2022-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 1 April 2021 To 31 March 2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1161287 Charity's principal address 29 Gledhow Wood Ave

Hundred Families

HUNDREDFAMILIES.ORG

Leeds

Postcode LS8 1NY

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for **whole year **	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	LEN HODKIN	Chairperson
	SIMON HENDY	Treasurer
	DONALD PHILPOTTS
	MICHAEL FOOTE
	CHARLES LITTLE
	LORRAINE JONES
	ANDREA DOLLERY

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

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Independent Examiner	Joanne Trowbridge	Bristol Community Accountants CIC, The Park Centre, Daventry Road, Knowle, Bristol, BS4 1DQ
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Julian Hendy

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

• (eg. trust deed, constitution)

Constitution

How the charity is constituted

• (eg. trust, association, company)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Trustee selection methods

• (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Appointed by Trustees

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

The objects of the CIO are

• A. The relief of bereaved families who have been affected by homicides committed by people with mental issues by the provision of information, support, advocacy services and practical advice

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

• B. To advance the education of the general public, including health professionals by:

• Providing education, training and information

• Providing advice to government and others from a family perspective on mental health homicides

• Researching the causes, consequences and extent of homicides committed by people with mental illness

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In exercising their powers and duties, the Trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission. Despite the limitations imposed by the COVID pandemic we have continued and maintained our work with families and stakeholder both in person and virtually. We have continued to support families and friends bereaved as a result of killings by people with mental illness and have helped more than 200 families do far

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)

We have worked closely with Victim Support’s Homicide Service facilitating access and assistance to affected families. We are extremely grateful for their continued support. We have worked with the NHS at national, regional, and local levels to advise on the impact and extent of mental health homicides and been appointed to various NHS oversight organisations to assist and advocate for securing improvements in practice and performance. We have worked directly with the Ministry of Justice, Victims Commissioners (both nationally and in London), National Offender Management Service, the Police, MPs, the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Governments and others to develop and improve services to families affected by killings by people with serious mental illness. We have influenced national and local policies to assist families affected by mental health related homicides and to help prevent further avoidable tragedies. We have promoted the needs of victims of mental health homicides in the national and local media.

We have documented over 1900 mental health related homicides across the United Kingdom and have made available without cost over 700 official investigation reports on our website – the only publically available such resource in the country.

Our services are free and open to all who have been affected by homicides by people with mental illness without charge

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;

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• contribution made by volunteers.

Section D

Achievements andperformance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Although the pandemic has been challenging, we have been able to maintain our service without interruption and have offered practical advice, support, and advocacy services to more than 200 families and friends bereaved as a result of killings by people with mental illness. We have offered affected families specialist guidance and information on the criminal justice, health service and other investigation processes. We have facilitated contacts, accompanied families to meetings and advocated for them during NHS local and independent investigations, Serious Case Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews, and other investigations. We have accompanied and supported families at court hearings and coroner’s inquests. We arranged meetings for families to meet others who have all been similarly bereaved to offer ‘peer to peer’ emotional support and advice. We have provided effective media support to families both during legal proceedings, Inquests, and on publication of Independent Investigation Reports We have worked with the NHS at national, regional, and local level to advise on the impact and extent of mental health homicides, helped write national and local policy guidance and been appointed to various NHS oversight organisations to assist in securing improvements in learning, practice and performance. We have worked successfully with the Ministry of Justice on securing improvements for victims’ families in consultations on the Victims Code and new Victim’s Law. We have worked with the Victims’ Commissioner and the Ministry of Justice to secure better access for the families we support to Judges’ sentencing remarks. We have also been involved in consultations and raised concerns about on review of the Mental Health Act We have been invited to work with the Welsh Government on designing the new process for Serious Incident Investigations in Wales. In Northern Ireland we have been instrumental in the appointment of a Victims Commissioner in Northern Ireland and in proposals to radically improve serious incident investigations following Mental health related homicides.

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

We have been invited to speak at numerous NHS conferences on the effects of Mental Health Homicides on families and communities. We were continued our involvement and participation in the ‘Making Families Count’ initiative on improving family engagement after serious incidents, which has been nationally recognised.

We have worked directly with the Ministry of Justice, Victims Commissioners (both nationally and in London), National Offender Management Service, the Police, Victim Support Homicide Service, MPs, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and others to improve services to families affected by killings by people with serious mental illness.

We have worked to secure better research into national lessons from mental health related homicides and worked with students from the University of Bath to develop national research projects – particularly on the provision of psychiatric beds for people in crisis and on further offending of restricted patients released by First Tier tribunals (mental health).

We have promoted the interests and needs of victims of mental health homicides in the national and local TV, radio and print media as well as actively on social media.

We have documented over 1900 mental health related homicides across the United Kingdom and have made available without cost over 450 official investigation reports on our website – the only publically available such resource in the country.

Our services are free and open to all who have been affected by homicides by people with mental illness without charge.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the Our policy is to hold £15,000 in operational reserves and £1,500

charity’s policy on reserves insurance reserves. Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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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.

We are extremely grateful to Victim Support Homicide Service and the Persula foundation for their continued support.

We would also like to express our thanks to our families, friends and supporters, in particular the families and friends of Ryan Lowry, Sally Hodkin, Eileen Dean and Ken Godward for their support and for organising amazing fundraising events on our behalf.

We’d also like to thank all those families and friends who have kindly supported our work.

Section F Other optional information

The Director and sole employee of the charity (Julian Hendy) is related to the Treasurer and Trustee of the charity (Simon Hendy). All decisions on the director’s remuneration are taken by the Trustees jointly.

Any expenses reimbursed to the Director are approved jointly by the Chairman of Trustees alongside the Treasurer.

The Trustees are reimbursed for travel and subsistence expenses incurred in attending trustee meetings and any other business for the charity.

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) JULIAN HENDY

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Trustees

Director and Secretary to the

Date November 2022

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	Hundred Families	Hundred Families	Hundred Families	1161287	1161287	1161287	CC16a
	For the period from	1st April 2021	To		31st March 2022
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 26,000 13,628 3,973 20,000 2,389 1,290 67,280 - - - 67,280 377 848 532 318 438 - 2,005 28,674 - 371 11 99 33,673 - - 33,673 33,607 700 96,134 130,441	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 212 - - - 212 - - 212 - 212 - 700 23,217 22,305	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -		Total funds to the nearest £ 26,000 13,628 3,973 20,000 2,389 1,290 67,280 - - - 67,280 377 848 532 318 438 - 2,005 28,674 212 371 11 99 33,885 - - 33,885 33,395		Last year to the nearest £
Victims Support	26,000						96,000
FundraisingEvents	13,628						16,185
Gift and Donations	3,973						12,381
Legacies	20,000						-
Gift Aid	2,389						3,149
Conferences and Seminars	1,290						500
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	67,280						128,215
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
	-
	-						-
Sub total	-						-
Total receipts A3 Payments
							128,215
FamilySupport	377						746
Fees(Justgiving,Paypal)	848						770
FundraisingExpences	532						408
InfluencingPolicy& Research	318						533
Insurance	438						388
Meetings and Training:	-						53
Office Expenses	2,005						2,101
Payroll	28,674						26,619
Persula Projects 19-20	-						212
Professional Fees	371						342
Postage and Delivery	11						-
Printingand Reproduction	99						-
**Sub total **	33,673						32,172
A4 Asset and investment purchases (see table)
,
	-						2,199
**Sub total **	-						2,199
Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
							34,371
	33,607	- 212	-		33,395		93,844
	700	- 700	-		-		-
	96,134	23,217	-		119,351		25,507
	130,441	22,305	-		152,746		119,351

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets	Independent Examination Expenses Details Co-op Bank PayPal JustGiving Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Operational Reserves Insurance Reserves Persula Foundation Details Debtors Details Details Apple iMac A2115 desktop PC	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 129,975 421 45 130,441 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - 16,000 - - Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Office Expenses: ~~Equipment~~ Fund to which liability relates Unrestricted Unrestricted	Restricted funds to nearest £ 22,305 - - 22,305 OK Restricted funds to nearest £ 15,000 1,500 5,805 - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) 2,199 - - - - - - - - Amount due (optional) 407 400 - - -	Endowment funds to nearest £
				-
				-
				-
				-
				OK
				Endowment funds to nearest £
				-
				-
				-
				-
				-
				-
				Current value (optional)
				-
				-
				-
				-
				-
				Current value (optional)
				1,701
				-
				-
				-
				-
				-
				-
				-
				-
				When due (optional)
	Independent Examination	Unrestricted	407
	Expenses	Unrestricted	400
			-
			-
			-

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature	Print Name Simon Hendy	Date of approval
	Simon Hendy	20/11/2022

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ HUNDRED FAMILIES members of On accounts for the year 31 MARCH 2022 Charity no 1161287 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1 - 8

Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. responsibilities of The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year trustees and examiner under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:

• examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,

• to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and

• • to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

• 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 no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my examiner's statement attention which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

• accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act or

• the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Date: 16/01/2023

Signed: Name: Joanne Trowbridge Relevant professional MAAT qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:[Bristol Community Accountants CIC, The Park Centre, Daventry Road, ] Knowle, Bristol, BS4 1DQ

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December 2017