## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT** ## **2022** **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:yourbabyfod@outlook.com ## **The Trustees:** Sally Thomas Brown – Chairman Chris Hedges - Secretary Asiza Tait – Treasurer and deputy manager Elkie Lonnkvist ## **Manager** – Nikkie Trattles _Our Objectives:_ 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. _Our Core Beliefs:_ 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. _How we accomplish our objectives:_ We have four 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. 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. Registered Charity in England and Wales #1189302 Website: www.forestbabybank.org Email:yourbabyfod@outlook.com ## _**The 2022 in Review**_ Over this year we have received the following grants. - Arnold Clark £1750 - Tesco Groundwork £1000 - Forest of Dean District Council £37 500 _(£9000 allocated to the 2023 year)_ - Rotary Club £600 (restricted for electricity costs) - Severn Dean Lions £300 The Forest of Dean District Council entrusted us with large amounts of Household Support Funding. These funds were restricted and had to spent according to an agreed criteria and time frame. The Forest Baby Bank rose to the challenge and used these funds to help hundreds of families over the current cost of living crisis. The challenge we faced was helping families firstly was with utilities and then groceries, something we hadn’t done before, and we needed to learn and grow to meet the need. We partnered up with a local church to be a contact point for families to access help with utilities, we distributed £7942.26 helping families to endure the enormous rise in cost of electricity and gas. We decided the most efficient way to assist families to be able to purchase the grocery items they need is to supply grocery vouchers, we chose Tesco Corporate Cards for this endeavour and distributed £10209.49. During July and August of 2022, we helped families with school uniform. When our donated stock was not sufficient, we purchased £3035.89 of school uniform. In addition, families relied on us to help them endure the winter, warm clothes were in great demand, and we purchased items when we didn’t have the donated stock, we spent £2423.38 on warm pjs, slippers, dressing gowns, coats, boots, and other warm clothes. We spent £451.38 purchasing duvets, blankets and other bedding for families. Over 2020 we provided 272 parcels, 2021 we provided 409, this year we have provided **573** . It is clear how the need in our community is only increasing and the cost-of-living crisis is only making things more difficult for our families. Registered Charity in England and Wales #1189302 Website: www.forestbabybank.org Email:yourbabyfod@outlook.com **----- Start of picture text -----**
2022 Self- Referred Families Bundles
Referred Helped
January 32 27 59 65
February 20 23 43 36
March 49 19 68 46
April 20 14 34 29
May 6 9 15 19
June 21 11 32 45
July 15 10 25 24
August 45 41 86 93
September 32 37 69 43
October 25 3 28 53
November 28 12 40 57
December 54 18 72 63
347 224 571 573
Baby 140
Parcels
Clothing bundles 311
School uniform bundles 122
573
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86
90
80 72
68 69
70
59
60
50 43 40
40 34 32
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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:yourbabyfod@outlook.com Forest of Dean Baby Bank Registered Charity 1189302 Income and Expenditure Account 1st JANUARY.2022 to 315t DECEMBER 2022 COME VOLUNTARY INCOME Gran18 Recgivod Ml$¢ellaneous Don¥tions 40.850.00'. 3.780.37 44.830.37 FUNDRAISING INCOME F¢rB$l lollery Cash Back Rec'd Facebook fundrdl¥lt)g ry#nArAI Fundralglno Inc 189.82 192.00 MISCELLANEOUS INCOME .'Mlscellaneou$ receipts TOTAL INCOME 45.381.19 EXPENSES DIRECT COSTS IBaby Essentials Iterr¥y btyJ9hl forfamilic Groc8ries bought forfamlies .Ulililie$ tought for familie5 New dolhes Toiletrie5 IChildren+Adurti OtherC05ts 4,182.61 12.177 QA.. 10,209.49, 7.942261 187.32, 225.241 38A53A9 INDIRECT COSTS R8nt 2nd ausine55 Rat8S Repair& MÈinlenance Insurance Heat and Light Office Expen5e5 Wèbsite Subxfiptions Delrvery Costs Uniftsmi EquIpn￿t 851.56 220.40 709.79 73.27 147.99 33.60 3.06022 ,'TOTAL PAYMENTS 41,513.71 NÉY SURPLUMLOSS FOR PERIOD £3.867.48 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Indopcndent Examiner'5 RopDrt Reporttothe twsteesl membvys of Forestof D8•n Baby Bank On aGcounts forthe 7 perlod ended 31" D•combfyr 2022 Charty no Illanyl 1189302 on ygo8 I r¥pcrtto Ihe tsustees on my oftha a¢wunts ofthe atA)ve chaty llbe Ttusfiforlhe Yearendkng 31° DècombeT2W. R8sw•nslbllKles and As thg tharity twstees ofthe TTUSt. y(xJ ar8 r8$p)nsbk forlhe pr6parntion Iiasis of report ofthe acwunts n 8ccordan¢& th th& requYpm6nts olthe Chant￿SAct 2011 llh8 Acri. I report ￿ respect of my examnation ofthe Twst's a¢r￿JnIS rArrkd out undeT 145 oflhe 2011 PLt and kn (¥rying out my exarninatb￿, I have f01bw￿ the ap￿rabIa Dir￿ab)n$9￿en bytt)a Chariiy Comm&sw)n under 5¥cb)n 14515llbl of Ihe Act I have Wm￿￿t*d my exammation. l that no material matter3 have tts my attention kn c0nn8ctx￿￿th the exam￿at￿n gNas m8 cau¥6to bthvo Ihat in. any rnattrrial respect. aL￿￿ting t8cord5 ware nol kept n aecoTdanc8 with saclion 130 of Iha Artor th9 accounts do Trot a￿>¥d￿￿h the ar£tyJntng Tecc¥ts Independent examinert statement I have (x)ncems and havtr cfjme across ￿ otr*r mattws in ¢xxuw wth the exaMinat￿n lo wh￿h attenuon 8houkl be drawn kn orderto enabl8 a proper undet5tanding of the atxy)unt5 to ba reached. Slgned.. 8" March 2023 Nan*: 0or8k Mkhaol Broorn FCCA Relevant professhx￿I qualfficoti¢*nlsl orboty f any): Chartered Certified hmwnlant Addrnss: Fanvays La￿d0￿* Walk. Bream Gk)ucesleBhiie. GL15thE October 2018