## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01 April 2022 Period start date To 31 March 2023 Period end date Charity name: Tees Valley Together** ## **Charity registration number: 1195429** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Operating as a not-for-profit charitable
incorporated organisation (CIO), our aim is help
relieve some of the problems associated with
both social and economic poverty in the Tees
Valley. Currently based in Hemlington we have
focused most of our service efforts to this local
community. We provide the area with an Eco
Shop and also access to preloved clothing and
household items via out Home from Home
project, we generate a small income from this
project by selling these preloved items.
As well as the project delivered in Hemlington
we also work with other charities, organisations,
social enterprises, local businesses and
agencies to support the Tees Valley where our
remit allows.
Further projects that will benefit the local
community are being developed and will
hopefully be rolled out in the coming financial
year. We also aim to have secured funding for
our core projects for a three-year period.| |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|The objective of the charity is the prevention or
relief of poverty in the Tees Valley by providing:
food, items and services to individuals in need
and/or charities, or other organisations working
to prevent or relieve poverty.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity|Para 1.18|In setting our objectives and planning our
activities our Trustees have given careful
consideration to the Charity Commission’s
public benefit guidance.| Commission on public benefit ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **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|Eco Shop
We have served over 120 families per week
with their requirements, the individual can shop
and purchase 10 items from the shop for £2,
they can then top up their shop with items we
for free. We have saved 6.1225 tonnes of
surplus food going to landfill by having this
shop open. This mean food is redirected to
where is it needed and not wasted.
As part of the Eco Shop offering, we provide
free sanitary products, these are provided via
T.E.E.S, a local CIO, who work with the Hey
Girls campaign to end period poverty.
Home from Home
We have provided several families with
clothing, shoes, uniform and small household
items on an ad hoc basis in this financial period.
This comes at a time when families are
struggling so all support is appreciated. During
the next financial year this project will become
permanent and will be there to support more
families more regularly. Any funds raised from
sales of the items go back into the charity and
in turn the community.
Sports & Allsorts Hemlington| The introduction of a family focused youth provision supported by funding from the HAF programme which is funded by the Department of Education. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity reported a surplus of receipts over
payments of £18,842 of which £7,062 related to
unrestricted funds and £11,780 related to
restricted funds. At the year end the charity
held £9,312 of unrestricted funds and £19,925
of restricted funds.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity is in the process of evaluating its
reserves policy now a full period has been
completed.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|As at 31 March 2023, the charity held free
reserves of £9,312.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**-**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**-**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**-**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |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|Charitable Incorporated Organisation (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|In selecting individuals for appointment as
charity trustees, the charity trustees 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 Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Tees Valley Together| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|-| |Registered charity number|1195429| |Charity’s principal address|21-25 Viewley Centre,
Hemlington, Middlesbrough
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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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Sharlein Allison
MaySmales|Chair||| ||Dennis Brian
Gargett|||| ||TimothyJohn Allen|||| ||Ann Stonehouse|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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|**-**| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|**-**| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|**-**| ## **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)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Sharlein Allison May Smales|| ||
Chair / CEO|| ||28/01/2024|| ||28/01/2024|| |**Tees Valley Together**|**Tees Valley Together**||**1195429**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|01/04/2022|**To**|31/03/2023|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**812**
**12,686**
**9,468**
**3,032**
**1,000**
**24,970**
**-**
**-**

**51,968**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**51,968**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,119**
**-**
**4,751**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**
**49**
**24,970**
**5,017**
**-**
**44,906**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,906**
**7,062**
**-**
**2,250**
**9,312**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,913**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,913**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,913**
**2,666**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,190**
**-**
**7,277**
**-**
**20,133**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,133**
**11,780**
**-**
**8,145**
**19,925**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**812**
**12,686**
**9,468**
**3,032**
**32,913**
**24,970**
**-**
**-**
**83,881**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**83,881**
**2,666**
**-**
**-**
**9,119**
**-**
**4,751**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**
**10,239**
**24,970**
**12,294**
**-**
**65,039**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**65,039**
**18,842**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |General funds|**812**|||||**2,884**| |Donations(cash)|**12,686**|||||**1,743**| |Eco Shop|**9,468**|||||**890**| |Charitable Activities|**3,032**|||||**1,000**| |Grants|**1,000**|||||**14,586**| |Donated food|**24,970**|||||**12,724**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**51,968**|||||**33,827**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**
|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**33,827**| |||||||| |Assets B4 below|**-**|||||**487**| |Motor & Travel|**-**|||||**60**| |Office Equipment|**-**|||||**328**| |Purchases|**9,119**|||||**1,843**| |Repairs & Renewals|**-**|||||**255**| |Rent & Room Hire|**4,751**|||||**2,530**| |Software Subscription|**-**|||||**156**| |Storage & movingcosts|**1,000**|||||**348**| |Subcontractors & Professional Fees|**-**|||||**1,420**| |Wages|**49**|||||**3,281**| |Value of Food Distributed|**24,970**|||||**12,724**| |Expenses|**5,017**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**44,906**|||||**23,432**| |||||||| |**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_**||||||| |||||||**23,432**| |||||||| ||**7,062**|**11,780**|**-**|**18,842**||**10,395**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**2,250**|**8,145**|**-**|**10,395**||**-**| ||**9,312**|**19,925**|**-**|**29,237**||**10,395**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 05/01/2024 1 |**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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
Catering appliance
Tills
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Current Accounts
Petty Cash
**Details**
Shelving
Floor tiles
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**9,197**
**19,925**
**115**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,312**
**19,925**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
General
**880**
General
**304**
General
**482**
General
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 05/01/2024 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's R•port Rèport to thè trust•8¥1 members of Tees Valley Together On accounts for the period end¥d 31 March 2023 Charity no lif any) 1195429 Set out on pages Receipts and Payments Accounts I report lo the Iru81ees on my exarnination ol the accounts ol thè above charity lllhe Trust.) forthe period endec$ 31 March 2023. Responsibilities and As Ihe charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation bas13 of report of Ihe accounts In accordance wllh the ￿quirementS ol th8 Charlties Act 20111.the Acri. I report in respect of my examination ol Ihe Trust'$ awounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out rny examination. I have followed thè applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under sedion 14515Xbl of the Act. I have completed my examination. l eonflmi that no materlal matters have come lo my attention lother than that disclosed below'l in connection with the exarnination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect.. accounting ¥ecords w8re not kept in a￿OrdanCe with section 130 of the Act or the acwunts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examinerfs statement I have no concerns and have come across other matters in connection with the examinalion lo which attention should be drawn in order io enable a proper understanding of the accounts lo be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets If Iheydo nol apply. Signed: Namè: Beverley Goodall R•l6vant professional qualfficationlsl or body Ilf any).. Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Addr•85'. Level Q Offices, Surtges Business Park Stocklon-on-Tees TS18 3HR IER October 2018 Section B Oi5closure Onty complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of wncem Isee CC32, Indeperhdent examination of tharity aC￿)Unts.. directions and guidance for exatniners Give here brief d?tails of any ltsms that the •xaminèr wishos t disclose. IER October 2018