SICS Es@ ?4. Essex Pre Hospital Critical Care Scheme. Trustees Annual Report 2024 Charity Name: BASICS Essex Accident Rescue Service (BASICS Essex) Charity Number: 1142313 Charit(s princlpal address: Office 4, Unit 24 Highlands Farm Southend Road Rettendon Essex CM3 8EB Charivs Trustees for 2024: Mr Paul Gates, Chairman Dr Robert Davies, Trustee Dr Philip Brown, Clinical Director and Trustee Dr lan Gibson MBE, Hon President and Trustee Dr C John Eaton, Trustee Hon. Secretary Hon. Treasurer Mr Stuart Jackson Mr Chris Anderson Trusts & Grants Officer: Ms Lisa Thomas BASICS Essex Governance BASICS Essex is governed through its Constitution which was adopted by its membership on 15 February 2011 and formally accepted bythe Charity Commission on 8th June 2011. Our Charity is led by the Board of Trustees and the day-to-day function of the Charity is led by the Chairman with the Hon. Treasurer. Hon. Secretary and Clinical Director providing input as required in their respective areas of responsibility. The Charity works in partnership with the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trusts under a Memorandum of Understanding. All of the volunteer clinician5 have an honorary contract with the Ambulance Trust. The Scheme provides an overarching clinical governance structure, which is in partnership with the Ambulance Trust, under which all responders operate. The Chair or nominated representative sits on the Trust third party governance committee. The Scheme has received no complaints during the year and manages its risks through the Trustees. The current risk register has no identified risks for its area of operation. BASICS Essex Objectives (Public Benefit of the Charity) The Charitrfs objects are: The relief of persons suffering injury or illness by the provision of Immediate Medical Care. To advance the study of Immediate Medical Care by the provision of training. Both of these objects are directly for public benefit. Our Charity meets these objerts through supporting the funding of training of its clinicians in Immediate Medical Care and through providing equipment and support for them to deliver prehospital care and hence relieve suffering from injury and illness. At all times the functioning and operation of the Scheme, along with all Trustees, decisions on its direction and expenditure, is based on due regard for the Charity Commissions guidance on the public benefit. The Charity provides dedicated volunteer Doctors, Critical Care Paramedics and Paramedics who deliver prehospttal critical care across Essex 24/7. Each clinician has undergone specialist training in prehospital emergency medicine and immediate medical care. All have undergone a period of mentorship prior to being signed off to respond as part ofthe team. The Scheme delivers its service through individual home responders. Home responders respond from home with the equipment in their own cars. Their cars have the necessary blue lights and other equipment. Team responders respond in the team's response car. Normally on their own or in a team of two the clinicians respond on a shift basis. The Trustees are satisfied that the Charity continues to act in the interest of public benefit. Key Achievements of 2024 Purchased and equipped a second prehospital critical care response car. This vehicle is based in the south of the county providing greater opportunities for volunteer clinicians to respond. Purchased new Personal Protective equipment enabling us to have a modern look with weather protection along with easy visibility. Purchased ultrasound equipment and portable syringe drivers to enable clinicians to provide higher quality care. Introduced arterial line equipment to support more accurate blood pressure monitoring. Standardised equipment packing and checking on both operational platforms to allow better governance. Introduced an app to record all the scheme activities. This significant piece of work was led by Dr Chris Hardy who, designed, built, led the trials and implemented this. Standardised all administration functions. Clinical Artivity The Charity was activated to 175 calls in 2024 which is down on 2023 {253 calls). The biggest cause of attivation was to medical related incidents including cardiac arrest, as can be seen from the graph below. Trauma makes up a significant number of the remaining calls. l am pleased to also note that over 10,000 hours of volunteer time was given to the charity during the year in delivering this care and response. Scheme Aetlvlty Gr4ph by incident Ty Generous Donors During the year of 2024 the scheme benefited from donations from several sources. Their generous support of our charity enables us to continue to function and save lives. Below are the organisations who have generously supported us: Triple 9 National Lottery Community Fund British Association for Immediate Care (HELP appeal) The Tudwich Foundation The Harlow Health HHCT Essex Community Foundation The Albert Hunt Trust Fowler Smith & Jones Trust Dunmow & District DRF Lord Belstead Fund Michael Watson Charitable Trust The Lennox Hannay Foundation The Grace Trust Walter FarthingTrust Colchester & Tendering Grant Loughton Town Council The Mrs Yvonne Flux Charitable Trust Financial Review For 2024 the Trustees supported a change in financial reporting. The new model is more relevant to a charity of our size and makes the accounts easier to understand and useable. Due to these changes comparing income for 2023 and 2024, as previous reports have done is challenging and therefore has not occurred this year. Different measurements are now being used which makes reporting figures not the same. The Charity saw an increase in its income in 2024 to £115.264. The year saw positive work in improving our income, especially from grants and also unrestrictive funding. We continued to be a charity of the Maldon Mud Race for a second year long with charity of the year of Gepps solicitor. The Charitvs expenditure for 2024 was £127,722. Most of the additional expenditure for the year was on using the restricted funds in year on the purchase of the second Critical Care response car, the new Personal Protective Equipment and the clinical equipment. General running expenditure showed a decrease compared to the previous year. Reserves Policy The available reserves are £80,366 {total unrestricted funds available) This has seen in improvement from 20231£74,3861 Given the continual challenges of raising funds there is 3 need to ensure the Charity has reserves to meet its requirements to funrtion. As a Charity the Scheme is required to ensure that it does not have excessive amounts of reserves and that its money is used to further the objetts. Below is the extract from the Charitvs financial policy which is its Standing Financial Instructions. The Charity must ensure that it uses its financial reserves to further Kts objects. The Charity must not keep large reserves as this could affect future income from other sources as they would want to see the charity use the money to further its objerts appropriately. There is a need to ensure that the Charity has some reserves of money to continueto funttion should no income be forthcoming for whatever reason. Whilst the Charity currently has a re8ular income this should not be relied on and proper budget production, monitoring and planning should be in place to minimise risk. The Charity will always maintain a reserve to meet its running costs for 12 months. This will be £80,CK)O. Risks Policy The Trustees overseethe management of risks. Risks are identified through a numberof ways and can be divided into clinical and charitable risks. Clinical risks are raised through a partnership relationship with the Ambulance Trust where the Trust Datix system is used to record any clinical risks that occur. Charitable risks are raised through the membership to Trustees who will oversee identification and management of risks. Work is ongoing to review the risk register ensuring it is up to date. The Trustees have reviewed the risks that are currently affecting the Charity and are content that appropriate controls and mitigations are in place. Paul Gate5 Chair BASICS Essex June 2025 Charity registration number 1142313 BASICS - Essex Accident Rescue Service Known as BASICS Essex Annual Report and Financial Statements For Year Ended 31st December 2024 BASICS Essex unit 24, Office 4. Highlands Farm Southend Road, Rettendon Common, Chelmsford. CM3 8EB BASICS - Essex Accident Rescue Service Known as BASICS Essex Conterbts Pa8es Independent Exarniner's Report Receipts and Payments for 2024 Assets and Lilbilities Notes to Financial Statements 4t07 BASICS - Essex Accident Rescue Service Known as BASICS Essex Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees Of BASICS (Essex) I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2024 which are set out on p8ge5 2 to 7 Responsibilities and basi5 of report As the charity trusteÈs of Basics Essex Accident Rescue Service you are resoonsible for the preparation of the aicounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Att 20111'the Act'l. I report in respect of rny examination of the Basics Essex Accident Rescue SeNice's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Att and in carrying out my examination I h2ve followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515llbl of the Art. Independent examlnerfs statement I have completed rny examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connettion with the examination glving me cause to believe that in any rnaterial respect.. l accounting records were not kept in respect of Basics Essex Accident Rescue Service as required by section 130 of the Act- or 2 the accounts do not iccord wrth those records. I have no concern5 and have come across no other Matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in thi5 report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts tts be rezched. ¢¥k Pewon Mark Pearson Lambert Chaprnan LLP Charrered Accountants and Registered StatLrtory Auditors 3 Warners Mill Silks Way Braintree Essex CM73GB Date Page I BASICS - Essex Accident Rescue Service Known as BASICS Receipts and Payments for the year ending 31st December 2024 2024 Total Fund 2023 Total Funds nre5tricted Funds RÈstricted Fund5 Unrestritted General Account Notes Donations, Grants & Legacles Income from other Events Other Income Investment Income 53,588 2.339 57,704 111.292 2.339 48,541 7,978 1.050 1,223 1,633 1,633 Total Receipts 57,560 57,704 115,264 S8,792 ments Capital Expenditure RB15ing Fund Charitable Attivates 6,978 36.036 8,566 54,602 61,580 36,036 30,106 10.894 30,089 36,128 21,540 Total Payments 51,580 76,142 127,722 77,111 Excess of recei ts over Pa ents .S.980 118,4381 112A581 118,3191 Transfers in Transfers out N Movement in fund 5,980 118,4381 112,4581 118,3191 Yotal Asset5 as at 31st Detember2023 74,386 48.646 123,032 141,351 Total Assets as at 31rt December Z024 80,366 30.208 110,574 123,032 All of the charitrfs octivitie5 derived from ontinuing trperations duringthe abovetwo periods. 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