Charity registration number: 1195487 Company number: CE026427
## The Healthy Living Platform
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2024
## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Contents (continued)**
|Reference and Administrative Details|1|
|---|---|
|Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities|15|
|Independent Examiner's Report|16|
|Statement of Financial Activities|17|
|Balance Sheet|18|
|Cash Flow Statement|19|
## **The Healthy Living Platform**
**Reference and Administrative Details Chairman** Mr M Marotta **Trustees** Mr M Marotta Mrs J Baker Mr G Gibson Mr A Martinowsky Mrs Bel-Olivia Osas Mr David Wood Mr Hubert James Mrs Davina Jane Belcher Mrs Tanya Spence **Charity Registration Number** 1195487 **Principal Office** 336 Brixton Road London SW9 7AA **Independent Examiner** Mr Keith Powers 13 Ambleside Botley Southampton Hampshire SO30 2NS
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Trustees' Report**
The trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 September 2024.
## **Objectives and activities**
## _**Objects and aims**_
1. Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document
At Healthy Living Platform we make it easier for local communities to lead healthier and more sustainable lives. Our focus is on connecting communities through food across neighbourhoods, focusing on the following strategic aims:
•Access: increased access to affordable nutritious food
•Education: increased knowledge and skills to support healthy eating
•Community: increased community connectivity and capacity
•Advocacy: improved food policy and decision making in Lambeth
The objects of the CIO, to be carried out in London and such other parts of England as the Trustees shall from time to time determine, are:
1)The prevention or relief of poverty for the public benefit by providing food, baby clothing and baby essentials to individuals in need and charities and voluntary organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty, and by providing such organisations with facilities for the preparation and distribution of food
2)To preserve and protect good health for the public benefit by providing or assisting in the provision of education on health awareness, healthy eating, training and other appropriate projects that enable individuals to be self-sufficient in gaining access to, growing and preparing nutritious food.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## _**Objectives, strategies and activities**_
## _Access: Surplus Food Hub_
The Hub has continued to increase in capacity and efficiency as a ‘hub-spoke’ model operating the ‘last mile delivery’ of surplus food. In October ‘23 we installed 2 large walk-ins - fridge and freezer, doubling our capacity supporting our suppliers in the huge backlog of frozen surplus that can now make its way into more homes and community kitchens. As Felix extended their bulk offer, we have continued to receive larger, outsized donations and used the kitchen to safely portion down for practical distribution.
Essential Items purchased with the Household Fund have continued to balance the range of food available supporting different diets, cultural needs and the variety of challenges residents face over the cost-of-living crisis and cooking facilities or lack thereof.
HLP has continued to showcase the Hub, Pantry and Kitchen as part of best practice in working at-scale in the coordination of surplus food with visits from other projects and London Councils seeing us as a model of best practice.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## _Access: Pantries_
## Jubilee Pantry relocation
Jubilee Pantry was relocated from Jubilee Primary School to Jubilee Community Halls due to the growing need for a larger space, as our fastest growing pantry. We identified a suitable space on the Tulse Hill Estate and made arrangements with the TRA for a trial. Following a successful pop-up pantry in early November, we were able to make the service permanent after the initial week. This pantry has grown from strength to strength, with a committed group of 7 regular volunteers leading the delivery of the project and an ever-growing number of Tulse Hill residents attending the pantry, averaging 38 per week
## Pantry Remodel
Despite our best efforts to avoid an increase of pantry pricing for customers, the costs of produce inflated more than we were able to continue absorbing. Therefore, we began by consulting with families through the LEAP network in April, discussing different pricing models and how various options may impact households. Our research showed that families were interested in retaining low costs whilst gaining wider freedom of choice regarding the amount of fresh vs. long life proceed allowed in each shop. A new model was comprised and proposed to our community before launching officially in October.
Customers can now choose their items more flexibly across the range of long life and fresh items and now have more choice of the total number of items. The price structure is now £2 for every 5 items:
- £2 = 5 items
- £4 = 10 items
- £6 = 15 items
- £8 = 20 items
## Pantry Closures
Due to the lack of acquired funding to support with pantry provisions within our partnered Children’s Centres, we were forced to close our weekly services for families in Liz Atkinson Children’s Centre and St Stephen’s Children’s Centre. Whilst the spaces themselves were not entirely practical for delivery of the panty service, we recognise that we were able to create strong relationships with parents who saw the Children’s Centres as safe spaces. For many, this was particularly the case during the pandemic, and thus we’ve been able to support on average 65 families a week since 2021 and 2022 We will continue to work with the Children’s Centres and hope to secure future funding to provide food support once again. We worked closely with the Children’s Centres to ensure that these closures were communicated sensitively with families and that families were supported moving forwards to either through signposting to our other pantries or other ways to access food locally.
## Household Fund Extension
In March, it was announced in the budget that the Household Fund would be extended for a further 6 months. Despite this greatly appreciated news, funding was reduced by 50% compared with the previous year and not received until September, which caused cashflow problems for us in purchasing food for the interim 6 months. We look forward to hearing about long-term options from the government beyond September 2024 to provide continual provision of the “essential items” range in including culturally appropriate food for the diverse communities of Lambeth.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## _Access: Felix Multi-Bank_
HLP has been accessing regular non-food donations from the Felix Multi-bank – a new service which launched in July 2024 distributing a wide range of household items including baby items, nappies, toiletries and other useful homeware, stationery and other items to support activities which are valuable to community groups working with scarce resources.
These items are distributed to community groups to help reduce the impact of the cost-of-living crisis further. The diverse range of community groups, children’s centres and specialist support organisations means we can distribute these valuable items to those really in need helping to ease the cost of living further, alongside the food provisions.
HLP attended the launch alongside Ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and were featured in the press release as an example of how donations were making a difference in the community.
## _Education_
## Youth Food Ambassadors
Delivery of our first Youth Food Ambassadors programme took place in October, funded by Changing Lives and SJP Foundation. The programme hosted 8 young people, aged 12-17 years old, for 5 days during the October half term. During the course, the participants took part in nutrition, budgeting and culinary skills workshops before designing their own product complete with branding which was showcased at a Food Fair held for their friends, family and local community. Participants gained certificates for their completion of the course including Food Safety & Hygiene certification.
## Lambeth Catering Careers Programme
We received a small fund from Lambeth Made to deliver a course through the Summer for 16-19 year olds (up to 25 for individuals with SEND or care leavers) who were not currently in education, employment or training. The course followed a similar model to our Youth Food Ambassador pilot project, though was targeted specifically at young people interested in a future with food. This included an additional work experience placement for all participants, who were partnered with food vendors at Pop for work experience. Additionally, participants completed a Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety Certificate and received employment coaching from Spiral Skills to support in their future job hunting. This course was the first time Healthy Living Platform have worked with NEET young people, and whilst we faced a number of difficulties including recruitment and engagement, we have gained insight and contacts that will support us to continue developing our offering.
## Gut & Mental Health Food Ambassadors
Following successful delivery of our Food Ambassadors programme for 5 years with LEAP, we developed the programme with a focus on nutrition relating to gut and mental health. We delivered 2 courses over 4 months, through funding from The National Lottery Awards for All.
## Food Ambassadors Pro
We undertook feedback sessions with Food Ambassadors to learn about how we could support their continual development. Many of our most engaged individuals requested additional skills and training to progress within the food industry, particularly regarding self-employed opportunities. Using funding from Lambeth Council’s Changing Lives Fund, we were able to develop our Food Ambassadors Pro course - a series of workshops and sessions including business development, cooking at-scale, project design and a presentation with an industry professional.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## _Community_
## Community Christmas Lunch
In December, we partnered with SER Contractors and Myatt’s Field Centre to host a Community Christmas Lunch. We served a full hot roast dinner, with mince pies and crackers. Attendees were also able to make their own Christmas cards and decorations. One volunteer kindly gifted handmade Christmas table-runners for residents too.
## Pancake Day
On Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday, our Myatt’s Field Pantry and Jubilee Pantry offered all pantry attendees and community members free pancakes. This was made possible by our Food Ambassadors who supported in making healthy toppings including fresh berry compote and flipping pancakes all morning and afternoon.
## Spring Celebration
We hosted a Spring Celebration in March for local families to welcome the new season. The day featured flower arranging workshops, healthy chocolate birds nest making, a treasure hunt, fresh herb planting and craft activities, alongside a full buffet lunch. This event brought in over 100 attendees, 90% of whom were new to engaging in our service.
## First 5 Lambeth Launch
Our collaboration as a First 5 Lambeth partner, a consortium of 10 community groups for early years children, was officially launched to the public in November. To celebrate the launch of the consortium, a fun day was held at Brockwell Park for children and their parents to attend. Healthy Living Platform held a ‘Fruit Pizza’ making class and were able to discuss our services available for families.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## _Advocacy_
## Parliamentary Round Table
The Co-Directors attended a government round table in May focusing on the proposal for a sugar-levy on formulated foods alongside national charities. The team participated in the discussions to help suggest solutions to some challenges, for example, around supporting the lack of skills in the children’s services workforce and access to fresh healthy food for parents.
## Feeding Britain’s parliamentary reception at the House of Lords. 17th June 2024
Bringing together a wide variety of regional and local partners of the Feeding Britain network, likeminded national organisations, academics, and politicians. The focus was the future of community food provision, how we can help end the need for food banks, to recognise and learn from the immense and ever evolving work by frontline projects, food networks and partners. Academic researchers presented about their findings on the wider social value of affordable food clubs like our pantries.
## Food Ladders
The team attended the launch of the Food Ladder Toolkit at the Community Shop in West Norwood, alongside the author and other key stakeholders. This has become the model that HLP identifies with most in the way it operates and supports communities at a hyper local level.
## Call for government to continue the Household Fund.
In January 2024, HLP joined Lambeth Council in calling the government to extend the Household Fund support which HLP has received since 2021 to provide the range of “essential items” and culturally appropriate food. Health charity Impact on Urban Health, Brixton & Norwood Foodbank (Trussell Trust) also signed the letter alongside Cllr David Amos, Lambeth’s Cabinet Member for Finance and Cost of Living and Cllr Jim Dickson, Lambeth’s Cabinet Member for Healthier Communities. In March 2024 it was announced the fund would be extended a further 6 months. HLP was granted £70k (though the fund was not received until September 2024) after an application process under the title the Cost of Living Community Support Grant.
## Hosting Visits
The Hub Team hosted a range of visits over the year to share its approach to achieving the NHS Healthy Food Plate at scale to its distribution partners. The Hub is seen as an exemplar of good practice by its key partners (The Felix Project and City Harvest), and the team are keen to share their knowledge to ensure other areas can replicate the model.
## Spaces of Hope
One of the Co-Directors was invited to present on HLP’s work, looking at how community driven re-localisation efforts in health and food systems are crucial for justice and the environment, from the local to the global, and vice versa.
## _Evaluation_
## LEAP
After 5 years of funding and a hugely successful partnership, our contract with Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP) came to an end in March. This was expected in line with the end of the 10-year LEAP programme. Over the project’s final 6 months, we spent a great deal of time working with LEAP’s research and evaluation team to collect impact data from families, the community, volunteers and staff. The full written evaluation can be found here:
https://story-of-leap.leaplambeth.org.uk/reports/building-community-capacity-through-a-healthy-food-programmean-evaluation-of-leap-into-healthy-living/
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Trustees, Report (continued)
Qi ort-c T3
Q2 JatrMar24
Q3Apr-Jun 24
Q4 llll-Sq> 24
ALL FOOD
RECEIVED
69.252 kg
61.598 kg
67.136kg
74,108 kg
272,094 kg
ALL FOOD
PROVIDED
73,584 kg
66,551 kg
63,152kg
70,640 k8
273,927 k8
Sury)lus
donated
56,263 kg
53,156 k8
58. 842 k8
68,513 kg
236,774 k8
E55ential itell
- Household
Fund
12.989 kg
8,442 ks
8,294 kg
5.595 kg
35,320 kg
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Trustees, Report (continued)
Qi Ort.e
Q2 Jan-mar
Q3 Aw.Jun
Q4 J.sq? (Is)
Avg. wk groups
supported
49
44
48
44
49
Avg. wk
households
supported
1,895
2,156
2,223
2,004
2,070
Avg. wk
individua15
5UPPOrted
7,582
7,582
8,892
8,016
8,018
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## _**Use of volunteers**_
Contribution made by volunteers
Volunteers remain crucial to the work we do, and we are forever astounded by the generosity and care demonstrated by our community for one and other. Across the year we have engaged with a total of 200 volunteers, through training and on volunteer shifts at our surplus food hub and food pantries. Despite working with a smaller pool of volunteers compared with 2022-2023, the number of hours given by volunteers has increased by over 36%.
As our Food Ambassador opportunities grew, so did the amount of training opportunities available for individuals to attend. With a Volunteer Coordinator in post, we were also able to offer bespoke training for all pantry teams. This included tools for dealing with difficult situations, specifically requested by teams, alongside broader customer service skills and pantry processes. Certificated safeguarding training was also offered to all volunteers working within the community.
With a yearly total of 6,613 hours volunteered with us, this equates to £79,025.35 (in-kind) based on the London Living Wage equivalent.
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## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## **New Offices**
After a prolonged period without any fixed office space and a growing team, we were able to secure desk space within 3Space, International House in Brixton. Placed on their charitable community floor with many other like-minded organisations, this desk space has been offered in-kind and has enabled us to retain valuable core funds otherwise needed for rent. We’re extremely appreciative of this space as it also offers us a central location in the Lambeth community.
## **Public Benefit**
The trustees have had regard to Charity Commission guidance on public benefit and consider that the objectives, aims and achievements of the charity described in the report enable it to meet its duty to the Charity Commission as per section 17 of the Charities Act 2011, and to the benefit of the public.
## **Achievements and performance**
Key statistics from LEAP’s evaluation report on Healthy Living Platform 85.3% of participants were from most deprived neighbourhoods At least £599.20 a year saved by families attending 4 food pantries a month 7,088 attendances to one of our food pantries during 2023-2024
Ethnicities among HLP participants: White (36.0%) Black (35.9%) Mixed (14.2%) Other (8.5%) Asian (5.4%)
Quotes from participants in the LEAP evaluation:
“Thank you so much for all the hard work you do, it has helped me so much. I paid off gas debt &and got back into cooking from scratch to eat lots of healthy fruit & veggies. (I’ve not done this for years- so I'm so grateful!) All the efforts you make every week help people stay healthy & brings us peace of mind, knowing we can come anytime we need - no questions asked.” – Pantry customer
“I am a single mother and my son 15 months old. I don’t work and it’s hard to keep up with the bills and high cost of living. The pantry helps me survive.” — Participant
“We get a lot of healthy foods from the pantry which leads us to cook more healthy recipes.” — Participant
“I just want to say thank you, thank you for giving us the opportunity to enjoy the community to take part, to feel supported, helped.” — Participant
“Through volunteering, it really helped me with my depression. And I came out of it … And it’s just like, my body, in my mind has just naturally healed coming out through volunteering and joining HLP is the best thing I ever did.” — Volunteer
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## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## **Financial review**
HLP’s Reserves Policy is not static and can be subject to change annually. HLP’s reserves policy considers designated funds that are allocated to specific projects. HLP’s current Reserves Policy is to keep sufficient funds in Reserves to cover 3 months of salaries, any leases HLP is liable to pay and money to support legal costs. HLP agrees that if it receives more funding that can be allocated to Reserves as an extra contingency then this will be done at the Board’s discretion.
## _**Principal funding sources**_
The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) 1.Feeding Britain
2.Household Support Fund
3.Changing Lives 4.Lambeth Made 5.North Brixton Big Local
6.Lambeth Council (Food Hub and Pantries)
7.Kings Fridge Fund 8.LEAP 9.CoCreate 10.Awards for All 11.Donations
## **Going concern**
The Trustees have assessed the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. This assessment involved reviewing the charity's financial position, cash flow forecasts, and future funding commitments. Based on this review, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future. Therefore, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.
During the year the charity restructured its operations as a result of the LEAP funded projects ending in April 2025.
## **Structure, governance and management**
## _**Nature of governing document**_
The charity is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and governed by its Constitution.
## _**Recruitment and appointment of trustees**_
Trustees are voted in by existing Trustees following an application process.
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## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## **Noteworthy Donors**
- The Felix Project
- City Harvest
- Trussell Trust
- Morrissons
- SER Contractors
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Anonymous Donor
- Britain Loves Baking
- Book Garden Pop-up
- Benevity
- Wandle Housing Association
- Healing Justice
## **Staff**
1)Kate Bull (departed November 23): Chief Executive Officer
2)Alastair Smith-Agbaje (departed February 24): Chief Executive Officer
3)Anna Sjovorr-Packham (departed September 24): Co-Managing Director
- 4)Carla Thomas: Co-Managing Director
5)Jon Woodson (departed May): Catering & Hospitality Manager
6)Benji Keirle (departed April): Finance and Operations Administrator
7)Emma Cavallito (departed May): Community Programmes Assistant
8)Yasmin Latif: Food Ambassador Lead
9)Lena Matthews (departed August): Communications and Marketing Officer
10)Brodie Neilson (joined May): Operations Coordinator
11)Guy Stevenson (joined May, departed August): Pantries Coordinator
12)Charlotte Gordon (joined May): Kitchen and Catering Coordinator
13)Bruno Goncalves: Hub Supervisor
14)Joshua Ajayi Oluwashola (joined July 2024): Warehouse Assistant
15)Nicky Ochoa (departed August): Warehouse Assistant
16)Prince Gray-Mills (departed April 2024): Food Warehouse Assistant
17)Elizabeth Durham (departed January 2024): Pantry Assistant
The last 12 months saw a higher-than-average turnover of staff due to the redundancies that were made following the end of the LEAP contract. These redundancies were expected and carefully planned for. In addition, this year our former CEO Kate Bull retired, which led to subsequent interim Co-Director posts being created to assist in leading the organisation from February onwards.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## _**Major risks and management of those risks**_
## _Principal Risks_
The principal risk currently facing the charity is sourcing sustained funding for the Food Hub following the service contract issued by Lambeth Council since its inception coming to an end in March 2024. Whilst Impact on Urban Health have agreed to continue funding in the short term, and funding bids are pending decisions, there is still a risk that the long-term sustainability is not currently guaranteed. Efforts around fundraising, promoting the good work undertaken at the hub, especially with its unique model, are a priority. Unfortunately, the current financial climate for the Voluntary and Community Sector is not in a great place with many funders that would traditionally support local organisations not providing many new opportunities or closing their doors to new bids. Coupled with the continued under-funding of Local Authorities, this has meant some real challenges for HLP going forward.
## **Audit exemption**
The Trustees consider that The Healthy Living Platform is exempt from the statutory audit requirment for the year.
The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on 16 June 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
......................................... Mr M Marotta Chairman and trustee
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.
The law applicable to charities requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Approved by the trustees of the charity on 16 June 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
......................................... Mr M Marotta Chairman and trustee
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Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of The Healthy Living Plarform
rew)fl the trus9 on my examination ol'ihe accounts ol'The Healihy Living Platforn for the year ended 30
September 2024.
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As the ¢harits' trustees vf 'l'he I1¢alth I,ii"ing Plaifomi you are %nsible for thc preparation of the accounts in
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the A¢1 and in carThing (iul Tll> ¢xJminJiic)n I haie fi)IIoiiL%I all the applicable Directions given bv ihe Charitv
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bod). listed in section 145 of the ACL I confirm ihat l um qualified io undenake the examination kcause l am a
member of the Instiiutc ot-chancrcd Accounianis in England and Wales. hCh 15 on¢ of the listed bodies.
I have completed mv examinalion. I confimi that t)0 maierial rnatiers have come io rny atl¢nlion in connection
wi¢h th¢ examin8¢ion gii'ing me Cause ii) b¢li¢ve that in any material respeci..
arcounling records were not k¢p¢ in re5pert of The Healthy Li¥in8 Plaiforni as required by section 130
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 30 September 2024**
|**Note**
**Income and Endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Other income
Total income
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net expenditure
Net movement in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
9
**Note**
**Income and Endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Total income
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net income
Gross transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
9|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
5,694
51,757
12,824
70,275
(105,172)
(105,172)
(34,897)
(34,897)
150,098
115,201
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
5,288
108,653
113,941
(70,419)
(70,419)
43,522
22,146
65,668
84,429
150,097|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
5,025
390,983
-
396,008
(470,341)
(470,341)
(74,333)
(74,333)
49,635
(24,698)
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
603,612
603,612
(556,831)
(556,831)
46,781
(22,146)
24,635
25,001
49,636|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
10,719
442,740
12,824|
|---|---|---|---|
||||466,283|
||||(575,513)|
||||(575,513)|
||||(109,230)|
||||(109,230)
199,733|
||||90,503|
||||**Total**
**2023**
**£**
5,288
712,265|
||||717,553|
||||(627,250)|
||||(627,250)|
||||90,303
-|
||||90,303
109,430|
||||199,733|
All of the charity's activities derive from continuing operations during the above two periods. The funds breakdown for 2023 is shown in note 9.
The notes on pages 20 to 26 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 17
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## **(Registration number: 1195487) Balance Sheet as at 30 September 2024**
|**Note**
**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
6
Debtors
7
- due within one year
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**
8
**Net current assets**
**Net assets**
**Funds of the charity:**
**Restricted income funds**
Restricted funds
**Unrestricted income funds**
Unrestricted funds
**Total funds**
9|**2024**
**£**
64,932
92,888
46,527
139,415
(113,844)
25,571
90,503
(24,698)
115,201
90,503|**2023**
**£**
83,388
117,091
121,933|
|---|---|---|
|||239,024
(122,679)|
|||116,345|
|||199,733|
|||49,636
150,097|
|||199,733|
The financial statements on pages 17 to 26 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 16 June 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
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.........................................
Mr M Marotta
Chairman and trustee
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The notes on pages 20 to 26 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 18
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## **Cash Flow Statement for the Year Ended 30 September 2024**
|**Note**
**Cash flows from operating activities**
Net cash (expenditure)/income
**Adjustments to cash flows from non-cash items**
Depreciation
**Working capital adjustments**
Decrease/(increase) in debtors
7
Increase in creditors
8
Net cash flows from operating activities
**Cash flows from investing activities**
Acquisitions of tangible assets
**Cash flows from financing activities**
Proceeds from new bank borrowings during the period
Repayment of bank borrowings
Net cash flows from financing activities
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 October
Cash and cash equivalents at 30 September|**2024**
**£**
(109,229)
18,456
(90,773)
41,804
5,624
(43,345)
-
-
(32,061)
(32,061)
(75,406)
121,933
46,527|**2023**
**£**
90,303
24,391|
|---|---|---|
|||114,694
(115,154)
18,711|
|||18,251|
|||(104,500)
32,061
-|
|||32,061|
|||(54,188)
176,121|
|||121,933|
All of the cash flows are derived from continuing operations during the above two periods.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2024**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Statement of compliance**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the second edition of the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice issued in October 2019, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.
## **Basis of preparation**
The Healthy Living Platform meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.
## **Going concern**
The trustees have reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue for the foreseeable future. The charity therefore has adopted the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities when the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## _**Deferred income**_
Deferred income represents amounts received for future periods and is released to incoming resources in the period for which, it has been received. Such income is only deferred when:
- The donor specifies that the grant or donation must only be used in future accounting periods; or - The donor has imposed conditions which must be met before the charity has unconditional entitlement.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Support costs**
Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, for example, allocating property costs by floor areas, or per capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage.
## **Taxation**
The charity is considered to pass the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable company for UK corporation tax purposes. Accordingly, the charity is exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively to charitable purposes.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2024 (continued)**
## **Depreciation and amortisation**
Depreciation is provided on tangible fixed assets so as to write off the cost or valuation, less any estimated residual value, over their expected useful economic life as follows:
**Asset class Depreciation method and rate** Fixtures and fittings 20% on reducing balance Straight-line through lease term ending Leasehold Improvements Dec 2027
## **Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.
## **Fund structure**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2024 (continued)**
## **2 Income from charitable activities**
Grant income includes: Lambeth Made (for Food Ambassadors) £5,000, Lambeth Council (for Household Fund) £85,086, North Brixton Big Local (for Community Kitchen) £11,967, School for Social Entrepreneurs (for Community Kitchen) £8,372, LEAP £51,294, Feeding Britain (for Pantries) £22,440, and Lambeth Public Health (for Pantries) £10,000.
|Grants
Service income
**3**
**Expenditure on charitable activities**
**Note**
Staff costs
Allocated support costs
**Total for 2024**
**Total for 2023**
Support costs
General
Support costs
General|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
-
51,757
51,757
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
60,425
44,747
105,172
70,419
**Activity**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
-
574,012
574,012
**Activity**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
-
622,750
622,750|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
199,473
191,510
390,983
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
220,807
249,534
470,341
556,831
**Activity**
**support costs**
**£**
1,500
-
1,500
**Activity**
**support costs**
**£**
4,500
-
4,500|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
199,473
243,267|
|---|---|---|---|
||||442,740|
||||**Total**
**funds**
**£**
281,232
294,281|
||||575,513|
||||627,250|
||||**2024**
**£**
1,500
574,012|
||||575,512|
||||**2023**
**£**
4,500
622,750|
||||627,250|
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2024 (continued)**
## **4 Staff costs**
The aggregate payroll costs were as follows:
|**Staff costs during the year were:**
Wages and salaries|**2024**
**£**
281,232|**2023**
**£**
292,267|
|---|---|---|
The monthly average number of persons (including senior management / leadership team) employed by the charity during the year expressed as full time equivalents was as follows:
||**2024**||**2023**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**No**||**No**||
|Staff||9||11|
## **5 Taxation**
The charity is a registered charity and is therefore exempt from taxation.
## **6 Tangible fixed assets**
|**Cost**
At 1 October 2023
At 30 September 2024
**Depreciation**
At 1 October 2023
Charge for the year
At 30 September 2024
**Net book value**
At 30 September 2024
At 30 September 2023|**Land and**
**buildings**
**£**
67,196
67,196
16,799
11,858
28,657
38,539
50,397|**Furniture and**
**equipment**
**£**
41,676
41,676
8,685
6,598
15,283
26,393
32,991|**Total**
**£**
108,872
108,872
25,484
18,456
43,940
64,932
83,388|
|---|---|---|---|
Included within the net book value of land and buildings above is £Nil (2023 - £Nil) in respect of freehold land and buildings and £38,539 (2023 - £54,769) in respect of leaseholds.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2024 (continued)**
## **7 Debtors**
|**7**
**Debtors**|||
|---|---|---|
|Trade debtors
Accrued income
Other debtors|**2024**
**£**
71,199
14,468
7,221
92,888|**2023**
**£**
85,407
29,748
1,936|
|||117,091|
## **8 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
|Bank loans
Other taxation and social security
Other creditors
Accruals
Deferred income|**2024**
**£**
-
254
4,033
1,500
108,057
113,844|**2023**
**£**
32,061
7,195
83,423
-
-|
|---|---|---|
|||122,679|
## **9 Funds**
|**9**
**Funds**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Unrestricted funds**
**_General_**
General Fund
Pantries
**Restricted funds**
The Hub
Lambeth Household & Winter
Fund
LEAP
Pantries
Community Kitchen
Food Ambassadors
Co-Create
First 5 Lambeth
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|**Balance at 1**
**October 2023**
**£**
141,349
8,748
150,097
-
10,923
6,451
7,195
18
18,000
7,049
-
49,636
199,733|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
30,146
40,129
70,275
193,013
85,086
51,414
35,350
25,386
3,399
-
2,360
396,008
466,283|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(69,288)
(35,882)
(105,170)
(217,711)
(96,009)
(57,865)
(42,545)
(25,404)
(21,399)
(7,049)
(2,360)
(470,342)
(575,512)|**Balance at 30**
**September**
**2024**
**£**
102,207
12,995|
|||||115,202|
|||||(24,698)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|||||(24,698)|
|||||90,504|
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2024 (continued)**
The negative fund balance of £(24,698) for The Hub is a short-term timing difference which reversed in the next financial quarter. At September 30, 2024, £48,431 of funding for The Hub was recorded as deferred income on the balance sheet. This funding relates to activities which were performed between October and December 2024.
Programs related to the following Restricted Funds ended during the year to September 30, 2024: LEAP, Pantries (Equitix, Feeding Britain, Lambeth Public Health), Community Kitchen (HAF, School for Social Entrepreneurs), Food Ambassadors (Changing Lives, SJP), Co-Create (Turquoise). Funding received for each of these Restricted Funds was fully expended on program related activities.
At September 30, 2024, grant funding received for the following programs was recorded as deferred income on the balance sheet: First 5 Lambeth £2,640, Food Ambassadors (Awards for All £1,676), Lambeth Household Fund £54,914. These programs were on-going at September 30, 2024 with funding conditional on the Charity meeting certain objectives which had not been fully met by that date.
|**Unrestricted funds**
**_General_**
General Fund
Pantries
Garfield Weston Foundation
Lambeth Winter Fund
**Restricted**
The Hub
Lambeth Household &
Winter Fund
LEAP
Pantries
Community Kitchen
Food Ambassadors
Co-Create
The Clothworkers'
Foundation
Changing Lives
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|**Balance at 1**
**October**
**2022**
**£**
47,386
18,435
-
18,608
84,429
6,579
-
11,093
-
-
-
7,329
-
-
25,001
109,430|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
13,513
75,428
25,000
-
113,941
235,390
153,000
105,074
33,648
5,000
20,000
-
44,000
7,500
603,612
717,553|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(11,556)
(33,863)
(25,000)
-
(70,419)
(245,215)
(160,685)
(109,716)
(26,453)
(4,982)
(2,000)
(280)
-
(7,500)
(556,831)
(627,250)|**Transfers**
**£**
92,006
(51,252)
-
(18,608)
22,146
3,246
18,608
-
-
-
-
-
(44,000)
-
(22,146)
-|**Balance at**
**30**
**September**
**2023**
**£**
141,349
8,748
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||150,097|
||||||-
10,923
6,451
7,195
18
18,000
7,049
-
-|
||||||49,636|
||||||199,733|
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2024 (continued)**
## **10 Analysis of net assets between funds**
|**10 Analysis of net assets between funds**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Tangible fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets
Tangible fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
64,932
56,452
(6,182)
115,202
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
83,388
96,091
(29,382)
150,097|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
82,962
(107,660)
(24,698)
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
142,933
(93,297)
49,636|**Total funds at**
**30 September**
**2024**
**£**
64,932
139,414
(113,842)|
||||90,504|
||||**Total funds at**
**30 September**
**2023**
**£**
83,388
239,024
(122,679)|
||||199,733|
## **11 Related party transactions**
There were no related party transactions in the year.
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 30 September 2024**
|**Income and Endowments from:**
Donations and legacies (analysed below)
Charitable activities (analysed below)
Other income (analysed below)
Total income
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities (analysed below)
Total expenditure
Net (expenditure)/income
Net movement in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
10,719
442,740
12,824
466,283
(575,513)
(575,513)
(109,230)
(109,230)
199,733
90,503|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
5,288
712,265
-|
|---|---|---|
|||717,553|
|||(627,250)|
|||(627,250)|
|||90,303|
|||90,303
109,430|
|||199,733|
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## **The Healthy Living Platform**
## **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 30 September 2024 (continued)**
|**_Donations and legacies_**
Donations and legacies
**_Charitable activities_**
Grants
Service income
**_Other income_**
Other income
**_Charitable activities_**
Purchases
Wages and salaries
Sundry expenses
Contractors
Training costs
Rent
Insurance
IT and communications
Print and stationary
Travel and motor
Accountancy and legal fees
Recruitment costs
Bank charges
Depreciation
Cleaning
Marketing
Bad debt expense|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
10,719
10,719
199,473
243,267
442,740
12,824
12,824
(145,874)
(281,232)
(234)
(27,029)
(1,637)
(50,427)
(2,257)
(3,410)
(3,918)
(18,705)
(14,497)
(1,174)
(1,113)
(18,456)
(1,824)
(1,574)
(2,152)
(575,513)|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
5,288|
|---|---|---|
|||5,288|
|||235,221
477,044|
|||712,265|
|||-|
|||-|
|||(171,069)
(292,267)
(1,784)
(36,534)
(4,221)
(37,261)
(3,408)
(6,580)
(4,903)
(10,519)
(25,169)
(2,760)
(560)
(24,391)
(5,478)
(346)
-|
|||(627,250)|
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