In 2021 CFFB provided:
Emergency Family Food Boxes 370 Adults (parents/carer’s) Unrecorded toiletries, cleaning Christmas Food Hampers 88 small Christmas gifts 121 materials, clothes, household goods. Christmas Toy Households 85 Butty Club and referral emergency food bags 2,362 Children received Toys 267 Annual C F F B Report community food & friendship blyth BLYTH TOWN COUNCIL C F F B Charity number 1191399
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BLYTH
TOWN
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C F F B
@CommunityFoodandFriendshipBlyth @FoodBlyth
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C F F B
About us...
We are a volunteer run charity that works with the community of Blyth. Whether it is supporting those who are facing challenging times financially, need help to find enough food, clothes and home goods to working with the community and businesses whose generosity knows no bounds, by donating food, clothes and any items we put out a call
for as well as generous monitory donations, it is our privilege to serve our community. We work in a variety of projects with local schools and support older members of the community. We have in 2021, moved into our new building where we have exciting plans for the future.
Left: Blyth Over 50’s Forum. Above: A welcome donation from the Blyth Park run annual food donations.
Chairs Report
2021 has been another challenging year. We had hoped to leave Covid behind but that was not to be.
Thankfully the Bacon Butty Club because of its status, was able to continue as we saw our numbers begin to increase. During the year we moved buildings for the final time. Our thanks to Tom Bradly and CVAB who had hosted us at BCEC for a year and special thanks to Father Quinn and St Wilfred’s who offered us the use of their hall in Claremont Terrace. We set about refurbishing the building to accommodate our needs, special thanks to Alan Hall for managing this project. We ran two sites, St Cuthbert’s carried on with the Butty Club while preparing for a move planned in early 2022 to our new building. We realised we had less room and had to re assess the way we offer our service. The most important was to maintain the Butty Club with food bags, clothes and toiletries. We also continued our Soup Lunches with thanks to Jean Hayton and her team. We have to thank Phil and
Colleen at Morrisons, Little Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Greggs, St Wilfred’s, and Glenton’s who regularly provide us with the food we need to function. To Blyth Town Council whose support has been constant, St Bede’s, St Cuthbert’s, all of the businesses and individuals who have supported us throughout 2021. Finally, our Trustees and volunteers for their commitment and ongoing support. The first part of 2021 saw us working with Northumberland Communities Together, before passing over the work providing emergency food boxes we had continued to provide from the first lockdown. After reviewing our aims and objectives we committed to grow and develop the Butty Club and support those in our community who were facing financial challenges accessing food and confidence building. Suzanne Ellis from Higher Effect ran courses for our Butty Club lads that wanted to grow their confidence, our Friday Walking Group was a product of its success.
To our volunteer drivers, many who tirelessly turn up at short notice to keep us supplied with food often at
times they have settled at 3 home with their feet up! Our most sincere thanks.
This was our 4th Christmas working with schools, we exceeded our Christmas toy bags thanks to donations from our community who were so generous along with trustees and volunteers (some from other organisations) who joined in to wrap. Our Christmas food hampers were allocated to families referred by local schools through generous Christmas Eve donations from Aldi and Sainsbury. A large number of people turned up to support by picking up from stores and delivering to homes, the atmosphere was wonderful.
We offered on line training opportunities to volunteers across a number of organisations offering 60 courses in all.
Financially we have had a successful year, thanks go to our Treasurer Dave Cooper. Numerous fundraisings through coffee morning, market, fete and generous donations along with grants saw us enter 2022 with confidence.
Lynne Craggs / Chair
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Blyth Community Enterprise Partnership
With grateful thanks to Thom Bradley and all at Blyth Community Enterprise Partnership, we were offered a workspace for a year while we explored ways to take the charity forward.
Above: The workspace was ideal for our operation. Left: Trustee John sorting donations.
Bacon Butty Club Despite limitations allowed for access we were allowed to re-open the Butty Club with Covid regulations in place.
Our user group came in the allowed number at a time and fully acknowledged the new way of working. As restrictions eased we did get back to a strange form of normality with partners such as Bridge offering advice, training and employment opportunities. The NHS came weekly to give advice and take blood pressure etc. we were also able to offer Covid jabs via a mobile NHS unit who used St Cuthbert’s Hall. By the end of the year numbers got larger as demand for support increased.
Left: Covid Christmas with turkey soup .
Below: Covid Easter Egg donation.
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Christmas Hampers
Working with local primary schools we were again privileged to support 88 families. Along with volunteers from all walks of life and the generosity of local businesses and donations from the Blyth community our Christmas Eve hampers were all delivered by 7.30pm.
Left: Fresh vegetables from ASDA.
Above: The Bolton Family came along to donate a very generous gift to us for Christmas, seen with Trustee Susan and volunteers.
Christmas Gifts
Working together with primary school referrals and through the generosity of the Blyth community and businesses we were able to provide Christmas gift bags to 85 households. 267 children received their presents from Santa and 121 adults in the household received a small gift, no one was left out. A special thank you goes to all of our Far left: Volunteer schools who work so hard beyond Connie delivering our first gift bags. what they are expected to do to strive to ensure all children are equal and Top: Volunteers in of course those who volunteered to full wrapping mode. wrap from within CFFB and beyond. Centre: The CFFB tree at St Cuthbert’s Christmas Tree Festival beautifully decorated in true CFFB style by Trustee Jean Hayton. Left: Morrisons Christmas Customer Voucher Donations, we are very grateful to be the 2021 chosen charity.
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Moving Home
In 2021 were given the opportunity by Father Quinn and St Wilfred’s Church to move into their hall in Claremont Terrace.
We were most grateful and very excited as the space offered us the opportunity to complete the work in the community we were working towards. We held our opening with members of the community and partners we work with. Blyth Town Council Mayor Margaret Richardson 8 declared the building open.
Above: Blyth Town Council Mayor Margaret Richardson cutting the cake at our official opening.
Top: Volunteers and guests at the opening night. Left: Eileen, Stephen and Margaret.
Schools
When opportunities come along, we are always delighted to work with our schools.
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Training 9
Thanks to Awards for All we were
able to offer on line accredited
training to volunteers working in
CFFB and volunteers working with
other organizations in Blyth. We
were also able to introduce a number
of our clients to on line training.
Above: Bacon Butty Volunteers.
Left: Trustee Dave Cooper leading a
training session.
Below: There were times we had to
use our workspace for training.
Congratulations to the
more than 50 students
that have gained their
certificates.
Top left: We received some
donated bikes which we
passed on to a local school.
Left: Pleased to help with
a request for children’s
Christmas jumpers.
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Income by category £10,800 ■ Brought forward Grants (Blyth Town ■ Donations Council & Community Foundation) were ■ Fundraising allocated to restricted £20,138 ■ Community Foundations funds. £1,900 ■ Blyth Town Council £3,631 £354 £580 £492 £82 £5,033 £631 £951 £4,934 Expenditure by category £1,812 Clothing ■ Christmas Christmas £2,193 Rent ■ Governance Governance £4,472 Wellbeing ■ Trustee Training Trustee Training Equipment ■ Covid Covid £2,464 Volunteer Training ■ Utilities Utilities Food ■ Other Other £2,788 Building Maintenance £4,471
Expenditure by category
■ Clothing ■ Christmas Christmas ■ Rent ■ Governance Governance ■ Wellbeing ■ Trustee Training Trustee Training ■ Equipment ■ Covid Covid ■ Volunteer Training ■ Utilities Utilities ■ Food ■ Other Other
■ Building Maintenance
Left: CFFB 11 Christmas Fayre. Centre: Easter Eggs donated from residents of Belford Court. Below centre: Trustee Alan receiving a kind donation from Bader Court. Below: Food donation from South Beach Residents Forum.
Above: Men’s walking group developed by Suzanne Ellis from Higher Effect, who has been working on a project with the Butty Club.
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Receipts and Payments Accounts
Charity Name Community Food and Friendship Blyth
Charity Number 1191399 For the period 22-Sep-20 to 31-Dec-21
Section A Receipts and Payments
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total £ £ £ £ |
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total £ £ £ £ |
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total £ £ £ £ |
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total £ £ £ £ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 3324 | 3108 | 6432 | |
| Fund Raising | 1374 | 3949 | 5323 | |
| Government Grants | 11300 | 11300 | ||
| Other Grants | 3250 | 3250 | ||
| Interest | 1 | 1 | ||
| Sub total A2 Asset and Investment sales etc Total receipts |
4699 | 21607 | 0 | 26306 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4699 | 21607 | 26306 |
A3 Payments
| Management | 22 | 5984 | 6006 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OperatingCosts | 4968 | 18456 | 23424 | |
| Sub total A4 Asset and Investment purchasess etc Total receipts Net of receipts / (payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
4990 | 24440 | 0 | 29430 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4699 | 21607 | 0 | 26306 | |
| -291 | -2833 | 0 | -3124 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2631 | 15772 | 0 | 18403 | |
| 2340 | 12939 | 0 | 15279 | |
| Section B | Statement of assets and liabilities | |||
| B1 Cash Funds | Unrestricted Restricted Endowment £ £ £ |
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| Lloyds Current Account | 2339 | 2938 | 0 | |
| Lloyds Savings Account | 10002 | 0 | ||
| Total cash funds | 2339 | 12940 | 0 |
| B2 Other monetary assets | Unrestricted £ |
Restricted Endowment £ £ |
Restricted Endowment £ £ |
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| B3 Investment assets | Fund | Cost Current Value £ £ |
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| B4 Assets retained for the charity's own use | Fund £ |
Cost Current Value £ £ |
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| B5 Liabilities | Fund £ |
Cost Current Value £ £ |
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| D Cooper | 17-Jul-22 | ||