**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From Period start date To Period end date**
## **Charity name:**
## **Charity registration number:**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the purposes Para 1.17 The improvement, preservation
of the charity as set out and long-term protection of
in its governing mental
document health.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and Achieved by providing counselling,
1.19
activities in relation to trauma therapy and support in for
those purposes for the people who have had children
public benefit, in removed
particular, the activities, from their care with a view to
projects or services helping
identified in the them reintegrate effectively and
accounts. positively into their community
Statement confirming Para 1.18 Yes
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit
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## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
Currently in this period 23 clients
have
used the service and are all
Summary of the main integrated into society having
Para 1.20
achievements of the received psychotherapeutic
charity, identifying the lifesaving mental health treatment
difference the charity’s using the human givens
work has made to the philosophies.
circumstances of its To support our clients and fully
beneficiaries and any understand what they are going
wider benefits to society through, our team regularly attend
as a whole. CPD training to understand
current and incoming new
legislation, political agenda and
thinking, keep abreast of mental
health breakthroughs and keep
our ear to the floor with anything
that might
benefit clients. We also deliver
lectures to
vulnerable people and
professional
communities who wish to broaden
their
awareness and effectiveness in
supporting these vulnerable
people.
Some recent training we have
attended has been:
Gangs and County Lines April 2022
Introduction to Child Exploitation
and Trauma Workshop Isabel
Santos April 2022
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM):
Health, Law, and Socio-Cultural
Sensitivity Nov 2021
How to work effectively with
Troubled Teenagers March 2021
PREVENT Training September 2021
Level 2 Children Safeguarding
Training
Update April 2020
Level 2 Adult Safeguard training
update
April 2020
Woman on Fire Redefining
Working in
Wellness Wellness With Women
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**May 2019 Compassion Focused Therapy Explored – An ESSENTIAL Coaching Paradigm Shelly Prosko Why Blood Sugar Management is ESSENTIAL For Management of Menopause Symptoms Claire SnowdonDarling From Grief to Grit – Helping Mothers Deal with Loss Sofie Jacobs Wednesday 8th January 2019 Prevent Training Update Wednesday 30th January 2019 Team Mental Health Awareness Wednesday 13th March 2019 Chil**
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24 clients have reported
improvement in
Achievements against Para 1.41 mental health.
objectives set 2 from last year and 2 clients from
this period clients have self
referred back to the service and
continue to do so as a means of
ongoing support.
There is still a need to find a way
other than ‘no news is good news’
evaluative tool however this has
been investigated and other
similar charities for example
Samaritans, SWAST and Mosac
have also reported similar issues.
Coming to the end of the
pandemic has seen a resumption
Performance of in trying to sort out the bank
fundraising activities Para 1.41 account although this is beset by
against objectives set issues of time in getting to an
actual bank with all trustees
present to change account.
Banking is an ongoing issue as
during the covid pandemic no
Investment performance Para 1.41 business bank accounts could be
against objectives opened. This said, private
donations have enabled the
charity to function and business
meetings with Santander are
now completed and a new banking
decoder has arrived as of 12/06/22
which will enable funds to be
claimed for events and a updated
record of events and financed to
be obtained.
£3,830.11 in account
Other £2,000 in reserve
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 £3,830.11 in account
financial position at the £2,000 in reserve
end of the period
Statement explaining the Para 1.22 £2,000 in reserve for client
policy for holding emergency high risk of suicide
reserves stating why they cases
are held
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £2,000
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22
reserves
Details of fund materially Para 1.24
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
Additional information (optional)
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Private donation
The charity’s principal
sources of funds Para 1.47
(including any
fundraising)
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
Legal expenses due to suicide and
subsequent police investigation or
A description of the Para 1.46 client
principal risks facing the dissatisfaction
charity
Other
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Charity Commission scheme
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 CIO
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 All trustees must complete
methods including details training into the
of any constitutional public, private and criminal courts
provisions e.g. election to operation
post or name of any and adult and child vulnerable
person or body entitled persons
to appoint one or more CPD approved online safeguarding
trustees vulnerable adults level 2 course
training.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction Para 1.51
and training of trustees
The charity’s
organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Back From The Brink
Other name the charity BFTB
uses
Registered charity 1183541
number
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||Charity’s principal
address|Old Bank Building, East St, Somerset, Ilminster TA19
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
(Redacted Chair: Old Bank Building, SJM
SJM) East St, Somerset,
1
2 Ilminster TA19 0AJ
Redacted Old Bank Building, AJS
Logistics East St, Somerset,
PR Manager: Ilminster TA19 0AJ
2 Human
Resources
AJS
Redacted Old Bank Building, STMS
Treasurer: STMS East St, Somerset,
3
Ilminster TA19 0AJ
Redacted EJS EJS
Secretary, Old Bank Building,
Safeguarding East St, Somerset,
4
Officer: Ilminster TA19 0AJ
Secretary
and SGO1
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** (Redacted Chair: SJM) 2 Redacted Logistics PR Manager: Human Resources AJS Redacted Treasurer: STMS Redacted Secretary, Safeguarding Officer: Secretary and SGO1
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
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Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole
year
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**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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Type of Name Address
adviser
Accoun H and H Old Bank Building, East St, Somerset, Ilminster
tant Accountants TA19 0AJ
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**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**Safeguarding due to nature of work undertaken with clients experiencing domestic abuse Legal requirements for non disclosure due to involvement with Public and Family court case material and non disclosure clauses.**
## **Other optional information**
**Many of the clients we deal with are facing removal from violent partners. It may be that third parties seek to find our clients and as such Charity commission has secured the non disclosure of address and personal information of trustees. This is to protect the safety of trustees and to provide a further security around the clients need for privacy for their own safety and that of any children involved in proceedings. It is a legal requirement to protect children and adult’s identify in child proceedings.**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** SJM **Full name(s)** SJM
**Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 13/06/22