## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 May 2021 **To** 30 April 2022
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name The Hardy Group**
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any) 1169563**
**Charity's principal address 7 Gleneagles Close Mickleover Derby**
## **Postcode DE3 9YB**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if Name of person (or body)
Trustee name Office (if any) not for whole entitled to appoint trustee
year (if any)
1 Dr David Roberts Chair
Mrs Susan Secretary
2
Atherton
Mr Bernard Membership
3
Crowther Secretary
Mr Thomas Treasurer
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Muldoon
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Dates acted if not for whole year**
**Name**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name**
**Address**
**NONE**
**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 **Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)** constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
- Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by) **[Appointed by majority of existing trustees]**
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Our charity sits as one of a number of voluntary sector providers alongside the commissioned service providers supporting people living with dementia in Derby and Derbyshire.
We have a wide range of policies, notably:
- Fit and proper persons declarations and eligibility declarations for Trustees.
- Health and Safety
- Safeguarding
- Equal opportunities
- Data protection
- A range of policies around volunteer recruitment, working and management within our group
We have working relationships with local Dementia Support Providers and Carer organisations as well as with the memory support service.
Our biggest risks to continuing our work are slow down in funding and insufficient team members (volunteers or trustees) to safely support our activities. We have been successful with grants in the past but for some years now have been currently funded exclusively by donations.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
To build a supportive inclusive community to facilitate people with dementia, carers and past carers to live well with the condition by:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
- Organising social and physical activities designed to hold back the symptoms of dementia. In line with expert medical opinion, staying mentally and physically active will help to improve their wellbeing.
- Providing a platform for them to network, socialise and build self-confidence so avoiding social isolation and loneliness with its accompanying risk of depression.
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The charity provides a range of social and information activities. Regular social meetings and information is provided by guest **Summary of the main** speakers, our website and our newsletter. **activities undertaken for the public benefit in** We hold large very well attended social gatherings twice a **relation to these objects** month with entertainment and activities to help motivate our **(include within this** members to face up to their difficulties. In addition we have **section the statutory** regular highly subsidised excursions to places of interest. These **declaration that trustees** are always very popular. **have had regard to the guidance issued by the** These activities are designed to avoid social isolation and to **Charity Commission on** keep our members physically and mentally active in order to **public benefit)** enable the members to live well with dementia.
The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
Our charity relies totally on the work of volunteers. We have a Volunteer Policy and recruitment and induction procedures. All our volunteers are DBS checked every three years and have training appropriate to their volunteer role.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## 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**
- Membership fell during the pandemic to around 220 but is recovering quickly. Sadly we lose members to the progression of their disease and other factors relating to their advancing years.
- Monthly social meetings and excursions remained suspended throughout the pandemic but are now reinstated.
- Our members are particularly vulnerable due to their age and state of health so the Covid 19 pandemic has been a particular wellbeing challenge.
- During the pandemic newsletters and regular telephone contact was maintained with our members to check on their Covid status, general state of mind and to offer moral support. Social isolation of the sort resulting from lockdown rules is a big risk for people with dementia. It is no surprise then that some of our members have suffered adversely during that period and the impact on the stress levels of their family carers has been substantial.
- Our credibility is well established in the wider community so that we are continually approached by other service providers who wish to attend our meetings to promote what they offer, by researchers seeking support for their work from our members and by commissioners consulting on the design of new services or seeking feedback on the performance of existing ones. Some of this has been able to continue but at a lower level and utilising technology such as zoom meetings.
- The excellent feedback we get from our members, visitors and from other providers in the dementia community, has enabled us to continue to attract significant donations and our financial position remains strong.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
We aim to hold an amount equivalent to 6 months average running costs in reserve to give sufficient time to seek alternative sources of funds, should our agreed funding plan fall short for some reason (eg., grant applications denied).
**Grant applications denied).Details of any funds materially in deficit**
No funds are in 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.
Whilst in past years we have received grants from such bodies as the National Lottery, Red Nose Cash and Foundation Derbyshire, our principal source of income recently has been from donations.
We make representations to organisations with a view to attracting donations. This has been very successful to date.
Thanks to our members we also get individual fundraising efforts, donations and bequests.
We also have monthly small scale fundraising activities.
- Our expenditure pays for coach hire and entrance fees for our excursions as well as room hire and refreshments for our monthly social meeting
Our only financial investment is to place a proportion of our funds in an interest paying account.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **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)** Dr David Roberts
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair
Mr Thomas Muldoon Treasurer
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Date
18.10.22
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**Charity Name N The Hardy Group 1169563 1**
## **Receipts and payments acco**
## **For the period** Period start date **from**
**To**
May 1, 21
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £ to the nearest £**
## **A1 Receipts**
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Donations and legacies 5,611 - -
Charitable activities - 730 -
Fundraising and miscellaneous income 2,076 - -
Membership subscriptions 805 - -
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8,492 730 -
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Total receipts 8,492 730 -
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## **A3 Payments**
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Charitable activities 1,795 -
Raising funds 146 - -
Other expenditure 2,244 - -
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Sub total 2,390 1,795 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total payments 2,390 1,795 -
Net of receipts/(payments) 6,102 (1,065) -
A5 Transfers between funds (1,065.00) 1,065 # -
A6 Cash funds last year end 22,370 -
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_**Cash funds this year end**_ **27,407 - -**
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**
**Unrestricted Categories Details funds to nearest £ B1 Cash funds** Cash at bank and in hand **19,354** Deposit account **8,053 -** _**Total cash funds**_ **27,407 #** (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK **Unrestricted funds Details to nearest £ - B2 Other monetary assets - - - - - Fund to which Details asset belongs B3 Investment assets - - - - - Fund to which Details asset belongs B4 Assets retained for the - charity’s own use**
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## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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Dr David Roberts Dr David
Mr Thomas
Mr Thomas Muldoon
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Period end date Apr 30, 22
## **Total funds**
## **Last year**
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5,611 3,273
730 -
2,076 42
805 -
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9,222 3,315
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9,222 3,315
1,795 -
146 -
2,244 811
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4,185 811
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4,185 811
5,037 2,504
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22,370 19,866
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Current value
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Date of
Name
approval
Roberts 18.10.22
s Muldoon
18.10.22
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