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Rhayader and District Community Support

Cymorth Cymunedol Rhaeadr Gwy a'r Cylch, Yr Arches, Stryd y Gorllewin, Rhaeadr Gwy

Rhayader & District Community Support, The Arches, West Street, Rhayader, Powys, LD6 5AB 01597 810921 info@rdcs.org.uk EICH ELUSEN LEOL/ YOUR LOCAL CHARITY Rhif /No : 1113768 facebook.com/arches.rhayader www.thearchesrhayader.co.uk twitter.com/ArchesRhayader

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ANNUAL REPORT 2024

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Trustees

Jon Matthews (Treasurer, Chair from November 23rd to April 24[th] , 2024) Catherine Lea (Company Secretary) Deborah Price Trish Buchan

Jacqueline Davies (Chair from April 24[th] , 2024)

Lee Price (co-opted October 23[rd] )

Staff

Laurence Gellor Julie Davies

William Lloyd Jane Davies

Katie Pugh Linda Knox

Tim Hay (from December 23) Sarah Rowe (from April 24)

Norman Lampard Ali Thomas (from June 24) Natalie Vane (no longer employee) Emma Coates (no longer employee)

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To our Members, Friends and Supporters

Chairs Report

Chief Executive Report

Looking Ahead

Operating Highlights - Reports

Transport

Nursery

Volunteering

Projects

Foodbank

Shop

Events -

Our Funders and Partners FINANCIAL SUMMARY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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TO OUR MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS

Strategic Highlights

Chairs Report – Jon Matthews

The highlight of the year has to be the winning of the Powys Business Award for social enterprise/charity. This was a wonderful recognition of the huge amount of work put in by our volunteers, staff and trustees over the year and the value we bring to the community. For a small organisation we deliver far more than people expect; the recognition for this was very welcomed to receive. A big thank you to all the staff involved in the application process.

There have been several changes within the staffing team; Emma left us over the summer; whilst Natilie rejoined the organisation to support our wellbeing activities and Tim and Sarah joined the team to deliver two new National Lottery projects. This has brought new energy, ideas and enthusiasm to the team which will help the delivery of these projects over the next couple of years.

The nursery has continued to thrive with full attendance most days; the staff have prepared for our CSSIW inspection which was due at any time. Trustees also met with the staff team to get a better picture of the work and future development needs of the nursery and a grant of £10k was secured towards capital improvements.

The Trustees have contributed many hours, and a special thanks to Trish and Jax for their work in helping us address the health and safety within the building making a safe and more pleasant working environment. We invested in remedial work to the building and commissioning surveys of the Arches and fire safety. We also undertook a Green Energy audit to help reduce our environmental impact.

Funding has been a challenge this year; our first National Lottery application was turned down, but successful on a resubmission; along with a smaller more targeted grant for wellbeing support. For 24/25 these will make a more positive impact on the funding, they came in too late during the financial year to make much of a positive difference to the deficit (as the grants helped to cover organisational running costs). At the start of 2024, we received a third National Lottery grant to help cover the costs of the rise in cost of living which has increased our running costs.

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Operating Highlights

CEO Report – Laurence Gellor

Having been in post for the full reporting period I am happy to report as follows.

These have been, and continue to be, tough times for the sector and many parts of society in general. The impact of an acknowledged Cost of Living crisis, uncertainty around funding and income and the consequences of the post covid environment are just some of the factors that contribute to a challenging environment. As one would expect this has presented challenges to the organisation and, like many others, this has had a material impact on our income and expenditure for the year. We are more fortunate than others and maintain a diligent approach to seeking to maintain compliance with our reserves policy. It is expected that this will hold us in good stead for the coming year.

This said, and in keeping with the previous year’s report our work however continues to see positive change directed at a goal of achieving very best practise. To this end I am happy to report there have been some notable achievement during the year.

Our work has been recognised publicly and professionally in several important ways, a short non-exclusive list of which;

1/ Powys Business Awards – we were winners of the Charity of the Year Award

2/ Investors in Volunteers – the staff team, trustees and volunteers contributed to us achieving this quality mark

3/ A range of Funding secured, and preparation/submission for further in the next reporting period

4/ Positive news articles - highlighting the work of RDCS more commonly recognised as the Arches and our Nursery.

5/ Additional (funded) Staffing role( s)

Over the last year I have had the opportunity to gain an even better understanding of the importance of the various, and at times complex areas of our work and their interrelationships. What is clear is that our Community Transport offer, Nursery offer , Foodbank Offer, Volunteering Offer, Wellbeing Agenda and the “portal” of a Charity Shop which acts as a Community Hub , all remain more than ever an essential, as well as cherished, part of the Rhayader landscape.

I believe all those directly involved in RDCS, staff, volunteers and trustees ultimately act as ambassadors. Improved communication has been a first principle to further develop team ethos. This has resulted in a space that allows for robust and constructive contribution from all stakeholders when and where they feel it appropriate. This has contributed, and continues to do so, to the positive and tangible ongoing developments we pursue, and expect to pursue in the coming year.

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Whilst continuing to engage in operational and procedural development, with the help, scrutiny and diligence of trustees, staff and volunteers – this year has continued to be a period of transition. In a sense much of this type of work is never truly completed and always remains subject to refinement whether in terms of identified better practise or the requirements of legal change. Notwithstanding the foregoing our primary focus remains being committed to the continued delivery of high-quality services to the local community. It is also evident from all tangible feedback that we continue to deliver profound and positive difference to the lives of many local people, and consequently this has a positive impact on the whole community.

I would like to thank the Andrew Jones Team (our accountants), our Treasurer Jon Matthews and our Finance Officer Katie Pugh for their help in ensuring financial probity with regard this year’s accounts.

It remains only for me to thank all the tremendous staff and volunteers that help make The Arches such a special place. Thank you, Team Arches!

Looking Ahead

Continue to update policies and procedures.
Further develop IT based systems to improve back-office capability. i.e., Financial, Transport and Monitoring
Develop our offer for all stakeholders.
Seek to improve public perception of the range of activities we engage in.
Secure funding to populate improved staffing structure.
Memory Lane: develop project and seek associated funding.
Plan for our 40[th] Anniversary
Establish a strategy for Transport vehicle replacement funding.
Engage new Trustees.
Implement contingency allocation deployment for Building related repairs and renewals.

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7 Transport Report -Ali Thomas Office Manager/Transport (current officer but not for reporting period) Transport T ransport - Community Car Scheme: This service provides Volunteer Drivers in their own vehicles, taking people to out of town hospital & other health-related appointments, anywhere in the Country. This year our strong team of 15 Volunteer Community Car Drivers continued to dedicate their spare time to helping people get to where they needed to go. Statistics - yearly comparison: Year Total Trips Total Miles 2023/24 1035 33,784 2022/23 1485 36,790 2021/22 1362 33,323 2023/24 Monthly Breakdown: 1035 trips - 33,784 miles travelled Month No No Destinations Trips Miles Apr 23 64 2213 Hereford, Llandrindod, Newtown, Aberystwyth, Llanidloes May 88 2397 Llandrindod, Newtown, Hereford, Abergavenny, Newtown 23 Jun 23 73 2304 Llandrindod, Hereford, Brecon, Jul 23 70 1266 Newtown, Llandrindod, Hereford, Merthyr Aug 81 3568 Newtown, Llanidloes, Llandrindod, Hereford, Cardiff, 23 Hazels Llandrindod, Brecon Sep 73 2878 Llandrindod, Hereford, Aberystwyth, Abergavenny, 23 Newport, Oct 23 80 2681 Llandrindod, Hazels Llandrindod, Newtown, Abergavenny, Newport, Hereford, Llanidloes, Merthyr ~~=~~ 7 Cymorth Cymunedol Rhaeadr Gwy a'r Cylch, Yr Arches, Stryd y Gorllewin, Rhaeadr Gwy Rhayader & District Community Support, The Arches, West Street, Rhayader, Powys, LD6 5AB 01597 810921 info@rdcs.org.uk EICH ELUSEN LEOL/ YOUR LOCAL CHARITY Rhif /No : 1113768

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8 Nov 74 3175 Llandrindod, Newtown, Velindre Cardiff, Hereford, 23 Abergavenny, Carmarthen, Merthyr, Dec 108 3297 Llandrindod, Merthyr, Hereford, Shrewsbury, Gobowen, 23 Aberystwyth, Jan 24 114 3779 LLandrindod, Newtown, Llanidloes, Merthyr, Hereford, Aberystwyth Feb 24 116 3827 Hereford, Llandrindod, Llanidloes, Birmingham QE, Brecon, Cheltenham, Hazels Llandrindod, Aberystwyth Mar 24 94 2399 Llandrindod, Leominster, Hereford, Birmingham QE, Gobowen, Transport - Dial A Ride Scheme: This service provides local transport in our Caddy and Minibus and takes servicemembers to the shops, hairdressers, cafe’s, GP appointment, Lunch Club & Social Groups, etc. 2023/24: 2090 trips traveling 10,992 miles F/Year Month No. Trips Miles Travelled April 23 125 726 May 23 170 862 Jun 23 228 1078 Jul 23 182 1030 Aug 23 177 1003 Sep 23 117 709 Oct 23 123 857 Nov 23 235 1070 Dec 23 158 766 Jan 24 233 1090 Feb 24 207 1045 Mar 24 135 756 ~~a~~ 8 Cymorth Cymunedol Rhaeadr Gwy a'r Cylch, Yr Arches, Stryd y Gorllewin, Rhaeadr Gwy Rhayader & District Community Support, The Arches, West Street, Rhayader, Powys, LD6 5AB 01597 810921 info@rdcs.org.uk EICH ELUSEN LEOL/ YOUR LOCAL CHARITY Rhif /No : 1113768

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9 Transport - Dial A Ride Minibus Trips: Month Destination No. Passengers Apr 23 Brecon & Three Cocks 8 Lakeside Llandrindod 5 Three Cocks 11 Hereford 9 Newtown 5 May 23 Welshpool 6 Jun 23 Ludlow 8 Jul 23 Aberystwyth 7 Elan Valley & Visitor Centre 6 Machynlleth & Aberdyfi 6 Aug 23 Llandrindod Lakeside 9 Merthyr Shopping Centre 7 Sep 23 Aberystwyth 7 Oct 23 Abergavenny 11 Builth Cinema 10 Newtown 8 Nov 23 Welshpool 7 Dec 23 Llanidloes 5 Brecon & Three Cocks 11 Jan 24 Ludlow 11 Feb 24 Brecon 11 Transport - Minibus Hire Month Group Destination Apr 23 Trefonnen School Elan Valley Jun 23 Trefonnen School Elan Valley Jul 23 Newbridge School Elan Valley Llandrindod School Gigrin Farm Memory Lane Three Cocks Jan 24 Memory Lane / 9 Cymorth Cymunedol Rhaeadr Gwy a'r Cylch, Yr Arches, Stryd y Gorllewin, Rhaeadr Gwy Rhayader & District Community Support, The Arches, West Street, Rhayader, Powys, LD6 5AB 01597 810921 info@rdcs.org.uk EICH ELUSEN LEOL/ YOUR LOCAL CHARITY Rhif /No : 1113768 facebook.com/arches.rhayader www.thearchesrhayader.co.uk twitter.com/ArchesRhayader ~~i]~~

Summary and Conclusion:

Our community car scheme remains an esteemed service within our community, crucial for meeting the transportation needs of our residents. The sustainability of this service heavily relies on dedicated volunteer drivers utilising their personal vehicles. Our Minibus Trips are also a valued lifeline for days out for our local members

Suffice to say without the tremendous support of both staff and volunteers we would not be able to offer such services.

Staff Driver – Billy Lloyd

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Nursery - Managers Emily & Sharon

Rhayader Community Nursery –Annual Report 1[st] April 2023- 31[st] March 2024

As always, we have had another busy year here at Rhayader Community Nursery.

We currently have 13 under two’s, 15 two-year-olds and 14 three-year-olds registered with us. We have also got an ever growing, constant waiting list of children waiting to start and unfortunately we are having to turn some families away as we just cannot fit them in.

All staff have attended a variety of training over the past few months, covering topics such as Paediatric First Aid, Safeguarding and Child Protection, Food Hygiene and Additional Learning Needs. Sharon also attends monthly managers network meetings on zoom, which provide updates, ideas and new training opportunities. It is also a chance to talk to other managers nationwide about a wide variety of topics.

April 2023- We held a decorated Easter Egg competition for our children and they enjoyed participating.

May 2023- We held a week of tea parties with our children to Celebrate King Charles coronation. We had afternoon tea and the children enjoyed partying.

During May we were doing a topic on “People who help us”, during this time we went on walks to the local Fire station and Police station to learn about how they help us in our community.

Week commencing 5[th] June 2023- We did a sponsored Toddle Waddle week in Nursery and this meant taking the children on a walk every day to get our steps in to raise funds for Nursery and Rhayader Carnival. On Sunday 11[th] June the staff, some parents and carnival committee members completed a 9 mile walk from the top Dam in the Elan Valley, following the cycle track back to Rhayader to complete the sponsored walk week. We raised £1080 in total and this was split between Nursery and Carnival committee. Thursday 15[th] June 2023- Rhayader Fire station organised a pub Quiz in The Eagles for us. It was a great evening and we raised £428 to put towards new resources for our garden.

Friday 9[th] June 2023- Emily and Sharon attended a Childcare conference in Newtown. We had a talk off Alice Sharp from “Adventures with Alice training” and given information about the new curriculum. It was very interesting and we got to have some free resources for nursery.

Saturday 24[th] June 2023- Our manager Emily got married to Craig Davies and we enjoyed attending her wedding, It was a boiling hot day!

Sunday 2[nd] July 2023- We had a garden tidy up and odd job day and asked for parents and volunteers to come and help but only a few staff and parents turned up. We painted some fences and had a general clean and tidy up.

18[th] July 2023- Alannah, Dawn and Sarah attended a paediatric first aid course. Thursday 20[th] July 2023- We held the carnival Teddy bears picnic at nursery due to the weather. It was a great turn out. During this event we presented the carnival committee their cheque for £540 from the Toddle Waddle sponsored walk.

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9[th] August 2023- We were awarded £10,759.06 from the Capital Small Grant scheme. We purchased our Summer house, sleep mats, new hoover, washing machine, weather proofed our ramp and had new laminate flooring put down in the main room and the office. August 2023- Adam Price (Rugby coach) invited our children to the school field to play in the inflatable arena with the football and rugby balls.

14[th] August 2023- Alannah qualified with her Level 3 in Childcare, Learning and development.

Monday 11[th] September 2023- Nicola Morgan started working for us full time in the under 2’s.

Monday 18[th] September 2023- Julie James started working for us full time in the 2-yearold group.

28[th] September 2023- Laura from Mind Nourishing and Jayne from Bute energy came out to nursery to do a “Food and Adventure” workshop. They played games, made

decorations, did food tasting and had a story. The children really enjoyed this session. October 2023- Rhayader Carnival committee hosted a bingo and donated the money made off their raffle to nursery. It was around the £200 mark and we purchased fancy dress clothes, accessories, playdough and forest animals for our topics.

Rhayader WI also hosted a bingo and donated their raffle money to us. With this money we purchased new tents, tunnels, toy hoover, coloured sand, water mats and inflatable globes.

Wednesday 22[nd] November 2023- We held our annual Christmas bingo at Pant Y Dwr hall and made an amazing £901.10!

Monday 13[th] November 2023- We went for a walk with the nursery children to the Town clock to place our handmade Poppy wreath for Remembrance Day.

Saturday 2[nd] December 2023- We held our Nursery Christmas party at Pant Y Dwr hall and Santa came along for a visit.

Tuesday 19[th] December 2023- We had Christmas dinner day in nursery.

Friday 22[nd] December 2023- Nursery closed at 12.30pm to the children and then staff all came into deep clean and sterilise everything before the Christmas closure. Saturday 23[rd] December 2023- Nursery staff had their Christmas party at Ernie’s and we all took a coloured board of food and drink. It was such a fun night!! Tuesday 2[nd] January 2024- Nursery re opened

January 2024- Sharon applied for the Bryntitli grant and they awarded us £758. This was for us to purchase new pushchairs and wet suits for the children.

At the end of January, we completed the Self-Assessment of Service Statement (SASS) form.

March 2024- We sold Lucky Squares for Easter with the prizes being hampers and Easter eggs. We made £399.

Friday 22[nd] March 2024- Emily and Sharon attended a childcare conference in Newtown. This was hosted by the Childcare Business support team and Flying start. It was another brilliant day with lots of information and some free resources for nursery.

All the staff have worked extremely hard over this last year and the support we have received has been very much appreciated. We have an ever-growing waiting list of children waiting to join our nursery family and we look forward to welcoming them over the next year.

We are all looking forward to the year ahead, with lots of exciting ideas and fundraisers to look forward to as well as developing the nursery even further.

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– Julie Davies Volunteer Co-ordinator Volunteering

At the core of the Arches are the volunteers. The volunteers are involved with many of the services we deliver whether it be the shop, transport, befriending, help running a project, supporting other projects, supporting local events, and informal volunteering. Most of our volunteers are known to the community and trusted by the community. The Arches offer an attractive volunteering package.

Our volunteers are trained, motivated, and hard working. Along with helping others, volunteering has several benefits both to the community and to the volunteer. Where possible volunteers are matched to the area of work, they feel suited to. This can be a sensitive issue, but we act in the best interests of all involved by taking into consideration interests and safety.

There are a wide variety of opportunities here at the Arches and we are lucky to have approximately 55volunteers on our books. Staff and Arches Trustees are also volunteers which would make a grand total of 70 Arches volunteers.

Below is a table showing output achieved in the 2023/2024 period.

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Foodbank (Signposting & Support)

Foodbank (Tim Hay)

The role of Wellbeing and food bank coordinator began in January 2024 and the current system used for recording visits to the Food Bank was started then.

From 15/01/24 to 31/03/24 there were 51 recorded visits to the Food Bank.

Upon commencing the role some changes were implemented to the operational side of the food bank. One of these changes was around the layout and storage of supplies within the food bank storage area. Shelves were rearranged in such a way as to allow for better storage, with clearly labelled sections. These changes have allowed for easier management of stock as well as creating a safer working environment. Later in the year (June 2024) we were visited and inspected by PCC Trading Standards who were very happy with the layout and operation of the Food Bank.

Another change that was implemented was around the provision of Food Vouchers and moving away from handing out cash. Through positive communications with local businesses we have set up a voucher scheme where people accessing the food bank can also make use of 3 local businesses in order to access fresh goods and other supplies that can’t be provided through the food bank. This has helped to create better communications between the wider community and the food bank as well as placing a greater onus on the provision of fresh and healthy food alongside the non-perishable items that we can supply from the food bank itself.

Another focus of the Food Banks operation has been on the building of relationships and communications with the wider community, with the hope of increasing positive attitudes towards the service and those whom it supports. Early in the year I met with and spoke to representatives from Rhayader WI and Rhayader Primary School as well as some of the local churches to talk about the service and how it supports the community, as well as how some of the groups could help to support us.

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I also reached out to other local Food Banks and Food support groups to help foster relationships with the wider community. We have been able to benefit greatly from some of these connections with a good example of that being Newtown Food Surplus. NFS are a fairly new charity who are trying to cut down food waste from larger retailers. We are now in regular contact and have been supplied with several large deliveries of canned goods as well as fresh bread and pastry.

Signposting & Support

We have continued to work closely with and signpost to other local organisations to ensure those accessing our services or coming to us directly for support are able to get the help they need.

We continue to liaise with Local authority services such as:

Powys Citizens Advice
Powys County Council housing services
Powys County Council Money & Advice Services
The Hazels (mental health support service)

Other Charity and Support services:

MIND
Kaleidoscope
Severn Wye Energy Advocacy

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Shop

The Shop functions not only as a Charity Shop in the general sense but also acts as a Portal that allows for destigmatised access to a range of our other services.

Plans for greater development of potential income include plans for the employment of a Shop Manager in the coming fiscal year 24/25.

It also represents the physical face of the building in which we are housed.

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Events

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FUNDING & PARTNERS

A big thank you

to all our funders, sponsors and supporters

The Sobell Foundation

Making lives better with a little help from our friends

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31 Cymorth Cymunedol Rhaeadr Gwy a'r Cylch, Yr Arches, Stryd y Gorllewin, Rhaeadr Gwy Rhayader & District Community Support, The Arches, West Street, Rhayader, Powys, LD6 5AB 01597 810921 info@rdcs.org.uk EICH ELUSEN LEOL/ YOUR LOCAL CHARITY Rhif /No : 1113768 facebook.com/arches.rhayader www.thearchesrhayader.co.uk twitter.com/ArchesRhayader

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EICH ELUSEN LEOL/ YOUR LOCAL CHARITY Rhif /No : 1113768

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EICH ELUSEN LEOL/ YOUR LOCAL CHARITY Rhif /No : 1113768 facebook.com/arches.rhayader www.thearchesrhayader.co.uk twitter.com/ArchesRhayader ~~BC~~

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OpenCharities

Rhayader and District Community Support

Trustees

Staff

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TO OUR MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS

Strategic Highlights

Chairs Report – Jon Matthews

Operating Highlights

CEO Report – Laurence Gellor

1/ Powys Business Awards – we were winners of the Charity of the Year Award

5/ Additional (funded) Staffing role( s)

Looking Ahead

Summary and Conclusion:

– Julie Davies Volunteer Co-ordinator Volunteering

Foodbank (Signposting & Support)

Foodbank (Tim Hay)

Signposting & Support

Shop

Events

FUNDING & PARTNERS

A big thank you

to all our funders, sponsors and supporters

The Sobell Foundation

FINANCIAL SUMMARY