## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/10/22 Period start date To Period end date 30/09/23**
## **Charity name: Helping Homeless Believe (HHB)**
## **Charity registration number:1187141**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION
ADVICE, SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE FOR
PERSONS IN NEED, WHO ARE DEEMED TO BE
HOMELESS, VULNERABLY HOUSED OR
OTHERWISE SUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF
POVERTY|
|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|Proving weekly outreach services for those who
are street homeless and living in poverty.
Providing one on one advocacy for services users
requiring assistance to obtain housing, benefits
and other professional services that are
required.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees have received guidance issued by the
charity commission on public benefit|
## **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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SORP reference
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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**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|HHB maintained a weekly outreach programme
ensuring those who are homeless and living in
poverty have received food, clothing and other
items to survive whilst being street homeless
and/or living in poverty.
Volunteers have assisted service users helping
them obtain housing, drug and alcohol
rehabilitation and navigation through the
benefit system.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|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|HHB have ended the financial year in a good
position, however has certainly seen the impact
of the cost of living crisis along with the CAZ
imposed on Bristol citycentre|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|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|**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||
|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|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|Apart from the first charity trustees, every
appointed trustee must be appointed for a term
of three years by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the charity
trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment
as appointed charity trustees, the charity
trustees must have regard to the skills,
knowledge and experience needed for the
effective administration of the CIO|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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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 Helping Homeless Believe (HHB)
Other name the charity uses HHB
Registered charity number 1187141
Charity’s principal address Mulberry House, The Kingswood Estate, Britannia Road, Bristol
BS15 8DB
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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 Saffron Cottee 4.5 years
Samantha 4.5 years
2
McNiven
3 Natalie Reed 4.5 years
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7
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10
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12
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14
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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|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|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|N/A|
## **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**||
|---|---|
||Saffron Cottee|
||
Secretary|
||29/07/24|
||29/07/24|
## **Helping Homeless Believe**
## **Income & Expenditure for year ending 30 September 2023**
|Donations received
Grants
Expenditure:
Rent
Rates
Food and drinks
Clothing and Survival cost
Other Outreach costs
Advertising
Travel
Hotels
Post, print and stationery
Telephone & Internet
Van Expenses
Accountancy
Paypal fees
Wages
Surplus of Income over expenditure
Represented by:
Balance b.fwd
Bank Account
Paypal|£
£
30,768
8,500
39,268
12,200
469
10,190
3,152
5,743
8
179
1,152
530
1,282
3,029
190
368
2,475
40,967
-1,699
£
-22,979
20,151
1,129
-1,699|
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
HELPING HOMELESS BELIEVE- HHB
On accounts for tho year
ended
30 SEPTEMBER 2023
Charity no
{if any
1187141
Set out on pagos
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (Ihe Trust") for the year ended
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 ofthe 2011 Acl and in carrying out my examination. I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under sedion 145(5Xb) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
come to my attention (other than ihat disclosed below ') in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kepl in accA)rdance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting rewrds
Independent
examiner's statement
Ihav
wit
the
o concems and have come across no other matters in connection
mination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
erstanding of the accounts lo be reached.
elete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply.
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Signed:
Dato:
Name:
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Relevant professional
qualifJcation{s) or l>ody
(if any):
Addr•ss:
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IER
October 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of Charity a¢¢ounts". directions and guidan for
examiners).
Give here brief detalls of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
discloso.
IER
October 2018