## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 May 2023 **To** 30 April 2024
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name The Hardy Group**
## **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1169563** ~~ee~~ **Charity's principal address 7 Gleneagles Close Mickleover Derby Postcode DE3 9YB** ~~—~~
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any) 1169563**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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|**Dr David Roberts**|**Chair**|||
|**Mrs Susan Atherton**|**Secretary**|||
|**Mr Simon Allsop**|**Treasurer**|||
|**Mrs Sarah Greaves**|**Membership Secretary**|||
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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 NONE** ~~——_——_——~~ **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**
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## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
> **[Constitution]**
How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
> **[Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)]**
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 Carers organisations as well as with the memory support service.
Our biggest risks to continuing our work are slowdown 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 selfconfidence so avoiding social isolation and loneliness with its accompanying risk of depression.
The charity provides a range of social and information activities. Regular social meetings and information is provided by guest speakers, our website and our newsletter.
**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)**
We hold large, very well attended social gatherings twice a month with entertainment and activities to help motivate our members to face up to their difficulties. In addition we have regular, highly subsidised excursions to places of interest. These are always very popular.
These activities are designed to avoid social isolation and to keep our members physically and mentally active in order to 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)**
You **may choose** to include Our charity relies totally on the work of volunteers. We have a Volunteer further statements, where Policy and recruitment and induction procedures. All our volunteers are relevant, about: DBS checked every three years and have training appropriate to their volunteer role.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Our first aiders are required to attend refreshment training every 3 years. We are currently purchasing a portable defibrillator to have available at all of our social meetings and which is small enough for one of our first aiders to carry when we go out on trips.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
- Membership continues to grow. Members leave due to increased infirmity or escalating care needs which prevent them attending our groups. Additionally, people pass away and the carers, whilst still welcome, don't always choose to continue to take part in our activities. These losses are counterbalanced by actively promoting our group at sessions run by the local health and social care sector, care homes and other relevant community events. This, along with word of mouth and through our website, is growing the numbers of people we support.
- Our social meetings and excursions continue. We are actively building attendance numbers. Our bimonthly social meetings remain hugely popular with attendances regularly approaching, or exceeding, 100.
- We continue to develop the activity offering at our social meetings which now includes seated musical exercise, seated yoga and musical entertainment from professional performers. We held an afternoon tea, supported by a magician who “worked the tables”, which proved a great success and will be repeated in 2025.
- 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.
- The continuing 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. We remain in a strong financial position and we have not had to apply for any new grants in the last year. Our current finances ensure financial stability for the next 24 months at least.
- We actively encourage other groups to build on our success by imitating what we do to a greater or lesser extent, and when possible, we will support those new groups to get established.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
We aim to hold an amount equivalent to a minimum 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.a fall off in donations and 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:
Our principal sources of funds have been grants from such bodies as the National Lottery Awards for All Scheme.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
Additionally 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.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
We also have monthly small scale fundraising activities.
- investment policy and objectives including any Our expenditure pays for coach hire and entrance fees for our excursions
- ethical investment policy as well as room hire, refreshments and entertainer’s fees for our monthly
- adopted. social meeting
Our only financial investment is to place a proportion of our funds in an interest paying account.
## **Section F Other optional information**
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**Section G Declaration** ~~ee~~
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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**Charity Name The Hardy Group**
## **For the period from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
## **Unrestricted funds**
## **to the nearest £**
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|**A1 Receipts**||
|Donations and legacies|**3,361**|
|Charitable activiities|**-**|
|Fundraisingand miscellaneous income|**3874**|
|Membershipsubscriptions|**1030**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**8,264**|
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|Raising funds|**-**|
|Other expenditure|**5537**|
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|**_Sub total_**|**5537**|
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**-** _**Sub total**_ **-** _**Total payments**_ **5537** _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **2,728 A5 Transfers between funds 4,982 A6 Cash funds last year end 27,603** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **25,348**
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**
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## **B1 Cash funds**
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## **B5 Liabilities**
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## **Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
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## **Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
## **Endowment funds**
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## **Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,361 2,260 3874 1030 - - - - 10,524**
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**12779 - - - - - - - - 12779**
## **Last year**
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**8016 2635 3167 990 - - - - 14808**
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**10394 96 4122 - - - - - - 14612**
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