
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From    02/07/2020  Period start date       To  30/06/2021  Period end date** 

**Charity name: Helping Caring Team** 

**Charity registration number: 1189021** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|**For the public benefit for the relief of the**<br>**suffering of vulnerable and homeless**<br>**people of Newport and South East**<br>**Wales. By providing an outreach service**<br>**that supplies food, essential items,**<br>**funding for emergency accommodation**<br>**and an advocacy service to help with**<br>**access to services and agencies that can**<br>**improve their lives.**|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|**Providing humanitarian aid in the form of**<br>**food, clothes, tents and sleeping bags,**<br>**toiletries and items required when**<br>**transitioning to accommodation.**<br>**Providing food parcels by delivery to**<br>**those in need. Providing an advocacy**<br>**service to help to improve lives.**|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|**HCT work with regard to the guidance**<br>**published by the Charity Commission on**<br>**public benefit.**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment 



|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|**All the activities of HCT are carried out**<br>**by 15 volunteers who commit between**<br>**4-30 hours a week. These activities**<br>**include collecting and redistributing**<br>**food and other essential items to**<br>**vulnerable people across Gwent.**<br>**Running an outreach service to street**<br>**homeless and those housed in**<br>**temporary accommodation in Newport**<br>**City centre. Collaborating without**<br>**partners and sponsors. Co-ordinating**<br>**fundraising activities, including grant**<br>**applications. Managing the charity’s**<br>**social media and website interests. All**<br>**governance, compliance and accounting**<br>**functions.**|
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|Other|||



## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**HCT has funded emergency**<br>**accommodation in hotels as an interim**<br>**measure for approx 40 people, HCT has**<br>**provided 50-80 hot meals to the**<br>**vulnerable on a weekly basis, 25-50 food**<br>**parcels weekly, dozens of sleeping bags,**<br>**tents, clothes, shoes and other items.**<br>**HCT has funded microwaves, kettles,**<br>**toasters and items of bedding to those**<br>**moving into more permanent**<br>**accommodation. HCT has advocated for**<br>**numerous people to help them secure**<br>**the medical, housing and benefit help**<br>**they require.**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41|**Apart from our standard objective of**<br>**delivering humanitarian aid to those in**<br>**need in South East Wales, HCT has**<br>**secured a base for our operations and**<br>**purchased a van to enable the collection**<br>**and delivery of donations and essential**<br>**items.**|
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||Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set<br>Para 1.41<br>**Due to the pandemic, the usual**<br>**fundraising activities of HCT have been**<br>**difficult to achieve, but we have**<br>**continued with clothes recycling and**<br>**operating a small society lottery. HCT**<br>**continues to attract private donations.**<br>Investment performance<br>against objectives<br>Para 1.41<br>**N/A**<br>Other|
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## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|**Cash funds amount to £10,144, HCT has**<br>**no assets. Which includes £623 of**<br>**unrestricted funds.**|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The only reserves held are those that are**<br>**restricted and pertain to grant funding**<br>**received and private donations with a**<br>**restricted purpose.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£9521.0**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**HCT has two principles sources of**<br>**funding, Grant funding and private**<br>**donations. Grant funding amounts to**<br>**£19,749 private donations £11,879.**|
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46|**HCT does not have an investment policy.**|
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Inability to attract funding to fund**<br>**everyday running costs. Most grant**<br>**funding bodies fund capital costs and**<br>**not everyday revenue costs.**|
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:||**N/A**|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated association**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**Election to post annually.**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**HCT follow the Charity Commission**<br>**guidance (CC3).**|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51|**Trustees undertake strategic and key**<br>**accounting decisions along with**<br>**personnel decisions. With respect to**<br>**policies and procedures held by the**<br>**charity.**<br>**Day to day operational decisions are**<br>**undertaken by key volunteers under the**<br>**guidance of the trustees.**|
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51|**HCT has working relationships with local**<br>**authorities with respect to improving the**<br>**lives of our beneficiaries. With local**<br>**businesses such as supermarkets and**<br>**other food outlets and with other local**<br>**charities to ensure efficiency in our**<br>**objectives.**|
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Helping Caring Team|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|HCT|
|Registered charity number|1189021|





||Charity’s principal address<br>24 Markham Crescent Oakdale, Blackwood, Caerphilly,<br>NP12 0JN|
|---|---|





## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**<br>**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**<br>**entitled to appoint trustee**<br>**(if any)**|
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|1 <br>2 <br>3 <br>4 <br>5 <br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|Hayley<br>Thomas|Chair|||
||Rhian Rogers||||
||Adele Delaney|Secretary|||
||Ceri Waters||||
||Louise<br>Woodgate|Treasurer|||
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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**<br>**Dates acted if not for whole year**<br>**N/A**|
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

|Description of the assets<br>held in this capacity|N/A|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian<br>charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and<br>segregation of such assets<br>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 

**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)** Louise Woodgate 

**Position (eg** Treasurer **Secretary, Chair, etc)** 

**Date** 02/01/2022 



Table 1 

||**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**1189021**|**1189021**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||2nd July 2020||||30th June 2021|||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|**Donations**|**8,097**||**3,781**||**-**||**11,879**||**-**|
|**Bonus ball**|**3,919**||**-**||**-**||**3,919**||**-**|
|**Equipment**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Stationary**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Fuel**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Transport**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Misc**|**112**||**-**||**-**||**112**||**-**|
|**Food**|**10**||**-**||**-**||**10**||**-**|
|**Events/**<br>**Fundraisers**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Clothes**|**5,501**||**-**||**-**||**5,501**||**-**|
|**Rafes**|**447**||**-**||**-**||**447**||**-**|
|**Grants**|**- 0**||**19,749**||**-**||**19,749**||**-**|
|**Accommodation**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Training**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Storage**|**175**||**-**||**-**||**175**||**-**|
|**Insurance**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Household/**<br>**electrical**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Household/**<br>**furnishing**|**80**||**-**||**-**||**80**||**-**|
|**Household/soft**<br>**furnishing**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Mobilephone**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Donations for**<br>**sleeping bags**|**- 0**||**50**||**-**||**50**||**-**|
|**Toiletries**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Pink Hub**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Computer**<br>**equipment**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross_<br>_income for AR)_|<br>**18,341**||**23,580**||**- 0**||**41,922**||**- 0**|
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|**A2 Asset and**<br>**investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total _**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**18,341**||**23,580**||**- 0**||**41,922**||**- 0**|
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|**A3 Payments**|**-0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Donations**|**-**<br>**37**||**-**||**-**||**-**<br>**37**||**-**|
|**Bonus ball**|**2,006**||**-**||**-**||**2,006**||**-**|
|**Equipment**|**225**||**-**||**-**||**225**||**-**|
|**Stationary**|**31**||**824**||**-**||**854**||**-**|
|**Fuel**|**2,431**||**-**||**-**||**2,431**||**-**|
|**Transport**|**4,595**||**331**||**-**||**4,926**||**-**|
|**Misc**|**1,946**||**7,420**||**-**||**9,366**||**-**|
|**Food**|**2,968**||**-**||**-**||**2,968**||**-**|



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||**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**||**1189021**|**1189021**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Events/**<br>**Fundraisers**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Clothes**|**966**||**-**||**-**||**966**||**-**|
|**Rafes**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Grants**|**- 0**||**2,224**||**-**||**2,224**||**-**|
|**Accommodation**|**415**||**24**||**-**||**439**||**-**|
|**Training**|**30**||**598**||**-**||**628**||**-**|
|**Storage**|**230**||**-**||**-**||**230**||**-**|
|**Insurance**|**309**||**433**||**-**||**743**||**-**|
|**Household/**<br>**electrical**|**174**||**91**||**-**||**265**||**-**|
|**Household/**<br>**furnishing**|**- 0**||**341**||**-**||**341**||**-**|
|**Household/soft**<br>**furnishing**|**608**||**-**||**-**||**608**||**-**|
|**Mobilephone**|**126**||**-**||**-**||**126**||**-**|
|**Donations for**<br>**sleeping bags**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Toiletries**|**5**||**1,008**||**-**||**1,013**||**-**|
|**Pink Hub**|**588**||**764**||**-**||**1,352**||**-**|
|**Computer**<br>**equipment**|**102**||**-**||**-**||**102**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**17,718**||**14,059**||**-**||**31,777**||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and**<br>**investment**<br>**purchases, (see**<br>**table)**||||||||||
||**-0**||**-0**||**-0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**-0**||**-0**||**-0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|<br>**17,718**||**14,059**||**- 0**||**31,777**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_eipts/(payments)_ **|<br>**623**||**9,521**||**-**||**10,144**||**-**|
|**A5 Transfers betw**|**e**<br>**-0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds las**|<br>**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_nds this year end_ **|<br>**623**||**9,521**||**-**||**10,144**||**-**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|||||**623**||**9,521**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**623**||**9,521**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts andpayments account(s))|||OK|||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other**<br>**monetary**<br>**assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment**<br>**assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**|**HCT (Helping Caring Team)**||**1189021**|**1189021**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets**<br>**retained for the**<br>**charity’s own**<br>**use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due (optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or<br>two trustees on<br>behalf of all the<br>trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
||||||LOUISE WOODGATE||||03/01/2022|
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(HARITY (OMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WAIES
Independent examinerfs report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteosl
members of
Help Caring Team
On accounts for the year
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1189021
Set out on pag•8
I report to the twstees on my examinatlon of the aGGounts of the abov8
charity (Ihe Trusf) for the year erKled 30/06120
As the chaiitys trustees, you are responsibl8 for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requir8ments of the Charities Act 2011
rthe A￿).
Regponslbllitles arKI
basls of report
I report in respect of my examination ol the Trust's aco)urts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I
have followed all the appIl￿ble Directions given by the Charity Commission
under Section 145(5)(b) of the Act
Indepondènt I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
examlnerfs statemont come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause to believe that in, any material respect".
the accounting records were not kept in accordanc8 wlth s8¢tion 130
of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did nol accord with the accounting records., or
the accounts did not comply wtth the applicable requir8ments
Con￿rning the fom and content of accounts set out in the Charities
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a truè and fai￿ view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no con¢ern$ 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 a woper understsrKling of the aco3unts to be reached.
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Nam•:
Carol Hlndl¥y
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12 Kirby Ck
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IER
O¢t 2018

Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of conc8m
{see CC32. Independent examindion of charity accounts.. directions and
guidance for examiners).
Glve here brlel detalls of
any items that the
examingr wishes to
di$ck>se.
NIA
IER
Oct 2018