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2022-06-30-accounts

Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period

From: 9th September 2021

To: 30th June 2022

Charity name: Orinoco – The Oxfordshire Scrapstore

Charity registration number: 1195735

Company number:

Objectives and activities

SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document		 Para 1.17 The provision of facilities for recreation and
other leisure time occupation for children,
young people and adults with special needs
being facilities:
a) of which such children have need by reason
of their age or social and economic
circumstances
b) which will improve conditions of life for
such children and adults by promoting their
educational, physical, mental, or spiritual
wellbeing
To promote the use of waste things as
playthings.
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		 Our principal activities are:
•running a ‘scrapstore’ (often known as a
children’s scrapstore or art scrapstore) where
unwanted items from businesses and
householders are sold at negligible cost to
facilitate artistic endeavour and creative play.
•running a garden and workshop tool re-use
project.
•providing activity sessions at our headquarters
and in the community, utilizing our van, “The
Amazing Scrapmobile”.
•providing leaders to run creative play events in
the community.
•running workshops and training sessions for
students,teachers, playworkers and others.
Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit		 Para 1.18 Yes

Additional information (optional)

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

SORP reference

SORP reference
Policy on grantmaking Para 1.38 Orinoco does award grants. Orinoco uses the
money raised through our two scrapstores to
provide free support to teachers, parents, and
art workers in the community. Orinoco does not
have an investment programme as our turnover
is small and all available funds are used to fund
the organisation’s work.
Policy on social investment
including program related
investment		 Para 1.38 Orinoco’s policy in social investment is
fundamentally focused on social capital.
Orinoco focusses on engaging the community in
activities using discarded materials and through
these activitiesparticipants relate to each other.
Contribution made by
volunteers		 Para 1.38 Volunteers are vital to Orinoco’s work. Orinoco
have volunteers at all levels: collecting goods
destined to landfills, serving in the scrapstores,
running outreach activities, running the café and
workshops. Training events and working on the
management committee is another way
volunteers contribute to the work of the charity.
This last year (December-21 to June-22), the
team and the charity were the recipients of
2,565 hours of volunteer work.
Other Central to Orinoco’s work is its contribution to
the minimisation of discarded goods and
materials going to landfill. This year Orinoco
have been consistently recording the amount (in
weight – kilograms) of goods and materials
gathered to be reused by the charity and the
public via the scrapstore and workshops.
Orinoco collected 4,168.25 kgs that were
destined togo to a landfill.

Achievements and performance

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 • Orinoco became a CIO in September 2021.
Thus, officially the charity started working
since September 2021. However, in reality,
due to the opening of a new scrapstore in
Banbury, Oxfordshire the charity started to
serve the public on 1stDecember 2021.
• Orinoco is operating, currently, out of two
sites: one in Oxford City and the second in
Banbury, Oxfordshire
• Orinoco Banbury, throughout all this last year
has had the opportunity to make its presence
known in the town’s high street. The location
has helped the organisation become known in
a new site (Banbury opened its doors in
December 2021).

• Orinoco Banbury started developing a network of relationships with the council and other organisations. • The revenues generated by the two Orinoco sites have been phenomenal and has contributed to providing part-time, employment for 6 people in Banbury and Oxford and able to rent larger space to ‘house’ the Banbury store. • Orinoco’s volunteers come from all walks of life. • The changes up to now represent a big leap, in comparison to the three previous years. • Before December 2021 the charity could only generate income to employ a part-time member of staff and rent a small room in a community centre. The location was not accessible to all. • Orinoco Oxford opened later in the year. New premises were secured. Orinoco was ceded leased space, for free, in one of the retail centres in the city. Orinoco is bound to pay utilities only. • Orinoco in Oxford attended the annual green fair in city hall, green meetings organised by other local charities, and the annual fair at Swann School to raise awareness of recycling, reuse and reduce, as well as Orinoco’s work in this area. • 55 children's art packs created and given to local food bank to distribute to food bank users.

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Achievements against
objectives set		 Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set		 Para 1.41 Team in Banbury carried out a raffle for the
jubilee rug/quilt made by the team raised £606
in total in May 2022.
Team held several workshops including junk
journaling, overlocker introduction, jewellery
making and a second session for original sewing
machine group.
Investment performance
against objectives		 Para 1.41
Other The new premises in Banbury came with space
to set upa café which is another opportunityto

raise the charity’s profile, raise funds and diversify income stream and to have a space to carry out meetings with different groups.

Financial review

Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period		 Para 1.21 During this year, the remarkable work done by
Orinoco’s part-time staff, trustees and
volunteers have allowed the charity to triple the
revenues, compared to 2018-19 (the year before
the pandemic). The foreseeable future will be
challenging, due to the high levels of inflation
and energy costs. Everybody at the charity is
willing to operate within our means and grow as
the revenues allow it.
Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held		 Para 1.22 The charity does not have a wide-ranging policy
on reserves. This financial year, the charity
decided to put on reserve the equivalent to
approximately3 months’ operation costs.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 Unrestricted funds £61.672.00 and Restricted
funds £15,106.00 – The trustees approved to
keep in a savings account £32,000 to be used in
case of charityfolding.
Reasons for holding zero
reserves		 Para 1.22
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 The charity is facing some uncertainty regarding
the retention of trustees. Currently, Orinoco has
the minimum 3 trustees; however, the amount
of work is becoming untenable for 3 trustees
who are so on a part-time basis.
The challenge for the coming year is the
recruitment of other trustees who can share the
burden of the charity’s tasks.

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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)		 Para 1.47 The charity’s main source of sales income, as
stated above, is the scrap stores in Banbury and
Oxford.
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 The cost-of-living crisis may influence footfall
and sales. This reality may impact Orinoco with
less revenues. Currently, Orinoco has
employment obligations and y may not be able
to secure premises in a timely fashion.
If scrap store is not open, the charity does not
have any revenues.
The location of the new, larger, shop may not be
ideal which may impact on the store’s footfall
and sales.
Other

Structure, governance and management

Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc		 Para 1.25 Constitution
How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
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 Trustees are approached and invited to be
trustees.

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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees		 Para 1.51
The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works		 Para 1.51 The charity is managed by a committee made up
of the trustees and ordinary committee
members.
Day to day running of the charity’s activities is
managed by the management committee, two
employed store managers, three assistant store
managers and an outreach person and its
volunteers.
Orinoco maintains strong links with District, City
and County councils in Oxfordshire.
Orinoco is a small charity with limited turnover
and no borrowingor investment requirements.
We are fully insured. We have procedures in
place to counter fraud, to safeguard vulnerable
adults and children, to look after health and
safetywhile at the charity’spremises.
Relationship with any related
parties		 Para 1.51
Other The CIO Charity, this one, was ‘born’ as a result
of changing category of charity. Orinoco, the
Oxfordshire Scrapstore was founded in 1994 as a
foundation charity. After all these years, this
type of charity did not fit the charity’s work
purposes. Trustees applied to the Charities
Commission to change the charity from a
foundation charity to a CIO. This was granted on
7thSeptember 2021. The charity began
operations in December 2021.

Reference and administrative details

Charityname Orinoco - The Oxfordshire Scrapstore
Other name the charityuses ORINOCO
Registered charitynumber 1195735
Charity’s principal address Bullingdon Community Centre Peat Moors Headington, Oxford,
Oxfordshire Postcode OX3 7HS

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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2
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9		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
year		 Name of person (or body)
entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
Zohra Fatima
Jenkinon		 ---------------- ---------- ---------
Victor Lal --------- --------- ---------
Marlen Ivette Llanes --------- --------- ---------

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– 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		 N/A
Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects		 N/A
Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets		 N/A

Additional information (optional)

Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)

Type of
adviser
Name
Address		 Type of
adviser
Name
Address		 Type of
adviser
Name
Address
Accountant Sheila Parry SPX Oxford Ltd, Accounting and bookkeeping services for the
not-for-profit sector, Peace House, 19 Paradise Street, Oxford,
OX1 1LD

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 company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors

Marlen Llanes Signature(s) Zohra Jenkinson Full name(s) Zohra Fatima Jenkinson Marlen Ivette Llanes Position (for example Secretary, Chair, etc) Trustee Trustee Date 27.03.2023

THE OXFORDSHIRE SCRAPSTORE
Charity Name		 THE OXFORDSHIRE SCRAPSTORE
Charity Name		 THE OXFORDSHIRE SCRAPSTORE
Charity Name		 1195735
No (if any)
For the period
from		 07/09/2021
Period start date		 To 30/06/2022
Period end date
Section A Receipts and payments Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
41,327
18
42,712
2,844
3
21,911
-


108,815
-
-

-
108,815
2,528
-
361
-
394
448
-
180
-
9,900
24,754
94
139
1,538
2,908
-
99
681
2,844
275
-
47,143
-
-
-
47,143
61,672
-
-
61,672		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
-
-
17,633
-
-
-
-
17,633
-
-
-
17,633
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,527
2,527
-
-
-
2,527
15,106
-
-
15,106		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Total funds
to the nearest £
41,327
18
60,345
2,844
3
21,911
-
126,448
-
-
-		 Last year
to the nearest £
Sales 41,327 -
Donations 18 -
Transfer fromprevious charity 42,712 -
Grants 2,844 -
Interest 3 -
Other 21,911 -
- -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)

108,815		 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
Restrictedgrant -
-
 -
~~Sub total~~
-		 -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
126,448 -
2,528
-
361
-
394
448
-
180
-
9,900
24,754
94
139
1,538
2,908
-
99
681
2,844
275
2,527
49,670
-
-
-
49,670
76,778
Administration 2,528 -
Bank Fees - -
Van Expenses 361 -
E-commerce Fees - -
Van Insurance 394 -
Event 448 -
Buildingand LiabilityInsurance - -
Phone 180 -
Van Diesel - -
Rent 9,900 -
Staff Salary 24,754 -
Transportation for volunteer 94 -
Volunteer subsistence 139 -
Business Rates 1,538 -
Utilities 2,908 -
Café expenses - -
Outreach expenses 99 -
Staff travel and subsistence 681 -
Small equipment 2,844 -
Payroll / accountingfees 275 -
Electrical repairsproject - -
Sub total 47,143 -
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
-
61,672 15,106 - 76,778 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
61,672 15,106 - 76,778 -

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

15/07/2023

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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
Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
Savings Account
Business Account
Signature
Zohra Jenkinson		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
53,463
-
8,209
15,106
-
61,672
15,106
OK
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Print Name
Zohra Jenkinson		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
Zohra Jenkinson Zohra Jenkinson 28.02.23

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

15/07/2023

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/
members of
On accounts for the
period ended
Set out on pages		 Charity Name
ORINOCO - THE OXFORDSHIRE SCRAPSTORE		 Charity Name
ORINOCO - THE OXFORDSHIRE SCRAPSTORE		 Charity Name
ORINOCO - THE OXFORDSHIRE SCRAPSTORE
30/06/2022 Charity no
(if any)		 1195735
3-4
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/06/2019

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 (“the 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(5)(b) of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Date: 14/07/2023 Signed: Name: Sheila Parry Relevant professional FCCA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: SPX Oxford Ltd, Peace House 19 Paradise Street OX1 1LD

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October 2018

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to 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 .

None

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