## **The Louise Tebboth Foundation, registered charity number 1166657** 

## **Annual report and accounts for the financial year 1[st] May 2020 to 30[th] April 2021** 

## **Trustees during the year** 

Dr. Alex Freeman, Chair Ms Harriet Lowe Mr. Gary Marson, Secretary Mr. Christopher Tebboth The Rev’d Malcolm Torry, Treasurer Dr. Rebecca Torry 

## **Charity’s registered address** 

35 Idmiston Road, Worcester Park, Surrey, KT4 7ST 

**Type of governing document** : Constitution. 

**How the charity is constituted** : A Charitable Incorporated Organisation. The only voting members are the trustees. 

**Trustee selection methods** : Appointment by resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the Trustees. 

## **Objects of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation** 

The relief of those in need and those in distress by the provision of funding for emotional support to people affected by suicide bereavement of those working in the medical profession; and 

To relieve the mental and physical sickness of doctors and other medical professionals suffering from mental health problems by providing funding for specialised psychiatric support to medics in crisis. 

## **Main activities of the charity undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects** 

Having regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit, the Trustees have continued to work to identify projects, services and activities which further the Foundation’s key objects of supporting doctors at risk of suicide and the families bereaved by the suicide of doctors. Given the narrow and highly specialist field within which the charity operates, and the relative lack of activity within it, rather than inviting grant applications for new or existing projects in an open funding round, the charity has continued to seek to identify relevant partner organisations with whom it can work to develop and directly commission suitable new projects, as well as receiving and considering speculative ad hoc applications as they are received. 

The Foundation is delighted to have been able to work with the Society of Occupational Medicine to undertake an important research project, details of which are contained in the section below. An extension of this project to encompass secondary care has now been commissioned. 

An important aspect of the Foundation’s work is constituted by its website which contains a variety of kinds of information and functions as the Foundation’s communication channel. 

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During the year a designer was commissioned to build a new website for the Foundation, and this project is now nearing completion. 

The Foundation also continued to build relationships with other potential partner organisations with a view to the identification of services and projects which support its objectives, including the PHP Bereaved Families Group. 

The Foundation has continued to benefit from a stream of donations through the fundraising efforts of supporters and its participation in the Give as you Live online shopping charitable donation scheme. 

## **Main achievement during the year** 

During the course of the 12 month period covered by this report, the Foundation built on its successful partnership with the Society of Occupational Medicine to bring to completion a groundbreaking research project into suicide postvention in primary care settings. Led by Professor Gail Kinman of the University of Bedfordshire and Dr Rebecca Torry, a Trustee of the Foundation*, a series of interviews were conducted with medical professionals as part of an initiative to help establish what primary care settings might do to support staff after the suicide of a colleague. A final report has now been issued, and a successful launch event was held. 

_* Dr Torry has received no financial benefit from the Foundation for the work undertaken_ 

## **Reserves policy** 

Apart from £5,000 reserved for the costs of the extension of the Society of Occupational Medicine project to secondary care, the Foundation had no ongoing financial commitments (staffing, operational or services) and the Trustees have taken the view that all other funds should be recycled into grants or associated activities at the earliest opportunity. If, going forward, medium to long term grant funding commitments accrue, the appropriate sum will be ring fenced to meet those obligations. 

## **The Trustees have agreed the annual report.** 

## **Signed on behalf of the charity trustees** 

Signature Full name The Rev’d Malcolm Torry Position Treasurer Date 6[th] May 2021 

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Louise Tebboth Foundation 

Accounts for the financial year 1[st] May 2020 to 30[th] April 2021 

|**Opening balance**||||17547.15|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|**Income**|||||
|Donations|||3252.10||
|Bank interest|||5.40||
|Gift Aid|||1221.22||
|Total|||4478.72|4478.72|
||||||
|**Expenditure**|||||
|Grants made|Societyof Occupational Medicine|5000.00|||
||Total ofgrants made|5000.00|5000.00||
|Trustee expenses|||0.00||
|Room hire|||0.00||
|Website|||650.34||
|Bank account fees|||72.00||
|HMRCpenalty|||100.00||
|Total|||5822.34|5822.34|
||||||
|**Closing balance**||||16203.53|



Bank accounts at 30[th] April 2021: 

|Bank accounts at 30thApril|2021:|
|---|---|
|Cafcash|4266.55|
|Cafbankgold account|11936.98|
|Total|16203.53|



Signature Full name Malcolm Norman Alfred Torry Position Treasurer Date 6[th] May 2021 

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