**Registered charity 1179365**
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|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod:**||||||||
|**From **|Period start date|||**To**|Period end date|||
||**01**|**04**|**2024**||**31**|**03**|**2025**|
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Action for Wellbeing **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1179365
**Charity's principal address** 5a Far Close Drive Arnside **Postcode** LA5 0BG
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if**
**any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Fredrika May|Chair|Appointed – 07/03/2022 – present day||
||Alice Halford|Vice Chair|Appointed - 07/03/2022 – present day||
||Kate Sykes||Appointed – 06/11/2020 – present day||
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document[Constitution ]
**One suicide is one too many**
**Registered charity 1179365**
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
- Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Asked to attend meetings and then elected Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
1. To preserve and protect the physical and mental health of those with suicidal ideations, those who self-harm with a view to ending their own lives, those people bereaved by suicide and those caring for people with suicidal ideations through such support as deemed appropriate; and
2. To advance the education of the general public in areas relating to the preservation of mental health, wellbeing and recovery by the provision of advice, workshops, support groups and newsletters - in particular in relation to suicide prevention.
**One suicide is one too many**
**Registered charity 1179365**
Action for Wellbeing exists to reduce the number of suicides in South Cumbria and North Lancashire and to provide support to those considering suicide, and to those bereaved by suicide.
- We believe that one suicide is one too many.
- We are a registered charity that exists to reduce the number of suicides in South Cumbria and North Lancashire.
- We provide direct, individualised support to those experiencing suicidal thoughts and feelings, to those bereaved by suicide, and those otherwise impacted by suicide in any way.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
- We have a dedicated team of volunteers and trustees who each have their own unique experience of suicide.
**Public Benefit:**
- The trustees and Volunteer Manager have ensured that all staff and volunteers are recruited and trained in Safeguarding, Mental Health Awareness Training, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training and any other training and supervision deemed necessary.
- Prior to appointment, all staff and volunteers undertake an enhanced DBS check. Staff and volunteers undertake professional supervision on a regular basis.
- The services of Action for Wellbeing are advertised locally through social media, at GP surgeries, other charities in the area and through word of mouth.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
**One suicide is one too many**
**Registered charity 1179365**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
**One suicide is one too many**
**Registered charity 1179365**
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## **Section D – Achievements and Performance**
- We have continued to support individuals experiencing suicidal ideations who reside in South Cumbria and North Lancashire.
- We offer face to face support. Volunteers and clients meet at the client’s homes, go on walks, meet at cafes or offer support via telephone or via text messaging.
- We have raised £25,000 towards our Respite House. This money has been raised through a variety of ways: music events, coffee mornings, sponsored skydiving and marathon runs.
**One suicide is one too many**
**Registered charity 1179365**
## **Section E Financial review**
We aim to have 6 months running costs of reserves.
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
_F May_
**Full name(s)** Fredrika May **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 01/06/2025
**One suicide is one too many**
Action for Wellbeing **No (if any) CC16a Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2024 31/03/2025
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**1,761**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,761**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,761**
**198**
**460**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**96**
**451**
**-**
**-**
**1,205**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,205**
**556**
**-**
**-**
**556**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,761**
**-**
**1,761**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,761**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,035**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,761**
**-**
**1,761**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,761**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,035**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Grants and large donations|**1,761**|||||**1,590**|
|Small donations||||||**163**|
|JustGiving||||||**288**|
|CommunityFundraising|**-**||||||
|DBS Fees|**-**||||||
|Cash donations|**-**||||||
|Misc|**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**1,761**|||||**2,041**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**2,041**|
||||||||
|JustGivingFees|**198**|||||**216**|
|CommunityFundraising|**460**|||||**100**|
|DBS Fees|**-**|||||**30**|
|Wages & Expenses|**-**|||||**-**|
|Training|**-**||||||
|Insurance|**96**|||||**276**|
|Administration|**451**|||||**384**|
|Misc|**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,205**|||||**1,006**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**1,006**|
||||||||
||**556**|**-**|**-**|
**1,035**||**1,035**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**556**|**-**|**-**|
**1,035**||**1,035**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
30/08/2025
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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**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
F May|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,443**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Fredrika May|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||F May|Fredrika May|30/08/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
30/08/2025
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