Openmind.ed CIO
registered charity (England & Wales) 1185048
Trustees’ Report for 2022
This report is for the Charity’s financial year 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022.
In 2022 the Trustees and Members of Openmind.ed CIO (“the Charity”) were:
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Chair: Luke Menzies
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Trustee and CEO: Clare Short
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Trustee: Robin Herbert (and Secretary until 6 September 2022)
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Trustee and Treasurer: Isabel de Salis
On 6 September 2022 Robin Herbert retired as Secretary and Chereece Ryan, Operations Manager, was appointed as Secretary on an interim basis. The charity’s registered address was thus altered to the new Secretary’s home address in Bournemouth.
General
The Charity, a CIO, is governed by its Constitution as approved by the Charity Commission. The Charity operates on a simple and informal basis, run by its board of trustees. It delivered its charitable activities (services to clients) during the year through the voluntary work of its CEO, Treasurer and Secretary and several fee-paid Associates.
The Charity is governed, and managed at a high level, through periodic trustee meetings and occasional less formal meetings. This year, Management meetings were also introduced, including peer supervision discussions. The CEO leads on matters of policy and direction. Financial affairs are handled by the Treasurer and governance oversight provided by the Chair. The Secretary is responsible for correspondence and records of trustee meetings. All management and administrative activities are carried out by the trustees. No new trustees were recruited during the year and the Charity has not yet developed a recruitment or appointment policy for new trustees.
The Charity’s work focusses on undertaking and funding activities to promote good mental health and wellbeing amongst those in Education, with a current focus on school students and university students in Bristol. This includes working with school staff, students and their parents. The work includes facilitation of reflective practice groups, running workshops, providing one-to-one mentoring, speaking at school assemblies and holding discussion sessions with parents of students. In addition, the Charity provides occasional funding to small projects aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing of young persons.
Main achievements this year
The main achievements of the Charity in this year were:
- Creation of the role of Operations Manager: Chereece Ryan appointed May 2022. Functions of role: (i) to provide the necessary administrative and HR support to ensure smooth running of day to day activities; (ii) to develop an organisational infrastructure that enables the work of the charity to function and grow in line with its values and objectives; and (iii) to assist the CEO and trustees in carrying out their role. This has brought a
consistency and professionalisation to the management of the charity and quickly allowed administrative and operational activities and structures to expand, quicken and improve
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Creation of a Management Team, Autumn 2022, to include experienced Associates with a compliment of skills and interests. Function of team: to ensure a ‘plan, do, review’ mechanism that influences decision-making at an executive level. The management team considers issues and decisions that affect our day-to-day practice and learning. This promotes a collaborative approach to shaping our projects and priorities both in the interest of associates and in response to direct feedback from service users.
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Creation of a Working Group, Autumn 2022, to include (on rotation) Associates with knowledge and experience relevant to the agenda of the group. This group meets to progress project ideas or workstreams that require additional resource or capacity to move forward, or that would benefit from associate input in specific areas. Associates with relevant knowledge/experience are identified and invited to participate. The group meets for a series of sessions to achieve set aims, with recommendations then presented to the management team or CEO as required, either directly or via Ops Manager.
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Reviewing and improving our contractual terms with client schools.
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The further developed our offer of support in secondary schools to include: - A menu of training opportunities to school support staff - Workshops for school parents targeting specific issues
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Family consultation work in schools - ongoing
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An independent mentoring service (focusing on school attendance)
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School leadership consultation and supervision
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The furthering of our contribution to policy and practice around supervision in education. This includes attending a UCL network group and formally training associate staff via UCL.
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Continuing to develop our provision of well-being programmes to Bristol University medical students and liaison with other University faculties to develop offers suited to them.
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The further expanded our Associate practitioner team, to include a wider range of practitioners with complimentary skills including a mentor and psychoanalyst. This will enable us to continue in our reflective practice supervision support and training offer to staff in schools, as well as delivering other arts based and youth work interventions and to increase the capacity of the family work we are able to do.
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The holding of the charity’s first ‘away day’ on 11 November 2022, in which the majority of trustees and practitioners met for a day to discuss the work of the charity, its future, their individual contributions and potential developments.
The Charity was able to achieve its intended public benefit through its delivery of the above activities, on the basis that these activities directly relate to the Charity’s charitable objectives. The trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
Future plans
The Charity’s plans for the future are to continue and expand its current work. This includes engaging more Associates to expand the Charity’s work and funding training on key skills for some of those who work for it to assist in the quality and breadth of their delivery.
Financial
In financial terms, during the year the Charity received income of £49,110 (2021 £20,731) through donations and client fees. Expenditure was £38,952 (2021 £10,244), resulting in a surplus of £10,157 (2021 £10,487). There were no creditors or debtors at year end.
There were no material risks or uncertainties worthy of note.
The Charity’s principal source of fundings are client fees from the educational institutions it works with; donations from private individuals; and donations from other organisations. There are no restricted funds and the Charity’s policy is not to accept any restricted funds.
The Charity does not employ any person on a PAYE basis, and has no current plans to do so. Its Associates engaged to assist in the delivery of the Charity’s services are engaged on a self-employed, fee-paid basis.
The Charity has no reserves policy and no plan to accumulate substantial reserves. No funds were held by any custodian trustee.
Luke Menzies Chair of Trustees
21 June 2023
| Openmind.ed CIO | 1185048 | |||
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | CC16a | |||
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1/1/2022 | To | 12/31/2022 |
| Section A Receipts and payments | ||||
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| A1 Receipts Donations,legacies &grants 6,609 Fees for charitable services 40,440 Bank interest 18 Other 2,037 - - - - 49,104 - - Sub total - Total receipts 49,104 A3 Payments Bank charges 12 Regulatorycompliance 35 Insurance 314 Professional fees 26,382 Travel expenses 4,736 Room hire 2,103 Grants & donationspaid 4,923 Training - Other 447 - Sub total 38,952 - - Sub total - Total payments 38,952 Net of receipts/(payments) 10,151 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 15,969 Cash funds this year end 26,120 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ 6,609 40,440 18 2,037 - - - - 49,104 - - - 49,104 12 35 314 26,382 4,736 2,103 4,923 - 447 - 38,952 - - - 38,952 10,151 - 15,969 26,120 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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6,609 | 5,402 | ||
| 40,440 | 15,325 | |||
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| 49,104 | 20,731 | |||
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12 | 5 | ||
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| 447 | 9,890 | |||
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| 38,952 | 10,244 | |||
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10,151 | 10,487 | |
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| - | 15,969 | 5,482 | ||
| - | 26,120 | 15,969 |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Details Cash in bank account Details Details Details Details Signature Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ to nearest £ 26,120 - - - - - 26,120 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Luke Menzies Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) |
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| Date of approval |
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| Luke Menzies | 22.08.2023 | ||
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees1 members of openmind.ed On accounts for the year ènded 3111212022 Charity no (rf any) 1185048 Set out on pages I report to the twstees on my examination of the accounts of th8 above charity ('the Trusf) for the year ended 3111W2022. Responslbilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you gre responsible for the preparation basi5 of report of the awounts in accordance wlth the requirernents of the Charithes A 2011 rthe Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trusfs accounts Carried out under s8Ction 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the appliGable DireGtion$ given by the Chanty C(Hnmission under section 145{5){b) of the Act. I have completsd my examination. I confim? that no m8tetial matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me caus@ to believe that in, any material respect. accounb.ng records were not kept in accordaro£ vlth s8dion 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Indepondent examinerfs stat•m•nt I have no concems and have come a¢XOSS no other matters in connection wilh the 8xamination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Slgn8d: Date: ID61 Salty Renlson Relevant professional qualification(sl or body (if any): Chartered Awuntant (ICAEW) Addro85: 86 Kennington Avenue Bristol BS7 9ES Scctioii B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent ex8mlnatltM of charity accounts: directions and guidan for examiners). IER
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGIAND ANO WALES 0ppnmind.ed CIO 1185048 Recei tsand ments accounts CC16a Forthe period from 01101r2022 31112r21r22 To Section A Receipts and payments Unrnstrictad funds Rèstrietsd fundB Endowmént funds Total fun Last y to ngJrt ¥ tolhg nparg01£ tothe neorest£ to th¢ est£ toth¢ na$t£ A1 Recel ts ntbOn5, & gr Fees forctsairtabte semtrs Bank intwest SU9 15 18 £037 IOJ7 ss InGNi AR) 49.104 49,11M 20.731 etan nves en 49,104 49,104 20.731 Bank omaraes Regulat rAimtAvdn In611ratK& prn%nnHI tF Tf¥vel expenges hire Grants &dlN)ati paKI Tiainin 12 12 35 314 26,382 4728 2,103 4923 35 314 314 4,736 2,103 447 447 9,8*) Sub total 38,952 10.244 A4 Asset and investment Sub total 38,952 38.952 10.244 Net Ofrawffj{p8Vmentsj A5 Transfrr3 teen funds A6 Cash funds la8t year end Cash fun(ts thITS year end 10.151 10,151 10.48 26,120 26,120 15.969 CCXX R1 a)n {SSI 2SW2023
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrnstrfctod R8stricted funds funds to e Endowment funds Q&iEgcrios Details to B1 Cash fund$ Cgsh in t(jnt 2Q1ZO Total cash lunds 26,1ZQ Unr•strlct•d R•gtrlcted Endowrn fund$ lynds fundg to rare6t£ to noar66t£ Detai18 to neaTest£ Funrftowhsch a8Èèt 10 Curr8ntvalu Detsils Cost(ooa B3 Inv•Btm•nt assèts Fund iohfjch Curreni ¥oluo ona Detail ct10Pti1) B4 A88ets retained for the charitys oY4n us• Fund to whkh relates AmouN du• nal V4hèn Details Signed by one OT hvo trustees on behaf of all the truskes Snature Print Name Dale of approval Luke Menz5 22.08 2023 CCXX R2 a(*ounls ISSI 2510812023