2025-12-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Period start date Period end date 01 01 2024 31 12 2025 To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by

Livingwaters Storehouse

Registered charity number (if any) 1190038

Charity's principal address 33-45 Bolton Street

Chorley

Postcode PR7 3AB

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole **year **	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Lynda Pim	Chairman
	Michelle Lacy	Trustee
	John Lacy	Trustee
	Alexander Baxendale	Trustee

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Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Trust Deed 19[th] June 2020

• (eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

Trust

• (eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods

Appointment

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

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Section C Objectives and activities

1. The relief of financial hardship amongst people in Chorley, Lancashire and the surrounding areas in particular, but not exclusively by:

a) Providing emergency food, essential toiletries and household items to individuals and families in need and/ or the distribution by

Summary of the objects of the charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve charity set out in its poverty governing document b) To signposting to other advisory services 2. To advance the education of the public in Chorley Lancashire and the surrounding area in the subjects of English, Maths, and money management.

1. Providing a referral-based foodbank for local clients 2. Providing hot meals to all clients who access emergency food referral.

2. Providing education as set out above periodically. 4. Providing access and signposting to other services that can assist clients and improve outcomes.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

1. Successfully continued to provide emergency food hampers to a total of 1535 in the year to individuals and families. Plus 87 to HMO occupants equalling a total for the year of 1622

2. Provided Key Skill English and Maths classes for free to clients – 10 exams in this period, with one learner achieving level 2 in Maths and English.

3. Retained and trained new volunteers to work in the charity, including recognising their service by providing volunteer celebration events.

4. Supported 30 OAP with Christmas lunch, who are impacted by food and heating poverty.

5. Worked with many local organisations and charities to ensure a wide spectrum of cover and provision across the area.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the

charity’s policy on reserves

The charity aims to keep 2 months operating costs in reserve. The current reserves are £69,000 representing significantly more than the 2 months operating costs of circa £3300/ month.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

• how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

• investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Full name(s) L Pim Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc)

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LIVINGWATERS STOREHOUSE CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the tru5teesl members of LIVINGWATERS STOREHOUSE On accounts for tho year ended 31ST DECEMBER 2024 Charity no lrfany} 119308 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the atM)ve charity (￿he Trusf} for the year ended Responsibilities and As the tharTty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the ac£ounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I report in resp8c of my examination of the Trust's &counts canied out under sedion 145 of the 2011 Ad and in carying out my examination. I have foll¢)wed the applicable Direcions given by the Charity Commission under section 145151(b) of the Ad. I have (￿Mpleted my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (¢Xher than that disd0￿ belLhY ') in connection with the examlnats"c￿ whith gives me cause to belie%e that in, any material resFeCt.' aC￿UntIng records were not kept in a￿ordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the a<Lounts do not ￿0rd with the ac¢wnting records Independent examinerfs statsmont I have no COn￿mS and have con &ross no other matters in connection with the examinalion to which attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the %￿unt$ lo be reathed. ' Please delete the words in Ihe brncets rfthey do not apply. Signed: Name: IAN SPENCER Relevant professional qualffication(s) or body (If any): Rthred Head Teacher Address: 57 Fossdae Moss Leyland PR26 7AS IER October 2018

Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern {s* CC32, Independent examination of tharTty ￿Unts.. directions arKI guidan￿ for examiners). Give here brief detsils of any items that the examiner wishes to dlsclose. IER October 2018