## **Trustees’ Annual Report (including Directors’ report) for the period**
**From: 1 July 2022 to 30[th] June 2023**
## **Charity name: Bexhill & Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) CIO**
## **Charity registration number: 1182306**
## **Company number: N/A**
## **Objectives and activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The objects of the CIO are for the**
**public benefit and are based on**
**the Christian principles of loving,**
**caring, and standing with those**
**most in need:**
**1. To relieve the charitable needs**
**of people who are homeless, at**
**risk of homelessness or**
**recovering from homelessness**
**and who either have a local**
**connection to Rother District or**
**who are currently present in**
**Bexhill Town Wards, East**
**Sussex, by working with such**
**people and others to provide or**
**support the provision of support**
**services, including where**
**appropriate, for their pet**
**animals.**
**2. For the avoidance of doubt**
**‘homelessness’ is understood to**
**mean a lack of safe, secure,**
**affordable and permanent**
**accommodation.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**HUG runs a ‘drop in’ centre at St**
**Barnabus church in Sea Road Bexhill on**
**three days a week, where Homeless**
**people can get a meal, a shower and**
**change of clothes if required.**
**HUG also helps in trying to get homeless**
**people accommodation, so they do not**
**have to live on the streets and those at**
**risk of losing their home.**|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees confirm that they have had**
**regard to the Charity Commission’s**
**guidance on public benefit.**|
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and performance**
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**We have about 15 volunteers that help to**
**run the charity.**
**We have kept going the drop in centre at**
**St Barnabus Church in Bexhill on three**
**days a week.**
**Once guests are known to HUG, the**
**charity would continue to help them,**
**wherever possible, on a ‘one to one’**
**basis.**
**The charity has helps with the welfare of**
**any pets the homeless keep and try and**
**see that the pets are inoculated and any**
**of their health needs are also met.**
**During the period HUG have run a ‘Drop**
**in’ centre at St Barnabus church in**
**Bexhill on three days a week.**
**We have helped our guests with winter**
**fuel subsidies this year.**
**Sometimes temporary Hotel**
**accommodation was arranged when our**
**guests had nowhere to sleep.**|
|---|---|---|
Additional information (optional)
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Para 1.41 Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41 Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 Investment performance against objectives Other
## **Financial review**
Para 1.21
Review of the charity’s
**The charity receives a Local Authority**
|financial position at the end
of the period||**grant. If this grant was stopped, the**
**Charitiy’s activities would have to be**
**reduced or other funding sought.**|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity tries to hold at least 6 months**
**expenses in reserve in case of need**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**At the reporting date reserves were :-**
**Restricted Use Reserves £Nil**
**Unrestricted Reserves £44267**
**At the balance sheet date none of the**
**Unrestricted Reserves had been**
**earmarked for a specific purpose.**
**See separate funds breakdown for**
**detailed information**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None Known**|
Additional information (optional)
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Para 1.47 The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) Para 1.46 Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted Para 1.46 A description of the principal risks facing the charity Other
## **Structure, governance and management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25|**The Charity is governed by its**
**constitution document**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
unincorporated association,
CIO|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**The Trustees as a whole would appoint**
**any new Trustee, having regard to the**
**skills they could bring to the Charity**|
||||
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Para 1.51 Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees Para 1.51 The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works Para 1.51 Relationship with any related parties Other
## **Reference and administrative details**
Charity name **Bexhill & Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) CIO** Other name the charity uses **It also uses its shortened name ‘HUG’** Registered charity number **1182306** ’ Charity s principal address **56A Haslam Crescent Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 2QH**
## **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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||Pauline Goubert|Chairperson|||
||Neil Hobden|Treasurer|||
||Dr Luke Flanagan||||
||John Price||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
Additional information (optional)
## **Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)**
Type of adviser Name Address **Independant** David Winchester **Scrutineer Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors**
Neil Hobden **Signature(s)** Pauline Goubert Neil Hobden **Full name(s)** Pauline Goubert
**Position (for example** Chairperson Treasurer **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 6[th] July 2023
|**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Bexhill and Rother Homlessness**|||**1182306**|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For the**
**period from**|01-Jul-22
Period start|**To**|30-Jun-23
Period end date|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricte**
**d funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Endow**
**ment**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|
Grants|**33,000**||**-**||**-**||**33,000**||**37,500**|
|Donations|**14,660**||**-**||**-**||**14,660**||**6,150**|
|Other Income|**558**||**-**||**-**||**558**||**506**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**48,218**||**-**||**-**||**48,218**||**44,156**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**44,156**|
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|
Guest Grants|**8,432**||**3,500**||**-**||**11,932**||**5,050**|
|Equipment|**50**||**-**||**-**||**50**||**1,222**|
|Phone/IT/Website|**1,730**||**-**||**-**||**1,730**||**1,030**|
|Employee Costs|**12,151**||**-**||**-**||**12,151**||**4,850**|
|Rent|**4,322**||**-**||**-**||**4,322**||**4,448**|
|Food|**5,405**||**-**||**-**||**5,405**||**3,367**|
|Pet Expenses|**572**||**348**||**-**||**920**||**893**|
|Insurance|**1,033**||**-**||**-**||**1,033**||**1,005**|
|SundryExpenditure|**1,759**||**-**||**-**||**1,759**||**1,608**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**35,454**||**3,848**||**-**||**39,302**||**23,473**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**(see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||||||
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**23,473**|
|||||||||||
||**12,764**||||||||**20,683**|
||**-**|||||||||
||**31,503**||||||||**14,668**|
||**44,267**||||||||**35,351**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
Cash in Bank and in hand
Signature
~~**Details**~~|**Unrestri**
**cted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest**
**£**
**to nearest £**
**44,267**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,267**
**-**
**Unrestri**
**cted**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to**
**which**
**liability**
**relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
PRINT NAME
Neil Hobden|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of approva|
||||6th July 2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Bexhill & Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) CIO Charity No. 1182306 Accounts for the period 1[st] July 2022 to 30[th] June 2023**
## **Details of material funds held and movements during the Current reporting period**
|**Fund**
**names**|**Type**
**PE,**
**EE**
**R or**
**UR ***|**Purpose and**
**Restrictions**|**Fund**
**balances**
**brought**
**forward**
**£**|**Income**
**£**|**Expenditure**
**£**|**Transfers**
**£**|**Gains**
**and**
**losses**
**£**|**Fund**
**balances**
**carried**
**forward**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Pets|R|Pet Expendi-
ture|348|-|348|-|-|-|
|Rother
Town
Council
Grant|R|Fuel Subsi-
dies/Hotel
Costs|500|-|500|
-|-|-|
|Sussex
Community
Foundation|R|Fuel Subsidies
& Many Small
Sundry items|2500|-|2500|-|-|-|
|St. Augus-
tines|R|Christmas
Meal|500|-|500|-|-|-|
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|**_Other_**
**_funds_**|**N/a**|**N/a**|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Total Funds**|||3848|-|3848|-|-|-|
R = Restricted Fund
## **Notes to the accounts**
1. These accounts have been drawn up under the Historical Cost Convention.
2. The Trustees have not been paid any remuneration but are reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses in their work for the charity.
3. The charity made several small grants over the year totalling
- £11932
4. Employee Costs included
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£
Salaries 11753
Employers Pension Contribution 398
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12151
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## Independent Scrutineers Report
The attached accounts have been checked to the books and supporting records maintained by Bexhill and Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) CIO and are in accordance therewith.
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Signed …........................................................... Date – ….............................................................
DAVID WINCHESTER (Independent Scrutineer)
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|**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Bexhill and Rother Homlessness**|||**1182306**|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For the**
**period from**|01-Jul-22
Period start|**To**|30-Jun-23
Period end date|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricte**
**d funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Endow**
**ment**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|
Grants|**33,000**||**-**||**-**||**33,000**||**37,500**|
|Donations|**14,660**||**-**||**-**||**14,660**||**6,150**|
|Other Income|**558**||**-**||**-**||**558**||**506**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**48,218**||**-**||**-**||**48,218**||**44,156**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**44,156**|
|||||||||||
|
Guest Grants|**8,432**||**3,500**||**-**||**11,932**||**5,050**|
|Equipment|**50**||**-**||**-**||**50**||**1,222**|
|Phone/IT/Website|**1,730**||**-**||**-**||**1,730**||**1,030**|
|Employee Costs|**12,151**||**-**||**-**||**12,151**||**4,850**|
|Rent|**4,322**||**-**||**-**||**4,322**||**4,448**|
|Food|**5,405**||**-**||**-**||**5,405**||**3,367**|
|Pet Expenses|**572**||**348**||**-**||**920**||**893**|
|Insurance|**1,033**||**-**||**-**||**1,033**||**1,005**|
|SundryExpenditure|**1,759**||**-**||**-**||**1,759**||**1,608**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**35,454**||**3,848**||**-**||**39,302**||**23,473**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**(see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||||||
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**23,473**|
|||||||||||
||**12,764**||||||||**20,683**|
||**-**|||||||||
||**31,503**||||||||**14,668**|
||**44,267**||||||||**35,351**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
Cash in Bank and in hand
Signature
~~**Details**~~|**Unrestri**
**cted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest**
**£**
**to nearest £**
**44,267**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,267**
**-**
**Unrestri**
**cted**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to**
**which**
**liability**
**relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
PRINT NAME
Neil Hobden|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
|||||
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
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||||Date of approva|
||||6th July 2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Bexhill & Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) CIO Charity No. 1182306 Accounts for the period 1[st] July 2022 to 30[th] June 2023**
## **Details of material funds held and movements during the Current reporting period**
|**Fund**
**names**|**Type**
**PE,**
**EE**
**R or**
**UR ***|**Purpose and**
**Restrictions**|**Fund**
**balances**
**brought**
**forward**
**£**|**Income**
**£**|**Expenditure**
**£**|**Transfers**
**£**|**Gains**
**and**
**losses**
**£**|**Fund**
**balances**
**carried**
**forward**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Pets|R|Pet Expendi-
ture|348|-|348|-|-|-|
|Rother
Town
Council
Grant|R|Fuel Subsi-
dies/Hotel
Costs|500|-|500|
-|-|-|
|Sussex
Community
Foundation|R|Fuel Subsidies
& Many Small
Sundry items|2500|-|2500|-|-|-|
|St. Augus-
tines|R|Christmas
Meal|500|-|500|-|-|-|
||||-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**_Other_**
**_funds_**|**N/a**|**N/a**|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Total Funds**|||3848|-|3848|-|-|-|
R = Restricted Fund
## **Notes to the accounts**
1. These accounts have been drawn up under the Historical Cost Convention.
2. The Trustees have not been paid any remuneration but are reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses in their work for the charity.
3. The charity made several small grants over the year totalling
- £11932
4. Employee Costs included
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£
Salaries 11753
Employers Pension Contribution 398
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12151
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## Independent Scrutineers Report
The attached accounts have been checked to the books and supporting records maintained by Bexhill and Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) CIO and are in accordance therewith.
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Signed …........................................................... Date – ….............................................................
DAVID WINCHESTER (Independent Scrutineer)
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