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## **Annual Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements** ## For the year ended 30th June 2021 The Care Centre, Forge Road, Machynlleth, SY20 8EQ Telephone (01654) 700071 e mail office@camad.org.uk Website www.camad.org.uk ## Registered Charity Number 1071497 **CAMAD is a Member of the Wales Council for Voluntary Action,** **Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations and Powys Community Support Network** ## Funded and supported by Wales Council for Voluntary Action **We would also like to thank all of the Local people and organisations which have supported CAMAD with donations and support, it is much appreciated.** CAMAD Annual Report **The Trustees present their Annual Report with Financial Statements for the year beginning 1 July 2020 and ending 30th June 2021.** |**Charity’s**|**Principal Address**|The Care Centre|The Care Centre|| |---|---|---|---|---| |||Forge Road||| |||Machynlleth||| |||Powys||| |||SY20 8EQ||| |||Telephone (01654) 700071||| |||Emailoffice@camad.org.uk||| |||Websitewww.camad.org.uk||| |**Trustees**||Chair|Gordon Hughes|| |||Secretary|Vacant|| |||Treasurer|Brenda Hughes|| |||Other Trustees|Cllr Michael Williams|| ||||Sarah Hughes|| ||||Cllr Monika Atkins|| ||||Sabrina Cantor|| ||||Duncan Toms|| ||||Cllr Monika Atkins|| |**Bankers**|HSBC Bank plc||Sabina Cantor|| ||Abertystwyth|||| ||19|Stryd Fawr||| ||Aberystwyth|||| ||Ceredigion|||| ||SY23 1DH|||| **Constitution.** Community Action Machynlleth & District, CAMAD, was registered with the Charity Commissioners and its Constitution was adopted on 28 July 1998. CAMAD Annual Report ## **The Charity’s Management Structure** ## Trustees: A board of 7 trustees who meet 5 times per year ## Staff Linda Hayward: Manager Sarah Jones: Project Co-ordinator Holly Faircloth: Administrator Providing a 4 day per week open door service 9.30 to 3pm. Answer phone, email, facebook and website out of these hours. CAMAD has 26 regular volunteers who help CAMAD provide our services, as well as many others who help on an ad hoc basis. CAMAD Annual Report ## **Statement of Public Benefit** The Charities Act 2006 requires the Trustee’s to identify the public benefit of the work of the Charity and to define who benefits. CAMAD is a Volunteer Centre and a Community Support organisation. As a Volunteer Centre, it acts as an intermediary between those who want to do voluntary work and those who need Volunteers. The former are usually individuals and the latter are normally organisations. Volunteering has been defined long ago as a vital right for everyone, that is, the right to give up time for the benefit of others without being paid for it and without being taxed for the notional value of the work. CAMAD deals almost exclusively with other voluntary organisations which are not-for-profit and usually registered Charities. It often works with statutory bodies by providing Volunteers to support, for example, patients in hospital by getting reading matter, drinks and other 'creature comforts' to make their stay more pleasant. It also delivers Meal on Wheels in the Machynlleth area for those who are unwell. As a Community Support organisation, CAMAD uses Volunteers to help people who are less able because they are unwell, have a disability or maybe are just finding that being older makes things a bit more difficult. The help may be keeping a small lawn cut or getting some shopping, in fact, anything which can't easily be done but which is a relatively simple task. CAMAD does not carry out work which should be done by a professional or which might threaten the livelihood of local traders. For example, many people with a disability would find it very difficult to change a light bulb but to call in an electrician is hardly necessary. Much of CAMAD's work in this field is concerned with community transport. With a very limited public transport system, most people find getting to the doctor, dentist or out-patient clinic almost impossible and getting a taxi to go, say, from the Machynlleth area to Bronglais Hospital may cost £40 or £50. This may be affordable to some but if treatment is needed over a period of time it becomes hugely expensive. CAMAD provides a Community Car Service with Volunteer drivers using their own cars to help meet this need. It also runs a Taxi-Card scheme which gives members access to half price taxi fares up to an annual limit which depends on the Charity's finances. It also runs clubs for older people who live in isolation and who would otherwise not be able to socialise. Many of CAMAD's Volunteers are older, retired people but by no means all and often they will fit volunteering into their daily lives, be it driving a train or CAMAD Annual Report bringing up a family. Volunteering is particularly helpful to people who have not been working for some time whether through illness, redundancy, caring duties or some other reason. CAMAD has many examples of people for whom volunteering with an organisation has led to paid work or just the experience has been enough to rebuild the confidence they have needed to get them started again. Without CAMAD and our volunteers there would be a very large number of people in the Dyfi Valley living socially excluded lives with little or no access to vital services and little hope of escaping into the world around them. 30[th] June 2021 CAMAD Annual Report Mission Statement CAMAD is a member of WCVA, PAVO & the Powys Network of Volunteer Bureaux and Community Support Schemes and is committed to: - Recruiting, training, placing and supporting volunteers and increasing the awareness of volunteering and its benefits in the communities of Powys - Promoting, supporting and developing local voluntary sector initiatives and services to respond to local needs - Providing an information service to local communities about community activities, opportunities and service. The network aims to operate within the framework of good practice provided by Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations and Wales Council for Voluntary Action, providing flexible yet consistent, reliable services. CAMAD Annual Report ## Activities During the Year **CAMAD** is the Community Support and Volunteer Centre for Machynlleth and the Dyfi Valley. We have been running since 1998. Our catchment area covers the three counties of Powys, Ceredigion and Gwynedd. It is a rural area with a widely dispersed community in many outlying villages. Public transport is limited. **Volunteering –** we work with local and national voluntary organizations finding suitable placements for volunteers both near and far. These can range from Befriending to Archiving at the National Library, Community Gardening to Youth Offending Panels, Hospital Radio to Meals On Wheels deliverers. Our ethos is to support our volunteers rather than simply placing them (unless that’s all they require). We want to ensure they get the most from their volunteering and become an included part of the CAMAD family. **Elderly Care –** we have an excellent reputation for our work with the elderly, providing volunteer drivers and deliverers for Meals on Wheels twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays [a service we now manage after it fell victim to financial crisis Council cuts], a Lunch Club fortnightly, and a Foot Care Club fortnightly using volunteers who are trained by NHS podiatrists (both practical and anatomy/physiology). **Unemployment –** working closely with the Job Centre we aid unemployed volunteers to find placements which both improve their employability but also afford an opportunity to try out new things and uncover skills they never knew they had. Over the last year six of our volunteers have moved into full-time employment. Amongst this group there are often undiagnosed depressive conditions and we extend our supported volunteering to them. We continue to work on ways to assist these clients further through placements which offer certificated qualifications. **Community Transport –** we operate a community car service where volunteers drive clients to hospital appointments, dental appointments and family visits. We cover distances from Machynlleth to Aberystwyth, Carno to Carmarthen, Llanidloes to Birmingham and are often called upon by the Welsh Ambulance Service when there is insufficient Non-Emergency Patient Transport to cover the demand usually with under 24 hours’ notice. Southbound rail links terminate in Aberystwyth and heading North only go Eastwards. If one wishes to travel to North Wales or South Wales by rail it involves a trip to Shrewsbury and Chester for North Wales, and Shrewsbury, Ludlow and Hereford for the South. Additionally we run a Taxi Card scheme – for a small annual fee, members are entitled to 50% off their taxi journeys up to a value of £50 to £100 (depending on funds). We currently have 88 members. We organise a twice monthly Lunch club for the elderly which has 18 members. A social Foot care service for older people run by volunteers are trained to do basic nail cutting keeping feet healthy helps eliminate falls in the home and who keep independence and social networks and currently has 32 members. CAMAD Annual Report CAMAD took over the Machynlleth Meals on Wheels from PCC which was due to be scraped due to the funding cuts, as we had organised it on their behalf for 9 years, we felt it was a service that should not be lost to the town so took it on as one of our core services. We also offer a Community support volunteer help in the home with light gardening, shopping, prescription collection’s and any other service we can provide. **Mental Health** – CAMAD Pathways Project is a drop-in service for anyone living with mental health issues - from generalized depressive conditions to anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders to addictions. Running on Tuesday’s and Thursdays between 1 and 4, we have a small comfortable lounge area and communal kitchen. Soft music plays, there's always tea and biscuits and in the kitchen informal therapeutic activities including art and music and general discussion. We also run a Women’s Support Group Wednesdays 10.30to 12.30. Our principle is to offer a space where people can enjoy each other's company, confidentially, knowing that everyone who uses the service has shared similar troubles. We are supported by local GPs and the Community Psychiatric Team visit regularly. We don't sit around talking about mental health - in fact it's a very good-humoured set-up. The point is there is the freedom to talk openly about what matters to you in social surroundings. Sometimes these things can't be talked about comfortably at home, and it's so easy to become isolated in the midst of depression. Those living with mental health issues will through Pathways achieve a greater level of socialisation and inclusion, access to diagnosis and a conduit to specialized care if needed. Service users with increased confidence can use CAMAD as a route to supported volunteering, raising their employability or leading directly to employment. Service users at different stages of their use of the drop-in will feel empowered to use their experience to help future service users. Our ultimate aim is that Pathways will become a self-supporting inclusive (not exclusive) unit and a dependable venue for improving mental health in our community for many years to come. There are no other organisations in our community that offer what **we** do or even close to it – the nearest are in Aberystwyth 19 miles away, or Newtown 28 miles away. Our research has been carried out in a subtle way through the social media and more directly through one-on-one conversations with CAMAD volunteers who fall within the scope of Pathways. We have been endorsed by our local surgery, the Community Psychiatric Nurse and by the local Community in our town with whom we have a good relationship in this field through running a Volunteering-On-Prescription programme (which is where we gained our credibility as effective providers of support in the area of mental health). This Report covers the period 1[st] July 2020 to 30[th] June 2021 but as we all know the beginning of 2020 saw the outbreak of Covid-19 which curtailed our activities. CAMAD Annual Report From March we had to close the office but we continued to provide some services and took on new tasks, for example we had to close the Lunch Club, Foot care and Pathways drop-in but we started a Prescription Collection and Shopping Service for those who were in isolation or unable to get out. In the first 6 months we did 358 collections and deliveries all over our area from Corris to LLanbrynmair as well as in our town of Machynlleth. One service we didn’t stop was meals on wheels in the above time scale 2 volunteers delivered 896 meal to 16 members twice weekly. We started a new prescription delivery as people were self-isolating and unable to pick their medication up themselves our volunteers helped on average 6 people per day and as the Dyfi Valley is very rural she covered 1295 miles which equated to £584.95 in volunteer travel expenses. In May 21 we re-started our Social Foot club for older people and those with disabilities who can’t cut their toe nails we have 22 members who come to 6 weekly sessions so we have 3 sessions per month with 6 people per session we have 2 volunteers that help us provide this vital service. January 21 was when we started taking local people to their 1[st] Covid vaccinations this involved volunteers using their own car to drive a 63mile round trip from Machynlleth to the nearest vaccination centre which is in Newtown, even further from more rural villages and hamlets. They took 63 people covering 4021 miles the busiest was march when we took 24 people covering 1597 miles. Much of the time was also helping people over the phone with problems and queries and social calls all of these services have help relieve stress and anxiety to house bound people between the ages of 20 up to100. Covid has made many people who would say they had no mental health problems more anxious, they need help accessing society again and it has affected all ages. There is no other organisation or charity in our community that provides the services that we provide we hope in these uncertain times to continue in to the future. CAMAD Annual Report **Our objective** is to continue finding funders who appreciate the need for core cost assistance, which is growing harder and harder. Yet these costs are fundamental to our day-to-day running. Without these functional monies, projects (which are a more popular funding choice) have neither home nor worker. Our endeavour is to do as much as we can for the broadest cross-section of the community despite National, Town and County, and Government and Welsh Assembly funding diminishing. The Trustees and staff of Community Action Machynlleth & District “CAMAD” Would like to give our thanks to all our funders for their support though out this year and in years past, with out it CAMAD would not be able to provide, services vital to our community and to provide employment to local people were there is very little. It is becoming harder to attract funding general running costs, but we have been successful for the last 19 years, we hope to continue into the future by giving value for money and to continue to provide much needed help to the more vulnerable members of our community. We also thank Ross Griffith, FCA, our auditor for the last 2 years. Our heart felt thanks are given to our volunteers, with out their help and dedication CAMAD could not carry out our services. Linda Hayward Manager 30[th] June 2021 ## CAMAD _‘Volunteering Community Support’_ Registered Charity No 1071497 CAMAD Annual Report Community Aetioll Machynll¢th and District Charity No 1071497 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT We rep)rt on the accounts of the ehaTity for the year endcd 3￿ June 2021 set out ott the foll¢)win8 pages. Respective responsibilities of trustees and independen¢ examiner As the charitys rrusie¢s you are re$k￿SIble for the prepar81ion of the accounts, YO￿ consider that an audil j$ rtot required for thi5 )'ear under section 144{2) of the Ch8riihe5 Aet 2011 (the 2011 Aet) and that an inde￿ndent examinatiots is requird. Bgslg of Independent exAmlner's statement Our ¢x8mina¢ion was carricd out in a¢cordanee wilh the General DireLtions given by the Charity Commission. An examination iD¢ludes a revicw ofthe acwuntlTh8 reeords kw by th¢ Charity and a comparison of the occounts presented ￿1th those It also includes ¢¢)nsideraiion ofany unusual items or disclosures in the aecounts. and seeking explanaiion5 from you as trusie¢5 ¢oncernin8 any such mailers. The Procedures undertaken do no¢ kYovid¢ all the evidence tha¢ would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given &s to whether the S¢￿￿n￿ eseni a'true and fair vic￿, and the rep)rt is limitcd to those matters set Oul in the $ts¢ement ¢low. Indtpendent examiner's statement In ¢onne¢tion with our ex4minitLOI4 tm) mfitter has come to our aiiention: li) which 8ives us reason8ble cause to Ixlieve that in #ny m&ter1￿ respect ¢he requirements: to keep proF¢T a¢eountin8 recwds in I￿Or￿e wth sKtion 130 of the Act; and Itt￿1¢ 8¢counts which ￿0)rd with the ￿0￿n11n8 records gnd to comply with tl a¢¢oun¢ing requirements of the Art have not been md; or {iilto whieh, in our opini1￿. attertuon should ￿ drnwn in orts to emble a PTOFtr under5tAndinB of ihe accounts to be reached. R.G.1LGri￿lth,FcA. Independent examlner Vogue MgnllgemeDt Servi¢e$ Llmlted Unlt 20 Strswberry Lane Industrial Estate Willenh#ll West Midlands WV13 3RS D4te:9 October 2021. CommuDity Ac¢lon M8thynlleth aDd Distrhet ICAMAD} Reg Cbarity 1071497 Stthtement ofAssets •t 30th June 2021. 2021 2020 C Current ac Bf 1st July 2020 54.207.61 23,350.24 Surplu￿(defi¢Itj for the year 4,084.(K) 15.769.22 CF 30th Jyne 21121 58291.61 YJ.119A6 CuTreni account 91066706 Mis¢ellAneous account 71388096 Transp)n accoun¢ 71388088 31.216.26 23.801.91 3.273.44 37,635.53 12.551.09 4.020.99 58,291.61 54 207.61 Ctymmunity AC￿0￿ M*chyDlirth *Trd Dtstrict IGWADI Reg Lh*rity lTr71497 Yur ctthd 3(AhJU￿20?1 20Z ALFW 31XIYJ.L)J 31.(OJ.(K) 525 50 iO.nwM$E￿j memtrmthip PCCG￿￿ts forCLNfonLmtyTrwc•l Covid 19 G8rfield Westm Pow Local He•lth Bwd PLHB NEPT srt*ll Fourthti Me￿$0￿ INTretls¢Onrrib￿Ir Lunchclub DonaLions Fundrwsins inclu Rojm hirt&CwComm 3.628 50 3.810.iN) 3.4K)40 1698 9Q 000 2.322 2,698 o.oi 2J22.IA) ts.[￿) o.(x) 6.016.85 o. 6.016.85 l Jll.45 50.677 75 14 735.15 65413.60 83 442.40 59,632.71 2,333 03 625 68 4210 3.446.30 40.T16 05 690 68 584 40 3,990. 9.887.90 1,362 4,819.20 71.62 2.344.71 920.22 1.708 40 s￿arles COV￿ 19 TthrTrLtyt P•Lh Rtn¢ CommUnityTr￿P0rt Expwws LwKh Club EXr￿￿$ Mr41$ on Wht¢l$ Experrt¢S F¢o￿are experk*5 nmnin1eo￿s In5um¢e Eguipmenl TrnirtinBstsff *TrJ volwit¢ Trnvel staff Ix)IwAwrs Profess¥)￿ fe¢J J3291.41 1533 03 625 68 2.105 L)] 3,446.X) 6,341.23 2.105.CKI 4.655.78 449 35 3.983.66 898.83 4k*35 78 449.35 3,983.66 o.th) 198.83 714.26 o.oo 0.00 180 00 61.329.60 o.TrJ 228.00 180 LKI 67673 18 o. 180.00 47 736 10 13 593 50 SURPLUSWEFIcrr FOR THE YEAR 2.94165 4,084.( 13.769.22 $4307.61 BF 1>1 Jwly 2020 33,089.29 U19.10 3843&39 42J22J9 69,970.83 CF 30th 1021 OM94 6M9I.IS Community Aetioll Machynll¢th and District Charity No 1071497 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT We rep)rt on the accounts of the ehaTity for the year endcd 3￿ June 2021 set out ott the foll¢)win8 pages. Respective responsibilities of trustees and independen¢ examiner As the charitys rrusie¢s you are re$k￿SIble for the prepar81ion of the accounts, YO￿ consider that an audil j$ rtot required for thi5 )'ear under section 144{2) of the Ch8riihe5 Aet 2011 (the 2011 Aet) and that an inde￿ndent examinatiots is requird. Bgslg of Independent exAmlner's statement Our ¢x8mina¢ion was carricd out in a¢cordanee wilh the General DireLtions given by the Charity Commission. An examination iD¢ludes a revicw ofthe acwuntlTh8 reeords kw by th¢ Charity and a comparison of the occounts presented ￿1th those It also includes ¢¢)nsideraiion ofany unusual items or disclosures in the aecounts. and seeking explanaiion5 from you as trusie¢5 ¢oncernin8 any such mailers. The Procedures undertaken do no¢ kYovid¢ all the evidence tha¢ would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given &s to whether the S¢￿￿n￿ eseni a'true and fair vic￿, and the rep)rt is limitcd to those matters set Oul in the $ts¢ement ¢low. Indtpendent examiner's statement In ¢onne¢tion with our ex4minitLOI4 tm) mfitter has come to our aiiention: li) which 8ives us reason8ble cause to Ixlieve that in #ny m&ter1￿ respect ¢he requirements: to keep proF¢T a¢eountin8 recwds in I￿Or￿e wth sKtion 130 of the Act; and Itt￿1¢ 8¢counts which ￿0)rd with the ￿0￿n11n8 records gnd to comply with tl a¢¢oun¢ing requirements of the Art have not been md; or {iilto whieh, in our opini1￿. attertuon should ￿ drnwn in orts to emble a PTOFtr under5tAndinB of ihe accounts to be reached. R.G.1LGri￿lth,FcA. Independent examlner Vogue MgnllgemeDt Servi¢e$ Llmlted Unlt 20 Strswberry Lane Industrial Estate Willenh#ll West Midlands WV13 3RS D4te:9 October 2021. CommuDity Ac¢lon M8thynlleth aDd Distrhet ICAMAD} Reg Cbarity 1071497 Stthtement ofAssets •t 30th June 2021. 2021 2020 C Current ac Bf 1st July 2020 54.207.61 23,350.24 Surplu￿(defi¢Itj for the year 4,084.(K) 15.769.22 CF 30th Jyne 21121 58291.61 YJ.119A6 CuTreni account 91066706 Mis¢ellAneous account 71388096 Transp)n accoun¢ 71388088 31.216.26 23.801.91 3.273.44 37,635.53 12.551.09 4.020.99 58,291.61 54 207.61 Ctymmunity AC￿0￿ M*chyDlirth *Trd Dtstrict IGWADI Reg Lh*rity lTr71497 Yur ctthd 3(AhJU￿20?1 20Z ALFW 31XIYJ.L)J 31.(OJ.(K) 525 50 iO.nwM$E￿j memtrmthip PCCG￿￿ts forCLNfonLmtyTrwc•l Covid 19 G8rfield Westm Pow Local He•lth Bwd PLHB NEPT srt*ll Fourthti Me￿$0￿ INTretls¢Onrrib￿Ir Lunchclub DonaLions Fundrwsins inclu Rojm hirt&CwComm 3.628 50 3.810.iN) 3.4K)40 1698 9Q 000 2.322 2,698 o.oi 2J22.IA) ts.[￿) o.(x) 6.016.85 o. 6.016.85 l Jll.45 50.677 75 14 735.15 65413.60 83 442.40 59,632.71 2,333 03 625 68 4210 3.446.30 40.T16 05 690 68 584 40 3,990. 9.887.90 1,362 4,819.20 71.62 2.344.71 920.22 1.708 40 s￿arles COV￿ 19 TthrTrLtyt P•Lh Rtn¢ CommUnityTr￿P0rt Expwws LwKh Club EXr￿￿$ Mr41$ on Wht¢l$ Experrt¢S F¢o￿are experk*5 nmnin1eo￿s In5um¢e Eguipmenl TrnirtinBstsff *TrJ volwit¢ Trnvel staff Ix)IwAwrs Profess¥)￿ fe¢J J3291.41 1533 03 625 68 2.105 L)] 3,446.X) 6,341.23 2.105.CKI 4.655.78 449 35 3.983.66 898.83 4k*35 78 449.35 3,983.66 o.th) 198.83 714.26 o.oo 0.00 180 00 61.329.60 o.TrJ 228.00 180 LKI 67673 18 o. 180.00 47 736 10 13 593 50 SURPLUSWEFIcrr FOR THE YEAR 2.94165 4,084.( 13.769.22 $4307.61 BF 1>1 Jwly 2020 33,089.29 U19.10 3843&39 42J22J9 69,970.83 CF 30th 1021 OM94 6M9I.IS