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← Freedom For Wheels

2024-03-01-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 2 March 2023 01 March 2024 T From o

Section A Reference and administration details ~~ee~~

Freedom For Wheels ~~PO~~

Charity name

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1166823 ~~|~~

Charity's principal address 12 Greenhill, Staplehurst

Tonbridge Kent Postcode TN12 0SU

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) whole year to appoint trustee (if any) 1 Luisa Pearce Chair Whole year 3 Kristian Pearce Whole Year 4 Richard Kendall Treasurer Whole year 5 Hayley Pearce Secretary Whole year 6 Nicholas Whole year Schuller 7 8 9

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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 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)

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) How the charity is constituted CIO (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Trustees are Elected and appointed at AGM (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

All Trustees are given an induction pack, which includes the constitution. They spend time with current trustees to lean how the charity works and the work that is needed from each to fulfil their role within the charity

The charity is appointed at a year AGM and then positions are put forwarded and seconded. The charity is lead by the main Chair and other offices as in the governing document all trustees have a vote at meetings and all major decisions and fundraising ideas are voted on and passed before implemented.

We work with other disability charities and also the wheelchair service run by the NHS to support service users.

Hospitals, doctors , OTs and Physio’s refer people to our service as well as the website and the Facebook page and the CCG and Wheelchair 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

Section C Objectives and activities

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

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

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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)		 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:

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Section D Achievements and performance

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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
never recovering from the Covid pandemic. We have lost many of our
chances of fundraising now and things are increasingly difficult 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
didhas 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 works helping individuals with support through PIP
assessments and filling and completing forms all voluntary as well as a
support caregiver to those that need an advocate on medical matters and
access to wheelchairs
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 suppor
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 but is at its lowest ever
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

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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:

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

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 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) R Kendall R Kendall L Pearce
Full name(s) Richard Kendall Luisa Pearce

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Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Treasurer Chair etc)

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Freedom For Wheels
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds		 Restricted
funds		 Restricted Endowment
funds		 Total funds Last year
to the nearest
£		 to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
fundraising 1,601 - - - 1,601 590 590
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Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 (Gross income for
AR)1,601		 - - - 1,601 590 590
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total -
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Total receipts
1,601
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590
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A3 Payments
Wix Subscription 356 - - - 356 355 355
New Website - - - - - - -
Venue Deposit - - - - - - -
Promotional Materials - - - - - - -
Rehabilitation 864 - - - 864 5 5,009
Registration Superhero - - - - - - -
Insurance 849 - - - 849 1 1,200
Wheelchairs - - - - - 3 3,300
Covid Care Packages - - - - - - -
**Sub total ** 2,069 - - - 2,069 9,864 9,864
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Total payments
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9,864
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Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end		 - 468
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets		 Signature
L Pearce
Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
Details
Details		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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468
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Amount due
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Luisa Pearce		 Endowment
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When due
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Date of
approval
L Pearce Luisa Pearce `1/3/25

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