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ANNUAL REPORT AND STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025
Trustees Annual Report 30 APRIL 2025
The trustees present their report and the financial statements of the charity for the year ending 30 April 2025. This is the fourth report of the charity which was established as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 30 March 2021.
Name: Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels known as OKFP
Charity Number: SCO50874
Charity’s Principal Address: Napier Hall 312 Dumbarton Road, Old Kilpatrick, G60 5JH
Names of the Charity Trustees at Date of Approval of this Annual Report:
Governing document ' The charity is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) governed by its constitution which was registered with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator on 31 March 2021.
Appointment of trustees
The charity's trustees are appointed or re-appointed by majority vote by existing charity trustees and in accordance with the terms contained in the charity’s constitution.
Administrative Structure
The trustees are responsible for the overall direction of the charity and serve on a voluntary basis.
Objectives & activities
As per section three of the Constitution, OKFP was formed with the specific aim of alleviating food poverty, in an inclusive and non-discriminatory fashion, within Old Kilpatrick and its environs. In so doing the organisation sought, and continues to seek, to advance health in the local area; advance citizenship and to develop the community by addressing issues of social exclusion and loneliness. Entering our fourth year, our Aims and Objectives remain our priority.
ACHIEVEMENTS
We are very proud to report that we were honoured to be awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service which aims to recognise outstanding work by local volunteer groups to support their communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate Her Majesty The late Queen’s Golden Jubilee and, was continued following the accession of His Majesty The King. 2024 marks the second year of The King’s Award for Voluntary Service. This award is the equivalent of an MBE for the voluntary sector.
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NEW PARTNERSHIPS
We have continued to forge partnerships with many departments within West Dunbartonshire Council (WDC) including, but not exclusive to, welfare rights, money advice, Children and Families department, energy advice, the Alcohol and Drug recovery team and the employability team. We host weekly information sessions in our Hub to enable people to access advice and support in an informal setting. We have dedicated office space which we provide on a bookings basis should councillors require private space to meet with clients. Our meeting spaces have been used, on a monthly basis since January 2024, and continue to provide an income stream for our project.
Wednesday afternoons see our meeting spaces used as a Recovery Café which offers support and engagements in partnership with the drug rehabilitation charity, Street Connect.
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FOOD PANTRY STATISTICS
We continue to operate 5 days a week which allows us to reach a higher volume of families living in food poverty.
01.05.2024- 30.04.2025 OKFP provided 5,487 food parcels of essential items, which equated to a total of 12,363 people (adults and children) that were fed in our community. Each parcel had a minimum content of 15 items, therefore we distributed 52,305 individual food items.
| 2023-2024 | 2024-2025 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| May | 545 | May | 525 |
| June | 493 | June | 501 |
| July | 414 | July | 398 |
| Aug | 492 | August | 522 |
| Sept | 377 | Sept | 390 |
| Oct | 437 | Oct | 431 |
| Nov | 429 | Nov | 462 |
| Dec | 378 | Dec | 534 |
| Jan 2024 | 241 | Jan 2025 | 411 |
| Feb | 306 | Feb | 362 |
| Mar | 431 | Mar | 491 |
| Apr | 481 | Apr | 460 |
| TOTAL | 5024 | 5487* |
“total number of households that received food parcels from OKFP May 2024-Apr 2025
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
OKFP has operated food distribution facilities in West Dunbartonshire since 2020. Our Charity has systematically and consistently embraced the concept of becoming an organisation which also provides a space and range of activities for anyone in the local community seeking to overcome issues of social isolation and loneliness.
We host weekly information days with multiple agencies throughout our local authority including:Citizens Advice, Debt Management, Womens Aid, Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation, Homelessness, Energy Advice, Employability, Advocacy, RSPCA and the Samaritans.
We have continued to support our Ukrainian Families and helped set up important meetings with our local MP who visited us and allowed the families to engage and ask questions in relation to their future in Scotland.
Local restauranteur, Satty Singh, joined forces with us to supply weekly curries and pakora to extend the variety food items available to our visitors,
ACTIVITIES STATISTICS
Our endeavours to help reduce Social Isolation within our Community resulted in us running various free activities and workshops 5 days a week focussing on those who struggle to engage with others and those who live alone and perhaps do not have the confidence to attend mainstream classes. 01.05.2024- 30.04.2025 OKFP facilitated 156 activity classes and workshops which were attended by 1,800 visitors, almost 50% live alone and really needed social inclusion.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
From the outset OKFP have systematically and consistently engaged with a wide range of organisations involved in supporting the local community. Some of those are organisations, who are also directly involved with the alleviation of food poverty include: Neighbourly, Fare Share Go, Foodiverse, M&S, Starbucks, Carlyles Fine Foods, Butchershop and Greggs. We share with and learn from each other in the business of making sure food poverty is reduced.
Regular suppliers of food to our organisation are: Warburtons, Morrisons Food Insecurity Group; Asda, the CO-OP, KFC, and Marks and Spencer and equally vitally, most of the area's local convenience stores.
Our volunteer drivers collect surplus food items from 53 collection points over 5 days and in the past 12 months we have rescued almost 9.5 TONNES of food from going to landfill and being wasted. We recently secured funding to enable us to run two vehicles to assist with collecting and distributing the vast amounts of surplus foods offered to us throughout West Dunbartonshire.
Beyond these specific food sharing partnerships, our charity shared our food donations with: Kindness Homeless Team; Dumbarton Recovery Café, Men Matters Scotland, the Invisibles, the Phoenix Community Cafe, several alcoho! anonymous groups to name a few. We have also been instrumental in providing guidance and support to several local education departments who were keen to introduce pantries within their schools and colleges.
To help them learn we hosted information tours of our Community Hub. Several groups of students and teachers from multiple schools have visited us to take part in sessions to raise awareness of food poverty within our community. They learned how we source our food donations, how we record visitor information and how we distribute the food itself. To date there are three new pantries within schools in West Dunbartonshire, that were inspired by visiting our project. We look forward to continuing to support them.
ONGOING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP
OKFP WARM HUB
In October 2022, we became the first ‘Warm Hub’ to be registered in the west of Scotland. It was important to us to continue our efforts to ensure that we did our best to help our community at a time of crisis.
We have continued to open our doors Monday to Friday every day during the winter months, providing a warm safe place for our community to enjoy.
Hot drinks, snacks and homemade soup are available to everyone every day. Our family area consists of a selection of board games, newspapers, magazines and books and our OKFP Warm Hub is pet friendly.
Families continue to come to the Hub every day for lunch and some stay the whole afternoon until it is time to collect children from school because they could not afford to stay in their own homes and put on their heating due to the increase in energy charges. It is important to us that we engage in conversation with our visitors to help identify any other financial hardships with which they may need assistance to help us signpost them for additional advice and support.
FUNDING PARTNERS
OKFP would like to express thanks to West Dunbartonshire Council, the National Lottery Community Fund, Scottish Landfill Trust, the Clothmakers Society, People’s Postcode Lottery Trust, Arnold Clark , the Corra Foundation, the Robertson Trust, Foundation Scotland, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group and Baillie Gifford
to name a few, for their support during this challenging year.
OUR TEAM
OKFP have had over 160 volunteers work with our project since 2020, 4 of whom are now regular volunteers and help us to continue to achieve our Aims and Objectives, as outlined in our constitution.
Thanks to funding from WOCWorking4U Employability scheme, we have managed to create three more part time positions for adults who had been unemployed for many years due to various reasons including childcare difficulties, mental health issues, lack of skills etc.
Additional funding from various sources enabled us to upskill our new employees and provide them with opportunities to continue to develop personally, training included ;- Health and Safety, First Aid, Food Hygiene, Naloxone Administering. Samaritans Suicide Advice and Digital Enhancement sessions.
We intend to continue to find ways to encourage, support and develop our staff and volunteers and we are excited for the future at OKFP.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
The Charity reported a surplus of £90,486 for the year. The majority of these funds are restricted for running costs and, at the time of writing this report the Charity continues to be in a healthy place financially.
RESERVES POLICY
The trustees’ policy is to maintain unrestricted funds (i.e. funds not committed or invested in fixed assets) at a level that equates to operating costs in order to ensure continuity of service given the uncertainty of its sources of income.
This:was- | thetrustees on 9" December 2025 Pand signed, on their behalf,by:
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025
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|funds|funds|2025|2024|
|Income_|
|Donations & Legacies|129,219|84,400|213,619|219,170|
|Charitable|activities|0|0|
|Other|trading|activities|0|7,537|
|Investment|Income|0|0|
|Other Income|795|795|0|
|Total incoming resources|130,015|84,400|214,415|226,707|
|EXPENDITURE_|
|Raising Funds|
|Charitable Activities|64,784|96,071|160,855|163,845|
|Other expenditure|0|0|
|Purchase|of|Fixed|Assets.|5,154|5,154|41,755|
|Total|resources|expended|69,938|96,071|166,009|205,600|
|NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES|60,077|(11,671)|48,406|21,107|
|Total|funds|brought|forward|22,080|20,000|42,080|20,973|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|82,157|8,329|90,486|42,080|
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STATEMENT OF BALANCES
AT 30 APRIL 2025
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|Unrestricted|Restricted|2025Total|2024Total|
|BANK AND CASH|IN HAND|
|Opening balances|22,080|20,000|42,080|20,973|
|Surplus/(Deficit)|for the year|60,077|(11,671)|48,406|21,107|
|Closing balances|82,157|8,329|90,486|42,080|
|OTHER ASSETS|
|Tenants|Improvements|5,154|5,154|41,755|
|eeTOTAL OTHER ASSETS|5,154|0|5,154|41,755|
|LIABILITIES|
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025
- ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of preparation
These accounts have been prepared on a Receipts & Payments basis in accordance with the Charities & Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended).
Governance costs
Consists of the costs of the accounts preparation and any other financial services and expenditure incurred in compliance with the legal requirements of the charity.
Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025
| 2. INCOME |
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| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £ | £ | |
| Donations&Legacies | ||
| -Donations | 19,829 | 34,795 |
| -Grants | 193,790 | 184,375 |
| 213,619 | 219,170 | |
| Charitable activities | - | : |
| Othertradingactivities | ||
| - Fundraising | - | 7,537 |
| Investment Income | * | . |
| 3. CHARITABLEACTIVITIESCOSTS |
2025 | 2024 |
| - Salaries | 41,671 | 67,503 |
| - Equipment&resources | 1,241 | 1,214 |
| -Rent& Rates | 3 | 7,846 |
| -Vehicle costs | 9,350 | 4,615 |
| - Container Hire | - | 3,622 |
| -Workwear | 2,289 | 2,959 |
| - Food | 26,991 | 26,717 |
| - Insurance | 4,688 | 6,505 |
| -Repairs | 22,035 | 10,812 |
| - Utilities | 14,416 | 9,661 |
| - Stationery, IT&Phone | 5,519 | 1,375 |
| -Postage | 448 | - |
| -Advertising | 2,789 | 885 |
| -Subscriptions | 2,973 | - |
| -StaffTraining | 7,397 | |
| - Travel | 4,745 | |
| -Donations | 229 | 8,699 |
| -Volunteerexpenses | - | 1,561 |
| -Other charitable expenses | 7,809 | 6,432 |
| -Governance Costs | 6,265 | 3,438 |
| 160,855 | 163,845 |
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025
4. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS
There were no trustees’ remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 30 April 2025. (2024 - nil)
Trustees' Expenses
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 30 April 2025. (2024 - £nil)
5. MOVEMENTIN FUNDS
| 5. MOVEMENTIN FUNDS |
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| Opening | Incoming | Outgoing | Closing | |
| Balance | Resources | Resources | Balance | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Unrestrictedfunds General fund |
22,080 | 130,015 | 69,938 | 82,157 |
| Designatedfund | 0 | 0 | ||
| 22,080 | 130,015 | 69,938 | 82,157 | |
| Restrictedfund LotteryGrant |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arnold Clark | 0 | 50,000 | 41,671 | 8,329 |
| BOSFoundation | 0 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 |
| Napier Hall | 20,000 20,000 |
74,400 134,400 |
94,400 146,071 |
0 8,329 |
RestrictedFund detail
Lottery Grant - This was a grant awarded to cover the costs of utilities and rent for the charity.
Napier Hall - This is our new project and is the upgrade of our new facilities.
BOS Foundation - This was to cover the costs of us leasing a van for the charity and all running costs associated with the van.
APPENDIX 3
Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
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Independent examiner’s report on the accounts
Report to the
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RegisteredOncharitythe charityaccounts forthe numberperiodof the || $C050874Day __ Period| Monthstart_ date| Year - | ___ Day ____ Period| Monthend date| Year_ee-
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Respective responsibilities of The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the
trustees and examiner terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the Charities Accounts
(Scotland) Regulations 2006. The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of
Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to
examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether
particular matters have come to my attention.
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Basis of independent My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts examiner's statement (Scotland) Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison ofthe accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and, consequently, | do not express an audit opinion on the accounts. Independent examiner's examiner's In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention- [other than that disclosed statement on the attached page*]
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