## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 1 November 2024 **To** 31 October 2025 **Charity name** : Moorland Foodbank **Charity registration number:** 1211198 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of Moorland Foodbank are the
relief of financial hardship amongst people
in Southern Exmoor in such ways as the
Trustees from time-to-time think fit, in
particular, but not exclusively by:
1.
Providing emergency food, essential
toiletries, and household items to
individuals and families in need
and/or for distribution by charities or
other organisations working to
prevent or relieve poverty
2.
Providing grants, information and
advice to individuals in need and/or
charities or other organisations
working to prevent or relieve food
poverty, and addressing surplus
food waste;
3.
Undertaking and supporting
research into factors that contribute
to food poverty and the most
appropriate ways to mitigate these;
and
4.
Such other means, including (but
not limited to) the provision of
support or signposting to relevant
information and other advisory
services.| |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|Moorland Foodbank has provided food,
essential toiletries, and household items to
individuals and families in need each week
this year, serving between 6 and 12
individuals and families each week
Moorland Foodbank has also adapted and
improved our building in order to allow its
use as a community hub and a centre for
community learning.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance|Para 1.18|The trustees have had regard to the Charity
Commission’s guidance on public benefit| issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **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|Moorland Foodbank has provided food,
essential toiletries, and household items to
individuals and families in need each week
this year, serving between 6 and 12
individuals and families each week
This has allowed recipients to feed their
families adequately in the short term, whilst
we also signpost them to other resources
to allow their food resilience to improve
Moorland Foodbank has also adapted and
improved our building in order to allow its
use as a community hub and a centre for
community learning. This will enable the
wider benefits of outreach to the
community to improve food resilience| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set |||| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity’s financial position is sound,
holding reserves of approximately £8300 by
comparison with annual income of about
£22500| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|A formal reserves policy was adopted by
the trustees on 31 July 2026| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£8300| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|At present there is no reason to believe that
the charity cannot continue as a going
concern| ## **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|
Funds are received both from grants from
public sector sources and grant making
charities, and from smaller donations from
individuals and voluntary groups| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Our investment policy has not yet been
developed| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Fixed costs of operating the charity are
about £8000 per year.
Thus the charity is not viable if that amount
cannot be raised. To date, fundraising has
not presented significant issues
The other main risk is recruiting and
retaining sufficient volunteers to allow full
operations| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution of the CIO| |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|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.
(2) In selecting individuals for appointment
as charity trustees, the charity trustees
must have regard to the skills, knowledge
and experience needed for the effective
administration of the CIO.| ## **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|
The charity trustees will make available to
each new charity trustee, on or before his
or her first appointment:
(a) a copy of the current version of this
constitution; and
(b) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’
Annual Report and statement of accounts.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Moorland Foodbank| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|-| |Registered charity number|1211198| |Charity’s principal address|Riverside Centre, Kemps Way, Dulverton,TA22 9HL,
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||John Preston|Chair||| ||Hugh Forster|Treasurer||| ||Rosalind Matthews|Secretary and
volunteer
coordinator||| ||Ian Matthews||Resigned 19 April 2026|| ||Frances Nicholson|||| ||Allison Crisp||Resigned 14 May 2025|| ||Nicola Stenner|||| ||Arabella Beatson-
Hird||from 14 May 2025|| ||Jacqueline Archer||From 9 April 2025|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **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)** J. H.Preston Hugh Forster HUGH FORSTER **Full name(s)** JOHN PRESTON **Position (eg Secretary,** CHAIR TREASURER **Chair, etc)** **Date** 12[TH] AUGUST 2026 |**Moorland Foodbank**|**Moorland Foodbank**|**Moorland Foodbank**|**1211198**| |---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||| |**For the period**
**from**|11/1/2024|**To**|10/31/2025| ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations|**9,329**||**-**||**-**||**9,329**||**-**| |Grants|**7,780**||**4,000**||**-**||**11,780**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**17,109**||**4,000**||**-**||**21,109**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |Foodpurchases|**-**||||||||**-**| |Volunteers expenses|**633**||||||||**-**| |Premises costs|**18,678**||||||||**-**| |Publicitycosts|**919**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**20,230**||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**- 3,121**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**9,722**||||||||**-**| ||**6,601**||||||||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 8/12/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Cash at bank
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**|Cash at bank
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**6,601**
**-**
**-**
**6,601**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**6,601**
**-**
**-**
**6,601**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,683**
**-**
**-**
**1,683**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,683**
**-**
**-**
**1,683**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||OK| ||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||Office equipment etc||Equipment||**605**||**-**| ||Display stands||Equipment||**330**||**-**| ||Riversde Centre||Freehold Building||**1,500**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||Signature||Print Name||||| ||||||||Date of
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