## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 21 07 22 **To** 20 07 23
## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** Community Hands
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1196911
**Charity's principal address** 29E Station Road Queensferry Deeside **Postcode CH5 1su**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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|**Section B**|**Structure,**||**governance and management**||
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|Trustee selection methods||Appointed by existing|||
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## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
- You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its governing**
**document**
**Summary of the main activities**
**undertaken for the public**
**benefit in relation to these**
**objects (include within this**
**section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit)**|The prevention and relief of poverty in the Flintshire and Cheshire district
council area for those in need, especially the homeless, vulnerable and
families in crisis, by providing compassionate and practical help including:
advocacy, housing advice, career coaching, education and services to
individuals and the provision of items to those in need.|
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||We have an impact on those who are struggling with less opportunities in
life and those who lack life skills, experience and guidance by offering
taster courses in expenditure and financial knowledge, curriculum and arts
and crafts. We also support with the development of individual capabilities,
competences, skills and understanding. We also offer support with CV, job
searches and additional training courses to further clients skills.
We offer the provision of items such as food, furniture, clothing, toiletries,
white goods, heating appliances and bedding. We offer advice and
guidance and also advocate in meetings for clients that need extra support
or clients that struggle to express themselves correctly and help them
understand the outcome of a meeting and what is expected of them.
We offer support with financial hardship helping with hospital transport
travel expenses to earn their living, utility top ups e.g. Electric, gas and
mobile phone top ups. We have an outreach team that go out on the
streets every week to support our street Homeless beneficiaries and we
offer the provisions of food, drinks, essential clothing and sleeping bag
and blankets to help our homeless in the community.
We offer weekly craft and skill building courses for anybody that is at a
loose end, struggling with mental health issues, in isolation or loneliness.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
Some of our beneficiaries have been supported into accommodation from **Summary of the main** being homeless. **achievements of the charity** Some beneficiaries have benefitted from drug and alcohol rehabilitation **during the year** and interventions and are now leading a prosperous life with a better understanding on life goals and targets. Some of our beneficiaries have got into full time employment and keep in regular contact with the charity and also give back when they can to help others still in need. We are supporting families and individuals to be able to feed the whole family or themselves so they are not skipping meals or becoming ill and are also living in clean and sanitised environments. We have brought individuals from our community including those with different ethic back grounds together and they have formed friendships so this stops the exclusion and isolation in the area. We have provided trips on a budget to enable families and individuals that are less fortunate in our community to enjoy and embrace other areas away from their usual community. We have prevented loneliness and isolation with events and courses and also coffee mornings to gain feedback and a better understanding of what our beneficiaries want see happen or ideas of future events. We have been Supported to help our beneficiaries by successfully securing grants and funding to enable the charity to deliver our daily achievements. We have supplied countless provision of items to our street homeless community to enable them to eat, keep warm and survive harsh weathers. We have supported beneficiaries and there families in may meetings and supported others with understanding and filling important documentation.
## **Section E Financial review**
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**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity reserves are constantly going up and down on a monthly basis due to donations and grants being made and expenditure for essential items. All trustees are responsible for making decisions on all money spent and decide what is classed as essential emergency funds to support our beneficiaries.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
The charity has no funds which are materially in deficit.
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
The charity runs solely on donations and grants to help support local beneficiaries in our community and also to run our day to day office and all trustees voluntarily run the charity with some help from volunteers selected by the trustees. We also run fundraising events through out the year.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
A Evans **Signature(s)** K Jones Arwel Thomas Evans **Full name(s)** Kelly Ann Jones **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 29/05/24
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