2022-08-31-accounts

				SORP reference
Summary	ofthe purposes			Para 1.17	'The objectives of Dementia Support
ofthe charity		as set out in			South Lines are to promote and
its governing		document			encourage the physical, mental and
					social well-being ofadult persons who
					have a diagnosis ofdementia, or are
					caring for someone with dementia, or
					need information and/or advice
					regarding dementia and who live within
					the areas served by the main General
					Medical Practices in Bourne, The
					Deepings and Stamford, Lincolnshire,
					through therapeutic support,
					encouraging active engagement in
					appropriate activities, and providing
					information, guidance and support for
					their families and carers'.
Summary activities	ofthe main in relation to			Para 1.17 and 1.19	We focus on the person behind the condition and their carer. We provide
those purposes			for the		information, guidance and support for
public benefit,			in particular,		our beneficiaries by personal visits, a
the activities,		projects or			quarterly newsletter, monthly support
services	identified in the				meetings, and our website.
accounts.
					Since September 2021 we have been
					able to run regular activities like our
					monthly coffee mornings and our art, tai
					chi and singing groups along with our
					twice monthly Square Hole Club for
					people living with early onset/early stage
					dementia. We are slowly bringing back
					our social events and in July 2022 we
					held our annual summer garden party
					followed by a harvest lunch in
					September. We are planning a Retail
					Therapy day in November and will invite
					all our members to a Christmas lunch	in
					December.

				We run a fortnightly day club for people
				diagnosed with early onset dementia or
				who are in the early stages ofdementia.
				Square Hole Club is our USP. There is
				nothing else like itfor younger or 'early
				stage' people in the county —the nearest
				is in Leicestershire. We are featured on
				the Young Dementia UK website.
				We have not held any official dementia
				friends sessions this year but we have
				started giving talks in the community
				about our services and various aspects
				ofsupporting the person living with
				dementia. We have more planned in the
				coming months.
				During Dementia Awareness Week (16'"
				to 20 May 2022) we gave a talk in
				Stamford to over 100people highlighting
				our work with people living with early
				onset dementia and invited the
				community to our art group and the
				Bourne and Stamford coffee mornings,
				all ofwhich fell that week.
Statement	confirming		Para 1.18	The trustees have had regard to the
whether the trustees		have		guidance issued by the Charity
had regard to the				Commission on public benefit and are
guidance	issued by the			satisfied that we comply with the
Charity Commission		on		guidance.
ublic benefit

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			SORP
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				N/A
Policy on	grant making		Para 1.38
Policy on	social
investment		including	Para 1.38	N/A
program	related
investment
Contribution volunteers		made by	Para 1.38	The Trustees, all volunteers themselves, are fully aware ofthe invaluable support
				given to Dementia			Support	South Lines
				by	volunteers	by both helping at			events
				and activities		and	in raisin	funds	for us.

					SORP
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						From September 2021 we have been
Summary		ofthe main				running all three ofour coffee
achievements			of	the		morning/support groups, our therapeutic
charity,	identifying			the		activities, our Square Hole Club and
difference		the	charity's			have restarted social events like the
work has		made to the			Para 1.20	summer garden party and harvest lunch
circumstances			of its			which will be followed in November by
beneficiaries			and	any		Retail Therapy and our Christmas lunch
wider benefits			to	society		in December.
as a whole.
						We represent a 'safe haven' for people
						who have received a diagnosis of
						dementia [in its many forms], often being
						the first contact in the community they
						have at a very difficult time. We offer
						friendship, and mutual support
						opportunities as well as practical and
						emotional advice and support. We
						demonstrate to the wider community
						what is possible for people living with
						dementia, and how they can help, and
						offer advice and support to community
						groups in order to increase their
						knowledge so that they can also find
						wa sto hei our 'famil ' of beneficiaries.
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						We have continued to run Dementia
Achievements			against			Support South Lines in such a way as to
objectives		set			Para 1.41	support approximately 170families or
						households.
						The number declined significantly during
						Covid but we are now receiving more
						self referrals and referrals from

					organisations like Social Services, Social
					Prescribers and other charities.
					We have three professional support
					workers and an administrative assistant
					part-time.
					We completed the second Carers'
					coping toolkit training programme in July
					2022.
Performance			of		We have met our objectives for
fundraising			activities		fundraising for this year. However in the
against objectives set					whole year our income from donations
					has still been impacted by Covid 19.In
				Para 1.41	the year we received the next two
					instalments ofour grant from the
					National Lottery Reaching Communities
					Fund amounting to F20,591 and a legacy
					of225,000. Both ofwhich are restricted
					funds.
Investment			performance		N/A
against objectives
				Para 1.41
				Para 1.41	Continuing impact ofCovid 19on
Other					fundraising —Cancellation ofsome ofour
					fundraising events in 2021/2022.
				Para 1.45	Continued impact of Covid 19on
Other					activities, staff, volunteers, in 2021/22
					with loss ofsome members.
Financial		Review
Review of		the charity's		Para 1.21	At the end ofAugust 2022, the position
financial	position at the				was a surplus ofE37.7kfor the year, of
end ofthe		period			which f27.8k related to restricted funds.
					We have received total grants ofF20.6k.
					It is difficult to budget for the coming year
					due to ongoing uncertainties, however
					the potential shorffall of income over
					expenditure is circa 220k in the year to
					Au ust 2023.

Statement	Statement	Statement	explaining	explaining	explaining	explaining	the	the	Para 1.22	We aim to keep a minimum reserve of
policy for		holding			reserves					our running costs that will be needed for
stating	why			they	are		held			the following12 months and the balance
										of lon er term restricted funds.
Amount	of		reserves				held		Para 1.22	Our reserves were F163,003at31"
										August 2022 ofwhich f47,009 related to
										restricted funds. The increase was
										mainly due to the increase ofgrants and
										a legacy. The restricted funds balance
										continues to be high due to much lower
										spend due to Covid restrictions in the
										years 2019/202, 2020/2021 and
										2021/2022.
Reasons		for holding					zero		Para 1.22	N/A
reserves
Details	offund materially								Para 1.24	N/A
in deficit
Explanation				ofany					Para 1.23	We are operating in a very difficult
uncertainties				about		the				competitive environment with grants
charity continuing					as		a			being more difficult to achieve. But we
going concern										are actively looking for new funding
										opportunities and were successful in
										achieving grants ofL20.6k in the year to
										Au ust 2022 and a I a of625k.
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The charity's				principal						Our principal sources offunding in year
sources	offunds				(including					to August 2022 have been from a
any fundraising)										restricted grant from National Lottery and
									Para 1.47	we received a legacy of&25k in February
										2022, which is restricted income and the
										project has not yet commenced.
										Donation from the public continue to be
										down on re- andemic ears
Investment			policy		and
objectives		including				any
social investment					policy					N/A
ado ted									Para 1.46
										Our principal risks in the coming year are
A description				ofthe						the diminishing funding available from
principal	risks facing						the			the public sector and difficulty in
charity									Para 1.46	recruiting volunteers able to devote time
										for us. In addition the level ofdonations
										may still be affected by the current
										economic climate.
									Para 1.49
Other

Description	ofcharity's
trusts:
Type of governing		Para 1.25	Constitution
document
How is the charity		Para 1.25	Charitable Incorporated Organisation
constituted?			(CIO)
Trustee selection methods		Para 1.25	Our Trustees tend to be known to us by
including details of any			virtue of having been beneficiaries or
constitutional	provisions		related to them in some way. People
e.g. election	to post or		start by volunteering and when ready to
name ofany	person or		commit more time and energy can be co-
body entitled	to appoint		opted to the committee or elected by the
one or more	trustees		current Trustees to be a Trustee, for a
			time limited eriod.

You ma choose to include	further statem	ents where relevant about:
		We have policies and procedures in
Policies and procedures		place regarding induction. Training tends
adopted for the induction		to be 'in-house' by attending events and
and training oftrustees	Para 1.51	activities, and shadowing our support
		workers. All people who work alone with
		our beneficiaries are required to have full
		DBScertification.
		We have monthly Trustee meetings, and
The charity's		receive reports from sub-committees
organisational structure		such as social events, etc.
and any wider network	Para 1.51	We are connected with the following
with which the charity		organisations in mutually supportive
works		relationships. - South West Lines Care
		Consortium
		Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation
		Trust
		Alzheimer's Society
		Young Dementia UK
		Playlist for Life
		South Lines Dementia Action Alliance
		Mindspace
		Lincolnshire Heritage
		Local churches, rotary clubs,
		businesses, shops, local pubs and clubs,
		Masonic lodges etc.
		Healthwatch.

			South Lines Clinical commissioning
			Group
			We continue to use social media such as
			our regular newsletter, website and
			facebook to keep our 'family' connected.
			Carer Sitters Service- we share an office
Relationship	with any		with them and several beneficiaries.
related parties		Para 1.51
			We have a full range ofpolicies and
Other			procedures particularly in regard to
			safeguarding, These are reviewed
			annually and have been approved by
			LPFT.

Charit	name		Dementia Su	ort	South Lincolnshire
Other name the charity			DSSL
uses
Re istered chari		number	1162277
Charity's	principal	address	clo Wake House,		Room 34,41 North St., Bourne, Lines,
			PE109AE

ofthe charity tr	ustees who manag	e the charity
Trustee name	Office (ifany)	Dates acted ifnot for whole year	Name ofperson (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifan
Sarah Wesiwood	Chair		Trustees ofDSSL
Denis Bedford			Trustees ofDSSL
Kay Bunn			Trustees ofDSSL
Jill Bemrose	Treasurer		Trustees ofDSSL
Hazel Cox			Trustees ofDSSL
Nicholas Fahidy			Trustees ofDSSL
Paula Harding		April 2022	Trustees ofDSSL
Linda Rogers		July 2022	Trustees ofDSSL