MenTalkHealth
Charity number 1180407
## **Trustee Annual Report for year ended 31[st] July 2020**
## **Objectives and Activities**
Our objective, as stated in our Governing Document, remains to break down the stigma around men talking about their mental health. This relates to the potential or perceived stigma within their communities and /or the self-stigma around talking about their mental health.
Our activities are focused on this theme addressing both the encouragement to talk and the training and support to listen. We are focused on three strands, podcasts and events where people share their stories, providing Mental Health first aid training to volunteers and small charities and community groups, collaborating with communities to create a better understanding of the need to safely provide a culture that encourages individuals to talk and have the information to signpost to areas of further help.
We are still a new charity, volunteer led and with no paid employees, and are still developing our outreach both as to communities and positive impact.
As a small charity with no endowment funds, we do not have a social investments policy, but we do work with communities and other charities and are developing strong links with local partners whose ethos and values match our aims.
## **Achievements and Performance**
At the start of the financial year, we saw growing outreach to communities, a continuation of our podcasts and a change to the podcasts to broaden the group of speakers. At the same time, we had identified communities we wished to help with Mental Health First Aid Training and had trained some of our volunteers. An important step was to train our own trainers, in Mental Health First Aid and i-act training.
COVID-19 struck. Our plans for interaction, delivery and training were all significantly challenged. We needed to adapt to virtual outreach, training and interaction. This was a challenge for the whole sector, and indeed country. Some training was significantly delayed, events cancelled, with the incidence of deterioration in mental health growing.
Our funding was hit and due to travel restrictions, our live podcasts were halted. The remainder of the year was focused on obtaining the training, assessing with our partner communities how to support them and laying the plans for a stronger base of volunteers, support tools and recoding both virtual and content. We also reassessed our funding strategy.
The impacts of these actions has seen the charity grow stronger in late 2020 and into 2021.
## **Financial Review.**
Having lost access to our main funding sources, events, personal charity fundraising and sponsorships, we had to tailor our spending.
At this time, we ensured through direct grant from The Rainbow Fund, we could continue our training and through the raising of funds from individuals and our ongoing Golf Social Group that we remained with a cash balance equating to at least 205 of our annual costs and sufficient to cover committed costs for 12 months.
This financial position was strongly strengthened by the support we received from our key sponsor, **Northstar IT.** who provided the charity with many operational and administration services for free.
MenTalkHealth
Charity number 1180407
## **Fund Raising**
As already mentioned, many of our supporter and event fund raising opportunities were cancelled or indeed just not available during the year under review. We had support from fundraising in Brighton totalling £833, Funds from our Golf socials £790 and most Importantly the grant from The Rainbow Fund of £ 5,948.
We would like to thank our dedicated volunteers, Northstar IT and The Rainbow Fund for all their support.
## **Structure and Governance**
Along with developing our volunteers we also have continued to provide development for our Trustees and are continuing to broaden the skills base by seeking new Trustees.
During the Financial Year the Trustees were:
|During the Financial Year|the Trustees were:|||
|---|---|---|---|
|Name|Role|Date Appointed|Comments|
|Christian Fleming|Chair and Trustee|October 2018||
|Peter Shields|Treasurer and Trustee|October 2018||
|Daniel Jones|Trustee|January2019||
|Scott Millar|Trustee|January2020||
In addition, we appointed a Company Secretary during the year, Elaine Shields. A further new Trustee, Keith Winestein was appointed shortly after the year end.
The Trustees are focused on a strategy to link up with groups and individuals and through podcasting, training and events to encourage a growing openness to enabling men to be able to talk about their mental health. We are now investing in improved social media presence, a new website and potential broadcasting.
We recognise we are a campaign and enabling group not a service provider, so all our Volunteers are given Mental Health First Aid Training which enables them to engage safely and gives them the tools to signpost to service providers.
We hold Quarterly Trustee meetings and monthly management meetings. At the later we focus on, financial position, risk management, and short term delivery topics
Signed on behalf of the Trustees
Christian Fleming
Peter Shields
Chair 4[th] August 2021
Treasurer
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MenTalkHealth No (if any)
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 1st August 2019 31st July 2020
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Grants 5,837 - - 5,837
Fees 250 - - 250
Donations 833 - - 833
Golf Fund Raiser 790 - - 790
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
7,710 - - 7,710
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 7,710 - - 7,710
A3 Payments
Podcasts 25 - - 25
Brighton Pride 153 - - 153
General Expenses 420 - - 420
Start up costs - - - -
Training 5,293 - - 5,293
Insurance 55 - - 55
Website and advertising 328 - - 328
Travel 978 - - 978
Recording equipment 179 - - 179
Sub total [ 7,431 ] - - 7,431
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 7,431 - - 7,431
Net of receipts/(payments) 279 - - 279
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 2,128 - - 2,128
Cash funds this year end 2,407 - - 2,407
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|HSBC Bank
Cooperative Bank
**_Total cash funds_**||**to nearest £**
**292**
**2,115**
**-**
**2,407**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||OK|OK||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||
|**charity’s own use**||||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name||
||||Peter Shields
Christian Fleming|||
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CC16a
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## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
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1,710
350
5,948
-
-
-
-
-
8,008
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**8,008**
**538 340 2,399 445 300 839 262 757 - 5,880**
**5,880 2,128 - - 2,128**
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)** Date of approval 8/3/2021 **8/3/2021**