## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period** **From: 01 July 2023** ## **To: 30th June 2024** **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 facilites for recreaton and
other leisure tme occupaton for children, young
people and adults with special needs being
facilites:
a) of which such children have need by reason
of their age or social and economic
circumstances
b) which will improve conditons of life for
such children and adults by promotng their
educatonal, 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 actvites are:
running a ‘scrapstore’ (ofen known as a
children’s scrapstore or art scrapstore) where
unwanted items from businesses and
householders are sold at negligible cost to
facilitate artstc endeavour and creatve play.
running a garden and workshop tool re-use
project.
providing actvity sessions at our headquarters
and in the community, utlizing our van, “The
Amazing Scrapmobile”.
providing leaders to run creatve 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|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grantmaking|Para 1.38|Orinoco does not have a formal grant making
policy. Orinoco uses the money raised through
our two scrapstores to provide free support to
teachers, parents, and art workers in the
community. Orinoco’s contributon is in kind
(scraps to use and staf’s tme). Orinoco does not
have an investment programme. O our turnover
is small, and all available funds are used to fund
the organisaton’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
actvites using discarded materials and through
these actvites partcipants relate to each other.| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Volunteers are vital to Orinoco’s work. Orinoco
have volunteers at all levels: collectng goods
destned to landflls, serving in the scrapstores,
running outreach actvites, running the café and
workshops. Training events and working on the
management commitee is another way
volunteers contribute to the work of the charity.
During the fnancial year (1JUL23-30JUN24), the
team and the charity were the recipients of
11,336 hours of volunteers’ work. Volunteer
hours increased by15% duringthisperiod.| |Other||Central to Orinoco’s work is its contributon to
the minimisaton of discarded goods and
materials going to landfll. 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 and reused 21,974 kgs that
were destned to go to a landfll. The charity
managed to increase percentage of weight
reused by12.7%.| |**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 scrapstore is operatng, currently, out
of two sites: one in Oxford City and the second
in Banbury, Oxfordshire
Orinoco Banbury throughout last year has
contnued to be engaged in community
actvites. Orinoco is recognised by town
residents. The current locaton helps the
organisaton being the frst place to visit when
it comes to handcraf and used gardening
materials.
Orinoco Banburyhas contnued developinga| |||network of relatonships with the council and
other organisatons.
The revenues generated by the two Orinoco
sites have been signifcant. These funds have
allowed the charity the provision of part-tme
employment to 8 in Banbury and Oxford.
In additon, these revenues permit the
organisaton to rent space to house the
Banbury store.
Orinoco’s volunteers come from all walks of
life.
This year has been challenging. The more well-
known the charity becomes, the more we are
asked by residents, other local charites, and
local authority representatves to increase our
work in the community.
However, the charity is not able to expand
substantally. Such a step will require a
signifcant increase of its revenues.
Orinoco in Oxford atended the annual green
fair in city hall, green meetngs organised by
other local charites, and the annual fair at
Swann School to raise awareness of recycling,
reuse and reduce, as well as Orinoco’s work in
this area.
Orinoco increased hours volunteered by
almost 11.5 thousand person-hour.
Also, the amount of discarded material going
to landfll and collected by Orinoco tripled.

Children's art packs created and given to local
food bank to distribute to food bank users.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Team held several workshops including junk
journaling, overlocker introducton, jewellery
making and a second session for original sewing
machine group.
The team in Banbury provided support to home
schooled children on a regular basis, one session
per week.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||The new premises in Banbury came with space| to set up a café which is another opportunity to 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-tme staf, trustees and
volunteers allowed the charity to be able to
almost break even. Thus, reserved funds have
not been touched. The foreseeable future will be
challenging, due to the high levels of infaton
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 fnancial year, the charity
decided to put on reserve the equivalent to
approximately3 months’ operaton costs.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Unrestricted funds £77,642 and Restricted funds
£11,641 – 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 has contnued to face uncertainty
regarding the retenton of trustees. Orinoco has
the minimum 3 trustees; however, the amount
of work is becoming untenable for 3 trustees
who are so on a part-tme basis. At tmes the
responses needed are not as swif as they are
required.
The challenge for the coming year is the
recruitment of other trustees who can share the
burden of the charity’s tasks.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
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|Para 1.46|N/A| |social investment policy
adopted||| |---|---|---| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The cost-of-living crisis has impacted footall and
sales during this fnancial year. This reality
meant that Orinoco had less revenues than the
previous. Currently, Orinoco has employment
obligatons and y may not be able to secure
premises in a tmely fashion.
If scrap store is not open, the charity does not
have any revenues.
The locaton of the new, larger, shop may not be
ideal which may impact on the store’s footall
and sales.
The store is Banbury is facing vandalism during
the nights and weekends.
Both stores, in Banbury and Oxford, have
experience increasing shoplifing and store
managers and assistant managers face verbal
abuse.| |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|Consttuton| |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.| |||| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| ||Para 1.51|The charity is managed by a commitee made up
of the trustees and ordinary commitee| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works||members.
Day to day running of the charity’s actvites is
managed by the management commitee, two
part-tme employed store managers, and fve
part-tme assistant store managers and an
outreach person, plus volunteers.
Orinoco maintains strong links with District, City
and County councils in Oxfordshire.
Orinoco is a small charity with limited turnover
and no borrowing or investment requirements.
Orinoco is fully insured. We have procedures in
place to counter fraud, to safeguard vulnerable
adults and children, to look afer health and
safetywhile at the charity’spremises.| |---|---|---| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||The CIO Charity, this one, was ‘born’ when
trustees changed category of charity. Orinoco,
the Oxfordshire Scrapstore was founded in 1994
as a foundaton charity. As of 2020s, this type of
charity did not ft the charity’s work purposes.
Trustees applied to the Charites Commission to
change the charity from a foundaton charity to
a CIO. This was granted on 7thSeptember 2021.
Afer opening a new premises in Banbury,
Oxfordshire the charity began operatons 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** |1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Marlen I Llanes|----------------|----------|---------| ||Zohra Jenkinson|---------|---------|---------| ||Victor Lal|---------|---------|---------| 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 – 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 Name Address adviser** ||Accountant|Sheila Parry|SPX Oxford Ltd, Accountng and bookkeeping services for the
not-for-proft 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** **Signature(s)** Marlen Llanes Victor Lal **Full name(s)** Marlen Ivette Llanes Rajesh Victor Lal **Position (for example** Trustee Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 14.04.2025 **Charity Name THE OXFORDSHIRE SCRAPSTORE** **No (if any) 1195735** **CC16a** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Sales
**148,624**
Donations
**-**
Events
**610**
Transfer fromprevious charity
**-**
Grants
**-**
Interest
**355**
Other
**1**
**-**
**149,590**
**Restrictedgrant**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 149,590**
**A3 Payments**
Administration
**1,588**
Grant expenditure
**-**
Van Expenses
**516**
Van Insurance
**499**
Event
**31**
Buildingand LiabilityInsurance
**1,433**
Phone
**309**
Van Diesel
**-**
Rent
**29,000**
Staff Salary
**107,648**
Transportation for volunteer
**10**
Volunteer subsistence
**931**
Business Rates
**4,389**
Utilities
**5,865**
Café expenses
**1,497**
Outreach expenses
**48**
Staff travel and subsistence
**331**
Small equipment
**2,974**
Payroll / accountingfees
**1,135**
Electrical repairsproject
**-**
Raisingfunds
**66**
Trustee expenses
**390**
**Sub total 158,663**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total payments 158,663**
**Net of receipts/(payments) - 9,073**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**86,715**
**Cash funds this year end 77,642**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**Sub total**(Gross income for AR)
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,247**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,247**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,247**
**- 1,247**
**-**
**12,888**
**11,641**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**148,624**
**-**
**610**
**-**
**-**
**355**
**1**
**-**
**149,590**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**149,590**
**1,588**
**1,247**
**516**
**499**
**31**
**1,433**
**309**
**-**
**29,000**
**107,648**
**10**
**931**
**4,389**
**5,865**
**1,497**
**48**
**331**
**2,974**
**1,135**
**-**
**66**
**390**
**159,910**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**159,910**
**- 10,320**
**-**
**99,603**
**89,283**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**148,624**|**145,904**| ||||**-**|**300**| ||||**610**|**900**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**355**|**106**| ||||**1**|**868**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**149,590**|**148,078**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**149,590**|**148,078**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,588**|**1,546**| ||||**1,247**|**3,184**| ||||**516**|**1,066**| ||||**499**|**397**| ||||**31**|**4,056**| ||||**1,433**|**1,016**| ||||**309**|**153**| ||||**-**|**30**| ||||**29,000**|**12,818**| ||||**107,648**|**78,736**| ||||**10**|**206**| ||||**931**|**2,820**| ||||**4,389**|**6,451**| ||||**5,865**|**6,529**| ||||**1,497**|**2,177**| ||||**48**|**689**| ||||**331**|**401**| ||||**2,974**|**1,650**| ||||**1,135**|**1,013**| ||||**-**|**8**| ||||**66**|**-**| ||||**390**|**307**| ||||**159,910**|**125,253**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**159,910**|**125,253**| |||||| ||**- 1,247**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 10,320**|**22,825**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**12,888**||**99,603**|**-**| ||**11,641**||**89,283**|**22,825**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Savings Account
Business Account
Co-op account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
Marlen Llanes
Victor Lal
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**26,276**
**-**
**50,765**
**11,641**
**600**
**-**
**77,642**
**11,641**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Marlen Ivette Llanes
Rajesh Victor Lala
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||Marlen Llanes|Marlen Ivette Llanes|14.04.2025| ||Victor Lal|Rajesh Victor Lala|14.04.2025| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name ORINOCO - THE OXFORDSHIRE SCRAPSTORE **members of On accounts for the** 30/06/2024 **Charity no** 1195735 **period ended (if any) Set out on pages** 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: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 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. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Date:** 15/04/2025 **Signed: Name:** Sheila Parry **Relevant professional** FCCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** SPX Oxford Ltd, Peace House 19 Paradise Street OX1 1LD **October 2018** 1 **IER** ## **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** None **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**