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Archive Group – A group of older residents that are documenting the history of the site from a working farm, to a community centre and all the activities in the last 70 years.
Community Circuits –
(above) A community exercise class, no lyrca - no mirrors, run by a professional tutor to get everyone active, we have upto 20 people a week, there are different stations, ball, rower, skipping etc to work all the different muscle groups. The sessions start with a group warm up and finish with a cool down and often end up in the Community Café to socialise after class.
The Community Fridge is operated within the Foodclub, this is primarily aimed at reducing waste, but is often used by local residents to help with their food shopping. We have donations from local supermarkets that are past their Best Before Dates; fresh food including bread and we give this away for free, there is nothing wrong with this food other than it has past it’s arbitrary date.
Community Cycle Hub is run by volunteers to mend and maintain local people’s bikes. We also take in bikes the police find, check them over and lend them out to people that need to get to work or school.
Fortnightly they go on a group bike ride, to the Beach or a Café as both a social gathering and a physical activity.
Our Cutting Hedge project is a service that volunteers offer to vulnerable residents if their gardens need a tidy, the gardening is often performed for a cuppa or maximum of £10, to cover costs.
We also run a Gardening Group getting people outside in the fresh air, together with some gardening guidance and a listening ear. We all benefit from this as they keep the site looking lovely, whist doing something they enjoy. These also use the Community Café to have a drink and socialise.
Healing Melodies Singing Club is to help with breathing, wellbeing and just generally to give a boost to those who wish to come along, it has a mix of ages, abilities, disabilities and has just a lovely friendly vibe, singing popular songs from
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through the years so everyone can identify and join in even if reading is not their thing. Some of the participants even get up and dance at times.
My Youth Club , (left at Bowling in summer) is for 6-12 year olds and runs through out the year, not stopping for school holidays, as the children need the routine and the parents need the break.
There is a paid Youth Worker and the rest of the staff are volunteers. Weekly we offer crafts, games and activities in a safe space, where the children can relax and have fun.
Seated Exercise (below) is for the less physically able but who still need to exercise with a qualified instructor to ensure nobody hurts themselves. This is a wellattended group, with people on oxygen, with dementia, with down syndrome, with visually impaired and others just not quite up to the other classes we run. They love the banter and always leave smiling. We are currently looking at offering this twice a week as it is so well attended and the participants report that they find it very beneficial.
Shrublands Community Café , - (right -Walking Footballers enjoying a cuppa after their game.) The Community Café has been running for ten years and is staffed solely by volunteers. We offer people a place to meet up, a cup of Tea or Coffee are just 70p and we have residents that make their cup of tea last a few hours as it is a warm place to be plus the volunteers chat to them if they wish. The Community Café offers volunteering opportunities to local people, we have had several volunteers progress onto to paid work. We train and support all our volunteers so they all have Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene qualification and we have a 5-star rating from Great Yarmouth Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme.
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The Community Café is small and welcoming, allowing access to computers for those who need to job search or write on their Universal Credit journal. The Community Café is also used by those participating in our other activities, walking football, circuits, craft group and seated exercise who also purchase their drinks in the café which extends their group to also socialise.
The pricing in the Community Café is deliberately low, we know that our local residents do not have much spare money but use the café as a way of seeing other people on their terms.
Shrublands Community Foodclub , this is not a foodbank but based on a Community Supermarket model.
The Foodclub runs on points as some of the food is donated. Residents pay reduced price for their food helping them to stretch their money a bit further. 4 pints of Milk are the equivalent of £1.00, we stock fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy, bread as well as tinned food and snacks.
We work with local suppliers and national schemes such as FareShare and HisChurch, to ensure we can both keep up with demand and keep the prices low. On average we save residents about 30% off their shop, but as well as this we offer that corner shop feel with people happy to chat and this allows us to sign post to all the other organisations and activities that take place locally to ensure that they get the help or advice they need. We have
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volunteers that assist the paid coordinator, ensuring that everything is rooted in the community.
Shrublands Crafters (below) is a group of people that meet in the Community Café have drink and take part in their own Craft, since Covid this has become a way to connect even if your activity is normally quite isolating. One lady bakes and brings in treats, another has made alternative Macmillan crocheted cookies, for those watching their weight. Another lady has made cards to sell in the Foodclub to raise funds.
During Covid 19 when we had to close the Centre, we realised that many of the people we previously supported were at home, scared and struggling. We created the Community Checkers project, where we knocked on residents doors road by road, and spoke to people about help available, and in some cases just chatted. We went all around Gorleston twice, we knocked on every door regardless of whether they were known to us. We dealt with debt, benefits, isolation, bereavement, crime, housing, Covid advice and many other issues. We picked up many people who had no one, and so we started the Social and Wellbeing contact . This is a phone call fortnightly to those who have little to no outside contact, and we have continued this after lock down as those benefiting felt this was very important to them.
Walking Football is a group where the guys play on a Monday morning in the gym, having fun and keeping fit, then adjourn to the Community Café to talk about the game or the Football at the weekend, this is a lively group and banter is good. When one of the men was poorly several went to visit him in hospital, he is now back as referee as he is still not able to play, but enjoys the company.
Wellbeing Group is a group facilitated by a qualified councillor who helps the group work through their issues in a practical way. There is a lady recovering from domestic violence, other issues include confidence, depression, coping with physical health issues, dealing with children especially those with extra needs. This group is only term time, but they meet without the councillor for peer support in the holidays. They also have a WhatsApp group in case they need support during the week.
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What’s On Guide , this is
our local production, many of our residents are not able or do not like to use the internet, so we both put the Guide on the website and produce a physical booklet. We put them in the local library, GP surgeries and churches. We advertise all local groups and activities running at the centre and throughout Gorleston. During Covid 19 we used it as a way to keep in touch with local people as the centre was closed. We have editorial about local issues and submissions from residents about things they are interested in.
Working with Disability
Information and Advice Line – DIAL, another local charity we provide the Work Club , which helps residents with their CV’s and applying for jobs and getting into volunteering, also through our partnership with DIAL we can offer access to financial and benefit advice at our centre instead of the journey to Great Yarmouth.
We also offer Yoga sessions weekly with a qualified instructor, ensuring that there is a kind of exercise that most can join in with.
We are finalising the lease the Solicitors are negotiating the fine details, so we can have the rental income to add to our sustainability.
As well as our activities the Centre is used by a variety of other groups, there is Adult Learning, Arthritis Group, Badminton, Feathers Futures, Fibromyalgia support, Gorleston on Sea Heritage, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Young Carers, Great Yarmouth Dog Training School Green Gym, Lil’ Kickers, NHS Health Checks, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, Pilates, Short Mat Bowls, and Summer School Activities.
We also have agencies working from the Centre Great Yarmouth Borough Council Community Hub, including Early Help, Housing and Communities teams, all work from the centre. As well as Change Grow Live, our local addiction service, Community Legal Team, DIAL who give benefit and debt advice, MIND, NHS Social Prescribers, Norfolk County Council Children and Families Team and Safer Neighbourhood Team.
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Receipts and payments accounts
For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01/04/2022 31/03/2023
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 250 - - - - - - - 175 425 - - - 425 - - - - - - - - - - - - 180 - - - - - - - - - 180 - - - 180 245 - 2,086 2,331 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ 19,066 118,328 920 37,681 - 5,287 25,112 7,903 2,407 216,704 - - - 216,704 637 101,585 1,535 - 1,764 - 309 900 - 450 55,868 13,508 - 390 1,805 - 4,314 12,865 3,230 343 1,075 31 200,609 - - - 200,609 16,095 - 203,256 219,351 |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ 19,316 118,328 920 37,681 - 5,287 25,112 7,903 2,582 217,129 - - - 217,129 637 101,585 1,535 - 1,764 - 309 900 - 450 55,868 13,508 180 390 1,805 - 4,314 12,865 3,230 343 1,075 31 200,789 - - - 200,789 16,340 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
| Donations | 250 | - - - - - - - - - - |
3,527 | ||
| Grants | - | 164,808 | |||
| Savings | - | 1,380 | |||
| Charityshop | - | 911 | |||
| Fund Raising | - | 1,331 | |||
| Subscriptions | - | 3,478 | |||
| Rental income | - | 8,763 | |||
| SMP recovered | - | - | |||
| Other income | 175 | 945 | |||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
425 | 185,143 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Sub total | - | - | |||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| - | 185,143 | ||||
Grantspayable |
- | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
2,090 | ||
| Charityshop/café | - | 3,106 | |||
| PR | - | 1,373 | |||
| Printing& stationery | - | 54 | |||
| Books | - | 1,044 | |||
| Internet | - | 142 | |||
| Telephone | - | 566 | |||
| Cleaning | - | 1,443 | |||
| Refreshments | - | 98 | |||
| Sundryexpenses | - | 586 | |||
| Staff wages,etc. | - | 67,747 | |||
| Workshoptutors | - | 7,025 | |||
| Accountancyfees | 180 | 360 | |||
| Professional fees | - | 30 | |||
| Trips | - | 1,872 | |||
| Uniforms | - | 154 | |||
| Premises expenses | - | 755 | |||
| Start upcosts Food Club | - | 432 | |||
| Repairs and maintenance costs | - | 4,015 | |||
| Recruitment expenses | - | - | |||
| Insurance | - | - | |||
| Rent | - | - | |||
| **Sub total ** | 180 | 92,892 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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Equipment |
- | - - - |
3,063 | ||
| - | |||||
| **Sub total ** | - | 3,063 | |||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| - | 95,955 | ||||
| 245 | - | 89,188 | |||
| - | - - |
- 205,342 |
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| 2,086 | 116,154 | ||||
| 2,331 | - | 221,682 | 205,342 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | the end of the period | |
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| 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 |
Signature Accountancy fees Details Details Shop equipment Bank current account Bank deposit account Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 2,146 29,411 185 189,940 - - 2,331 219,351 OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) Food Club 3,063 - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) Unrestricted - - - - - Print Name B Brackley |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| OK | |||
| Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Current value (optional) |
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| Current value (optional) |
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| When due (optional) |
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| Date of approval |
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| B Brackley | 08/07/2023 | ||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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