## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] April 2024 Period start date To 31[st] March 2025 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 amongst 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 child in the
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
(RMCH). The charity has continued to
develop its relationship with local food
outlets who can offer hot food.
We continue to engage with parents and
over the last year, have found more time to
talk or communicate via social media to
offer them support and relief from isolation
whilst their child is in hospital.
Our ‘Wellbeing sessions’ have been
delivered on a monthly basis and have
proved to be extremely popular. We benefit
from the support of Ronald Macdonald
House who allow us to use space in their
building to offer these sessions.
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 fully involved in the
Wellbeing sessions.
Our partnership work continued to be
strong. Our partnership with Ronald
Macdonald House has gone from strength
to strength as has the relationship with
Fareshare Greater Manchester, who
support us with the contents of our snack
bags. Relations with Senior Management
within the hospital is good, and they are| |||fully supportive of our work.
As has been stated in previous reports, our
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|All our 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.| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| ||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 the staffing of the Wellbeing
sessions always happened as scheduled
and were never missed.| |Other||Emmies Kitchen has a robust written
Safeguarding Policy which all volunteers a
familiarised with at induction and are
expected to be compliant with. We also
make sure that all Volunteers are regularly
refreshed on our policies on food handling,
food safety, and food hygiene.| ## **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|Since our creation in 2018 and becoming a
charity in 2020 Emmies Kitchen has
remained committed its purpose and core
values.
The support to parents and carers staying
with a poorly child in the RMCH has been
consistent.
Over the last financial year, we have
continued to build on our foundations to
develop our services whilst not losing sight
of our core purpose.
Our ongoing relationship with our partner
organisations combined with the
commitment of our Volunteers and our
success in fundraising has meant that we
are able to support families through the
provision of hot meals, ambient food snack
bags, toiletries and emotional and practical
help.
In the year 24/25 we provided over 5,400
hot meals and 3000 snack bags. For
Christmas 2024, we distributed 250 gift
bags to parents staying at the hospital with
the contents of each worth around £50.
This is something that we have managed to
do consistently, year on year.
Again, though our partner Fareshare we
get a report on how much food we have
redistributed which would have gone to
waste. In this year it was approximately
4,000 kilos. The relationship with
Fareshare has proved particularly
beneficial in that Emmies Kitchen can
source the contents of our snack bags at
minimum cost.
As in previous years, our Volunteers, and
the social media feedback that we
received, identified that many parents were
struggling to source hot food, were
experiencing financial hardships, and many
regarded Emmies Kitchen as a ‘lifeline’.
Not only was the hot food and snack bags
welcome, but the feedback we continued to
receive from hospital staff is that the
positive psychological impact of the
anticipation and delivery of the food was
significant, and visibly noticeable.
Parents who must a spend long time
looking after their child in hospital become
increasingly isolated. Again, over this
reporting period we were aware of the
deterioration in people’s mental health, and
the numbers who lost their jobs. In
response to this our major development
over this reporting period has been the
regular provision of monthly wellbeing
sessions. Parents and carers come
together for massage, therapy, arts and
crafts, and most importantly a time to talk.
These sessions have proved very popular|| |---|---|---|---| with upwards of 20 parents attending each session. The feedback we have received has been extremely positive, particularly in relation to peer support, and talking with others with a similar lived experience. As well as our food partners, Emmies Kitchen benefitted from support from other organisations including L’Oreal, who provide a substantial number of cosmetics and toiletries, and City in the Community plus other supporters who were once again able to provide essential items at Christmas, including pyjamas, selection boxes, gifts and toiletries. Our intention is to continue to work alongside our existing and new partners to facilitate more access to services and support for parents. As in previous years we have continued to maintain our core charitable purpose, and we believe that we have been able to relieve a degree of financial hardship, and to provide support to those in need, both practically and psychologically. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |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 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 hot
food, snack bags, wellbeing sessions,
resources and the development of publicity,
information and marketing materials.| |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|Once again, at the end of this reporting
period, the charity finds itself in a good
financial position.
Our financial balance at the end of the year
is healthy. We are anticipating maintaining
and hopefully increasing our income over
the next financial year through donations,
grants and fundraising.
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 was not responsible for any
liabilities over this time and continues not to
be responsible for any liabilities. The charity
has 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 an ongoing concern.| ## **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|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.| ## **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|
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 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 take place every quarter.
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 Avenue,
Levenshulme,| Manchester M19 3WT UK **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Eve Naraynsingh|Chair|Whole Year|The Membership| ||Claire Parkinson|Secretary|Wholeyear|The Membership| ||Jacqueline
Naraynsingh||Whole year|The Membership| ||Rizwan Hussain||Wholeyear|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**|| |---|---|---| |||| |N/A||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **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 N/A assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and N/A 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 ## **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)** _evenaraynsingh_ **Full name(s)** Eve Naraynsingh **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** **Date** 3/12/2025 |||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Emmies Kitchen**||**1191029**||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|01-Apr-24
Period start date|31-Mar-25
Period end date
**To**||| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**32,718**
**3,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,718**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,718**
**25,883**
**4,833**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,716**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,716**
**5,002**
**-**
**-**
**5,002**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**32,718**
**3,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,718**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,718**
**25,883**
**4,833**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,716**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,716**

**5,002**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**32,718**
**3,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,718**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**35,718**
**25,883**
**4,833**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,716**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,716**

**5,002**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||**38,640**| |Fundraisingand donations|**32,718**|||**32,718**||**19,273**| |Grants|**3,000**|||**3,000**||**17,650**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**35,718**|||**35,718**||**75,563**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| ||||**-**|**35,718**||**75,563**| |||||||| |Food|**25,883**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**25,883**||**26,681**| |Other expenses|**4,833**|||**4,833**||**4,743**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**30,716**|||**30,716**||**31,424**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| ||||**-**|**30,716**||**31,424**| |||||||| ||**5,002**|**-**|**-**|
**5,002**||**44,139**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**
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Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
_evenaraynsingh_
**Details**
**Details**
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**Details**
**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**48,956**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48,956**
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EVE NARAYNSINGH|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
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approval| ||_evenaraynsingh_|EVE NARAYNSINGH|03/12/2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 16/12/2025 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of EMMIES KITCHEN On accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 Charity no (if any) 1191029 Set out on pages irÈmtmbtr to Iiiclude the p&ge nuinè., I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trusl'l for the year ended 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 rthe 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(51{b} of the Act. I have compleled my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than thal 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 accounls do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's ststement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination lo 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. Signed: Date: Iz Name: Rizwan Akhtar Relevanl professional qualifi¢ation{sl or body (If any): ACCA Address: 322 Slade Lane Manchester M19 2BY IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs lo 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. IER October 2018