2024-03-31-accounts - Emmies Kitchen

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 1[st] April 2023 Period start date To 31[st] March 2024 Period end date

Charity name: Emmies Kitchen

Charity registration number: 1191029

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 sickness among hospitalised children in the North West of England by the provision of support and facilities to their parents and carers, in particular but not exclusively the provision of hot meals and respite, to enable families and carers to have extended visits.
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	Over this reporting period the charity has continued to provide hot meals and snack bags on a weekly basis to parents who are staying long term with their children in the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. The charity has continued to develop its relationship with local food outlets who can offer hot food. In this year we have continued to have excellent access to parents which has enable us to have more time to talk with parents to offer them support and relief from isolation during the time of their child’s treatment. Towards the end of the year, we were able to re-introduce our parents well being sessions. These sessions were held at Macdonald House and have been well attended. Each session provides a respite for parents to take time to talk with other parents and Emmies Kitchen Volunteers some of whom have had similar experiences with a child in hospital themselves. Our volunteer cohort has remained active over this reporting period and continues to provide regular input into the preparation, delivery and distribution of food and snack bags, as well as being involved with the Wellbeing sessions. Partnership building has continued over the year, especially with our most long-term partner Ronald Macdonald House, as well as with hospital staff and management, and

		other external bodies such as the University of Manchester, and local galleries and arts centres. This partnership approach has been guided by the charity’s core values of care, kindness and compassion, and has enabled the sharing of facilities and expertise to support families at the hospital.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	The Trustees understand that the charity exists to further an exclusively charitable purpose for the public benefit. We adhere to the charitable purpose for which we were established, and which is outlined in our objectives.

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	SORP reference
Policy on grant making	Para 1.38	N/A
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38	N/A
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	Emmies Kitchen is staffed entirely by volunteers. There are no paid staff, and there have been non over the reporting period. Volunteers have been at the core of our service delivery from the inception of our organisation and continued to be the mainstay throughout the period of this report. The volunteer pool has remained consistent and volunteer input has ensured that food delivery, the preparation of snack bags and more recently the wellbeing sessions were never missed and were available as scheduled for the whole of the year.
Other		Emmies Kitchen has a robust written safeguarding policy which all volunteers are familiarised with at induction and are expected to be compliant with. We also have policies on food handling, food safety and food Hygiene.

Achievements and Performance

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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	Since our creation in 2018 and becoming a charity in 2020 Emmies Kitchen has remained committed to its purpose, and core values. The support to parents and carers staying with a poorly child in the RMCH has been consistent. As we have reported over previous years, the charity has built on its foundations to develop our services whilst not losing sight of our core purpose. We continue to enjoy good and productive relations with the hospital Management, and hospital services and this combined with the commitment of our Volunteers and our success in fundraising has meant that we have been able to support families especially with the provision of hot meals, ambient food snack bags, toiletries, and emotional and practical help. During the course of the year the charity delivered over 5,000 hot meals and over 3,000 snack bags. Christmas saw us deliver 250 ‘goody’ bags worth approximately £50 each. Our volunteer hours totalled over 3,000. It has been calculated that over the year we have redistributed over 3,500 kilos of food that would have gone into waste. Our well-established relationship with the food charity Fareshare Greater Manchester, means that Emmies Kitchen has been able to continue to source the contents for the snack bags consistently and at a minimum cost. As a charity we already know that parents are often not feeding themselves properly. Again, over this reporting period, similar to previous years, our Volunteers identified that parents at the hospital were often struggling to source a hot meal. The Emmies Kitchen Friday night Takeaway became a lifeline for many. Not only was the hot food itself welcome, but the feedback we continue to receive from the hospital is that the psychological impact of the anticipation and delivery of the food was significant to the point that the mood on the wards was visibly lifted. Parents who must spend long periods of time looking after their child in hospital, become increasingly isolated. Over this time our Volunteers again noted a deterioration in people’s mental health, and an increasing number who were losing their jobs. By building good relationships with a range of partners and supporters, Emmies Kitchen was able to offer other support in addition to the food.

Our partnership with L’Oréal continues and means that we were able to provide regular supplies of cosmetics and toiletries. Things that are essential to parents staying in the hospital, but expensive and hard to access. In addition, with support from City in the Community, and other partners, we were once again able to provide essential items at Christmas, including pyjamas, gifts and toiletries. Over this reporting year as in previous years Emmies Kitchen has continued to build on our good relationships with Ronald Macdonald House, The Teenage Cancer Trust, Macmillan, Hospital staff and Management, and especially the Family Support Team. Our intention is to continue to develop our partnership work in order to facilitate more access to services for parents. We have maintained our core charitable purpose over the year, and we believe that we have been able to relieve a degree of financial hardship, and also to provide relief to those in need, both practically and psychologically.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41	Over the reporting period, Emmies Kitchen achieved our core objective of providing care, support and hot food to parents and carers of hospitalised children which enabled families in turn to care better for their child whilst they are staying with them in the hospital.
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	The charity had not set specific fundraising objectives other than to be ongoing in our efforts to raise enough money to support the continuation of the provision of food, resources and the development of publicity, information and marketing materials. This was achieved through fundraising, donations, and grants.
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41	N/A
Other

Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	At the end of this reporting period, the charity finds itself in a good financial position. Our financial balance at year end is healthy. We are anticipating maintaining and hopefully increasing our income over the next financial year through, donations, grants, and fundraising. As has been stated in previous reports, the charity takes the management of its financial affairs extremely seriously and has a dedicated volunteer treasurer/administrator who monitors all income and expenditure. The charity is also supported by a qualified accountant who is responsible for verifying accounts, as required.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	N/A
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	Nil
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	The charity is not responsible for any liabilities over this time, or at this time. The charity had no ongoing financial commitments such as overheads, wages or material assets which would incur charges.
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	There are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern.

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	Individual fundraising (sponsored events activities etc.) Donations (individuals, business) Grant bids
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	None
Other

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Foundation Model Constitution for a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose only voting members are its charity trustees.
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	The Membership may appoint all charity Trustees. Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustee must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.

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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees	Para 1.51	The existing charity trustees make available to each new charity trustee, on his or her appointment: a copy of the current version of the constitution; and a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustee Annual Report and statement of accounts.
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51	The members of the CIO are its charity trustees. The only persons eligible to be members of the CIO are its charity trustees. The Volunteer Representative is automatically (ex officio) a charity trustee. Board meetings are scheduled to take place every two months. The AGM took place as scheduled during this financial year.
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51	N/A
Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Emmies Kitchen
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number	1191029

Charity’s principal address 14 Gloucester Ave. Levenshulme Manchester M19 3WT UK

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Eve Naraynsingh	Chair	Wholeyear	The Membership
Claire Parkinson	Secretary	Whole Year	The Membership
Jacqueline Naraynsingh		Whole Year	The Membership
Rizwan Hussain		Whole Year	The Membership

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved Director name None

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name	Dates acted if not for whole year
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Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity

Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

Additional information (optional)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of Name Address adviser N/A

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

None

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

N/A

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Declarations

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) evenaraynsingh

Full name(s) Eve Naraynsingh

Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc)

Date

12/01/2025

Charity Name No (if any) Emmies Kitchen 1191029 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date a from 1-Apr-23 31-Mar-24

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Balance c/f 38,640 Fundraising 19,273 Grants 17,650 - - - - - 75,563 - - Sub total - Total receipts 75,563 A3 Payments Food 26,681 Other expenses 4,743 - - - - - - - Sub total 31,424 - - Sub total - Total payments 31,424 Net of receipts/(payments) 44,139 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end - Cash funds this year end 44,139 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ *Sub total*(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)	to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds	to the nearest £ Endowment funds	Total funds to the nearest £ 38,640 19,273 17,650 - - - - - 75,563 - - - 75,563 26,681 4,743 - - - - - - - 31,424 - - - 31,424 44,139 - - 44,139	Last year to the nearest £
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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 B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Details Details Details Details Details Signature evenaraynsingh *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	to nearest £ to nearest £ 44,139 - - - - - 44,139 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name EVE NARAYNSINGH Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional)	to nearest £ Endowment funds
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			Date of approval
	evenaraynsingh	EVE NARAYNSINGH	10.01.2025

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name EMMIES KITCHEN members of On accounts for the year 31[st] March 2024 Charity no 1191029 ended (if any) Set out on pages (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended DD / MM / YYYY .

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Date: 10/01/2025

Signed: Name: Rizwan Akhtar Relevant professional ACCA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 322 Slade Lane Manchester M19 2BY

October 2018

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

IER