2025-06-05-accounts - Isla's Journey

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Trustee’s Annual Report

Charity Name	Isla’s Journey
Charity Registraton Number	1183156
Administratve Details & Principal Address	94 Charleston Avenue, Basildon, Essex SS13 1JH

Objectves and Actvites Objectves		Actvites
Promotng educaton around pre-term and early labour, conditons resultng in Neonatal admissions, working with obstetric and midwifery staf to raise awareness of, and the actons required when preterm labour is threatened.	Objectve (a)	Through the use of social media, awareness has contnued to be raised to over 2300 followers regarding pre term and early labour and conditons that can arise resultng in neonatal admissions. Isla’s Journey is stll contacted to those that have recognised the symptoms and triggers of PTSD as we contnue to provide research and informaton as such. We have been able to signpost these families to engage in the correct level of support. The founder contnues to raise awareness through the charity website and social media pages. Follow ups from previous meetngs held regarding training to current NICU staf and junior doctors have started to occur again but stll not as regular as we had hoped.
Promote good mental health by providing a support network that parents can access at a tme that suits them	Objectve (c)	Isla’s Journey contnues to be actve with the ‘Neomates’ online groups. We had hoped to open a community shop that allowed families in the local area to access face to face support and socialize with other families. Sadly, this project was haulted due to the premises acquired being broken into and it no longer felt secure to contnue. Both Basildon and Royal London social media groups are becoming popular and engaging with support and informaton for parents and families. We have parents both past and present sharing their stories which provides a real boost for those struggling as shows they are not alone. We have also begun to look at text support services which we plan to implement in the next year. Parent sessions have resumed in some of our units and we have been collaboratng with other charites to widen our reach. ‘Wellbeing’ days have also resumed at Royal London at we are hoping to provide the same in more hospitals once we getpermissions inplace.
Seek to fund dedicated antenatal, neonatal care and community services following discharge to compliment and support those services provided by the NHS	Objectve (D)	Further research into the text support service will resume as more platorms have become available. We are re-evaluatng the community space and in the mean tme, we have collaborated with local centres to hold one of events. The aim is stll to provide a designated space of our own to hold community events, support groups and social events. We also hope to use this space for training and educaton for parents and families.

Provide care packages of essental items that NHS services do not provide when a hospital stay is required.	Objectve (E)	Care packages are being provided to over 80 hospitals across the UK, with many requestng a rolling stock. We currently have 6 transfer teams in England aware of our packs with 2 units having them available on their transport regularly. The other teams are not as busy and stll have stock available. Care packs are either delivered personally or sent via couriers.

Achievements and Performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identfying the diference the charity’s work has made to benefciaries and any wider benefts to society as a whole.	The charity is now supplying over 85 hospitals and 3 transfer teams regularly with 4 others aware of our services. We contnue to cover England, Wales and Scotland. Feedback contnues to be positve and suggestons for improvements are taken on board where possible. We are currently developing an electronic feedback form to incorporate onto our care pack literature to save paper and postage. We have again recontacted hospitals ofer them packs and update our contacts. The online order form and feedback forms are now live on our website so hospitals can directly request packs when they are running low. The benefts of the Neomates community expansion has also been essental for the mental health and family support following discharge from NICU.
	During this fnancial year, the charity raised£3760.46, a decrease from previous years, which was used to fund care packs, support for parents and staf and raising awareness. The funds were also used for subscriptons and services to spread awareness of what the charity does.

Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identfying the diference the
charity’s work has made to
benefciaries and any wider
benefts to society as a
whole.

The charity is now supplying over 85 hospitals and 3 transfer teams
regularly with 4 others aware of our services. We contnue to cover
England, Wales and Scotland. Feedback contnues to be positve and
suggestons for improvements are taken on board where possible. We are
currently developing an electronic feedback form to incorporate onto our
care pack literature to save paper and postage.
We have again recontacted hospitals ofer them packs and update our
contacts. The online order form and feedback forms are now live on our
website so hospitals can directly request packs when they are running
low. The benefts of the Neomates community expansion has also been
essental for the mental health and family support following discharge
from NICU.

During this fnancial year, the charity raised£3760.46, a decrease
from previous years, which was used to fund care packs, support for
parents and staf and raising awareness. The funds were also used for
subscriptons and services to spread awareness of what the charity does.

During this financial year, the charity raised £3760.46, a decrease from previous years, which was used to fund care packs, support for parents and staff and raising awareness. The funds were also used for subscriptions and services to spread awareness of what the charity does.

Financial Review Review of the charity’s fnancial positon at the end of the period		Due to lack of grant security we are stll looking to recruit a fundraising specialist, however, this means additonal outgoing costs. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has contnued to afect fundraising and as such we have contnued to use reserves and personal funds to cover some expenses. We expected this to improve over this period, which we sadly haven’t quite done. Charitable objectves have been met in full thisperiod.
Statement explaining the policy for holding the reserves statng why they are held		n/a
Amount of reserves held		0
Reasons for holding zero reserves		Stock all replaced afer hospitals have been supplied with care packs. We accommodate care packs needed for the following month and further donatons and grants due before supplies are required.

Additonal Informaton The charity’s principal sources of funds		Donatons through social media, online fundraising events e.g. rafes, local school non-uniform/bring a care pack supply days.
Investment policy & Objectves including social investment policy adapted		n/a

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Type of governing document	Consttut
How is the charity consttuted	CIO
Trustee selecton methods including details of any consttutonal provisions e.g. electon to post or name of any person or body enttled to appoint one or more trustees	Appointe

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charityName Ofce (if any) Mrs Hazel May Bennett Mrs Elizabeth Wiseman Mrs Claire Harland

Declaratons

The trustees

declare that they

have approved

the trustee’s

report above. On

behalf of the

trustees: H M

Bennett

Full name: Hazel May Bennett Positon – Trustee

Date – 4/4/2025