## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/05/22 Period start date To 30/04/23 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Northants Parkinson’s People** ## **Charity registration number: 1188652** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve sickness, preserve health and**
**promote positive health**
**outcomes for all those affected by**
**Parkinson's disease in**
**Northamptonshire.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**To provide peer support services using**
**all forms of**
**communication.**
**- To provide regular opportunities for**
**social contact at local accessible**
**venues.**
**- To provide a face to face visiting**
**service for individuals unable to**
**access their wider environment due to**
**Parkinson's.**
**-Informative, interesting and positive**
**newsletters. Articles are written by**
**members and volunteers.**
**- Website, containing useful information**
**about Parkinson's and the Charities**
**activities.**
**- Friendship calls to address feelings of**
**loneliness and isolation via**
**volunteers.**
**- Help line to provide emotional support**
**for anyone affected by Parkinson's to**
**include family, friends and carers. We**
**provide tailored information about other**
**services available to support**
**individuals. Via the helpline we fund a**
**freelance specialist with many years of**
**experience to assist with the application**
**for benefits, blue badge, housing and**
**other services.**
**- We encourage people to become**
**members of our Charity and**
**hope they will feel part of our supportive**
**community.**
**- We provide a once weekly exercise**
**group via zoom.**| |||**- Our Younger Guy's group meet**
**regularly both face to face and via**
**zoom.**
**- We provide three ‘walks in the park' in**
**the Racecourse, a large local park and**
**Abington Park finishing at a cafe for**
**social time.**
**- We have a very popular monthly lunch**
**group at a local Public House, regularly**
**welcoming over 30 individuals each**
**time. This includes people with**
**Parkinson's and partners.**
**- We have a Partners group who meet**
**once a month for morning coffee to**
**provide mutual support.**
**- We work closely with an exercise**
**instructor and contribute to rent**
**to provide time for beverages after**
**exercises.**
**-We have connected to a local indoor**
**bowls association and have weekly**
**games for all abilities.**
**-We subsidise trips to accessible**
**locations providing transport and**
**company.**| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All trustees, whilst exercising their**
**powers or duties, have complied and**
**given due regard to guidance on public**
**benefit published by the**
**commission.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Northants Parkinson's People is run by**
**volunteers.**
**Our volunteers provide:**
**Administrative duties required to keep**
**accounts.**
**Administrative duties required to run the**
**membership list.**
**Newsletter creation to include research,**
**article writing, laying out artwork.**
**Emailing the newsletter to our**
**recipients.**
**Making telephone friendship calls,**
**keeping in touch with isolated**
**individuals.**| **Organising walks, attending, advertising and encouraging participation. Walking with walking poles support. Organising activities for the younger guy's group. We pay an independent specialist to assist people affected by Parkinson’s in applying for disability benefits, blue badges and others. Fundraising: we are extremely lucky to have a fantastic fundraiser who grows plants to sell, makes jam, marmalade etc. We also have a further volunteer who makes lovely cards and artistic ornaments to sell for our benefit. We have a baking enthusiast who provides cakes to sell, others donate various items for us to sell. These fundraisers have worked together to do an indoor tabletop sale and plan for more later in the year. We worked together last year to collect and then sell items at a popular festival raising over £600 and an additional group are planning the same for this year. These activities are also a great opportunity to advertise the Charity and our other activities. ln addition, many of our members have donated and we have had additional donations from independent supporters and money donated in memory of loved ones.** Other ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**-Monthly Newsletter. The Newsletter has**
**been delivered every**
**month for four years via Email.**
**-We have 337 recipients of the**
**newsletter.**
**-Our website has approx. 80 visitors per**
**month since launching**
**-Regular friendship calls are ongoing**
**and many recipients have been**
**persuaded to attend face to face social**
**events now.**
**-Via the help line/ Facebook**
**/advertising/ website we have supported**
**210 individual people affected by**
**Parkinson's. These has been for**
**varied issues to include support with**
**Attendance Allowance (AA), Personal**
**lndependence Payments, Blue Badge**
**applications, general signposting and**
**information about Parkinson’s and our**
**support groups. We have helped 44**
**individuals obtain high-rate AA making**
**a big difference in their income to**
**support their disability. This work is**
**provided by an experienced advisor on**
**a as required basis and is invoiced at a**
**hourly rate.**
**-We have 137 members, many giving**
**donations on joining.**
**-Our thrice weekly walks have**
**approximately 20 individuals who**
**attend - not necessarily on the same day**
**but at some point during**
**the week.**
**-Our two walking with poles volunteers**
**continue to demonstrate and**
**offer support with correct usage of**
**walking poles to those who use**
**these.**
**-Younger Guys have named their group**
**NYPD. Northants, Younger, Parkinson's**
**Dudes. They have 30 on their invite lists.**
**They have organised various events to**
**include Canal Boat Hire, Pub Quiz’s &**
**Pools Tournament**
**-Monthly Lunch Group has been**
**ongoing for over a year and we have**
**enjoyed welcoming over 30 people each**
**time to include people with Parkinson's**
**and their partners.**
**-We now have a Partners group who**
**meet once per month to provide peer**
**support.**
**-Zoom online exercises continues and**
**welcomes approx. 6**
**attendees per week. One regular in**
**France**
**-Weekly face to face exercises are**
**supported by the Charity to**| |---|---|---| **provide additional social time. Regular attendance of 30 plus. -Last year we organised two boat trips and a trip to botanical gardens. This year we have organised a trip to Skegness, hiring an adapted mobility luxury coach and we will add additional trips as the year progresses. -Fundraising skills are provided by Sylvia our wonderful volunteer who has raised C3400.00 and continues to sell plants, Jams, Marmalade etc. Big thanks also to Pat who makes wonderful, creative cards and sparkling ornaments for Sylvia to sell. AIso, we have wonderful Rosemary who makes delicious cakes which are sold at exercises and walking. -Our contacts have been asked if they would like to be involved in promoting the Charity whilst fundraising at a popular local Festival and we have recruited a good team who are planning at present. Last year another group raised over £600. These opportunities build friendships and gives individuals a real sense of community and achievement. -We receive many verbal compliments and thanks for our support. Occasionally these come in writing:** _**Excellent news!! I have finally heard that my appeal to get the enhanced pension package from the civil service has been successful! The final report specifically referred to your report, Angela (as well as Dr Nithi's and my physio's) - so the depth and detail of your report was clearly highly influential in reaching the final decision. I can never thank you enough for taking so much time and care over my report, which will change my life completely in terms of the final outcome (we would probably have had to sell the house if I had lost the appeal). Thank you both so much - you do such wonderful work, and I am so grateful for your help.**_ ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41| |---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Bank account is approx. £17200.00**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The Charity does not have a policy for**
**holding reserves at present.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO)**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Elected**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Northants Parkinson’s People| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1188652| |Charity’s principal address|5 Redland Drive
Kingsthorpe
Northampton
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Richard Clifft|Chair||| ||John Ellis|Treasurer||| ||Karen Stokes|Secretary||| ||AnthonyRoberts|||| ||Nick Clarke|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A 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)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Richard Clifft **Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 16 May 2023 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period To Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment fvnds Total funds La5tyear A1 R￿eipts Broughlfwtsrd Donations 13.092 11092 &039 5.514 4ll 170 317 107 317 167 Car Boot Sa Coach lriplOubng5 SCO￿ Events 412 412 AR) 14,486 A2 Asset and investrent sales. {see table). A3Pa ents Adverb￿ng Postrdge Tr8vd Expews DBS CW$ Website Exp R￿M Hire IExcerosnYJl Stati(wy Tdephone R￿t* In￿rnn(* Technical Surpyt 157 loo 120 713 119 119 364 173 ln 32 1.755 1,T55 Sub total A4 Asset and investment ur¢ha5es see tsble Sub total 3.232 1,394 Net of reCeIp￿(pa￿￿ents) AS Transfer5 between funds A6 Cash funds last yearend Cash funds this yearend 17, 17.2 13.09 17. 17,226 13,092 CCKK R1 actfjunts ISSI 09105r2023 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to Theorest£ Endowment funds 10 nearest£ Categories Details B1 Cash funds 17,032 194 17,226 Re8tricted funds funds Details Fund towhlch Currentvalue ona Dètails Fund towhich CufftrrrtvaluÈ onal Details B4 Assets retsined for the harity's own use Fund tr*T*hich 4nOUfttdue WhpTr due Details B5 Liabilities Signed by one or ttvo trustees c behajfof all the tru5tee5 Date of ro Signalure PEinl Narne Rid￿rd Clrfft- Chairman John Elli5- Treasurer LS CCXX R2 accounts ISS} 0￿0&2