## Buckland Support Charity Number 1183456 Chair’s Report for the Charity Commission Accounts for 2021 (January – December) Our work as a charity this year can be seen in three phases: January – May / June – August / September to December **During the first part of the year** , our charity continued to employ our coordinator for 16 hours a week, plus overtime as necessary, as we met needs due to Covid as well those which we have tried to meet since we started. This included transport to vital appointments by our volunteers, assessment of referrals and either making contact with other support services or dealing with issues such as debt, housing need, isolation, and poverty ourselves. We were able to re-open some of our support groups (Toddlers, Exercise classes, Coffee morning,) as permitted. We continued to have an increasing number of referrals from the local surgery as well as selfreferrals, including family crisis situations. Our charity is becoming a known resource for advice on the Buckland Estate and we have forged good relationships with other organisations offering services here eg Teign Housing, THAT foodbank, Haytor View Primary School. It became increasingly clear that the demand for help from this area with the whole range of needs was our stripping our resources as we uncovered unmet need. The bid that we therefore put in to The National Lottery to cover the next 5 years was a joint bid with The Newton Abbot CIC (who run the Community Centre on the estate), the CAB and ourselves. We were delighted to be successful to the extent that we were awarded funding for the next four years, starting on 1[st] September 2021 This money covered a fulltime post (or equivalent) for a Coordinator, the running of an “information HUB” once a week at the Community Centre, having a CAB worker once a week at this HUB, back up support services from the staff at The Community Centre to undertake account management, room hire and managerial support for joint working plus some travel and evaluation costs. From June to August 2021, BUS funded a pilot project at The Hub so that we were up and running by September. This included setting up a Steering Group, regular meetings of staff involved and letting our client catchment know we were there to help with a range of issues. We were able to increase the Coordinator hours on a regular basis in preparation for the start of the Lottery funded project on 1[st] September. We started to be approached by other helping services with offers to attend on Tuesdays to offer their services eg Teign Housing, the local police and fire prevention officer, Learn Devon, One Small Step (addictions) and others. We also opened our doors to people with long-term mental health issues who had nowhere else to go for support. As they have become regular faces , we can often nip growing issues in the bud before they escalate. **During September-December 2021 ,** the numbers of people coming for help has grown every week. Fortunately, we were able to have Yvonne Mabry (our experienced Coordinator) attend The Hub every week and we employed a part/time assistant for that day and other hours. The issues that people arrive with are varied but most of them are complex and serious. Having CAB present is vital to meeting some of these needs. Yvonne and her assistant are working flat out while it is open and there is always a lot of follow-up afterwards. Much of the work entails contacting other agencies and making sure that the people we discuss actually get help. This can be from statutory services like Social Services, the Police or local Housing Authority. We find that often we are covering work that would have been done in the past by statutory agencies who are no longer addressing those needs due to lack of funding. We take part in meetings such as MASH or Early Years where the people are felt to be vulnerable. We have become a known source of support for people in this area and are recognised as relevant by other services. Our relationship with our local Buckland Surgery is excellent and it is a two way partnership to the benefit of its patients. Financially it has been a huge relief to secure this funding but we do have some limited funds from local sources to still branch out with new groups and new projects. However, we are aware that one full time post cannot meet this increasing need and will be looking at this further in the future. We have had great the support from our Trustees (often hands on) and our Patron, Lord Julian Darling as well as our very willing and efficient volunteers during this difficult time. Working together with CAB and the staff of the Buckland Community Centre has been a very productive move and we are grateful for all their help with planning, management and finance. Rosemary Whitbread Chair Buckland Support CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report R•port to th• trusta••l momborn of Buckland Support On accounts for tho year •nd 31￿ December 2021 Ch4rlty no {If any) 1183456 S•t out on p•9•4 I report to th8 trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Tru8f) for the year ended RMpon•lbllltlM and A8 the charrty trusteeb of the TrL&st. you are responsible for the preparation ba•1• ol r•port of the account8 in a¢ccKdance with the requirement8 of the Charftle8 Act 2011 ('the Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's a¢¢ounts carn8d out und8r section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my 8xamlnation. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disdosed below ") in connection wlth the examination which gives me cause to believe Ihat in, any materlal Indopondent ox•mlnorf• •tatsm•nt accounting records were not kept in accordance with 8ectlon 130 01 the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting record8 I have no concerns and have come acro88 no other matters in connecti¢)n with the examination to which attention should be dravm in order to enabl8 proper understanding of the accounts to be ￿ached. ' Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Slgn•d: Dato: J7 Narn•: .ttrprfiS. Relevant profos8lonal quallficatlon(8) or l)ody (M any): Addms: TQT24Tr IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of chartty accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Glv• her• brl•f d•talls of any Item• that the •xamln•r wlshm to dl•c108•. 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