## **Trustee Annual Report for year ended 31st July 2022**
## 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. The need for such support has grown during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Community communication changed and is changing. As we leave the pandemic behind us, we have found that supporting individuals with their mental health has never been so important.
We are still a young charity and continue to develop our strategies and work towards our goals
As a small charity with no endowment funds, we do not have a social investments policy, but we continue to 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 beginning part of our financial year of 2021, we were still feeling the constraints of the pandemic, but we continued on with providing Mental Health First Aid Training which was incredibly important to us.
We also recorded some podcast episodes, and we enjoyed a very successful runon Charitable Radio with a regular show called ‘Monday Music Therapy’ this gave us the opportunity for us to share mental health stories and interview famous and inspirational people. We could reach out to audiences that were at home and could join in the conversation with us, both through the show and online via social media. Unfortunately, Charitable Radio had to cease its operations in November 2021, but we are looking to working with other media broadcast companies in the future.
In November 2021 we contracted a Development Manager who would be able to centralise and take us forward in ensuring we would continue on our success and remain relevant and current whilst continuing to work towards our goals. Glenn Roberts has made a positive impact and we look forward to him taking us to new heights in 2022/2023.
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A highlight of the year was able to get out and meet people. We attended Brighton Bear Weekend in July 2022. It proved very successful and from that we had individuals wishing to work with us, volunteer for us and also support us.
## Financial Review
Our income fell slightly to £41,670 and we give thanks to support from various Grant Giving Organisations. In addition, we continued to receive support from a men’s Golfing Group to the tune of £1250 and private donations through Amazon Smile and InvestMyCommunity totalling £ 5,684. where possible those attending our trainings contributed some funds and these totalled £1,236
Our main expenses where either the costs of providing the Mental Health First Aid training, the costs of podcasting (including remote equipment), the radio show and our contracted Development Manager.
## Fund Raising
We thank all those who supported us during the year.
We partnered up with a new donation giving website called InvestMyCommunity. This gave us more freedom to raise funds and to also make our campaigns more personal to us.
We would also like to thank our dedicated volunteers, Northstar IT and The Rainbow Fund for all their advice, support, and openness to discuss new ideas and the way forward. We would also like to thank The Ledward Centre (a new LGBTQ+ community hub) for enabling us to use their facilities and develop a fantastic working partnership.
To all our Grant Givers (see below) we would also like to share our thanks and commitment to continue to deliver to our mandate and the terms of their grants. Without them our growth would not have been possible.
## Summary of new grants
|Summary of new grants|||
|---|---|---|
|Organisation|Purpose|Amount|
|Enjoolata Foundation|Podcast production and increase
on social media|£4000|
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|Local Connections|Podcast and radio production|£2500|
|---|---|---|
|Brighton & Hove Council -
Contain Outbreak Management
Grant|Development Manager and
project management|£2000|
|Brighton & Hove Council -
Contain Outbreak Digital Grant|Project Management,
Development Manager, social
media, Music Therapy, Charity
Radio|£10,000|
|HenrySmith|Core runningcosts|£5000|
|Awards For All|Project Management,
Development Manager, social
media, Music Therapy, Charity
Radio|£10,000|
Not all the grant monies have been spent in the financial year under review.
## 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:
|Name|Role|Date Appointed|Comments|
|---|---|---|---|
|Christian Fleming|Chair and Trustee|October 2018||
|Peter Shields|Treasurer and
Trustee|October 2018||
|Keith Weinstein|Trustee|October 2020||
## Development
During the latter part of our financial year, we have made the decision to focus our support towards men and those that identify as men within the LGBTQ+ community. The majority of our supporters, funders, volunteers, and trustees belong to this community. We remain within our goals and our mission to support men with their
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mental health in general, but we will focus on the LGBTQ+ community. It is there that we feel we are making a difference.
All individuals can at some time in their lives experience poor mental health.
However, within the LGBTQ+ community these experiences are much higher. The LGBTQ+ community have to not only contend with the ups and downs of daily life, but also some things LGBTQ+ people go through can affect their mental health, such as discrimination, homophobia or transphobia, social isolation, rejection, and difficult experiences of coming out.
We have also taken the decision to focus our support not just in Brighton & Hove but along the South Coast. This is from Eastbourne to Bournemouth. Over the next few years, we hope to develop and maintain good relationships with communities and partners within this area.
We will continue our working partnerships with The Ledward Centre, The Rainbow Fund and many more.
We are continuing to enlist volunteers and provide them with the tools they need to help make a difference. This will include Mental Health First Aid, Safeguarding and Health & Safety training.
Peter Shields our current treasurer has made the decision to step down at the end of September.
With this in mind we are currently:
- Recruiting 3 or 4 new Trustees (from the South Coast area)
- Preparing a new mission statement and publish for consultation from our supporters
- Compile a 3-year strategy that will help us to focus on the direction and the development of the charity
- Compile a communication strategy that will help us to develop further our online and face to face presence.
2022/2023 looks to be a very challenging but exciting year ahead for MenTalkHealth.
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Signed on behalf of the trustees
Christian Fleming
Glenn Roberts
Chair Development Manager
14[th] December 2022
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|**Men Talk Health**|||**1180407**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|8/1/2021|**To**|7/31/2022||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**5,685**
**1,250**
**1,236**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,171**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,171**
**150**
**2,535**
**-**
**1,197**
**90**
**144**
**6,000**
**846**
**270**
**11,233**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,233**
**- 3,062**
**-**
**5,714**
**2,652**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**33,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**33,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**33,500**
**-**
**33,462**
**6,902**
**162**
**120**
**2,196**
**11,200**
**-**
**-**
**54,042**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,042**
**- 20,542**
**-**
**20,542**
**- 0**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**33,500**
**5,685**
**1,250**
**1,236**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,671**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,671**
**150**
**35,998**
**6,902**
**1,359**
**210**
**2,340**
**17,200**
**846**
**270**
**65,275**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**65,275**
**- 23,604**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**33,500**
**5,685**
**1,250**
**1,236**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,671**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,671**
**150**
**35,998**
**6,902**
**1,359**
**210**
**2,340**
**17,200**
**846**
**270**
**65,275**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**65,275**
**- 23,604**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Grants|**-**|||||**48,058**|
|Donations|**5,685**|||||**1,834**|
|Golf Fundraisers|**1,250**|||||**2,937**|
|Trainings|**1,236**|||||**910**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**8,171**|||||**53,739**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**53,739**|
||||||||
|Insurance|**150**|||||**1,867**|
|Administration|**2,535**|||||**6,790**|
|TrainingProvided|**-**|||||**8,428**|
|Website|**1,197**|||||**6,999**|
|Podcasts|**90**|||||**1,075**|
|Social Media|**144**|||||**800**|
|Radio|**6,000**|||||**-**|
|IT (Hardware, Software & Subscriptions)|**846**|||||**3,751**|
|FundraisingCosts|**270**|||||**180**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**11,233**|||||**29,890**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||||
|||||||**29,890**|
||||||||
||**- 3,062**|**- 20,542**|**-**|**- 23,604**||**23,849**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**5,714**|**20,542**|**-**|**26,256**||**2,407**|
||**2,652**|**- 0**|**-**|**2,652**||**26,256**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
2/9/2023
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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**|**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**|**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))
Cooperative Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,652**
**-**
**-**
**2,652**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||Signature||Print Name
Christian Fleming||||Date of
approval|
|||||||||
||||Christian Fleming||||**12/15/2022**|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
2/9/2023
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Inde
endent exa
f r Men Talk Health
I report on the accounts of the Organisation for thls period ended 31st July 2022.
Rwecdve responslbllltles of trustees and examkner
As the Tru5tee'5 you a SPonsIble for the preparatlon of the ac£ounts," The or8anlsat5on's
members mnslder that an audlt Is not requlred and that an Independent examSnatSon Is needed.
It Is my responslbfllty to:
Examlne the accounts under sectlon 145 of the Charltles *4
To state whether partiojlar matters have come to my attentlon.
Basls ol Ind•pendent wmlnqrfs report
My examlnatton w45 carrled out In accordance vAth the General Dlrertlon5 glven by the Charny
Commlssloners. An examlnatlon Indudes a revlew of the accountlr8 records kept by the
Oreanlsatlon and • comparfson of the accounts presented wfth those records. It Sndudes
con$5deratlon of any unusual Items or dlsdosures In the accounts and seekln8 explanatlons from you
as trustees concemlng any suth mattefs. The procedures undertaken do not provlde all the evldenee
that would be requlred In an audlt, and consequently I do not express an audlt oplnlon on the vlew
glven by the accounts.
Independ•nt examws st•t•m•nt
. In connectlon wlth my examlnatlon, no matter has come to my attentlon:
11 Whlth glves me reasonabfe cause to belSe4* that there has been any materfal errors or omls$lon$.
21 To whlth, In my opinlon, attentlon should be drawn In order to enable a proper understandln8 of
the accounts to be reached.
31 There15 a balance In the bank accotsnt at year end of £2651.82 whlth has been confirnied by
evfdence of bank Stateme1 examlned.
M J 8oxall. AF& AAIA
Shorellne Accountsnts Umlted
25 ainton Place
Seaford East Sussex BN25 INP
Mark J Boxall....
Date....A lfj/ 25