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Annual Report and Accounts For the year ending 31st March 2021
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FRIENDS FRIENDS
Bringing people together to encourage and enable,
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Confidence
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Independence
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Purpose
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Mutual Support
Never underestimating the challenges of living with additional needs.
PURPOSE AND IMPACT
FRIDAY FRIENDS is a Community Interest Organisation funded through group fundraising activities, charitable donations and grants. It is directed and supported by a Board of Trustees who are all volunteers. The group attracts no statutory funding. It aims to foster inclusion and alleviate social exclusion amongst adults who have ‘special’ or ‘additional’ needs. Our aim is to encourage independence, confidence, purposefulness and positive interaction through a supportive environment and a programme of accessible activities.
The group meets each Friday afternoon and participants are encouraged to ‘drop in’ to these sessions. Many people attend independently whilst others attend with their ‘support workers’. A varied and inclusive programme is available throughout the year and participants self-select the activities in which they are interested. Some choose to participate independently or alone and often others choose to bring along their own projects or activities in which they are encouraged to engage. We also endeavour to root our organisation within the community. We partner with other organisations and take part in activities within the community as well as arranging group visits both locally and further afield. Our aim is that through involvement in the group, participants come to live more fulfilling lives, both by the support which the group can offer and by contributing to the mutual support engendered by the group.
VALUES AND WAYS OF WORKING
Friday Friends seek to develop ways of working which focus on,
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DIVERSTITY of gender, age and ability.
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INCLUSIVITY
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ACCEPTENCE
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CO-OPERATION
Whilst creating an atmosphere which encourages,
- INDEPENDENCE and PERSONAL GROWTH *STABILITY
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STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE
Board of Trustees The Reverend Graham Pacey (Chair) Mr Roy Coleman (Vice-Chair) Mrs Susan Wheatley Mrs Susan Welburn Mr Keith Bowers Mr Geoffrey Lynas (Treasurer)
Annual Report
The year began with the unexpected global Covid-19 pandemic, this meant that the usual drop-in meetings had to be stopped leaving many people who regularly attended Friday Friends socially isolated.
As a result we continued to maintain contact with all attendees via regular posted newsletters containing articles submitted by attendees together with various puzzles and art activities and Friday Friends news updates.
We are looking forward to being able to meet again without the constraints that Covid-19 brings with it.
Roy Coleman (Vice Chair)
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Annual Accounts
Opening Bank Balance £9658.71 Income: (All unrestricted) £1896.50 Amazon charity giving £5.00 Benivity donation £1746.00 Benivity donation £145.50 ----------£1896.50 ----------Expenditure: (£575.50) Closing Bank Balance £10979.71 Expenditure Breakdown: Website Hosting (£273.60) Printing, Postage, Telephone costs (£215.90) Hall hire (£60.00) -----------(£575.50) ------------