2024-03-31-accounts - Cleckheaton Foodbank

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		Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
		From	Period start date			To	Period end date
			01	April	2023		31	March	2024

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Cleckheaton Foodbank

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1198915

Charity's principal address Cleckheaton Methodist Church Mortimer Street Cleckheaton Postcode BD19 5AR

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year

Josie Pugsley	Chair of Trustees
Janet Balmforth		07 October 2023 onwards
Stephen Dinsmore	Treasurer
Marian Olsen
SallyWallace














Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

CIO Foundation Constitution adopted 21 October 2021 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Foundation CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Trustee committee for a term of 3 years by a resolution at a Trustee selection methods properly constituted meeting. (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

The charity operates in several teams of volunteers who perform different You may choose to include functions. For example there is a client liaison team which deals with additional information, where referrals and requests for help, and each session at the foodbank is run by relevant, about: a regular team under a session leader.

policies and procedures All volunteers receive an induction and are given access to all policies and adopted for the induction and procedures that the charity has in place, such as health and safety, training of trustees; equalities, safeguarding, food safety etc.
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

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The prevention or relief from poverty and hardship among people living in Cleckheaton and surrounding area, particularly but not exclusively by the provision of emergency parcels of food and other necessary consumer goods required by individuals and families in need.

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The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit when planning activities.

The charity’s main activity is running an emergency foodbank. Anyone in need can refer themselves and we also receive referrals from local agencies. A referral form is completed by the client liaison volunteer on duty that day or by the referrer from an agency and beneficiary details are stored on a secure spreadsheet.

The foodbank operates on 3 days per week when teams of volunteers pack and deliver parcels to beneficiaries at their homes.

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)

Information packs on where beneficiaries can find further help on such matters as debt, longer term food support, benefits and job seeking are included with the first parcel that a beneficiary receives and on occasions a client liaison volunteer refers a beneficiary directly to another agency.

These activities help relieve poverty and hardship by enabling beneficiaries to feed themselves and their families. They also help people move on to longer term solutions once the immediate crisis is resolved. We normally limit the number of parcels a beneficiary can receive to 6 within a 6 month period.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

We have a fantastic team of about 50 volunteers who fulfil varying roles and Trustees are very grateful to all of them. The foodbank could not run without the time, skills, energy and dedication of all our volunteers.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The charity has been able to support all those who have come to us for help during the year thanks to our generous local supporters who continue to bring us donations in kind, and all our funders who have shown their support and their trust in us by making grants to us.

We distributed a total of 1597 parcels during the period of this report. This represents approximately 400 separate households.

We have continued to attract a fantastic group of volunteers without whom none of this could have been achieved and have become established in our local community and are now well known and respected by local people.

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Section E Financial review

We aim never to go below reserves of 3 months running costs

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

none

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 highest percentage of our income is grants from various sources, supplemented by individual donations and gifts in kind (food).

91% of our expenditure this year was on food which was then delivered to our beneficiaries thus relieving poverty.

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

Signature(s)

Full name(s) Josephine Pugsley Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc)

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Date 13 December 2024 TAR Maich 2012

Cleckheaton Foodbank 1198915 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period 4/1/2023 3/31/2024 To from

Section A Receipts and payments

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Donations 26,869 - - - - - - - 26,869 - - Sub total - Total receipts 26,869 A3 Payments Food 30,540 Rent 1,570 Insurance 297 Fridge 90 Phone 153 Event 117 Stationary 487 Bankcharges 74 Nimbox 96 ToiletRoll 36 Carrier Bags 73 Hampers 500 Sub total 34,033 - - Sub total - Total payments 34,033 Net of receipts/(payments) - 7,164 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end - Cash funds this year end - 7,164 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 £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds	to the nearest £ Endowment funds	Total funds to the nearest £ 26,869 - - - - - - - 26,869 - - - 26,869 30,540 1,570 297 90 153 117 487 74 96 36 73 500 34,033 - - - 34,033 - 7,164 - - - 7,164	Last year to the nearest £
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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 Cash in Bank Details Details Details Details Signature *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	to nearest £ to nearest £ 34,617 - - - - - 34,617 - Agreement Error OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Stephen Dinsmore 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
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			Date of approval
		Stephen Dinsmore	9/23/2024

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name Cleckheaton Food Bank members of

On accounts for the year ended

31st March 2024	Charity no (if any)	1198915

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: Date: 3rd December 2024 Name: Adam Driver ACMA CGMA Relevant professional Chartered Institute of Management Accountants qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: 16 Greenfields Way, Burley in Wharfedale, Ilkley, LS29 7RB

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

IER