## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT** ## **2024** **The Forest of Dean Baby Bank (Charity # 1189302)** **Registered address: Unit 5, Eastern United Site, Ruspidge Road, Ruspidge, Cinderford GL143AW** Registered Charity in England and Wales #1189302 Website: www.forestbabybank.org Email:yourbabyfod@outlook.com ## **The Trustees:** Sally Thomas Brown – Joint Chairman Chris Hedges – Secretary and Logistics Manager Asiza Tait – Treasurer and Operations Manager Anne Lamacraft – Joint Chairman and Safeguarding Officer _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 eight 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 Year 2024 in Review**_ Over this year we have received grants from Forest of Dean District Council, Save the Children, Arnold Clark, FEED, National Lottery and the GMCA We used the FEED grant to supplement our expense of buying formula for families. In 2024 we spent £717.16 on formula, a small decrease from last year. The Forest of Dean District Council entrusted us again with Household Support Funding. This grant was only for the July-September period. We distributed the food grant component via Tesco Corporate Gift cards as we did last year. We spent over £9000 on buying school uniform for families. This increase is mainly due to assisting far more families to be able to afford secondary school uniform as there is several uniform items that are mandatory and can only be purchased from the Secondary School’s stipulated supplier. Over 2020 we provided 272 parcels, 2021 we provided 409, 2022 we provided 573, 2023 we provided 1057, this year the total is **1283.** Demand is only increasing in a historically deprived area. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Self- Professional Children Families
Bundles
Referred Referral Helped Helped
January 84 80 357 156 73
February 97 28 277 60 61
March 89 56 281 80 58
April 21 12 43 33 49
May 32 45 89 62 105
June 31 68 113 88 106
July 99 69 330 150 177
August 80 57 306 81 164
September 99 57 270 85 121
October 24 27 78 38 98
November 74 17 165 62 164
December 43 32 118 59 107
773 548 2427 954 1283
Baby Bundles 393
Clothes Bundles 699
School Uniform
Bundles 191
1283
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Registered Charity in England and Wales #1189302 Website: www.forestbabybank.org Email:yourbabyfod@outlook.com ## **Families helped versus bundles given out.** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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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 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGIAND AND WAIES Independent examinèr's report on the accounts IDdeppndènl exainlnèr's RopDrt R•port to the ThA FnrA%t nl fJAwn Raby Bank On acv)vntg forthfj 7 month pgrfod eDd•d 31" Decernber2024 Charfty no Iir•nyl 1189302 $•t out on pages Pagè 1 I t8p￿tIO thg Irustee8 on my 8xam￿at￿n of tho 8t(xyJntB of abDVe ch8dty llhB TtUsnfr¥ thB Yearendh9 31" 2D22. R•sponslbllllle8 a#d As the trugtBe8 of Ttust, Y￿ are res￿n#4b￿lor ihe pr9Pafthn bAsls of report ofth& attounts kn a(xordan(* requfvments ofth9 Chatitiè8 Act 2011 flho Atst'}. I rewrt in respedofmyexaminatign oflheTrust's accountgtarried out underseclion 14$ of the 2011 Act and In caryn9 Outmy eXaM￿alw)￿. I have f¢lbwed the app]icabb Dlractions gkven bythe Charity COTnTnBs￿￿ undersgcbun 14515Xbl oflhg Att. I have COM￿@18￿ my oxamination. I confim) that no malerial Tnalipt3 have Come to my attènI￿n in connection vlth the examinalbn ¥Jh￿h gDfegTne Cau59 lo believe ihal in. any matetial respecL accounting records w8re notkept n accordance wilh 59¢tton 130 of theAdor the ¥r£ounts do notacco￿l with Ihe a¢eounting F8CDfd¥ IndopendeTrt examlnerfs statement I have rvJ ¢onc8ms and hav8 come gcr055 no otsr matters in cmne¢th)n wllh the examInal￿n to whiGh attention should b8 drawn in ordertotnabie proper unde￿tandIng ofthe a¢wunts to b& reached. Slgned: 2* January20ts¥ Name: Derek Mthael BroDm FCCA R•levant profe$$lonal qualificatlonlsl or body lff any).. Charteffjd Certffjed Accujntsnt Addrnss.. FaKways Lansdown Walk, Bream GIoucest8rshi￿, GL156NE IER Octobgr 2018 Fore6t of Dean Baby Bank Regi51ered Gharlly 11É930Z In¢omè and Expenditure A¢count 1st JANUARY-2024 to 31st DECEMBER 2024 VOLLINTARY INCOAIE tsranta RcoDNod 53ODD. 8.749 W) FUNDKA15R4G k¥COME FO￿￿1 Lottèry T7.70 53.60 104.95 VIDlpd fundrai¥1 G•ner41 FundrAp￿ry in(x 329.751 MLSCFLLANEOUS INCOME Mis¢*llAneous rnc8ipts TOTAL PICOME 61,B83.12' PEPJS DIRECT COSTS Boby E55BnUal$ boughtforfarrill&s Gr￿￿￿$ bDugM forfaryMIi85 Cloihg5 and $¢*tsY unrfomi Toiloth85 IChlldren+Adulll Other¢osts 4,108.63 4.438.18 39.282.28 11.415.00 533.05 59.84Q.101 WDIRECTCOSTS Renl?nd Bu￿￿055 Rates Ryir& Mainlenallce 643.88 320.fM) 882.12 Healand Liqhl Voluntser Website Sub5cripJDn9 Dolivery Costs Donation lo charity In lyau ofaudil S8tsgu8rdino COSt5 495.23 io.(K) 252.89 2.053.35 SO.(N) 65.85 94.16 4304.64 TOTAL PAYMENTS 65.144.741 NET SURPLUSIILOSSI FOR PERIOD 3 261.621 Cash 818Énk and in HAnd bm Loss for Perlod C•sh •t Bank and In Harbd cir £ 24.636.26 -£3.261.62 £ 21.376.66 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGIAND AND WAIES Independent examinèr's report on the accounts IDdeppndènl exainlnèr's RopDrt R•port to the ThA FnrA%t nl fJAwn Raby Bank On acv)vntg forthfj 7 month pgrfod eDd•d 31" Decernber2024 Charfty no Iir•nyl 1189302 $•t out on pages Pagè 1 I t8p￿tIO thg Irustee8 on my 8xam￿at￿n of tho 8t(xyJntB of abDVe ch8dty llhB TtUsnfr¥ thB Yearendh9 31" 2D22. R•sponslbllllle8 a#d As the trugtBe8 of Ttust, Y￿ are res￿n#4b￿lor ihe pr9Pafthn bAsls of report ofth& attounts kn a(xordan(* requfvments ofth9 Chatitiè8 Act 2011 flho Atst'}. I rewrt in respedofmyexaminatign oflheTrust's accountgtarried out underseclion 14$ of the 2011 Act and In caryn9 Outmy eXaM￿alw)￿. I have f¢lbwed the app]icabb Dlractions gkven bythe Charity COTnTnBs￿￿ undersgcbun 14515Xbl oflhg Att. I have COM￿@18￿ my oxamination. I confim) that no malerial Tnalipt3 have Come to my attènI￿n in connection vlth the examinalbn ¥Jh￿h gDfegTne Cau59 lo believe ihal in. any matetial respecL accounting records w8re notkept n accordance wilh 59¢tton 130 of theAdor the ¥r£ounts do notacco￿l with Ihe a¢eounting F8CDfd¥ IndopendeTrt examlnerfs statement I have rvJ ¢onc8ms and hav8 come gcr055 no otsr matters in cmne¢th)n wllh the examInal￿n to whiGh attention should b8 drawn in ordertotnabie proper unde￿tandIng ofthe a¢wunts to b& reached. Slgned: 2* January20ts¥ Name: Derek Mthael BroDm FCCA R•levant profe$$lonal qualificatlonlsl or body lff any).. Charteffjd Certffjed Accujntsnt Addrnss.. FaKways Lansdown Walk, Bream GIoucest8rshi￿, GL156NE IER Octobgr 2018 Fore6t of Dean Baby Bank Regi51ered Gharlly 11É930Z In¢omè and Expenditure A¢count 1st JANUARY-2024 to 31st DECEMBER 2024 VOLLINTARY INCOAIE tsranta RcoDNod 53ODD. 8.749 W) FUNDKA15R4G k¥COME FO￿￿1 Lottèry T7.70 53.60 104.95 VIDlpd fundrai¥1 G•ner41 FundrAp￿ry in(x 329.751 MLSCFLLANEOUS INCOME Mis¢*llAneous rnc8ipts TOTAL PICOME 61,B83.12' PEPJS DIRECT COSTS Boby E55BnUal$ boughtforfarrill&s Gr￿￿￿$ bDugM forfaryMIi85 Cloihg5 and $¢*tsY unrfomi Toiloth85 IChlldren+Adulll Other¢osts 4,108.63 4.438.18 39.282.28 11.415.00 533.05 59.84Q.101 WDIRECTCOSTS Renl?nd Bu￿￿055 Rates Ryir& Mainlenallce 643.88 320.fM) 882.12 Healand Liqhl Voluntser Website Sub5cripJDn9 Dolivery Costs Donation lo charity In lyau ofaudil S8tsgu8rdino COSt5 495.23 io.(K) 252.89 2.053.35 SO.(N) 65.85 94.16 4304.64 TOTAL PAYMENTS 65.144.741 NET SURPLUSIILOSSI FOR PERIOD 3 261.621 Cash 818Énk and in HAnd bm Loss for Perlod C•sh •t Bank and In Harbd cir £ 24.636.26 -£3.261.62 £ 21.376.66