**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Month **Year** Day Month Year **From 1st June 2023 To 31st May 2024** Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Bereaved Children Support York **Other names charity is known by** BCSY **Registered charity number (if any)** 1171422 **Charity's principal address** 1 Dealtry Avenue Wigginton York **Postcode YO32 2FJ** ~~——~~ **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Joanne Cole Chair Board of Trustees 2 Lisa Curtis Treasurer Board of Trustees 3 Yvonne Methley Board of Trustees 4 Angela White Board of Trustees 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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**
Section A Reference and administration details
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **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 (31/01/2017)
(eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by existing trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
To preserve and protect the physical and mental health of children, young people and their families living in the York area, who have experienced bereavement or loss by the provision of counselling and **Summary of the objects of the** support and recreation and leisure time activities provided in the interest **charity set out in its** of social welfare designed to improve their conditions of life **governing document**
To advance the education of the public in the subject of the affects of bereavement and loss on children and young people.
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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)**|**Run a monthly peer support drop-in group**
This enables bereaved children, young people and families living in the
York area to come together and explore their feelings through play,
creativity and peer support by meeting others who have had a similar
experience, with the aim of improving their emotional well-being.
**Individual therapeutic support**
One-to-one therapeutic support is provided by bereavement practitioners
to those children and young people who need additional specialised and
individual help to better cope with the impact of grief on their lives.
**Recreational activities**
The organisation of recreational activities offers the opportunity for
bereaved children, young people and families to meet in an even more
relaxed and informal way than the drop-in sessions. This is often a good
introduction to the charity and the services we provide.
These have previously included activities such as trampolining, theatre
trips, music concerts, football sessions and circus skills workshops.This
year we went alpaca walking.
**Parents fortnightly coffee**
This provides an opportunity for the parents and carers of bereaved
children and young people to meet each other without their children being
present to seek, offer and gain mutual support about the issues faced by
their children and them as parents.
The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the charity
commission to ensure that all activities are provided for the public benefit.|
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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We are delighted to continue to receive the design expertise of local businessman Richard Playford on a voluntary basis in relation to the creation and maintenance of the charity's website and publicity material.
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 erformance p
**Summary of the main Monthly peer support drop-in sessions achievements of the charity during the year**
These sessions continued to be in-person with crafts and activities for the children to do individually and in groups. We continue to run these sessions in the newly refurbished Oaken Grove Community Centre.
## **Individual therapeutic support**
The one-to-one therapeutic support is for those children and young people who need more specialist support to help them be better able to cope with the impact of grief on their lives. The sessions continued to be face-to face, with children and young people mostly being seen at school.
We appointed 2 further part-time sessional bereavement practitioners following the retirement of one of our longest serving practitioners and one having to take a break due to other work commitments. We now have 5 part-time, sessional bereavement practitioners.
## **58 children have been referred in the past 12 months**
## **Parents/carers fortnightly coffee**
This group continues to be well attended and very much valued by participants. It enables good conversations to be had and relationships built allowing for emotional support to be shared. There is no cost to the charity for these sessions.
## **Website and publicity**
The website continues to be maintained and publicity materials produced on a voluntary basis by supporter Richard Playford, although printed resources, books and leaflets are purchased.
## **Other collaborations and donations**
We were fortunate enough to be chosen again to be one of the charities to benefit from the local music concert, A Night to Remember. Some of our families, volunteers and supporters attended the evening and had a great time. We received an amazing £5306 from this event.
We had a stall at the local community event, WiggyFest in June 2023, by holding a tombola and other fundraising games. Whilst it generated a modest amount it did raise our profile and publicise our services in the local area.
We continue to benefit from the fundraising of others. We have had supporters raising money for us holding raffles, selling treats and cakes.
We received support from local businesses including a Festive Walk organised by Bromwich Family Butchers in Haxby that raised a fantastic £1670 and in October 2023 the local branch of the Co-op chose us to benefit from the Community Fund for 12 months and we received an interim payment of £1111.
We also benefited again this year from one of our supporter’s creative talents selling their Halloween and Easter baked goods raising a wonderful, combined total of £980.
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
## **Future plans for the year ahead**
We are hoping to recruit an additional part-time bereavement practitioner due to the increased waiting times for our 1:1 service.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The trustees have set a level equivalent to approximately 6 months of **Brief statement of the** operating costs (£12,000) for the organisation as a desired level of **charity’s policy on reserves** reserves. This fund is a contingency in the event of a sudden reduction in income, in order to protect the future operation of the organisation from the effects of any unforeseen variations in its income and expenditure. This will be reviewed by trustees in light of increased costs, especially the therapeutic support.
**Details of any funds materially 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. ~~_~~ **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)** Joanne Cole **TAR** 7 March **2012**
March **2012**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair of Trustees **etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 23/3/2025
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**Bereaved Children Support York 1171422 1171422 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/06/2023 31/05/2024 ~~————-~~ **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £ A1 Receipts** Fundraising by individuals **2,444 - - 2,444 7,357** Fundraising by groups/orgamisations **3,835 - - 3,835 1,139** Night to Remember **5,306 - - 5,306 4,832** Donations from businesses **3,600 - - 3,600** _**23,283**_ Donations from individuals **520 - - 520 535** Tickets paid and refund **556 - - 556 922** Misc refund **81 - - 81 - -** _**Sub total** (Gross income for_ **16,342 - - 16,342 38,098** _AR)_ **A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **-** _**Total receipts**_ **16,342 - - 16,342 38,098 A3 Payments** Therapeutic support sessions **40,780 - - 40,780 33,445** Creative supplies **571 - - 571 566** Recreational activities/entertainment **609 - - 609 285** Venue/room hire **686 - - 686 606** Insurance **83 - - 83 63** CCXX R1 accounts (SS) ~~__~~ Books and resources **16** ~~===~~ **-** 1 ~~_—~~ **16** ~~=~~ **165**
|DBS check|**52**||**-**||**-**||**52**||**112**|
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|Refreshments|**153**||**-**||**-**||**153**|||
|Misc|**81**||**-**||**-**||**81**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**43,031**||**-**||**-**||**43,031**||**35,242**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**- 26,689**|**-**
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|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**35,242**|
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||**- 26,689**||**-**||
**-**||**- 26,689**||**2,856**|
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||**65,942**||**-**||**-**||**65,942**||**10,813**|
||**39,253**||**-**||
**-**||**39,253**||**13,669**|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**B1 Cash funds**
counts (SS)|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Cash in current account|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Cash in current account|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
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Signed by one or two trustees on Date of
behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval
Joanne Cole 23/03/2025
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