## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date
**From**
01 04 2023
**To**
31 03 2024
## 1 Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Holy Trinity Foodbank Stroud Green
**Registered charity number** 1198265
**Charity's principal address** c/o 149 Mount View Road
London
**Postcode** N4 4JT
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Trustee name Office Dates acted if not for whole year Name of person
(if any) (or body) entitled to
appoint trustee
(if any)
1 Ms Stephany Ungless Chair
2 Ms Diana Francis
3 Mr Mark David Cortacans
4 Ms Yvette Rathbone
5 Mr Deepesh Thobhani Appointed 5 October 2023
6 Ms Catherine Margaret Drysdale Appointed 5 October 2023
7 Mr Lee Alexander Arnot Appointed 5 October 2023
8 Mr Ryan McIntosh 14 July 2022 to 5 October 2023
9 Mr Dennis Bury 16 March 2022 to 13 April 2023
10 Ms Alice Kadel 16 March 2022 to 13 April 2023
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## **2 Structure, governance and management**
Holy Trinity Foodbank Stroud Green (HTF) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered on 16 March 2022. It is governed by its constitution of the same date and not since amended.
## **3 Objectives and activities**
**Objective of HTF**
The objective of HTF is to relieve poverty in the London Borough of Haringey and surrounding area by providing short-term emergency food supplies to those in financial hardship
HTF distributes food and other supplies to clients every Sunday. The majority of the goods distributed are purchased from donated funds. We also collect food surplus and donated items from supermarkets and other organisations. We aim to welcome all members of the public who are in financial need; **Summary of the main** the only requirements, for longer term help, being confirmation of that **activities undertaken to** need and a certain proximity to the food bank. **further the charitable purposes of HTF for the** Our clients are referred to us by agencies and can also self-refer if they **public benefit** find themselves in financial crisis and need our help. Where we can, we also direct clients to agencies or other sources of assistance (e.g. fuel poverty support, school uniform grants) with the objective of supporting clients to rise out of food poverty. As travel can be expensive and time consuming, where it is felt the client can be better helped by a food bank nearer to their address, they will be signposted to that food bank. **Statement of compliance with** The trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on **trustees’ duty to act for the** public benefit in the execution of their duties during the financial year and **public benefit** since the year end.
## 4 Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** In our second year of operation as an independent charity, we have **achievements of HTF during** consolidated our activities – defining more clearly our catchment area **the year** and bases for providing emergency food supplies. In the past year, we have fed adults and children from more than 280 distinct households, focussing on distributing nutritious food and continuing to work with other food supply partners to receive surplus food, particularly fresh fruit and vegetables. Our client base is a mix of ethnicities, races, faiths, genders, ages and abilities, and includes those with no recourse to public funds as well as those in receipt of benefits and workers in insecure (e.g. zero hours) or low-waged employment. We help those who live alone as well as those in large, multi-generational households.
Funded by donations and grants, we have been able to supply every individual or family who has approached us for help with not just ambient food, but also toiletries, baby supplies and nappies, and some household goods such as cleaning products or laundry detergent. We have an amazingly supportive and ever-expanding group of local volunteers who help us collect and deliver supplies, set up sessions and serve clients.
## **5 Financial review**
Reserves are that part of a charity’s unrestricted funds that is freely **HTF’s policy on reserves** available to spend on any of the charity’s purposes. HTF maintains free unrestricted reserves to provide a level of working capital that protects the continuity of our core work, i.e. the provision of short-term emergency food supplies.
The Trustees consider £15,000 (equating to 3 to 4 months’ supply of food plus £5,000 contingency) as an appropriate reserve.
The Finance Committee monitors bank balances and progress against the Annual Financial Plan on a monthly basis and, if forecasts based on current distributions indicate that the bank balance may be reduced below target reserves of £15,000, the Finance Committee will consult with the Food Supplies Co-ordinator to consider whether the contents of the ‘standard bag’ distributed to clients should be reduced. The Finance Committee will also initiate actions to apply for emergency funding to protect the scale of operations.
At least annually, the Board of Trustees will review the target level of free reserves.
## **6 Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** STEPHANY UNGLESS **Full name(s)** Stephany Ungless **Position** Chair **Date** 12 October 2024
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Charity Name No (if any)
Holy Trinity Foodbank Stroud Green 1198265
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/04/2023 31/03/2024
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations 24,300 - - 24,300 42,049
Grants - 4,993 - 4,993 5,222
Gift Aid 3,105 - - 3,105 -
Interest 515 - - 515 94
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
27,920 4,993 - 32,913 47,365
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 27,920 4,993 - 32,913 47,365
A3 Payments
Foodbank supplies 18,190 3,953 - 22,143 15,128
Grocery vouchers 3,413 - - 3,413 4,400
Premises and other 1,217 - - 1,217 339
Fixtures and equipment 492 - - 492 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 23,312 ] 3,953 - 27,265 19,867
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 23,312 3,953 - 27,265 19,867
Net of receipts/(payments) 4,608 1,040 - 5,648 27,498
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 27,498 - - 27,498 -
Cash funds this year end 32,106 1,040 - 33,146 27,498
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
06/01/2025
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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**
Storage units
Tables
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Grocery vouchers
Credit with voucher supplier
**Details**
Savings accounts
Current account
**Details**
Computer equipment
Signature
STEPHANY UNGLESS|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**30,800**
**1,040**
**1,306**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,106**
**1,040**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**300**
**-**
**635**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
STEPHANY UNGLESS|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|
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||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
12/10/2024|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
06/01/2025
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Holy Trinity Foodbank Stroud Green **On accounts for the year Charity no ended** 31 March 2024 **(if any)** 1198265 **Set out on pages** (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 **DD / MM / YYYY** .
**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._
**Signed:** LINDA REICH **Date:** 11 DEC 2024 **Name:** LINDA REICH **Relevant professional** CA **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
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Address: 3 PRIORY GARDENS
LONDON
N6 5QY
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**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 any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**October 2018**
2
**IER**