Buckland Support 2022 Annual Report
We have continued with our weekly Tuesdays when we open The Hub 10-12am for people to drop in to access support from our two coordinators, our CAB specialist, and several other support organisations who have joined us in this project, including Teign Housing, One Small Step, and Eco Energy, Learn Devon and the Police Liasion. We also work closely with the local Foodbank and the Primary School on the estate.
Our CAB colleague spends that day on work generated by The Hub while our coordinators work throughout the week, following up referrals from The Hub attendees and from the GPs at Buckland Surgery and other referring agencies. Yvonne will be giving you a flavor of the work they have been undertaking but I would like to comment that we have seen an increase in the complexity and severity of the problems people bring to us for support. More recently, the financial pressures in the country as a whole have resulted in several social changes leading to an increase in private landlord evictions, leading to families with children facing the terrible upheaval of homelessness.
We have also found that pressures on the statutory services have meant that we have not been able to access the support needed as a charity dealing with issues of domestic violence, child neglect and severe mental health issues. This is an issue that we need to face urgently-how far can we continue to support people in situations that really should be dealt with by statutory bodies? We will be looking at how to improve our relations with the various statutory services to be able to improve the help we can give in often very desperate situations.
Our activity groups have gone from strength to strength including our weekly Parent and Toddler Group running throughout the year, run by parents with our support on Tuesdays. We have recently joined with Early Years Devon to offer Safeguarding training to the three parents who run the weekly group. We are also arranging with a small private company offering First Aid Training to set up training for ALL the parents who come to our group. We will be doing this in two sessions while the HUB is running in September/October. We have increasing numbers (20 plus adults plus children) and most of the parents come from our target population. With our support, this group has decided to keep open throughout the summer, offering much needed support to these parents during that potentially stressful time. They have organized outings to the local beach and there will be a party late August to say goodbye to the children who are starting school.
The Exercise to Music group for older people, with excellent teaching from Fiona Patterson, is very popular. The numbers have grown significantly as people enjoy all the songs they know while getting fitter. We have reduced the suggested donation to 3.00 and 1.00 for any further group that they attend. There are roughly 20 people attending this group.
The Singing Group on Thursday is still trying to reach more members since we know that singing is so good for health. Many of those coming are in their 80s and have sung previously in choirs which closed during Covid. They have decided to go out to sing to other groups in October as a way to promote this fun activity for health.
During the last winter, we obtained extra funding alongside our Lottery grant to open our doors as Warm Spaces three times a week. The Wednesday coffee morning and Games and Chat Fridays were, and still are, a great success and are continuing beyond this extra funding to meet the exposed
need. We found that our attempts to open as an evening warm space did not attract people and so diverted the funding towards day groups.
The Community Centre was able to offer nutritious meals and activities for families during the Xmas and Easter Holidays which were a great success. I have never seen so many people in the large hall!
We have continued to provide voluntary transport to a variety of necessary appointments, including the Hub, as well as arrange some special outings for groups of varying ages.
We have improved our marketing in the form of posters and Facebook but have still decided to keep our publicity local, aiming it at the target group.
Volunteers
We can only offer the services we do because of the energy and commitment of our volunteers who support us at The Hub every week, transport people to appointments and attend with them as necessary and offer one to one friendship to isolated people. All of our six Trustees are also volunteers in our project which gives them a real knowledge of the scope of our work and the difficulties we face and as well as our achievements. Our volunteers cover at least 45 hours a week assisting in everything from home visits, transport and support at the groups.
Rosemary Whitbread
Chair Buckland Support
Buckland Suprjort Receipts and ments accounts To CC16a For the perlod from 0110112022 3111212022 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds to tho rwro8t Restrictod funds to th8 noarost£ Endowment fundy Totsl funds Last year to tho neare¥t£ to the n•ar•8t£ to tho noarost £ A1 Recel ts Nabonal Lottery Devon County Coun Western Power DDTralions 25.940.45 2.000 3,990 2S.940 3,000 3,990 4694 69&96 ross Income AR) 4,094 32,93Ct 37,824 se see tsble. nvestme sa s. Total recpts 4.694 32. A3 Pa mgnts Salaries Payrdl ¢o$ls Accounlanls Fees Room hi Actjvity costs Travèl eyn5es 24358 408 23,358 408 623 2,911 138 f,650 2,597 2,273 1,384 Insuranc Phone Bills Other 331 90 331 175 1.977 35,413 8S 1,376 30,720 Sub total 4.693 A4 Asset and Investment Sub total 4,693 30.720 36.413 Not of recelpts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash fund$ last year end Cash funds thls year end 2,211 2.211 18,594 20.8190 17,351
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period ategoi'ies Unrestrleted fundy Details Restricted funds Endowment funds to near•st£ to neara$t£ to near88t£ B1 Cash funds General Funds 17.351 Totsl cash funds 17.361 3.454 lagr$8 balances pts and payments ac¢ouniis}) Unrestrictsd funds to noa$t£ Rostrlctsd funds Endowment funds to nearest É Dètails to n•arest£ Details to whlch asot belon Current valuo on81 ¢08t lopttonall Yund towhich a55et bglon Detoils C(sst loptyoml Currg)t val ional B4 As¥gts retained for the charfty's own usè Details Fund to whi¢ r•lat&s Amount du8 When duo B5 Llablllti z•aa Sigmd by one ortyio tnste8s on behalf ofall the ttustees Signature Print Name Date of roval RosERy WHITBREAD L3
r/ CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Indopend8nt axaminerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Buckland Support On accounts for the year ended 31st December 2022 Charity no {if any) 1183456 Set out on pages 34 I report to the tru$t88s on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('Ihe Trust°} for the year ended 31 i L 10 21 As the charity's truslees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with thè requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {"the Act.). Rosponsibilities and basis of report I report in réspect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission undèr section 145{5)(b) of the Act. Independent rrhe charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualrfied to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of linsert name of applicable listed body]l. Delete I l rfnot applicable. I have Gompleted my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below ") which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act,. or the accounts did nol accord with the accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conrning the fom and content of accounts set out in the Gharities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement Ihat the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter onsidered as part of an independent examination. I have no COnrnS and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding ofthe accounts to be reached. P18as8 d818te the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signod: Date: 13 Name.. LVCI Relevant professional qualification(s) or body IER Oct 2018
lrfanyl: Address: Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of Gonrn (see CC32. Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners}. Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018