## 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
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4,094
32,93Ct
37,824
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Total rec*pts
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
20.81￿90
17,351

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17.361
3.454
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Date of
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RosE￿Ry WHITBREAD
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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
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accounts in accordance with thè requirements of the Charities Act 2011
{"the Act.).
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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.
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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
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con￿rning 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.
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with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper understanding ofthe accounts to be reached.
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