CAD-Brent Annual Report April 2023 to March 2024
Dementia Hub Project
The Dementia Hubs Team has secured a further 3 years of funding from the Lottery Fund, meaning the good work of the project will continue until at least June 2025.
This year the project has gone from strength to strength, building on the firm foundations made during the first 3 years of funding. We have been able to establish ourselves as the leading community resource in Brent for people living with dementia and their families. We are a respected and valued partner to the statutory services, offering families impacted by dementia a lifeline when they most need it. Our well-established referral pathway with the memory clinic ensures we receive regular referrals from the clinical team who understand the benefit and worth of the work we do. Our focus is to improve the life of people living with dementia (PLWD) allowing them to remain living at home as long as possible, and ensuring they have access to physical and mental stimulation.
The Hubs Team is experienced and professional, and we are able to draw on the strengths and enthusiasm of our individual team members to create an award winning team. Last summer we were fortunate enough to be given the ‘Team of the Year’ award in the Brent Social Care awards.
We continue to support and extend the Dementia Café network in Brent, with 16 active groups accommodating some 350 café guests each week. We are also working with 2 new community venues who are keen to start a dementia café; supporting them to get these new cafés established. The IAG team continue to work from the café settings – ensuring we are able to reach as many people as possible who need our support. In addition to this we continue to source and arrange additional wellbeing activities and training for the café network. This year we have been able to offer First Aid training for carers, Lasting Power Of Attorney workshops as well as some enrichment events from the Royal Albert Hall and the Wallace collection to name just a few.
Community events are regularly arranged bringing together café guests from across the network to share stories, light exercise and lunch. These quarterly events are a great way to gather information from our community and provides us with the opportunity to get feedback on services, helping us plan for the future. We will continue to be led by our community, ensuring we keep PLWD at the heart of all we do.
Both Danny Maher and Debbie Howe attend the Brent Dementia Steering group and are able to feed back to the group the concerns of the community. This helps statutory services plan for the future with PLWD in mind. We continue to work towards Brent being a dementia friendly borough by offering dementia friends training and reaching out to hard to reach communities, such as the Gujarati community who we recently presented to some 150+ elders alongside the Memory Service.
In the last year we have:
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received 413 new referrals.
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Raised the income of our clients by £474,561.00.
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Grown our Whatsapp community to over 200 people.
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Offered 192 advice clinics at the de-café venues.
Debbie Howe Dementia Hubs Project manager June 2024
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Chcirily Ni4 nie Community Action on Dementia - Brent No lif cinyl 1160552 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from Period slail cl<ilp Period end dale Mar-24 To r-23 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds to the nearest Restricted funds Endowment funds Total funds CIF Last year to the nearest £ to th• n•ar•st £ to the nearest £ to thg n•ar•st £ A1 Recelpts 36,367.92 NCIL London Community Imelrosel Big Lollery Gener81 Funds 15.000 9.866 9.910 15.000 9.866 9.910 1.009 1,009 Sub total (Gmss income for AR) 1,009 34.776 T2,153 36.368 A2 Asset and Investment sales, (see table). Not Aplicable Sub total Total recelpts 1.009 34,776 72,153 36,368 A3Pa NCIL London Comm Malrose Belrlending ment8 10,129 8,640 10,129 8,640 LB8rent Jubilee Sl PartyBig Lottery Picnlc General funds Professional Fees & Charggs 1.268 25,791 1.052 1.268 25.791 1,052 Sub total 46.881 46.881 A4 Asset and Investment urchases, see table Nota Ilcable Sub total Total payments 46,881 Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end 25.273 CCXX R1 acwunls ISSI 2010812024
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted funds to n•ar•st £ Restricted funds to near&st £ Endowment funds to nearest £ Categories Detalls B1 Cash funds clf to 2019 Total cash funds cwntlsll OK Unrestrlcted funds to nearèst £ OK Restrlcted funds to nearest £ OK Endowment funds to nearest £ Details Nonè Fund to whlch as8gt b•lon Current valu o tlonal Deta518 None Cost lopllonall B3 Investment assets Fund to whlch o$$e¢ belon Detalls None Cost lopllonall Current value tlonal B4 Assets retalned for the charity's own use Fund tts whleh rolatas Amount duo tlonal When due o tlonal Detalls None B5 Liabilities Signed by one or Iwo Iruslees on behall of all the trustee$ Signalure Date of roval Print Name Danny Maher Angela Payne 19.08.2024 19.08.24 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2010812024
I=OMMUNITY ,ICTION ON )i.th&y&qLRn&othaLMaLolL2QI4. In accordance with instructions given to us we have examined without Garrying out an audit tte 8nnexed receipts and payments accounts prepared from the accounting records of CJmmunityAction on Dementia- Brent based on inforrnatlon and explanations supplied to U¢1 8nd we can confirm that the receipts and payments accounts are In accordance with ttre records. Ltiwrence Johns Chartered Accountants 1 fi4 Field End R08d Eiistcote H.45 1 RH Date..... C.LQOtAppr.o.v&d££.ttitioats c pprove the receipts and payments accounts and confirm that I have made available all reLevant records and Information for their preparation. Diite