2024-03-31-accounts - New Pasture Lane Community Centre

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New Pasture Lane Community Centre Registered Charity No: 700442 Annual Report 2024

Notice of

Annual General Meeting

to be held at

New Pasture Lane Community Centre on

Thursday July 11[th] at 1pm

All Welcome

The Agenda

Welcome and Apologies
Introduction
Managers’ Report
Life Changing Testimonies
Pantry Report
Use of Volunteers
Achievements
Supporting Food Poverty
Other Project Reviews
Annual Statement of Accounts and Approval of Accounts (Auditor).
Close

Introduction

The Trustees present this annual report together with the audited financial statements and accounts to present at the end of year meeting to all trustees, the CEO and the volunteer staff. This is to show all are achievements of the year and the 2024-25 future road map.

Objectives and aims.

The basic objectives of the charity are to offer support, help and relief to those who need it.

Our mission is to promote, enable and facilitate inclusive activities, which embrace and address the education, training, employment, welfare, mental health, social, cultural, and recreational needs of the local community and town. To help relieve poverty amongst persons in conditions of need, hardship, and distress.

To also assist vulnerable people through providing social wellbeing, support, guidance and designed to improve their conditions of life.

The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 in pursuance of its public objective and that the commission may from time to time revise any guidance issued under this section.

Managers’ Report

Known as New Pastures Lane Community Centre, we exist to serve the NEW PASTURE LANE HOUSING ESTATE AND SURROUNDING AREAS OF BRIDLINTON NORTH HUMBERSIDE to build a stronger community amongst the residents. Our charitable objectives include:

To assist vulnerable people through providing social wellbeing, support, guidance and designed to improve their conditions. To promote, enable and facilitate inclusive activities, which embrace and address the education, training, employment, welfare, mental health, social, cultural, and recreational needs of the local community and town. Our mission is to provide affordable, convenient, dependable services and events to enhance the lives of our community and support positive health and growth, we aim provide learning experiences for the local community using a non-judgmental support system the local community can trust. Isolation exists and causes great anxiety for some of our residents, we create social gatherings to help elevate this issue

To prove help, support, and hope to those who need it. To help relieve poverty amongst persons in conditions of need, hardship, and distress. The area of benefit for our charity is: NEW PASTURE LANE HOUSING ESTATE AND SURROUNDING AREAS OF BRIDLINTON NORTH HUMBERSIDE.

We run The New Pasture Lane Community Centre, which previously housed a Pre-School for 28 years, formally known as New Pastures Pre-School. When the new trustees took over in September 2022 the place had not had any community projects happen for nearly 17 years and the community spirit was lost and no longer there. The goal of the new trustee’s was to re-ignite the community spirit and fetch back the community centre in full swing. We had a goal to provide a safe and affordable place for community activities to take place, including activities for all ages.

Not even two years later, New Pasture Lane Community Centre hosts everything from Monday Crafty

Club, a Breakfast Tuesday providing low-cost breakfast to help with the cost-of-living crisis to a Mum & Baby Breakfast group to support new mums and babies to be social and have access to a free continental breakfast, We are in partnership with Real Aid and other agencies to help provide Free and low cost food to a community that is existing in a deprived area of Bridlington and struggling with the cost of living crisis. We run projects that include a free lunch which is in partnership with Do it For Yorkshire funding, we have just completed three of these lunch projects and cooked over 350 meals per project which goes towards the 369 meals that we dish out each month. Along with the 300 food parcels that our pantry shop provides each month. We are open now Monday-Friday 9am-4pm and run projects across all 5 days which fight the constant tackle of food poverty and providing support positive mental well-being.

We have identified in the past 19 months that the need for support for the local community residents just kept coming and the numbers began to rise daily, and these people live near and in the surrounding areas of New Pasture Lane estate.

With recent suicide cases now rising in the area, we want to be able to reduce this by continuing to host our projects and providing secure services amongst the local community who struggle with mental health and food poverty.

The following issues have been identified through hosting our projects:

1) Increase in poverty due to external factors (increase in food prices, import tariffs, which will be passed onto consumers).
2) Loss of jobs/income levels reduced, due to redundancy and short term zero-hour contracts
3) Increased in stress, mental health issues, domestic abuse
4) Economic uncertainty.
The Covid-19 pandemic which led to people being isolated within there homes and feared socialising in case they became ill. Unfortunately, this stigma still stands and people are still cutting themselves off from others due to fear and uncertainty. This has a huge impact upon mental health and well-being that provides loss of motivation and with double impact of the cost-of-living crisis.
People are losing confidence in their government due to the mass increase in inflation which is leaving them to make hard choices between heating their homes and feeding themselves due to extortionate food prices.
Increasing rents and low minimum wage is making it more difficult for people to keep their homes.

New Pasture Lane Community Centre is noticing a weekly increase of the people that we are helping. A community centre that was once upon a time helping and supporting its local community residents on New Pasture Lane Easte has now become the only charity within the top area of Bridlington North and Old Town. The figures of our community residents are set to rise when the two housing estates close by are erected and complete.

We know from the feedback we receive most days that a big majority of the local community are finding it difficult to make ends meet and feed their families, they are suffering from isolation too due to the nearest town centre being 2 and half miles away, there is nothing nearby to attend to be social and help them socialise with others. We have endless testimonies on how the community centre provides a safe environment that people feel like they belong and how it has been life changing to be able to access the services we provide.

I could not begin to imagine what life would for the New Pasture Lane Community if we did not provide them with the support they need. This is why New Pasture Lane Community Centre will continue to tackle food poverty and positive mental well-being through the projects and services that it offers.

We have an amazing team who work with unwavering passion to support and help their community with the problems that food poverty is causing. I personally for one, would not know where I would be without them. The work we do is far too much for one person alone, it takes a small army to provide the large problems with a solution.

Kate Batten, BA (Hons) & Abigail Sturdy

Managers of New Pasture Lane Community Centre

Life Changing Testimonies

When the new trustee’s first took over the centre the incomings were £2,111 for that tax year. Today thanks to amazing funders, public donations and create ways to earn income the incoming for tax year 2023-24 have exceeded this amount of being £62,884.54. This has helped contribute massively to the life changing projects and allowed New Pasture Lane Community Centre to grow from strength to strength in the past 24 months.

We are so proud to have changed so many lives and collect some wonderful testimonies along the way.

qi giffgaff 10:50 AM < New Pasture Lane Com Jan 29, 2024 12:57 Q&J Submission Date Submission Date Jan 29, 2024 12:57 Age Range Age 25-35 years What is your gende Female How has visiting New Pasture Lane Community Centre made life better for you? I goto the breakfast club on a Tuesday with some parents from school and my 2 year old daughter. The staff are so friendly and welcoming just helps getting out for a morning to such a wonderful and pleasant place to go Suggestions if any for further improvement: Absolutely none needed Will you be willing to recommend us?

•• giffgaff 3:18 PM 47% < New Pasture Lane Com Jun 11, 2024 13:26 Submission Date Age Range 66 years + What is your gender? Female Can you share how New Pasture Lane Community Centre has improved your life? It has given me a reason to come out of the house. I have made some really lovely friends who are now like family What was life like before you started visiting the community centre? The only time I left the house was to take me dog for a walk, and once a week when I went and did my shopping. Really my life was very boring Would you recommend the community centre to others? Yes

•1 giffgaff 10:50 AM < New Pasture Lane Com Jan 29, 2024 17:28 Submission Date Submission Date Jan 29, 2024 17:28 Age Range Age 46-55 years What is your gende Female How has visiting New Pasture Lane Community Centre made life better for you? Made me feel welcome Visiting gets me out meeting people. Helps me feel Happier Encourages me do try new things and join in with activities Helps me feel healthier Makes sure I have nice healthy things to eat x Offer good advice Will you be willing to recommend us?

Pantry Report

The demand for the community pantry store is so overwhelming that we have grown 3 times in 9 months. At the start off our journey the pantry store was one shelf in the corner of the front entrance which helped around 5 families a month. This grew to 3 shelves in only 3 months which started to support 10-15 families per month. We soon realised that we had to move the pantry away from the front door for health and safety reasons of having too many people behind the front door at one time. This is where we sacrifice our small office and turned into the new pantry shop that it is today, which now provides 300 food parcels a month to families, pensioners and residents with disabilities or life limiting illnesses like cancer or dementia.

The community food pantry store allows residents to have access to low-cost food at 10 items for £3.50 and the demand for this is rising every single week, which has now provided us with a future goal of opening a social supermarket to provide the demand and for the community centre to become a social enterprise and generate its own income. June 2024 was our highest stats recorded, coming in at 1,159 people with our food projects and pantry store altogether.

We have experienced through hosting this project that it takes away the anxieties of the current rise of the weekly shopping bill. The testimonies we have received have helped us identify that it is no longer people just claiming benefits that struggle to purchase food. It is now every age range which includes the working poor and pensioners who are very much reliant upon the service.

Please see next page for testimonials.

ga < Clone of New Pasture Lane How many people live in your household? Submission Date Jun 12, 2024 17:04 Age Range Age 36-45 Years What is your gendefl Female How many people live in your household? Can you share how New Pasture Lane Community Centre's Pantry Store has improved your life? This has helped a financially struggling family with essentials and food we are very grateful What was life like before you started visiting the Pantry Store? Harder before Would you recommend the pantry store to others?

< CloneofNewPastureL fr -> How many people live in your household? Submission Date Jun 13, 2024 01:34 Age Range Age 46-55 years What is your gende Female How many people live in your household? Can you share how New Pasture Lane Community Centre's Pantry Store has improved your life? Affordable food as struggling What was life like before you started visiting the Pantry Store? First time today was just nice to be welcomed Would you recommend the pantry store to others?

< Clone of New Pasture Lane How many people live in your household? How many people live in your household? Can you share how New Pasture Lane Community Centre's Pantry Store has improved your life? So handy to have something like this in my community, especially with the help of free foods like fresh bread. We have been needing a shop in this community for years. Please keep up this amazing work, we all appreciate everything you do for us all. What was life like before you started visiting the Pantry Store? Very hard to get to the shops in bad weather, especially when you have mobility problems, and what with the cost of living and food prices, it was very hard to make ends meet. This pantry makes life easier. Looking forward to seeing the homegrown f ruit and vegetables. Would you recommend the pantry store to others? Yes

Over the past 9 months we have been fortunate to receive funding and food donations from East Yorkshire Council, Yorkshire Building Society, Farm foods, Tesco, CO-OP, public donations and support from ERVAS and be a member of the East Riding Food Poverty Alliance to enable us to grow and be a solution to the ever need growing need of food poverty within the area.

The use of Volunteers

New Pasture Lane Community Centre Committee is grateful for the time dedicated by its volunteers and Trustees. The whole team work hard and contribute immensely to the community centre to enable us to deliver our work to the local community.

We currently house 10 volunteers and last year we had 5.

Achievements

The achievement of the past 12 months has been incredible to fetch the community centre back to life. The Covid-19 pandemic and the community centre used as a Pre-School for 28 years, the new trustees felt it would be a hard task to fetch back a community centre full of life. With hard work and determination from the trustees and wonderful volunteers it became a reality in under 2 years.

Supporting Food Poverty

Food poverty is something we have strongly supported in our local community. When we took over as the new trustees in September 2023, we were becoming aware very quickly how much of an impact that the cost-of-living crisis was affecting every age, background of the local community. To stay in line with our charity objectives “To also assist vulnerable people through providing social wellbeing, support, guidance and designed to improve their conditions of life.” The trustees agreed that we did not want to be the same as a food bank and provide people with a food package, we wanted to present them with a cooked meal and provide a warm, welcoming, and social environment where food was included to help support this every increasing problem.

In 2023 we introduced two 12-week projects that delivered a free home-made cooked lunch to individuals and fed up with 30 people in each setting. This increased by 10 people in the next projects, which fed 40 people per week. These projects have now been hosted 3 times and we just had a 4[th] application accepted with a different funder, so we will continue this project in September 2024 leading into 2025. These projects are life changing.

We also started a food pantry to help support food poverty, we parented with many supermarkets like Aldi, Morrisons, Fare Share and Real Aid to help have items donated and fetch donations into the community centre to keep the running costs paid and the doors open to the local community residents. At the beginning we had 1-3 people popping into to use the pantry in the beginning. Those figures soon expanded to 1,159 people a month either using the pantry or coming to use our free meal projects. The community residents have mentioned many times over how much they rely on our services and how much they have changed their lives knowing we are here to support them. We recently upscaled our pantry shelves to a room within the community centre and now this service provides a small pantry shop with fresh, frozen, and packaged foods as well as the usual nonperishables. We are now in planning mode to open a social supermarket to help with the demand and need of the community.

50 food hampers were given out to families to help with their Christmas 2023 shopping to help with the cost-of-living crisis courtesy of funding which was obtained through East Yorkshire Council. These hampers included what are deemed to be “luxuries” in today’s cost of living crisis. Which in reality was basically what people have purchased each year for Christmas, only now the costofliving crisis had placed them in a predicament where the usual luxuries at Christmas were now way out of their budget and something they would have had to go without.

Other Project Reviews:

Crafty Club

Monday Morning Crafty Club has been a game changer for the local community. Crafty Club started when a volunteer called Angela Walker came into see us and made an enquire about starting one. Since then, we have built the Crafty Club a very successful community club where up to 30-40 people from the local community meet on a weekly basis to make crafts. These crafts are then made to sell in our craft sales and on Facebook Marketplace to rise donations for the community centre. The local community residents now rely upon Monday Crafty Club for means of social interaction, crafting and a free breakfast which supports mental wellbeing and provide food in the cost-of-living crisis. Angela Walker (now deputy mayoress) has been made a trustee of the community centre to reward her for all her amazing efforts.

Breakfast Tuesday

Every Tuesday morning during school term time a project called Breakfast Tuesday is hosted by Kate and the volunteers to enable the local community to have access to local fully cooked English breakfast for a low-cost price, and kids eat free. This project is also to help support parents with small children by feeding children for free and enabling them to have a cooked breakfast at an affordable price.

The project also has an opportunity to pay it forward where breakfast meals can be donated to help feed those who cannot afford to feed themselves.

A contract with Just Eat was signed in January 2024 to enable breakfast deliveries. The Breakfast Tuesday has transformed into a buffet breakfast where people pay a minimum donation of each £4.50 and help themselves to the buffet breakfast, where kids eat free. This has become possible due to Two Ridings providing the project with funding for 3 months. The kitchen staff are working hard and in line with the 5-star hygiene rating from East Yorkshire Council.

Mum & Baby Breakfast Group

Mum & Baby Breakfast Group needs to apply for its 3[rd] round of funding this year from Bridlington Town Council to help provide mums with children from age 0-2 years old to have a social group that they can interact with one another and eat a free breakfast for themselves and their young children. The project has become a very successful one which helps support many mums with their babies each week and helps towards feeding them the most important meal of the day.

Fitness & Fun Friday

Fitness & Fun is a project that is hosted by John. D. Slater who provides a very happy, fun, and simple way to keep fit. This provides the local community who are dealing with limited mobility issues, an opportunity to come together in a space where they can do gentle exercise in a fun atmosphere where nothing too much is expected from anyone. This project has gone strength to strength and recently the topic of a documentary video was posted throughout the social media channels. Plus, Celine now helps host the project with John to make it a little more energetic. Financial Review

New Pasture Community Centre’s revenue at the end of the 2021-2022 tax year was just over £2,000. When new trustees took over in September 2022 there has been an increase in that income in 2023-2024 to the tune of over £62,884.54 in income through grants, donations and fundraising. At the end of the financial year of March this amount totalled in which was obtained through grants,

public donations and self-efficient income which has allowed us to host the projects above so successful.

The next 12 months we have plans to grow and host more projects and continue the growth of New Pasture Lane Community Centre. To which can be presented in our 5-year growth plans for more insight and financial goals.

Other 12 Month achievements briefly:

Partnership with Curry’s/ Tech donations & Tec workshops
Partnership with Morrisons/ Food donations
Partnership with Real Aid/ for Free bread
Partnership with Salvation Army for anything the community needs
Partnership with ERVAS for the food pantry/hampers funding
Subscription with Fareshare
Media Partnership with Bridlington Echo
Partnership with Tesco
We became a food bank/pantry store.
Secured many project grants.
Took the income from £2, 111 to over £62,884.54 in 19 months.
We now feed over 1,159 a month in our projects & Pantry Store.
We were chosen out of 46 projects by DIFEY to be showcased as one of the most successful projects.
Almost refurbished all the floors within the community centre.
Provided the building with outdoor signs, so people can see where we are.
Created a yard for the community to use in summer.
Upgraded the front garden.
Upgraded the lady’s toilet seats twice.
Welcomed new trustees.
Abi secured £2,000 from Lord Feoffees to replace the main hall carpet (which is over 20 years old) for new flooring.
Secured Just Eat contract for Breakfast Tuesday or any other food project we wish to do. • We started a Men’s mental wellbeing club on a Monday/ It’s now funded.
Kate secured funding to make Breakfast Tuesday an even better project to help provide a lowcost breakfast for people and it’s just celebrated it’s first year of trading.
Secured manager salaries for 9 months in funding to keep the community centre open full time.

The next 15 months goals:

Apply for a full planning permission and lease for the old tennis courts land.
Building goals – to update guttering, the radiators, and the outside wall.
Update the hand dryers in the lady’s toilet.
Extend our community centre
Have solar panels fitted to reduce energy costs.
Open a social supermarket

Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2024

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ New Pasture Lane Community Centre members of 31[st] March 2024 700442 Charity no (if any)

On accounts for the year ended

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2024

Responsibilities and basis As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the of report 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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

x the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or

x the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or x

the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

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.

Date: 23/05/2024

Debra Charlton

Signed:

Name: Debra Charlton

N/A Address: 44 Neptune Drive Bridlington YO16 4EF

Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 202

Total Income Total Outgoings

Incoming resources:

Public Donations/Unrestricted Funds Room Hire/Unrestricted Funds Card Machine Takings/Unrestricted

Grants received/ Restricted Funds

Total incoming resources

Resources used / Outgoings

Insurance

Project spends

Light, heat, and Water Cleaning/repairs/maintenance Phone/Wifi Office Equipment

Council Tax

Volunteer Training

Wages

TV Licence

Fixed assets depreciation

Gifts for Volunteers Lunches for Volunteers

62 , 8 38 . 65 4 6, 6 15 . 27

2024

	2024
			2023
	3,801.35	3,801.35	3,801.35
	632.00	632.00	632.00
	138.98		1,75.37
	19,783.96		647.86	100
			1,449
	£24,356.29		~~36,210.13~~
			-------------	£19,721. 72 £26,893.55
		~~£38,482.36~~
				Total cash at bank account on 31sMarch 2024 =
				£12,574.88 (2022 - £2111.00)
	450.00 17,071.83		1,213.23 19,958.51	I confirm that these accounts represent a true and accurate representation of New Pasture Lane Community Centre.
3,350.42	3,350.42		2,452
1,017.80	1,017.80		1,698
186.00	186.00		715.79
	0		225.24
			68.78
-
	0		54.00
		-	-
			0.00
	169.50
	1,025		464
- 150	- 150		44