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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 June 2023
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023
The director shown below has held office during the period of
1 July 2022 to 21 March 2023
The director shown below has held office during the period of
2 May 2023 to 30 June 2023
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
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This report was approved by the board of directors on
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for the Period Ended 30 June 2023
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OsNosh is committed to tackling food poverty and food waste. We have taken a holistic community-based approach to this challenge, using these issues as a tool to build and unite community, improve people’s mental health and wellbeing, and develop a more positive sustainable attitude to food and the food cycle. We have been achieving these aims this year through projects involving the creative cooking and redistribution of surplus food, the cultivation of urban garden spaces and educational outreach.Our community kitchen and Pay as You Feel CafeWe have been redistributing surplus and donated food to our community, via our food-share tables, food parcels and through our freshly cooked hot meals on offer at our cafe. This year we have had groundbreaking amounts of surplus collected and processed by OsNosh staff and vol-unteers peaking at 6753 kgs in January 2023. In this month the surplus was redistributed via food parcels, share tables and 816 meals.The community cafe has served surplus made lunches to an average of 60 people twice a week with our More than Meals on Wheels provision feeding a further 40 people per week on average throughout the year. The food share tables have helped to provide surplus groceries to an aver-age of 35 – 40 people per week a vital service in a cost-of-living crisis.We have been offering inclusive activities as part of our weekly Friday Community cafe offer, these started in October 2022 and continued until June 2023 attracting on average 10 people per session. The volunteer led activities have included workshops on food education, gardening, wellbeing and arts and crafts. The sessions have become a massive source of empowerment for members of our community, as well as a platform for community knowledge sharing. The community led nature of these workshops have encouraged diverse participation.We have worked on increasing the accessibility of the cafe for every facet of our community, irrespective of socio-economic background, age, gender, ability, or background. For example, we have worked with different communities, such as the Ukrainian and Bulgarian communities in Oswestry, translating service offerings into their respective languages and hosting kitchen days to celebrate their cultures.The cost-of-living crisis deepened this year stretching household’s wages further. To help support our community, we worked with Shropshire Council to ensure OsNosh became a recognised Warm Welcome venue, offering a warm space, charging points, signposting and freely available groceries, hot meals, and hot drinks every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in winter. We went on to lead a working group consisting of all other Warm Welcome venues in Oswestry. We worked to advertise Warm Welcome venues to the community and complimented each other in terms of opening times and services to ensure we provided Oswestry residents with the most supportive round the clock free offer. Our educational programmesWe have been teaching cooking skills, imparting food system knowledge, and building confidence in the kitchen through our innovative cooking programme for disengaged youth. We provided two sessions a week with up to 6 students from The Marches School, in total 20-25 students attended the programme. The programme was funded by Aico, a local community-minded large business, who also helped facilitate a fundraising event led by the students of the programme raising £5000. Marches School staff memberIt has been a privilege for The Marches School students to work alongside OsNosh and Aico in this community project. The students have developed and improved in so many ways, not just their cooking skills! Many parents attended the fundraising event and were overwhelmed by the opportunity given to their children, the quality of the food they produced and the standard of service they provided. Senior staff who attended from The Marches School commented on the maturity and professionalism shown by the students and the new skills developed through learning in a different environment. The students themselves all thoroughly enjoyed the programme, and the charity event gave them an unforgettable experience. All were inspired, enthused and keen to keep gaining more knowledge and practical experience.AICO Community LiaisonHaving worked with OsNosh for a few years now, Aico admire the support they give to our local community, and we have been proud to be involved. OsNosh and the support they give has grown so much over the past 3 years. The fact that they are now able to deliver hands-on cookery programmes to local students, teaching not just basic kitchen skills, but also help building self-esteem and developing employability skills to these young people is inspirational.We have provided food education on how to minimise food cost and waste through recipe cards, info packs and in person lessons. Our audiences have varied from young children in receipt of free school meals to adults and families in food poverty. We worked with Shropshire Towns and Rural Housing (STAR Housing) to offer special cook-ery courses to help tenants cook up tasty and cost-effective meals. The courses consist of three one-hour classes with all ingredients and equipment provided, as well as recipe cards and a meal. Every household that took part received a free slow cooker to help them produce their own healthy meals from low-cost ingredients in an energy efficient way – these courses started in February and are continuing throughout 2023.We worked with TNS Foundation to deliver meals and recipe and information cards for the Holiday Activities and Food programme – a free nation-wide Government-funded holiday club with healthy meals programme for children who are claiming benefit-related free school meals. In this programme we reached over 600 primary age children providing them with a healthy meal and information on how to reduce their food waste, cook healthier meals and hopefully impart long term changes in food habits in their households.Our community growing spacesWe continued to develop; our rooftop growing space; our community garden with compost bays and food forest; a local business AICO’s grounds into an educational garden to host school visits. The OsNosh garden has been pivotal in educating local people in sustainable gardening skills and in getting the local community involved in every aspect of the food cycle – from field to fork and round again.The garden produce has been used to feed the community and the green spaces have become a place for those needing to connect with others and participate in outdoor activity – our weekly garden club has welcomed 8 – 10 participants per week.The garden provides a beneficial green space for many people in our community including cafe participants, other organisations and visitors who also actively use the garden spaces – this has averaged around 30 per week.Having composting facilities on site has allowed us to help prevent even more food waste too, as we now compost 80 – 100kgs of unusable surplus and kitchen waste a week.The OsNosh Community Garden has been rated as outstanding in the Royal Horticultural Socie-ty and Heart of England in Bloom It’s Your Neighbourhood national awards in July 2022. We also impressed locally, winning the Oswestry in Bloom 2022 category in August 2022 for the Best community premises or project.Volunteer ContributionVolunteers are essential in helping to run all the services OsNosh provides. OsNosh provides volunteers with a welcoming supportive environment where they can learn new skills and develop confidence and self-esteem. Typically, we have 50-55 volunteers who help deliver the community cafe, community garden, educational work and other core services.35 volunteers have been involved in delivering the cafe and More than Meals on Wheels service – these are a mixture of kitchen, front of house, share table and storeroom volunteers. There are 4 volunteer drivers.There are 6 volunteers involved in core garden activities.There are 3 volunteers involved in core cookery school activities.There are 5 volunteers involved in core organisational roles – involving helping to find and apply for funding, offering regular business, strategic and marketing support and general admin work.There is also collaboration with organisations such as AICO (CSR programme) and Avalon (Day care centre that supports adult’s with learning difficulties) where participant/beneficiaries play an active role in delivering our cafe services - these number around 8.
Our stakeholders include:Our service users – those in acute financial distress, people with physically disabilities, the elderly and those with mental health issues. We consult with our service users regularly through feedback forms and informal conversations during services. This has led to changes in our proposed winter service provision plan to help combat the expected energy crisis.Our group of volunteers.We have volunteer consultations regularly, offering a space for volunteers to suggest improvements to projects. They are a platform for the future projects of OsNosh to be discussed too. These conversations have led to a re-structuring of our share table to make it more inclusive and the development of wellbeing activities in our Friday cafe.Groups who refer service users to OsNosh – such as local charities and action groups, local and county council, and the local community who may refer those they know are in need.Through regular email contact and meetings, we keep in contact with our referrers. This has helped us to develop and expand the More Than Meals on Wheels service to help reach a wider amount of our community. It has also led to the creation of a slow cooking education programme for those in STaR Housing that started in February 2023. Local businesses who help both financial and practically.We host volunteers on a weekly basis from local businesses as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility programme. This allows for an open dialogue between OsNosh and local businesses which has led to further community project funding, such as receiving funding from Aico for The Aico Marches Cookery School Project.
Full details of our Directors’ remuneration are set out in our annual accounts.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
14 February 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Benjamin Wilson
Status: Director