past year we have received grants and donations totalling £16,001 and had expenditures totalling £26,519 approx. ## **Post Year-end Review** A meeting was held on 29 April, 2025 with Bird & Co, FFN’s Independent Examiners, to discuss the 2022-23 and 2023-24 accounts they had recently prepared and up-date them on recent developments. Bird & Co. recommended that some financial controls might usefully be tightened. Since that meeting, but prior to the approval of this Trustee Report, three new Trustees have been appointed replacing the three who have resigned. Whilst accepting the recent accounts, the new Trustees also agreed on various additional good financial practices ensuring proper controls are always in place. ## **Names of the charity trustees who managed the charity:** |1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Neil Crowson|Treasurer|2021 to Present||| ||Sally Howell|Trustee|2021 to Present||| ||Thomas Greetham|Chairman|2021 to Present||| ## **Name of Chief Executive or names of senior staff members:** Cocoa Fowler - Chief Volunteer ## **Declaration** **The Trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ Report above.** **Signed on behalf of the Charity’s Trustees (both appointed on 6 June, 2025)** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position **

**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Cocoa Fowler|David Spencer Dixon| ||Trustee|Trustee| |||| ||6 June, 2025|6 June, 2025| -~-~-~- |**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/04/2023|Period end date
**To**
31/03/2024||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**16,001**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,001**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,001**
**9,607**
**2,079**
**1,070**
**-**
**613**
**11,242**
**56**
**1,149**
**-**
**598**
**105**
**26,519**
**1,112**
**- 2,714**
**- 1,602**
**24,917**
**- 8,916**
**-**
**8,946**
**30**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**16,001**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,001**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,001**
**9,607**
**2,079**
**1,070**
**-**
**613**
**11,242**
**56**
**1,149**
**-**
**598**
**105**
**26,519**
**1,112**
**- 2,714**
**- 1,602**
**24,917**
**- 8,916**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||**16,001**|||||**61,292**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**16,001**|||||**61,292**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**61,292**| |||||||| |Repairs & Renewals|**9,607**|||||**10,775**| |Computer & Office Expenses|**2,079**|||||**1,049**| |Telephone,Internet & Postage|**1,070**|||||**1,701**| |Insurance|**-**|||||**458**| |New Centre Costs|**613**|||||**7,854**| |Motor Expenses & Fuel|**11,242**|||||**21,632**| |Advertising& Event Attendance|**56**|||||**415**| |SundryExpenses|**1,149**|||||**730**| |Accountancy|**-**|||||**834**| |Tools|**598**|||||**940**| |Bank Charges|**105**|||||**174**| |**_Sub total_ **|**26,519**|||||**46,562**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |**Office Equipment**|**1,112**|||||**1,364**| |**Money Reduced On Credit Cards**|**- 2,714**|||||**6,311**| |**_Sub total_ **|**- 1,602**|||||**7,675**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**54,237**| |||||||| ||**- 8,916**|**-**|**-**|**- 8,916**||**7,055**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**8,946**|**-**|**-**|**8,946**||**1,891**| ||**30**|**-**|**-**|**30**||**8,946**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Categories** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Details funds funds funds** CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 14/06/2025 1 |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Owed by CF
**Details**
**Details**
Van(2021 : £14,800)
Containers(2021 : £4,000)
Kitchen (2021 : £13,406)
Office Equipment (2024 : £809)
**Details**
Signature|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**30**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**f**
**d**
**Restricted**
**f**
**d**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**8,273**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**32,295**
**4,000**
**13,406**
**2,631**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
~~**liability relates**~~
**Amount due**
~~**(optional)**~~
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**f**
**d**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
~~**(otional)**~~| ||||~~**p**~~| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 14/06/2025 2