## **The Harvey Hext Trust annual Report**
## **November 2019-December 2020**
## **Introduction and summary**
Welcome to the The Harvey Hext Trust annual report for 2019/2020.
The year has been one of challenge and change due to a global pandemic, which is reflected throughout this report. It gives me great pleasure and huge pride to be able to share the impact and support that the work of The Harvey Hext Trust continues to have for Bereaved families in Bristol and across the country.
## **Why is this work needed:**
Over 7000 Children and young people die in the UK each year. The support the families receive varies dramatically from region to region. In some regions the families are offered ongoing Support by bereavement services/hospices whilst in others regions the support is extremely limited.
Sibling support is often overlooked when finances are tight.
The Harvey Hext trust supplies siblings with Bespoke Memory boxes, designed by the child using personal photographs/images. Every Memory box tells a story and celebrates the life of a child. The Memory boxes give the children somewhere to keep their siblings belongings all in one place, to take ownership of these items and to feel that they can visit them whenever necessary. The Memory bears enable the children to carry something special that belonged to their sibling, bringing a comfort that they are holding something dear to them. We believe we are the only Charity in the UK to offer this service.
We have built up some very close relationships with some of the hospitals bereavement departments and also various hospices around the country, and they use the Memory boxes as a part of their bereavement work with families both at the hospice and at home as part of their ongoing support programs.
Our Memory boxes are now available through professional referral from over 40 bereavement services. We have maintained and grown our referral paths through additional hospitals/hospices and charities.
Our Memory boxes continue to only be available through bereavement services and charities and this has worked extremely well ensuring that families meet our criteria. We have supplied families with Memory boxes and Memory bears via numerous reputable charities both locally and nationally such as Jessie May, CLIC Sargent, CBUK, The Henry Allen trust, Hugs from Henry, The Grace Kelly Ladybird trust and Great Ormand Street Hospital. We have continued and trusted relationships with local and national hospitals in particular bereavement staff at Leeds General hospital and local hospices and BCH. We work very hard to maintain these close relationships and hope to continue to build new relationships through the coming year.
**We continue to build awareness of our small charity through social media and word** of mouth. As far as we are aware there are currently no other charities that provide our bespoke Memory box services.
2020 has been an extremely busy time for us, as bereavement workers were unable to visit families in their home, they have been able to refer the families to our charity as our work is carried out remotely.
To date we have supplied over 400 Memory boxes and bears to bereaved families, each child in the family design and receive their very own personalised Memory box and bear.
## **During 2020 we have supplied 101 children with their very own personalised Memory boxes and Memory bears.**
We are expanding our Memory box service to bereavement organisations up and down the country and hope to have a very busy and successful 2021 **.**
## **Financial Grants**
Like many charities we have adapted our services this year due to the pandemic, and we have Awarded 20 emergency grants to bereaved families affected by Covid19 totalling £5750
## **Local support**
Due to the **global pandemic** we have not managed to hold any of our Family days out but what we have been able to offer families as an alternative is a pass to three very popular venues in Bristol. We felt this was important for families to be able to enjoy some fresh air away from the home when government rules allowed.
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## **Bristol Zoo /The Wild Place**
We have enabled 28 Families to spend a day out at this venue. The cost of a charity pass is £425 and we hope to be able to add more venues to this list over the coming years.
**Circus star** is an organisation that sends us free tickets for our families and this event is a yearly occasion loved by all who attend
## **Bereavement booklets**
The Charity has teamed up with The Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust to co fund a series of bereavement booklets for young children affected by the death of a sibling. These booklets are being used in many Hospitals and Hospices across the UK.
## **Fundraising**
This has been a huge challenge in the pandemic but we were lucky enough to have been given a sizable grant by The National lottery
## **Office Space**
This year we realised a need for an office/storage unit and this has become invaluable. We have a room where volunteers can help out and also a good size storage area for our ever growing fundraising material.
## **Training**
We continue to learn about situations we may not be familiar with and have attended training sessions this year.
opportunity to gain a greater Knowledge of what a family encounters at an Inquest and how best to support them.
We have attended Focus groups with bereavement services to discuss how these services can be better delivered.
## **Group Support**
The Harvey Hext Trust is part of a new collaboration of Bristol charities and Professional organisations working together to designing a new database for bereaved families and professionals in Bristol to access. This database will enable these people to access the correct support.
We are very proud to be part of this great initiative and meet with other members of the group every quarter.
In 2020 the group has been working together with https://goodgriefbristol.com to
make this fantastic event a success and to help end the stigma of talking about death and child loss.
## **Objectives**
In the past 41/2 years The Harvey Hext Trust has offered support to siblings Nationwide by providing Memory boxes- thus also giving professionals anther tool to use when working with bereaved siblings.
We aim to achieve the following outcomes for the families we work with:
- Improving Children’s emotional development by supporting the whole family
- Reduced social isolation and improved social and support networks
- More awareness of Child bereavement and the support available
- Improve Care and services for families who have lost a child
## **Impact and value of the service The Harvey Hext Trust delivers**
We have continued to see an increase in the number of services that refer families to the charity.
We have continued to see an increase in demand for our services reflected in the number of families that we are working with.
## **Ambition and long term strategy**
**Our prime objective is to supply Memory boxes to Children who have lost a sibling. The Family support groups show a constant need for ongoing support for bereaved families.**
## **To run Coffee Mornings for bereaved families.**
**To supply Memory boxes to children who have lost a parent**
**We have now employed a Part time member of staff to manage the day to day running of the charity. Planning events/Fundraising/Memory box orders, the member of staff will do this with the support of the Trustees.**
## **Annual accounts**
Our annual account for the supporting period are attached
Sarah Hext Chair of Trustees
07/12/2020
|**The Harvey Hext Trust**||**No 1168844**|||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
01/03/2020|**To**|Period end date
28/02/2021|||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**
**funds**|**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 £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||
|Donations & Fundraising
**16,724**
**-**
**-**
**16,724**
**24,702**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**16,724**
**-**
**-**
**16,724**
**24,702**
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total receipts_**
**16,724**
**-**
**-**
**16,724**
**24,702**
~~—SSSS=~~||||||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||
|MemoryBoxes and Support costs||**22,077**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**22,077**||**12,691**||
|Mechandise||**200**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**200**||**1,840**||
|Rent||**2,235**||||||||**2,235**||**1,680**||
|Computer & equipent expenses||**805**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**805**||**459**||
|Event costs||**4,715**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**4,715**||**6,118**||
|Wages||**4,160**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**4,160**||**-**||
|Professional fees||**600**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**600**||**183**||
|Postage, printing& stationery||**432**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**432**||**256**||
|Telephone||**434**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**434**||**-**||
|General expenses||**756**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**756**||**25**||
|Just Givingcharges||**216**||||||||**216**||**198**||
|Travel costs||**111**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**111**||**170**||
|**_Sub total_ **||**36,741**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**36,741**||**23,619**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total payments_**
**36,741**
**-**
**-**
**36,741**
**23,619**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**( 20,017)**
**-**
**- ( 20,017)**
**1,083**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**44,259**
**- -**
**44,259**
**43,176**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**24,242**
**-**
**- 24,242**
**44,259**
~~—SSSS=~~
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
18/06/2021
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**||**Details**||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
|||||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**29,468**
**-**
**49,486**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,468**
**-**
**49,486**
**_Total cash funds_**
Bank account
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|||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments||||
|||account(s))||Agreement Error
OK||Agreement Error|
|||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|||||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
|||**Details**||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**505**
**-**
**505**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Stock
~~===~~||||||
|||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~===~~||||||
|||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~aq~~||||||
|||||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**||**When due**|
|||**Details**||**liability relates**
**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
Print Name
S Hext
M Bryant
Signature
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|CCXX R2 accounts (SS)||2||||18/06/2021|