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2025-04-05-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period start date Period end date Period end date
From 06 04 2024 To 05 04 2025

Section A Reference and Administration Details

Charity name Norwich and Norfolk OCD Voluntary Support Group

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1176907

Charity's principal address

2 St Peter’s Drive

Easton Norwich

Postcode NR9 5HF

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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5		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
year		 Name of person (or body)
entitled to appoint trustee
(ifany)
Susanne Lee Chair
Linda Brown Treasurer
Geraldine Scott Trustee

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser
Name
Address		 Type of adviser
Name
Address		 Type of adviser
Name
Address
Executive Advisor Nesta Reeve
BABCP Supervisor Russell Wharton

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

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Section B Structure, Governance and Management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

How the charity is constituted

CIO

Trustee selection methods

Election

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

The Charity Trustees will make available to each new Charity Trustee, on or before his or her first appointment:

a) a copy of the current version of our Constitution

b) a copy of the latest Trustees’ Annual Report and Statement of Accounts

The induction and training of the Trustees is carried out by regular psychoeducation relating to OCD, anxiety and depression at our weekly afternoon online OCD Therapy and Training Groups.

Training is provided by a UK Registered, fully qualified Senior Psychotherapist and Counsellor specialising in OCD, anxiety and depression. Independent professional advice and support is available to our Trustees, volunteers and beneficiaries, if and when required.

Trustee Resignation

Maureen Stone resigned as a Trustee on 9 December 2024 to spend more time with other organisations that she was affiliated to. We are grateful for the time Maureen spent with us as a Trustee and wish her well in her future projects.

Trustees’ Duties

Our Trustees carry out their legal duties by ensuring that everything our charity does helps to achieve the purposes for which it is set up and no other purpose, as set out in our governing document. They plan what our charity does, what they want it to achieve and are able to explain and understand how the charity benefits the public by carrying out its purpose. They act in our charity’s best interests, deal with conflicts of interest, manage our charity’s resources responsibly, implement appropriate financial controls, manage risks, act with reasonable care and skill and take appropriate advice when needed. They also ensure the spending of charity funds is solely for the benefit of the charity and the charity’s beneficiaries.

As well as the above, one Trustee is active in the running of the charity’s training services. Our main activities are psychoeducation, therapy, training and support of our beneficiaries. Our Trustees understand the complexities of OCD and we all work as an enthusiastic and completely focused team providing a solution to aiding mental health and wellbeing for our community.

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Existing Relationships

This year we were very grateful to receive a grant from the Community Lottery. This grant was used to provide weekly online OCD Therapy and Training Groups along with running costs for the charity.

NHS

We receive numerous referrals from the NHS Wellbeing Services and GP Surgeries to access our weekly charitable therapy and training support groups for their patients.

Other Charities and Social Services

We have assisted many other charities and Social Services by replying to their enquiries regarding their clients in our community that have severe issues with OCD, anxiety and depression. We are able to provide our voluntary therapy and training to their clients, at no cost, whenever they are willing to attend our weekly afternoon online groups.

We adhere to the following policies that can be found on our website www.norwichandnorfolkocdsupport.org.uk :

1) Safeguarding and Vulnerable Persons Policy 2) Equal Opportunities Policy

Section C Objectives and Activities

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF ONE-TO-ONE AND/OR GROUP COUNSELLING OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (CBT), MINDFULNESS, TRAINING AND CONSTRUCTIVE SUPPORT TO THOSE WITH OBSESSIONAL COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD), THEIR CARERS, FAMILY MEMBERS AND THOSE WHO WANT TO GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS ANXIETY DISORDER __________ We declare that our Charity Trustees ‘have regard’ to the Charity Commission’s Public Benefit Guidance ‘when exercising any powers or duties to which the Guidance is relevant’. Our Charity Trustees have Summary of the objects of the complied with this duty and are aware of the Guidance. charity set out in its governing document Weekly Online Therapy and Training Groups Since 2020, we have continued to run our weekly classroom groups online for OCD therapy, training, psychoeducation and support. The online groups are very successful and it has also meant that our beneficiaries have been able to attend our therapy and training sessions from their homes. Most importantly, they include those beneficiaries that are especially vulnerable to illness and those that are housebound.

Operating as voluntary online therapy and training, we have found that we can offer our services to a much wider audience. Our beneficiaries join us from East Anglia but also from London and Europe.

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AIDING MENTAL HEALTH

We were able to continue with our weekly afternoon online therapy and training groups again for another year. There has never been a break in our services, we have provided continual support for 21 years and are most probably the longest running OCD Voluntary Support Group and the only one in the country whose services include free therapy, training and psychoeducation which has helped our beneficiaries enormously. Our groups are always open-ended, rather than restricting beneficiaries to the usual allotted six or ten sessions, if and whenever they are available.

We understand the complexities and multi-facets of OCD. Our online OCD Therapy and Training Groups are professionally run by a UK Registered, fully qualified Senior Psychotherapist and Counsellor specialising in OCD, anxiety and depression.

Below are the main activities undertaken by our charity to carry out its charitable purpose for the public benefit:

We provide therapy, training, psychoeducation and support with openended services which we believe is vital for mental health issues, rather than sessions being time limited. We provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT), Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and we also incorporate the following related subjects:

These training sessions include open debate followed by questions and answers with professional advice and if necessary, sign-posting beneficiaries to other relevant areas and forms of help.

The aim of these meetings is to encourage people with supported steps to move forward with their lives. These weekly sessions have a two hour duration and accommodate up to 22 people. We also include mental health trainees and carers and family members to sit in on any of our groups. These training courses have also been successful by:

Our charity provides the relief of mental illness and the preservation of good mental health by the above wide-ranging and comprehensive services.

24 Hour Enquiries and Helpline

We also run a 24 hour, daily enquiries and helpline. All calls are promptly responded to by either telephone or email. In some cases, if our services are not suitable or appropriate, we are also able to sign-post people to other areas of help and support.

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Section D Achievements and Performance

Summary of the main We believe we are the most well established and longest existing OCD achievements of the charity Voluntary Support Group in the UK. The key to our success is by offering during the year psychoeducation, therapy, training, empathy and support and we have had no break in our services for the last 21 years. We are giving our beneficiaries the tools and support to help themselves with OCD, anxiety and depression and we welcome carers, family members and mental health trainees, to learn more about this complex, debilitating and often very misunderstood mental health disorder. We have witnessed many beneficiaries returning to work after long-term sickness due to the therapy, training and support we have been able to provide them. Our groups also help reduce loneliness and isolation that our beneficiaries may be experiencing. Our Trustees invest time in learning more about OCD, anxiety and depression which is passed on, under supervision, during our weekly online OCD Therapy and Training Support Groups.

Section E Financial Review

Brief statement of the We operate on a small budget which is nearly always allocated to specific charity’s policy on reserves running costs, therapy and training. If we have funds remaining then we discuss and decide what to do with this at our Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in December each year. Details of any funds materially N/A in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

Section F Other Optional Information

The year of 2024 to 2025 was another successful year and we are delighted to report on our charity’s pioneering work and achievements. We have aided the recovery of a vast number of beneficiaries and have also provided continual therapy, training, psychoeducation and open-ended support. We have entered our 21st year for providing our charitable services, we are well established, popular, experience regular high volumes of attendance and our beneficiaries are able to participate from all areas of East Anglia, surrounding counties, London and overseas. We have never asked our beneficiaries for payment or contributions, our services have always been free of charge to our beneficiaries.

Our charity understands the complexities of OCD and we are able to arm our beneficiaries with the tools to manage and fight OCD, anxiety and depression. We are constantly being told that our training and support

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groups have made a huge difference to peoples’ lives, some say ‘life changing’ and we have helped many gain the confidence to link back into the workplace. We teach our beneficiaries about worry addiction, rumination and catastrophising, enabling them to live a more harmonious life. It has been our focus since 2004 to offer a solution to mental health problems and as a charity our objective is to provide the aid and relief of mental health illness which we have evidence of doing successfully.

We currently have a turnover of approximately 300 beneficiaries per year. This is a turnover figure, as it is very difficult to provide exact numbers as some of our beneficiaries attend regularly and others may weave in and out of our groups attending when they need to.

We are a small charity with a huge heart and our therapy and training groups have proved to have a very positive and inspirational impact on our beneficiaries in East Anglia, London and overseas.

Our Vision:

“Recovery from OCD is possible”!

“We provide therapy, training, psychoeducation and constructive support to those with OCD to aid their recovery, also welcoming their carers and family members”.

“Our pioneering approach means we are able to offer the relief of mental illness and the preservation of good mental health by the wide-ranging and comprehensive services we deliver”.

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Geraldine Scott Full name(s) Geraldine Scott Position Trustee Date 4 February 2026

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Norwich and Norfolk OCD Voluntary Support Group 1176907 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 06/04/2024 05/04/2025

Section A Receipts and payments Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
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895
12,780
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9,620
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9,620		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £		 Total funds
to the nearest £
9,620
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9,620
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9,620
895
12,780
80
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13,755
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13,755
- 4,135		 Last year
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CommunityLottery - -
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-		 9,620 9,990
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Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 - 9,620 11,990
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
- 9,620 11,990

RunningCosts		 895 -
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Specialist Services 12,780 12,780 19,280
Sundries 80 80 70
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**Sub total ** 13,755 13,755 21,161
A4 Asset and investment
purchases (see table)
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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
- 13,755 21,161
- 13,755 9,620 - - 4,135 - 9,171
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- 13,755 9,620 1 - 9,171

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period 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
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
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Details
Signature
Geraldine Scott		 Unrestricted
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liability relates
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Date of
approval
Geraldine Scott Geraldine Scott 04/02/2026

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

05/02/2026

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