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← Children's Clothing Bank Dunfermline SCIO

2025-07-31-accounts

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Charity name Children’s Clothing Bank Dunfermline SCIOns Other names charity is no CCBD ! Registered charity number ecososay vt i nn en nnd Charity’s principal address 1George Square, Castle Brae, Dunfermline ~~ ee ne ne ~ postcode vat so co ene nnne

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Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way
through the financial period)
“Joyce Munro “Resigned March 20252=«=~CSé“‘<C 72C«S!
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Type of governing document ‘Formal Constitution as SCIO accepted by OSCR on 30 July 2020
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Trustee recruitment and appointment Three founding Trustees of the Children’s Clothing Bank Dunfermline: Craig Smith, Mary-Grace Smith and Jucy Corbett, established the charity in 2020. Judy Corbett resigned June 2025. Joyce Munro and Irene Combe took up position as Trustees in July 2021. Joyce Munro resigned March 2025. Emma Hynd took up position in November 2022 and resigned April 2024. Elizabeth Percy took up position as Trustee January 2024. Louise Payne and Karen Kinnear took up position as Trustees in January 2025.

Oblectvesandactivitics« = = === Charitable purposes To provide good quality pre-loved and new children’s clothes in a dignified way for children aged 0-18 to families in néed in Dunfermiine and surrounding areas.

Summary of the main activities We work via referrals which are received from a wide network including — in relation to these objects health visitors, social workers, support workers and other local organisations. Referrers can request single items or a package of items {including brand new underwear) to suit the individual child's need or they can ask for a week’s worth of clothing and we will try our best to supply a suitable package which is seasonally appropriate. In addition to providing clothes, we provide footwear which is in new condition. We also have process in place for referral requests for teenage children where we provide a smaller parcel of clothes and a gift voucher which allows tnem the dianitv to select their own clothes.

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Summary ofthe main achievements This Trustee Annual Report covers our fifth year ofoperation from
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Secured ongoing use of our premises
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Successfully applied forfunding from various funding streams to
finance ourwork
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Continued todevelop our presence in thecommunity byworking
with pupils from Dunfermline High Schoo! and profiling our service
with local community groups and organisations
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Wecurrently have a total of 31 volunteers: 23who help in our
premises (including 6 trustees) and 8who volunteer at home as
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Continued to promote our service to partners and increased our		 .
network of referrers from across statutory and third sector
organisations which has maintained the number of referrais
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We have continued to raise awareness of our work within the
Dunfermline community by providing news articles within local
newspaper ‘Dunfermline Press’ and regular updates to our
Facebook page.
The Children’s Clothing Bank Dunfermlinewas initially set up against the
backdropofCovid19. Following thepandemic, familieswerefaced with
financial challenges brought by the cost-ofliving crisis. Throughout our
fifth year of operation, the impact from the ongoing rises in inflation
continued to put pressure on family budgets due to increasing food
prices, heating costs and mortgage/rent costs. Our referral numbers are
similar to last yearwhich demonstrates demand for our service remains
Briefstatement ofthe charity’s policy As our premises are rent free, our only recurring overheads are
on reserves electricity, insurance and sundries which we currently budget at £2000
perannum. All other costs are directly related to providing the service
{eg packaging, clothing vouchers, ‘top-up’ stock) forwhichwe require
few reserves. We would howeverwish to carry a reserve ofaround
£5000 atanytimesothatshouldwe require toendthe service, there
wouldbeenoughtocoveranyoutstandingreferralsandoverheads.

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We have no deficit and carried over a surplus from year 2023-2024, and again ended this year with a surplus of approximately £6,000.

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EE EN ETT 1 Company Internal Summary of the the main achievements of the the charity during the financial period — continued from above Activity during our fifth year of operation operation focussed on identifying funding to support delivery of our our service, building our capacity to meet the increasing demands on our service, and increasing the profile of our our service within the community: e We were were successful in our application to two different funding streams (Robertson Trust and CORRA Foundation) and received a a total of £8,000 £8,000 eee WeWe workedtookWe workedtook workedtooktook part within withinin youngthethe Dunfermline people from aRoundTable local highCharity school asGive part ofAway people from aRoundTable local highCharity school asGive part ofAwayRoundTable local highCharity school asGive part ofAway local highCharity school asGive part ofAway highCharity school asGive part ofAwayCharity school asGive part ofAway school asGive part ofAwayGive part ofAway part ofAwayAway theand Youthwereand Youthwere Youthwerewere awarded Philanthropy£1,000 Initiative who applied to the Philanthropy£1,000 Initiative who applied to the£1,000 Initiative who applied to the Initiative who applied to the who applied to the applied to the to the the | Yorkshire Building Society on our behalf for funding. They were successful in receiving an award of £1,000. ! e We were were supported by financial donations from individuals and local community groups groups which totalled approximately | £3,400 : e Between August 2024 2024 and July 2025, we provided a a total of 639 639 clothing parcels (285 girls, 358 boys and 1 neutral : clothing parcel) to 327 families. ; @ 34% of clothing parcels were distributed to pre-school children aged 0-4; 44% to primary school children aged 5-11; : 22% to secondary school children aged 12-18. @ The breakdown of referrers was as follows: 35% of referrals came from Health Visitors; 29% from Social Work/Child & Family Services; 18% of referrals came from Education (school/nurseries). The remainder of referrals came from third sector organisations and Fife Council Weifare Support and Kinship Care teams. New referral pathways were established with registered childminders. 4 e A referral process remains in place with the Welfare Support Team who will provide a referral for families who are otherwise unable to identify a suitabie professional to submit a referral on their behalf : e Our costs are approximately £35 per referral. The costs we incur include: packaging to present the clothing parcelasa = | gift, new underwear and socks in every bag, clothes which we’ve had to purchase when we’ve run out of stock; and vouchers when footwear is requested or to purchase clothing vouchers for teenagers. This means our running costs fol this year were in excess of £24,000 e We completed an annual review and update on our policies and protocols to ensure they remain fit for purpose We continued our work in our community to maintain our profile and further raise awareness of our service: 4 e As with any service which relies on the support of volunteers, we have experienced a turnover as some of our trustees and volunteers have had to step away from working with us due to changes in their personal circumstances. To | respond to this and also meet the continued demands on our service, we continually recruit for volunteers. We currently | have a total number of 31 active volunteers working with us (including 6 trustees). To recognise the ongoing commitment from our voiunteers, we supported Volunteer Week during June 2025. 4 e® Our relationship with local high school pupils continued. We were approached by pupils from Dunfermline High School who had selected us as their chosen charity for the Youth Philanthropy Initiative (YP). The pupils visited our premises =| to gain an understanding of our service and an insight to the difference it makes to local families. They reached the i final of the YPI and were supported on the night by one of our Trustees but were unfortunate not to be the winners of ! the award. | e Our relationship with ‘Smalls for All’ continued as we offer a drop off point for the local community to donate gently worr bras for use in Africa. e We continue to increase our profile amongst potential referrers and produce a quarterly newsletter 4 (Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter and additional Christmas newsletter) which is disseminated to our referrers. q e We have continued to raise awareness of our our work within the Dunfermline community by providing news articles within local newspaper ‘Dunfermline Press’ and regular updates to our Facebook page. j

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Summary of the the main achievements of the the charity during the financial period — continued from above

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The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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