# **We Are Humans TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT From 1[st] February 2025 to 31[st] January 2026**
**Charity Name:** We Are Humans
**Registered charity number:** 1201814
**Principal/Registered office:** 33 Sea Road, Bournemouth, BH5 1DH
## **Names of Charity Trustees during the period:**
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Name Office Date appointed or resigned
Andrew Talbot CEO
Paul Feeney
Debbie Talbot Resigned 22 [nd] September 2025
Clive Wingfield
Steve Easter
Ellie Lawrence Resigned 5 [th] December 2025
Maggie Roj
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**Bankers:** HSBC, Crawley, RH10 1UT
## **Type of governing document:** Trust deed
**How the charity is constituted:** Charitable Incorporated Organisation
**Trustee selection methods:** Appointed by existing Trustees
**Objects of the charity:** The prevention and relief of poverty, especially food poverty, by providing food, including cooked food, other essentials and support and advice to those residents of Dorset and surrounding areas who are homeless and/or in financial need.
## **Summary of the main achievements and benefits during the year:**
This is We Are Humans (WAH) charity's third annual report. During the year under review, we consolidated the progress made in the previous year and continued to provide services to our service users, on a regular basis.
Whatever the weather conditions, we managed to provide freshly cooked food and essential items to the vulnerable and homeless every Saturday, Sunday and Monday throughout the year.
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Demand for our services continued to increase over the year and WAH undertook the following activities in the year to 31[st] January 2026:
- Cooked food, which was distributed to homeless persons in the centre of Bournemouth every Saturday and Sunday.
- Cooked food, which was served, as a sit-down meal, to homeless persons at our café in Boscombe every Monday evening.
- Provided a free pensioners' lunch every Tuesday.
- Provided a free children's breakfast on school days. This breakfast is served inside at a table if the child is accompanied by a parent/guardian, or as a packed breakfast to be taken away if not accompanied. We know from asking that most of the children using this service would be going to school without breakfast if it was not provided by WAH.
- Ran our free Community Café, every Saturday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon, a safe space where attendees can have a hot drink and food, play board games or just chat. In cold weather, this is also a warm space.
- Opened our free food pantry where attendees can select a limited quantity of food. This is held once per week on every Thursday throughout the year.
- Stored and distributed food and clothing etc., to be used for those in poverty.
- Stored laundered sleeping bags that are swapped with homeless persons' wet sleeping bags.
- Stored insulated Sleep Pods that are prov id ed o n lo an to rough sleepers,
- as required.
- Gave signposting advice to assist in finding accommodation, employment and
- to break a substance dependency habit.
Emergency food parcels/welfare packages were also given out during the year. These are given to persons in immediate desperate need, usually due to a change in circumstances, who are unable to access immediate help elsewhere. For example, someone who has just become homeless or someone just discharged from hospital or prison, without any money and/or without any accommodation.
As well as allowing two other charities to use our Base, a mutual support group for those in recovery from substance abuse, and a social club for the neurodiverse now also meet on our premises.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with their duty in the Charities Act to have due regard to guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission
**Purchase of our premises:** At the end of 2025, we successfully concluded our negotiations with the landlord to purchase the Base, on favourable terms, and signed a conditional contract to purchase the Base on 22[nd] December 2025. Once the landlord has satisfied the conditions in the contract, completion will take place in late 2026. This will give us much needed security of tenure and allow us to plan for the expansion of our service provision.
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**Financial Review:** During the year we received a grant and a loan, from an unrelated Charitable Trust, to enable us to purchase the Base. The loan is repayable over a twoyear period, and the trustees are confident that we have the capability to repay the loan within the loan period.
Because we prepare our accounts on a “payments & receipts” basis, this one-off loan and grant have distorted the figures. Excluding the grant and loan to purchase the Base, our cash receipts, in terms of donations and non-restricted grants, increased by 33% last year, while our spend (excluding that associated with the purchase of the Base) remained largely static. This reflects the strict control we are able to exercise over our day-to-day running costs.
**Policy on reserves:** The trustees believe that, in the long term, it is prudent to hold unrestricted reserves equivalent to 9 months of expenditure. This is because the trustees recognise that WAH has no regular source of income, and grant funding is fickle as well as usually providing only ring-fenced funding. It is believed that unrestricted reserves equivalent to 9 months of expenditure will give the trustees confidence to continue funding all activities, without putting the charity at financial risk, should there be a downturn in income. The trustees are also confident that WAH will be able to continue to provide our services, free of charge at the point of need and without prejudice or judgment.
**Future plans:** Once we complete the purchase of our Base, we will be able, subject to funding, to re-configure the premises to better meet our current and future needs.
**Declaration:** The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees report above on 22[nd] July 2026.
## **Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees:**
**Signature:**
**Full name: S C Easter Position: Trustee Date: 22[nd ] July 2026**
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||**We Are Humans**
**Charity Name**|**We Are Humans**
**Charity Name**|**We Are Humans**
**Charity Name**|**We Are Humans**
**Charity Name**|**We Are Humans**
**Charity Name**|**1201814**
**No (if any)**|**1201814**
**No (if any)**|**1201814**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**||1 February2025
Period start date||**To**||31 January 2026
Period end date|||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**12,003**
**19,344**
**9,749**
**895**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,991**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,991**
**6,000**
**4,058**
**10,897**
**4,539**
**755**
**144**
**7,965**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**60,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**120,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**120,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**72,003**
**19,344**
**9,749**
**895**
**60,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,991**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,991**
**6,000**
**4,058**
**10,897**
**4,539**
**755**
**144**
**7,965**
**-**
**34,358**
**10,000**
**848**
**10,848**
**45,206**
**116,785**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Grants|**12,003**||||||||**1,780**|
|Donations into Bank Account|**19,344**||||||||**22,905**|
|Cash donations|**9,749**||||||||**6,724**|
|Bank deposit interest|**895**||||||||**-**|
|Loan received|**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**41,991**||||||||**31,409**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**31,409**|
|||||||||||
|Rent|**6,000**||**-**||**-**||**6,000**||**5,312**|
|Utilities & waste collection|**4,058**||**-**||**-**||**4,058**||**4,638**|
|Food etc|**10,897**||**-**||**-**||**10,897**||**9,813**|
|Vans|**4,539**||**-**||**-**||**4,539**||**868**|
|Mileagepayments|**755**||||**-**||**755**||**2,985**|
|Bank and credit card charges|**144**||**-**||**-**||**144**||**1,175**|
|Miscellaneous|**7,965**||**-**||**-**||**7,965**||**98**|
||||**-**||**-**||||**1,655**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**34,358**||**-**||**-**||**34,358**||**26,544**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|Deposit onproperty purchase|**-**|||||||||
|Other|**848**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**848**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**26,544**|
|||||||||||
||**6,785**||||||
**116,785**||**4,865**|
||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
||**22,948**||||||**22,948**||**18,083**|
||**29,733**||||||
**139,733**||**22,948**|
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under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
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