Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee. Trustees Annual Report
The trustees are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year 1[st] June 2024 to 31[st] May 2025.
Reference and administrative details
Charity number: 1118969 Company number: 05819798 Principle Office: 2 Blackfriars Street, Hereford, HR4 9HS Accountants: Apple Accountants. 7a Harrow Road, Hereford, HR4 OEH Bankers: Co-operative Bank
Directors and trustees
The directors of the charitable company (the charity) are its trustees for the purpose of charity law and throughout this report are collectively referred to as the trustees.
The officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
Trustees:
Mrs Julie Elizabeth Cohn (Chair) Mrs Sheila Mary Enid Higgins Mrs Leanne Sharon Pogson Mrs Joanna Phyllis Hilditch Mr Simon Adcock Mr John Taylor
Structure, Governance and Management
Objectives and Activities
The objectives of the charity are to help relieve sickness and preserve and protect the good health of people with cancer and their carers by providing or assisting in the provision of complementary therapies, information, education, advice, support & counselling.
The company was incorporated on 17[th] May 2006 and received charitable status on 26[th ] April 2007. The centre opened on l[st] April 2010.
Reserves Policy
It is intended to maintain sufficient reserves to cover three months expenditure and management support costs.
Trustees' responsibilities in relation to the financial statements
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity at the end of the financial year and of its surplus or deficit for the financial year. ln doing so the trustees are required to:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently:
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Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enables them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The trustees 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.
By order of the trustees
Trustees Annual Report
Introduction
Yeleni remains the only local complementary therapy centre offering counselling, therapies and workshops free of charge to cancer patients and their carer.
Our therapies are specifically designed to be delivered in a non-clinical environment where clients feel relaxed and supported by our compassionate approach. In recognition of this we have been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark, for a third time, in October 2024 with an improved score of 5/5.
We have supported workplace wellbeing for a number of businesses, including the NHS initiative ‘Caring for You’ study days, and workshops for staff and students at the Royal National College for the Blind.
Core Service
We provide a wide range of therapies and specialist support groups.
Therapies support cancer patients and their carers to cope with physical and mental stress and strains resulting from diagnosis, treatments and side effects. Our delivery team of therapists has expanded, with the addition of a breast cancer physiotherapist and a Pilates instructor. Complementary therapies of Reflexology, Bowen and Craniosacral Therapies are most frequently delivered, but the range of treatments available now includes Oncology Massage, Sports Massage, Acupuncture and 15 more.
More than half our referrals are received from the NHS – GPs, Social Prescribers, Consultants and Cancer Nurse Specialists - and Macmillan Cancer Support. Service information is provided via the Macmillan information pack to every cancer patient seen at the local County Hospital. Referrals are also received from surrounding counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire and the Welsh border counties.
We support patients with any cancer, but Breast cancer is the most frequent making 50% of referrals this year. The Yeleni Breast Cancer Support Service, launched in March 2024, now has over 50 members. Monthly meetings offer activities and social connection. Specialist talks on a variety of topics, and a Breast Cancer Nurse specialist, give access to additional information and reassurance.
Peer group support for those with other intimate body cancers, such as a gynaecological cancer, is also available but the group support for male cancer parents failed to establish.
Outreach & Extended Support
Our outreach befriending service, online sessions, group and workshop series continues to offer support to those who remain isolated by treatments, condition, mental health or the rural nature of our county. Patients and carers can also join online with our peer support groups.
Events & Awareness
Community is at the heart of our work and we have attended a wide range of networking, business and fundraising events. Our CEO, Nicky Heath, has given many talks to local WI, and regional cancer support groups raising awareness of our service and of the needs of cancer patients.
We have launched a quarterly Newsletter, delivered to subscribers by email, sending news of all Yeleni activities, support and community work. Our social media presence on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn raises awareness of national days and highlights of our related support work, and fundraising activities.
Funding
Full detailed evidence of income and expenditure in this period is provided in the accounts.
Trusts and Grants
Grants and Trusts continue to be our main source of income, with funding this year from national funders The National Lottery Community Fund, UKSPF, Souter Charitable Trust, Dumbreck Charity, Arnold Clark and locally E. F. Bulmer Trust, Inchrye Trust, Herefordshire Freemasons.
We are grateful to all these funders for supporting us to deliver our service.
Community Support
Community fundraising this year included the local Nozstock Festival in July 2024, local groups, societies and businesses; The Barrels ‘Oktoberfest’, St Martin’s Bowls Club, Hereford City Rotary, St Paul’s PCC, Katherine Harriet Ltd and AllPay. Other private donations have been received in remembrance of loved ones.
Yeleni fundraising events included a Health and Wellbeing day in October and an aerial Wing Walk completed by SuperNanny (aka our CEO, Nicky Heath).
The Yeleni team of therapists offer private client work and the room rental generated from this goes towards our core costs. An increasing number of these private clients are previous patients.
Staffing
Our small staff team (part-time) – Reception, Administration and Grant Fundraiser) – continues to be led by Nicky Heath, the founder of the Charity, leading with vision and passion as CEO and Manager.
Volunteers support our community fundraising, and therapists also give time free of charge for a range of fundraising and outreach activities, community, and workplace events.
Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee
The trustees are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31* May 2025.
Reference and administrative details
Charity number: 1118969 Company number: 05819798 Principle Office: 2 Blackfriars Street, Hereford, HR4 9HS
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|Accountants:|Apple|Accountants.|7a Harrow Road,|Hereford,|HR4 0EH|
|Bankers|Co-Op|
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Directors and trustees
The directors of the charitable company (the charity) are its trustees for the purpose of charity law and throughout this report are collectively referred to as the trustees.
The officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
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|Trustees:|Mrs|Sheila Mary|Enid Higgins|
|Mrs|Julie|Elizabeth|Cohn|
|Mrs|Leanne|Pogson|
|Mrs|Joanna Phyllis|Hilditch|
|Mr|Simon|Adcock|
|Mr John|Taylor|
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Structure, Governance and Management
Objectives and Activities
The objectives of the charity are to help relieve sickness and preserve and protect the good health of people with cancer and their carers by providing or assisting in the provision of complementary therapies, information, education, advice, support & counselling.
The company was incorporated on 17" May 2006 and received charitable status on 26 April 2007.
The centre opened on 1* April 2010.
Reserves Policy
It is intended to maintain sufficient reserves to cover three months’ expenditure and management support costs.
Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee
Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity at the end of the financial year and of its surplus or deficit for the financial year. In doing so the trustees are required to:
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e Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently: o Make sound judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent: and
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e Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enables them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the companies Act 2006. The trustees 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.
By order of the trustees
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Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee
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Statement of financial activities (including income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 May 2025
| Unrestricted | Total | Total | ||
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| Funds | Funds | Funds | ||
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| Notes | £ | £ | £ | |
| Incoming resources | ||||
| Incomingresources from generated | ||||
| funds: | ||||
| Voluntary income: | ||||
| Grants andDonations | 4 | 101,427 | 203,789 | 124,578 |
| Investment Income | 5 | - | - | - |
| Totalincomingresources | 101,427 | 203,789 | 124,578 | |
| Resourcesexpended | ||||
| Fundraising costsofgrantsanddonations | 6 | 23,456 | 26,220 | 23,293 |
| Sub total costof generatingfunds | 23,456 | 26,220 | 23,293 | |
| Charitable activities | 6 | 49,067 | 125,581 | 75,067 |
| Governancecosts | 6 | 37,705 | 37,705 | 33,548 |
| Total resources expended | 110,228 | 189,506 | 131,908 | |
| Net (outgoing) incomingresources | (8,801) | 14,283 | (7,330) | |
| Totalfunds brought forward | 77,540 | 101,207 | 108,537 | |
| Totalfundscarriedforward | 68,739 | 115,490 | 101,207 | |
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Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee
Balance sheet
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|as|at 31|May 2025|
|2025|2024|
|Notes|£|£|£|£|
|Fixed|assets|
|Tangible|assets|7,153|8,988|
|Current|assets|
|Stock|1,200|2,576|
|Debtors|8|199|1,436|
|Cash|at bank|and|in hand|111,170|90,770|
|112,569|94,782|
|Liabilities|
|Creditors|falling|due|within one year|9|(4,232)|(2,563)|
|Net|current|assets|108,337|92,219|
|Total|assets|less current|liabilities|115,490|101,207|
|Net|assets|115,490|101,207|
|The funds|of the|charity|
|Unrestricted|income|funds|
|General|10|68,739|56,540|
|Restricted|Funds|10|46,751|44,667|
|Total|Charity Funds|115,490|101,207|
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In approving these financial statements as directors of the company we hereby confirm:
(a) that for the year stated above the company was entitled to the exemption conferred by Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 ;
(b) that no notice has been deposited at the registered office of the company pursuant to Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006 requesting that an audit be conducted for the year ended 31 May 2025 and
(c) that we acknowledge our responsibilities for:
(1) ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Section 386, and
(2) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its profit or loss for the year then ended in accordance with the requirements of Section 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the provisions of the Companies Act relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.
The financial statements were approved by the Trustees on ....../....../............ and signed on its behalf by
sarees Dn 9G LOS veersstseeneee Sheila Higgins
The notes on pages 5 - 7 form an integral part of these financial statements.
Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2025
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- Accounting policies
a. Basis of preparation
The financial statements have prepared under the historical cost convention. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice — Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005) issued in March 2005, applicable accounting standards, and the Companies Act 2006. The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below.
- b. Incoming resources
Voluntary income including donations, gifts and legacies and grants that provide core funding or are of a general nature are recognized where there is entitlement, certainty of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Investment income is recognized on a receivable basis.
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Volunteers and donated services and facilities
The value of services provided by volunteers is not incorporated into these financial statements. Further details of the contribution made by volunteers can be found in the trustees’ annual report.
Where services are provided to the charity as a donation that would normally be purchased from our suppliers, this contribution is included in the financial statements at an estimate based on the value of the contribution to the charity. Donated services and facilities are analysed in note 6.
d. Resources expended
Expenditure is recognised whena liability is incurred.
- e Costs of generating funds are those incurred in attracting voluntary income. e Governance costs include those incurred in the governance of the charity and its assets and are primarily associated with constitutional and statutory requirements.
e. Irrecoverable VAT The charity is not registered for VAT and accordingly irrecoverable VAT is charged against the category of resources expended for which it was incurred.
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f. Funds structure All funds are unrestricted income funds.
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Legal status of the Trust The Trust is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The liability of each member in the event of winding up is limited to £1. 3. Turnover The total turnover of the company for the year has been derived from its activity wholly undertaken in the UK.
Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2025
| 4, | Voluntaryincome | 2025 | 2024 |
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| £ | £ | ||
| Donations | 58,767 | 27,665 | |
| Otherdonations | 116,862 | 124,578 | |
| 175,629 | 152,243 |
5. Investment income All of the investment income arises from an interest-bearing bank account.
- Allocation of support The trust allocates support costs as shown in the table below.
| Fundraising | Governance | Charitable | Total | |
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| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| StaffCosts | 17,918 | 31,274 | 23,220 | 72,412 |
| Accountancy | 816 | 816 | ||
| General Expenses | 7,886 | 5,615 | 35,222 | 48,723 |
| Total | 25,804 | 37,705 | 58,442 | 121,951 |
Ts Taxation The company is a registered charity and no provision is considered necessary for taxation.
| 8. | Debtors | 2025 | 2024 |
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| £ | £ | ||
| Trade Debtors | - | = | |
| OtherDebtors | 199 | 1,436 | |
| 199 | 1,436 |
Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2025
| 9. | Creditors: amounts fallingduewithin oneyear | 2025 | 2024 |
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| £ | £ | ||
| Accruals | 822 | 792 | |
| Other Creditors | 676 | 676 | |
| PAYE | 1,439 | 1,095 | |
| 2,937 | 2,563 |
| 10. | Analysis ofcharitablefunds | Unrestricted | Restricted | |
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| Fund | Fund | Total | ||
| £ | £ | £ | ||
| At 1June2024 | 77,540 | 23,667 | 101,207 | |
| Incoming resource | 101,427 | 102,362 | 203,789 | |
| Resources expended | (110,228) | (79,278) | (189,506) | |
| At31May2025 | 68,739 | 46,751 | 115,490 |
Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by ‘guarantee
The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts.
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Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd Company limited by guarantee
Detailed trading profit and loss account and expenses schedule for the year ended 31 May 2025
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|2025|2024|
|£|£|£|£|
|Income|
|Fund|raising|116,862|88,709|
|Donations|58,767|27,665|
|Other|28,160|8,204|
|203,789|124,578|
|Cost|of Activities|
|Purchases|8,308|5,495|
|Therapists|59,247|20,039|
|67,555|25,534|
|Gross|Profit|136,234|99,044|
|Administrative|expenses|
|Staff Costs|72,412|63,405|
|Accountancy|816|798|
|General|expenses|48,723|42,171|
|121,951|106,374|
|Operating|(Deficit)|/ Surplus|14,283|(7,330)|
|Other income|and|expenses|
|Interest|receivable|
|Bank|deposit|interest|-|-|
|Net|(deficit)|/ surplus|for the year|14,283|(7,330)|
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ Yeleni Therapy and Support Ltd members of ~~ee~~ On accounts for the year 31 May 2025 Charity no 1118969 ended (if any) ~~a~~ Set out on pages 1 and 2. ~~Po~~ Respective The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year responsibilities of (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act),as amended by s.28 trustees and examiner of the Charities Act 2006) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:
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examine the accounts (under section 43 of the Act, as amended),
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to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the Act, as amended), and
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to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
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Basis of independent My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given examiner’s statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.
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Independent In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention (other
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examiner's statement than that disclosed below *) 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the trustees have not met the requirements to ensure that:
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proper accounting records are kept (in accordance with section 41 of the Act); and
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accounts are prepared which agree with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Act; or
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to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed: David Berkele Date: 24 March 2026 y ~~eeee eee~~ Name: David Berkeley Relevant professional ACMA (CIMA) qualification(s) or body (if any): ~~a~~ Address: Apple Accountants, 7A Harrow Road, Hereford. HR4 0EH ~~————————~~
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Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.
Give here brief details of Nothing to report any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
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