## _**SPELTHORNE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION**_
_Registered Charity no 1176226_
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year 2024**
The charity’s address is Beresford House Fordbridge Park 325 Kingston Road Ashford Middx TW15 3SJ.
The charity trustees are Mr Barry Bartleman Chairman Ms Ann Cottis Mrs Anne Damerell Treasurer Mrs Gillian Ramsay Mrs Jillian Lacey Mrs Noreen Lowenhoff
Spelthorne Mental Health Association is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation governed by a constitution. Trustees are appointed from the membership by the Management Committee.
The objects of the charity as stated in the constitution are the preservation of mental health and relief of those suffering from mental illness in the borough of Spelthorne. Summary of activities: we run a day centre with therapeutic classes and activities, e.g. art, crafts, dressmaking, woodwork, computing, literacy, plus outings and social interaction. This is funded by a charity shop.
We have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, and note that 1) our clients say that the service helps them to stay well and reduces social isolation 2) the service is open to any Spelthorne resident age 18-65 referred by a health or social care professional, provided we can meet their needs. We keep existing clients after 65, and we provide transport to ensure that all clients can access the day centre. We do not charge for the service, other than 50p per session to cover tea or coffee.
Achievements We have continued to run the day centre and have welcomed several new clients. We seem to be getting more clients with complex problems, possibly because statutory services are raising their threshholds for help. New activities include card making and construction of miniature models. The partnership with the probation service has continued to be very fruitful: their community service workers use some of our workshop and computer facilities, maintain the garden and decorate the building. This benefits their mental health.
SMHA normally has no statutory funding or grants. It is funded by the income from the charity shop and the flat above it, plus a small amount of other fundraising and donations. The shop income is increasing, perhaps because many other local charity shops did not reopen after Covid.
Signed by Anne Damerell, treasurer, on behalf of all the trustees, on 10 October 2025
## _**SPELTHORNE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION**_
_Registered Charity no 1176226_
## **Accounts for the year 2024**
|Receipts
Shop takings
Flat rent
Day centre takings
Mayor’s fund
Donations & fundraising
Bank interest
Payments
Salaries
Rent
Transport
Rates & water
Insurance
Electricity
Telephone & IT
Pensions
Craft equipment
Beresford House
Day centre sundries
Shop maintenance
Flat maintenance
Rubbish collection
Shop sundries
Surplus/(deficit)
Cash funds at 1 Jan 2024
Cash funds at 31 Dec 2024|2024
71,199
14,300
597
1,380
1,293
88,769
35,596
11,121
5,083
868
2,282
8,281
994
90
518
3,451
1,770
23,048
1,302
2,251
738
97,393
(8,624)
102,496
93,872|_2023_
_69,736_
_12,000_
_584_
_10,000_
_676_
_874_|_2023_|
|---|---|---|---|
|||_93,870_
_35,531_
_10,530_
_5,737_
_783_
_2,161_
_18,171_
_984_
_395_
_2,112_
_786_
_3,829_
_2,558_
_1,910_
_350_
_85,837_
_8,033_
_94,463_
_102,496_||
## **Statement of Assets & Liabilities at 31 December 2024**
|Cash funds
Shop & flat
Vehicles, after depreciation of 839
Debtors: prepaid insurance
Total assets
Net assets 1 Jan 2024
Decrease in 2024|93,872
230,000
2,516
3,041
329,429
338,768|
|---|---|
||9,339|
11'151£1. 511.
coc £
3£2