**OIKOS – BRIGG Charity No. 1184594**
## **ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 2021**
## **SECTION A**
## **INTRODUCTION**
OIKOS-BRIGG is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation that received Charity Status on 25[th] July 2019. This report is the second to be submitted to the Charity Commission and covers the period 1 April 2020 to 31[st] March 2021. During this period the nation was in the grip of the Covid19 pandemic, and trading had almost ceased, although the Foodbank work continued at an increased level.
## **BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR**
The income received during this period amounted to £3,350.73 and expenditure was £1,830.42. Together with the balances carried forward we ended the year with £5,586.92
## **PLANS for 2021 – 2022**
We have been successful in obtaining a lease on 67 Wrawby Street from the Nottingham Building Society, to whom we are very grateful. The premises will secure storage and packing area for the Foodbank and also use as a Drop-In Centre.
We have not been able to secure new Trustees as had been hoped last year, and we have had a resignation from Ven. Andrew Ballard, who resigned his Trusteeship following his move out of the area. In addition, Colin Illman has also moved out of the area and has submitted his resignation. We are most grateful for the support that Andrew in particular, and Colin have given to our organisation. It is hoped that we will have nominations from St Mary’s Church, and St John’s Church to add to our Trustee numbers, and we welcome Mary Knaggs as a Trustee.
We expect that the close working relationship we have with Hannah and her group and the Social Services Department at the Brigg Children’s centre will continue to develop.
We are especially grateful to North Lincolnshire Council for allowing us to use the premises with 100% council tax rebate, and to those who gave gifts and donations.
## **Basis of Preparation and legal framework**
We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation constituted on 25[th] July 2019.
**Full Name of Charity:** OIKOS-BRIGG
**Charity Registration No.** 1184594
**Registered Address:** The Methodist Church
Wesley Road Brigg DN20 8TR
**OIKOS – BRIGG Charity No. 1184594**
**Trustees** : Malcolm Richard Bailey Chairman Stephen Arthur Nightingale Cy Pettit Treasurer Mary Knaggs
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Aims and organisation**
## **Charity Objectives:**
To advance the Christian religion in North Lincolnshire for the benefit of the public through the holding of prayer meetings, lectures, producing and/or distributing literature on Christian faith to enlighten others about the Christian religion.
To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of North Lincolnshire and the surrounding area the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public benefit at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of life of the said inhabitants.
## **Public Benefit**
We confirm the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. The work of volunteers with the Foodbank has particularly been appreciated. Demand continues to increase.
## **Governance**
The constitution sets out the governance of the CIO.
## **Day to Day Management**
This is carried out by the officers appointed. Cy Petit has kindly agreed to oversee the work of the Foodbank and organises rotas for volunteers and has contact with the Children’s Centre and Schools in the area. Mary Knaggs has agreed to oversee the work of the Drop In Centre/shop
## **Trustee Training**
Oikos is committed to ensure that appropriate training is carried out for Trustees and volunteers. For example, both the Methodist Church and St John’s Church hold appropriate training for Trustees in relation to safeguarding.
**OIKOS – BRIGG Charity No. 1184594**
## **Related Parties**
We have arrangements to work with other Foodbanks in the North Lincolnshire Area. In addition the three Church Councils, St Mary’s, The Methodist Church and St John’s Church submit their nominations to serve as Trustees on the board of OIKOS. The Trustees then determine whether those nominees should be appointed having regard to their experience and gender.
## **Risk Management**
The major risks continue to be identified and recorded. We are establishing a regular annual review process. Income and Expenditure is monitored in total and is compared with the approved annual budget on at least a half yearly basis to detect trends as part of the risk management process.
## **Safeguarding**
We have a Safeguarding Policy which is reviewed annually. As mentioned earlier, we ensure that the Trustees are kept up to date with training on Safeguarding provided by the relevant Church Councils.
## **Reserves Policy**
At the present time, with no paid employees, no specific Reserves policy has been agreed. We shall continue however, to keep this under review in the event of finding new accommodation and/or taking on paid staff.
## **SECTION D Achievements**
The Board of Trustees have met either in person or on-line during the pandemic in order to progress the lease of new premises and to steer the work of the Foodbank.
As a result of the pandemic, our work during the year consisted almost entirely of dealing with the increased demand for the Foodbank, and liaising with neighbouring foodbanks and the Children’s Centre. Because the Churches in Brigg were closed during most of the pandemic, collections of donations were limited to Tesco Store, where respective congregations were encouraged to leave their food donations. The public have been very generous, and the Foodbank has been well stocked throughout the year. We are extremely grateful to the generous citizens of Brigg and the surrounding area.
During the year we became aware of another local group who were also involved in the provision of food from the start of the first lockdown, mainly to single people or couples without children, for whom distribution through the Children’s centre was not appropriate. In addition this group also supplied non food items. A number of on-line meetings were held so that our respective areas worked in harmony, and we were able to share the donated food and non food items including nappies, toiletries etc.
**OIKOS – BRIGG Charity No. 1184594**
We also entered into discussions with a view to developing a voucher system for fresh meat, and vegetables and how we might improve the system of meeting the demand. These discussions are on-going.
During the year we continued to search for alternative High Street accommodation, and entered into protracted discussions with the Nottingham Building Society regarding a property they owned adjacent to their own which had been empty for two years.
## **SECTION E Financial Review**
## **See appendix A**
## **OIKOS - Brigg Income and expenditure from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021 Charity 1184594**
|**Brought**
**forward 1st**
**April 2020**
**Income**
**Balance 31st**
**March 2021**|**Brought**
**forward 1st**
**April 2020**
**Income**
**Balance 31st**
**March 2021**|**Brought**
**forward 1st**
**April 2020**
**Income**
**Balance 31st**
**March 2021**|**Brought**
**forward 1st**
**April 2020**
**Income**
**Balance 31st**
**March 2021**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**General fund**|£1,488.46|||
|Named donations||£1,060.00||
|Cheque donations||£1,030.85||
||||£3,285.89|
|||||
|**Retail fund**|£1,816.32|||
|Retail sales||£484.88||
||||£1,241.98|
|**Foodbank fund**|£256.00|||
|Donations||£775.00||
||||£573.22|
|||||
|**Ministers Fraternal**|£505.83||£485.83|
|**£4,066.61**
£5,586.92||||
|**Expenditure**|**Expenditure**|
|---|---|
|**General fund**||
|Bank charges|£69.00|
|Electric|£224.42|
|||
|||
|**Retail fund**||
|Stockpurchase|£1,059.22|
|||
|**Foodbank fund**||
|Foodbankpurchases|£187.78|
|Foodbank - freshproduct|£140.00|
|Christmas food|£130.00|
|**Ministers Fraternal**||
|VoluntaryAction North Lincolnshire|£20.00|
## **Income 20/21 FY total**
**£3,350.73**
## **Expenditure 20/21FY total £1,830.42**
|**Reconciliation**||
|---|---|
|Brought forward|£4,066.61|
|Income 2020|£3,350.73|
|Expenditure 2020|-£1,830.42|
|Balance 31 March 2020|**£5,586.92**|
|**Location of funds**||
|---|---|
|Barclays account|£1,512.07|
|CAF account|£4,074.85|
|Accounts balance|**£5,586.92**|
## **OIKOS - Brigg Income and expenditure from Charity 1184594**
|**Income**|**Income**|**Income**|**Income**||**Expenditure**|**Expenditure**|**Expenditure**|**Expenditure**|**Expenditure**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Named donations**|Apr|£85.00|||**Payments made**|||||
||May|£85.00|||Barclays Cheques|165|Food bank|£100.00||
||Jun|£335.00||||215|Retail stock|£750.00||
||Jul|£135.00|||CAF bank on linepayments||Fruit &veg|£30.00||
||Aug|£85.00|||||Fruit &veg|£30.00||
||Sep|£85.00|||||Fruit &veg|£20.00||
||Oct|£45.00|||||VANL|£20.00||
||Nov|£45.00|||||Fruit &veg|£30.00||
||Dec|£45.00|||||Fruit &veg|£30.00||
||Jan|£45.00|||||H Dobson|£87.78||
||Feb|£25.00|||||Retail stock|£248.34||
||Mar|£45.00|||||Retail stock|£60.88||
||Sub total||**£1,060.00**||||H Dobson|£130.00||
|**Chequespayed into CAF**||||||Subtotal|||**£1,537.00**|
|2||£200.00||||||||
|3||£223.00||||||||
|4||£25.00||||||||
|5||£205.00||||||||
|6||£202.85||||||||
|7||£25.00||||||||
|8||£150.00||||||||
||Subtotal||**£1,030.85**|||||||
|**Foodbank donations**||||||||||
|**Foodbank donations**||||||||||
||177|£170.00|||**Electric - direct debit**|||£2.22||
||14|£25.00||||||£15.37||
||7|£125.00||||||£25.98||
||6|£50.00||||||£34.88||
||12|£30.00||||||£22.54||
||12|£50.00||||||£30.90||
||12|£30.00||||||£92.53||
||13|£150.00||||Subtotal|||**£224.42**|
||10|£20.00||||||||
||13|£50.00||||||||
||12|£50.00||||||||
||14|£25.00||||||||
||Subtotal||**£775.00**|||||||
|||||||||||
|**Retail sales**|178|£197.00||||||||
||179|£70.00||||||||
||180|£100.00||||||||
||181|£100.00||||||||
||182|£17.88||||||||
|||||||||||
||Subtotal||**£484.88**||**Bank charges**||||**£69.00**|
|**£3,350.73**|||||**£1,830.42**|||||