## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01/01/2023 Period start date To 31/12/2023 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Pontefract Community Kitchen**
## **Charity registration number: 1182510**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The relief and prevention of poverty in**
**Pontefract and the surrounding areas**
**By means of food provision,**
**information,**
**Advice, guidance, education and any**
**other means deemed appropriate by the**
**trustees.**|
|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|**Providing both onsite and outreach in**
**the form of hot cooked meals, food**
**parcels and clothing.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18||
**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**
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|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|**By providing the provision to service**
**users of food / clothing, this has helped**
**families and individuals with financial**
**struggles.**
**Provisions given to homeless service**
**users of tents / sleeping bags etc so**
**that they do not have to sleep in the**
**open elements.**
**Providing overflow support for local**
**food banks and probation / police etc.**|
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity had a good start to the year**
**through donations, but income has**
**dropped as the year went on, and**
**income after the year end has been**
**concerning**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**As above.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£42,625**|
|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||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g 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 are nominated by current**
**trustee members and have to be**
**seconded.**|
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|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|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Pontefract Community Kitchen
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number 1182510
Charity’s principal address Unit 8
Horsefair House
Horsefair Precinct, Horsefair
Pontefract
WF8 1PE
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Ann Lancaster Chair Person 2019-ongoing
2 Erna Steele Secretary 2019-ongoing
3 Louise Pugh 2019-ongoing
4 Jennifer Harris Treasurer 2021-ongoing
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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 Name Address adviser**
**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 above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date**
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Charity Name No (if any)
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations 20,076 - - 20,076 8,566
Fundraising 2,456 - - 2,456 2,845
Grants 21,817 - - 21,817 17,810
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 44,349 ] - - 44,349 29,221
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 44,349 - - 44,349 29,221
A3 Payments
Cleaning 583 - - 583 526
Depreciation 97 - - 97 121
Heating, Lighting and Insurance 6,803 - - 6,803 6,654
motor 1,623 - - 1,623 791
PPS 153 - - 153 -
Repairs and Renewals 5,457 - - 5,457 2,947
Welfare (food/clothing etc) 20,182 - - 20,182 9,497
Sundry 996 996 672
WMDC-council tax 196 196 1,622
WMDC-waste 636 - - 636 310
Training 53 - - 53 54
Sub total [ 36,779 ] - - 36,779 23,194
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 36,779 - - 36,779 23,194
Net of receipts/(payments) 7,570 - - 7,570 6,027
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end 7,570 - - 7,570 6,027
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
21/10/2025
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
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**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**42,625**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**42,625**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
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**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
21/10/2025
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Pontefract Community Kitchen **members of On accounts for the year** 31[st] December, 2024 **Charity no** 1182510 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/12/2023** .
- **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 (other than that disclosed below *) 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:** 2110/2025 **Name:** Mark R Cawthorn **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Cawthorn Accountancy, Bridge House, 96 Bondgate, Pontefract
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**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** .
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**October 2018**
**IER**