THE HAMPER APPEAL Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Registered in England & Wales Charity number 1204009
Trustees’ Annual Report
For the Year Ended 31 December 2024
Since The Hamper Appeal was incorporated and registered as a charity on 17 July 2023, this first report covers the period from that date up to and including 31 December 2024.
Contents
Contents.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1 Objectives and activities.........................................................................................................................................................................................................1 Achievements and performance....................................................................................................................................................................................3 Financial review................................................................................................................................................................................................................................4 Structure, governance and management............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Reference and administrative details......................................................................................................................................................................5
Objectives and activities
Charitable objects
Our charitable objects, as stated in our Constitution are:
For the public benefit, the relief of families in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other social or economic disadvantage within the United Kingdom in such ways as the trustees see fit, including but not limited to, facilitating the provision of seasonal food hampers.
Mission statement
Our mission statement is simple:
Helping families celebrate together!
Public benefit
It is our firm belief that the inclusion of families who are most at risk of hardship in our collective celebrations is of significant immediate benefit to the families themselves and should be expected to benefit our wider society through the vicarious joy of collaborative generosity.
Outputs
The temporary relief of food insecurity and financial hardship during the holiday season is an immediate result from our events. Holiday hunger is a well recognised phenomenon that disproportionately affects families with children receiving free school meals during term time. Lack of access to childcare and societal expectations to buy increasingly more unaffordable gifts further escalate the need we hope to meet.
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Outcomes
By working through our frontline partners who have nominated these families, we further facilitate the work they are engaged in year-round as they seek to restore families to a position of:
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Love - experiencing the care of others without selfish interest
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Provision - sustainably fed, clothed and sheltered
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Justice - treated fairly and protected from abuse
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Dignity - significantly contributing towards their own welfare and that of others
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Inclusion - integrated and appreciated within the community
Impacts
Indirectly, the longer term demonstrable contribution to wider society we hope to see includes:
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Families feeling included in our celebration opening a door to further restoring work.
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Our network of partners are inspired by their experience to pursue further opportunities to support charitable enterprises.
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The churches and food banks who have led these events have a greater reforming voice in the community.
Activities
Our primary activity is to establish and support collaborations between local churches and food banks to promote and deliver seasonal appeals that provide food and seasonal goodies to local families so that they can celebrate together.
The key elements of our strategy to implement the above are as follows:
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To promote collaboration between
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Local churches with the vision and resources to coordinate finite commitment (or ‘pop-up’) appeals and
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Local food banks with the expertise and connections to support a credible public relations campaign.
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To guide the establishment of support networks made up of other local churches and charities, agencies and businesses and other community organisations who will commit to and deliver on specific pledges of practical help including:
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Nominating families
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Collecting food
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Recruiting volunteers
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Raising funds
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To provide an easily scalable suite of resources and support to empower local appeals to deliver successful hamper projects including:
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An easily recognisable brand including tailored logos and a style guide.
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Promotion through our website, communication channels, a direct marketing campaign and local media strategy.
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Limited access to our data system with a library of relevant information, email, CRM and project management tools.
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A programme of remote technical support and training events. Plus onsite expert advice during delivery days.
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A bespoke ‘Hamper App’ to support deliveries along with associated data processing and KPI generation software.
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Literature includes a seasonal greeting card that celebrates the list of local partners and provides an opportunity for the host church to include a message of hope from the Bible.
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To resource our operations through an ambitious fundraising strategy including:
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Applications to grant award bodies
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Growing a base of regular donors
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Promoting local ‘Sponsor A Hamper’ campaigns
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To build a team of experienced and resourceful staff who are able to maintain and develop a national network of direct and indirectly supported appeals.
The trustees would like to confirm that they have had full regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit when establishing these objectives and activities.
Achievements and performance
During the period covered by this report, the Hamper Appeal has facilitated two collaborative Christmas events between Citygate Church and Bournemouth Foodbank.
Bournemouth Christmas Hamper Appeal 2023
A partnership of 75 organisations supported an event that helped a total of 778 people celebrate Christmas with their families through the delivery of 200 hampers across Bournemouth on Fri 22 Dec 23. Each hamper contained 3-days of food and seasonal goodies including a whole chicken, fresh veg and a Christmas card with a message of hope from the Bible and a £10 toy voucher.
22 different agencies made 225 nominations. 11,000 items of food were collected by 40 different groups or bought thanks to the generosity of others. 259 people volunteered their time to help including 19 teams working in shifts and a fleet of 72 vehicles to make sure hampers full of hope were delivered to the door. A total of £10,750 was raised to support the event and our ongoing efforts to help families celebrate together.
“Thank you so much! This is amazing and perfect, and it’s made our Christmas!” — Recipient, as they were handed their hamper
Bournemouth Christmas Hamper Appeal 2024
A partnership of 78 organisations supported an event that helped a total of 730 people celebrate Christmas with their families through the delivery of 200 hampers across Bournemouth on Mon 23 Dec 24. Each hamper contained 3-days of food and seasonal goodies including a whole chicken, fresh veg and a Christmas card with a message of hope from the Bible and a £10 toy voucher.
27 different agencies made 232 nominations. 10,600 items of food were collected by 38 different groups or bought thanks to the generosity of others. 316 people volunteered their time to help including 19 teams working in shifts and a fleet of 64 vehicles to make sure hampers full of hope were delivered to the door. A total of £11,187 was raised to support the event and our ongoing efforts to help families celebrate together.
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“Thank you so much. We can look forward to Christmas now!”
— Mother of two, as they were handed their hamper
Financial review
Payments and receipts are analysed by activity rather than by nature. Since this report covers a period greater than 12 months, the finances have been separated into individual years.
| 2023 | 2024 | Total | |
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| Receipts | |||
| Voluntary receipts | £ 5,503 |
£ 6,157 |
£ 11,660 |
| Total receipts | £ 5,503 | £ 6,157 | £ 11,660 |
| Payments | |||
| Costs of charitable activities | £ (361) |
£ (1,269) | £ (1,630) |
| Purchase of fixed assets | £ (60) |
£ (60) | |
| Total payments | £ (421) | £ (1,269) | £ (1,690) |
| Grand total | £ 5,028 | £ 4,942 | £ 9,970 |
It is important to note that the budget for individual events that the Hamper Appeal supports are held locally with one of the collaborating organisations. For both events in this reporting period, this was Citygate Church. Those event funds are not included here, but included in as restricted funds in the relevant charity’s reporting.
Income overview
Once the new charity had opened a bank account, it received an initial start-up gift of £3,211 from Citygate Church’s restricted fund. This money had been accrued through a Sponsor A Hamper campaign to develop the hamper appeal ministry as it originally was.
Since then, the majority of the charity’s income has come from Sponsor A Hamper campaigns aligned with each event.
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2023 - £3,400 of sponsorship was received from 73 donors
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2024 - £4,120 of sponsorship was received from 90 donors
A few one-off gifts that fell outside these campaigns and a single regular giver have made up the rest of our income.
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Spending overview
Our overheads were relatively low for the period as we do not require space or staffing at this time. The majority of our spending was towards the maintenance of our online services (website, workspace and CRM tools.).
Assets
At the end of the reporting period, the charity holds £9,970 in unrestricted funds and a few items of IT hardware.
Reserves policy
The Hamper Appeal has well in excess of 6-month operating costs in reserve. This puts us in a good position to consider expanding to more than one event per year, by recruiting our first employed team member.
Structure, governance and management
The Hamper Appeal is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) governed in accordance with our constitution:
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The Hamper Appeal is governed and managed by the board of trustees with fixed terms of service.
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Edward Briggs (Chair) [term ending 16 Jul 27]
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David Brown [term ending 16 Jul 26]
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Asha Rebekah Carroll [term ending 16 Jul 27]
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Daniel David Killington [term ending 16 Jul 28]
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Dominic Wong [term ending 16 Jul 26]
Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
Reference and administrative details
Charity Name: The Hamper Appeal
Charity number: 1204009 (Registered in England & Wales)
Office Address:
Citygate Centre 138a Holdenhurst Rd Bournemouth BH8 8AS
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This report is submitted on behalf of the trustees:
Edward Briggs Chair of Trustees 31 Oct 25
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Document ID: 253034811151041
Charity Name No (if any) THE HAMPER APPEAL 1204009
Receipts and payments accounts
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For the period Period start date Period end date To from 17/07/2023 31/12/2024
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
Endowment funds
Total funds
Last year
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A1 Receipts
| Voluntary receipts | - | 11,660- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 11,660- | - | -- | ||||||||||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | - | 11,660- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 11,660- | - | -- |
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| **Total receipts ** | - | 11,660- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 11,660- | - | -- | ||||||||||
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| Costs of charitable activities | - | 1,630- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 1,630- | - | -- | ||||||||||
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
31/10/2025
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| **Sub total ** | - | 1,630- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 1,630- | - | -- |
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| Purchase of fixed assets | - | 60- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 60- | ||||||||||||
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| **Sub total ** | - | 60- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 60- | ||||||||||||
| **Total payments ** | - | 1,690- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 1,690- | - | -- | ||||||||||
| **Net of receipts/(payments) ** | - | 9,970- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 9,970- | - | -- | ||||||||||
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| **Cash funds this year end ** | - | 9,970- | - | -- | - | -- | - | 9,970- | - | -- | ||||||||||
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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| B1 | Cash funds | General Fund held with Co-operative Bank | - | 9,970- | - | -- | - | -- | |||||||
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| Total cash funds | - | 9,970- | - | -- | - | -- | |||||||||
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
31/10/2025
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CCXX R3 accounts (SS)
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| Asha Carroll | 10/31/2025 |
B5 Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
CCXX R4 accounts (SS)
31/10/2025
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