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Contents

• 04

• A message from our Chair, Rhys Davies

• 05 A message from our Director of Corporate Affairs and Deputy Chief Executive, Victoria Pickles

• 06

• What a wonderful year!

• 10 About us

• 11 Our vision, mission, values and strategy

• 12 Our team

• 13 Year overview

• 14 Making Airedale AOK

• 16 Website & Big Tea

• 17 Staff lottery & wellbeing 18 Team Airedale

• 20 Airedale Superstars

• 22 Look what we achieved together

• 24 How we showed our love for Airedale

• 26 Looking forward together

• 28 Thank you

• 30 A closer look

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A message from our Director of Corporate Affairs and Deputy Chief Executive Victoria Pickles

A message from our Chair Rhys Davies

Since I became Chair of Airedale Hospital & Community Charity last year, I have seen for myself the fantastic difference your support and donations make to both patients and colleagues in our hospital and community services. As a Trust, Airedale provides health and care services to our local population of over 200,000 people across 700 square miles and a real mix of rural and urban communities. It is from these communities that our supporters and donors have helped us to raise nearly £500,000 over the year and given us donations such as gifts for our patients at Christmas and toys for our children’s unit.

Our appeal to raise funds for the added extras in our new Intensive Care Unit raised more than £10,000. The unit will have opened at the time of publishing this report, and we are proud that with the help of our local community we have been able to provide the added extras to make this fantastic space even more special for our patients and colleagues such as seasonal affective disorder (SAD) lights and furniture for the relatives’ room.

We are delighted that the refurbishment of our Haematology and Oncology Day Unit will commence in the Summer of 2022. This will be the biggest project that the Charity has undertaken to date with the full cost totalling more than £150,000. The new unit will include an additional treatment room, upgraded technology and new chairs which will ensure patients are as comfortable as possible when undergoing chemotherapy. We look forward to sharing the impact of these improvements in the future.

In September 2021 we took delivery of our Pacer train carriage. The Trust submitted a winning bid to receive one of three retired train carriages to use to create a positive environment for future generations. Although an unusual addition to our hospital estate, we are pleased to say that the project has received much interest. We are delighted to have partnered with local business, The Ultimate Group, who have committed time, energy, and resources to complete the refurbishment for our patients and local

communities to benefit from. The project aims to be complete by the early Autumn of 2022. We will provide an update in our next annual report but in the meantime, you can keep an eye on our communications to get all the latest news and updates on our website

www.airedalecharity.org .

The Trust itself made a significant donation to the Charity to fund wellbeing initiatives for all colleagues across the organisation. This includes psychological support, outdoor spaces, and rest facilities, and much more. We also plan to run a Grant Scheme to enable wards, departments, and teams to bid for funding to support patient experience and wellbeing schemes in their own areas.

Our plans for 2022/23 are ambitious and we hope to raise as much money as possible so that we can make a real difference for everyone who visits or works in our hospital and community services. Our journey would not be the same without the help and support of our trustees and Charity team who continue to work hard for the Airedale community, putting our people at the heart of everything they do. I am truly grateful for their efforts, ideas and the creativity that keeps our Charity going.

I once again am astounded by the generosity of spirit and kindness that has been shown for our hospital and Charity over the last year. As we look forward to the many exciting plans in 2022/23 and beyond, please accept my wholehearted thanks for showing your love for Airedale.

Over the last two years, since our re-launch in early 2020, the Charity has gone from strength to strength, supporting both our patients and colleagues who work for the Trust, and working with our local communities. We have been overwhelmed by the continued contributions and generosity of local people, our patients, their families, and local businesses. With your help we have been able to fund a range of equipment, services, and wellbeing support which have made a real difference to our patients and to people who work across all areas of our hospital and community services.

The Charity aims to fund those things that provide that little extra to improve the experience of patients within our hospital, to bring innovation to the services we provide or to support the health and wellbeing of our colleagues. We also recognise that we are we part of a wider community. Our role as an employer, purchaser of goods and services, and contributor to our local economy and community is really important to us.

In 2021, we launched our Acts of Kindness campaign. Over the last year we have taken this out into our local communities, as well as continuing to promote it within the organisation. Working with local schools in particular, our Charity team held events and workshops encouraging the importance of kindness, its benefits to the individual and to those around us. In the spirit of the campaign, the Charity donated some children’s books to local schools as part of World Book Day.

Over the last year, the Trust has undertaken significant building and improvement projects, which the Charity has been able to support. The Intensive Care for Airedale Appeal has provided equipment and furniture for the brand-new Intensive Care Unit. The Charity also funded the renovation of the hydrotherapy pool, which is used

in rehabilitation programmes, and which was officially reopened in February. We also ran a successful appeal to fund refurbishment of the quiet room in outpatients, for patients who may have received difficult or upsetting news.

In August the staff lottery was transferred to the Charity and was rebranded to bring it in line with the Charity branding. Membership of the staff lottery has increased since then and on average the running of the lottery raises £800 for the wellbeing fund each month. We also launched our new website enabling donations to be made more easily and news about how we have spent the money to be shared more widely.

The Charity funded the purchase of a Swiss Lithoclast Trilogy Lithotripter, for the removal of kidney stones and bladder stones, costing £50,000 for the Urology Department. This innovative new device enables patients to be treated sooner and their treatment can take less time.

We were also very fortunate to announce our first corporate partners HCL, based in Skipton who we look forward to working with over the next year and hopefully beyond.

It has been a busy year for the Charity, promoting our work, raising funds, ensuring good governance in how those funds are spent, supporting donors, and ensuring that we remain a positive and active partner in our community. We can’t do any of this without your continued support. On behalf of the Charity and the Trust I want to thank all of you for your kindness and help. We have lots of exciting plans for 2022/23 and together we can continue to make a real difference for those who use and provide our services.

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What a wonderful year!

~~July~~

2021

The fabulous Airedale community took the lead in July with lots of tea parties, challenges and events taking place for the NHS Big Tea.

Kate Lambert walked the Three Peaks to raise money and show her thanks to the Rheumatology Department after her Vasculitis (GPA) diagnosis. Kate and her dad completed the challenge in under 11 hours and smashed their fundraising target, raising over £2,000.

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The new financial year kicked off in style. We were delighted to welcome Victoria in April. Victoria had never picked up a paint brush before teaching herself to paint during lockdown. Here she is with Consultant Alexandra Danecki and the amazing NHS superhero painting she gifted to the team.

Huge thank you also goes to Darren from Indigo Financial Services who with the help of colleagues and friends helped support the wellbeing of our staff. Darren organised and donated hot meals for night staff, brew bags and selfcare items.

~~August~~

This month saw our super school supporters, St Anne’s and our lovely matron Angie McGarry steal the spotlight on episode two of Jay’s Yorkshire Workshop. We were proud to nominate St Anne’s to receive a handmade item from Jay and the team in recognition of their amazing lockdown fundraising in early 2021. The team out-did themselves with a wonderful rainbow bookcase which now sits in pride of place in the school library.

~~May~~

The Sunshine Sensory Project was launched in May. The project aims to improve the experiences of children visiting Airedale Hospital for surgery who have additional needs or sensory sensitivities. With the help of grant funding and donations we were proud to provide the Theatre team with a dedicated sensory trolley, sensory toys, and other equipment.

Local resident and neighbour Lynnda Smith held an open day at her house for her neighbours and the local community. Lynnda and friends raised a staggering £1,100 to be used for staff wellbeing at Airedale.

~~September~~

Our Charity team grew when we welcomed Ciara to the team to run our communications and marketing.

In September we launched our Intensive Care for Airedale Appeal, raising money to purchase the added extras for our new Intensive Care Unit which was rapidly taking shape on site.

~~June~~

We zoomed into June with an exciting donation from the Tesla Owners Club. The Club donated a limited-edition child size Tesla to our Theatres department. Children now travel in style from the ward to the operating theatre, making it a fun experience.

Challenges of all shapes and sizes took place in September from walking the Three Peaks to participating in the annual Skipton Rotary Club Dragon Boat Race.

Wilman & Lodge estate agents took on the huge challenge of walking 27.5 miles to raise money for the Haematology & Oncology Day Unit. The team raised over £2,300 to say thank you for the care a loved one had received.

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~~October~~

We celebrated some very special patients in October. A grant from the Asda Foundation enabled us to send our Paediatric Type 1 Diabetic patients on an outdoor activity day. The day included grass sledging, archery, and plenty of food! The children and their families got to make new friends, benefit from peer support and most of all have fun.

Our very own ward 5 stroke team embarked on a challenge to raise funds to invest in new rehabilitation technology. The team smashed their target and covered 963 miles through walking, running, swimming and cycling throughout the month. With this help we were able to purchase two upper limb rehabilitation devices for staff to use one on one with patients to assist with recovery.

~~November~~

Derek, a past ICU patient donated £1,000 to the Intensive Care for Airedale appeal. Along with his wife, Sue he wanted to give back to the staff on the unit for their excellent care and kindness.

“We are so very grateful to be able to see how well Derek is doing after being so gravely unwell. It’s great after all the sadness we have suffered to have such a success story.” Heather Driver, Acute Pain Nurse

~~December~~

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Christmas is always a busy time, and this year did not disappoint. Our annual Christmas sock day was a huge sock-cess with staff, members of the public and local schools getting involved.

Our gift appeal for elderly patients meant that we were able to give a present to over 100 of our patients staying with us on Christmas Day. We were delighted to fund a Christmas packed lunch for all staff as a thank you for their hard work over the year.

Our heartfelt thanks go to everyone that donated and helped to make the festive season special for our patients and staff.

2022

~~January~~

In January we announced our corporate partnership with HCL Workforce Solutions. Throughout 2022 the team will be taking part in events and organising activities to raise funds for Airedale.

“This year, we chose Airedale as our charity to support as we really felt that we wanted to give back to our local hospital where most of our family and friends have benefitted from their services.

“It’s especially important for us after the past couple of years with everything that NHS staff have done and continue to do for us throughout the pandemic.” Bryony, Recruitment Consultant, HCL Workforce.

~~February~~

We said a huge thank you to Northern Rail in February for their kind donation of over £9,000 towards our Pacer project. The money will be used to help buy items for the inside of the train such as furniture, books for the library, toys and much more.

~~March~~

It was great to see William when he popped in to see us with his family to present us with a cheque for over £900. William walked the Yorkshire Three Peaks to raise money for the neonatal unit because his brother Thomas spent “I found it really upsetting seeing a month there when he my new baby brother in the was born seven weeks Neonatal Unit. It seemed a scary premature. place at first, but our time there was made so much easier by the amazing staff and facilities on the unit at Airedale. We will be forever grateful for everything they did for Thomas, and for us.” William

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About us

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity is the official charity of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We support the staff, patients and communities of Airedale across 700 square miles of West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire.

What we do

We want everyone who needs our services to receive the best possible care and support. Our mission is to support Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to enhance patient care and employee wellbeing.

The funds and support we give enable our colleagues to go above and beyond what would otherwise be possible.

Our vision, mission, values and strategy

Introduction

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity is the dedicated charity of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (ANHSFT). We support the staff, patients and communities of Airedale across 700 square miles of West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. We want everyone who uses ANHSFT services to receive the best possible care and support.

Our Charity was formed in 1995, originally known as Airedale NHS Trust Charitable Funds.

In 2020 we rebranded and became known as Airedale Hospital & Community Charity to ensure we reflected all of the services our Trust provides, and our mission and values both for now and into the future.

Our vision is to contribute to ensuring that everyone who needs ANHSFT’s services or who is employed by ANHSFT receives the best possible care and support.

Our mission is to support ANHSFT to enhance patient care and employee wellbeing by raising awareness, proactively generating funds and supporting others.

Our values

We promise:

We will always put you first.

We will always respect your confidentiality and your right to privacy.

We will never put you under any pressure and always respect your choice.

We will always work in a timely, effective and cost-efficient way.

We will always use gifts wisely. We respect our position as custodians of supporters’ donations.

• Even though we don’t know what the future might hold we will always do our best to uphold any wishes you have about the use of a gift or donation.

To achieve this, we have four strategic objectives:

• To empower and assist Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to be an anchor organisation within the community.

To promote understanding of and increase charitable giving to Airedale Hospital & Community Charity and demonstrate the difference this makes.

• To champion, influence and invest in areas across ANHSFT in line with the Trust’s 5 Ps strategy. This will include providing support for our colleagues and people ; putting our patients and population at the heart of everything we do; working together in partnership ; and always moving forward and progressing .

To be an efficient, responsive, financially sound, sustainable, and well-governed organisation, that leads by example. We will actively promote and champion equality, diversity and inclusion, and invest in and care for our staff.

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we are able to support and invest in areas in line with the strategy of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We do this by supporting our people, putting the patient in the centre of everything we do, embracing and encouraging progression, actively seeking out and advocating partnership and collaboration and caring for the needs of our local population.

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Our team

Year overview

Jodie Hearnshaw Charity Manager

Sarah Medus Charity Accountant

Ciara Walsh Communications and Charity Assistant

£429,000

Donations £373,000 Legacies £5,000 Grants £13,000 Gifts in kind £2,000 Other £21,000 Dividends £15,000

£284,000

Patient welfare £98,000 Staff welfare £134,000 Staff training £3,000 Medical & IT equipment £19,000 Ward environment £28,000 Gifts in Kind (distributed) £2,000

Our committee

Year ending 31 March 2022 Rhys Davies Chair & Non-Executive Director

Alan Hart-Thomas Deputy Medical Director

Andrew Dumbleton Non-Executive Director

Andrew Gold

Chair of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Annie McCluskey Head of Nursing

Christine Highley Public Governor David Crampsey Medical Director

Joanne Harrison Director of People & OD

Rob Aitchison Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Chief Executive

Victoria Pickles Director of Corporate Affairs & Deputy Chief Executive

Donations Other Legacies Dividends Grants Gifts in kind

Patient welfare Medical & IT equipment Staff welfare Ward environment Staff training Gifts in Kind (distributed)

Funds not spent in year are retained for future use

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Making

AOK Airedale Acts of Kindness campaign

We’re on a mission to make Airedale A-OK!

The aim of Airedale Charity’s Airedale AOK

(Acts of Kindness) campaign is to spread kindness and positivity within our Trust and local community. We recognised the need to boost staff morale and to engage our local community and teach children and community groups about the importance of kindness.

Doing acts of kindness can increase levels of serotonin, oxytocin and energy, as well as positive feelings of happiness and pleasure. Being kind can also decrease pain, stress, depression, anxiety, and blood pressure.

So, by engaging in acts of kindness, you’re also being kind to yourself.

Kindness month

Airedale Hospital and Community Charity launched the AOK campaign in October 2021 (kindness month).

The Charity team encouraged people to be kind and carried out their own acts of kindness. For example, the Charity sent encouraging messages to colleagues, posted kindness quotes and tips on their social media, sent random gifts to colleagues, left surprises around the hospital and community sites for people to find, bought toys for the on-site day nursery, and held a tombola where staff could get a free prize to give to a friend. The team also worked with the Trust’s dedicated staff clinical psychologist to create a video and blog post about the importance of kindness and self-compassion.

The Charity provided useful resources throughout the campaign, including a kindness calendar, a gratitude journal template, kindness bingo, ‘pass it on’ cards, and an AOK 2022 desk calendar.

We received some great feedback about the project, from inside our Trust, as well as from community members and wider NHS system. Members of staff carried out their own acts of kindness and used the #AOKAiredale resources to spread kindness throughout the Trust and wider community. People also made kindness displays in wards and departments and followed the kindness calendar by doing a kind act every day. Local organisations got in touch with us and shared our resources throughout the local healthcare system.

Work with community

Following the success of the campaign within the Trust and social media community, we decided to take the campaign out into the local community.

World Book Day

Our team went to five local schools on World Book Day to speak to them about kindness and give them a selection of health-related books as a surprise act of kindness.

The schools were extremely grateful, and the campaign gave us an opportunity to engage with our community and younger generation. It has subsequently led to partnerships with the schools.

Naomi, deputy head at local school, says: “Thank you to Airedale Charity for joining our special World Book Day worship and for the lovely act of kindness. The books are already on our rainbow bookshelf!”

We also led a whole school assembly at St Anne’s Primary School in Keighley to talk about kindness and inspire children to be kind to their families, friends, teachers, and peers. At the assembly, we gave them a task to create ‘kindness quilts’ where each pupil thought of five ways that they could be kind and wrote them on a hand template. Their teachers then stuck each hand together to create a kindness quilt for each class.

Kindness café – Bradford University

During Kindness Month, The University of Bradford invited us to attend their UNIfy Community Open Day to showcase the AOK campaign.

Our team had a stand in the exhibition area at the event where people could learn about the Charity and the campaign and take part in activities to make them think about how they can be kind. We also held a kindness café session and talked about the importance of kindness and the science behind it.

The campaign has been a huge success. It has provided us with a way to engage further with Airedale staff, local schools and community groups who have all been really appreciative. We’re pleased that the AOK campaign is now part of our core offer, so there will be much more to come!

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Website

August saw the launch of our brand-new standalone Charity website, www.airedalecharity.org. The site is full of good news, the latest events and lots of ways to get involved.

The website also tells the awe-inspiring stories of our fundraisers and supporters, we guarantee you will need a tissue when you take a read.

To celebrate the launch the team gave out branded water bottles to all ANHSFT staff as a thank you for their support and to encourage them to stay hydrated for their own wellbeing. The bottles proved a huge hit and have been snapped all over the world.

Big Tea

July proved to be a busy month for the Charity with an outpouring of love and lots of tea as our NHS Big Tea celebrations took place.

Various departments within the Trust held their own tea party and Suzie, Community Champion at Asda Keighley was on hand to run a cake stand.

Out in the community, cakes and cuppas were available for all to enjoy. A special thanks goes to Troutbeck Care Home in Ilkley for holding their own garden party.

Rylstone WI celebrated their 95th anniversary with a Big Tea garden party. “The pandemic had meant we were unable to celebrate our anniversary in January so we were delighted to be able to combine the two in July. Having not been able to meet in person for so many months it was very special to get together in person and raise some money for a very worthy cause.” The WI ladies rose to the challenge and raised a magnificent £355.

Staff Lottery

In 2021 we were privileged to take over the running of the Staff Lottery. Every month players have the chance to win 50% of the lottery takings which is then split into five prizes of different sizes. Some months, when there are special occasions, we add an extra sixth prize. The remaining 50% is set aside for the Charity to support employee wellbeing.

The People Health & Wellbeing fund supports applications from across the whole of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. It also leads on various wellbeing initiatives such as Christmas lunches and supporting the Trust’s inclusion networks.

Since July 2021, nearly £9,000 has been raised by members of the lottery and invested into wellbeing projects.

The Staff Lottery has grown significantly between July 2021 when we took it over and March 2022 with an increase of nearly 80 lines (£80) each month.

Staff Wellbeing

Providing support to our colleagues is one of our key objectives. We were delighted to receive a significant donation from the Trust in March 2022 to fund wellbeing initiatives for all colleagues across the organisation. This donation will enable the Charity to continue to provide staff support via the People Health & Wellbeing fund.

Throughout the year AHCC proudly continued to provide support in various ways:

• annual Christmas picnic lunch

• supporting the Trust’s inclusion networks

• appliances such as fridges, microwaves, fans

• • furniture for restrooms

• bike shelters and bike repair stands

• staff psychologist for 12 months

• development and provision of welcome packs for new starters

• supporting refreshments for wellbeing during extreme temperatures

• This list is just a snapshot of the projects and equipment supported by the fund during 2021/22.

We committed to providing outdoor seating and rest facilities and this will remain a focus for the coming year across all ANHSFT sites.

Over the next year there will be lots more work taking place to support staff including plans to run a grant scheme to enable wards, departments, and teams to bid for funding to support patient experience and wellbeing schemes in their own areas.

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Team Airedale

Alan took part in the Great North Run in memory of his dad, Cyril. He raised over £560 for AHCC because the hospital has supported the family through lots over the years.

Fiona took part in a Total Warrior challenge and raised nearly £800 for the Maxillofacial and Speech and Language departments after the excellent treatment she received following an operation to extract a tumour from inside her mouth.

Aunty Beryl makes the most amazing lemon curd and so we were delighted when, with the help of our friends in the ACCT team, she made a batch and wanted to give 100% of the proceeds to AHCC. Aunty B raised £50 and made a lot of people happy.

Fundraiser Christina completed a massive seven-day challenge for her dad, Dennis, who spent six months at Airedale after he suffered a cardiac arrest. Christina challenged herself to run 10km, cycle 10km and swim 1,500 every day for a whole week. She raised over an incredible £1,400.

Louise and Emma raised over an incredible £1,250 for the AHCC Haematology and Oncology Day Unit by hosting a charity evening.

Silsden-based radio broadcaster and journalist Stuart raised £550 with the help of family, friends, colleagues and listeners for his 41st birthday. After a health scare Stuart set up the fundraiser to thank the team who looked after him so brilliantly.

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Warren

Six year old Warren raised an amazing £100 to buy 25 gifts for elderly patients that will be in hospital over Christmas. He wanted to cheer people up that would be away from their family and friends. Warren chose the gifts himself with the help of local businesses including Morrison’s, Whitakers Chocolates and 22 The Square.

Ben Rhydding School

Students at Ben Rhydding Primary School out their best sock forward and took part in our annual Christmas Sock Day. Together they raised over £170 and looked sock-tastic doing it!

St Anne’s carol singing

Our friends at St Anne’s school kept us entertained when they visited to sing Christmas carols outside Outpatients for patients, visitors, and staff.

Airedale superstars

Paediatric Diabetes Activity Day

We had an amazing day with some incredible real-life superheroes in October. With the help of grant funding from the Asda Foundation we funded an activity day for our paediatric diabetes patients. 25 children attended the day with their parents along with clinicians from the hospital.

The children got together for the outdoor celebration event to play games, socialise, learn, and share experiences with each other to help them realise that their condition should not set them apart from others and should not stop them from doing things that other children without the condition do.

The day was a huge success and we are looking forward to helping with many more in the future.

St Mary’s

Pupils from St Mary’s Primary School in Riddlesden organised a special donation at Christmas. Members of the school parliament decided they wanted to do something to help other children and set up a collection to buy presents. They shared the plan with the rest of the school and raised enough funds to create 25 gift bags filled with goodies and lots of extra toys and books for the ward playroom.

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“Skipton Cycling Club wanted to show appreciation to the stroke unit where a few of our members have received care in recent years.” Caran Stephenson, chair of Skipton Cycling Club

Skipton Cycling Club

Skipton Cycling Club raised £1,000 for the stroke ward at Airedale Hospital by selling their unused kit.

Rudolph Run

Lothersdale Agriculture Discussion Group blew us away with their first ever Rudolph Run. The event saw members of the group come together to raise money for AHCC and Manorlands. Over 50 tractors took part in the procession that set off from Keighley Tarn and headed to Skipton. The convoy made sure to make a stop on the way at Airedale Hospital. Over £5,000 was raised which was split between Airedale Hospital & Community Charity and Manorlands hospice.

Green Crescent fun day

A family fun day was held at the Airedale Shopping in Keighley in September. The day was organised by members of Green Crescent Aid UK who organised lots of free activities for families to enjoy. The Keighley community came together and a bucket collection at the event raised over £370 for the Make a Splash appeal to renovate the hydrotherapy pool at Airedale.

Rotary Clubs of Skipton

We were privileged to work with both the Skipton and Skipton Craven Rotary Clubs throughout the year. Members helped us to purchase several pieces of equipment including a blood pressure monitor for Endoscopy and a stretcher chair for the rehabilitation of the most critically ill patients.

University of the Third Age

Douglas and colleagues at the University of the Third Age unveiled their very special toposcope on Pinhaw Beacon. The toposcope was dedicated to all those who died of Covid-19 and expressing thanks to all NHS staff and care workers for their dedication. Matron Angie McGarry and Consultant David Driver were on hand to do the grand unveiling. A collection at the event raised and amazing £525 for employee wellbeing.

NCS

16 NCS students aged 17 to 19 got in touch with us as they wanted to give back to the local community and support Airedale Hospital. The charity team set the group a target to raise £110 to purchase a robotic companion cat that can be used by patients with dementia on Airedale’s Acute Assessment Unit.

The students worked incredibly hard and raised a total of £150 meaning they had some funds left over to purchase gifts for elderly patients that will be in hospital over Christmas.

Principle Trust

The Principle Trust held their second annual Christmas Toy Appeal for our patients spending the festive season on the Children’s Unit.

Members of the group enjoyed the challenge so much that they completed a Christmas walking challenge raising enough money to purchase a second cat this time for one of the elderly wards.

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Hydro pool

We ‘Made a Splash’ in 2021 by donating nearly £50,000 in funding to renovate the hydrotherapy pool at Airedale. The pool, which has helped provide treatment for thousands of patients over the years is used by adults and children with many different conditions, helping them to regain and improve independence, reduce pain and increase strength and fitness. The team helped to raise funds for the refurbishment with the help of the local community.

“I was honoured to have been

asked to cut the ribbon and officially open the pool; it will make a huge difference to lots of people.” Peter Loss, patient

“We’re really grateful that Airedale Charity supported us with the renovation.” Jo Sainty, physiotherapy professional lead

Trilogy Lithotripter

We were delighted to fund some state-of-the-art equipment for the Urology Department for the treatment of kidney and bladder stones. Each year the team carry out over 50 of these procedures, around half of which are complex and require specialist treatment.

The Swiss Lithoclast Trilogy Lithotripter cost £50,000 and aims to reduce procedure time whilst enhancing the surgical experience for the patient and staff. The equipment means that patients can be treated sooner and their treatment can take less time. It also provides better outcomes for patients as they can get home quicker.

Quiet Room

In collaboration with the Airedale outpatients team, we were able to fund the refurbishment of the quiet room in the department. The room is an important space that is used by a variety of people. Often, patients use the facility following an appointment where they may have received bad news relating to results, cancer or another life changing diagnosis. The space is now calm and peaceful and provides comfortable surroundings for our patients and their families.

Vein viewer

The AccuVein Vein Visualisation Viewer was purchased for our Children’s services. The small device is used to easily find veins in children who need a blood test or an IV drip. The vein viewer shines a bright green light to make the veins stand out, helping clinicians to accurately find veins that otherwise difficult to see. This small machine provides huge benefits.

It is recognised that experiencing pain early in life affects neuronal development and impacts the development of coping strategies and pain receptors. This can lead to needle phobias and possibly even long-term negative effects in the future. Benefits are also felt by the patient’s families and staff members as the experience is much less stressful and time consuming.

Sleeping chairs for end-of-life patients

Three recliner sleeping chairs were purchased this year. The chairs are available for use by any families staying overnight with relatives who are in their last days or hours.

The chairs, costing over £500 each, are comfortable and sturdy, ensuring families are well cared for.

Feedback from staff and families has told us that the chairs have been invaluable and have hugely improved experiences for families who have been able to get some rest and comfort and spend more time with their relatives. It has also meant that patients have been able to have comfort and support from their families in their final days.

Virtual visiting

With the help of our supporters, we were able to fund numerous iPads for Virtual Visiting for patients to use while visiting restrictions were in place.

We know how difficult it is to be apart from loved ones but with the help of our staff, patients can video call regularly with their family and friends using these designated iPads. This has allowed patients to keep in contact with their loved ones while they are in hospital – something that matters the most.

Upper limb rehabilitation devices

With the funds raised by the Ward 5 team, two upper limb rehabilitation devices, which cost £450 each were purchased for staff to use one on one with patients. Using the devices, patients are guided through a variety of games and move or squeeze the handheld device to move or avoid obstacles shown to them on the tablet screen.

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Looking forward together

Thanks to you we have been able to show our love for Airedale again this year. With your help our future is exciting.

Some of the key areas of focus for our Charity next year:

Anchor in the community

In our last annual report, we set out our goal to be at the very heart of our community. As one of our strategic objectives, this will continue to be a huge part of our work over the next year. We will continue to use our position to champion Airedale, to help others to the best of our ability and invest in the Airedale community.

Working with you

One of the key elements of our strategy is to work in collaboration. We will continue to work collaboratively with partners of all shapes and sizes including ambassadors and corporate and school partnerships. We will also continue to invest in young members of the Airedale community helping them to grow and flourish.

Working with you, for you , will forever be at the heart of everything we do, making sure that our staff and patients help us make the biggest impact.

Airedale AOK

Our Airedale AOK (Acts of Kindness) campaign aims to inspire our organisations and local communities to be kind to others and to yourself. Airedale AOK has become part of our core offer and will continue to be a focus for the Charity showing that we put kindness at the heart of everything we do.

Investing in Airedale

Several large Charity funded projects will take place over the next year including the refurbishment of our muchloved Haematology and Oncology Day Unit and the renovation of our Pacer train carriage for the Airedale community.

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Thank you!
To those we have
mentioned and so many
others... THANK YOU for
showing your love for
Airedale.
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A closer look

The Airedale Hospital & Community Charity has a Corporate Trustee, which is the Airedale Board of Directors. The Corporate Trustee presents the Airedale Hospital & Community Charity Annual Report together with the independently examined financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022.

The Corporate Trustee is responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with the applicable law and UK Accounting Standards. The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the Trustee to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the Charity for that period.

The Corporate Trustee is responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the Charity and enable them to ascertain that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Report and financial statements include all the separately established funds for which Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is the sole beneficiary.

The members of the Board of Directors who served during the financial year ended 31 March 2022 and therefore acted as the Corporate Trustee were as follows:

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Andrew Gold Chair
Brendan Brown Chief Executive until December 2021
Rob Aitchison Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Chief Executive
Interim Chief Executive January – March 2022
Amanda Stanford Chief Nurse
Amy Whitaker Director of Finance
Joanne Harrison Director of People & OD
David Crampsey Medical Director
Victoria Pickles Director of Corporate Affairs & Deputy Chief Executive
Stuart Shaw Director of Strategy and Planning
Interim Chief Operating Officer January – March 2022
Nadira Mirza Deputy Chair
Rhys Davies Non-Executive Director
Andrew Dumbleton Non-Executive Director
Melanie Hudson Non-Executive Director
Ian Knight Non-Executive Director from August 2022
David Wharfe Non-Executive Director until June 2022
Andy Withers Non-Executive Director
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Reference and administrative details for the Charity, Trustee and Advisers

The Trustee

The Charity

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity (the ‘Charity’) is a public benefit entity. The Trustee has regard for the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit as set out in section 4 of the 2006 Charity Act. This report outlines the activities of the Charity in furthering the Charity’s purposes for the public benefit.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is the Corporate Trustee of the charitable funds governed by the law applicable to Trusts, principally the Trustee Act 2000 and the Charities Act 2006.

The Foundation Trust’s Board of Directors devolved responsibility for the ongoing management of fund to the Charitable Funds Committee (‘the Committee’) which administers the funds on behalf of the Corporate Trustee. This committee was formed on 20 December 2007.

The Charity was entered on the Central Register of Charities on the 15 November 1995 as Airedale NHS Charitable Funds and was formed under the umbrella charity model with several subsidiaries. Following structural changes within the NHS, the subsidiaries were removed in 2008. The Charity changed its name to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Funds following Airedale NHS Trust achieving Foundation Trust status on 1 June 2010. There was a further name change in March 2020 when the Charity changed its name to Airedale Hospital & Community Charity to better encompass all aspects of its strategic aims.

The names of those people who served as agent for the corporate trustee and were members of the Committee during the financial year ended 31 March 2022, as permitted under regulation 16 of the NHS Trusts (Membership and Procedures) Regulations 1990 were as follows:

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Rhys Davies Non-Executive Director
(Chair)
Andrew Dumbleton Non-Executive Director
Andrew Gold Chair of Airedale NHS
Foundation and Non-
Executive Director
Rob Aitchison Chief Operating Officer/
Deputy Chief Executive
Victoria Pickles Director of Corporate Affairs
/ Deputy Chief Executive
David Crampsey Medical Director
Joanne Harrison Director of People & OD
Alan Hart-Thomas Deputy Medical Director
Annie McCluskey Head of Nursing
Christine Highley Public Governor
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Funds received by the Charity are accepted, held, and administered as funds and property held on trust for purposes relating to the health service in accordance with the National Health Service Act 2006 and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and these funds are held on trust by the corporate body.

Neil Helm acted as the principal officer overseeing the day-to-day financial management and accounting of the Charity during the year to 31 March 2022. Victoria Pickles, as Director of Corporate Affairs and Group Company Secretary oversaw the governance elements and overall management of the Charity during the year to 31 March 2022.

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Principal office

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity c/o Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Airedale General Hospital Skipton Road Steeton Keighley BD20 6TD

Principal professional advisors

Bankers

Investment Fund

Independent

Barclays Bank PLC 77 North Street Keighley BD21 5BD

Managers Examiners Castlefield Investment Stirk, Lambert & Co Partners LLP Russell Chambers 1 Portland Street 61a North Street Manchester Keighley M1 3BE BD21 3DS (until October 2021)

Rathbone Investment Management Port of Liverpool Building Pier Head Liverpool L3 1NW (From November 2021)

Structure, Management and Governance

The Corporate Trustee has regard to the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit in section 4 of the Charities Act. Accordingly, the Committee ensures that funds are used for the benefit of, and enhancement to, the care of patients and well-being of staff. This is achieved through the provision of medical and non-medical equipment that otherwise would not be available for purchase through public NHS funding. The Charity is also able to fund enhanced patient care by providing additional nurse training and education which otherwise would not be available. The benefits of providing new equipment and enhanced care is available free of charge to all members of the public and patients using Airedale NHS Foundation Trust’s service.

Structure

The Charity has one key NHS wide objective:

“The Trustee shall hold the trust upon trust to apply the income, and at their discretion so far as may be permissible, the capital, for any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the National Health Service.”

The Charity also has a number of objectives developed and linked specifically to the needs and objectives of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust:

• To support our people and their wellbeing

• To improve the patient experience

• To progress services and innovation within the Trust

• To support services delivered in partnership

• To support the needs of the population we serve

Management

The Charity’s unrestricted fund was established using the model Declaration of Trust and all funds held on trust as at the date or registration were either part of this unrestricted fund or registered as separate restricted funds under the main charity. Subsequent donations and gifts received by the Charity that are attributable to the original funds are added to those fund balances within the existing charity.

The Corporate Trustee fulfils its legal duty by ensuring that funds are spent in accordance with the objects of each fund and, by designating funds, the Trustee respects the wishes of our generous donors to benefit patient care and advance the good health and welfare of patients, carers and staff.

The Corporate Trustee and the agents of the Corporate Trustee have regard to the public benefit guidance issued by the Charities Commission when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant. Where funds have been received which have specific restrictions set by the donor, these have been managed accordingly.

The charitable funds available for spending are allocated to specialties within the Trust’s directorate management structure. Each allocation is managed by use of a designated fund within the general unrestricted fund. For example, there are charitable funds for medicine which include allocations for each of the wards and within surgery the funds include allocations for Ophthalmology, Cardiac and Theatres.

The Director of Corporate Affairs of the Trust who, under a scheme of delegated authority approved by the Corporate Trustee, has day to day responsibility for the management of the Charitable Fund and must personally approve, on behalf of the Corporate Trustee, all expenditure over £1,000 with an upper limit of £7,500 using their delegated authority. The Committee has delegated authority to approve expenditure over £7,500 with an upper limit of £50,000. Expenditure of £50,000 and above requires approval by the Trust’s Board of Directors acting in their capacity as the Corporate Trustee.

Governance

Members of the Board of Directors and the Charitable Funds Committee are not individual trustees under Charity Law but act as agents on behalf of the Corporate Trustee.

Acting for the Corporate Trustee, the Charitable Funds Committee is responsible for the overall management of the Charitable Fund. The committee is required to:

• Control, manage and monitor the use of the fund’s resources;

• Manage and monitor the receipt of all income;

• Ensure that ‘best practice’ is followed in the conduct of all its affairs fulfilling all of its legal responsibilities, ensuring the Charity operate and complies with current legislation;

• Ensure that the Investment Policy, approved by the Board as Corporate Trustee, is adhered to and that performance is continually reviewed whilst being aware of ethical considerations; and

• Keep the Board fully informed on the activity, performance, and risks of the Charity.

The Trust has established separate appointments committees in line with the NHS Code of Governance – the Nominations and Remuneration Committee deal with the appointment of Executive Directors, and an Appointments and Remuneration Committee deal with the appointment of Non-Executive Directors.

The Charity has adopted the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators guidance for the production of an induction pack for newly appointed members of the Board of Directors and the Committee. This pack provides information about the Charity including the governing document, the Committee terms of reference, trustees’ annual report and accounts, budgets and minutes, and information about trusteeship, including Charity Commission booklet CC3, The Essential Trustee.

The accounting records and the day-to-day administration of the funds are dealt with by the Trust’s Finance Department located at Airedale General Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, Keighley, BD20 6TD.

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Risk Management

The risks to which the Charity is exposed have been identified and are logged on a risk register. The risk register is reviewed on a regular basis and systems established to mitigate those risks.

Independent Financial Scrutiny

Stirk, Lambert & Co. (AHCC’s independent examiner commencing 1 September 2022) undertook a statutory independent examination of the financial statements for the charitable funds. Independent examination is permitted by the Charities Commission for a charity of this size. Independent examination is a ‘light touch’ scrutiny wherein the examiner is only required to confirm whether any material matters of concern have come to their attention and excludes the audit requirement to provide an opinion on whether a charity’s accounts give a ‘true and fair view’. They gave an unqualified report on the accounts.

Principal Risks and Uncertainties

The Corporate Trustee has considered the key risks to which the Charity is exposed:

1) A fall in income from donations

The Trustee has arrangements in place to mitigate those risks. The Corporate Trustee aims to mitigate the risk that income will fall by supporting the fundraising team with increasing the Charity’s visibility in the local community and beyond. The Charity has a fundraising strategy that is reviewed on an annual basis. This is supported by a communications and marketing plan to ensure brand visibility and support. Robust internal governance ensures that the Charity is only spending funds that are available.

2) A fall in income from investments

The investment portfolio is well diversified to help protect the Charity against any fall in value of a particular market. The Investment Manager holds a discretionary mandate which enables them to make investment and divestment decisions on the Charity’s behalf. The Charity completed a retendering programme for its investment manager during the 2021/22 period and successfully appointed Rathbone Investment Management.

Both above help minimise the principal risks and uncertainties and allows the Corporate Trustee to consider the Charity to be a going concern.

Reserves Policy

The Trustee has a target for reserves to fund up to three years of expenditure. This is to allow freedom to make grants when they are needed in anticipation of investment returns and donations. Reserves at this level will also permit the timely realisation of expendable endowments to make grants, on an exceptional basis, where required. No target figure was set. The level of unrestricted funds, which are neither designated nor earmarked, increased from £1,304k to £1,343k. The reserves policy is reviewed on a three yearly basis alongside the investment policy.

Financial statements

Throughout 2021/22 the Charity continued to support a wide range of health-related activities benefitting both patients and staff. In general, they are used to purchase a variety of additional goods and services that the NHS is unable to provide.

Annual financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Foreword

The trustee is required to act in accordance with the trust deed and the rules of the charity, within the framework of trust law. The trustee is responsible for keeping proper accounting records, sufficient to disclose at any time, with reasonable accuracy, the financial position of the charity at that time, and to enable the trustee to ensure that, where any statements of accounts are prepared by the trustee under section 132(1) of the Charities Act 2011, those statements of accounts comply with the requirements of regulations under that provision. The trustee has general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to the trustee to safeguard the assets of the charity and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

These financial statements cover the year from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022, and have been prepared by the trustee based on a going concern basis.

These accounts have been prepared by the Trustee in accordance with “Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice”(FRS 102) issued in October 2019, the Charities Act 2011, and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008.

Main purpose of the funds held on trust

The main purpose of the charitable funds held on trust is to apply income for any charitable purpose relating to the National Health Service wholly or mainly for the services provided by the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

Signed on behalf of the trustee:

Statement of trustees’ responsibilities

Under charity law, the trustee is responsible for preparing the trustee’s annual report and accounts for each financial year which show a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the excess of expenditure over income for that period.

Name: Rhys Davies – Chair of Charitable Funds Committee

Date: 02 November 2022

In preparing these financial statements, generally accepted accounting practice requires that the trustee:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently

• make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent

• states whether the recommendations of the SORP FRS 102 have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements

• states whether the financial statements comply with the trust deed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements

• prepares the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue its activities.

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Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2022

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022

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Note Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds
funds funds funds
2021/22 2021/22 2021/22 2021/22 2020/21
Income and endowments from: £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Donations and legacies 3 393 0 0 393 468
Other trading activities 21 0 0 21 2
Investments 5 15 0 0 15 15
Total incoming resources 429 0 0 429 485
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Expenditure on:
Raising funds 6 (85) 0 0 (85) (44)
Charitable activities
Grants Payable & Gifts in Kind 7 (284) 0 0 (284) (260)
distributed
Support costs 9 (43) 0 0 (43) (34)
Total expenditure (412) 0 0 (412) (338)
Net gains/(losses) on investments 13 22 0 0 22 80
Net income/(expenditure) 39 0 0 39 227
Transfers between funds 0 0 0 0 0
Net movement in funds 39 0 0 39 227
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward at 1st 18 1,304 0 4 1,308 1,081
April 2021
Total funds carried forward at 31st 1,343 0 4 1,347 1,308
March 2022
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The notes at pages 39 to 49 form part of these accounts.

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Note Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total at
funds funds funds at 31 31 March
March 2021
2022
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Fixed Assets
Investments 13 602 0 0 602 580
Total Fixed Assets 602 0 0 602 580
Current Assets
Debtors 14 3 0 0 3 11
Cash and Cash Equivalents 15 867 12 4 883 839
Total current assets 870 12 4 886 850
Liabilities
Creditors falling due within one year 16 129 0 0 129 122
Deferred income 16 0 12 0 12 0
New current assets/(liabilities) 741 0 4 745 728
Total assets less current liabilities 1,343 0 4 1,347 1,308
Total net assets or liabilities 1,343 0 4 1,347 1,308
The funds of the Charity 18
Endownment Funds 0 0 4 4 4
Unrestricted Income Funds 1,343 0 0 1,343 1,304
Total Charity Funds 1,343 0 4 1,347 1,308
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All gains and losses recognised in the year are included in the Statement of Financial Position. All the results on the Statement of Financial Activities are derived from Continuing operations.

The notes at pages 39 to 49 form part of these accounts, signed on behalf of the trust by Rhys Davies (Chair of the Charitable Fund Committee).

Signed on behalf of the trustee:

Name: Rhys Davies – Chair of Charitable Funds Committee Date: 02 November 2022

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Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31 March 2022

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Note 31 March 2022 31 March 2021
Total Funds Total Funds
£000 £000
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 17 29 202
Cash flows from investing activities:
Dividends, interest and rents from investments 5 15 15
Proceeds from the sale of investments 13 579 96
Purchase of investments 13 (579) (90)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities 15 21
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period 44 223
Change in cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of 15 839 616
the reporting period
Change in cash and cash equivalents due to exchange rate 0 0
movements
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period 883 839
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Notes on the accounts

1) Accounting Policies a) Basis of Preparation

The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention, with the exception of investments which are included at fair value.

The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued in October 2019 and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011 and UK Generally Accepted Practice as it applies from 1 January 2019.

The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared to give a ‘true and fair’ view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a ‘true and fair view’. This departure has involved following Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued in October 2019 rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.

The trustee considers that there are no material uncertainties about the Airedale Hospital and Community Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern. There are no material uncertainties affecting the current year’s accounts.

In future years, the key risks to the charity are a fall in income from donations or investments but the trustee has arrangements in place to mitigate those risks (see the ‘Principal Risks and Uncertainties’ section of the annual report for more information).

b) Funds Structure

Where there is a legal restriction on the purpose to which a fund may be put, the fund is classified either as:

• a restricted fund or

• an endowment fund.

has provided for the donation to be spent in furtherance of a specified charitable purpose.

Endowment funds arise when the donor has expressly provided that the gift is to be invested and only the income of the fund may be spent. These funds are sub analysed between those where the trustee has the discretion to spend the capital (expendable endowment) and those where there is no discretion to expend the capital (permanent endowment).

The charity has one permanent endowment fund. The income of the Winifred Naylor Allen Endowment Fund can be used for nurse training awards.

Those funds which are neither endowment nor restricted income funds, are unrestricted income funds which are sub analysed between designated (earmarked) funds where the trustee has set aside amounts to be used for specific purposes or which reflect the non-binding wishes of donors and unrestricted funds which are at the trustee’s discretion, including the general fund which represents the charity’s reserves.

The major funds held in each of these categories are disclosed in note 18.

c) Incoming Resources

All incoming resources are recognised once the charity has entitlement to the resources, it is probable (more likely than not) that the resources will be received and the monetary value of incoming resources can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Where there are terms or conditions attached to incoming resources, particularly grants, then these terms or conditions must be met before the income is recognised as the entitlement condition will not be satisfied until that point. Where terms or conditions have not been met or uncertainty exists as to whether they can be met then the relevant income is not recognised in the year but deferred and shown on the balance sheet as deferred income.

d) Gifts in kind

Gifts in kind, such as food and care packages are not accounted for when they are accepted and immediately distributed unless a single donation is material.

The vast majority of items donated to Airedale Hospital & Commmunity Charity fell into this category.

Restricted funds are those where the donor

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Gifts of tangible assets such as TV’s, microwaves and fridges, which have an individual value of at least £100, are recognised as a donation at fair value (market price) on receipt and charitable expenditure when they are distributed. £2k has been include in donations and expenditure to reflect this (2020/21 £6k).

Where gifts in kind are held before being distributed to beneficiaries, they are recognised at fair value as stock until they are distributed. No items were undistributed as at 31st March or had no fair value.

e) Incoming Resources from Legacies

Legacies are accounted for as incoming resources either upon receipt or where the receipt of the legacy is probable.

Receipt is probable when:

• confirmation has been received from the representatives of the estate(s) that probate has been granted.

• the executors have established that there are sufficient assets in the estate to pay the legacy and

• all conditions attached to the legacy have been fulfilled or are within the charity’s control.

If there is uncertainty as to the amount of the legacy and it cannot be reliably estimated then the legacy is shown as a contingent asset until all of the conditions for income recognition are met.

f) Incoming Resources from Endowment Funds

The incoming resources received from the invested endowment fund are wholly restricted.

g) Resources expended and irrecoverable VAT

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to each category of expense shown in the Statement of Financial Activities. Expenditure is recognised when the following criteria are met:

• there is a present legal or constructive obligation resulting from a past event

• it is more likely than not that a transfer of benefits (usually a cash payment) will be required in settlement

• the amount of the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably.

Irrecoverable VAT is charged against the category of resources expended for which it was incurred.

h) Recognition of expenditure and associated liabilities as a result of grant

Grants payable are payments made to linked, related party or third party NHS bodies and non NHS bodies, in furtherance of the charitable objectives of the funds held on trust, primarily relief of those who are sick.

Grant payments are recognised as expenditure when the conditions for their payment have been met or where there is a constructive obligation to make a payment.

A constructive obligation arises when:

• the charity has communicated its intention to award a grant to a recipient who then has a reasonable expectation that they will receive a grant or

• the charity has made a public announcement about a commitment which is specific enough for the recipient to have a reasonable expectation that they will receive a grant or

• there is an established pattern of practice which indicates to the recipient that we will honour our commitment.

The trustee has control over the amount and timing of grant payments and consequently where approval has been given by the charitable fund committee, on behalf of the trustee, and any of the above criteria have been met then a liability is recognised. Grants are not usually awarded with conditions attached. However, when they are then those conditions have to be met before the liability is recognised.

Where an intention has not been communicated, then no expenditure is recognised but an appropriate designation is made in the appropriate fund. If a grant has been offered but there is uncertainty as to whether it will be accepted or whether conditions will be met then no liability is recognised but a contingent liability is disclosed.

i) Allocation of support costs

Support costs are those costs which do not relate directly to a single activity. These include some staff costs, costs of administration and independent examination costs. Support costs have been apportioned between fundraising costs and charitable activities on an appropriate basis.

The analysis of support costs are shown in note 9.

j) Fundraising Costs

The costs of generating funds are those costs attributable to generating income for the charity, other than those costs incurred in undertaking charitable activities or the costs incurred in undertaking trading activities in furtherance of the charity’s objects. The costs of generating funds represent fundraising costs together with investment management fees.

k) Charitable activities

Costs of charitable activities comprise all costs incurred in the pursuit of the charitable objects of the charity. These costs, where not wholly attributable, are apportioned between the categories of charitable expenditure in addition to the direct costs. The total costs of each category of charitable expenditure include an apportionment of support costs as shown in note 7.

l) Fixed Asset Investments

Investments are a form of basic financial instrument. Fixed asset investments are initially recognised at their transaction value and are subsequently measured at their fair value (market value) as at the balance sheet date. The Statement of Financial Activities includes the net gains and losses arising on revaluation and disposals throughout the year. Quoted stocks and shares are included in the Balance Sheet at the current market value quoted by the investment analyst, excluding dividend. Other investments are included at the trustee’s best estimate of market value.

The main form of financial risk faced by the charity is that of volatility in equity markets and investment markets due to wider economic conditions, the attitude of investors to investment risk, and changes in sentiment concerning equities and within particular sectors or sub sectors.

All investments are held in a portfolio which were managed by Castlefield Investment LLP until Oct 21 when the management transferred to Rathbone LLP.

Further information on the investments can be found in note 13.

m) Debtors

Debtors are amounts owed to the charity. They are measured on the basis of their recoverable amount.

n) Cash and cash equivalents

day to day running costs of the charity as they fall due. Cash equivalents are short term, highly liquid investments, held in interest bearing savings accounts.

o) Creditors

Creditors are amounts owed by the charity. They are measured at the amount that the charity expects to have to pay to settle the debt.

Amounts which are owed in more than a year are shown as long term creditors. At the accounting date, Airedale Hospital and Community Charity had no long term creditors.

p) Realised gains and losses

All gains and losses are taken to the Statement of Financial Activities as they arise. Realised gains and losses on investments are calculated as the difference between sales proceeds and opening carrying value (purchase date if later). Unrealised gains and losses are calculated as the difference between the market value at the year end and opening carrying value (or purchase date if later).

q) Staff costs and pensions

There are no staff directly employed by the charity. However, The Charity Manager employed by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust since August 2019 is considered to be an employee of the charity employed by a related party.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust re-charge the Charity for support costs which include a percentage of costs for several members of staff.

These staff members belong to the NHS Pension Scheme which is an unfunded defined benefit scheme which is accounted for as a defined contribution scheme. The recharge from Airedale NHS Foundation Trust includes the employee contributions to that scheme. For more information on the NHS Pension Scheme refer to the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust annual report and accounts.

Cash at bank and in hand is held to meet the

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2. Related Party Transactions

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is the corporate trustee of the Airedale Hospital and Community Charity and is its main grant beneficiary – they are therefore related parties. Grants paid by the charity to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust are detailed in note 8. Airedale NHS Foundation Trust makes a number of clerical and transaction services available to the charity, in accordance with a service level agreement. These include:

• fundraising services at a cost of £46k (£15k in 2020/21) – see note 6.

• financial administrative services at a cost of £36k (£29k in 2020/21) in support of the charity’s grant making activities which are included within support costs – see note 9

The charges made by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust for fundraising services constitute the costs of the Charity Manager. The amounts paid for administrative services are due under a service level agreement and are set at an amount which allows Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to recover its costs.

None of the members of the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust board or parties related to them has undertaken any transactions with the Airedale Hospital and Community Charity or received any benefit from the charity in payment in kind. Board members received no honoraria, expenses or emoluments in the year.

3. Income from donations and legacies

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Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Donations 373 146 0 0 373 146
Legacies 5 119 0 0 5 119
Grants receivable 13 197 0 0 2 6
Gifts in Kind (material) 2 6 0 0 2 6
Total 393 468 0 0 393 468
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5. Gross investment income

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Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Investments listed on Stock 15 15 0 0 15 15
Exchange
Other Investments 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 15 15 0 0 15 15
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6. Analysis of expenditure on raising funds

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Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Charity Manager 21 15 0 0 21 15
Youth Volunteer Coordinator 23 21 0 0 23 21
Communications and Charity 25 0 0 0 25 0
Assistant
Other 16 8 0 0 16 8
Total 85 44 0 0 85 44
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• *Employed since August 2019 by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

• **Entirely funded by monies received for that purpose by the Pears Foundation.

• ***Employed since May 2021 by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

Donations contains corporate donations and gifts from individuals i.e.members of the public, relatives of patients and staff. During 21/22, the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust made a donation of £217,200 for staff wellbeing, which is equivalent to £50 for each staff member.

4. Role of Volunteers

Like all charities, the Airedale Hospital and Community Charity is reliant on a team of volunteers for its smooth running. Our volunteers perform the following role:

• fund advisors – there are between 70-80 Airedale NHS Foundation Trust staff who support the charitable funds committee when deciding how the charity’s designated funds should be spent. These funds are designated (or earmarked) by the charitable fund committee to be spent for a particular purpose or in a particular ward or department. each fund advisor has delegated powers to use the designated funds in accordance with the committee’s wishes. The committee determines what each fund can be spent on and the amount that can be spent in a year.

In accordance with the SORP, due to the absence of any reliable measurement basis, the contribution of these volunteers is not recognised in the accounts.

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7. Analysis of charitable expenditure

The charity did not undertake any direct charitable activities on its own account during the year. All of the charitable expenditure was in the form of grant funding.

Grants were approved in favour of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, to carry out activities that will benefit NHS patients and their families.

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Grant funded activity Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000
Patients welfare and amenities 98 62 98 62
Staff welfare and amenities 134 50 134 50
Staff training 3 10 3 10
Medical equipment 21 86 21 86
IT equipment (2) 13 (2) 13
Ward environment 28 33 28 33
Gifts in Kind (material – distributed) 2 6 2 6
Total 284 260 284 260
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8. Analysis of grants

The charity does not make grants to individuals. All grants are made to the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to provide for the care of NHS patients in furtherance of our charitable aims. The total cost of making grants, including support costs, is disclosed on the face of the Statement of Financial Activities and the actual funds spent on each category of charitable activity, is disclosed in note 7.

The trustee operates a scheme of delegation for charitable funds, under which fund advisors initiate the day to day disbursements on their projects in accordance with the directions set out in standing orders and financial instructions:

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Institution receiving grant support: Total amount paid Total amount paid
2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust 282 254
Total 282 254
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9. Allocation of support costs and overheads

Support and overhead costs are allocated against charitable activities. Governance costs are those support costs which relate to the strategic and day to day management of a charity. The bases of allocation used is as follows:

• expenditure: this is a proportion based on the average fund balance during the year. This is used where the trustee considers this is a more equitable treatment to avoid disadvantaging funds with high volume, low value transactions.

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Charitable activities Basis
2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Independent Examination 3 2 Expenditure
Investment Management 3 2 Expenditure
Financial administration 36 29 Expenditure
Bank Charges 1 1 Expenditure
Total 43 34
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There are no staff directly employed by the charity. Recharges are made for Trust staff time. The recharge is shown on the Financial Administration line.

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Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Charitable activities 43 34 0 0 43 34
Total 43 34 0 0 43 34
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10. Analysis of staff costs and remuneration of key management personnel

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2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Salaries and wages 39 13
Social security costs 3 1
Employers pension contribution 3 1
Total 45 15
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The average number of full-time equivalent employees (employed by a related party) during the year was 1.6 (2020/21: 0.6), providing fundraising services to the charity.

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11. Trustee remuneration, benefits and expenses

Members of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust board give their time freely and receive no remuneration for the work that they undertake in relation to Airedale Hospital and Community Charity.

12. Independent Examiner’s remuneration

The independent examiner’s remuneration of £3k (2020/21: £2k) related solely to the independent examination with no other additional work being undertaken (2020/21: £nil). Independent Examination is permitted by the Charities Commission for a charity of this size. Independent examination is a ‘light touch’ scrutiny involving the examiner checking for specific matters only. Because it is narrowly defined and does not involve forming an opinion as to whether the accounts are ‘true and fair’, the fees are reduced.

13. Fixed Asset investments

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Movement in fixed asset investments 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Market value brought forward 580 506
Add: additions to investments at cost 579 90
Less disposals at carrying value (579) (96)
Add net gain (loss) on revaluation 22 80
Market value as at 31 March 602 580
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Fixed asset investments by type 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
UK Equities & Equity Funds 560 268
Global Equities & Equity Funds (ex UK) 15
Fixed Interest & Fixed Interest Funds 102
Global Equities & Equity Funds (incl UK) 48
Direct Property & Property Funds 42 36
Other Assets 7
Multi-Asset Funds 104
Total 602 580
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All investments are carried at their fair value.

The charitable funds committee sets 5% of market value as at 31 March as the threshold for reporting material investments. As at 31 March 2022 the following investment was considered material:

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Investment 2021/22 2021/22 2020/21 2020/21
£000 % £000 %
Rathbone Unit Trust Management Core Investment 560 93% 0 0%
Fund for Charities
Mayfair Capital in Property Income Trust for 42 7% 36 6%
Charities
Castlefield Best Sustainable Income fund 0 0% 234 40%
Castlefield Real Return fund 0 0% 104 18%
Castlefield Best Sustainable UK Smaller Companies 0 0% 34 6%
Fund
Total 602 100% 408 70%
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The main risk from financial instruments lies in the combination of uncertain investment markets and volatility in yield. The impact of Covid-19 on the financial markets continues to be a concern, as does the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine.

The value of fixed asset investments is expected to improve when the economy improves but it is not known how long this will take in the wake of the war and Covid-19 impact.

Liquidity risk is anticipated to be low as all assets are traded, and the commitment to intervention by policymakers and central banks, who have shown a clear willingness to do whatever it takes to support the global economy through these extraordinary times.

Airedale Hospital and Community Charity manages these investment risks by retaining expert advisors (for 2021/22 - Castlefields Investment Partners LLP and Rathbones LLP) and operating an investment policy that provides for a high degree of diversification of holdings within investment asset classes. All investments were made in companies listed on a UK stock exchange or incorporated in the UK and therefore all investments are treated as investment assets in the UK.

Following a competitive exercise in May 21, Rathbones LLP were appointed as the charity’s new Investment Manager. The portfolio was transferred across from Castlefield’s to Rathbones in October 2021.

14. Analysis of current debtors

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Debtors under 1 year 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Other debtors 3 11
Total 3 11
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15. Analysis of cash and cash equivalents

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2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
RBS Bank Account 868 819
Barclays Current Account 13 16
Investment account (cash held) 2 4
Total cash and cash equivalents 883 839
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18. Analysis of charitable funds

a) Analysis of endowment fund movements

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Fund balance Income Expenditure Gains and Losses Fund balance
brought forward carried forward
1 April 31 March
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
W.N. Allen 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
Total 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
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16. Analysis of liabilities

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Creditors falling due within 1 year 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Other creditors 129 122
Total cash and cash equivalents 129 122
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Other creditors represent sums owed at the year end by the charity to a related party, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, for costs incurred by the Trust on behalf of the charity in the furtherance of the charity’s objectives.

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Deferred income 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Grants received – restricted funds 12 0
Total cash and cash equivalents 12 0
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17. Reconciliation of net income/(expenditure) to net cash flow from operating activities

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2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Net income/(expenditure) for 2021/22 (as per the Statement of 39 227
Financial Activities)
Adjustments for:
(Gains)/losses on investments (22) (80)
Dividends, interest and rents from investments (15) (15)
(Increase)/decrease in debtors 8 20
Increase/(decrease) in creditors 9 50
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 29 202
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b) Analysis of unrestricted and material designated fund movements

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Fund balance Income Expenditure Gains and Losses Fund balance
brought forward carried forward
1 April 31 March
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
Fund name: £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
People Health and 0 0 261 0 (17) 0 2 0 246 0
WellBeing Fund
General Trust Fund 361 295 127 96 (258) (56) 7 26 237 361
HODU 24 51 193 8 (14) (38) 2 3 205 24
Airedale Breast Unit Fund 104 90 5 15 (12) (8) 5 7 102 104
Diabetic Fund 53 0 1 50 (5) (1) 1 4 50 53
Cazaux Legacy 48 0 1 48 (2) 0 1 0 48 48
Allum Legacy 40 0 5 40 0 0 0 0 45 40
Pathology Research 29 3 12 25 (1) 0 0 1 40 29
Diabetes Legacy 36 60 0 0 (9) (24) 0 0 27 36
Cancer Research Legacy 26 31 0 0 0 (5) 0 0 26 26
Gastroenterology Fund 24 23 0 0 (1) (1) 1 2 24 24
Operating Theatre 18 18 0 0 (1) (1) 1 1 18 18
Equipment Legacy
Surgical Sepcialities Fund 16 16 2 3 (1) (4) 0 1 17 16
Sovereign Health Training 13 9 5 4 (2) (1) 0 1 16 13
Critical Care 10 0 7 10 (1) 0 0 0 16 10
Sovereign Health Care 11 13 4 4 0 (7) 0 1 15 11
Equipment
Haematology 16 15 0 0 0 0 0 1 16 16
Other (21/22 balances 474 453 (184) 175 (86) (185) 2 32 206 474
under £15k)
Total 1,304 1,077 439 478 (410) (331) 22 80 1,355 1,304
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Contents

• 04

• A message from our Chair, Rhys Davies

• 05 A message from our Director of Corporate Affairs and Deputy Chief Executive, Victoria Pickles

• 06

• What a wonderful year!

• 10 About us

• 11 Our vision, mission, values and strategy

• 12 Our team

• 13 Year overview

• 14 Making Airedale AOK

• 16 Website & Big Tea

• 17 Staff lottery & wellbeing 18 Team Airedale

• 20 Airedale Superstars

• 22 Look what we achieved together

• 24 How we showed our love for Airedale

• 26 Looking forward together

• 28 Thank you

• 30 A closer look

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A message from our Director of Corporate Affairs and Deputy Chief Executive Victoria Pickles

A message from our Chair Rhys Davies

Since I became Chair of Airedale Hospital & Community Charity last year, I have seen for myself the fantastic difference your support and donations make to both patients and colleagues in our hospital and community services. As a Trust, Airedale provides health and care services to our local population of over 200,000 people across 700 square miles and a real mix of rural and urban communities. It is from these communities that our supporters and donors have helped us to raise nearly £500,000 over the year and given us donations such as gifts for our patients at Christmas and toys for our children’s unit.

Our appeal to raise funds for the added extras in our new Intensive Care Unit raised more than £10,000. The unit will have opened at the time of publishing this report, and we are proud that with the help of our local community we have been able to provide the added extras to make this fantastic space even more special for our patients and colleagues such as seasonal affective disorder (SAD) lights and furniture for the relatives’ room.

We are delighted that the refurbishment of our Haematology and Oncology Day Unit will commence in the Summer of 2022. This will be the biggest project that the Charity has undertaken to date with the full cost totalling more than £150,000. The new unit will include an additional treatment room, upgraded technology and new chairs which will ensure patients are as comfortable as possible when undergoing chemotherapy. We look forward to sharing the impact of these improvements in the future.

In September 2021 we took delivery of our Pacer train carriage. The Trust submitted a winning bid to receive one of three retired train carriages to use to create a positive environment for future generations. Although an unusual addition to our hospital estate, we are pleased to say that the project has received much interest. We are delighted to have partnered with local business, The Ultimate Group, who have committed time, energy, and resources to complete the refurbishment for our patients and local

communities to benefit from. The project aims to be complete by the early Autumn of 2022. We will provide an update in our next annual report but in the meantime, you can keep an eye on our communications to get all the latest news and updates on our website

www.airedalecharity.org .

The Trust itself made a significant donation to the Charity to fund wellbeing initiatives for all colleagues across the organisation. This includes psychological support, outdoor spaces, and rest facilities, and much more. We also plan to run a Grant Scheme to enable wards, departments, and teams to bid for funding to support patient experience and wellbeing schemes in their own areas.

Our plans for 2022/23 are ambitious and we hope to raise as much money as possible so that we can make a real difference for everyone who visits or works in our hospital and community services. Our journey would not be the same without the help and support of our trustees and Charity team who continue to work hard for the Airedale community, putting our people at the heart of everything they do. I am truly grateful for their efforts, ideas and the creativity that keeps our Charity going.

I once again am astounded by the generosity of spirit and kindness that has been shown for our hospital and Charity over the last year. As we look forward to the many exciting plans in 2022/23 and beyond, please accept my wholehearted thanks for showing your love for Airedale.

Over the last two years, since our re-launch in early 2020, the Charity has gone from strength to strength, supporting both our patients and colleagues who work for the Trust, and working with our local communities. We have been overwhelmed by the continued contributions and generosity of local people, our patients, their families, and local businesses. With your help we have been able to fund a range of equipment, services, and wellbeing support which have made a real difference to our patients and to people who work across all areas of our hospital and community services.

The Charity aims to fund those things that provide that little extra to improve the experience of patients within our hospital, to bring innovation to the services we provide or to support the health and wellbeing of our colleagues. We also recognise that we are we part of a wider community. Our role as an employer, purchaser of goods and services, and contributor to our local economy and community is really important to us.

In 2021, we launched our Acts of Kindness campaign. Over the last year we have taken this out into our local communities, as well as continuing to promote it within the organisation. Working with local schools in particular, our Charity team held events and workshops encouraging the importance of kindness, its benefits to the individual and to those around us. In the spirit of the campaign, the Charity donated some children’s books to local schools as part of World Book Day.

Over the last year, the Trust has undertaken significant building and improvement projects, which the Charity has been able to support. The Intensive Care for Airedale Appeal has provided equipment and furniture for the brand-new Intensive Care Unit. The Charity also funded the renovation of the hydrotherapy pool, which is used

in rehabilitation programmes, and which was officially reopened in February. We also ran a successful appeal to fund refurbishment of the quiet room in outpatients, for patients who may have received difficult or upsetting news.

In August the staff lottery was transferred to the Charity and was rebranded to bring it in line with the Charity branding. Membership of the staff lottery has increased since then and on average the running of the lottery raises £800 for the wellbeing fund each month. We also launched our new website enabling donations to be made more easily and news about how we have spent the money to be shared more widely.

The Charity funded the purchase of a Swiss Lithoclast Trilogy Lithotripter, for the removal of kidney stones and bladder stones, costing £50,000 for the Urology Department. This innovative new device enables patients to be treated sooner and their treatment can take less time.

We were also very fortunate to announce our first corporate partners HCL, based in Skipton who we look forward to working with over the next year and hopefully beyond.

It has been a busy year for the Charity, promoting our work, raising funds, ensuring good governance in how those funds are spent, supporting donors, and ensuring that we remain a positive and active partner in our community. We can’t do any of this without your continued support. On behalf of the Charity and the Trust I want to thank all of you for your kindness and help. We have lots of exciting plans for 2022/23 and together we can continue to make a real difference for those who use and provide our services.

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What a wonderful year!

~~July~~

2021

The fabulous Airedale community took the lead in July with lots of tea parties, challenges and events taking place for the NHS Big Tea.

Kate Lambert walked the Three Peaks to raise money and show her thanks to the Rheumatology Department after her Vasculitis (GPA) diagnosis. Kate and her dad completed the challenge in under 11 hours and smashed their fundraising target, raising over £2,000.

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April
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The new financial year kicked off in style. We were delighted to welcome Victoria in April. Victoria had never picked up a paint brush before teaching herself to paint during lockdown. Here she is with Consultant Alexandra Danecki and the amazing NHS superhero painting she gifted to the team.

Huge thank you also goes to Darren from Indigo Financial Services who with the help of colleagues and friends helped support the wellbeing of our staff. Darren organised and donated hot meals for night staff, brew bags and selfcare items.

~~August~~

This month saw our super school supporters, St Anne’s and our lovely matron Angie McGarry steal the spotlight on episode two of Jay’s Yorkshire Workshop. We were proud to nominate St Anne’s to receive a handmade item from Jay and the team in recognition of their amazing lockdown fundraising in early 2021. The team out-did themselves with a wonderful rainbow bookcase which now sits in pride of place in the school library.

~~May~~

The Sunshine Sensory Project was launched in May. The project aims to improve the experiences of children visiting Airedale Hospital for surgery who have additional needs or sensory sensitivities. With the help of grant funding and donations we were proud to provide the Theatre team with a dedicated sensory trolley, sensory toys, and other equipment.

Local resident and neighbour Lynnda Smith held an open day at her house for her neighbours and the local community. Lynnda and friends raised a staggering £1,100 to be used for staff wellbeing at Airedale.

~~September~~

Our Charity team grew when we welcomed Ciara to the team to run our communications and marketing.

In September we launched our Intensive Care for Airedale Appeal, raising money to purchase the added extras for our new Intensive Care Unit which was rapidly taking shape on site.

~~June~~

We zoomed into June with an exciting donation from the Tesla Owners Club. The Club donated a limited-edition child size Tesla to our Theatres department. Children now travel in style from the ward to the operating theatre, making it a fun experience.

Challenges of all shapes and sizes took place in September from walking the Three Peaks to participating in the annual Skipton Rotary Club Dragon Boat Race.

Wilman & Lodge estate agents took on the huge challenge of walking 27.5 miles to raise money for the Haematology & Oncology Day Unit. The team raised over £2,300 to say thank you for the care a loved one had received.

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~~October~~

We celebrated some very special patients in October. A grant from the Asda Foundation enabled us to send our Paediatric Type 1 Diabetic patients on an outdoor activity day. The day included grass sledging, archery, and plenty of food! The children and their families got to make new friends, benefit from peer support and most of all have fun.

Our very own ward 5 stroke team embarked on a challenge to raise funds to invest in new rehabilitation technology. The team smashed their target and covered 963 miles through walking, running, swimming and cycling throughout the month. With this help we were able to purchase two upper limb rehabilitation devices for staff to use one on one with patients to assist with recovery.

~~November~~

Derek, a past ICU patient donated £1,000 to the Intensive Care for Airedale appeal. Along with his wife, Sue he wanted to give back to the staff on the unit for their excellent care and kindness.

“We are so very grateful to be able to see how well Derek is doing after being so gravely unwell. It’s great after all the sadness we have suffered to have such a success story.” Heather Driver, Acute Pain Nurse

~~December~~

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Christmas is always a busy time, and this year did not disappoint. Our annual Christmas sock day was a huge sock-cess with staff, members of the public and local schools getting involved.

Our gift appeal for elderly patients meant that we were able to give a present to over 100 of our patients staying with us on Christmas Day. We were delighted to fund a Christmas packed lunch for all staff as a thank you for their hard work over the year.

Our heartfelt thanks go to everyone that donated and helped to make the festive season special for our patients and staff.

2022

~~January~~

In January we announced our corporate partnership with HCL Workforce Solutions. Throughout 2022 the team will be taking part in events and organising activities to raise funds for Airedale.

“This year, we chose Airedale as our charity to support as we really felt that we wanted to give back to our local hospital where most of our family and friends have benefitted from their services.

“It’s especially important for us after the past couple of years with everything that NHS staff have done and continue to do for us throughout the pandemic.” Bryony, Recruitment Consultant, HCL Workforce.

~~February~~

We said a huge thank you to Northern Rail in February for their kind donation of over £9,000 towards our Pacer project. The money will be used to help buy items for the inside of the train such as furniture, books for the library, toys and much more.

~~March~~

It was great to see William when he popped in to see us with his family to present us with a cheque for over £900. William walked the Yorkshire Three Peaks to raise money for the neonatal unit because his brother Thomas spent “I found it really upsetting seeing a month there when he my new baby brother in the was born seven weeks Neonatal Unit. It seemed a scary premature. place at first, but our time there was made so much easier by the amazing staff and facilities on the unit at Airedale. We will be forever grateful for everything they did for Thomas, and for us.” William

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About us

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity is the official charity of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We support the staff, patients and communities of Airedale across 700 square miles of West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire.

What we do

We want everyone who needs our services to receive the best possible care and support. Our mission is to support Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to enhance patient care and employee wellbeing.

The funds and support we give enable our colleagues to go above and beyond what would otherwise be possible.

Our vision, mission, values and strategy

Introduction

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity is the dedicated charity of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (ANHSFT). We support the staff, patients and communities of Airedale across 700 square miles of West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. We want everyone who uses ANHSFT services to receive the best possible care and support.

Our Charity was formed in 1995, originally known as Airedale NHS Trust Charitable Funds.

In 2020 we rebranded and became known as Airedale Hospital & Community Charity to ensure we reflected all of the services our Trust provides, and our mission and values both for now and into the future.

Our vision is to contribute to ensuring that everyone who needs ANHSFT’s services or who is employed by ANHSFT receives the best possible care and support.

Our mission is to support ANHSFT to enhance patient care and employee wellbeing by raising awareness, proactively generating funds and supporting others.

Our values

We promise:

We will always put you first.

We will always respect your confidentiality and your right to privacy.

We will never put you under any pressure and always respect your choice.

We will always work in a timely, effective and cost-efficient way.

We will always use gifts wisely. We respect our position as custodians of supporters’ donations.

• Even though we don’t know what the future might hold we will always do our best to uphold any wishes you have about the use of a gift or donation.

To achieve this, we have four strategic objectives:

• To empower and assist Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to be an anchor organisation within the community.

To promote understanding of and increase charitable giving to Airedale Hospital & Community Charity and demonstrate the difference this makes.

• To champion, influence and invest in areas across ANHSFT in line with the Trust’s 5 Ps strategy. This will include providing support for our colleagues and people ; putting our patients and population at the heart of everything we do; working together in partnership ; and always moving forward and progressing .

To be an efficient, responsive, financially sound, sustainable, and well-governed organisation, that leads by example. We will actively promote and champion equality, diversity and inclusion, and invest in and care for our staff.

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we are able to support and invest in areas in line with the strategy of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We do this by supporting our people, putting the patient in the centre of everything we do, embracing and encouraging progression, actively seeking out and advocating partnership and collaboration and caring for the needs of our local population.

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Our team

Year overview

Jodie Hearnshaw Charity Manager

Sarah Medus Charity Accountant

Ciara Walsh Communications and Charity Assistant

£429,000

Donations £373,000 Legacies £5,000 Grants £13,000 Gifts in kind £2,000 Other £21,000 Dividends £15,000

£284,000

Patient welfare £98,000 Staff welfare £134,000 Staff training £3,000 Medical & IT equipment £19,000 Ward environment £28,000 Gifts in Kind (distributed) £2,000

Our committee

Year ending 31 March 2022 Rhys Davies Chair & Non-Executive Director

Alan Hart-Thomas Deputy Medical Director

Andrew Dumbleton Non-Executive Director

Andrew Gold

Chair of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Annie McCluskey Head of Nursing

Christine Highley Public Governor David Crampsey Medical Director

Joanne Harrison Director of People & OD

Rob Aitchison Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Chief Executive

Victoria Pickles Director of Corporate Affairs & Deputy Chief Executive

Donations Other Legacies Dividends Grants Gifts in kind

Patient welfare Medical & IT equipment Staff welfare Ward environment Staff training Gifts in Kind (distributed)

Funds not spent in year are retained for future use

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Making

AOK Airedale Acts of Kindness campaign

We’re on a mission to make Airedale A-OK!

The aim of Airedale Charity’s Airedale AOK

(Acts of Kindness) campaign is to spread kindness and positivity within our Trust and local community. We recognised the need to boost staff morale and to engage our local community and teach children and community groups about the importance of kindness.

Doing acts of kindness can increase levels of serotonin, oxytocin and energy, as well as positive feelings of happiness and pleasure. Being kind can also decrease pain, stress, depression, anxiety, and blood pressure.

So, by engaging in acts of kindness, you’re also being kind to yourself.

Kindness month

Airedale Hospital and Community Charity launched the AOK campaign in October 2021 (kindness month).

The Charity team encouraged people to be kind and carried out their own acts of kindness. For example, the Charity sent encouraging messages to colleagues, posted kindness quotes and tips on their social media, sent random gifts to colleagues, left surprises around the hospital and community sites for people to find, bought toys for the on-site day nursery, and held a tombola where staff could get a free prize to give to a friend. The team also worked with the Trust’s dedicated staff clinical psychologist to create a video and blog post about the importance of kindness and self-compassion.

The Charity provided useful resources throughout the campaign, including a kindness calendar, a gratitude journal template, kindness bingo, ‘pass it on’ cards, and an AOK 2022 desk calendar.

We received some great feedback about the project, from inside our Trust, as well as from community members and wider NHS system. Members of staff carried out their own acts of kindness and used the #AOKAiredale resources to spread kindness throughout the Trust and wider community. People also made kindness displays in wards and departments and followed the kindness calendar by doing a kind act every day. Local organisations got in touch with us and shared our resources throughout the local healthcare system.

Work with community

Following the success of the campaign within the Trust and social media community, we decided to take the campaign out into the local community.

World Book Day

Our team went to five local schools on World Book Day to speak to them about kindness and give them a selection of health-related books as a surprise act of kindness.

The schools were extremely grateful, and the campaign gave us an opportunity to engage with our community and younger generation. It has subsequently led to partnerships with the schools.

Naomi, deputy head at local school, says: “Thank you to Airedale Charity for joining our special World Book Day worship and for the lovely act of kindness. The books are already on our rainbow bookshelf!”

We also led a whole school assembly at St Anne’s Primary School in Keighley to talk about kindness and inspire children to be kind to their families, friends, teachers, and peers. At the assembly, we gave them a task to create ‘kindness quilts’ where each pupil thought of five ways that they could be kind and wrote them on a hand template. Their teachers then stuck each hand together to create a kindness quilt for each class.

Kindness café – Bradford University

During Kindness Month, The University of Bradford invited us to attend their UNIfy Community Open Day to showcase the AOK campaign.

Our team had a stand in the exhibition area at the event where people could learn about the Charity and the campaign and take part in activities to make them think about how they can be kind. We also held a kindness café session and talked about the importance of kindness and the science behind it.

The campaign has been a huge success. It has provided us with a way to engage further with Airedale staff, local schools and community groups who have all been really appreciative. We’re pleased that the AOK campaign is now part of our core offer, so there will be much more to come!

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Website

August saw the launch of our brand-new standalone Charity website, www.airedalecharity.org. The site is full of good news, the latest events and lots of ways to get involved.

The website also tells the awe-inspiring stories of our fundraisers and supporters, we guarantee you will need a tissue when you take a read.

To celebrate the launch the team gave out branded water bottles to all ANHSFT staff as a thank you for their support and to encourage them to stay hydrated for their own wellbeing. The bottles proved a huge hit and have been snapped all over the world.

Big Tea

July proved to be a busy month for the Charity with an outpouring of love and lots of tea as our NHS Big Tea celebrations took place.

Various departments within the Trust held their own tea party and Suzie, Community Champion at Asda Keighley was on hand to run a cake stand.

Out in the community, cakes and cuppas were available for all to enjoy. A special thanks goes to Troutbeck Care Home in Ilkley for holding their own garden party.

Rylstone WI celebrated their 95th anniversary with a Big Tea garden party. “The pandemic had meant we were unable to celebrate our anniversary in January so we were delighted to be able to combine the two in July. Having not been able to meet in person for so many months it was very special to get together in person and raise some money for a very worthy cause.” The WI ladies rose to the challenge and raised a magnificent £355.

Staff Lottery

In 2021 we were privileged to take over the running of the Staff Lottery. Every month players have the chance to win 50% of the lottery takings which is then split into five prizes of different sizes. Some months, when there are special occasions, we add an extra sixth prize. The remaining 50% is set aside for the Charity to support employee wellbeing.

The People Health & Wellbeing fund supports applications from across the whole of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. It also leads on various wellbeing initiatives such as Christmas lunches and supporting the Trust’s inclusion networks.

Since July 2021, nearly £9,000 has been raised by members of the lottery and invested into wellbeing projects.

The Staff Lottery has grown significantly between July 2021 when we took it over and March 2022 with an increase of nearly 80 lines (£80) each month.

Staff Wellbeing

Providing support to our colleagues is one of our key objectives. We were delighted to receive a significant donation from the Trust in March 2022 to fund wellbeing initiatives for all colleagues across the organisation. This donation will enable the Charity to continue to provide staff support via the People Health & Wellbeing fund.

Throughout the year AHCC proudly continued to provide support in various ways:

• annual Christmas picnic lunch

• supporting the Trust’s inclusion networks

• appliances such as fridges, microwaves, fans

• • furniture for restrooms

• bike shelters and bike repair stands

• staff psychologist for 12 months

• development and provision of welcome packs for new starters

• supporting refreshments for wellbeing during extreme temperatures

• This list is just a snapshot of the projects and equipment supported by the fund during 2021/22.

We committed to providing outdoor seating and rest facilities and this will remain a focus for the coming year across all ANHSFT sites.

Over the next year there will be lots more work taking place to support staff including plans to run a grant scheme to enable wards, departments, and teams to bid for funding to support patient experience and wellbeing schemes in their own areas.

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Team Airedale

Alan took part in the Great North Run in memory of his dad, Cyril. He raised over £560 for AHCC because the hospital has supported the family through lots over the years.

Fiona took part in a Total Warrior challenge and raised nearly £800 for the Maxillofacial and Speech and Language departments after the excellent treatment she received following an operation to extract a tumour from inside her mouth.

Aunty Beryl makes the most amazing lemon curd and so we were delighted when, with the help of our friends in the ACCT team, she made a batch and wanted to give 100% of the proceeds to AHCC. Aunty B raised £50 and made a lot of people happy.

Fundraiser Christina completed a massive seven-day challenge for her dad, Dennis, who spent six months at Airedale after he suffered a cardiac arrest. Christina challenged herself to run 10km, cycle 10km and swim 1,500 every day for a whole week. She raised over an incredible £1,400.

Louise and Emma raised over an incredible £1,250 for the AHCC Haematology and Oncology Day Unit by hosting a charity evening.

Silsden-based radio broadcaster and journalist Stuart raised £550 with the help of family, friends, colleagues and listeners for his 41st birthday. After a health scare Stuart set up the fundraiser to thank the team who looked after him so brilliantly.

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Warren

Six year old Warren raised an amazing £100 to buy 25 gifts for elderly patients that will be in hospital over Christmas. He wanted to cheer people up that would be away from their family and friends. Warren chose the gifts himself with the help of local businesses including Morrison’s, Whitakers Chocolates and 22 The Square.

Ben Rhydding School

Students at Ben Rhydding Primary School out their best sock forward and took part in our annual Christmas Sock Day. Together they raised over £170 and looked sock-tastic doing it!

St Anne’s carol singing

Our friends at St Anne’s school kept us entertained when they visited to sing Christmas carols outside Outpatients for patients, visitors, and staff.

Airedale superstars

Paediatric Diabetes Activity Day

We had an amazing day with some incredible real-life superheroes in October. With the help of grant funding from the Asda Foundation we funded an activity day for our paediatric diabetes patients. 25 children attended the day with their parents along with clinicians from the hospital.

The children got together for the outdoor celebration event to play games, socialise, learn, and share experiences with each other to help them realise that their condition should not set them apart from others and should not stop them from doing things that other children without the condition do.

The day was a huge success and we are looking forward to helping with many more in the future.

St Mary’s

Pupils from St Mary’s Primary School in Riddlesden organised a special donation at Christmas. Members of the school parliament decided they wanted to do something to help other children and set up a collection to buy presents. They shared the plan with the rest of the school and raised enough funds to create 25 gift bags filled with goodies and lots of extra toys and books for the ward playroom.

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“Skipton Cycling Club wanted to show appreciation to the stroke unit where a few of our members have received care in recent years.” Caran Stephenson, chair of Skipton Cycling Club

Skipton Cycling Club

Skipton Cycling Club raised £1,000 for the stroke ward at Airedale Hospital by selling their unused kit.

Rudolph Run

Lothersdale Agriculture Discussion Group blew us away with their first ever Rudolph Run. The event saw members of the group come together to raise money for AHCC and Manorlands. Over 50 tractors took part in the procession that set off from Keighley Tarn and headed to Skipton. The convoy made sure to make a stop on the way at Airedale Hospital. Over £5,000 was raised which was split between Airedale Hospital & Community Charity and Manorlands hospice.

Green Crescent fun day

A family fun day was held at the Airedale Shopping in Keighley in September. The day was organised by members of Green Crescent Aid UK who organised lots of free activities for families to enjoy. The Keighley community came together and a bucket collection at the event raised over £370 for the Make a Splash appeal to renovate the hydrotherapy pool at Airedale.

Rotary Clubs of Skipton

We were privileged to work with both the Skipton and Skipton Craven Rotary Clubs throughout the year. Members helped us to purchase several pieces of equipment including a blood pressure monitor for Endoscopy and a stretcher chair for the rehabilitation of the most critically ill patients.

University of the Third Age

Douglas and colleagues at the University of the Third Age unveiled their very special toposcope on Pinhaw Beacon. The toposcope was dedicated to all those who died of Covid-19 and expressing thanks to all NHS staff and care workers for their dedication. Matron Angie McGarry and Consultant David Driver were on hand to do the grand unveiling. A collection at the event raised and amazing £525 for employee wellbeing.

NCS

16 NCS students aged 17 to 19 got in touch with us as they wanted to give back to the local community and support Airedale Hospital. The charity team set the group a target to raise £110 to purchase a robotic companion cat that can be used by patients with dementia on Airedale’s Acute Assessment Unit.

The students worked incredibly hard and raised a total of £150 meaning they had some funds left over to purchase gifts for elderly patients that will be in hospital over Christmas.

Principle Trust

The Principle Trust held their second annual Christmas Toy Appeal for our patients spending the festive season on the Children’s Unit.

Members of the group enjoyed the challenge so much that they completed a Christmas walking challenge raising enough money to purchase a second cat this time for one of the elderly wards.

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Hydro pool

We ‘Made a Splash’ in 2021 by donating nearly £50,000 in funding to renovate the hydrotherapy pool at Airedale. The pool, which has helped provide treatment for thousands of patients over the years is used by adults and children with many different conditions, helping them to regain and improve independence, reduce pain and increase strength and fitness. The team helped to raise funds for the refurbishment with the help of the local community.

“I was honoured to have been

asked to cut the ribbon and officially open the pool; it will make a huge difference to lots of people.” Peter Loss, patient

“We’re really grateful that Airedale Charity supported us with the renovation.” Jo Sainty, physiotherapy professional lead

Trilogy Lithotripter

We were delighted to fund some state-of-the-art equipment for the Urology Department for the treatment of kidney and bladder stones. Each year the team carry out over 50 of these procedures, around half of which are complex and require specialist treatment.

The Swiss Lithoclast Trilogy Lithotripter cost £50,000 and aims to reduce procedure time whilst enhancing the surgical experience for the patient and staff. The equipment means that patients can be treated sooner and their treatment can take less time. It also provides better outcomes for patients as they can get home quicker.

Quiet Room

In collaboration with the Airedale outpatients team, we were able to fund the refurbishment of the quiet room in the department. The room is an important space that is used by a variety of people. Often, patients use the facility following an appointment where they may have received bad news relating to results, cancer or another life changing diagnosis. The space is now calm and peaceful and provides comfortable surroundings for our patients and their families.

Vein viewer

The AccuVein Vein Visualisation Viewer was purchased for our Children’s services. The small device is used to easily find veins in children who need a blood test or an IV drip. The vein viewer shines a bright green light to make the veins stand out, helping clinicians to accurately find veins that otherwise difficult to see. This small machine provides huge benefits.

It is recognised that experiencing pain early in life affects neuronal development and impacts the development of coping strategies and pain receptors. This can lead to needle phobias and possibly even long-term negative effects in the future. Benefits are also felt by the patient’s families and staff members as the experience is much less stressful and time consuming.

Sleeping chairs for end-of-life patients

Three recliner sleeping chairs were purchased this year. The chairs are available for use by any families staying overnight with relatives who are in their last days or hours.

The chairs, costing over £500 each, are comfortable and sturdy, ensuring families are well cared for.

Feedback from staff and families has told us that the chairs have been invaluable and have hugely improved experiences for families who have been able to get some rest and comfort and spend more time with their relatives. It has also meant that patients have been able to have comfort and support from their families in their final days.

Virtual visiting

With the help of our supporters, we were able to fund numerous iPads for Virtual Visiting for patients to use while visiting restrictions were in place.

We know how difficult it is to be apart from loved ones but with the help of our staff, patients can video call regularly with their family and friends using these designated iPads. This has allowed patients to keep in contact with their loved ones while they are in hospital – something that matters the most.

Upper limb rehabilitation devices

With the funds raised by the Ward 5 team, two upper limb rehabilitation devices, which cost £450 each were purchased for staff to use one on one with patients. Using the devices, patients are guided through a variety of games and move or squeeze the handheld device to move or avoid obstacles shown to them on the tablet screen.

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Looking forward together

Thanks to you we have been able to show our love for Airedale again this year. With your help our future is exciting.

Some of the key areas of focus for our Charity next year:

Anchor in the community

In our last annual report, we set out our goal to be at the very heart of our community. As one of our strategic objectives, this will continue to be a huge part of our work over the next year. We will continue to use our position to champion Airedale, to help others to the best of our ability and invest in the Airedale community.

Working with you

One of the key elements of our strategy is to work in collaboration. We will continue to work collaboratively with partners of all shapes and sizes including ambassadors and corporate and school partnerships. We will also continue to invest in young members of the Airedale community helping them to grow and flourish.

Working with you, for you , will forever be at the heart of everything we do, making sure that our staff and patients help us make the biggest impact.

Airedale AOK

Our Airedale AOK (Acts of Kindness) campaign aims to inspire our organisations and local communities to be kind to others and to yourself. Airedale AOK has become part of our core offer and will continue to be a focus for the Charity showing that we put kindness at the heart of everything we do.

Investing in Airedale

Several large Charity funded projects will take place over the next year including the refurbishment of our muchloved Haematology and Oncology Day Unit and the renovation of our Pacer train carriage for the Airedale community.

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Thank you!
To those we have
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A closer look

The Airedale Hospital & Community Charity has a Corporate Trustee, which is the Airedale Board of Directors. The Corporate Trustee presents the Airedale Hospital & Community Charity Annual Report together with the independently examined financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022.

The Corporate Trustee is responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with the applicable law and UK Accounting Standards. The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the Trustee to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the Charity for that period.

The Corporate Trustee is responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the Charity and enable them to ascertain that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Report and financial statements include all the separately established funds for which Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is the sole beneficiary.

The members of the Board of Directors who served during the financial year ended 31 March 2022 and therefore acted as the Corporate Trustee were as follows:

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Andrew Gold Chair
Brendan Brown Chief Executive until December 2021
Rob Aitchison Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Chief Executive
Interim Chief Executive January – March 2022
Amanda Stanford Chief Nurse
Amy Whitaker Director of Finance
Joanne Harrison Director of People & OD
David Crampsey Medical Director
Victoria Pickles Director of Corporate Affairs & Deputy Chief Executive
Stuart Shaw Director of Strategy and Planning
Interim Chief Operating Officer January – March 2022
Nadira Mirza Deputy Chair
Rhys Davies Non-Executive Director
Andrew Dumbleton Non-Executive Director
Melanie Hudson Non-Executive Director
Ian Knight Non-Executive Director from August 2022
David Wharfe Non-Executive Director until June 2022
Andy Withers Non-Executive Director
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Reference and administrative details for the Charity, Trustee and Advisers

The Trustee

The Charity

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity (the ‘Charity’) is a public benefit entity. The Trustee has regard for the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit as set out in section 4 of the 2006 Charity Act. This report outlines the activities of the Charity in furthering the Charity’s purposes for the public benefit.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is the Corporate Trustee of the charitable funds governed by the law applicable to Trusts, principally the Trustee Act 2000 and the Charities Act 2006.

The Foundation Trust’s Board of Directors devolved responsibility for the ongoing management of fund to the Charitable Funds Committee (‘the Committee’) which administers the funds on behalf of the Corporate Trustee. This committee was formed on 20 December 2007.

The Charity was entered on the Central Register of Charities on the 15 November 1995 as Airedale NHS Charitable Funds and was formed under the umbrella charity model with several subsidiaries. Following structural changes within the NHS, the subsidiaries were removed in 2008. The Charity changed its name to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Funds following Airedale NHS Trust achieving Foundation Trust status on 1 June 2010. There was a further name change in March 2020 when the Charity changed its name to Airedale Hospital & Community Charity to better encompass all aspects of its strategic aims.

The names of those people who served as agent for the corporate trustee and were members of the Committee during the financial year ended 31 March 2022, as permitted under regulation 16 of the NHS Trusts (Membership and Procedures) Regulations 1990 were as follows:

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Rhys Davies Non-Executive Director
(Chair)
Andrew Dumbleton Non-Executive Director
Andrew Gold Chair of Airedale NHS
Foundation and Non-
Executive Director
Rob Aitchison Chief Operating Officer/
Deputy Chief Executive
Victoria Pickles Director of Corporate Affairs
/ Deputy Chief Executive
David Crampsey Medical Director
Joanne Harrison Director of People & OD
Alan Hart-Thomas Deputy Medical Director
Annie McCluskey Head of Nursing
Christine Highley Public Governor
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Funds received by the Charity are accepted, held, and administered as funds and property held on trust for purposes relating to the health service in accordance with the National Health Service Act 2006 and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and these funds are held on trust by the corporate body.

Neil Helm acted as the principal officer overseeing the day-to-day financial management and accounting of the Charity during the year to 31 March 2022. Victoria Pickles, as Director of Corporate Affairs and Group Company Secretary oversaw the governance elements and overall management of the Charity during the year to 31 March 2022.

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Principal office

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity c/o Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Airedale General Hospital Skipton Road Steeton Keighley BD20 6TD

Principal professional advisors

Bankers

Investment Fund

Independent

Barclays Bank PLC 77 North Street Keighley BD21 5BD

Managers Examiners Castlefield Investment Stirk, Lambert & Co Partners LLP Russell Chambers 1 Portland Street 61a North Street Manchester Keighley M1 3BE BD21 3DS (until October 2021)

Rathbone Investment Management Port of Liverpool Building Pier Head Liverpool L3 1NW (From November 2021)

Structure, Management and Governance

The Corporate Trustee has regard to the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit in section 4 of the Charities Act. Accordingly, the Committee ensures that funds are used for the benefit of, and enhancement to, the care of patients and well-being of staff. This is achieved through the provision of medical and non-medical equipment that otherwise would not be available for purchase through public NHS funding. The Charity is also able to fund enhanced patient care by providing additional nurse training and education which otherwise would not be available. The benefits of providing new equipment and enhanced care is available free of charge to all members of the public and patients using Airedale NHS Foundation Trust’s service.

Structure

The Charity has one key NHS wide objective:

“The Trustee shall hold the trust upon trust to apply the income, and at their discretion so far as may be permissible, the capital, for any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the National Health Service.”

The Charity also has a number of objectives developed and linked specifically to the needs and objectives of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust:

• To support our people and their wellbeing

• To improve the patient experience

• To progress services and innovation within the Trust

• To support services delivered in partnership

• To support the needs of the population we serve

Management

The Charity’s unrestricted fund was established using the model Declaration of Trust and all funds held on trust as at the date or registration were either part of this unrestricted fund or registered as separate restricted funds under the main charity. Subsequent donations and gifts received by the Charity that are attributable to the original funds are added to those fund balances within the existing charity.

The Corporate Trustee fulfils its legal duty by ensuring that funds are spent in accordance with the objects of each fund and, by designating funds, the Trustee respects the wishes of our generous donors to benefit patient care and advance the good health and welfare of patients, carers and staff.

The Corporate Trustee and the agents of the Corporate Trustee have regard to the public benefit guidance issued by the Charities Commission when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant. Where funds have been received which have specific restrictions set by the donor, these have been managed accordingly.

The charitable funds available for spending are allocated to specialties within the Trust’s directorate management structure. Each allocation is managed by use of a designated fund within the general unrestricted fund. For example, there are charitable funds for medicine which include allocations for each of the wards and within surgery the funds include allocations for Ophthalmology, Cardiac and Theatres.

The Director of Corporate Affairs of the Trust who, under a scheme of delegated authority approved by the Corporate Trustee, has day to day responsibility for the management of the Charitable Fund and must personally approve, on behalf of the Corporate Trustee, all expenditure over £1,000 with an upper limit of £7,500 using their delegated authority. The Committee has delegated authority to approve expenditure over £7,500 with an upper limit of £50,000. Expenditure of £50,000 and above requires approval by the Trust’s Board of Directors acting in their capacity as the Corporate Trustee.

Governance

Members of the Board of Directors and the Charitable Funds Committee are not individual trustees under Charity Law but act as agents on behalf of the Corporate Trustee.

Acting for the Corporate Trustee, the Charitable Funds Committee is responsible for the overall management of the Charitable Fund. The committee is required to:

• Control, manage and monitor the use of the fund’s resources;

• Manage and monitor the receipt of all income;

• Ensure that ‘best practice’ is followed in the conduct of all its affairs fulfilling all of its legal responsibilities, ensuring the Charity operate and complies with current legislation;

• Ensure that the Investment Policy, approved by the Board as Corporate Trustee, is adhered to and that performance is continually reviewed whilst being aware of ethical considerations; and

• Keep the Board fully informed on the activity, performance, and risks of the Charity.

The Trust has established separate appointments committees in line with the NHS Code of Governance – the Nominations and Remuneration Committee deal with the appointment of Executive Directors, and an Appointments and Remuneration Committee deal with the appointment of Non-Executive Directors.

The Charity has adopted the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators guidance for the production of an induction pack for newly appointed members of the Board of Directors and the Committee. This pack provides information about the Charity including the governing document, the Committee terms of reference, trustees’ annual report and accounts, budgets and minutes, and information about trusteeship, including Charity Commission booklet CC3, The Essential Trustee.

The accounting records and the day-to-day administration of the funds are dealt with by the Trust’s Finance Department located at Airedale General Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, Keighley, BD20 6TD.

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Risk Management

The risks to which the Charity is exposed have been identified and are logged on a risk register. The risk register is reviewed on a regular basis and systems established to mitigate those risks.

Independent Financial Scrutiny

Stirk, Lambert & Co. (AHCC’s independent examiner commencing 1 September 2022) undertook a statutory independent examination of the financial statements for the charitable funds. Independent examination is permitted by the Charities Commission for a charity of this size. Independent examination is a ‘light touch’ scrutiny wherein the examiner is only required to confirm whether any material matters of concern have come to their attention and excludes the audit requirement to provide an opinion on whether a charity’s accounts give a ‘true and fair view’. They gave an unqualified report on the accounts.

Principal Risks and Uncertainties

The Corporate Trustee has considered the key risks to which the Charity is exposed:

1) A fall in income from donations

The Trustee has arrangements in place to mitigate those risks. The Corporate Trustee aims to mitigate the risk that income will fall by supporting the fundraising team with increasing the Charity’s visibility in the local community and beyond. The Charity has a fundraising strategy that is reviewed on an annual basis. This is supported by a communications and marketing plan to ensure brand visibility and support. Robust internal governance ensures that the Charity is only spending funds that are available.

2) A fall in income from investments

The investment portfolio is well diversified to help protect the Charity against any fall in value of a particular market. The Investment Manager holds a discretionary mandate which enables them to make investment and divestment decisions on the Charity’s behalf. The Charity completed a retendering programme for its investment manager during the 2021/22 period and successfully appointed Rathbone Investment Management.

Both above help minimise the principal risks and uncertainties and allows the Corporate Trustee to consider the Charity to be a going concern.

Reserves Policy

The Trustee has a target for reserves to fund up to three years of expenditure. This is to allow freedom to make grants when they are needed in anticipation of investment returns and donations. Reserves at this level will also permit the timely realisation of expendable endowments to make grants, on an exceptional basis, where required. No target figure was set. The level of unrestricted funds, which are neither designated nor earmarked, increased from £1,304k to £1,343k. The reserves policy is reviewed on a three yearly basis alongside the investment policy.

Financial statements

Throughout 2021/22 the Charity continued to support a wide range of health-related activities benefitting both patients and staff. In general, they are used to purchase a variety of additional goods and services that the NHS is unable to provide.

Annual financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Foreword

The trustee is required to act in accordance with the trust deed and the rules of the charity, within the framework of trust law. The trustee is responsible for keeping proper accounting records, sufficient to disclose at any time, with reasonable accuracy, the financial position of the charity at that time, and to enable the trustee to ensure that, where any statements of accounts are prepared by the trustee under section 132(1) of the Charities Act 2011, those statements of accounts comply with the requirements of regulations under that provision. The trustee has general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to the trustee to safeguard the assets of the charity and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

These financial statements cover the year from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022, and have been prepared by the trustee based on a going concern basis.

These accounts have been prepared by the Trustee in accordance with “Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice”(FRS 102) issued in October 2019, the Charities Act 2011, and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008.

Main purpose of the funds held on trust

The main purpose of the charitable funds held on trust is to apply income for any charitable purpose relating to the National Health Service wholly or mainly for the services provided by the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

Signed on behalf of the trustee:

Statement of trustees’ responsibilities

Under charity law, the trustee is responsible for preparing the trustee’s annual report and accounts for each financial year which show a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the excess of expenditure over income for that period.

Name: Rhys Davies – Chair of Charitable Funds Committee

Date: 02 November 2022

In preparing these financial statements, generally accepted accounting practice requires that the trustee:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently

• make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent

• states whether the recommendations of the SORP FRS 102 have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements

• states whether the financial statements comply with the trust deed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements

• prepares the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue its activities.

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Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2022

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022

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Note Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds
funds funds funds
2021/22 2021/22 2021/22 2021/22 2020/21
Income and endowments from: £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Donations and legacies 3 393 0 0 393 468
Other trading activities 21 0 0 21 2
Investments 5 15 0 0 15 15
Total incoming resources 429 0 0 429 485
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Expenditure on:
Raising funds 6 (85) 0 0 (85) (44)
Charitable activities
Grants Payable & Gifts in Kind 7 (284) 0 0 (284) (260)
distributed
Support costs 9 (43) 0 0 (43) (34)
Total expenditure (412) 0 0 (412) (338)
Net gains/(losses) on investments 13 22 0 0 22 80
Net income/(expenditure) 39 0 0 39 227
Transfers between funds 0 0 0 0 0
Net movement in funds 39 0 0 39 227
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward at 1st 18 1,304 0 4 1,308 1,081
April 2021
Total funds carried forward at 31st 1,343 0 4 1,347 1,308
March 2022
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The notes at pages 39 to 49 form part of these accounts.

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Note Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total at
funds funds funds at 31 31 March
March 2021
2022
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Fixed Assets
Investments 13 602 0 0 602 580
Total Fixed Assets 602 0 0 602 580
Current Assets
Debtors 14 3 0 0 3 11
Cash and Cash Equivalents 15 867 12 4 883 839
Total current assets 870 12 4 886 850
Liabilities
Creditors falling due within one year 16 129 0 0 129 122
Deferred income 16 0 12 0 12 0
New current assets/(liabilities) 741 0 4 745 728
Total assets less current liabilities 1,343 0 4 1,347 1,308
Total net assets or liabilities 1,343 0 4 1,347 1,308
The funds of the Charity 18
Endownment Funds 0 0 4 4 4
Unrestricted Income Funds 1,343 0 0 1,343 1,304
Total Charity Funds 1,343 0 4 1,347 1,308
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All gains and losses recognised in the year are included in the Statement of Financial Position. All the results on the Statement of Financial Activities are derived from Continuing operations.

The notes at pages 39 to 49 form part of these accounts, signed on behalf of the trust by Rhys Davies (Chair of the Charitable Fund Committee).

Signed on behalf of the trustee:

Name: Rhys Davies – Chair of Charitable Funds Committee Date: 02 November 2022

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Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31 March 2022

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Note 31 March 2022 31 March 2021
Total Funds Total Funds
£000 £000
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 17 29 202
Cash flows from investing activities:
Dividends, interest and rents from investments 5 15 15
Proceeds from the sale of investments 13 579 96
Purchase of investments 13 (579) (90)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities 15 21
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period 44 223
Change in cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of 15 839 616
the reporting period
Change in cash and cash equivalents due to exchange rate 0 0
movements
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period 883 839
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Notes on the accounts

1) Accounting Policies a) Basis of Preparation

The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention, with the exception of investments which are included at fair value.

The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued in October 2019 and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011 and UK Generally Accepted Practice as it applies from 1 January 2019.

The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared to give a ‘true and fair’ view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a ‘true and fair view’. This departure has involved following Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued in October 2019 rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.

The trustee considers that there are no material uncertainties about the Airedale Hospital and Community Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern. There are no material uncertainties affecting the current year’s accounts.

In future years, the key risks to the charity are a fall in income from donations or investments but the trustee has arrangements in place to mitigate those risks (see the ‘Principal Risks and Uncertainties’ section of the annual report for more information).

b) Funds Structure

Where there is a legal restriction on the purpose to which a fund may be put, the fund is classified either as:

• a restricted fund or

• an endowment fund.

has provided for the donation to be spent in furtherance of a specified charitable purpose.

Endowment funds arise when the donor has expressly provided that the gift is to be invested and only the income of the fund may be spent. These funds are sub analysed between those where the trustee has the discretion to spend the capital (expendable endowment) and those where there is no discretion to expend the capital (permanent endowment).

The charity has one permanent endowment fund. The income of the Winifred Naylor Allen Endowment Fund can be used for nurse training awards.

Those funds which are neither endowment nor restricted income funds, are unrestricted income funds which are sub analysed between designated (earmarked) funds where the trustee has set aside amounts to be used for specific purposes or which reflect the non-binding wishes of donors and unrestricted funds which are at the trustee’s discretion, including the general fund which represents the charity’s reserves.

The major funds held in each of these categories are disclosed in note 18.

c) Incoming Resources

All incoming resources are recognised once the charity has entitlement to the resources, it is probable (more likely than not) that the resources will be received and the monetary value of incoming resources can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Where there are terms or conditions attached to incoming resources, particularly grants, then these terms or conditions must be met before the income is recognised as the entitlement condition will not be satisfied until that point. Where terms or conditions have not been met or uncertainty exists as to whether they can be met then the relevant income is not recognised in the year but deferred and shown on the balance sheet as deferred income.

d) Gifts in kind

Gifts in kind, such as food and care packages are not accounted for when they are accepted and immediately distributed unless a single donation is material.

The vast majority of items donated to Airedale Hospital & Commmunity Charity fell into this category.

Restricted funds are those where the donor

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Gifts of tangible assets such as TV’s, microwaves and fridges, which have an individual value of at least £100, are recognised as a donation at fair value (market price) on receipt and charitable expenditure when they are distributed. £2k has been include in donations and expenditure to reflect this (2020/21 £6k).

Where gifts in kind are held before being distributed to beneficiaries, they are recognised at fair value as stock until they are distributed. No items were undistributed as at 31st March or had no fair value.

e) Incoming Resources from Legacies

Legacies are accounted for as incoming resources either upon receipt or where the receipt of the legacy is probable.

Receipt is probable when:

• confirmation has been received from the representatives of the estate(s) that probate has been granted.

• the executors have established that there are sufficient assets in the estate to pay the legacy and

• all conditions attached to the legacy have been fulfilled or are within the charity’s control.

If there is uncertainty as to the amount of the legacy and it cannot be reliably estimated then the legacy is shown as a contingent asset until all of the conditions for income recognition are met.

f) Incoming Resources from Endowment Funds

The incoming resources received from the invested endowment fund are wholly restricted.

g) Resources expended and irrecoverable VAT

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to each category of expense shown in the Statement of Financial Activities. Expenditure is recognised when the following criteria are met:

• there is a present legal or constructive obligation resulting from a past event

• it is more likely than not that a transfer of benefits (usually a cash payment) will be required in settlement

• the amount of the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably.

Irrecoverable VAT is charged against the category of resources expended for which it was incurred.

h) Recognition of expenditure and associated liabilities as a result of grant

Grants payable are payments made to linked, related party or third party NHS bodies and non NHS bodies, in furtherance of the charitable objectives of the funds held on trust, primarily relief of those who are sick.

Grant payments are recognised as expenditure when the conditions for their payment have been met or where there is a constructive obligation to make a payment.

A constructive obligation arises when:

• the charity has communicated its intention to award a grant to a recipient who then has a reasonable expectation that they will receive a grant or

• the charity has made a public announcement about a commitment which is specific enough for the recipient to have a reasonable expectation that they will receive a grant or

• there is an established pattern of practice which indicates to the recipient that we will honour our commitment.

The trustee has control over the amount and timing of grant payments and consequently where approval has been given by the charitable fund committee, on behalf of the trustee, and any of the above criteria have been met then a liability is recognised. Grants are not usually awarded with conditions attached. However, when they are then those conditions have to be met before the liability is recognised.

Where an intention has not been communicated, then no expenditure is recognised but an appropriate designation is made in the appropriate fund. If a grant has been offered but there is uncertainty as to whether it will be accepted or whether conditions will be met then no liability is recognised but a contingent liability is disclosed.

i) Allocation of support costs

Support costs are those costs which do not relate directly to a single activity. These include some staff costs, costs of administration and independent examination costs. Support costs have been apportioned between fundraising costs and charitable activities on an appropriate basis.

The analysis of support costs are shown in note 9.

j) Fundraising Costs

The costs of generating funds are those costs attributable to generating income for the charity, other than those costs incurred in undertaking charitable activities or the costs incurred in undertaking trading activities in furtherance of the charity’s objects. The costs of generating funds represent fundraising costs together with investment management fees.

k) Charitable activities

Costs of charitable activities comprise all costs incurred in the pursuit of the charitable objects of the charity. These costs, where not wholly attributable, are apportioned between the categories of charitable expenditure in addition to the direct costs. The total costs of each category of charitable expenditure include an apportionment of support costs as shown in note 7.

l) Fixed Asset Investments

Investments are a form of basic financial instrument. Fixed asset investments are initially recognised at their transaction value and are subsequently measured at their fair value (market value) as at the balance sheet date. The Statement of Financial Activities includes the net gains and losses arising on revaluation and disposals throughout the year. Quoted stocks and shares are included in the Balance Sheet at the current market value quoted by the investment analyst, excluding dividend. Other investments are included at the trustee’s best estimate of market value.

The main form of financial risk faced by the charity is that of volatility in equity markets and investment markets due to wider economic conditions, the attitude of investors to investment risk, and changes in sentiment concerning equities and within particular sectors or sub sectors.

All investments are held in a portfolio which were managed by Castlefield Investment LLP until Oct 21 when the management transferred to Rathbone LLP.

Further information on the investments can be found in note 13.

m) Debtors

Debtors are amounts owed to the charity. They are measured on the basis of their recoverable amount.

n) Cash and cash equivalents

day to day running costs of the charity as they fall due. Cash equivalents are short term, highly liquid investments, held in interest bearing savings accounts.

o) Creditors

Creditors are amounts owed by the charity. They are measured at the amount that the charity expects to have to pay to settle the debt.

Amounts which are owed in more than a year are shown as long term creditors. At the accounting date, Airedale Hospital and Community Charity had no long term creditors.

p) Realised gains and losses

All gains and losses are taken to the Statement of Financial Activities as they arise. Realised gains and losses on investments are calculated as the difference between sales proceeds and opening carrying value (purchase date if later). Unrealised gains and losses are calculated as the difference between the market value at the year end and opening carrying value (or purchase date if later).

q) Staff costs and pensions

There are no staff directly employed by the charity. However, The Charity Manager employed by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust since August 2019 is considered to be an employee of the charity employed by a related party.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust re-charge the Charity for support costs which include a percentage of costs for several members of staff.

These staff members belong to the NHS Pension Scheme which is an unfunded defined benefit scheme which is accounted for as a defined contribution scheme. The recharge from Airedale NHS Foundation Trust includes the employee contributions to that scheme. For more information on the NHS Pension Scheme refer to the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust annual report and accounts.

Cash at bank and in hand is held to meet the

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2. Related Party Transactions

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is the corporate trustee of the Airedale Hospital and Community Charity and is its main grant beneficiary – they are therefore related parties. Grants paid by the charity to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust are detailed in note 8. Airedale NHS Foundation Trust makes a number of clerical and transaction services available to the charity, in accordance with a service level agreement. These include:

• fundraising services at a cost of £46k (£15k in 2020/21) – see note 6.

• financial administrative services at a cost of £36k (£29k in 2020/21) in support of the charity’s grant making activities which are included within support costs – see note 9

The charges made by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust for fundraising services constitute the costs of the Charity Manager. The amounts paid for administrative services are due under a service level agreement and are set at an amount which allows Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to recover its costs.

None of the members of the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust board or parties related to them has undertaken any transactions with the Airedale Hospital and Community Charity or received any benefit from the charity in payment in kind. Board members received no honoraria, expenses or emoluments in the year.

3. Income from donations and legacies

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Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Donations 373 146 0 0 373 146
Legacies 5 119 0 0 5 119
Grants receivable 13 197 0 0 2 6
Gifts in Kind (material) 2 6 0 0 2 6
Total 393 468 0 0 393 468
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5. Gross investment income

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Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Investments listed on Stock 15 15 0 0 15 15
Exchange
Other Investments 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 15 15 0 0 15 15
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6. Analysis of expenditure on raising funds

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Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Charity Manager 21 15 0 0 21 15
Youth Volunteer Coordinator 23 21 0 0 23 21
Communications and Charity 25 0 0 0 25 0
Assistant
Other 16 8 0 0 16 8
Total 85 44 0 0 85 44
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• *Employed since August 2019 by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

• **Entirely funded by monies received for that purpose by the Pears Foundation.

• ***Employed since May 2021 by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

Donations contains corporate donations and gifts from individuals i.e.members of the public, relatives of patients and staff. During 21/22, the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust made a donation of £217,200 for staff wellbeing, which is equivalent to £50 for each staff member.

4. Role of Volunteers

Like all charities, the Airedale Hospital and Community Charity is reliant on a team of volunteers for its smooth running. Our volunteers perform the following role:

• fund advisors – there are between 70-80 Airedale NHS Foundation Trust staff who support the charitable funds committee when deciding how the charity’s designated funds should be spent. These funds are designated (or earmarked) by the charitable fund committee to be spent for a particular purpose or in a particular ward or department. each fund advisor has delegated powers to use the designated funds in accordance with the committee’s wishes. The committee determines what each fund can be spent on and the amount that can be spent in a year.

In accordance with the SORP, due to the absence of any reliable measurement basis, the contribution of these volunteers is not recognised in the accounts.

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7. Analysis of charitable expenditure

The charity did not undertake any direct charitable activities on its own account during the year. All of the charitable expenditure was in the form of grant funding.

Grants were approved in favour of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, to carry out activities that will benefit NHS patients and their families.

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Grant funded activity Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000
Patients welfare and amenities 98 62 98 62
Staff welfare and amenities 134 50 134 50
Staff training 3 10 3 10
Medical equipment 21 86 21 86
IT equipment (2) 13 (2) 13
Ward environment 28 33 28 33
Gifts in Kind (material – distributed) 2 6 2 6
Total 284 260 284 260
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8. Analysis of grants

The charity does not make grants to individuals. All grants are made to the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to provide for the care of NHS patients in furtherance of our charitable aims. The total cost of making grants, including support costs, is disclosed on the face of the Statement of Financial Activities and the actual funds spent on each category of charitable activity, is disclosed in note 7.

The trustee operates a scheme of delegation for charitable funds, under which fund advisors initiate the day to day disbursements on their projects in accordance with the directions set out in standing orders and financial instructions:

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Institution receiving grant support: Total amount paid Total amount paid
2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust 282 254
Total 282 254
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9. Allocation of support costs and overheads

Support and overhead costs are allocated against charitable activities. Governance costs are those support costs which relate to the strategic and day to day management of a charity. The bases of allocation used is as follows:

• expenditure: this is a proportion based on the average fund balance during the year. This is used where the trustee considers this is a more equitable treatment to avoid disadvantaging funds with high volume, low value transactions.

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Charitable activities Basis
2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Independent Examination 3 2 Expenditure
Investment Management 3 2 Expenditure
Financial administration 36 29 Expenditure
Bank Charges 1 1 Expenditure
Total 43 34
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There are no staff directly employed by the charity. Recharges are made for Trust staff time. The recharge is shown on the Financial Administration line.

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Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Charitable activities 43 34 0 0 43 34
Total 43 34 0 0 43 34
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10. Analysis of staff costs and remuneration of key management personnel

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2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Salaries and wages 39 13
Social security costs 3 1
Employers pension contribution 3 1
Total 45 15
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The average number of full-time equivalent employees (employed by a related party) during the year was 1.6 (2020/21: 0.6), providing fundraising services to the charity.

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11. Trustee remuneration, benefits and expenses

Members of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust board give their time freely and receive no remuneration for the work that they undertake in relation to Airedale Hospital and Community Charity.

12. Independent Examiner’s remuneration

The independent examiner’s remuneration of £3k (2020/21: £2k) related solely to the independent examination with no other additional work being undertaken (2020/21: £nil). Independent Examination is permitted by the Charities Commission for a charity of this size. Independent examination is a ‘light touch’ scrutiny involving the examiner checking for specific matters only. Because it is narrowly defined and does not involve forming an opinion as to whether the accounts are ‘true and fair’, the fees are reduced.

13. Fixed Asset investments

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Movement in fixed asset investments 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Market value brought forward 580 506
Add: additions to investments at cost 579 90
Less disposals at carrying value (579) (96)
Add net gain (loss) on revaluation 22 80
Market value as at 31 March 602 580
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Fixed asset investments by type 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
UK Equities & Equity Funds 560 268
Global Equities & Equity Funds (ex UK) 15
Fixed Interest & Fixed Interest Funds 102
Global Equities & Equity Funds (incl UK) 48
Direct Property & Property Funds 42 36
Other Assets 7
Multi-Asset Funds 104
Total 602 580
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All investments are carried at their fair value.

The charitable funds committee sets 5% of market value as at 31 March as the threshold for reporting material investments. As at 31 March 2022 the following investment was considered material:

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Investment 2021/22 2021/22 2020/21 2020/21
£000 % £000 %
Rathbone Unit Trust Management Core Investment 560 93% 0 0%
Fund for Charities
Mayfair Capital in Property Income Trust for 42 7% 36 6%
Charities
Castlefield Best Sustainable Income fund 0 0% 234 40%
Castlefield Real Return fund 0 0% 104 18%
Castlefield Best Sustainable UK Smaller Companies 0 0% 34 6%
Fund
Total 602 100% 408 70%
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The main risk from financial instruments lies in the combination of uncertain investment markets and volatility in yield. The impact of Covid-19 on the financial markets continues to be a concern, as does the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine.

The value of fixed asset investments is expected to improve when the economy improves but it is not known how long this will take in the wake of the war and Covid-19 impact.

Liquidity risk is anticipated to be low as all assets are traded, and the commitment to intervention by policymakers and central banks, who have shown a clear willingness to do whatever it takes to support the global economy through these extraordinary times.

Airedale Hospital and Community Charity manages these investment risks by retaining expert advisors (for 2021/22 - Castlefields Investment Partners LLP and Rathbones LLP) and operating an investment policy that provides for a high degree of diversification of holdings within investment asset classes. All investments were made in companies listed on a UK stock exchange or incorporated in the UK and therefore all investments are treated as investment assets in the UK.

Following a competitive exercise in May 21, Rathbones LLP were appointed as the charity’s new Investment Manager. The portfolio was transferred across from Castlefield’s to Rathbones in October 2021.

14. Analysis of current debtors

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Debtors under 1 year 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Other debtors 3 11
Total 3 11
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15. Analysis of cash and cash equivalents

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2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
RBS Bank Account 868 819
Barclays Current Account 13 16
Investment account (cash held) 2 4
Total cash and cash equivalents 883 839
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18. Analysis of charitable funds

a) Analysis of endowment fund movements

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Fund balance Income Expenditure Gains and Losses Fund balance
brought forward carried forward
1 April 31 March
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
W.N. Allen 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
Total 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
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16. Analysis of liabilities

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Creditors falling due within 1 year 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Other creditors 129 122
Total cash and cash equivalents 129 122
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Other creditors represent sums owed at the year end by the charity to a related party, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, for costs incurred by the Trust on behalf of the charity in the furtherance of the charity’s objectives.

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Deferred income 2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Grants received – restricted funds 12 0
Total cash and cash equivalents 12 0
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17. Reconciliation of net income/(expenditure) to net cash flow from operating activities

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2021/22 2020/21
£000 £000
Net income/(expenditure) for 2021/22 (as per the Statement of 39 227
Financial Activities)
Adjustments for:
(Gains)/losses on investments (22) (80)
Dividends, interest and rents from investments (15) (15)
(Increase)/decrease in debtors 8 20
Increase/(decrease) in creditors 9 50
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 29 202
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b) Analysis of unrestricted and material designated fund movements

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Fund balance Income Expenditure Gains and Losses Fund balance
brought forward carried forward
1 April 31 March
2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21 2021/22 2020/21
Fund name: £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
People Health and 0 0 261 0 (17) 0 2 0 246 0
WellBeing Fund
General Trust Fund 361 295 127 96 (258) (56) 7 26 237 361
HODU 24 51 193 8 (14) (38) 2 3 205 24
Airedale Breast Unit Fund 104 90 5 15 (12) (8) 5 7 102 104
Diabetic Fund 53 0 1 50 (5) (1) 1 4 50 53
Cazaux Legacy 48 0 1 48 (2) 0 1 0 48 48
Allum Legacy 40 0 5 40 0 0 0 0 45 40
Pathology Research 29 3 12 25 (1) 0 0 1 40 29
Diabetes Legacy 36 60 0 0 (9) (24) 0 0 27 36
Cancer Research Legacy 26 31 0 0 0 (5) 0 0 26 26
Gastroenterology Fund 24 23 0 0 (1) (1) 1 2 24 24
Operating Theatre 18 18 0 0 (1) (1) 1 1 18 18
Equipment Legacy
Surgical Sepcialities Fund 16 16 2 3 (1) (4) 0 1 17 16
Sovereign Health Training 13 9 5 4 (2) (1) 0 1 16 13
Critical Care 10 0 7 10 (1) 0 0 0 16 10
Sovereign Health Care 11 13 4 4 0 (7) 0 1 15 11
Equipment
Haematology 16 15 0 0 0 0 0 1 16 16
Other (21/22 balances 474 453 (184) 175 (86) (185) 2 32 206 474
under £15k)
Total 1,304 1,077 439 478 (410) (331) 22 80 1,355 1,304
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