2021-03-31-accounts - Amy And Friends

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 04 20 To 31 03 21

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Amy and Friends Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1119746 Charity's principal address OCC Village Road Oxton Postcode CH43 5SR

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
RoyMcGunigall	Chairman
Mark Hughes	Treasurer
Jackie Newsham	Secretary
Victoria Jenkins		16/12/19	Vote byTrustees
Spencer Jenkins
Shaun Fanning

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Jayne Hughes

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Association How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Elected by existing trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

For the relief of people suffering with Cockayne Syndrome, TTD and related disorders and the preservation and protection of the good health of the families and carers of such persons.

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Summary of the main
activities undertaken for the
public benefit in relation to
these objects (include within
this section the statutory
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit)

Annual Members Retreat:
This is Amy and Friends main activity. Amy and Friends organise a 3 day
retreat over a weekend for children and young people affected by
Cockayne Syndrome, their parents, brothers, sisters or carers. Families
have the opportunity to spend time in each other’s company and to share
experiences and support one another. Amy and Friends arrange for
leading doctors and researchers to attend to offer additional advice or
guidance and to further their own knowledge about this exceptionally rare
disorder. During the retreat every opportunity to have fun is fully taken
through organisation of a party, children’s entertainment and a family
excursion and sibling activities. It is an opportunity to relax, to not feel
isolated in a loving, caring environment.
My time to be me:
A weekly club held in 3 locations (Wallasey and Rhyl and Flint) for
siblings affected by living with a sibling with a life limiting illness or has a
immediate family member that has died or will die prematurely.
CS Clinic Support:
A monthly CS/TTD clinic has been established at St Thomas and Guys
Hospital (London) for multidisciplinary meetings for sufferers. Amy and
friends makes referals to clinic for its members and coordinates family
support during each clinic.
Advice and Guidance:
Advice and guidance are offered continually. This is through events as
mentioned above and through regular phone and email contact and
through Amy and Friends secure web forum. Amy and Friends also keep
close contact with medical practitioners and researchers in order to direct
families to specialist knowledge as appropriate. Amy and Friends has
also developed a relationship with Thomas and Guys Hospital which is
going to lead to the formation of a multi-disciplinary CS clinic run in
conjunction with our support group.
Advocacy:
Amy and Friends continually work to further knowledge about Cockayne
Syndrome with Health professionals, politicians and policy makers and
the general community. This has been achieved through regular media
coverage, community events and conference organisation. We are also
actively supporting research into the disease.
Family Support Workers:
Amy and Friends provides a family support worker who assists in hospital
visits, medical support and advice and guidance for families etc.
All planned activities are considered against the Charity commission
guidance on public benefit.

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The 2021 conference was held at St David Hotel, Ewloe and access provided virtually using ZOOM. 52 families attended in person and a further 20 attended via ZOOM.

Now supporting in excess of 1300 families in total.

Amy and Friends has been able to engage families from the Asian community within the UK and offer support and guidance.

Additional Family support worker (Funded position) dedicated to support of families at the CS/TTD clinic and throughout the year.

Additional Family support worker engaged specifically for Welsh Families (Funded position)

Held a virtual International medical/scientific conference in the UK with 24 particpants. 7 attended personally.

Credited as contributors on published medical journal articles.

During Covid:

Zoom meetings taking place each week and how much of welcome these have been - mums talk/dads talk and siblings groups, these have been a huge success and will continue through 2021.
Over 20,000 activity packs have been sent to families who have a child with a severely life affecting illness/issue since the end of March 2020. These packs have been sent UK wide. Funding from various organisations has meant that children who are isolated have received materials and ideas with instructions (printed and sent via video link).

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

If fundraising target was exceeded in a financial year by £5000, a reserve account would be established and 50% of any such amount would be placed in this account, the other 50% to be available for use by the organisation for the development of new services.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Mark Hughes Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)[Treasurer ]

Date 15/12/2021

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