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2025-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Period start date Period end date 01 04 2024 31 03 2025

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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
6 Ms Catherine Margaret Drysdale
7 Mr Lee Alexander Arnot
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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

Summary of the main activities undertaken to further the charitable purposes of HTF for the public benefit

HTF distributes food and other supplies to clients every Sunday. The majority of the goods distributed are purchased from donated funds. We also collect and receive food surplus from supermarkets and other organisations.

We aim to welcome all members of the public who are in financial need; the only requirements being confirmation of that need and, for longer term help, a certain proximity to the food bank.

Statement of compliance with
trustees’ duty to act for the
public benefit		 Our clients are referred to us by agencies and can also self-refer if they
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, if 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.
The trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on
public benefit in the execution of their duties during the financial year and
since the year end.

4 Achievements and performance

Summary of the main In the past year, we have given nearly 3,500 bags of food to more than achievements of HTF during 240 distinct households, focussing on distributing nutritious food and the year 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 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 dedicated group of local volunteers who help us collect and deliver supplies, set up sessions and serve clients.

5 Financial review

HTF’s policy on reserves

Reserves are that part of a charity’s unrestricted funds that is freely 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 £10,000 (equating to approximately 2 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 £10,000, 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 16 July 2025

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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
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from 01/04/2024 31/03/2025
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 21,544 - - 21,544 24,300
Grants - 5,230 - 5,230 4,993
Gift Aid 4,520 - - 4,520 3,105
Interest 666 - - 666 515
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Sub total (Gross income for
26,730 5,230 - 31,960 32,913
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 26,730 5,230 - 31,960 32,913
A3 Payments
Foodbank supplies 26,134 3,150 - 29,284 22,143
Grocery vouchers 3,803 - - 3,803 3,413
Premises and other 357 2,080 - 2,437 1,217
Fixtures and equipment 687 - - 687 492
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Sub total [ 30,981 ] 5,230 - 36,211 27,265
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 30,981 5,230 - 36,211 27,265
Net of receipts/(payments) - 4,251 - - - 4,251 5,648
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 33,146 - - 33,146 27,498
Cash funds this year end 28,895 - - 28,895 33,146
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at 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
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets		 Signature
STEPHANY UNGLESS
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Date of
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16/07/2025

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

25/08/2025

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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 31 March 2025.

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.

Signed: LINDA REICH Date: 21 November 2025 Name: Linda Reich Relevant professional CA qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: 3 Priory Gardens London N6 5QY

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 .

October 2018

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