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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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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**
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**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**
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**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **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
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
- How the charity is constituted
Constitution
CIO
- (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: • Trustees are informed about GDPR and upholding confidentiality. All are policies and procedures adopted for the induction and advised about a conflict of interest which must be reported 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**
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 **Summary of the objects of the** services in order to assist them regain their independence and to improve **charity set out in its** their quality of life **governing document**
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 1[st] March 2016 and revised on the 28[th] April 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 **Summary of the main** are briefed on the role of a trustee and supplied with a copy of the **activities undertaken for the** constitution and a trustee pack. They are also directed to the Charity **public benefit in relation to** Commission website relating to becoming a trustee and the guidance on **these objects (include within** public benefit. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** The trustees hold regular meeting and an annual AGM. All meetings are **had regard to the guidance** minutes and these are signed and checked at the following meeting. **issued by the Charity Commission on public** The focus of our activities remains in helping disabled individuals achieve **benefit)** 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
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The charity has continued to have difficulty fundraising this year due to the covid pandemic. We have lost many of our chances of fundraising now due to the pandemic and also those struggling that have lost 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 we have lost nearly all our income streams and the regular fundraising we did have has become smaller and smaller
We were still involved in part with the Superhero series of events, individuals that fundraise for us now are very reluctant to still be in large public areas as they are vulnerable individuals
Our fundraising this last year and fallen to the lowest level we have ever had as a charity with the cost of living crisis and most of our fundraising again coming from vulnerable people they have not been able to support the charity 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. One of our trustees now works with vulnerable children and young adults supporting them in their education and helping with additional services in his private capacity which has drawn more people to the charity for supportr We have continued to be able to offer 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 grant for this during covid and we have now used all those funds supplied as we were granted and more from the charity reserves with very positive feedback we would love to continue this work but it will have to be grant led in this climate and at this time no further grants have been available we have diminished the majority of our reserves on this work 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 our supporters attending events and fundraising.
This year we have been extremely busy more so than usual due to the pandemic leaving individuals with long term covid and needing extra support it has been difficult as applying for grants and acquiring funds has been made more difficult. We will continue to apply for grants and hopefully eventually get these passed as it was successful in helping so
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
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We also have successfully continued as we have a similar ethos and care for this sector our 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 as this is becoming more and more complicated with many getting rejected first time around 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 and the individuals needing support after covid . 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 this year we were not successful as so many charities are now needing support there is little to go a long way.
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 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) **|R Kendall|L Pearce|
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||Richard Kendall|Luisa Pearce|
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**Date** 03/012/2023
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||**Charity Name**
**freedom for wheels**|**Charity Name**
**freedom for wheels**|**Charity Name**
**freedom for wheels**|**No (if any)**
**1166823**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||
||**For the period from**|Period start date
3/2/2022|**To**
|Period
3/1/|end date
2023||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**A1 Receipts**
fundraising
**590**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**590**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 590**
**A3 Payments**
wix subscription for website
new website
Venue Deposit
Promotional Materials
rehabilitation
Registration for Superhero
Insurance
wheelchairs
covid carfe packages
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_**
**_et of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds -**
**A6 Cash funds last year end -**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**Unrestricte**
**d funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income_
_for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Total funds**
**590**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**590**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**590**
**355**
**-**
**-**
**5,009**
**-**
**1,200**
**3,300**
**9,864**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,864**
**- 9,274**
**-**
**-**
**- 9,274**
**to the nearest**
**£**|**Last year**
**to the nearest**
**£**|
|||||||**10,000**|
|fundraising|**590**|||||**649**|
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||**-**|||||**-**|
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||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income_
_for AR)_|**590**
|||||**10,649**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**10,649**|
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|wix subscription for website||||||**390**|
|new website||||||**2,186**|
|Venue Deposit|||||||
|Promotional Materials||||||**-**|
|rehabilitation||||||**7,390**|
|Registration for Superhero|||||||
|Insurance|||||||
|wheelchairs||||||**6,258**|
|covid carfe packages|**-**|||||**3,658**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**19,882**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_et of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between fund**
**A6 Cash funds last year en**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**19,882**|
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|||**-**|**-**||**- 9,274**|**- 9,233**|
||**s -**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**d -**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**- 9,274**|**- 9,233**|
|**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**|||
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|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,000**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricte**
**d funds**
**Unrestricte**
**d funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||||**-**|
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|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
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Fund to which Cost Current value
Details asset belongs (optional) (optional)
B3 Investment assets - -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Fund to which Cost Current value
Details asset belongs (optional) (optional)
B4 Assets retained for - -
the charity’s own use - -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Fund to which Amount due When due
liability relates (optional) (optional)
Details
B5 Liabilities -
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Signed by one or two trustees Date of
on behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval
L Pearce Luisa Pearce 4/1/2023
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