## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/01/2023 To 31/12/2023**
**Charity name: The Waffle Hub Community Cafe**
## **Charity registration number: 1202214**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|For the public benefit, the prevention or relief
of poverty in Burnham On Sea & Highbridge,
and the surrounding area, by means of:
•
the provision of free meals;
•
support with cookery and meal
preparation;
•
signposting to relevant information
and other advisory services;
•
the provision of basic catering
training and basic IT skills training for
improved employability.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Operation of the Waffle Hub Community
Café and associated activities for the public
benefit|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have regard to the Charity
Commission guidance on Public Benefit and
plan their activities to ensure that they
comply with the guidance.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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||SORP reference||
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|We do not give grants|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|We do not invest in social programs|
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|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Volunteers provide their time to enable the
Hub to operate when open.|
|Other||N/A|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|The Hub has been operation for at least 3
days a week for the year. For six months we
have been able to open on 5 days a week
utilising grants received.
We're not just a café; we're a friendly
neighbourhood hub hosting:
Citizens Advice Somerset (CAB)
10am to 1pm /every Monday
Digital/IT Support & Advice
12pm to 2pm - every Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday
Community Employment Hub
10am to 12pm / 2nd Monday of month
Homeless & Rough Sleeper Nursing Service
9.30am to 11.30am /every Tuesday
Somerset Sight Support Group
10.30am to 12pm / 3rd Tuesday of month
Burnham & Weston Energy - Advice
10am to 12pm / 3rd Tuesday of month
Versus Arthritis - Advice
10am to 12pm / 3rd Tuesday of month
Somerset Carers’ Support Group
10am to 11.30am / 4th Tuesday of month
Free Cooking Classes*
3.30pm to 5pm /every Tuesday - term time
only
Spark’s Digital Cafe
10am to 12pm /every Wednesday
Clothes Bank
10am to 2pm /every Wednesday
The Repair Cafe
10am to 1pm / 1st Wednesday of month
Knit’n’Natter
2pm to 4pm /every Wednesday
All these activities are free of charge for
public benefit. On average we are serving
and supporting between 25 and 30 people a
day.
We operate a ‘Pay-it-forward’ scheme to
provide free meals to the homeless and
marginalised.|
Cooking classes are provided free of charge to people of all ages and backgrounds. We have been recognised for our work by our Hub manager being awarded the Mayors Civic Award.
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity is reliant on café income and
grant funding. A surplus of £1,962 from café
activities will be used to continue the growth
of our activities.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|See attached|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£4,195 (unrestricted) £12,840 (restricted)|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|We continue to rely upon grant funding and
café income.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Café income and grant funding|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Loss of grants|
|Other||N/A|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||The Waffle Hub Community Café|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust Deed / Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|By recommendation and agreement of
existing trustees in accordance with the
provisions of the constitution|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|Safeguarding and DBS checks
Trustee induction includes statutory
guidance from the Charity Commission|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|N/A|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|The Methodist Church are landlords|
|Other||N/A|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Waffle Hub Community Cafe|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|The Waffle Hub|
|Registered charity number|1202214|
||Charity’s principal address|The Methodist Church
College Street
Burnham-on-Sea
TA8 1AS|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Rev Steven
Andrew Bennett|Treasurer|||
||Rev Robert William
Howlett||||
||Ms Caroline
Elizabeth King||01/12/23||
||Mrs Elizabeth
Helen Bennett||||
||Mr John Kempton||||
||Mr Geoffrey Harold
Stait||||
||Marian Josephine
Kingsbury||||
||Rev John Oriel
James|Chair|||
||Ms Alison Conrad||||
## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
**None**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
|---|---|---|
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|**None**|||
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**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this N/A falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets N/A from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|Auditor|Mrs Rebecca Hill|7 Danum Drive, Plymouth PL7 1QL|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
N/A
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc) **
**Date**|||
|---|---|---|
||Rev Robert William Howlett|Rev Steven Andrew Bennett|
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Chair|Trustee|
||18/09/2024||
||18/09/2024||
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||Trustees||
|---|---|---|
|Elizabeth Bennett||Steven Bennett|
|Robert Howlett||JohnJames|
|JohnKempton||MrsMarianKingsbury|
|GeoffreyStait||AlisonConrad|
|CarolineKing|||
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Totalsthis||Totalslast|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|SECTION A||Funds|Funds|year||year|
|a1RECEIPTS|Note||||||
|a2CafIncome||13,231||13,231||4,178|
|a3BankinterestandInvestmentincome|||||||
|a4Donations
a5Otherreceipts
a6TOTALRECEIPTS||2,934
1,834
17,999|17,499
17,499|2,934
19,334
35,498||(a7)||1.983
2,965
9,125]|
|SECTIONB|||||||
|b1PAYMENTS|||||||
|b2Food Purchased||5,163|237|5,399||1,255|
|b3Equipment
b4Consumeables||4,266
493|4,423|8,689
493||444
70|
|Utilities (lnsurances, internet,
b5heating &lighting+rent)||5,107||5,107||83|
|b6Homeless
b7Otherpayments
b8TOTALPAYMENTS||460
549
16,037|4,660||460
549
20,696|(b9)|72
4,968
6,892|
|SECTION C|||||||
|NETRECEIPTS/PAYMENTS
c1FORTHEYEAR|(a6-b8)|1,962|12,840|14,802||2,233||
|c2
Totalfundsbroughtforwardfrom
|lastyear||2,233||2,233|(c6)||
|c3|Subtotal|(c1+c2)|4,195|12,840|17,035||2,233|
|CATransfersandadjustments|||||(c7)||
|c5TOTALFUNDSATENDOFYEAR|(c3+c4)|4,195|12,840|17,035||(c8)|2,233(c6)|
|SECTION D|
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|FORINFORMATIONONLY:MONEYRECEIVEDANDPASSEDONTOEXTERNALORGANISATIONS|
|d(theseamountsarenottobeincludedintotalreceipts/paymentsfigures|
|d1Balancebroughtforwardfromlastyear|
|d2Offerings/Gifts-receivedforexternalorganisations|
|d3lOfferings/Giftspassedtoexternalorganisations|
|d4BALANCESTILLTOBEPAID
(d1+d2-d3)|
|FoodPurchased||RestrictedFunds|RestrictedFunds|Unrestricted Funds|Unrestricted Funds|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|WaffleHub|Hub
CookeryJan-Aug||||4.958.63
39.95
25.95|
||||||16.42|
||||||28.88|
||||||32.43|
||||||17.66|
||||||42.78|
|CookeryGrant|||43.45
20.09|||
||||34.59|||
||||71.45|||
||||22.00|||
||||44.95|||
||||236.53||5,162.70|
|||RestrictedFunds||Unrestricted Funds||
|Equipment
Waffle Hub|Hub
CookeryEquip
DigitalScales
XWSITGrant||||3.177.64
1,014.98
24.00
49.03|
|CookeryGrant|Fridge
Oven||149.00
698.00|||
||OvenPlates||195.29|||
||CookeryEquip
OvenElectrics||341.98
538.80|||
|ITGrant|||2,500.00
4,423.07|£|4.265.65|
|||RestrictedFunds||UnrestrictedFunds||
|Utilities
WaffleHub|Rent||||4,650.00|
||Internet||||457.10|
|||£|||5,107.10|
|||RestrictedFunds||UnrestrictedFunds||
|Other
Waffle Hub|Advertising
CardFees||||46.03
24.34|
||Homeless||||202.14|
||Training||||276.00
548.51|
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