2024-04-05-accounts

Trustee Annual Report for the period 06/04/23 to 05/04/24

Reference and administration details Charity Name - Chapter15 Registered Charity number - 1188310 Charity’s principal address - 15 Fairfields, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 1JL

Name of Trustees who manage the charity

Nadine Forde, Andrew Forde, John Jones, Lel Mfazwe

Number of active volunteers

17 (Four of which are the Trustees named above, one is currently inactive due to work commitments) – Many of our volunteers have commitments which lowers their availability

Structure, governance, and management

Description of the charity’s trusts Type of governing document – Constitution adopted March 2020 How the charity is constituted – CIO Charitable incorporated organisation. Trustee selection method – Trustees are selected or reselected in a trustee member, in the period prior to the end of term.

Additional governance issues

Volunteer Membership of the charity is given to people from the public. The trustees appoint when it is agreed they are suitable candidates for the role(s). Appropriate checks are made such as CRB and referral and recommendations.

The charity supports anyone within the local area who is on an extremely low income. The trustees oversee the day to day running of the charity and the work carried out by its volunteers to ensure it is in accordance with the charity’s governing document aims and objectives.

The trustees seek the views of those we are supporting and have an established a working relationship with existing services in the town to help with deciding the activities and pathways to be run. All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits.

Trustee Annual Report for the period 06/04/23 to 05/04/24

Objectives and activities

1. The prevention or relief of poverty for the public benefit in Thetford and the surrounding area, in particular but not exclusively by:

• a. providing homeless people, those at risk of homelessness, and those living in poverty with essentials such as food, hygiene items, clothing, furniture, sleeping equipment, haircuts and any other essential items they may need;

• b. providing support, advice and information to the homeless, those at risk of homelessness and those living in poverty;

• c. establishing effective working relationships with other charities and voluntary and statutory organisations established to help people who are homeless, vulnerably housed and living in poverty to better meet their needs and improve their conditions.

• d. promoting awareness of homelessness and poverty in Thetford and the surrounding area.

2. To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.

For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown; poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards; crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society).

Summary

In planning our activities for the year ahead, we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings.

The main activities are as follows:

• Working to support other charities, services, and community groups. Throughout the pandemic such as referrals, fulfilling clothes request supplying stock such as sleeping bags.

• Continuing to work with authorities to establish a relationship to strengthen support. Working with innovation ideas to build strategic plans for the future of the town.

Additional details of contributions

Trustee Annual Report for the period 06/04/23 to 05/04/24

We are grateful for the many hours that our volunteers have spent working on behalf of the charity. Without this valuable contribution of time, energy and expertise we would not have been able to achieve so much.

Achievements and performances

 Spring 23

• As a charity we spent the first 3 months working out of the Salvation Army due to having no water or electric at the annex on Tanner Street. The focus was to keep spirits high as Keystones worked to fix the issues underground with the pipes. Our focus was also trying to keep as much as possible the same, in terms of how we run the charity. During this time our attendee numbers dropped substantially (oThe reason for this is unknown) so when we reopened in March it took several weeks for our numbers to resume.

• Nadine was able to attend a Homelessness law webinar training course which was extremely interesting and gave insight into guidance.

• The mental strength of some of the guys who have been without accommodation for many years has been challenging to support in this first half of the season. Some have been referred onto other services and churches in the town.

 Summer 23

• Volunteers completed their compliance training, and many acquired new training skills to help them in the volunteer work they were doing. We built a good working partnership with the Breckland Rough Sleeper Team. They asked us if we would facilitate a drop-in service with them on a Wednesday morning so that they can build a relationship with the guys and begin working with them

• Autumn 23

• We celebrated our 2[nd] Birthday as a charity, where we thanked the volunteers, gave everyone updates and took the decision to invite some of our guests to be Volunteers. We set up a hairdressing service (from a professional hairdresser and also linked up in partnership with a professional foot care person Both of which started attending every 6-8 weeks to provide a free regular service.

 Winter 23

• We created a partnership with Salvation Army, Access and Keystone Development Trust and set up a temporary Winter soup kitchen every Friday night over the cold weather period that started early November and ran to late February. The weather seemed much colder much earlier so clothing demand increased and many sleeping bags were sourced out of our funds to meet the needs.

Trustee Annual Report for the period 06/04/23 to 05/04/24

Our work continues to grow and network with existing local services which is crucial to the work we do. We are stronger together.

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Number of attendees 1377 across 2023
Number of Homeless 510
attendees
People served food 1010
People served drinks 1360
Laundry Cycles 185
Items of clothing supplied 195
Number of showers 290
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Total Number of people who have accessed the charity since the opening of the showers : 92

Attendance by session:

Financial Review

Brief statement on the charity’s policy of reserves

Cash in account at 06/04/23 was £1,282.50 in unrestricted funds.

Further financial review details

Trustee Annual Report for the period 06/04/23 to 05/04/24

The account funds the expenses of provision to support those in need alongside donations from the general public. This is reported and documented via the annual account spreadsheet.

Our main source of funds this year has been donations from a local business in Thetford. Our costs have been greater since the winter when we started visiting the camp.

Balance of Account on 06/04/23: £1,282.50 Balance of Account on 05/04/24: £12,251.08

Total amount of Income via donations to the end of the financial period: £2,030.65 Total amount of Income via grants to the end of the financial period: £9,500.00

Category expenditure to the end of the financial period: £9,521.81

September 2023

Grant Application to The National Lottery rewards4all. The status of this application for £9,500 was approved in September. The delay to this grant being given was mainly due to delays and amendments needed to the application.

Trustee Annual Report for the period 06/04/23 to 05/04/24

Other operational information

We continue to work closely with the Keystone Trust to run the shower and laundry provision for those without permanent accommodation and other initiatives within the town centre.

Our Actions this year include to:

• Set up a website.

• To ensure the procedure of DBS checks is set up.

• To explore training opportunity for our volunteers and met compliance requirements.

• To gather guest and volunteer feedback from people across the charity to listen and grow the vision

• To look at the idea of online register/rota database

Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees.

Signature	Name	Nadine Forde	Date	02/02/25
Signature	Name	Andrew Forde	Date	02/02/25
Signature	Name	John Jones	Date	02/02/25
Signature	Name	Lel Mfazwe	Date	02/02/25

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