2021-12-31-accounts

TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT

2021

The Forest of Dean Baby Bank (Charity # 1189302) Registered address: 12 Hillside Close, Bream, GL15 6LU

Registered Charity in England and Wales #1189302 Website: www.forestbabybank.org Email:[e-mail]

The Trustees:

Sally Thomas Brown – Chairman Chris Hedges - Secretary Asiza Tait – Treasurer

Manager – Nikkie Trattles

We have two volunteers who assist with sorting our donations, packing parcels and delivering parcels when necessary. We have no paid employees, all our activities are run and managed by volunteers. We do recompense our volunteers for mileage when they do deliveries.

Our objectives are to be a safety net to families in the Forest of Dean who are experiencing financial crisis. We provide needed baby essentials, including many different types of baby related equipment to families that need our help. We also help provide good quality second-hand clothes to families, from size premature baby all the way to 14-year-old children. Each year we help families obtain uniform for a range of primary and secondary schools in the Forest of Dean.

The Forest of Dean Baby Bank believes that no child, individual, or family should be excluded from the charity’s activities on the grounds of age, gender, health or disability, pregnancy, maternity, sexuality, class, family status, means, ability, colour, ethnic origin, culture, religion, or belief. We aim to ensure that all who wish to work in, or volunteer to help with, our charity should have an equal chance to do so. We aim to create effective partnerships within all parts of our community, including schools, GP surgeries, children’s centres, health visitors, midwives and social care to provide services that are accessible according to need.

The organisation does not undertake activities with children in the absence of their parents/carers but could observe the young person’s/children’s welfare within their family setting. Parents/carers remain responsible for their children’s welfare throughout all the work that we undertake to support them.

There is clear hierarchy where volunteers are encouraged to use their initiative and feel supported in their role. Our volunteers are a precious resource and without them we would not be able to provide the help that we do. Over the last year we faced the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have continued to accept self-referrals in order to make access to help as straight

Registered Charity in England and Wales #1189302 Website: www.forestbabybank.org Email:[e-mail]

forward as possible. We still operate a phone line to access help, as well as our website, Facebook page and email. After our successful partnership with the FoodBank, we are now making our own deliveries.

We trialled mailing our baby clothes to parents further afield than the Forest of Dean. The initiative was met with modest success and even though we still offer this option we have not had any further requests for baby clothes in this fashion.

In 2021 we received three grants. The Entertainer awarded us £1000, the June Payver Trust £3000 and the Forest of Dean District Council awarded us £3000 with their Community Support Fund.

With their support we have been able to replenish our stocks of nappies, wipes and toiletries as well as continue to purchase underwear and vests and clothes when we didn’t have the needed items in our stocks of donated clothes. We were also able to buy highchairs and stairgates for families when we didn’t have these items in stock. We also opened and set up our own website in order to reach more people who do not use Facebook. During the 2021 year we spent £6434.17 on supporting our families, £43.20 was spent on our website, and the balance was used to supplement our repairs and maintenance costs as we needed to upgrade our storage to meet increased demand.

Over 2021 we provided 409 parcels which is a huge increase over last year’s 272. We continue to see a rise in need for our help and have used the grants given to us to ensure we can meet the need.

We have also added an additional measurement of showing how many families we have helped over the year, which is 222. Of those families 181 were selfreferrers, the balance being referred to us by our legion of referral partners around the Forest.

around the Forest.
2021	Bundles	Families helped	Self- referred	Referred
January	25	16	14	2
February	20	10	5	5
March	35	19	16	3
April	10	8	4	4
May	40	19	15	4
June	46	23	20	3
July	64	33	30	3

Registered Charity in England and Wales #1189302 Website: www.forestbabybank.org Email:[e-mail]

August	35	27	27	0
September	60	28	24	4
October	28	13	11	2
November	21	14	10	4
December	25	12	5	7
Totals	409	222	181	41
Baby parcels	109
Clothing parcels	206
School uniform bundles	70
Postal Parcels	24
	409

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Yours Sincerely

The Trustees Forest of Dean Baby Bank

Registered Charity in England and Wales #1189302 Website: www.forestbabybank.org Email:[e-mail]

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Report to the trusteesl members of The Forest of Dean Baby Bank On accounts ft•rthe year ended 31° December 2021 Chaiity no lif any) 1189302 out on pages l ￿pOrt to the trustees on my examinat1￿ of the attounts of the above charity {￿e Trusfi for the year ended Responslbllitiès and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of rèport of the a¢ctsJnts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 Ilhe A¢n. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts Carried out under seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying oul my examination. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commissior¢ under s8th.on 14515}Ibl of thè Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi Ihal no material matters have come to my attenb.on (other than that disdoséd below") in connection the examinatson which gives me caus& to believe that in. any matsrial respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ wth section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examineVs statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understsnding of the ac£ounts to be reached. ' Please dglele the words in the btsckets ifthey do not apply. Signed: Date- Name: Derek Michael BrcKsm FCCA Relevant professional qualificationls) or body Irf any)- Chartered Certified Accountant IACCA) Address: Fairways Lansdown Walk, Bream Gloucestershire GL15 6NE

Forest of Dean Baby Bank Registered Charity 1189302 Income and Expenditure Account 1st JANUARY-2021 to 31st DECEMBER 2021 INCOME VOLUNTARY INCOME ,Grants Re¢eNed MiscelJar*ou5 DonatKJn5 7,000.00 840.82 7,840.82 FUND￿SING INCOME .Forest Lottery C85h Back Rec'd Facelxy)k fvndraising General Fundraising income 126.50 275.63 131.20 MISCELLANEOUS INCOAIE 35.00 ,TOTAL INCOME EXPENSES DIRECT COSTS Baby Essentials Itèms b)ughtforfarniltes New ctothes Tol￿trieS IChiklren+Aduk) 3,874.29 2.74 73.44 INDIRECT COSTS Rent and Business Rates Repair & Mainlenan¢e Insur8nce Heat and Light Office Expenses Website Subs¢riptions Oelivery Costs Donation in lieu of Audit Fee Equipment 601.00 500.45 220.40 235.52 1.005.94 133.92 138.15 50.00 3.1TI.22 TOTAL F>AYMENTS 9,611.39 SURPLUSI{LOSS) FOR PERIOD ,069S3