Registered Charity no. 1186640
REPORT OF THE TRusfEES AND FINANCIAL
srATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31ST MARCH 2025
FOR
BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK
**BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK CONTENTS PAGE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025**
|CONTENTS|Page|
|---|---|
|Report of the Trustees|3-6|
|Independent Examiners Report|7|
|Receipts and Payments Account|8|
|Statement of Assets and Liabilities|9|
|Summary of fund movement|10-11|
|Notes to the Receipts and Payment Accounts|12|
|Analysis of receipts and payments|13-14|
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## **BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025**
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered charity number**
1186640
## **Principal address**
Unit 8 Darwin House, Second Avenue, The Innovation Centre, Kingswinford West Midlands DY6 7YB
## **Trustees**
Amy Wootton – Chairperson Lynne Hinton - Secretary Jane Chesterman - Treasurer Claire Franklin
## **Independent examiner**
Advanced Accountancy (Midlands) Ltd 4 Darwin House The Innovation Centre Pensnett Estate Kingswinford West Midland DY6 7YB
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## **BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK TRUSTEES REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025**
The Trustees present their report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31st March 2025.
## **Organisational structure**
Brierley Hill Babybank is a registered charity, No. 1186640.
## **Governance and Management**
Trustees are appointed by the Members at the AGM. Membership is by application and agreed by trustees to have a broad range of skills represented, in particular finance, health service professionals, and voluntary sector experience.
## **Objectives and activities**
The principal objectives of the charity are:
The prevention or relief of poverty in Brierley Hill and the surrounding areas by providing essential items, resources, and support to families with young children and /or to charities or other organisations who also work to prevent or relieve poverty amongst families.
## **Achievements and Performance**
Our trustees would like to thank everyone involved this year in supporting our charity, as we once again faced more increases in demand for our essential packs and support to parents and carers from 25 weeks of pregnancy and up to age 2.
We have continued to provide support through referral services for families in our immediate area within postcodes DY1-DY10 and B63-B65. We are very strict on a maximum of 3 packs per year so that we are not creating a dependency.
The National Lottery supported us by providing funding for our premises and two full-time roles which we are so very grateful for and a fund that ends very soon. May we express our thanks and hopes of future support.
Local Authority and Dudley Community Volunteering Service once again trusted us and offered Household Support Funding to ensure we had the essential items to those in financial need with items we may not get donated or identified as a local need.
## **BHBB in numbers:**
Our top three areas for referrals were DY5 with 16% of our packs requested by that postcode, DY2 with 15.6% and DY1 with 15.3%.
We issued 743 packs in total for the year avoiding many items going to landfills whilst drawing in the community spirit and encouraging supporting others.
0–3-month packs remain at our highest needed size with 266 packs issued. The second most requested size is 18-24 months with 148 packs.
The professionals with the most referrals in our area were Community Midwives, Family Nurses and Health Visitors.
52 volunteers, which is lower than last year, giving 3 hours on average a week at a value of £12 per hour have been valued at £97,384. How lucky are we and what amazing support from our community and volunteer team that has made all this possible, enabling more time for
other projects to be implemented.
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## **BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK TRUSTEES REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025**
## **Achievements and Performance (cont.)**
Our staff have completed a variety of courses and training from yearly Safeguarding, Adult and Paediatric First Aid, Parent and Infant Emotional Wellbeing, Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Drug, Solvent and Alcohol abuse.
Our on site sensory room is helping the community come together and make connections, whilst also helping us to become more sustainable.
Working at a grassroots level enables us to build relationships and trust with families that are facing financial and emotional difficulties
Our referrals show that 47% of our packs go out for crisis and the other 53% are to work in a preventative measure to avoid crisis. We know that early help is often a preferred pathway, and we encourage families to plan where they are able.
We have been nominated for a variety of awards over the year, which is always so touching, and we are proud to say we won the main award for 2024 in creating strong families in our area. Well done to every single person who is a part of what we do.
## **Financial review**
At 31st March 2025, the unrestricted and designated funds after transfers are £50,246.11 (2024: £26,969.63). Restricted fund balances after transfers total £1,857.80(2024: £9,159.78)
## **Reserves and reserves policy**
The policy agreed by the trustees is to aim to hold in unrestricted reserves not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets (the ‘free’ reserves) sufficient to cover the general overhead expenses and salary costs not specifically funded by external agencies, for a period of six months. At this level, the trustees feel that they would be able to continue the current activities of the charity in the event of a significant drop in funding. It would then be necessary to consider how the funding would be replaced or activities changed. The amount of ‘free’ reserves at 31st March 2025 amounts to £50,246.11 (2024 £26,969.63), and equates to approximately 6 months expenditure.
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BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK
TRUSTEES REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENOED 31ST MARCH 2025
Risk policy and review
The trustees have examined the major strategic. business and operational rlsks that the charity faces
and consider that they are adequately mitigated through insurance, strategic plannin& policies.
sysiems and procedu$.
Trustee$, re5ponsibilit•es In relation lo the financial ststements
Law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees io prepare financial
statements for each financial year which give a irue and fair view of ihe charlty's financial actNlties
during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparin8 those financial
statements. the trustees are required to..
select suitable accounting policies and then appfy them consistently-
make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent-
stale wheiher applicable accounting Standards and staiements of recommended practice have
been followed subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial ststements-
and
prepare the financial statements on ihe Boing concern basis unless it is inappropriate to
presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy
ai any time the financial position ol the charity and enable them io ensure that the financial
statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safe8u3rding the assets
of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detettion of fraud and
other irregularities.
Approved by the trustees on
and signed on their behalf by
.rviiiis
2111012025
Amy Wootton
ChaSrperson ol Trustees
## **BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025**
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31st March 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report.**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent Examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- Accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the
Act; or
- The accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Advanced Accountancy (Midlands) Ltd 4 Darwin House The Innovation Centre Pensnett Kingswinford West Midlands DY6 7YB
Date : 26/9/25
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## **Brierley Hill BabyBank**
## **Receipts and Payments Account**
## **For the period from 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
||**Unrestricted**|**Designated**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Prior year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|**total funds**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Receipts**||||||
|**Donations and legacies**|**46,443.53**|**6,387.00**|**2,600.00**|**55,430.53**|**36,201.37**|
|**Income from charitable**||||||
|**activities**|**6,500.40**|**108,665.50**|**48,741.50**|**163,907.40**|**107,721.95**|
|**Other trading activities**|**13,222.17**|**-**|**-**|**13,222.17**|**3,298.93**|
|**Other income**|**459.00**|**-**|**3,660.00**|**4,119.00**|**237.50**|
|**Total Receipts**
|**66,625.10**|**115,052.50**|**55,001.50**|**236,679.10**|**147,459.75**|
|**Payments**||||||
|**Expenditure on charitable**||||||
|**activities**|**40,818.50**|**115,953.92**|**63,312.27**|**220,084.69**|**156,080.81**|
|**Other expenditure**|**619.91**|**-**|**-**|**619.91**|**2,697.89**|
|**Total Payments**
|**41,438.41**|**115,953.92**|**63,312.27**|**220,704.60**|**158,778.70**|
|**Excess of receipts over payments before transfer**
|**25,186.69**|**(901.42)**|**(8,310.77)**|**15,974.50**|**(11,318.95)**|
|**Transfers:**
||||||
|**Gross transfers between funds - in**|**6,823.46**|**17,043.73**|**9,155.46**|**33,022.65**|**8,405.06**|
|**Gross transfers between funds - out**|**(18,302.94)**|**(6,573.04)**|**(8,146.67)**|**(33,022.65)**|**(8,405.06)**|
|**Excess of receipts over payments before other gains**|**13,707.21**|**9,569.27**|**(7,301.98)**|**15,974.50**|**(11,318.95)**|
|**Loan Repayment**
|||||**(5,000.00)**|
|**Reconciliation of funds**||||||
|**Excess of receipts over payments at beginning of the year**|**26,859.54**|**110.09**|**9,159.78**|**36,129.41**|**52,448.36**|
|**Excess of receipts over payments for the year**|**40,566.75**|**9,679.36**|**1,857.80**|**52,103.91**|**36,129.41**|
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## **Brierley Hill BabyBank**
## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities**
## **As at: 31 March 2025**
||**General**
**(Unrestricted)**|**Designated**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Cash Funds||||||
|Cash at Bank and In Hand|40,566.75|9,679.36|1,857.80|52,103.91|36,129.41|
|Total|40,566.75|9,679.36|1,857.80|52,103.91|36,129.41|
|Current Assets||||||
|Premises Deposit Held|10,350.00|-|-|10,350.00|10,350.00|
|Gift Aid Recoverable|-|-|-|-|459.00|
|Total|10,350.00|-|-|10,350.00|10,809.00|
|Assets Retained for Charity's Own Use||||||
|Motor Vehicle (net||||||
|book value)|11,250.00|-|-|11,250.00|4,000.00|
|Total|11,250.00|-|-|11,250.00|4,000.00|
|
||||||
|Net total assets
|62,166.75|9,679.36|1,857.80|73,703.91|50,938.41|
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## **Brierley Hill BabyBank**
## **Fund movement summary**
## **Selected period: 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
|Fund
Fund
balances
Incoming
Outgoing
Transfers
brought
forward
Resources
Resources
|Fund
balances
Carried
forward|
|---|---|
|£
£
£
£|£|
|Unrestricted
General - General Fund
26,859.54
66,625.10
41,438.41
(11,479.48)
|
40,566.75|
|Sub-totals
26,859.54
66,625.10
41,438.41
(11,479.48)|40,566.75|
|Designated
BCFB - Black Country Food Bank
-
500.00
500.76
0.76
CLENT Card Machine - CLENT SCIENCE CARD M/C
-
575.00
575.00
-
Clent Salaries - Clent Science Designated Salaries
110.09
-
-
(110.09)
HMRC Provision - HMRC Provision
-
-
-
2,500.00
HSF5 Delivery - HSF5 Delivery
-
500.00
153.04
(346.96)
HSF5 Essential - HSF5 Essential
-
34,500.00
34,998.53
498.53
HSF6 - Delivery - HSF6 - Delivery
-
1,000.00
158.07
(841.93)
HSF6 - Essentials - HSF6 - Essentials
-
29,000.00
29,900.79
900.79
MASONIC - MASONIC Salaries
-
2,800.00
2,112.01
(687.99)
MHT - Salaries - Magdalen Hospital Trust
-
700.00
-
(700.00)
Reaching Communities YR3 RENT
-
11,639.00
14,201.82
-
Reaching Communities YR3 SALARIES -
-
29,226.50
19,484.32
-
SALARIES - Salaries - Designated
-
1,612.00
13,869.58
12,257.58
SPEEDO MICK - SPEEDO MICK Salaries
-
3,000.00
-
(3,000.00)
Sub-totals
110.09
115,052.50
115,953.92
10,470.69|
-
-
-
2,500.00
-
-
-
-
-
-
(2,562.82)
9,742.18
-
-|
||9,679.36|
|Restricted
ASDA Vol - ASDA Col Fund Volunteer Expenses
104.19
-
105.46
1.27
FEEDGEN - Feed General
-
100.00
101.69
1.69
P2P Material & Equipment - Dudley CVS
-
233.00
1,145.09
912.09
P2P TAXI's - Dudley CVS
-
2,625.00
742.29
(1,882.71)
P2P Use of SENSORY ROOM - Dudley CVS -
-
693.00
-
(693.00)
P2P WAGES - DudleyCVS
-
832.00
520.00
(312.00)
Reaching Communities
9,055.59
44,258.50
49,697.74
(1,758.55)
New Van Fund
-
6,260.00
11,000.00
4,740.00
Sub-totals
9,159.78
55,001.50
63,312.27
1,008.79|
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,857.80
-|
||1,857.80|
|Totals
36,129.41
236,679.10
220,704.60
(0.00)|52,103.91|
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## **Brierley Hill Babybank**
## **Fund movement summary**
|**Fund movement summary**||
|---|---|
|**Selected period: 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024**||
|Fund
Fund balances
Incoming
Outgoing
Transfers
brought
forward
Resources
Resources
|Fund balances
Carried
forward|
|£
£
£
£|£|
|Unrestricted
General - General Fund
15,715.40
37,746.75
33,381.97
6,779.36
|
26,859.54|
|Sub-totals
15,715.40
37,746.75
33,381.97
6,779.36|26,859.54|
|Designated
ASDA Refreshments - ASDA Refreshments
117.63
-
131.26
13.63
Clent - FNP - Clent Science - FNP Cot Fund
-
1,000.00
957.66
(42.34)
Clent - PA Salary Fund - Clent Science
-
4,000.00
3,960.00
(40.00)
Clent Driver Driver Salary Fund
4,064.01
-
4,099.89
35.88
Clent Salaries - Clent Science Designated Salaries
-
5,000.00
4,368.91
(521.00)
Clent Science Fund
11,051.05
-
11,108.63
57.58
|
-
-
-
-
110.09
-|
|Sub-totals
15,232.69
10,000.00
24,626.35
(496.25)|110.09|
|Restricted
ASDA Essentials - ASDA Col Fund Essential Items
-
550.00
548.87
(1.13)
ASDA Utilities - ASDA Col Fund Rent & Utilites
-
630.00
677.16
47.16
ASDA Vol - ASDA Col Fund Volunteer Expenses
-
342.00
237.81
-
DCVS -1001 DAYS - DCVS - 1001 DAYS
7,000.00
-
-
(7,000.00)
Eveson - Training - Eveson Trust - Training
454.40
-
620.00
165.60
FEED - Baby Milk Fund
-
250.00
251.75
1.75
GrowingDudley - DudleyCVS -Growing Up In Dudley
-
1,000.00
1,001.37
1.37
HofE Salaries - HofEng Propeties - Salaries Grant 1/8/2024
-
2,500.00
3,030.00
530.00
LA Household Support - Dudley MBC Household Support (LA)
-
9,000.00
9,005.03
5.03
Mazars - Mazars
-
500.00
466.47
(33.53)
Pram Fund - Dudley CVS Pram Fund
-
10,000.00
9,874.00
(126.00)
PSC Defib - Pedmore Sports Defib
-
1,238.00
1,294.80
56.80
PSC FA - Pedmore Sports First Aid
-
612.00
595.00
(17.00)
Reaching Communities - Reaching Communities - Lottery
12,045.87
67,341.00
70,271.16
(60.12)
Sir John - Sir John Middlemore
-
1,750.00
1,750.94
0.94
Turner Trust - Turner Trust Core Costs
2,000.00
-
2,000.00
-
Warmth Fund - DudleyCVS -Winter Warmth
-
4,000.00
4,146.02
146.02
Sub-totals
21,500.27
99,713.00
105,770.38
(6,283.11)|
-
-
104.19
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9,055.59
-
-
-|
||9,159.78|
|
||
|Totals
52,448.36
147,459.75
163,778.70
-|36,129.41|
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## BRIERLEY HILL BABYBANK
NOTES TO THE RECEIPTS AND PAYMENT ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025
## 1
Trustees' Remuneration and Benefits
No remuneration or other benefits were paid to Trustees during the year (2024: £NIL )
|Staff Costs
Salaries and Wages
NI Costs
Pension Costs|2025
2024
£
£
88,428
74,755
785
501
1,561
1,373|
|---|---|
||90,775
76,630|
The average number of employees during the year was 5 (2024: 4)
## 3
Related Party Transactions
Former Trustee, Tracey Tromans, is also a director of First Space 4 Finance Hub LTD First Space 4 Finance were paid £256 (2024 £1,807) for accountancy services provided
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## **Brierley Hill BabyBank**
## **Analysis of income and expenditure**
## **Selected period: 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
|
|Total
General
Designated
Restricted
This year
Last year|
|---|---|
|Income and endowments from:
Donations and legacies
1000 - Fundraising
1200 - Donations
Donations and legacies Totals
Income from charitable activities
1100 - Grants
1300 - Weigh In
1400 - Events
Income from charitable activities Totals
Other trading activities
1502 - Sensory Room
Other trading activities Totals
Other Income
1600 - Gift Aid
1650 - Miscellaneous
Other income Totals
Income and endowments: Grand totals|£
£
£
£
£
26,119.41
-
-
26,119.41
14,867.50
20,324.12
6,387.00
2,600.00
29,311.12
21,333.87|
||46,443.53
6,387.00
2,600.00
55,430.53
36,201.37|
||5,042.00
108,665.50 48,741.50
162,449.00
106,213.00
1,458.40
-
-
1,458.40
1,043.95
-
-
-
-
465.00|
||6,500.40
108,665.50 48,741.50
163,907.40
107,721.95|
||13,222.17
-
-
13,222.17
3,298.93|
||13,222.17
-
-
13,222.17
3,298.93|
||459.00
-
-
459.00
237.50
-
-
3,660.00
3,660.00
-|
||459.00
-
3,660.00
4,119.00
237.50|
||66,625.10
115,052.50 55,001.50
236,679.10
147,459.75|
|Expenditure on:
Expenditure on charitable activities
2000 - Rent & Service Charges
2010 - Repairs & Maintenance
2100 - Utilities
2200 - Telephone & Broadband
2350 - Motoring Expenses
2351 - Van Fuel
2400 - Insurance
2500 - Office Supplies & Sundries
2505 - Volunteer Expenses &
Refreshments
2510 - Advertising & Promotion
2550 - Misc Other
2551 - Client Support|
-
14,201.82
13,881.10
28,082.92
25,902.24
1,764.76
-
-
1,764.76
1,401.08
6,133.12
-
-
6,133.12
6,270.93
1,237.67
-
-
1,237.67
1,100.69
3,176.95
-
11,000.00
14,176.95
1,056.46
268.23
245.62
-
513.85
616.80
3,825.76
65.49
-
3,891.25
2,561.44
1,654.10
-
-
1,654.10
1,158.70
301.52
-
105.46
406.98
623.39
603.60
-
-
603.60
399.00
(12.47)
530.00
-
517.53
116.33
103.10
-
742.29
845.39
3,617.18|
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|2554 - Sensory Room Mtls & Equip|165.16|-|1,145.09|1,310.25|-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|2562 - DBS checks & Safeguarding|-|-|-|-|50.25|
|2600 - Office Furniture & Equipment|441.83|-|-|441.83|2,451.09|
|2650 - Licenses & Subscriptions|808.43|45.00|-|853.43|1,019.55|
|2700 - Stock & Essential Items|1,082.10|65,400.08|101.69|66,583.87|29,882.95|
|2800 - Events|45.00|-|-|45.00|88.00|
|2850 - Training & Staff Costs|247.32|-|-|247.32|1,135.00|
|3000 - Gross Pay|18,187.10|33,904.57|36,336.64|88,428.31|74,755.45|
|3010 - Employers' NI|-|785.16|-|785.16|501.16|
|3020 - Employers' Pension|785.22|776.18|-|1,561.40|1,373.12|
|Expenditure on charitable activities Totals|40,818.50|115,953.92|63,312.27|220,084.69|156,080.81|
|Other expenditure||||||
|2560 - Professional Fees|269.91|-|-|269.91|2,347.89|
|2561 - Independent Examiner|350.00|-|-|350.00|350.00|
|Other expenditure Totals|619.91|-|-|619.91|2,697.89|
|||||||
|Expenditure Grand totals|41,438.41|115,953.92|63,312.27|220,704.60|158,778.70|
Expenditure Grand totals
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