The company runs support and wellbeing services with emphasis on bridging and tackling health inequalities and wider determinant of health across the county. The organisation was opened for the public benefit in November 2020. During the financial year 2024-2025, the organisation have benefitted the community in the following ways: 1. Emergency Food & Wider Essentials: Mobile delivery of food parcels, toiletries and energy support to vulnerable households across North and West Northamptonshire. 2. Advice & Counselling: Guidance, signposting, and wellbeing support for individuals aged 10 to 18 up to 25 with SEND. 3. Skills & Education: Flexible online courses for adults over 25, particularly single parents and those seeking career transitions. 4. Support for Older Adults: Dedicated phone support, community transport, and social activities aimed at reducing loneliness and preventing hospital readmission. 5. Youth Support: Assistance for disadvantaged children aged 7 to 16, including mentoring, wellbeing support, and educational resources. 6. Mental Health & Environmental Awareness: Community advocacy, workshops, and outreach activities. 7. Disability & Inclusion: Wellbeing programmes for disabled individuals, families, and hard to reach groups. 8. Warm Spaces & Drop ins: Provision of safe community spaces offering holistic support and referrals. 9. Employment Pathways: Apprenticeships and skills development opportunities to build confidence and employability among young people. 10. Over 10000 families have received direct and indirect regular and occasional support for wider essential goods through the household support services.

The companies stakeholders are: Individuals and families experiencing financial hardship, poverty, food insecurity and other inequalities. Children and young people participating in BAK UP's youth, wellbeing, sports, music and community programmes. Older people, including those experiencing loneliness, isolation, financial pressures or barriers to accessing services. Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities and people who may experience cultural, economic or structural barriers to services. Residents of rural and underserved communities across Northamptonshire. Parents, carers and families of children and young people supported through our programmes. Volunteers, sessional workers, employees and BAK UP directors. Local residents and community groups in the areas where BAK UP delivers services. Local authorities, town and parish councils and other public-sector partners. NHS, health, social care and wellbeing organisations. Voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations. Local businesses and retailers participating in and supporting BAK UP initiatives. Funders, grant-making organisations and commissioners. Community leaders and people with lived experience who help BAK UP understand emerging needs. During the year, stakeholder engagement has taken place through a combination of informal conversations, individual support sessions, participant feedback, questionnaires, project reviews, community meetings, steering groups, partnership meetings, consultation events and discussions with local residents, parents, young people, volunteers and partner organisations. Feedback is also gathered during the day-to-day delivery of BAK UP services. This is particularly important because some beneficiaries are less likely to participate in formal consultation exercises. Staff and volunteers therefore listen to people's experiences, barriers and suggestions during activities and support sessions and use this information to inform service development. Young people and parents have contributed feedback regarding the Youth Ambassadors programme in east of Northamptonshire, including the activities young people would like to participate in and the importance of maintaining a safe and accessible youth provision. BAK UP has also engaged with statutory organisations, VCFSE partners, local businesses and community organisations to identify gaps in existing provision and opportunities for collaborative working. We have used stakeholder feedback to shape and improve activities in the following areas Youth Ambassadors provision: Feedback from young people and parents demonstrated the importance of accessible activities, mentorship and safe spaces broadening the range of recreational, sporting, social and wellbeing activities and exploring longer-term funding to sustain the provision. Place-based support: Feedback from residents and partners highlighted that people struggle to navigate multiple organisations and services. BAK UP has therefore increasingly adopted a place-based and partnership approach, bringing organisations together around communities rather than expecting residents to navigate services independently. Cost-of-living and financial resilience: Experiences shared by individuals and families demonstrated that emergency assistance alone does not address the underlying causes of hardship. BAK UP has consequently developed its approach beyond immediate crisis support to include budgeting, financial resilience, information, navigation and referral to specialist services. Culturally appropriate support: Feedback from Black and minority ethnic families highlighted the importance of choice and culturally appropriate food. This informed the development of BAK UP's eVoucher approach, designed to enable greater choice and participation by appropriate local retailers while supporting the local economy. Older people's wellbeing: Engagement with older residents identified loneliness, social isolation, access to information and opportunities for meaningful community participation as important issues. These findings have informed activities providing social connection, wellbeing support, advice and opportunities for residents to participate in shaping local provision. Partnership working: Stakeholders have consistently highlighted the importance of avoiding duplication. BAK UP therefore seeks to identify existing provision before developing new activities and works with statutory, voluntary, community and business partners to complement rather than duplicate services. Accessibility and outreach: Feedback has reinforced that transport, digital exclusion, cultural barriers, confidence and rural isolation can prevent people from accessing mainstream provision. BAK UP has responded by developing community-based, outreach and locally accessible approaches wherever practicable. Also, the directors regularly consider feedback received through BAK UP's programmes and partnerships when reviewing existing activities and developing new projects. Stakeholder engagement will continue to form an important part of BAK UP CIC's approach to ensuring that our activities remain responsive to community need and deliver identifiable community benefit.

The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £30,000. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration