## **ANNUAL REPORT**
## **AND**
## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**For the year ended 30 April 2024**
**Prepared under the Receipts and Payments Basis**
**HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND Year ended 30 April 2024**
|**CONTENTS**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees’ Report|1-3|
|Receipts and Payments Account|4|
|Notes to the Receipts and Payments Account|5|
|Independent Examiner’s Report|6|
## **HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 30 April 2024**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 April 2024. The trustees have adopted the provision of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
The objects of the charity are to preserve and protect the health of people living with dementia, their families in Halesworth, Suffolk and the surrounding area by:
1. Providing or ensuring the provision of information, support and services to those living with dementia and their family carers.
2. Raising awareness of dementia amongst the people of Halesworth and the surrounding area and promoting the development of a dementia friendly community.
3. Working with other charities and organisations to manage projects and activities which benefit people with dementia and their carers.
4. Co-operating with and supporting other organisations and charities with similar or complementary purposes.
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
During the year we delivered 2214 hours of respite care. In total 38 of our families received our Respite Care Service. In addition the charity ran 5 activity groups for carers and people with dementia: Seated Movement, Memory Café, Singing with Friends, Seated Tap Dancing and a Carers Support Group. These groups provide 6 hours a week of activities to our families. In total Halesworth _dementia_ Carers’ Fund has provided support to over 60 families living with dementia.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Financial position**
The receipts and payments of the charity are set out in the accounts on pages 4 and 5.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity holds reserves:
1. To provide financial stability and sustainability for the organisation.
2. To protect against unforeseen financial challenges, such as sudden loss of funding, unexpected increases in expenses, or emergency situations.
3. To ensure continued support for carers and individuals affected by dementia, even during times of financial uncertainty.
The charity aims to maintain reserves equivalent to 12 months of operating expenditure. This level is reviewed annually and adjusted as necessary to reflect the current financial landscape and organisational needs.
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## **HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) For the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is established as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) registered 30 November 2016 as amended on 16 January 2021 and 10 June 2024.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
New trustees are recruited and appointed by the trustee board from the local community. Potential trustees are asked to attend a minimum of 3 meetings before they are nominated. They are made aware of the legal responsibilities, and asked to identify what they can bring to serve the interests of the charity. Where a specific role becomes vacant a detailed job description will be drafted. Since the year end 2 trustees have resigned, Mrs Alison Catherine Cackett and Mr Geoffrey Philip Henry Cackett, and 3 new trustees have been appointed, Mrs Pippa Ann Evans, Mrs Julie Watson and Mrs Irene Veronica Morris.
## **Risk management**
The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
Registered Charity number 1170477 The charity uses HDCF as its working name
## **Principal address**
The Old Rectory London Road Halesworth Suffolk IP19 8LR
## **Trustees holding office during the year**
Mrs Nicola Jane Sawkins (Chair) Mrs Teresa Fyfe (ex Chair) – resigned 12.07.23 Mrs Iris Kathleen Smith (Treasurer) Mrs Alison Catherine Cackett (Secretary) Mr Geoffrey Philip Henry Cackett Mr James Fyfe – resigned 12.07.23 Mrs Nicola Jill Kelly Mrs Anna Constance Mickleburgh Mrs Jacqueline Anne Richardson Mr John Frederick Lawrence Wood
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## **HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) For the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **Independent Examiner**
P N van Dijk FMAAT Van Dijk Accountants Limited Georgian House 34 Thoroughfare Halesworth Suffolk IP19 8AP
**Bankers** Lloyds Bank PLC HSBC UK Bank PLC
Approved by order the board of trustees on 4 July 2024 and signed on its behalf by:
Mrs Nikki Sawkins (Chair)
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## **HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND Receipts and Payments Account For the year ended 30 April 2024**
|**Note**
**Receipts**
Grants
1
Voluntary Donations
Fundraising
Trading Income
**Total Receipts**
**Payments**
Charitable Purposes
2
Fundraising costs
Administration
Publicity
**Total Payments**
**Surplus of Receipts over Payments**
Cash Funds brought forward
Cash Funds carried forward
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**Represented by:**
General Fund
Designated
Reserve|**2024**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
45500
28590
28267
34638
7870
5042
1734
1247|
|---|---|
||83371
69517|
||54511
44236
2575
2125
1725
2026
855
564|
||59666
48951|
||23705
20566
85454
64888|
||109159
85454|
||49159
35454
60000
50000|
||109159
85454|
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## **HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND Notes to the Receipts and Payments Account For the year ended 30 April 2024**
|**1. Grants**
Heveningham Hall Trust
Suffolk Community Foundation
Halesworth Town Council
Communities Together
Suffolk Council
**2. Payments for Charitable Purposes**
Halesworth Dementia Project
**3. Cash Funds carried forward**
Cash at bank - Lloyds account
Cash at bank - Lloyds account (Friends)
Cash at bank - HSBC account|**2024**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
20000
20000
20000
0
5000
5000
500
0
0
3590|
|---|---|
||45500
28590|
||54511
44236|
||83408
44470
12312
11364
13439
29620|
||109159
85454|
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts for the Halesworth Carers’ Dementia Fund (the Trust) for the year ended 30 April 2024.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
P N van Dijk FMAAT Van Dijk Accountants Limited Georgian House 34 Thoroughfare Halesworth Suffolk IP19 8AP
4 July 2024
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