2025-12-31-accounts - The Romani Foundation

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The Romani Foundation

Profit and Loss

From: Month 1, January 2025 To: Month 12, December 2025

Default Layout of Accounts [PARTIAL] Chart of Accounts: Period Sales Donations 3,413.69 Fund Generation - Charity Shop 48.75 3,462.44 Purchases Cost of Charitable Activities 1,552.57 1,552.57 Direct Expenses Charitable Expenditure 287.88 287.88 Gross Profit/(Loss): 1,621.99 Overheads Support Costs - Travelling Expenses 442.51 Support Costs - Printing and Stationery 100.54 Support Costs - Computer & Website charges 3,160.45 Support Costs - General Expenses 851.19 Management & Admin - Gross Wages 2,280.50 Management & Admin - Professional Fees 365.50 7,200.69 Net Profit/(Loss): (5,578.70)	Year to Date 3,413.69 48.75 1,552.57 287.88 442.51 100.54 3,160.45 851.19 2,280.50 365.50		3,462.44 1,552.57 287.88
			1,621.99 7,200.69
		(5,578.70)

Annual Report for Small Non-Company Charity – Year to December 2025 Charity Name : The Romani Foundation Registration Number : 1181483

Address : Sunnybank Farm, Whitehall Road East, Birkenshaw, West Yorkshire, BD11 2LL

Trustees :

Mrs Julie Romani Mrs Jenna Romani Miss Chloe Arnold Mrs Elizabeth Harwood

Overview of the Year :-

CHARITY COMMISSION - ANNUAL REPORT 2025

The Romani Foundation (Help For Dependency) is dedicated to helping those experiencing dependency or addiction, their family and friends - helping to beat dependency and addiction by improving their mental/emotional health and wellbeing. By providing information and help to better understand substance use, addictive disorders, dependency and addiction, we hope that you will be able to make better lifestyle choices and get the right help.

The Romani Foundation operates from the founders/CEO’s home/office and comprises a CEO, PA and a Board of four trustees. Family members and close friends volunteer their time to help and support the day to day operation of The Romani Foundation.

The Founder/CEO has supported the Charity financially via charitable contributions from her business enterprises and will continue to do so.

During 2025, The Romani Foundation continued to facilitate the grant funding received from the Bradford Creative Communities in July 2024. This particular project also received contributions from our CEO :

Grant Funding - The Bradford Creative Communities Fund - Art Therapy

Via the Bradford Year of Culture 2025, The Romani Foundation was awarded a micro grant to undertake further art therapy sessions with women in recovery from Evolve Recovery Homes. This was facilitated and covered more diverse use of art mediums from clay to flowers; with painting and drawing and the use of textiles.

An art psychotherapist therapist was engaged to work alongside The Romani Foundation staff.This enabled the effective management of any ‘triggers’ and any mental health issues that arose during the sessions.

Due to funding still being available, The Romani Foundation were authorised to organise some yoga evening sessions at The Loft in Bradford. These sessions were facilitated by a Yoga Master and our staff. The sessions were advertised throughout Bradford and attracted a diverse representation from the local community, including some of the women we had worked with previously.

This grant funded project was successful and garnered positive feedback from participants.

Positive Choices - Understanding the Risks of Cannabis/Vaping

Further to work that was conducted during the Autumn of 2023 to Spring 2024 with a PSHE (personal, social,health,economic) Education Consultant to further develop the presentation for children and young people (11- 16yrs) on - Positive Choices - Understanding The Risks of Cannabis and Vapes (including a lived experience video); along with Help and Support information and Evaluation sheets; we made connections with secondary schools, academies and PRU Schools ( Pupil Referral Unit - type of school that provides education for children/young people who are unable to attend mainstream schools).

To facilitate the sessions we engaged a retired Police Officer to work alongside us to conduct 45 to 60 minute sessions for over 1000 children/young people in the Bradford area. The interactive lessons on the Risks of Cannabis and Vaping were delivered in several formats to manage the requirements of any behavioural or wellbeing needs:

Year group assemblies enabled larger groups of children and young people to receive the lesson and actively engage throughout the sessions.
Small class room groups (6 - 10 students) in secondary schools/academies were conducted to connect directly with children and young people whom pastoral/safeguarding staff felt required more direct interactions due to their vulnerabilities or their use of cannabis/vapes.
The lessons conducted in the PRU schools were undertaken with very small groups of children/young people many of whom were regularly using cannabis/vapes or had possible connections with illegal supply of substances.

Naturally, all our staff had the appropriate DBS, Safeguarding qualification and presentation skills to be able to deliver the lessons and interact safely with children and young people; some of whom were vulnerable.

Positive feedback was received from both staff/students and we are continuing to apply for grant funding to facilitate further sessions; as up to now the CEO has funded the development and staffing costs of this work.

Donations

Our insurance company has continued to support the charity by donating our annual insurance premiums. Another donation was also received from a local building company.

Donations were also received from two local companies, private individuals,fund generation and contributions from our CEO.

Website and Social Media Platforms

Due to the rising numbers and concerning use of ketamine by young people a new section was added to the website to provide information on the use of ketamine as an illegal substance, the risks and the consequences.

The Local Services Database is an ongoing work in progress and we actively encourage services and users to recommend services/organisations so that we can check them out before submitting information on to our website directory.

The website continues to provide information and sources of help/support to a wide demographic; mainly in the UK but with some sources accessing it from other continents.

The Help for Dependency social media platforms; primarily facebook and instagram continue to be a great success, with increased usage and have enabled connections with a wide demographic as well forging new relationships with organisations in the dependency/addiction sector.

Social media continues to be an effective way of sharing information about all different aspects of dependency/addiction, physical and emotional wellbeing, diet and exercise,lived experience and much more. As well as linking with a UK audience; we still have a growing global following and made connections with other organisations in our field.

The interactive sharing of information of the latest news/research is essential to helping and supporting people make better lifestyle choices around dependency/addiction and associated issues.

The website and social media platforms have enabled us to signpost/direct an increasing number of people to help and support for their substance use disorders, other addictive behaviours and other issues associated with dependency/addiction. We have also been made aware of some incredible recovery stories that are a direct result of our intervention.

Direct Help and Support

Through direct contact from people with active addiction or via a family member we have liaised with them to establish what type of support they need for their substance abuse (mainly cannabis, cocaine, alcohol and ketamine).This has culminated in our staff arranging assessment appointments and access to rehabilitation services with other charities and organisations who we have forged great connections with over the past few years.

To date, the people that we have helped and supported have had successful recovery outcomes and some continue to keep in contact with us.

Connections

Through the ‘power of connections’ The Romani Foundation has continued to build partnerships and relationships with other organisational bodies (both charitable and public). This enables us to network and work more effectively with the sector and enables work/projects to be more targeted.

Within our local area the team at GIve Bradford have been particularly helpful in introducing us to a diverse range of charities and organisations. We also have great connections with charitable rehab services and some national charities/organisations who we engage with on a regular basis.

During the next year (2026) The Romani Foundation will:

Applying for funding to facilitate out of school sessions that will combine education as well as art in vulnerable communities. The education aspect will provide an opportunity to deliver information on substance use, emotional wellbeing etc; whilst using art (in many forms) to depict such subject matter. This would involve working alongside other local organsations and qualified staff to achieve this.

Prioritise applying for external funding to extend project work in communities, support the core costs of the Foundation and replace digital technology.

Continue to expand links with other charities, businesses and public services, to embed our work within a diverse range of communities.
The Romani Foundation will continue to connect with those in active addiction, their families and friends to provide help and support; liaising on their behalf with services that can address their complex needs and provide treatment, rehab, counselling and

aftercare for their particular issues.

Importance will continue to be placed on the continued development; through knowledge/training of those involved in the day to day operation of The Romani Foundation; as well as networking with our peers - both national and locally.