## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** # **From 01-06-2024 (Period start date) To 31-05-2025 (Period end date)** **Charity name: Lancing and Sompting Churches Food Bank** **Charity registration number: 1190449** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The relief of poverty in Lancing and**
**Sompting through the provision of a**
**food bank.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Soliciting donations of food, and money**
**to buy food, from the local community.**
**This is distributed to those in need in**
**Lancing and Sompting.**
**We also distribute vouchers from the**
**Fuel Bank Foundation to those in fuel**
**need.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Due to our financial position being**
**strong the trustees have decided to**
**support local initiatives, if related to**
**food poverty, where requested or**
**identified. These have included school**
**holiday lunch bags, support to a**
**community garden, and emergency food**
**support to students arriving from**
**overseas.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| ||Para 1.38|**The Food Bank is completely reliant on**
**the support of around 26 volunteers**| |Contribution made by
volunteers||**who give freely of their time and**
**expertise. Roles include collection,**
**storage and distribution of food,**
**financial management, fund raising,**
**advertising, communications,**
**networking and IT support.**| |---|---|---| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The current national economic picture**
**has continued to lead to a high demand**
**for the services of the Food Bank.**
**Whilst donations of food have fallen our**
**financial reserves have been used to**
**purchase food to ensure our services**
**continue.**
**We have maintained a limited fresh food**
**provision by purchasing fresh produce**
**on the operational days and receiving**
**donations of fruit and vegetables from**
**local community gardens.**
**We have actively engaged with other**
**local charities and co-ordinated our**
**work with other food banks and local**
**council provision.**
**We have offered visitors help topping-**
**up gas and electricity pre-paid meters**
**through the National Fuel Bank voucher**
**scheme. We have also purchased and**
**distributed slow cookers, air friers and**
**blankets to needy households.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We have a volunteer who is especially**
**skilled in fundraising applications which**
**has helped considerably in maintaining**
**our funding levels.**| |||| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**The Food Bank receives regular**
**donations of food from members of the**
**public and local organisations within the**
**community. The donated food is date**
**checked, stored and distributed to those**
**in need as per the objectives of the**
**charity. In addition, the functioning of**
**the Food Bank relies largely on the**
**volunteers giving freely of their time.**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The end of year balance is judged to be**
**sufficient to continue operations well**
**into the new financial year even if**
**support from the local community were**
**to drop off significantly.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We aim to maintain a cash reserve to**
**cover a minimum of three months Food**
**Bank operation. Presently this equates**
**to around £25,000.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£32,486**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Public donations.**
**Donations from grant awarding**
**organisations including:**
**Lancing and Sompting Lions Club,**
**Lancing Parish Council, West Sussex**
**County Council, the Sussex Community**
**Foundation and Sompting Big Local.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Both our principal stores and**
**distribution facilities rely on goodwill**
**arrangements with local government**
**bodies.**
**We do not consider either arrangement**
**to be threatened at present.**
**Presently we enjoy a good relationship**
**with Lancing Parish Council, Sompting**
**Parish Council and Adur District**
**Council.**
**We are dependent on volunteers for**
**almost all of our operation and**
**governance. Presently our volunteer**
**base is strong.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Elected by members**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Volunteer Policy:**
**Includes sections covering recruitment,**
**selection, induction, supervision and**
**support, training and safeguarding. An**
**induction pack is issued to all new**
**volunteers,**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The operations of the Food Bank is**
**overseen by the Management**
**Committee. The Administrator**
**undertakes day to day organisation of**
**the volunteers. The governance of the**
**Food Bank is overseen by the trustees.**
**We network with other food banks**
**through the Adur and Worthing**
**Emergency Food Network. We also**
**network closely with local churches,**
**schools, GP practices, the Lions Club,**
**Electric Storm Youth, Adur Voluntary**
**Action and local government**
**councillors.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Lancing and Sompting Churches Food Bank| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charity number|1190449| |---|---| |Charity’s principal address|Lancing Tabernacle Church
105 North Road
Lancing
BN15 9BB| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mark Deacon|Co-ordinator||| ||Peter Johnston|||| ||Nick Munday|||| ||Simon Markwick|||| ||Jonathan Gyll|||| ||Linda Deacon|Treasurer||| ||John Squibb||5-4-2025|| ||Fr. Ben Scott||5-4-2025|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|N/A| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |N/A||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A N/A** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Mark Deacon|Jonathan Markwick| ||
Co-ordinator|Trustee| ||2 September 2025|| ||2 September 2025|| ||**Lancing & Sompting Churches Food Bank**

**Charity Name**|**Lancing & Sompting Churches Food Bank**

**Charity Name**|**Lancing & Sompting Churches Food Bank**

**Charity Name**|**Lancing & Sompting Churches Food Bank**

**Charity Name**|**1190449**
**No (if any)**|**1190449**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|01/06/2024
Period start date||**To**|31/05/2025
Period end date||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**27,124**
781
**630**

**28,536**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,536**
**30,762**
**1,116**
**1,333**
**181**
**1,300**
**250**
**250**
**-**
**-**
**35,193**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,193**
**- 6,657**
**-**
**31,972**
**25,315**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**27,124**
**700**
**10,362**
**781**
**-**
**350**
**-**
**630**
**39,947**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**39,947**
**30,762**
**751**
**9,127**
**1,116**
**1,333**
**181**
**1,300**
**1,000**
**250**
**250**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**513**
**46,583**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**46,583**

**- 6,635**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |General donations|**27,124**|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**27,124**||**32,100**| |Donations for Fuel hardship||**700**|||**700**||**390**| |Donations for Paid support||**10,362**|||**10,362**||**3,130**| |Gift Aid|781||||**781**||**2,535**| |Donation for SATT|||||**-**||**-**| |Donations for volunteer events||**350**|||**350**||**300**| |Donation for YoungCarers|||||**-**||**3,920**| |Donations other
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**630**||||**630**||**-**| ||
**28,536**|**11,412**|||**39,947**||**42,375**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,412**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**42,375**| ||||||||| |
Food & Food vouchers|**30,762**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**30,762**||**20,358**| |Fuel Hardship||**751**|||**751**||**792**| |Paid Support||**9,127**|||**9,127**||**8,217**| |ICT|**1,116**||||**1,116**||**875**| |Resources|**1,333**||||**1,333**||**676**| |Insurance|**181**||||**181**||**181**| |ESY Summer mealproject|**1,300**|**-**|||**1,300**||**2,000**| |YoungCarersproject||**1,000**|||**1,000**||**500**| |BabyBank|**250**||||**250**||**-**| |CommunityGarden|**250**||||**250**||**-**| |CAP scheme|**-**||||**-**||**500**| |SomptingMessyChurch Food|**-**||||**-**||**500**| |Other(training& admin)|||||**-**||**4**| |Volunteer events & uniform||**513**|||**513**||**7**| |**_Sub total_ **|**35,193**|**11,390**|||**46,583**||**34,610**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,390**
**22**
**-**
**7,149**
**7,171**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|||||||| |**,**
**Storage equipment**|**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**34,610**| ||||||||| ||**- 6,657**|**22**|||
**- 6,635**||**7,765**| ||**-**|**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**31,972**|**7,149**|||**39,121**||**31,356**| ||**25,315**|**7,171**|||**32,486**||**39,121**| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Community Acoount
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**25,315**
**7,171**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,315**
**7,171**
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Print Name
Jonathan Markwick
Mark Deacon|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Jonathan Markwick|02-Sep-25| |||Mark Deacon|02-Sep-25| Lancing and Sompting Churches Food Bank CC Number: #1190449 Accounts for the period 1st June 2024 to 31st May 2025 ## Independent Examiner's Report ## Examiner: Edward Richard Gill FCCA. Fellow member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants who holds a current Practising Certificate. I am acting in a completely independent capacity. I confirm that I have read and understood the Charity. Commissioners' directions and guidance with regard to independent examinations. ## Appointment: I have accepted an invitation to act as independent examiner. ## Accounts to be examined: Period 1st June 2024 to 31st May 2025. Accounting basis: Receipts and payments. Gross income: £39,947. Guidance: In accordance with the Charity Commission's Guidance document: _'Independent examination of charity accounts: Guidance for Trustees'_ , last updated 14/07/2021. ## Examination findings: - Proper accounting records have been kept. - The accounts for the period accord with the accounting records. - There are no matters arising of material significance. - The accounts, in Charity Commission prescribed format, have been checked and found to be in a state ready to be submitted to the Charity Commission with the TAR. - The persons, appointed by the Trustees to maintain the books and records, are aware that three categories of submission, as listed below, must be made within 10 months of the year-end. ## Charity Commission submission requirement: - Annual accounts in prescribed form CC16a (XLS) - Trustees' Annual Return (PDF) - Independent Examiner's report (PDF) Signed: Edward Richard Gill FCCA Dated: 22/08/2025 Lancing and Sompting Churches Food Bank CC Number: #1190449