## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 April 2020 Period start date To 31 March 2021 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Number Seven**
## **Charity registration number: 1185667**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 The purpose of the charity is the relief
purposes of the charity of financial hardship by providing
as set out in its services to enable people to access
governing document and afford food; the relief of
unemployment by providing training
and employment opportunities to
people who are unemployed or who
face barriers to employment; the
promotion of social inclusion by
preventing people from becoming
socially excluded, relieving the needs
of those people who are socially
excluded and assisting them to
integrate into society; and the
promotion of the conservation and
protection of the physical and natural
environment through the recycling of
surplus produce.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and In 2020-21, membership of Number
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activities in relation to Seven remained constant at 1,000
those purposes for the households on low incomes. Those
public benefit, in households were able to continue
particular, the activities, accessing food throughout the Covid-
projects or services 19 pandemic, either in person or
identified in the through home deliveries.
accounts.
Moreover, 40 people experiencing
homelessness received daily
breakfasts, 72 families were given
‘back to school’ packs for their
children, and two additional
placements were offered to young
people facing barriers to employment.
Much of this work was made possible
by the use of 85 tonnes worth of food
that was recycled from surplus stocks
in supermarket supply chains and
which would otherwise have gone to
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waste. Statement confirming Para 1.18 Trustees have had regard to the whether the trustees guidance issued by the charity have had regard to the commission on public benefit. guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit
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SORP reference
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Para 1.38
Policy on grant making
n/a
Para 1.38
Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment
Five volunteers contributed regularly
Para 1.38 to the daily running of Number Seven,
Contribution made by with duties including the collection
volunteers and delivery of food and supporting
the on-site community café.
n/a
Other
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
A main achievement of Number
Seven was to save households on low
incomes an estimated collective total
Summary of the main of £500,000 on food and other
Para 1.20
achievements of the essentials, thereby enabling those
charity, identifying the households to stretch their budgets
difference the charity’s further and avoid being hungry or
work has made to the having to use a food bank.
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any Moreover, the charity continued to
wider benefits to society combat isolation and loneliness
as a whole. among pensioners and vulnerable
adults of working age who account for
a combined proportion of
approximately 60% of members. The
charity also contributed to the
broader Feeding Birkenhead,
Supporting Wirral programme of
providing emergency relief packages
to people afflicted by the covid-19
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pandemic.
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
n/a
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
n/a
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
n/a
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 The charity’s funds were managed
financial position at the throughout this period by Feeding
end of the period Britain, the national organisation to
which the charity belongs, and are
therefore displayed in a separate set
of accounts. Strategic decisions
governing the allocation of funds were
made by the charity’s trustees. All
funds donated to Feeding Britain for
the purposes of supporting Number
Seven were ringfenced accordingly,
with the shared intention of
transferring all financial
responsibilities and structures to the
charity in the following financial year.
Statement explaining Para 1.22 Reserves were held by Feeding Britain
the policy for holding (and are therefore included in a
reserves stating why separate set of accounts) to mitigate
they are held the loss of revenue at Number Seven
resulting from covid-19, as well as to
support the expansion of the charity
into a neighbouring unit during the
following financial year – thereby
enabling staff and volunteers to meet
growing levels of need among
households on low incomes.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 n/a
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 n/a
reserves
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 n/a
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 n/a
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds Para 1.47
(including any
fundraising)
n/a
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
n/a
A description of the Para 1.46
principal risks facing the
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charity
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other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 CIO
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Selection and unanimous agreement
methods including by Trustees
details of any
constitutional provisions
e.g. election to post or
name of any person or
body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the Para 1.51
induction and training of
trustees
Number Seven operates within the
broader Feeding Birkenhead,
The charity’s Supporting Wirral and Feeding Britain
organisational structure Para 1.51 networks
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Number Seven
Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity 1185667
number
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address|7 Princes Pavement, Birkenhead, CH41 2XY||
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 David Williams Chair
2 Frank Field
Moira
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McLaughlin
4 Andrew Forsey
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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
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Trustee name Dates acted if not for
whole year
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**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
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Andrew Pilling
## **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)** Frank Field **Full name(s)** Andrew Forsey **Position (eg** Trustee Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 23.12.2021