## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 February 2024 **To** 31 March 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
Quinton Foodbank
**Charity name** Quinton Foodbank **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1206836 **Charity's principal address** St Boniface Church 48 Quinton Road West Quinton **Postcode** B32 2QD
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Patrick Joseph
Saunders|Chair|1 February 2024||
||Martin John Brooks||14 February2025||
||John Wadman||29 January2025||
||Richard William
Moore|Treasurer|29 January 2025||
||Jonathan Webber||29 January2025||
||Bamidele
Adegboyega
Sotonwa||1 February 2024||
||Elaine Kidney||1 February2024||
||Councillor
Samantha Forsyth||1 February 2024||
||Reverend Rachel
Heathfeld||1 February 2024||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
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**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **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**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Select invitation from existing trustees based on skills/ experience Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- 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**
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**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The prevention or relief of poverty in Quinton and the surrounding areas or such wider area as may seem appropriate from time to time by providing grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty and in particular by providing emergency food supplies and to help those in crisis including signposting to other agencies
||The prevention or relief of poverty in Quinton and the surrounding areas
or such wider area as may seem appropriate from time to time by
providing grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or
charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve
poverty and in particular by providing emergency food supplies and to
help those in crisis including signposting to other agencies|
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|**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)**|The primary activities undertaken by Quinton Foodbank for public benefit
have evolved significantly from simple food distribution to a
comprehensive community support hub.
1. Direct Provision of Essential Aid
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Food Distribution: this is the core activity
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Scale of Support: Supporting over 5,000 individuals per year
currently.
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Essential Supplies: Providing non-food essentials in addition to
food.
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Specialised Food Provision: Responding to specific community
needs by providing halal food for vulnerable asylum seekers and
others.
2. Holistic Support Services
The food bank acts as a gateway to multiple support services addressing
the root causes of poverty and crisis:
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Financial & Debt Support:
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Providing a full-time Citizen Advice advocate.
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Offering a monthly debt advice service.
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Partnering with Christians Against Poverty (CAP).
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Warmth and Utilities:
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Running the Warmer Homes Initiative.
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Providing support through Fuel Action (likely assisting with
energy costs).
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Support for Families:
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Operating a twice-monthly Baby Bank to assist families
with infants.
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Health and Well-being:
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Providing information on a range of Public Health services,
including Mental Health and domestic abuse support.
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Offering a No Smoking clinic.
3. Advocacy and Systemic Change
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Lobbying: Actively campaigning to end the need for food banks by
lobbying the local MP to support the Trussell Trust’s 'Guarantee
our Essentials' campaign.
4. Operational Excellence and Adaptation
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Stock Management: Demonstrating effective and efficient stock
management.
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Securing Resources: Extending the donation network,
commissioning new storage facilities, and successfully applying
for grants.|
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
During the course of the period from 1 February 2024 to 31 March 2025:
- We have 49 Volunteers.
- • We had 5,502 vouchers during that period feeding 3,198 Adults and 2,304 children.
- • We received 34,515kg of food into stock, but this included 8,946kg we purchased. We gave out 32,117kg.
- • We had six supermarket collection campaigns and we collected at the Christmas market in Harborne.
- • We became an Independent Charity with 5 Trustees. • We were successful in obtaining a grant to employ a Citizens advice worker for two years on secondment.
- • We had a year 12 student from St Paul girls school who wanted to support us for her school charity assignment. She did an amazing campaign. She collected gifts and wrapped them in boxes of all sizes with gender and age on them totalling 50. We gave these out to families in the month of December.
- • We also gave out a total of 85 extra Christmas bags to help alleviate the stress that Christmas brings.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The Trustees have discussed and agreed a reserves policy of **Brief statement of the** maintaining appropriate cash reserves sufficient to fund a minimum of 6 **charity’s policy on reserves** months of programme delivery. This policy will be discussed and reviewed annually.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A
## **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);
- 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**
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**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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|||
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||Patrick Saunders|Richard Moore|
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Chair|Treasurer|
||18 December 2025||
||18 December 2025||
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## **Quinton Foodbank**
## **Income and Expenditure Account for the period from 1[st] February 2024 to 31st March 2025**
||**Restricted Funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**Restricted Funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**Restricted Funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**Non-Restricted Funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**Non-Restricted Funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**Non-Restricted Funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**Non-Restricted Funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**All funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**All funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|**All funds**
**Period from 1.2.24 to**
**31.3.25**|
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||||**£**|||**£**|||**£**||
|**Income**|||||||||||
|Donations||||||48,604.38|||48,604.38||
|Gift Aid||||||442.13|||442.13||
|Income from bank
account||||||191.98|||191.98||
|Restricted Grant –
Financial Inclusion|||45,000.00||||||45,000.00||
|Grants||||||18,990.36|||18,990.36||
|TOTAL INCOME|||45,000.00|||68,228.85|||113,228.85||
|**Expenditure**|||||||||||
|Runningcosts||||||(4,312.40)|||(4,312.40)||
|Gifts||||||(153.86)|||(153.86)||
|Foodbank supplies|||||(23,510.01)||||(23,510.01)||
|Office expenses|||||(460.03)||||(460.03)||
|Equipment|||||(1,317.10)||||(1,317.10)||
|Volunteer events|||||0.00||||0.00||
|Legal expenses|||||(583.20)||||(583.20)||
|Payroll costs|||||(27,993.90)||||(27,993.90)||
|Costs of Financial
Inclusion||(11,250.00)|||||||(11,250.00)||
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE||(11,250.00)|||(58,330.50)||||(69,580.50)||
|**Surplus / (Deficit) for**
**theperiod**|||33,750.00||||9,898.35|||43,648.35|
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|**Cash Position**|||||||||||
|Bank balance as at
start ofperiod|||-|||74,662.98||||74,662.98|
|Add Surplus / Less
Deficit|||33,750.00||||9,898.35|||43,648.35|
|**Bank balances as at**
**end ofperiod**|||33,750.00||||||||
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|Bank balances
comprise:|||||||||||
|Current Account as at
31.3.25||||||||||55,869.35|
|Instant Access
Account as at 31.3.25||||||||||62,441.98|
|Total bank balances|||||||||118,311.33||
**Note that the Instant Access account includes £33,750.00 of Financial Inclusion grant (restricted funds). The unrestricted cash balance at 31 March 2025 of £84,561.33 is sufficient to cover 12 months of running costs.**
## **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)**
**Position**|||
|---|---|---|
||Richard Moore|Patrick Saunders|
||Treasurer|Chair|
**Date** 18 December 2025
## Independent Examiner’s Report
Examiner’s unqualified report (for a non-company charity preparing receipts and payments accounts) with a gross income of £250,000 or less in the relevant financial year
## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Quinton Food Bank**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Quinton Food Bank (QFB) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of QFB you are responsible for the preparation 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: Name: Jon Darling Relevant professional qualification or membership of professional bodies (if any): Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Address: 26 Warley Croft, Oldbury, B869JQ Date:30/11/25