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Community Ac,on Machynlleth and District
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Annual Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements
For the year ended 1[st] July 2022 to 30th June 2023
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
Co-op Community Fund
Finding funders who Tudor Trust
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The Trustees present their Annual Report with Financial Statements for the year beginning 1 July 2022 and ending 30th June 2023.
Charity’s Principal Address
The Care Centre Forge Road Machynlleth Powys SY20 8EQ Telephone (01654) 700071 Email office@camad.org.uk Website www.camad.org.uk
Trustees
Chair Gordon Hughes Secretary Duncan Toms Treasurer Brenda Hughes Other Trustees Cllr Michael Williams Cllr Monika Atkins Sabrina Cantor
Bankers
HSBC Bank plc Abertystwyth Cllr Monika Atkins 19 Stryd Fawr Sabina Cantor Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 1DH
Constitution. Community Action Machynlleth & District. CAMAD was registered with the Charity Commissioners and its Constitution was adopted on 2nd July 1998.
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Registered Charity Number 1071497
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The Charities Management Structure
Trustees:
A board of 6 trustees who meet 5 times per year.
Staff
Linda Hayward: Manager p/t
Amanda Grundy Administrator p/t
Providing a 4 days per week open door service 9.30 to 3pm. Answer phone, email, facebook and website out side of these hours.
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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 - 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.
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.
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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 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.
In 2018 our Staff, volunteers and Trustees were proud to be awarded the Powys Centre, “Volunteer of the Year Award 2018” for Health and Wellbeing, and we continue to strive towards this excellence with all of our services.
Without CAMAD, 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.
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Mission Statement
CAMAD is a member of WCVA & PAVO is committed to:
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Recruiting, training, placing and supporting volunteers and increasing the awareness of volunteering and its benefits in the communities of Powys
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Promoting, supporting and developing local voluntary sector initiatives and services to respond to local needs
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Providing an information service to local communities about community activities, opportunities and service.
CAMAD 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.
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Activities and Objectives
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CAMAD is the Voluntary Community Support Centre for Machynlleth and the Dyfi Valley. We have been running since 2[nd] July 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 recruit volunteers to help provide the services we offer to vulnerable members of our community and those with health and mobility issues. These can range from Befriending 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. We also help to find volunteer placements outside of CAMAD using our knowledge of the Community and years of experience as a Volunteer Bureau.
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 monthly Lunch Club, and a fortnightly Foot Care service using volunteers who are trained by NHS podiatrists (both practical and anatomy/physiology) and have recently started a monthly coffee morning.
Unemployment – 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. Most people we have helped have had depressive conditions and we extend our supported volunteering to them. We continue to work on ways to incentivise and assist these clients further through placements which offer certificated qualifications care and support.
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 were often called upon by the Welsh Ambulance Service when there is insufficient Non-Emergency Patient Transport to cover the demand until COVID struck in 2020.
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 which is where most cancer patients have
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to travel too, so our service is vital to some who have no other way of traveling.
Additionally, we run a Taxi Card scheme – for a £9 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 56 members.
We organise a once a month Lunch Club for the elderly which currently has 18 members
A social Foot care service for older people, volunteers are trained to do basic nail cutting keeping feet healthy eliminates falls in the home and to keep independence and social networks and currently has 32 members.
CAMAD took over the Machynlleth Meals on Wheels from PCC which was due to be scraped due to the funding cuts, as we have 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 Prescription collection and medicine delivery service we started this during the Covid pandemic
Mental Health & Wellbeing – CAMAD Pathways Project ceased in April 2023 due to staff leaving and coming to the end of the funding. We now run A small meeting on Tuesday’s between 1pm and 3pm, we have a small comfortable lounge area and communal kitchen. There's is always tea and biscuits and, in the kitchen, informal therapeutic activities including art and general discussion.
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.
We also run a Women’s support group that meets every Wednesday between 10pm and 12 with 20+ members it is a peer support group, many great friendships have been made with in the group with splinters joining other clubs together. It is a social group with refreshments, speakers and outings. It has been running now for the last 5 years.
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we There are no other organisations in our community that offer the support do or even close to it – the nearest mental health support is in Aberystwyth 19 miles away, or Newtown 28 miles away. We have been endorsed by our local surgery 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). 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 crosssection 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 24 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 Griffiths our auditor.
Our heartfelt thanks are given to our volunteers, with out their help and dedication CAMAD could not carry out our services.
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Linda Hayward
Manager
30 [th] June 2023
“ The reason Volunteers are not paid
Is not because they are worthless,
It’s because they are priceless”
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‘Volunteering Community Support’
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Community Action MAehynlleth and District Charity No 1071497 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT We report on the a¢¢ounts of th¢ charity for the year ended 30th June 2023 set out on the following pages. Respective rolpollsibilities of trnstees and independent examiner As the charity's trustees you ¥r¢ rwnsible for the preparation of the accounts. you consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Chariti&% A¢¢ 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is required. Basis of independent tx%miner'& statement Our examtnation was ¢arried out in a¢¢ordan¢¢ with the General Directions given by the Clwity Commission. An examinafion includes a review of the accounting records kept by the chgriry gnd a comparison of the a¢¢ounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or dis¢losures in the accounts. and seeking explanations from you &8 trn$tr¢s conc¢rniTbg any such matters. The procedures undertaken do noi provide 411 th¢ ¢vid¢nce that would be required in an audit and ¢ons¢quently no (4)inion is given as io whether the accounts preseni a'true and fair Vie and the rew)rt is limiled to those matters set out in th¢ sta¢¢m¢nt below. Independent examlner'j ststement In connection with ow examinatiow no matter l]as ¢ome to our attention: (i) whi¢h gives us reOnable use to believe that in any material the requirements: io keep proper accountin8 records in accrydance with se¢tion 130 of the Act: and to prepare accounts which accord with th¢ a¢wuntin8 T¢rdS and to comply with the a¢counting requirements of the Act have not been me¢ or (li) to which. in our opini(. attention should be drnwn in orderto enable aFYoper understgnding acc ntsio reached. of ILG.ILGriffith,FC Independent examiner Vogue Management Servi$ Limited Unlt 20 Strawberry Lane IndustriAI Eytste WilleDhall West MidlAnd8 WV13 3RS Date:2' October 2023.
Community Aetion Maehynlleth and Distriet Charity No 1071497 stst¢ment of As*ts At 30th June 2023. 21n3 2022 HSBC Cu account Bf Isl July 2020 60.940.76 58291.61 Surplusl{defKit) for the year 3.722.77 2.649.15 CF 30th June 2023 64,663.S3 60,940.76 Current a¢¢ount 91066706 Miscellaneous a¢count 71388096 Transport ¢outst 71388088 64.838.27 61.037.83 0.00 61,037.83 (97.07) 64.838.27 (174.74) Pension Contributions unpaid 60 940.76
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Community Action MAehynlleth and District Charity No 1071497 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT We report on the a¢¢ounts of th¢ charity for the year ended 30th June 2023 set out on the following pages. Respective rolpollsibilities of trnstees and independent examiner As the charity's trustees you ¥r¢ rwnsible for the preparation of the accounts. you consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Chariti&% A¢¢ 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is required. Basis of independent tx%miner'& statement Our examtnation was ¢arried out in a¢¢ordan¢¢ with the General Directions given by the Clwity Commission. An examinafion includes a review of the accounting records kept by the chgriry gnd a comparison of the a¢¢ounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or dis¢losures in the accounts. and seeking explanations from you &8 trn$tr¢s conc¢rniTbg any such matters. The procedures undertaken do noi provide 411 th¢ ¢vid¢nce that would be required in an audit and ¢ons¢quently no (4)inion is given as io whether the accounts preseni a'true and fair Vie and the rew)rt is limiled to those matters set out in th¢ sta¢¢m¢nt below. Independent examlner'j ststement In connection with ow examinatiow no matter l]as ¢ome to our attention: (i) whi¢h gives us reOnable use to believe that in any material the requirements: io keep proper accountin8 records in accrydance with se¢tion 130 of the Act: and to prepare accounts which accord with th¢ a¢wuntin8 T¢rdS and to comply with the a¢counting requirements of the Act have not been me¢ or (li) to which. in our opini(. attention should be drnwn in orderto enable aFYoper understgnding acc ntsio reached. of ILG.ILGriffith,FC Independent examiner Vogue Management Servi$ Limited Unlt 20 Strawberry Lane IndustriAI Eytste WilleDhall West MidlAnd8 WV13 3RS Date:2' October 2023.
Community Aetion Maehynlleth and Distriet Charity No 1071497 stst¢ment of As*ts At 30th June 2023. 21n3 2022 HSBC Cu account Bf Isl July 2020 60.940.76 58291.61 Surplusl{defKit) for the year 3.722.77 2.649.15 CF 30th June 2023 64,663.S3 60,940.76 Current a¢¢ount 91066706 Miscellaneous a¢count 71388096 Transport ¢outst 71388088 64.838.27 61.037.83 0.00 61,037.83 (97.07) 64.838.27 (174.74) Pension Contributions unpaid 60 940.76
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