## THE LOTUS MENTAL HEALTH
Trustee Report – year ending April 2021
## **The Lotus Mental Health: Charity Number**
## **1178502**
## **Charity Address:**
Detailed within this document:
- How the charity is managed
- Charity aims.
- Charity objectives
- Review of charity achievements
- Future plans for the charity
- Finances
- Risk management
- Recruitment of Trustees
- Trustees
## **How the charity is managed:**
The trustees take responsibility for the charity, with one trustee – Carla Whittaker, managing the day to day running of the charity. As part of this role, Ms Whittaker is responsible for the development, creation and distribution of the materials that belong to the charity, including the books, teaching materials and information leaflet.
All decisions regarding the materials – such as final drafts and distribution of materials, are approved by the charity trustees, before they are released.
## **Our aims:**
The aims of the charity are to provide mental health education and support to children, young people, parents, carers and teaching staff, using a variety of methods and materials, including, but not limited to:
- Several children’s book series
- Children’s self-help journals
- Information leaflets for parents/carers
- Information leaflets for children/young people
- Teacher mental health training
- Pupil mental health training
- A dedicated website
- Drop – in centre for parents and carers.
- Online activities for children
Through these means, we aim to help tackle the negative stigmas surrounding mental health, by ensuring that an understanding of mental health is taught and nurtured from a young age.
**Our objectives:**
Due to the current pandemic, the objectives of the charity have altered slightly, to fit with the current climate. As a result, much of the work carried out for the charity has been solely focused on the mental health of children, and their understanding of the coronavirus pandemic. These are as follows:
- Story book, that is available on the charity website, explaining what coronavirus is.
- Story on the website, explaining how life is being affected by coronavirus.
- Activity worksheets that contain information about coronavirus.
- Explanation of the concepts surrounding coronavirus – for example:
- Social distancing
- Home learning
- The roles of key workers
- Lockdown restrictions – what they are and what they mean
## **Review of charity Achievements:**
Continued from the last year, the charity continues to provide free story books to local children and local primary schools.
Due to the current restrictions that are in place, visits to schools are no longer possible. However, these will be picked up and continued, once the lockdown restrictions are no longer in place and it safe to do so.
## **Future plans for the charity:**
The charity aim to provide teacher training materials to as many schools as possible. The roll out of this, will start once current government guidelines allow us to do so.
In the meantime, the charity is working on the development of classroom worksheets, that can be completed alongside of the story books, therefore helping young children to grasp a basic understanding of mental health.
There will also be further book series written and illustrated – explaining mental health from the perspective of older children.
## **Finances:**
## **The Lotus Mental Health**
## **Statement of Financial Activities (including Income & Expenditure Account) for the year ended 1st April 2021**
|**Notes**
**Incoming resources**
**Incoming resources from generated**
**funds:**
_Voluntary income:_
Donations and grants
1
**Total incoming resources**
**Resources expended**
**Costs of generating funds**
Costs of generating voluntary
income
2
**Charitable Activities**
2
**Governance costs**
2
**Total resources expended**
**Net income for the year. (Net**
**incoming resources before other**
**recognised gains)**
**Other recognised gains**
Gain on revaluation of investments
**Reconcilliation of funds**
Total funds brough forward
Total funds carried forward|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**2021**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
0
-|
|---|---|
||0
-|
||0
-
0
-
-
-|
||0
-|
||0
-
-
-
191
-|
||191
-|
**The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses in the year. All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.**
## **The Lotus Mental Health Statement of Financial Activities (including Income & Expenditure Account) for the year ended 1st April 2021**
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2021
Notes £ £
Fixed Assets
-
Tangible assets
Investments -
-
Current Assets
Stock 60
Debtors -
Cash in hand 191
251
Creditors: amounts falling due
-
within one year
Net Current Assets 251
Net Assets 251
Unrestricted funds
-
Designated funds
Revaluation funds -
General funds 251
251
Restricted funds -
Total Funds 251
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Approved by the management committee on the 28 March 2022 and signed on its behalf by: C. Whittaker, Treasurer
Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 1[st] April 2021
## 1. Donations
||**Unrestricte**
**d**
**Restricted**
**2021 Total**|
|---|---|
||**£**
**£**
**£**|
|Donatio
ns|0
-
0|
||0
-
0|
## 2. Total Resources Expended
|2. Total Resources Expended||
|---|---|
|**Basis of**
**Allocation**|**Charity**
**Fundraising**
**Mental Health**
**Awareness**
**2021**
**Total**|
||**£**
**£**
**£**|
|**Costs Directly Allocated**
**to Activities**||
|Fundraiser Supplies
Direct|-
-
0|
|Educational Supplies
Direct|-
-
0|
|Travel
Direct|-
-
0|
|||
|**Total resources**
**expended**|**0**
**0**
**0**|
## **Recruitment of Trustees:**
The trustees of The Lotus Mental Health are recruited by having an interest in mental health and by wanting to help eradicate the negative stigmas surrounding mental health, using the aims and objectives of the charity. If someone is interested in becoming a trustee, they should contact the charity directly.
## **Trustees:**
- Carla Whittaker
- Christopher Monk
- Danielle Berry
- Paul Mironiuk
- Christine Mironiuk
- Kirsty Mironiuk