**The Men’s Matters Film was produced in 2021 – this is the script. Watch the Film on our website: www.mensmaters.org**
Men’s Matters is a social group for older men. The group was formally established in 2017 and operates in Maidenhead and Windsor.
It provides a weekly sanctuary for retired men to get to know each other in a friendly environment.
The UK population is now ageing at a significant rate. The number of people aged 65 and over will increase by more than 40% within 20 years.
This has led to an emerging crisis, especially for older men, of isolation and loneliness. Society needs to adapt to meet the unique needs of older men. That’s what Men’s Matters is trying to do.
Men’s Matters organises group activities including visits from guest speakers and exercise classes, such as chair yoga.
We encourage our members to engage with their local community and use the facilities available, such as the Desborough Bowling Club.
For the past 80 years Harvard University has been conducting a study to discover what keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life. It found that social connections are vital, and that loneliness can lead to mental illness and an early death.
What’s most important is how satisfied we are with our close relationships – with friends, family and in our local community. **This** is the key to our well-being throughout life.
## **Men’s Matters Windsor Group – 2021 Report**
The year began with group Zoom meetings on Monday afternoons, typically attended by 8 or 9 members. Phone calls were made to members who wouldn’t or couldn’t go onto Zoom. None had covid-19 but two reported major health problems, one who was undergoing cancer treatment (Moore) and another who was diagnosed with onset of Parkinson’s Disease (John).
Three of the Windsor group took part in weekly Zoom seated exercise and yoga sessions.
On 27[th] January, Tim Walker represented the group at the funeral of one of our members, Anthony Brailsford, who died at home in December of a heart attack. Men’s Matters paid for a funeral wreath.
On Monday 1[st] March Tim gave a talk on Zoom about Men’s Matters to Windsor and Eton Rotary Club. This was soon followed by a donation from Windsor and Eton Rotary Club of £250 sent by cheque.
Talking Therapies gave our group a talk via Zoom on Monday 1[st] March.
10[th] May – with the easing of lockdown restrictions, our face-to-face meetings at All Saints Church in Dedworth commenced. Rather than meet in the small and stuffy meeting room, we agreed with the church to hold our meetings in the large space at the back of the church, well ventilated, and with access to a small kitchen to make our own hot drinks. We spread out the tables and chairs so that there was 2m distance between each attendee. Handshakes and hugs were outlawed. A temperature gun was used to take body temperature, with the rule that anyone with a body temperature above 38 degrees would be deemed to have a fever and would be sent home. Attendees wore masks and used sanitiser gel. They remained seated unless going to the toilet. Tim and Malcolm served the teas, coffees and biscuits. Tables and chairs were wiped down afterwards. This system continued until the summer break, and resumed on 6[th] September. No members caught covid-19 during the year.
Members reported when they have been double vaccinated and boosted, showing evidence to Tim and Malcolm. All were vaccinated.
Monday 21[st] June – fish and chips lunch for 14
Monday 28[th] – group card signed for Ken Bedford, a long time member and trustee, leaving the area to live in Lincolnshire near his son.
August – summer recess, no meetings.
August 26[th] – Brooklands Museum excursion organised by Paul at Maidenhead Group. Four Windsor members joined the coach at our All Saints Church pick-up point.
Monday 6[th] September – meetings re-start at All Saints Church. New member, Tim Madden, referral with early onset of Alzheimers. Now Men’s Matters is a part of the NHS Berkshire Social Prescribing Network, we are seeing more referrals from GPs and other health support groups.
Since September we have had an increase of membership and generally are attracting a total of about 15 quite dedicated followers each Monday. In addition to Tim Madden (69), other new members who have joined during this period include David Wallis (80s, restricted mobility); John Foot (70s, a neighbour of an existing member); Mike Samuels (70s) and Dennis Williams (80s – both All Saints Church congregation members); and Stan Barnett (local resident, early 90s, registered blind/partial sight).
All have gelled well into a very cohesive group and are active participants. They enjoy the chance to chat and swop stories, and take turns to hand out the teas and coffees and wash up afterwards. We have started doing a 40 minute team quiz in the run-up to making teas and coffees – winning team does the washing up!
September 30[th] – group day excursion to the Watercress Steam Train Line in Hampshire. This involved hiring a 14-seater minibus with a full complement of men for the one hour each way journey to Alresford. We carried packed lunches. Return tickets had been bought and the train travelled, as if through time, to beautifully renovated period train stations and through the rolling countryside. We had a period rail compartment to ourselves. This prompted the men to share their memories of travelling on steam trains. One member, Eric, revealed he had worked on steam trains, shovelling coal. We stopped at a rail museum on the way. All thoroughly enjoyed it and returned home in high spirits.
Guest speakers to the group during the last quarter included our trustee, Johnson Mall, and a local author who has written and published a memoir, Phil Appleton. We also had a bring-and-swap book day.
December 9[th] – Windsor group Christmas lunch at the Prince Albert pubrestaurant, attended by 19, including our patron, Sir Michael Parkinson and two trustees, Edward and Johnson. The meal was very good and Sir Michael delivered an entertaining speech. Everyone enjoyed themselves – a huge success after a difficult year with the covid crisis.
December 20[th] – our last meeting of the year.
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|**Men's Matters**|||**1172854**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|Jan-21
Period start date|**To**|Dec-21
Period end date||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**2,100**
**900**
**617**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,617**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,617**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,100**
**900**
**617**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,617**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,617**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Grants|**2,100**||||||||**19,149**|
|Donations|**900**||||||||**-**|
|Misc Receipts|**617**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**3,617**||||||||**19,149**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**19,149**|
|||||||||||
|Fixed Costs(Website,Insurance)|**664**||**-**||**-**||**664**||**603**|
|Marketing|**5,609**||**-**||**-**||**5,609**||**2,300**|
|Events & Meetings|**2,282**||**-**||**-**||**2,282**|||
|Trips|**1,768**||**-**||**-**||**1,768**||**158**|
|Facilities / Rent|**660**||**-**||**-**||**660**||**330**|
|Health & Safety (inc COVID)|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**665**|
|Phone,Print,Stationery|**266**||**-**||**-**||**266**|||
|Misc|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,205**|
|Support Costs|**3,438**||**-**||**-**||**3,438**||**1,590**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**14,686**||**-**||**-**||**14,686**||**7,851**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,686**
**- 11,070**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,686**
**- 11,070**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**7,851**|
|||||||||||
||**- 11,070**||**-**||**-**||**- 11,070**||**11,298**|
||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**27,303**||**-**||**-**||**27,303**||**-**|
||**16,233**||**-**||**-**||**16,233**||**11,298**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
2/11/2022
1
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Metro Bank 31/12/2021|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Metro Bank 31/12/2021|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
16,233.00
**-**
**-**
**16,233**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
16,233.00
**-**
**-**
**16,233**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
|||||||||
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||||||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||Signature||Print Name
Edward Harte
Paul Samuels|||||
||||||||Date of
approval|
||||||||2/11/2022|
||||||||2/11/2022|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
2/11/2022
2
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**A1 Receipts**
Grants
Donations
Misc Receipts
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**
**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**
Fixed Costs(Website,Insurance)
Marketing
Events & Meetings
Trips
Facilities / Rent
Health & Safety
Phone,Print,Stationery
Misc
Support Costs
**_Sub total_**
**A4 Asset and investmentpurchases, (see table)**
**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**2017**
**2018**
6,000
17,220
3,650
2,500
8
181
**9,658**
**19,901**
**9,658**
**19,901**
166
445
626
505
1,227
4,578
2,295
1,005
162
318
461
309
**2,337**
**9,760**
**2,337**
**9,760**
**7,321**
**10,141**
**Previous Years - Actua**|
|---|---|
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|**al**||**Budget**|
|---|---|---|
||**2019**|**2020**|
||14,120|20,000|
||152||
||**14,272**|**20,000**|
|**14,272**|**20,000**|
|---|---|
|974|1,000|
|1,116|3,200|
|6,401|600|
|2,224|1,000|
|1,028|500|
|216|300|
|1,124|400|
|2,266|400|
|**15,349**|**7,400**|
|**15,349**|**7,400**|
|---|---|
|**-1,077**|**12,600**|