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New Pasture Lane Community Centre Registered Charity No: 700442 Annual Report 2025

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Notice of

Annual General Meeting

to be held at

New Pasture Lane Community Centre on[th] , 2025, at 1pm

All Welcome

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Contents

• Legal and Administrative Information Page 4 • Trustees Report Page 5 • CEO/Senior Managers’ Report Page 6 • Independent Examiners Report Page 13 • Receipts and Payments Page 15 • Fixed Assets and Liabilities Page 16 • Detailed Funding Sheet Page 17 • Detailed Funding Sheet Page 18 • Conclusion Page 19

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New Pasture Lane Community Centre

Legal and Administrative Information

CHARITY NUMBER: 700442

START OF FINACIAL YEAR: 1[st] April 2024

END OF FINANCIAL YEAR: 31[ST] March 2025

TRUSTEES Angie Walker Emily Robinson Marie Clare Gazeley Jade I’ Anson

Trustees are appointed and follow the guidance out in New Pasture Lane Community Centre’s government constitution document.

New Pasture Lane Community Centre is a registered charity that is registered with the Charity Commission. UK.

ADDRESS: New Pasture Lane Community Centre Burstall Hill Bridlington YO16 7NR BANK: Virgin Money Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 2EG INDEPENDENT: Amy Vincent EXAMINER: 3 Bridge Street YO25 6DA

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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 2025-26 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.

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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 3 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. Provide a community pantry store that feeds 1900 a month. We continue great partnerships with Real Aid, Fair Share, Bookers 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-ofliving 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 160-180 food parcels that our pantry shop provides each month. We are open now Monday-Friday 9am-3 pm and run projects across all 5 days which fight the constant tackle of food poverty and providing support positive mental well-being.

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We have identified in the past 2 years 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 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:

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.

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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

Pantry Report

The demand for the community pantry store is so overwhelming that we have grown 4 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 and soon that became overcrowded. We then resulted in turning our all weather, canopy outside into a fully-fledged cabin that now houses our community pantry mini social supermarket, which now provides over 640 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 £5 and the demand for this is rising every single week, which has now provided us with a future goal of opening a bigger mini social supermarket in the next 2-5 years in a second building on the estate to provide the demand and for the community centre to become a social enterprise and generate its more of its own income. March 2025 was our highest stats recorded, coming in at 2210 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.

Over the past 9 months we have been fortunate to receive funding and food donations from East Yorkshire Council, UKSPF government funding, Yorkshire Building Society, Farm foods, Tesco, COOP, public donations and being a member of the East Riding Food Poverty Alliance to enable us to

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grow and be a solution to the ever need growing need of food poverty within the area. The latest milestone was receiving funding from The National Lottery to help fund core costs for two years.

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 a volunteer registerer of over 36, last year we had 6!

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 3 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, 2024, and 2025 we introduced 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 4 times, and we just had a private donation from a community member to host a 5[th] project as a thank you for the support we provide to her mum who is dealing with health issues.

68 food hampers were given out to families to help with their Christmas 2024 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 was basically what people have purchased each year for Christmas, only now the cost-of living 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. We increased from 50 hampers in 2023 to 68 hampers in 2024.

Other Project Reviews:

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Crafty Club

Monday Morning Crafty Club has been a game changer for the local community. Crafty Club started when a volunteer called Angela Walker (the current 2025 Mayor of Bridlington) 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 an army of 30-40 volunteers 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 for a £1 donation receive a 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 in 2024 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. We have finished a project that was funded by DIFEY to enable 10 x pensioners a week for 8 weeks to eat a free breakfast and this work perfectly. Once the funding came to an end, we offered the pensioners a special price of £3.50 and this has raised profits and kept them coming in.

Mum & Baby Breakfast Group

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 Celine and Mel on alternate weeks have provided 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. We request a £1 donation to cover drinks and biscuits, which is going well.

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 this financial year of March the amount totalled in which was obtained through grants, public donations and self-efficient income is £178,608.29

The next 12 months we have plans to grow the pantry store with members and open 5 days a week. Host more projects and continue the growth of New Pasture Lane Community Centre. To apply for planning permission and a lease for the new land on the dis-used tennis courts. To which can be presented in our 5-year growth plans for more insight and financial goals.

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Other 12 Month achievements briefly:

The next 15 months goals:

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Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31[st] March 2025

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ members of

New Pasture Lane Community Centre

On accounts for the year 31[st] March 2025 700442 ended Charity no (if any)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2025

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

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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: 23/07/2025

Signed:

Name: Amy Vincent Address: 3 Bridge Street Relevant professional qualification(s) body (if any): Driffield YO25 6DA

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Receipts & Payments

New Pasture Lane Community Centre For the year ended 31 March 2025

Account 2025 2024
Income
Restricted Income 61,458.72 64,287.00
Unrestricted Income 3,187.32 14,889.00
Total Income 64,646.04 79,176.00
Total Tax Year Income 143,822.04
Basis of Accounting
Notes to the accounts for the
year ended 31stMarch 2025
The accounts have been
prepared under “Receipts and
Payments”. Which meet the legal
requirement of Charity
Commissioners

Charity Expenditure Breakdown

Charity Expenditure
Breakdown
Advertising& Marketing 260.55 0.00 0.00
Audit & Accountancyfees 220.12 0.00 0.00
Project Spends (2,672.43) (20,599.26) 0.00
Cleaning 1,906.45 0.00 0.00
Cost of Goods Sold 40.14 0.00 0.00
Project Expenses 36,013.37 1,813.23 0.00
Direct Instructor Wages 25,940.50 0.00 0.00
General Expenses 9,475.70 0.00 0.00
Income in Advance (30,960.11) (24.58) 0.00
Insurance 1,231.23 0.00 0.00
IT Software and Consumables 3,936.88 0.00 0.00
Legal Expenses 109.00 0.00 0.00
Light,Power,Heating 5,525.00 500.00 0.00
PAYE Payable 166.85 0.00 0.00
Pensions Costs 522.83 0.00 0.00
Postage,Freight & Courier 60.00 0.00 0.00
Repairs & Maintenance 11,899.93 0.00 0.00
Staff Training 24.00 0.00 0.00
Subscriptions 36.00 0.00 0.00
Telephone & Internet 579.77 0.00 0.00
Travel - National 696.91 0.00 0.00
Volunteer Expenses 1,612.03 0.00 0.00
Wages Payable - Payroll 13,559.50 0.00 0.00
Total Expenses 80,184.22 (18,310.61) 0.00
Surplus(Deficit) (15,538.18) 97,486.61 0.00
Plus Other Cash Movements

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Fixed Assets 413.79 0.00 0.00
Total Other Cash Movements 413.79 0.00 0.00
Net Cash Movement (15,124.39) 97,486.61 0.00
Summary
OpeningBalance 18,309.61 0.00 0.00
Plus Net Cash Movement 19,820.30 18,309.61 0.00
Cash Balance 38,129.91 18,309.61 0.00

Fixed Asset Statement

New Pasture Lane Community Centre For the year ended 31 March 2025

Source
Opening Cost
Closing Cost
Closing Book Value		 Source
Opening Cost
Closing Cost
Closing Book Value
Buildings
Balance Sheet
0.00
150.00
150.00
Asset Register
0.00
0.00
0.00
Difference
0.00
150.00
150.00
Less Accumulated Depreciation on Office Equipment		 Balance Sheet
0.00
150.00
150.00
Asset Register
0.00
0.00
0.00
Difference
0.00
150.00
150.00
Balance Sheet
0.00
55.40
55.40
Asset Register
0.00
0.00
0.00
Difference
0.00
55.40
55.40
Office Equipment		 Balance Sheet
0.00
55.40
55.40
Asset Register
0.00
0.00
0.00
Difference
0.00
55.40
55.40
Balance Sheet
0.00
(619.19)
(619.19)
Asset Register
0.00
0.00
0.00
Difference
0.00
(619.19)
(619.19)
Total Difference
0.00
(413.79)
(413.79)

NPLCC

For the year ended 31 March 2025 Amount
Paid		 Date Date 2025 2025 2025 2024 2024
Restricted & Unrestricted Funds Unrestricted Restricted
Unrestricted
Restricted
Funds Funds Funds
Funds
Totals £3,187.32 £61,458.72 £14,889.00 £64,287
Funds Breakdown
Payee/r
East Yorkshire Council – DIFEY
Lord Feoffees – Carpet Funding
Public Donations
Room Hire
Two Ridings
Public Donations
Room Hire		 £1,419
10/04/2024
£1,965.19
04/11/2024
£495
15/04/2024
£500
17/04/2024
£1,500
17/04/2024
£584.50
09/05/2024
£991.97
21/07/2024		 £1,419
£1,965.19
£495
£500
£1,500
£584.00
£9,971.97

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East Yorkshire Council Difey Project £525
30/05/2024		 £525
Public Donations £615
31/05/2024		 £615
East Yorkshire Council £6,409
03/06/2024		 £6,409
Brid Old Town CL £250
03/06/2024		 £250
East Yorkshire Council £2,649.60
05/06/2024		 £2,649.60
Public Donations £395
10/06/2024		 £395
Charitable Trust £1,150
19/06/2024		 £1,150
Public Donations £853
21/06/2024		 £853
EYC; Do It For East Yorkshire £2,729.32
02/08/2024		 £2,729.32
Heathcotes Head £882
02/08/2024		 £882
Public Donations £760
05/08/2024		 £760
Ground Works £500
19/08/2024		 £500
East Yorkshire Council £525
02/09/2024		 £525
East Yorkshire Council £4,166
09/09/2024		 £4,166
East Yorkshire Council £2,729.32
10/09/2024		 £2,729.32
East Yorkshire Council £2,729.32
14/10/2024		 £2,729.32
The Brelms Trust £4,213.23
21/10/2024		 £4,213.23
Sainsbury’s Grant £500
25/10/2024		 £500
East Yorkshire Council £5,148.32
30/10/2024		 £5,148.32
Public Donations £715
07/11/2024		 £715
Community Vision £500
25/11/2024		 £500
Hull & ER CHAR £2,500
25/11/2024		 £2,500
Community Vision £2,400
06/12/2024		 £2,400
Joseph Boaz Grant £500
09/12/2024		 £500
Community Vision £14,875.25
12/12/2024		 £14,875.25
East Yorkshire Council £2,729.32
16/12/2024		 £2,729.32
East Yorkshire Council £791.95
12/27/2024		 £791.95
East Yorkshire Council £2,729.32
08/01/2025		 £2,729.32
Cash for Kids £10,127.25
09/01/2025		 £10,127.25
The National Lottery Income £19,231.75
10/01/2025		 £19,231.75
East Yorkshire Council £2,000
02/01/2025		 £2,000
East Yorkshire Council £2,729.32
02/03/2025		 £2,729.32
Receive Money Room Hire -
Unrestricted		 £337.32
24/02//2025
£337.32
Receive Money East Yorkshire Council
£1,210
26/02/2025		 £1,210
Community Vision – Pantry Funding £5,000
03/04/2025		 £5,000
Public Donations £1,000
05/03/2025
£1,000
Two Ridings £2,500
06/03/2025		 £2,500
East Yorkshire Council £4,970
11/03/2025		 £4,970
East Yorkshire Council £461.08
18/03/2025		 £461.08
Co-Op Foundation £500
20/03/2025		 £500
Public Donations £600
24/03/2025
£600
NPLCC
Amount
For the year ended 31 March 2025 Paid Date 2025 2025 2024 2024
Sheet End Unrestricted
Restricted
Unrestricted
Restricted

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Conclusion

As we bring this AGM to a close, we celebrate the momentum we have built together and the tangible progress across our strategic priorities. Our volunteers, staff, funders, and communities are central to every milestone, and their dedication has driven performance, stewardship, and responsible growth.

With a clear strategy anchored in innovation, sustainability, and governance excellence, we will continue to evolve, anticipate change, and build opportunities that create enduring value for all community residents.

We invite you to stay engaged, challenge us, and join us on this journey as we write the next chapter of our story with integrity, ambition, and purpose.

Thank you for your trust

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