THE SHARING TABLE – ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING JULY 2023
The charity has continued to address its purposes through two major streams of activity: the provision of cooking clubs to primary school children and distribution of Christmas hampers to families in need of a helping hand. We are pleased to report progress on both of these during the year.
Provision of Services
Increased awareness of our cooking club activity at Craigfelen school has led to us working with a second school (Morriston Primary) and we finished the year with a further two schools lined up to start working with us.
We have modified the club structure in that we now work for 6-8 weeks with each family rather than 4 weeks. We have found that the children show clear progress given a longer period of working together and the families have expressed greater satisfaction with the modified approach. This means that we will be working with fewer families per year than we anticipated, but we are confident that we achieve better outcomes. We worked with 23 children during the period.
The cooking clubs are attracting more attention within the education community locally. It is a scalable activity and we are excited for its future.
Our Christmas hamper project was well supported by the community with a local butcher and a local greengrocer again providing high quality ingredients at very fair prices. There was a good response from local volunteers and together we delivered a record 150 hampers to families identified by food banks and schools as needing a bit of help.
Opportunities and Threats
The greatest opportunity the charity has to grow and successfully address its objects is to develop the school cooking clubs. We are in positive discussions with a number of primary schools and are confident that we will grow our number of partner schools over the next couple of years.
There are two threats to achieving this opportunity. The first is funding; the local Council has been generous in their support but we know that funding for local government is becoming more constrained. In addition, private and business donors are likely to be less able to
support us. Our response has to be to spend more time on identifying sources of funding and to this end we are considering appointing an additional trustee to help with this.
The second threat is our ability, or otherwise, to recruit a volunteer team commensurate with our growth ambition. We recognise the need to cast our net wider to identify volunteers and we will also consider models in which we are paying people to support the clubs (whilst recognising the funding pressures referred to above).
This year has convinced us of the value of the services that we provide and we are determined to address the threats and take the opportunity to make a difference to young people’s lives.
Andrew Copson 8.7.24
The Green, Overton Lane, Port Eynon, Swansea SA3 1NR. Reg.Charity 1190056
THE SHARING TABLE - ACCOUNTS FOR YEAR ENDING 31/07/23
| Aug-22 | Sep-22 | Oct-22 | Nov-22 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INCOME | |||||
| One-off Donations | 225.00 | 249.69 | 60.00 | 6146.90 | |
| Regular Donations + Just Giving | 59.73 | 30 | 115.88 | 12.00 | |
| Grants | |||||
| Gift Aid | |||||
| TOTAL INCOME | 284.73 | 279.69 | 175.88 | 6158.90 | |
| EXPENDITURE | |||||
| Admin | 10.00 | ||||
| Marketing | 725.00 | 511.32 | |||
| Indirect Expenditure Total | 725.00 | 521.32 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Sharing Christmas | |||||
| Sharing Cooking | 934.00 | 447.08 | |||
| Direct Expenditure Total | 0.00 | 0.00 | 934.00 | 447.08 | |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURE | 725.00 | 521.32 | 934.00 | 447.08 | |
| NET INCOME | -440.27 | -241.63 | -758.12 | 5711.82 |
| Dec-22 | Jan-23 | Feb-23 | Mar-23 | Apr-23 | May-23 | Jun-23 | Jul-23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4429.00 | 1600.00 | 1300.00 | 150.00 | 547.50 | 105.00 | 0.00 | 195.00 |
| 12.00 | 48.35 | 12.00 | 12.00 | 12.00 | 12.00 | 12.00 | 12.00 |
| 4441.00 | 1648.35 | 1312.00 | 162.00 | 559.50 | 117.00 | 12.00 | 207.00 |
| 169.41 | 69.31 | 469.13 | 36.19 | ||||
| 348.50 | |||||||
| 0.00 | 169.41 | 417.81 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 469.13 | 0.00 | 36.19 |
| 4821.27 | 2227.00 | ||||||
| 48.00 | 132.34 | 205.92 | 98.52 | 61.92 | 33.09 | 95.59 | 99.87 |
| 4869.27 | 2359.34 | 205.92 | 98.52 | 61.92 | 33.09 | 95.59 | 99.87 |
| 4869.27 | 2528.75 | 623.73 | 98.52 | 61.92 | 502.22 | 95.59 | 136.06 |
| -428.27 | -880.40 | 688.27 | 63.48 | 497.58 | -385.22 | -83.59 | 70.94 |
YEAR 15008.09 349.96 15358.05
754.04 1584.82 2338.86 7048.27 2156.33 9204.60 11543.46 3814.59
Healthy food, healthy lives
| days | 3 |
|---|---|
| children | 40 each day |
| adults | 40 last day |
| on-site catering staff | 2 |
| hours catering | 3 hours per day |
| days catering staff | 2 |
| cost | £10 per hour |
| unit cost in situ | £3.00 per person per day |
| unit cost take home | £4.00 per child attending day 3 |
| in situ food | £240.00 |
| in situ catering | £120.00 |
| take home food | £160.00 |
| Advertising | £100.00 |
| sub-total | £620.00 |
| contingency 15% | £93.00 |
| Project cost | £713.00 |
| College/Craigfelen project | |
|---|---|
| days | 4 per month |
| attendees | 10 per session |
| session consumabes | £36.00 per session |
| take home consumables | £5.00 per person per session |
| expenses chefs | £10.00 per session |
| sub-total | £384.00 |
| contingency 15% | £57.60 |
| Project cost | £441.60 per month |
Christmas dfinner families 40 cost £27.00 per family Project cost £1,080.00
Bus Project
Individuals - lump sum July TA AC SAH DD AJB Christmas appeal Total Companies etc - lump sum Individuals - regular donors MP launch - party donors. Monthly donation £3.00 Other political/religious groups Total
Grants
| Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | |||||||||||||
| 2500 | 3500 | ||||||||||||
| 500 | |||||||||||||
| 2800 | 3500 | 0 | 0 | 500 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 5 | 10 | 50 | 100 | 100 | |||||||||
| 15 | 30 | 150 | 300 | 300 |
| Mar | Apr | May | June | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | 300 | 300 | 300 |