## **Open Hands Reigate** # **Registered charity No. 1193298** **Annual Report Period 1[st] September 2024 to 31[st] August 2025** ## **Objectives and Activities** The founding constitution, dated 23[rd] November 2020 sets out the principal objects as follows: - a) To advance the Christian religion in East Surrey for the benefit of the public through the holding of prayer meetings, lectures, public celebrations of religious festivals, producing and/or distributing literature on Christianity to enlighten others about the Christian religion. - b) To relieve the charitable needs of those by reason of youth, age, ill health, financial hardship, food insecurity or other disadvantage in East Surrey in particular but not exclusively by the provision of grants, items and services. Our principal activity since formation has been to run a foodbank for those in our area who have found themselves in need of help. Potential clients make application on line or in person or via a referring agency, setting out their circumstances, giving the reasons that they require help together with an estimate of how many weeks they believe that our assistance may be needed. Each month all clients are contacted to establish whether our help should be continued or not. Most clients collect their food parcels from our distribution point, but those who by reason of circumstances, such as ill-health or distance, can receive home delivery. With regard to advancing the Christian religion, there has been limited activity, but the food bank operates from church premises and we are transparent about our motivation and ethos. It is undeniably certain that our activities have contributed to the public good, as with the cost of living crisis, many families have found themselves struggling to provide for all their needs. The food bank is a support to them The Trustees have had due regard for public benefit in all of our principal activities. In the period under review, we incurred no costs with regard to advancing the Christian religion. Other than relatively minor expenditure on insurance and IT, the greatest portion has been spent on the foodbank. There are no paid staff. **Achievements and Performance** In January, the weekly number of households served was in the region of 80, but this gradually tailed off until by August, numbers were in the 40s. Throughout the year there were over 100 new requests for assistance. Some of these were single persons, others in families and often with children. Our estimate is that between 400-500 individuals had benefitted from our services up to our year end. We had around 35 volunteers working with us in this period. ## **Financial Review** In the period under review, the charity’s total receipts were £27,753. This consisted entirely of donations from the general public and some others from local organisations and churches. We neither applied for nor were offered any grants or assistance from public funds. Expenditure for the period amounted to £20,202. Apart from minor running costs, this was used to purchase food and other household items for distribution to clients. Cash funds at the year end were £31,256 The Charity has adopted a reserves policy which is reviewed by trustees regularly. ## **Structure, governance and management** The charity adopted a constitution on 23[rd] November 2020 which copied the Charity Commission model for a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) whose only voting members are its charity trustees. There were five trustees in this period. Thus far, prospective trustees have been introduced by one or more of the existing trustees. They are provided with a copy of the constitution and a briefing on the current position of the charity. Prospective trustees are then interviewed by the current Chairperson and a recommendation is brought to the remaining trustees for decision. There are no external persons or bodies with any right to appoint. The trustees meet regularly to review and plan the work. Day to day management of the foodbank is undertaken by a volunteer as is the monthly review of clients. The charity bank account is managed by the trustees. All outgoings must be approved by two signatories to the account whether on-line or by cheque. **Reference and Administrative details** The charity name is Open Hands Reigate No other name is used. The Charity Registration number is 1193298 The charity address is c/o Reigate Baptist Church, Sycamore Walk, Reigate, RH2 7LR Names of trustees serving during the period covered by this report are as follows: John Bartlett Appointed 23.11.20 Hilary Mak Appointed 23.11.20 Graham Rouse Appointed 16.11.21 John Clarke Appointed 14.11.22 Scott Carr Appointed 10.03.21 The charity does not hold any property. Report approved at the Trustees meeting on 8[th] October 2025 …………………………………………………………………………………… Hilary Mak (Chair) ||**Open Hands Reigate**|**Open Hands Reigate**|**Open Hands Reigate**|**Open Hands Reigate**|**Open Hands Reigate**|**1193298**|**1193298**|**1193298**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
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**to the nearest £**| |General Donations|**27,753**||**-**||**-**||**27,753**||**30,761**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
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**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**30,761**| ||||||||||| |Charitable Activities|**20,202**||**-**||**-**||**20,202**||**26,117**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**20,202**||**-**||**-**||**20,202**||**26,117**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**26,117**| ||||||||||| ||**7,551**||**-**||**-**||**7,551**||**4,644**| ||**-**|
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