## **The Welbeloved Club for the year ended 31[st] October 2021**
**Page Contents** 2 Annual report 4 Annual accounts 5 Statement of assets & liabilities 6 Notes to the accounts
## **The Welbeloved Club**
The Welbeloved Club is a Registered Charity in England & Wales (no. 1190165)
## **Annual report for the year ended 31[st] October 2021**
## **Main address**
26 Ellenborough Close, Bishops Stortford, CM23 4HS
|**Trustees**|**Trustees**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Name||Term||Date of appointment|
||Philip Deeks (Chair)|4|years||
29 January 2020|
||Gillian Gill (Treasurer)|5|years||29 January 2020|
||Kat Pulford|3|years||29 January 2020|
||Jean Palfreman|2|years||29 January 2020|
||Charlotte Richardson|3|years||29 January 2020|
## **Bankers**
Metro Bank, One Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5HA
## **The Club’s structure, governance and management**
The Welbeloved Club was established as a charity in August 2017 and registered with the Charity Commission in January 2020. The Club is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and is overseen by its trustees for the benefit of its members. A new trustee must have the necessary skills, knowledge, and experience and be appointed by a resolution passed at a Trustees’ meeting. Week-on-week the Club is managed by Jo Gill, who set up the Club.
## **Activities and objectives**
The Club arranges a full Sunday lunch once a month for its members - elderly people who are lonely and / or socially isolated. About a hundred people come to Sawbridgeworth Memorial Hall, Herts (or are driven there and back as necessary) where the lunch is cooked, served and cleared away by volunteers. This facilitates social interaction in a comforting environment.
## **Summary of the main achievements and performance during the period**
2020 was a difficult year for Club, and one that saw us face many challenges. The global Covid-19 pandemic had a huge impact on the work we do and saw us close our doors April 2020 - August 2021. This was a sustained period of closure and forced us to adapt how we deliver our services to members. We were very grateful for the array of small ‘digital’ grants on offer specifically for help during the pandemic. We made use of these grants by successfully applying for funding to pay for mobile phones and tablets, so we could support our members to stay connected with family and friends. We were also grateful for funding we received to enable us to deliver weekly Sunday takeaway meals to our most vulnerable members, with this carrying on through the Christmas period. Thanks to some very kind donations and support from our local community, we were able to put together and deliver meals on Christmas Day as well and to include small gifts and added extras. Thanks to an
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appeal from our local newspaper, we were also in receipt of over 500 ’shoebox Christmas gifts’, which we delivered to all of our members, other local community groups addressing loneliness and local care homes who were away from family over Christmas because of the pandemic.
When we were able to resume our normal lunches, we were very grateful to receive grants to help with our start-up costs and extra costs for PPE and other protective equipment.
## **Financial review**
During the year the Club had to cope financially with the effects of the COVID pandemic. For a large part of the year it was not permissible or sensible to hold gatherings (as described above). We did however support some of our most isolated members through a weekly Sunday lunch delivered to their homes at a reduced amount. This skewed the income and expenditure costs from our usual Sunday lunch clubs. Nonetheless the financial strength of the Club improved due to careful treasury management and the generous donations and particularly grants that the Club received. The Club has never incurred any debts, and this continues to be the case during the whole of this year. (The Club does not hold any funds as custodian trustee.)
Signed on behalf of the trustees:
Signed ………………………………… Date ……………………………………. Chair Philip Deeks
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## **The Welbeloved Club Annual Accounts for the year ended 31[st] October 2021 (prepared on a receipts and payments basis)**
|**Receipts**
_Grants_
_Donations_
_Lunch receipts_
_East Herts Lottery_
_Bank Interest_
_Other receipts_
**Total receipts**
**Payments**
_Cost to put on lunches (incl. hall & bus)_
_PPS_
Hire Charges
_Advertising & Marketing_
_Equipment_
_Training_
_Insurance_
_Admin expenses_
_Christmas Cards_
Bank Charges
_Miscellaneous_
**Total Payments**
Net receipts/(payments)
Bank and cash at the start of the period
Bank and cash at the end of the period|||2021
£
6000
1797
3214
369
1
413
**11793**
3802
708
60
181
1289
148
255
1277
1394
40
407
**9561**
**2232**
5152
**7384**|2020
£
750
2522
5483
575
-
169
**9499**
4484
721
-
104
1592
31
254
1057
-
-
132
**8375**
**1124**
4028
**5152**|
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## **The Welbeloved Club Statement of assets and liabilities at 31[st] October 2021**
|**Cash assets**
_Current account_
_Deposit account_
_Petty cash_
**Total cash assets**
|2020
£
£
1153
5152
6199
32
**7384**
**5152**|
|---|---|
## **Other assets**
_Catering equipment at purchase price. Not depreciated annually._
_Total cost of other assets £6222_
## **Liabilities**
_None expected outside those already received._
These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the organisation by:
11th August 2022 Signed …………………………………… Dated ………………………………. Treasurer Gillian Gill
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## **The Welbeloved Club Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31[st] October 2021**
## **1. Receipts & payments accounts**
Receipts and payments accounts are statements that summarise the movement of cash into and out of the organisation during the financial year. In this context “cash” includes cash equivalents, for example, bank accounts where cash can be readily withdrawn to pay for debts as they become due.
## **2. Grants & Donations**
|**Grants**
_East Herts District Council_
_Postcode Lottery_
_Shanley Foundation_
_East Herts Lottery_
_Groundworks Tesco_
_Total_|£
_1000_
_2000_
_1000_
_1000_
_1000_
_6000_|
|---|---|
_Note – All grants except Postcode Lottery are unrestricted. Postcode Lottery was to help with digital expenditure and development. To end of October 2021 £1781 had been spent, the balance held in reserve for 2021-2022 digital expenditure._
**Donations** _Holmes 20 Cutsy & Cutsy 100 Much Hadham Book Club 150 Harris Tobias 500 Hayter 200 NKD Learning 250 RB Hair 300 Other Donations 276 Total 1796_
_Note – Other donations include Just Giving, Amazon Smile, Paypal giving & Giving Machine_
**Total grants and donations £7796**
## **3. Trustee remuneration**
The Club has no employees. Currently all work for the Club is undertaken on a voluntary basis for no payment. No payments were made to any trustees during the period.
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