2024-06-30-accounts

NEWARK COMMUNITY FIRST AID

Registered Charity: 1152694

TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT

Period 1[st] July 2023 to 30[th] June 2024

Contact Details

Registered Address Telephone Electronic Communication 6 Mount Road Email : Balderton [e-mail] 07973 904808 Newark Website: Nottinghamshire www.newarkcommunityfirstaid.co.uk NG24 3HF Facebook : Newark Community First Aid Twitter : Newark First Aid ~~Z|~~

Aims & Purposes

Newark Community First Aid is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation based on the Association model; it was registered with the Charities Commission on 3[rd] July 2013. We are governed by our Constitution. Our aim is to provide first aid services in Newark on Trent and the surrounding area, thus helping to reduce suffering and save lives.

The primary services provided by the charity are:

• the provision of qualified and fully resourced first aiders at local events

• providing first aid training to all members of the local community

The services are provided by our members who are volunteers; our primary operating area is based on Newark and a 14-mile radius around the town but could include other parts of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Structure & Management

Newark Community First Aid has up to 8 Trustees who oversee the working of the organisation, ensuring it complies with current legislation and guidance in respect of its charitable operation. The Trustees are from a range of backgrounds including the public, private and charitable sectors.

At present our Trustees are:

Mark Stafford

Trustees are appointed or re-appointed at our Annual General Meeting held annually in September or October. All Trustees give their time on a voluntary basis and receive no remuneration or other benefits.

An Operations Management Team made up of volunteers carry out the day-to-day organisation of the charity. This team are experienced and suitably qualified to fulfill their respective roles in the framework detailed below.

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Operations Manager
P. Jessop
Events
Administration Logistics Manager Training Manager Membership Manager Treasurer
N. Fuller/C. Peet ManagerJ. Brown S. Toyne P. Jessop P. Jessop P. Hudson M. Fox
Uniform Manager Health & Safety Manager Driver Verifier Public Relations Manager Web Manager Safeguarding ManagerDr D Wathen Fundraising Manager
C. Peet P. Jessop K .Walsh PR - Vacancy C. Dalby L. Goff
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Operations Management Team

Managing the delivery of our services requires a large team of experienced volunteers, many of whom give time daily to ensure a smooth operation and high quality of service. Our charity operates 7 days a week, with volunteers working on background tasks as well as our front-line operations. The amount and scope of background work is often surprising to those who only see our volunteers at events or in their training role.

Our team deals daily with email and phone enquiries, managing course and event bookings. Our training team are involved in course preparation for our workplace training – cleaning manikins, checking resources, managing e-learning, putting together delegate packs and providing candidate support. The training team also manage the training of our own volunteers. Our Event Manager liaises with event organisers and the local Safety Advisory Group, risk assessing events to ensure adequate manpower and resources are provided. Tasks include producing event medical plans, information packs, maps and guidance material as well as collating statistics and feedback post event. Our Logistics Manager and team are busy every day checking and restocking equipment, cleaning equipment and vehicles, carrying out and organizing maintenance. Finance, fundraising and membership managers are also busy weekly with their responsibilities.

Training Team

Our Training Operation is fulfilled by 4 trainers, most of whom have many years of experience providing training in the workplace, event first aid and advanced first aid. Our workplace first aid and paediatric first aid training is approved and monitored by the First Aid Industry Body.

Our Event First Aid Operation is delivered by our volunteers who are trained on a range of competencies. On joining all new members undertake induction training including safeguarding, health & safety, and basic life support. On completion of all elements of initial training members are classed as Apprentice First Aiders. Volunteers can then progress to become First Aiders by completing First Aid at Work, Paediatric and Event First Aid courses. Volunteers then attend events, develop their skills, and gain experience before deciding if they wish to progress to become Advanced First Aiders by completing AFA and Frec3 training.

Volunteers

Membership of NCFA is open to anyone over the age of 16 who meets the requirements of our joining procedure which includes criminal record checks through the DBS and health checks. Criminal record checks are repeated in line with statutory requirement every 3[rd] year, health checks are updated if any change occurs to a member’s health.

Our trained volunteers meet weekly for training on Monday evenings at the Newark Academy, London Road, Balderton. In addition to weekly training members maintain their competencies through distance and e-learning modules designed by NCFA. They also attend additional face to face training as required to maintain the competencies relative to their role. Members are assessed annually. We also have non uniformed members who assist with support work such as fundraising and public relations – some of these are full members of NCFA others are supporters in line with our constitution. We are very grateful for the hard work and commitment shown by all our volunteers which makes it possible to deliver a high-quality community service. The Trustees would like to place on record our thanks to all our members who are dedicated to the work of the charity and who give so much time to help their community.

Insurance

To protect our members, those we treat, those we train and the public at large we ensure we have insurance more than the industry norm. We hold Employee, Public, Medical Malpractice, Professional Indemnity, Vehicle, Equipment and Building insurance.

Policies and Procedures

To ensure the effective operation of the charity the Trustees have put in place a range of policies and procedures. These are designed to protect the charity, its members, service users and those who may be affected by our operations. Many of the policies include training packages for example our Safeguarding, Infection Prevention & Control and Health & Safety policies. A review of our Data Protection Policy and head injury and wound care guidance has been undertaken this year.

The policies include:

Safeguarding - Health & Safety – Equality and Diversity – Infection Prevention and Control – Grievance – Disciplinary – Whistle Blowing – Finance – Events – Data Protection (GDPR) – Complaints.

Objectives and Activities

In planning our activities for the year, we kept in mind the Charities Commission guidance on public benefit at our Trustee and Operations meetings. We believe that the activities undertaken by the charity and summarised in this report fulfil this requirement. The Trustees, Management Team and all of our volunteers are committed to achieving the objects of the charity ‘The relief of sickness and provision of first aid in Newark on Trent and surrounding areas’ which are centred on delivering first aid training and first aid cover at events.

In respect of first aid training NCFA provide:

• Community Training – this training is provided free of charge to individuals, community, charity, and sports groups. Donations are gratefully received and used to develop the service.

• Commercial Training – this vocational training is provided to workplaces, schools and charities to comply with HSE First Aid Regulations 1981 or Dept of Education requirements in school & preschool settings. The training is charged at competitive prices with profits re-invested into the charity.

In respect of first aid event cover NCFA provide:

• Risk assessed event cover & the provision of adequate manpower and resources.

• The service is free of charge to Community Events though donations are gratefully received.

• Our event services are also provided to a range of commercial event organisers running generally large local events. These events are charged per hour per first aider. These inexpensive charges allow us to maintain and develop our services.

Our philosophy is to provide a service that is affordable to all sectors of the community so that anyone can access both first aid training and event cover. We are also committed to making our service as accessible as possible. We believe that this will encourage many more people to learn first aid enabling them to provide life-saving care. We also believe our policy encourages more event organisers to provide suitable & sufficient first aid cover at their events.

Overview of Achievements, Challenges and Performance this Year

The 12-month period commencing 1[st] July 2023 has seen very heavy demand for all of our services with our community courses showing a phenomenal increase of 230%.

We made recruitment our priority for the year. Nationally volunteering has seen a huge decline since the Covid pandemic and is now at its lowest level since records began. We decided to concentrate our campaign around Christmas 2023 and January 2024. Using a mixture of social media, targeted leaflet drops and targeted advertising. The results were excellent as we recruited more new volunteers than ever before in one year.

Pictured above some of our team at Armed Forces Day – June 2024.

We also aimed to continue stabilizing our funds after the effects of the pandemic. This has also been achieved with income well over budget and expenditure well below.

We have also seen stability return to events with all of our long-standing events now back in the calendar as they were pre-pandemic. The closure of the East of England Showground has seen more events move to Newark Showground, we have had more demand from the athletics sector and more small events requesting cover.

Our Commercial Training which had seen two years of huge growth stabilized at this new high level in the year 2023-24.

Kevin Walsh one of our trainers took a more active role in delivering commercial courses. Having qualified as Mental Health First Aid Trainer with the First Aid Industry Body in December 2022 he has now developed our training package in this key area and is now rolling out the training

We are also extremely pleased to see a 3-fold increase in the number of candidates attending our FREE Community First Aid Courses. This area of training has seen slow growth since the pandemic but with 1,654 candidates it makes it our second highest number trained in a 12month period. Community training is a vital part of our charitable work - training people to save lives - as statistics show 80% of cardiac arrests occur at home.

Demonstrating control of bleeding on a FREE Community Course – Nov 2023

We have continued to develop our services, through training our volunteers and upgrading our resources. A fundraising campaign starting in March 2024 raised by June the £3,500:00 needed to purchase new radios for our vehicle fleet. This has increased our range of radio communications which is particularly important for events like cross country running, cycling and horse trekking events.

It is clear from the demand for our services and the feedback we receive from course candidates, event organisers and patients that the community appreciates the service we provide. Our volunteers gain a great deal from their volunteering. Our aim must be to encourage more people to volunteer with us.

Community Training

Community training is a key part of our charitable work we provide first aid training to a wide range of organisations and individuals. Giving them the skills to save lives and manage injuries and minor illnesses they may come across in the home or whilst involved in community activities. It gives them confidence to deal with these incidents which reduces the demand on the NHS. This area of our work is clearly of public benefit. All of our courses are FREE of charge to candidates, we travel to their location, we work with parish councils and others to promote the events locally. This we believe makes it possible for everyone to attend if they wish to do so. With England still having some of the worst survival rates from cardiac arrest in Europe we believe that providing our Basic Life Support training can make a difference.

Above – Home First Aid course – treating burns – Below – secondary school pupils practice CPR

This year we have trained 1,695 people compared to 502 last year. We have provided training to the public across Newark in venues such as the Catholic Centre, Hawtonville and Bridge Community Centre’s as well as to groups such as Newark My Sight, Southfield House, Newark Emmaus Trust, Nottinghamshire Mind and Reach. We have trained local scout and guide groups including the newly formed Woodborough Squirrels. Courses have been held in local villages including South Clifton, Foston, Syerston, Collingham, Balderton and Thurgarton.

We have also continued to provide training in schools and visits to early years settings. Visits to nurseries are designed to reduce fears children may have with ambulances.

Lincolnshire CO-OP provide weekly walks across Lincolnshire, Newark and Eastern Nottinghamshire designed to get people out enjoying the fresh air, meeting others and getting exercise. They have nearly 200 Walk Leaders and we were asked to develop a 3-hour first aid course for them. We then delivered this training to groups across their operating area with courses held in villages and towns such as Hemingsby, Leasingham, Spalding, Market Rasen and the city of Lincoln. In June we joined with Newark and Sherwood District Council, Nottinghamshire Police and Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue to deliver 2 weeks of Safety Training to local schools. The events were held in Devon Park Newark and Vicar Water in Clipstone. We provided hands on resuscitation training – feedback was excellent and the youngsters clearly enjoyed the event.

We are delighted to have been able during the year to deliver our courses to a wide cross section of our local community ranging in age from 4-year-olds at nursery to a 94-year-old resident in a local care home who can now use a defibrillator!! We have delivered to those vulnerable in society – the homeless, groups with special needs due to loss of vision and physical disability, those with special educational needs, and groups supporting those with mental ill health. We have given school children important life skills through first aid training. Our aim is to continue to develop our Community Training next year 2024-25.

Commercial – Workplace Training

This year we have continued to run all of our ‘Open’ workplace courses using blended training. These are our local advertised courses that allow businesses and schools to book on individual candidates. Blended training is part e-learning and part face to face training and it has been well received by employers and students. We have identified some students who need additional support with their e-learning particularly those who do not have English as their first language. In these cases, we have worked with their employers to organize on-site training where our training team can work through with candidates as they complete their e-learning module. We are still providing full face to face classic courses to organisations that prefer that format.

The First Aid Industry Body that we use to approve, monitor and regulate our courses introduced new standards of training in 2022. This is to ensure quality of training across the training providers they work with. These changes added significantly to the administration of courses, but we are pleased to say that further changes have mitigated some of the original issues. The FAIB have also produced a range of new course books and materials which are clear, easy to follow and well-illustrated. We have used these new resources to enhance our courses ensuring we continue to provide the highest quality training at inexpensive prices.

New range of FAIB Course Books

We are confident in our training standards and feedback from students shows 96.6% of students rate our courses as excellent. This year we have seen demand for our courses stabilize after two years of growth that doubled the demand for our courses. We are pleased to say that we were able to avoid any price rises during our financial year.

We have continued during the year to develop and strengthen our training relationship with large local companies such as Lincolnshire Co-op, Bakkavor and NSK as well as the many smaller businesses and local councils we provide with training. We have grown again the number of schools and Academy Groups who use our services – we now provide training to schools as far apart as Langold in North Nottinghamshire down to East Leake on the Leicestershire border. Funds raised through vocational training are used to provide our FREE community services – helping to train youngsters in schools, youth groups and charities.

With work related stress, depression and anxiety affecting 914,000 workers and over 17 million working days lost according to the latest HSE Health & Safety at Work Statistics – Mental Health First Aid is vitally important to staff and employers. We are pleased to say we are now seeing an uptake in our Mental Health First Aid courses and we are working with companies and councils to link our courses to their existing workplace support systems. We are planning to expand this area of training in our next operational year.

Specialised Courses

During the year we devised some specialised courses to meet the needs of particular workplaces.

We provided moving and handling training with the emphasis on using evacuation sledges for Newark Town Council. We also developed a Management of Bleeding Course – looking at dealing with minor bleeding, severe bleeding and shock up to life threatening trauma resulting in catastrophic bleeding. We have delivered this course to companies and schools and with more organisations purchasing bleed kits we anticipate growth in demand in the next year.

Practicing applying a Tourniquet on our new Management of Bleeding course.

The number of volunteer hours given by our members in preparation and delivery of training was 2,144 which was a slight increase on the previous year. We would like to thank our Training Manager Philip Jessop and all of his team particularly Kevin Walsh and Jake Ramsay for the hard work they have undertaken on behalf of the charity.

Community Public Access Defibrillators

The UK Resuscitation Council continues to stress the importance of communities and workplaces providing public access defibrillators. During the year we have provided specific defibrillator training to staff from Newgate, NSK Bearings, Highfields school and all our courses include defibrillator awareness. We have also provided advice on purchasing CPADs to organisations such as the Conservative Club, Balderton Parish Council and local sports clubs.

We continue to check the Automated External Defibrillators in Balderton on behalf of the Parish Council. We have agreed to support the store staff in Lincolnshire Co-op stores in Nottinghamshire with any AED problems related to their Community AED programme.

Right - Our Fundraising Manager checking one of Balderton’s Community Public Access Defibrillators. Below – The new Public Access Defibrillator at Highfields School – we provided staff training.

Event Cover

As our new trading year started on 1[st] July 2023 we already had a full calendar of events up to Christmas with bookings already strong for 2024. The 1[st] July saw our team at the UK Techfest at Newark Showground as thousands enjoyed heavy beat of the Tech music.

Left above - One of our team keeps an eye on the crowd at Techfest, whilst on the right the bands wow the crowds. The event was tinged with sadness as it was the last Techfest at least for now!!

The first two months of the year saw regular events such as athletics, brass band concerts, Newark Book Festival and Innovation drawing the crowds. The Focus religious festival returned to Newark Showground requiring a large logistics operation and 6 days of 24-hour cover with up to 10 volunteers per day. August started with super heroes at Kelham Hall, the new Save the Rave Concerts drew large crowds and the month ended with a return of the Stonedead Rock Festival bigger than ever plus Newark Festival.

Left: the Innovation Event shows off road repair equipment, centre: Evening Service in the Big Top at Focus and right: one of our team at the Focus set up – our volunteers were kept busy with nearly 200 casualties. Below right one of our team joins Super Heroes at Kelham Hall – Below left & centre Save the Rave Concerts.

September was extremely busy with Dragon Boat Racing on the river Trent and the return of the popular agricultural shows at Flintham and Southwell. We were also asked to cover the start and finish of the Nottinghamshire stage of the Tour of Britain – attracting thousands to both Edwinstowe and Newark.

Left: above the sprint finish of Tour of Britain in Newark, centre: some of our team at Edwinstowe for the start of Tour of Britain stage, right: a very busy Festive Gift Fair in October at Newark Showground.

October and November saw a range of small shows and regular large events such as the Festive Gift Show, Vintage Tractor and Midland Machinery Shows, plus firework and commemorative events like Remembrance Day and All Souls. November and December had its Christmas themed events, with Christmas Markets in Newark plus new market events in Southwell, Mansfield Woodhouse, Saxilby and Norwell. We also covered for the first time Southwell Young Farmers Christmas Tractor Run which attracted huge crowds. Newark Rowing Club held its normal Head Races on the river Trent but unfortunately snow resulted in the cancelation of the Mental Elf Run in Sherwood Forest.

Spring 2024 saw the return of the Carole Nash Motor Cycle Show, the regular Normous Newark Autojumbles, alongside cross country running, ploughing matches and indoor show jumping. In February we were pleased to support the two-day Notts Alone mental health events aimed at young people held at Notts County FC and at the YMCA in Newark.

Left: One of our team in the ‘snow’ at Southwell Christmas Market, Centre: tractors dressed with lights and baubles head out on the Southwell YFC Christmas Tractor Run. Plenty of motor bikes on display at the January 24 Carole Nash Bike Show.

March, April and May saw the many regular events joined by new events such as the 3-day Hornby Railway Show, the Gerald Story Fun Run for Cancer Research, the Plastic Ocean Show, Elston Live, Move More in May and the poignant ‘Ride For Grace’ in memory of the students killed in Nottingham earlier in the year.

June as always closed the year with a massive calendar of events keeping our volunteers extremely busy.

Pictured left: – The Midlands Woodwork Show – draws crowds to a display.

Centre: - The Blankney Hunt Ball – one of several balls attended during the year.

Right: One of the many layouts at the Hornby Railway Show.

Delivering a high quality first aid service at events takes a great deal of planning, often a considerable logistics effort and communication with our team of exceptional volunteers. The work starts when we are contacted by an event organiser requesting first aid cover. Our events team need to collate information on the proposed event, risk assess the first aid needs and then produce a Medical Plan. In 2023 this was made more complicated with the publishing of a new Medical Chapter in the national Purple Event Guide, which was then quickly re-written. The Purple Guide is the ‘bible’ for event organisers giving them guidance on running a safe and successful event. The new guidance though created some confusion with event organisers, the local Safety Advisory Group and venue owners. To clarify the situation, we held discussions with the East Midland Ambulance Services representative on the safety advisory group and then developed a new booking system for events. The new system has to date worked well giving event organisers clear guidance based on the Purple Guide plus our risk assessment based on the event organisers input and our experience.

During the event our volunteer’s key role is providing first aid / medical aid to people who become ill or injured at events. They do though have other duties to perform, ensuring regular cleaning, monitoring and recording communications, completing checks on vehicles and equipment. At many events the pace of work is steady but it may be a 12-hour shift at other events it is all go.

After the event we review how it went and look through feedback from organisers and patients with a view to ensuring we provide a high-quality service. We are pleased to report that all events were manned and resourced to the required level during the year.

As a charity relying on volunteer’s, we have to ensure that we do not take on more events than we can cope with. We plan very carefully for this and are pleased to say that we have never let any event down by not turning up or cancelling late in our 11-year history. We do now encourage all event organisers to contact us at least 3 months in advance, we thank all the organisers we work with for trying to work to this policy. If we can of course we will take late bookings to help out.

EVENTS COVERED PER YEAR

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The graph (left) shows that the number of events provided with first aid cover this last year at 341 is close to the previous year at 346.

The year 2019/2020 was affected by COVID in the last quarter. 2020/2021 COVID affected the entire year.

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We continue to receive a steady number of out of area requests for event cover, a proportion of these are due event organisers being let down at the last minute by other first aid/medical organisations. If we have capacity to assist we do, but most out of area events are declined as we are so busy locally.

This year, again, all our team of volunteers who have worked at events deserve a special big thank you for the commitment they have shown. Without the gift of their time (9,441 hours) we would not have covered the 341 events. We would particularly like to thank our Events Manager Jonathan Brown and Neil Fuller for all their efforts behind the scene organizing the event cover, collating data and contacting event organisers for their feedback.

- Logistics Development of Resources & Equipment

Our Logistics section has had another busy year ensuring that our vehicle fleet and equipment are maintained to high standards. The logistics section is kept busy daily, with equipment checks, maintaining the online tracking system to ensure all items are in stock and in date, cleaning, ordering, servicing and ensuring equipment is charged and ready to be deployed. This year we have had our Marquee First Aid Posts checked and repaired by Specialised Canvas of Stavely in Derbyshire. In May we developed a brake problem with our towable First Aid Unit and we would like to thank Portland Towing of Lincoln for carrying out the required repair and servicing of the Unit. We have had all of our electrical equipment PAT tested and our monitoring equipment, defibrillators, aspirators and medical gas delivery equipment serviced.

Left above: One of our Marquees newly refurbished and cleaned Centre: All of our Treatment Units have had services and MOTs Right above: Our Towable Unit being prepared for transport for repairs

All of our vehicles have been serviced and we would like to thank Alistair Christie Motors of Newark for keeping us on the road. Our First Aid Centre at Newark Showground has proven to be an exceptional asset throughout the year and our logistics team have maintained it to a very high standard. Both patients and event organisers have commented on the high quality of the facilities at the First Aid Centre. It is our aim to keep all of our treatment facilities hygienically clean and we use the guidance in the NHS Policy – National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 to shape our procedures.

Left our First Aid Centre with our 4x4 and Cycle Response Unit. Right: Steam cleaning a Treatment Unit as part of the cleaning protocol.

In spring 2024 we launched a raffle to raise funds to purchase new radio sets for our fleet of vehicles. The aim was to improve our communications particularly at events taking place over large distances such as cycle racing, long distance running and horse events. The raffle was a great success and all the radios have been installed. Our handsets were also upgraded in line with our radio licence. We would like to thank the National Radio Bank from Bourne for their advice and their skillful installation.

Development & Commitment of our Volunteers

Our volunteers are our most important asset, vital to our success; they deliver our services to the community. We are delighted to report that membership has risen during the year as we have welcomed a team of new enthusiastic recruits. All new members complete 5 distance learning modules as part of their Apprentice Training these cover areas such as health & safety, safeguarding and infection control. This training culminates in a training day so that members can develop skills in these areas. All new members also learn Basic Life Support before moving on to qualify in First aid at Work and Paediatric First Aid.

Left: new members practice donning and doffing PPE on their Apprentice Training Day. Right: new members completing their First Aid written examination,

To maintain members core skills and to develop teamwork and communication we hold weekly training on Monday evenings at Newark Academy in Balderton. We feel this a very important as skills fade is an accepted principle and is clearly a possibility in first aiders who may not be called upon to manage a particular injury or illness that often. If a first aider only updates and practices their skills annually or every 3 yearly as they requalify then skills fade is often displayed.

Left: Resuscitation practice at our weekly training, Centre: Managing a ‘casualty’ at a multi casualty incident with Notts Fire and Rescue. Right: Banksman training at our Drivers Training Day.

We assess all of our volunteers annually in line with the role they perform. We are pleased to say that standards in the current year were high. We also require all active members who attend events to requalify every 3 years in all of their required training modules either through distance or e-learning tests or by attending and passing the specific course assessment criteria. This year all of our members who drive our vehicles have passed their annual assessment and attended a driver’s training day looking at areas such as using a banksman and slow maneuvering. We have also started to roll out training in managing multi casualty critical incidents. Jonathan Brown our Events’ Manager has developed resources and a training package. We have held training incidents over the year with Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service and Newark Showground staff.

In the last year members attended 1,749 hours of training including face to face, e-learning and distance learning.

A tremendous amount of work undertaken by our volunteers is in support work which includes all the background operational work on training and events plus administration, fundraising, managing our finances and logistics. This year the number of hours devoted to this work is 7,804 which is a slight fall of 1.8% against last year. In total this year our members gave 21,138 hours of voluntary service (+5% on last year) to the local community which equates to £242,000:00 if using the National Living Wage as a guide.

Fundraising

This year we have held a raffle to raise funds to purchase new radios for our vehicles. The raffle commenced in March and raised the target amount of £3.600. We would like to thank all of our volunteers, their families and friends who supported the raffle and all the event organisers who allowed us to sell at their events. Our policy has always been to self-fund through our regular services – commercial training and events when possible, turning to the public for support for major projects that can provide community benefit. We have also continued to have donations from local collecting boxes in stores – we would like to thank the owners for their support.

Far left one of our volunteers selling raffle tickets at Southwell Folk Festival. Centre – the new radios purchased for our fleet with the raffle proceeds.

Public Relations & Recruitment

This year we have focused our PR effort into the recruitment of new volunteers. Having reviewed previous recruitment campaigns, we had noticed over the last years a steep decline in results from newspaper and radio advertising. We therefore decided to run the campaign with a mix of door-to-door leaflet drops, adverts in village magazines and a sustained Facebook campaign. The leaflet drop was mainly via the Royal Mail Door to Door service with some of our Trustees and members covering additional areas. The results were excellent with our largest intake of new members during one campaign.

Some of our new members, Ola left with our Ops Manager, Dragos centre, Alison, Ellie, Cheryl - right

Our Losses

This year we have suffered the loss of several of our founding members. In January we received the very sad news of the passing of Dr Peter Crookes who had played a leading role in the formation of our charity. Peter was our first Chair of Trustees and he had devoted his life to the service of the sick and injured through his work as a local GP and his association with local first aid provision. He had served our local community for over 50 years as a leading figure in first aid and we are proud to have served alongside him. In February after several years of deteriorating health we lost Christine Paknoham. Chris had championed the formation of our charity and devoted hours to setting up our systems, she was the voice of the organisation as Administration Manager dealing with course and event bookings and general enquiries. Chris retired just over a year before her death, having given 10 years’ service to us and over 25 years to first aid in Newark. In April and very suddenly Paul Hudson our Finance Manager since the charity was formed died at home. Paul was a lifelong first aider – joining as a boy cadet in Chesterfield and giving over 60 years of devoted service. A founder member of our charity he was very committed and like Chris and Peter will be fondly remembered.

Above Left – Dr Crookes and his wife the Christmas before his death, centre - Chris Paknoham collecting for our Treatment Centre in 2022 and right Paul Hudson on duty at an event in 2023. 145 years of Community Service

Finances

We started our financial year with a balance at the bank of £33,124:00

Our aim for this year was to stabilise our accounts after large expenditure in 2021-22 on our new First Aid Treatment Centre and a steady financial year in 2022-23 due to the economy.

We anticipated that events and training income would be depressed due to high inflation and both individuals and companies struggling with finances. However, the financial situation turned out better than expected with income over budget and expenditure under budget.

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Income and Expenditue 2023 - 2024
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Income was £7,567 over budget at £95,337.

Expenditures was £6,060 under budget at £70,424.

This resulted is a closing balance at bank of £60,110.

Full finance details can be found in our audited accounts.

CCI 6a details RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS Charity Name Newark Community First Aid Charity number 1152694 For the period from l July 2023 to 30 June 2024 I AI RECEIPTS Unrestric¢ed .: Restricted l Earmarked | All Funds Funds Futtds Funds Last Year Donations (note 3) | Sponsored & Matched Donations Income from Collections 3,093 317,, 59986:. 317 1,393 Income from Attendance at Events 59986 65,4701 30,221 Income from Courses (note 3) Grants 27906 27906 890 762 Other Income (note 9) Loans (which may convert lo donations) 13941 1394 2,139 Total 95337 95337 103,078 I A3 PAYMENTS Purchase of Equipment 10230 10230 13,680 Purchase of Unifonns for Members 24551 7,736 | 7941 2455 860 Insurance Cover 7736 7,939 Vehicle Expenses Expenses Covering Events ioc maintenance Courses for the Public & Members (inc Training) (note 9) Hire of Premises 7941 20080 20080 10,116 6664 6664 16,156 5534 5534 Administration Expenses i Fund Raising Equipment & Other Costs Publi¢ Relations & Advertising , New Building (inc site works) (note 8} Loan R¢paid (nole I l } 7644 i 7644 4,678 236 2136 2136 2,9?0 6.000 Tot81 Payments 70424,, 70424 85,507 Net Receipts l (Payments) , Trnnsfers between Funds (note 7) I Cash Funds last year end 24913 j 24913 | 17,571 351971 35197 I Cash Funds this year end 601101 60110 33.124J

Cash Funds Details Unr¢stri¢ted Restricted EndoiYm¢nt Genernl Fund alx)ve 60110 Add cheques ￿)t yet presented Total Cash Funds (gs per bank statement) 864 61VJ74 Othtr Monetary Assets Investment assets Assets retained for own use (note 10) Dl8posable EqufipmeDt Non Disposable Equipment Details Fund Cost Current Value First Aid, Trainin& PR & Cleaning Vehicle& Reusable Equipment & Building General 14,251 307,792 General DetaS19 cheqll￿ Dot yet presented Loan which may convert to donation (note 11) General 864 Gener21 Notes: i) 2) 3) During the year no claim was made for the recovery of GiftAid. During the year no guarantees have been made to any third paty. Bc¢ausc of the use of external Fund Raising Organisations. some Donations (under Income) are not classifiable s¢paratcly thi5 year undcr any of the other headings. Donations under 'Oth¢r Income, were for Lottery L)onation (861). GilL8 in Memoriam (533). There have been no donations from the Trustccs. Free use has been granted of rooms for training in return for the First Aid training for Staff at the sit¢. There have been no transfers between funds this year. The 'Costs of Courses for the Public and Members, and 'Costs of Training Mcmbers, heads have been merged - it had become abnost impossible to distinguish the costs between them. A sto¢k take of asscts is mad¢ Cach year on the basis of current list PriLYS. 4) 5) 6) 8) 9) Signed by one or more Trustees on behalf of the Trustees and Members Date Print Name Print Name

CHARITY (OMMISSION - I FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Newath Communty First AMJ On accounts for th• y•ar Jlffte 2024 Charity no (rf any) 1152694 I reF￿ to Ihe trustees ￿ my examinaticm of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Tnjst") for the year ended Responsibilities and basis of report As charivs trustees, you a￿ respor6ible for the weparation of tr accounts in aCC￿d￿ wth requjrements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe A(￿} I report in resFCt of my examination of the TTusYs accounts carried out urKler section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination. I have foll(yApd all the applgcable Diredlor￿ given by the Chanty Commission under sedion 145(5Mb) of ts A Independent examinofs statement I have C￿rtp￿d my ex4vnInat￿. I c(Mffirni that no material matters have ccxne to my attentN)n in o)nnection with the examination (other than that disclosed ') vthich gives me cause to ￿leY8 that in, any material of Chafits Art or the ac(x)unts did rx)t accord with the ￿oUntIng records: or the accourrts dKI not compty with the applicatle requirements Co￿￿nIrV￿ the form and content of accounts set (xrt in the Charities (Aox)unts arKI Rep￿ts} Regulations 2(X)8 other than any requirement that trt accounts give a arKI fair. view which is not a matter COfK8idered as part of an independent examination. wrth the examination to *)Kh attenkn should L drawn in this repx>rt in . Fyease delelo We iii Ihe bra￿(etS rfthey (k> not awly. Slgrnd: 02102r2025 IER Oct 2018

Relevant professional qualification{s) or body (If any>: Accountant (AAT) Addr•••: 10 Harco(Kt Street. Newark, NG24 1 RF Section B Disclo8ur• Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of Con￿rn (see CC32, IndeFerthnt examInalK￿ d chanty accounts: direiliwts arKI guidance for examiners). Glv• h•r• brl•f d•tall• of any It•ms that tho •xamln•r wl•hM to dlsclo•e. JU￿5 IER Oct 2018