2026-02-28-accounts

Droitwich AED – Registered Charity Number 1171993 Year End Income and Expenditure as at 28th February 2026

Income & Expenditure A/c

Income & Expenditure A/c	Year	End Income and Expendit	ure as at 28 th February 2026
Income Opening Balances Co-op Current Ac Co-op Instant Deposit Co-op 35 Day Deposit Barclays Bank Account Income Business Donatons Cpads Maintenance Private Donatons Other Charites Miscellaneous/Interest received Exceptonal Items refunded and compensaton Total Income Bank Error– Charges	01/03/2024 28/02/2025	01/03/2025 28/02/2026 % 30.40 -92.8% 1,390.58 -41.9% 21,207.87 86.2% 31.00 55.0% 22,659.85 59.3% 417.00 -91.9% 13,409.44 -65.7% 2,498.95 -37.5% 2,478.88 75.9% 1,500.00 66.1% 407.51 -37.0% 20,711.78 -59.6% 43,371.63 -34.9%	Expenditure Insurance Statonery & Postage CPAD's Maintenance Independent Examiner Fees Miscellaneous/Laptop Travel & Sub	01/03/2024 28/02/2025	01/03/2025 28/02/2026 %
	422.89 2,395.00 11,388.68 20.00 14,226.57			96.00 418.41 37,378.91 4,103.10 504.00 227.33 188.00 42,915.75 30.40 1,390.58 21,207.87 31.00 22,659.85 1055.50 66,631.10	76.16 -20.7% 149.57 -64.3% 18,701.41 -50.0% 4,329.06 5.5% 528.00 4.8% 298.97 31.5% 7.60 -96.0% 24,090.77 -43.9% 17.46 -42.6% 2,170.00 56.0% 17,093.40 -19.4% 0.00 -100.0% 19,280.86 -14.9% 43,371.63 -34.9%
	5,176.00		Closing Balances
	39,146.95 3,997.45 1,409.37 903.00 646.71 51,279.48 1125.05 66,631.10		Co-op Current Ac Co-op Instant Deposit Co-op 35 Day Deposit Barclays Bank Account Exceptonal Items and associated fees and charges Total Expenditure Bank Error– Duplicated Debit

Acceptance of Accounts Proposed by: Seconded by: Balance Errors 0.00 0.00 Signed by: Peter Richards Chair of Trustees Date:

Droitwich AED

53 Goldcrest Way, Droitwich Spa. WR9 7TN T: 01905 799 168. M: 07957 214 101. E: [e-mail] Patron: Matt Richards MBE

March 2026

Dear Sponsors, Hosts, Guardians and Trustees,

2025-26 Year End Report

Thank you all again :

Thank you all again for your continued support of our local Community Public Access Defibrillators (CPADS).

We have with your help again extended the CPAD network throughout Worcestershire. At the end of our financial year, 28th February, we had increased our network to 232 CPADs and AEDs since starting nine years ago, an increase of twenty-three last year.

Lifesavers:

I believe that we have now successfully defibrillated fourteen people in Worcestershire. Almost certainly there have been more throughout the county that I am unaware of.

Income and Expenditure:

Please find enclosed the Year End Income and Expenditure report to 28th February 2026. These have been agreed at our AGM, and will be uploaded to the Charity Commission as soon as their system allows. (They’re not geared up for charities producing accounts and AGMs within a month of their year ends.)

Our income at £20,711 was almost 60% down on the previous year. This expected fall in revenue due to the fact that we have largely reached a natural “Saturation point” for suitable locations to site a defibrillator. If you know of anywhere that could/should have a Community Public Access Defibrillator in Worcestershire, please get in touch. The only way I can see of there being a significant increase is if people are willing to host a CPAD on their domestic premises, which has been very successfully rolled out in Evesham.

Our expenditure was almost 44% down, broadly in line with income. The only significant increase being for Maintenance which was 5.5% up. This was expected, due to our enlarged network ageing, and needing more replacement pads and batteries. This is expected to increase over the next few years, especially as we reach the stage of replacing more batteries.

Our closing bank balances of £19k nominally represent just over nine months operating costs,

As always, there are no staff costs, with all involved in Droitwich AED being volunteers. There are no office overheads as the charity is run from my home.

Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation No. 1171993

My thanks again to our long-suffering bookkeeper, Mrs Gina Pilley, for her continued help checking and compiling our accounts.

AED Guardians:

My thanks also, as always, to our team of hosts and guardians who have continued checking their CPADs are rescue ready throughout the year. Without your help our network would fail.

If you are one of the few where this slips under the radar occasionally, could you please make an effort this year to check your CPAD at least once a month, and update the Rescue Ready status on the national database (The Circuit)? Thank you.

There have been a few instances where CPADs have only one support guardian, and these sometimes have understandably been unavailable post deployment notifications. Obviously, nobody can be available 24/7/365. If you are the only guardian for your defib, do you think that you might be able to “volunteer” somebody else to help undertake the checks? Please get in touch if you know somebody who might help.

Transfer of Primary Guardianships: We are in the process of transferring Primary Guardianships to our hosts or Support Guardians. With our network now over 230 defibrillators it is not sustainable to continue micro-managing them all.

Do You need a CPAD?

Wherever you live in Worcestershire, if you are not within 500 metres of an existing CPAD, you and your neighbours are at risk of not surviving an Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Despite a huge effort nationwide from groups and charities such as ours, survival rates are still stubbornly below 10%.

To find out where your nearest CPAD is, go to www.defibfinder.uk and put your postcode in. If there isn’t a 24/7 accessible CPAD within 500 metres (The ambulance service’s operational radius) you and your neighbours are at risk. If this is the case, can you site a CPAD in your neighbourhood? Our last few CPADs in Droitwich have gone on private houses.

Email [e-mail] for more information if you think you can help.

And Finally:

As always, my personal thanks again to all of you for your support.

You are all lifesavers.

Best wishes and stay safe.

Peter Richards Chair of Trustees

Enclosures: Year End Income and Expenditure

Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation No. 1171993