THE SHARING TABLE – ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING JULY 2025
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. Progress with our cooking clubs has accelerated in the year.
Provision of Services
We have continued to introduce new schools into our cooking club network. As of July 25 we were working with 6 schools. We have paused work at another school as they have accessed a similar service through another charity.
The change to longer 6-8 week courses is now firmly established. Anecdotally, we believe that more children are continuing to cook after the course has finished as the longer period pf time together allows them to cement their skills in place. To the end of the July 25 we have worked with 149 children.
The cooking clubs continue to attract 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 125 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 we are pleased to have received generous support from the Austin Bailey Foundation.
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 12.5.26
The Green, Overton Lane, Port Eynon, Swansea SA3 1NR. Reg.Charity 1190056
THE SHARING TABLE - ACCOUNTS FOR YEAR ENDING 31/07/25
| Aug-24 | Sep-24 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| INCOME | |||
| One-of Donations | 0.00 | 1775.00 | |
| Regular Donations + Just Giving | 22.00 | 129.61 | |
| Grants | |||
| Gift Aid | |||
| TOTAL INCOME | 22.00 | 1904.61 | |
| EXPENDITURE | |||
| Admin + Marketing | 0.00 | 78.15 | |
| Indirect Expenditure Total | 0.00 | 78.15 | |
| Sharing Christmas | |||
| Sharing Cooking | 142.12 | 265.55 | |
| Direct Expenditure Total | 142.12 | 265.55 | |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURE | 142.12 | 343.70 | |
| NET INCOME | -120.12 | 1560.91 |
| Oct-24 | Nov-24 | Dec-24 | Jan-25 | Feb-25 | Mar-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26.12 | 165.00 | 3210.00 | 1360.00 | 0.00 | 36.00 |
| 22.00 | 22.00 | 70.75 | 1033.87 | 22.00 | 22.00 |
| 48.12 | 187.00 | 3280.75 | 2393.87 | 22.00 | 58.00 |
| 18.00 | 78.10 | 18.00 | 18.00 | 30.00 | 67.64 |
| 18.00 | 78.10 | 18.00 | 18.00 | 30.00 | 67.64 |
| 5074.00 | 2465.00 | ||||
| 441.01 | 501.87 | 254.90 | 409.71 | 71.07 | 252.30 |
| 441.01 | 501.87 | 5328.90 | 2874.71 | 71.07 | 252.30 |
| 459.01 | 579.97 | 5346.90 | 2892.71 | 101.07 | 319.94 |
| -410.89 | -392.97 | -2066.15 | -498.84 | -79.07 | -261.94 |
| Apr-25 | May-25 | Jun-25 | Jul-25 | YEAR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6572.12 | |
| 22.00 | 1022.00 | 22.00 | 22.00 | 2432.23 | |
| 22.00 | 1022.00 | 22.00 | 22.00 | 9004.35 | |
| 18.00 | 548.99 | 60.52 | 18 | 953.40 | |
| 18.00 | 548.99 | 60.52 | 18.00 | 953.40 | |
| 7539.00 | |||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 413.42 | 46.23 | 2798.18 | |
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 413.42 | 46.23 | 10337.18 | |
| 18.00 | 548.99 | 473.94 | 64.23 | 11290.58 | |
| 4.00 | 473.01 | -451.94 | -42.23 | -2286.23 |