2022-03-01-accounts - Freedom For Wheels

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 02 March 2021 01 March 2022

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Freedom For Wheels Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1166823 Charity's principal address 12 Greenhill, Staplehurst Tonbridge Kent Postcode TN12 0SU

Freedom For Wheels

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
Luisa Pearce	Chair	Wholeyear
Kristian Pearce		Whole Year
Richard Kendall	Treasurer	Wholeyear
HayleyPearce	Secretary	January2021
Lynn French		March 21- July21
Chris French		Wholeyear – July21
Nicholas Schuller		January2021

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

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)

Trustees are Elected and appointed at AGM Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

All Trustees are given an induction pack, which includes the constitution.
You may choose to include They spend time with current trustees to lean how the charity works and
additional information, where the work that is needed from each to fulfil their role within the charity
relevant, about: • policies and procedures Trustees are informed about GDPR and upholding confidentiality. All are advised about a conflict of interest which must be reported
adopted for the induction and training of trustees; The charity is appointed at a year AGM and then positions are put
• the charity’s organisational forwarded and seconded. The charity is lead by the main Chair and other structure and any wider offices as in the governing document all trustees have a vote at meetings network with which the charity and all major decisions and fundraising ideas are voted on and passed works; before implemented.
• relationship with any related We work with other disability charities and also the wheelchair service run
parties; by the NHS to support service users.
• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system Hospitals, doctors , OTs and Physio’s refer people to our service as well and procedures to manage as the website and the Facebook page and the CCG and Wheelchair them. Service. Some members sit on other boards where advice and advocacy work is undertaken

All Trustees are trained on have relevant DBS checks if they are working with vulnerable clients Trustees are all DBS checked if they are in a role of working with vulnerable people

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Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document 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)	To relieve the needs of disabled people in Kent by funding and purchasing specialised wheelchairs and other needed equipment for their benefit and by funding needed specialist services and rehabilitation services in order to assist them regain their independence and to improve their quality of life
	Freedom for Wheels was formed in February 2016 and we have grown in helping individual’s year on year. The charity operates under a constitution of a CIO whose only voting members are its trustees. The governing document is the Freedom For Wheels CIO Constitution adopted on 1stMarch 2016 and revised on the 28thApril 2016. This provides detailed rules for the powers, appointments of trustees, membership of the CIO and liability of trustees When events and fundraising is planned the trustees keep in mind the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit and all trustees have and are briefed on the role of a trustee and supplied with a copy of the constitution and a trustee pack. They are also directed to the Charity Commission website relating to becoming a trustee and the guidance on public benefit. The trustees hold regular meeting and an annual AGM. All meetings are minutes and these are signed and checked at the following meeting. The focus of our activities remains in helping disabled individuals achieve a better quality of life through the services we offer. All that contact the charity are spoken with directly and met and all that meet the criteria are helped if we are able to fulfil what they have requested We work with other charity’s and are able to signpost individuals to those if they do not meet our criteria and we also do advocacy work to help individuals whom are struggling with paperwork and benefits. One of our trustees also now works with the police to help support disabled individuals free of charge as a volunteer with regards disability hate crime. We also work with other local charities and support networks including Healthwatch to ensure a full rounded service

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

To relieve the needs of disabled people in Kent by funding and
purchasing specialised wheelchairs and other needed equipment for their
benefit and by funding needed specialist services and rehabilitation
services in order to assist them regain their independence and to improve
their quality of life

Freedom for Wheels was formed in February 2016 and we have grown in
helping individual’s year on year. The charity operates under a
constitution of a CIO whose only voting members are its trustees.
The governing document is the Freedom For Wheels CIO Constitution
adopted on 1stMarch 2016 and revised on the 28thApril 2016. This
provides detailed rules for the powers, appointments of trustees,
membership of the CIO and liability of trustees
When events and fundraising is planned the trustees keep in mind the
Charity Commission guidance on public benefit and all trustees have and
are briefed on the role of a trustee and supplied with a copy of the
constitution and a trustee pack. They are also directed to the Charity
Commission website relating to becoming a trustee and the guidance on
public benefit.
The trustees hold regular meeting and an annual AGM. All meetings are
minutes and these are signed and checked at the following meeting.
The focus of our activities remains in helping disabled individuals achieve
a better quality of life through the services we offer. All that contact the
charity are spoken with directly and met and all that meet the criteria are
helped if we are able to fulfil what they have requested We work with
other charity’s and are able to signpost individuals to those if they do not
meet our criteria and we also do advocacy work to help individuals whom
are struggling with paperwork and benefits.
One of our trustees also now works with the police to help support
disabled individuals free of charge as a volunteer with regards disability
hate crime. We also work with other local charities and support networks
including Healthwatch to ensure a full rounded service

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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We have a couple of volunteers that help and support at events if necessary and they have been related to the charity n the past as trustees but have moved on now but wished to keep their association with the charity.

Both volunteers and trustees give up their own time for free in order to keep the functioning of the charity running they do this with no financial gain for themselves.

Many of our trustees have an expertise relevant to the role or the purpose of the charity and are therefore trained personal as well as professionally in order to give the best they can to enable the charity to be successful

We do not at this time have any grants or ever applied for any grants this may be something we would look at in the near future.

We work with charities like Health watch and Kent Wide Disability Forum to ensure that we are all working to make improvements together

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

The charity has continued to have difficulty fundraising this year due to Summary of the main the covid pandemic. We have lost many of our chances of fundraising achievements of the charity now due to the pandemic and also those struggling that have lost during the year employment due to the pandemic the charity is struggling as our those we help as access to NHS and medical support is now much harder with longer waiting times and increased numbers waiting we continued to loose the chance of fundraising at the London Marathon, Brighton Half Marathon and the charity ball we were holding all events were cancelled This proved very difficult as the charity had many more requests for help and support as well as trying to support at the beginning of the pandemic We were still involved in part with the Superhero series of events, these are events that we will be part of on a regular basis as it involves all disabilities at its core these raise a lot of money raised. This was also scaled down and we only had one fundraiser who did this event whilst in isolation at home. We applied successfully for a lottery funding small Grant to enable us to support individuals with remote physiotherapy due to them isolating and losing their support and therapies this service was inundated as we used all available funds to allow this to continue as it was so well received with such a small grant it meant we have used up many of our reserves but we felt it important to help those in need Our chairperson was chosen due to her knowledge and her work through the charity with disabled individuals to sit on panels that are involved in decision-making during the pandemic for vulnerable individuals both nationally and locally. We were also involved whilst working with other charities within the sector to support disabled individuals through the struggles with schooling and receiving food and support them through their isolating by being a support for a number of individuals. We managed with the support of Response Physiotherapy to offer both remote and face to face access to disabled individuals to physio and sport sessions in order to maintain and improve health We received a lottery grant to supply remote physiotherapy to disabled individuals that were struggling at home not being able to access their therapies and we teamed up with a professional physiotherapy company (Remote physiotherapy) We continue to receive requests for support and we continue to do our best to help as many as we can that meet our criteria. We work with the Police, CCG, GPs Physio’s, OT, Wheelchairs service and hospitals to help individuals and this year we have worked with children’s hospitals to support individuals that need specialist equipment and therapies t after surgery. Therefore supporting individuals that would have lost their surgery and indeed quality of life without this support. All our funds have been raised through the trustees organising and running events and fundraising. This year we have been extremely busy more so than usual due to the pandemic it has been difficult as applying for grants and acquiring funds has been made more difficult and very slow. We will continue to apply for grants and hopefully eventually get these passed

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Section D Achievements and performance

We also have successfully agreed as we have a similar ethos and care for this sector to accept to become a charity partner with Response Physiotherapy. We are sure this will be a successful partnership and will grow as time progresses.

We support those applying for Pip and other government grants through the application process with guidance and help in completing applications as well as advising on other services available. Working with the disabled communities has shown us that more information needs to be made more easily accessible and more funding needs to be made available fore charities to continue to offer this service

The continue lack of support nationally means the charity still has a need and a purpose if not more than when we first started we hope to look into expanding and helping more if we continue to be financially viable. Its been a very difficult year for all and we know from APPG meetings and local meetings that we are needed more so now than ever

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

All reserves we hold at the charity are used for the purpose of helping others we do not hold on to huge amounts anyway and should the charity ever cease to operate the reserves would be passed to a charity that is involved within the same or similar are` of practise.

The bank account requires two signatures in order to comply and ensure safety of the release of funds

Details of any funds materially in deficit

We have no deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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.

All funds we receive into the charity are through fundraising and donations which can also be gift aided we also this year were in receipt of a grant from the Lottery fund

Our expenditure is for the purpose of helping disabled individuals achieve and gain a more beneficial outcome and improve quality of life this we do with all the funds we have available and no funds are used to pay any trustees or go on personal expenses Minimal funds are used to cover insurances, promotional and marketing materials and the upkeep of the website

We are a small charity and all monies we hold in reserve and kept in the bank as we have too little at this stage to invest elsewhere

Section F Other optional information

This coming year we will continue to be looking at the possibility of getting grants so that we can support more individuals and continue our work with the governing bodies to try and raise awareness around disability funding difficulties. We also wish to use these grants to expand and offer more services coming out of covid with so many with long covid and requiring help we see more in need

We launched a new website and have including all the stories and events that have been the reason we started this charity

We ensure that anyone working with disabled individuals has full DBS cleared status

Coming out of this pandemic is going to be hard for all by harder for disabled individuals as it has been agreed that disabled community have suffered disproportionally.

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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date	R Kendall	L Pearce
	Richard Kendall	Luisa Pearce
	Treasurer	Chair
	07/02/2023
	07/02/2023

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Charity Name freedom for wheels

Receipts and payments acco Period start date For the period from To 02/03/21

Section A Receipts and payments

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricte d funds Restricted funds Endowmen t funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts national lottery grant 10,000 - - fundraising 649 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Sub total*(Gross income for AR)10,649 - - A2 Asset and investment sales,(see table). - - - - - - Sub total - - - Total receipts 10,649 - - A3 Payments wix subscription for website - - new website - - Venue Deposit - - Promotional Materials - - rehabilitation - - Registration for Superhero - - Insurance - - wheelchairs - - covid carfe packages - - - Sub total - - - A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - -
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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- Sub total [ - ] - - - - Total payments - et of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year en - - Cash funds this year end

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the

Categories Details

B1 Cash funds

Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))

Details

B2 Other monetary assets

Unrestricte d funds to nearest £ - - - 10,000

Unrestricte d funds to nearest £

Details

Fund to which asset belongs

B3 Investment assets

Details

Fund to which asset belongs

B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use

Fund to which liability relates

B5 Liabilities

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

Details

Signature L Pearce

No (if any) 1166823

ounts Period end date 01/03/22

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Total funds

T	otal fund		Last year
to the nearest		to the nearest
	£		£
	10,000		3,000
	649		1,332
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	10,649		4,332


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10,649	4,332

		390	390
		2,186						243
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		7,390						2,397
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		6,258
		3,658						-
		19,881						2,640


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	19,881	2,640

-	9,233	1,692

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-	9,233	1,692


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Print Name

Luisa Pearce

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Date of
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