## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1.10.2024 Period start date To 30.9.2025 Period end date Charity name: BRANDLESHOLME COMMUNITY CENTRE & FOODBANK Charity registration number: 1185219** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To support the local community in**
**Brandlesholme, and other areas across**
**Bury North, with community based activities**
**that aim to combat loneliness and social**
**isolation.**
**To provide food, clothing, equipment &**
**other essentials for babies and young**
**children. To provide access to any advice**
**needed, including for disadvantaged**
**families.**
**To provide support for refugees & asylum**
**seekers.**| |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 food aid, also cleaning and**
**personal hygiene products.**
**Operating a ‘Family Bank’ to supply**
**struggling families with baby equipment,**
**baby clothes, nappies & school uniform.**
**Operating a ‘drop-in’ café to combat social**
**isolation and identify needs that can be**
**addressed, and, if applicable, signpost to**
**other services.**
**Supporting refugees and asylum seekers**
**who are new to the area.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees are fully aware of their**
**responsibility to work to support their local**
**community and work for the benefit of the**
**people they represent.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**All Trustees contribute to accessing grants.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |||| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Time & expertise.**
**The local churches’ Volunteers operate the**
**drop-in cafes.**
**Local residents organise food collections.**
**There are now several Volunteers who**
**supply essential know how, such as**
**maintaining the IT system.**
**BCC volunteers have links with local asylum**
**seekers/refugee groups that are volunteer**
**run, also a large rough sleepers charity with**
**which supplies are exchanged.**| |Other||**Income from grants continues to be difficult**
**to access, but income from individuals and**
**local groups continues to grow.**
**The local community group continues to**
**collect food items for BCC, as do several**
**primary schools. The link with Tesco has**
**provided food stock on a regular basis.**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**BCC continues to be established as the main**
**support for disadvantaged residents across**
**Bury North, and continues to liaise with other**
**foodbanks across Bury.**
**Referrals mainly come from professionals**
**such as Social Workers, Health Workers,**
**Schools, Early Help etc.**
**There are also strong links with local**
**refugee/asylum seeker groups, and a rough**
**seekers support group.**
**The drop-in cafes are very well used as a**
**meeting place for local isolated residents, and**
**are now running twice a week, with a**
**possibility of opening a third. One of the**
**groups that runs these cafes has also helped**
**organised a Family Day, and a local**
**litterpick/clean-up.**
**The Charity promotes the Family Bank**
**through the local schools and this has**
**become a growing project in itself. The main**
**needs are for basic baby equipment, and**
**school uniforms for local primary schools.**
**A Yoga class is running twice weekly, and is**
**very well attended. A Karate Club is running**
**four times a week, and is also very well**
**attended by adults and young people. Several**
**of the attendees are now entering**
**competitions to gain different level belts.**
**Space is available to let out to NHS run**
**groups, and the Centre is a Polling Station.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**BCC has maintained its links with other**
**Foodbanks, and they are mutually**
**supportive.**
**The Family Bank continues to be very busy.**
**It has formed strong links with local refugee**
**groups, and is providing baby & children’s**
**clothes & equipment, as well as food for this**
**most disadvantaged group.**
**The Charity continues to evolve and**
**respond to crises and the needs of**
**vulnerable people across the north of Bury.**
**The success of the Yoga and Karate classes**
**has demonstrated the need for these types**
**of activities, which have the potential to**
**develop further.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Support from local people and businesses.**
**Collection points in supermarkets.**
**The Foodbank and Family Bank are mainly**
**self sustaining, with top-ups using donated**
**funds when necessary.**
**Room rental is slowly growing as the**
**Charity gets more enquiries from outside**
**bodies. Links with local community groups**
**and schools are a regular source of stock,**
**as well as a means of promoting the**
**existence of the Foodbank & Family Bank.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**BCC took over the full building on a**
**peppercorn rent as a gift from Bury Council,**
**which allowed the expansion of the**
**Foodbank, the setting up of the Family Bank**
**and the Drop-In cafés.**
**Maintenance of the building continues to be**
**an issue, with repairs taking a long time to**
**be done, with a detrimental effect on the**
**building itself, and on items within it.**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**See accounts**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**When grants and larger donations are**
**received for specific items, it is always**
**explained to the provider what the situation**
**is and how the money will be spent.**
**Because needs are constantly changing and**
**evolving reserves ned to be kept in case the**
**focus needs to change direction at any**
**point. Donors are invited in to see what the**
**Trustees are doing, and what the funds are**
**being used for.**
**All the donors have been happy with this.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**See accounts**| |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|**N/A**| ## **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|**Grants and donations**
**Room hire charges. This is increasing**
**steadily, and has the potential to increase**
**further.**
**The building has been used as a Polling**
**Station in local and national elections.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Maintenance of the building. There are**
**several issues; the Local Authority is aware.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |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|**Volunteers with the necessary skills are**
**invited to three Trustee meetings after they**
**have volunteered for some time.**
**If appropriate they will be invited to become**
**a co-opted Trustee, and move to become a**
**full Trustee if and when appropriate**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Constitution, Mission statement and Role of**
**Trustee documents are available for**
**potential Trustees to read. There is also a**
**training and induction of Trustee document,**
**and a full set of policy documents eg**
**Safeguarding**
**All Trustees and Volunteers have to have**
**and up to date DBS.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The Charity has a Chair, Vice Chair,**
**Treasurer and Secretary. All Trustees have**
**specific roles and responsibilities.**
**The Charity works with various other**
**Foodbanks & Homeless services across the**
**voluntary sector.**
**The Charity also works with local primary**
**schools, housing providers, churches etc.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|BRANDLESHOLME COMMUNITY CENTRE & FOODBANK| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|BURY FAMILY BANK| |Registered charity number|| 1185219 Charity’s principal address 375 Brandlesholme Road Bury Greater Manchester BL8 1HS ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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3
4
5
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7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Joanne Tierney-
Warburton|Chair||All Trustees| ||Beth McCrimmon|Vice Chair||| ||Tasha Williams|Secretary||| ||Jordan Newall|Treasurer & Family
Bank||| ||Susan Southworth|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |||| |||| ||**N/A**|| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity N/A 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 **N/A** ## **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**|SJ Southworth|| |---|---|---| ||Susan Southworth|| ||
Trustee|| ||05/07/2026|| ||05/07/2026|| ||**Brandlesholme Community Centre**|**Brandlesholme Community Centre**|**Brandlesholme Community Centre**|**Brandlesholme Community Centre**|**Brandlesholme Community Centre**|**No (if any)**
**1185219**|**No (if any)**
**1185219**|**No (if any)**
**1185219**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||**Period start date**
**1.10.2024**||**To**||**Period end date**
**30.9.2025**||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |
**Rotary**|**550**||**0**||**0**||**550**||**0**| |**VSF Grants**|**-**||**0**||**0**||**0**||**5,500**| |**Bury MBC**|**4,000**||**0**||**0**||**4,000**||**1,000**| |**Asda Foundation**|**600**||**0**||**0**||**600**||**0**| |**Other Sundry Donations**|**3,696**||**0**||**0**||**3,696**||**2,758**| |**Room Hire**|**1,292**||**0**||**0**||**1,292**||**250**| |**Bank Interest**|**31**||||||**31**||**71**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|
**10,169**||**0**||**0**||**10,169**||**9,579**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**|||||||||| ||**0**||||||||| ||**0**||||||||**0**| |**_Sub total_**|
**0**||||||||**0**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**9,579**| ||||||||||| |
**Foodbank supplies**|**7,008**||**0**||**0**||**7,008**||**12,900**| |**Van hire and running costs**|**2,654**||**0**||**0**||**2,654**||**1,750**| |**Craft supplies & activity days**|**1,458**||**0**||**0**||**1,458**||**1,872**| |**Running costs, administration and**
**overheads**|**10,185**||**0**||**0**||**10,185**||**12,107**| |**Other**|**1,519**||**0**||**0**||**1,519**||**352**| ||||**0**||**0**||**0**||**0**| ||||**0**||**0**||**0**||**0**| ||||**0**||**0**||**0**||**0**| ||||**0**||**0**||**0**||**0**| |**_Sub total_**|**22,824**||**0**||**0**||**22,824**||**28,981**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**(see table)**|||||||||| ||||||||||| ||**0**||||||||| |**_Sub total_**|**0**||||||||**0**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**28,981**| ||||||||||| ||**-12,655**||||||||**-19,402**| ||**0**||||||||**0**| ||**25,925**||||||||**45,327**| ||**13,270**||||||||**25,925**| ## **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**
**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))
**Details**
**Details**
**Computer, TV, CCTV and other sundry**
~~**items**~~
**Van**
**Fixtures and fittings**
**Details**
Signature
**SJ Southworth**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**13,270**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,270**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**2,052**
Restricted
**8,094**
Unrestricted
**2,466**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Susan Southworth**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| ||**SJ Southworth**|**Susan Southworth**|**5.7.26**| |||||