**Derbyshire Stroke Centre Trustee’s Report and Financial Statement For the year: 01/01/20 to 31/12/20** _**CIO: 1183603**_ |**Charity Name:**|Derbyshire Stroke & Neuro Therapy Centre|Derbyshire Stroke & Neuro Therapy Centre| |---|---|---| |**Known as:**|Derbyshire Stroke Centre|| |**Previously known as:**|Specialist Stroke Services (1140073)|| |**Registered Charity Number:**|1183603|| |**Registered Address:**|Derbyshire Stroke Centre,|| ||Holmewood Business Park|| ||Chesterfield Road|| ||Holmewood|| ||Chesterfield|| ||S42 5US|| |**Chief Executive Officer:**|Mrs Julie Wheelhouse|| |**Trustees:**|Ita Hobell – Chair|| ||Jerry Cox – Vice|Chair| ||Diane Beckingham|| ||Lisa Marsden|| |**Type of governing document:**|Constitution (Foundation Model) adopted 23/05/19|| |**Accountant:**|David Lissimore, Aims Accountants|| ||Oakswood**,**Wingfield Road**,**|| ||Oakerthorpe, Alfreton**,**Derbyshire, DE55 7LH|| |**Bank:**|NatWest Bank,|| ||5 Market Place,|| ||Chesterfield|| ||S40 1TW|| ## **Structure and Governance Issues:** Derbyshire Stroke Centre was registered with the Charity Commission as a CIO on 28/05/19 ## **The Objects of Derbyshire Stroke Centre are:** - The relief of sickness and the preservation of health among people living with the effects of a stroke or neurological health condition (survivors and carers) - To assist in the treatment and care of persons suffering from mental or physical illness as a result of a stroke or neurological health condition or in need of rehabilitation as a result of such illness, by the provision of facilities for rehabilitation and recreation. - To promote and protect the physical and mental health of families affected by stroke or neurological health conditions through the provision of support, education and practical advice - To advance the education of the general public in all areas relating stroke and neurological health conditions - To preserve and protect the health of people affected by stroke or neurological conditions by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities, support services and equipment not normally provided by the statutory authorities. ## **Trustees** All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits Trustees are appointed by invitation. There are currently 4 trustees, all of whom are stroke survivors. Trustees meet on a monthly basis to discuss staffing, fundraising, service delivery, budgets and general Charity business ## **Trustees Report 2020** 2020 has proved to be a challenging one for the organisation having to adapt to allow us to continue to provide an excellent service whilst keeping both service user and staff safe from covid 19. We achieved this by making changes to the internal structure of the building and removing the much loved Chatsworth glass partition, but this gave us a bigger space in which to social distance. We also had to make very difficult choices about how many people we could continue to support safely and after much careful consideration made the difficult decision to suspend our Carers weekly meeting and only allow the gym to be used by day services attendees to allow us to keep the equipment sanitised and control the number of people in the building at any one time. In a similar way our Café is currently open only to service users who are spending the day with us. The number of service users accessing our Centre has varied over the year – depending on assessed need. Despite making these changes we feel very proud of the services that we did manage to deliver throughout 2020, being for a considerable time the only day service in Derbyshire to remain open. We consulted with our staff who went above and beyond in 2020 and they felt it was crucial we offered a continuity of care to those families in most need. ## **Activities** In order to try to keep a sense of ‘normality’ and some structure to peoples week we kept the routines of our activities as close to pre covid as possible. It became challenging to bring in outside sessional exercise leaders, so three members of staff completed chair based exercise qualifications in order to allow these routines to continue. We took on a Neuro music therapy student on placement who introduced a range of new activities and instruments which enriched our already diverse use of music at the Centre. ## **Transport** One challenge was bringing people to the Centre in our transport as we had to minimise the number of people in each vehicle to allow for social distancing regulations. We reached the conclusion that in order to be safe we needed another small vehicle to accommodate one wheelchair with passengers that could be spaced safely. This brought our total number of vehicles to 5! However our Toyota bus which was our first vehicle has gone into semi-retirement and is only used for shorter journeys now, leaving the newer vehicles which have more comfortable travelling conditions for passengers e.g. more efficient heating and air conditioning to do the majority of the journeys. ## **Themed Weeks** Throughout 2020 we held a number of themed weeks. The purpose was to choose a theme which could stimulate memories, encourage reminisces, promote conversations, discussions and primarily to ensure our users had a wonderful time whilst with us and for a short while were able to have fun and cope better with the changes brought by covid, which left many people more isolated than ever before, confused, scared and low in mood. Many of our users with dementia derived great pleasure from these weeks and were able to contribute some wonderful memories. Some of the themes we chose: Musicals, Beach Holidays, 1950’s, Movie Week, Disney Week, Going to a Ball. Service users and staff took delight in getting dressed up we had musical entertainment and the atmosphere was amazing! Going to a Ball Flower Power! Disney Week Rock & Roll Statement of Financial Activities 2020 DERBYSHIRE STROKE & NEURO THERAP NT Cha No1 TATEAIENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERWJD 1 lJlARCH41 OECEMBER 20 Grants Don3h"onsSwn60r6hlp Service uset In(¥)me Gym income Café incomè Gewal (undr￿sIr￿a 12334.1)0 43069.42 166025.37 2057.70 9245 89 1199.cfj 23393124 Slaff costs lind trthininsl TranswrtatK)n costs Spe*¢rs and service user ath"vitses Café and Galerng supplies Rant and rates Energy 8TrJ water costs Genwal Administrabon Repars 8nd maintenance Insuran Prgftssional fees Ilncl heathcare Depre¢ia*'on Sundry eosts 142282.49 6518.83 1345241 9154.65 7786.70 $451 36 3457.09 6473.34 4887.25 20C6.40 12935.48 0.00 214404.CQ SURPLVSIIDEFicin FOFI THE YEAR 19.527.24 Balance Sheet 2020 BAL*14CESHEET A8 AT 31 OECEIIBE 2tr20 Flx•d A*8•ts IT wulprnwt Gyn equip￿nt 2377.03 I9￿.77 37602 55 31564.01 (th. kIt￿ Bna thhara￿e CurrenlAs•ekn t￿tL¥S afKI KMtp￿rt% YSBC B¥*A¢cwrt 13121.rK) 134437.34 13.789.32) 234317.3 flmnced bylhe funth olthe ehirfty UnrestrKtea Incc¥Tr* flnds 234317.3 0.00 Totsl chmity furbt 23431 fieds$ a¢cord8ru tx)r*s and trrftbe th8rWs oIfiLWS Dawd LtssirnTe ACMA GMA ms Attountanls lor 8uskness 3 Cl¥yton C￿Se Morton 18 2021 DE556LN Cash Flow Statement 2020 DERBYSHIRE STROKE & NEURO THERAPY CENTRE Re istergd Chari No 1183603 CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR PERIOD 1 MARCH-31 DECEMBER 2020 2020 Net cash from operating activit￿$ 32,462.72 Purchase of assets 110,473.701 IlncreasellDe¢reas& in debtors 8,787.45 In¢￿aSe1(DeQre3sel in creditors (144.631 Net increase in cash funds at bank 30.631.84 ## **Financial Report** In 2019 in our Trustees report we stated ‘No operation has taken place during this reporting period and we submit zero accounts for this period’. This was due to the length of time it took us to make the transition from Specialist Stroke Services to Derbyshire Stroke & Neuro therapy Centre. We had underestimated the amount of time it would take to make changes from HSBC to NatWest banks, staffing, changes to our policies and procedures etc. and the administration needed to make this happen as we were changing to become a CIO. This resulted in the first two months of 2020 having no operation as DSC and again having zero accounts for this time. Our staff were Tuped across to Derbyshire Stroke Centre on the 1st March 2020 and our accounting period for DSC in 2020 therefore is 01/03/20 to 31/12/20 We submitted our final accounts for Specialist Stroke Services and a Trustees Report for the period 01/01/20 to 28/02/20 to the Charity Commission before applying in April 2020 to formally close down SSS. 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