## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/05/24 Period start date To 30/04/25 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.**
**- Our Younger Person’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.**
**- In Jan 24 we started a Speaker Meeting**
**inviting interesting folks to educate us**
**on all manner of subjects, this regularly**
**attracts 20 plus attendees.**
**- We work closely with an exercise**
**instructor and contribute to rent**
**to provide time for beverages after**
**exercises once a week.**
**-We have connected to a local indoor**
**bowls association and have weekly**
**games for all abilities.**
**-We subsidise trips to accessible**
**locations providing organisation,**
**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. The majority of our**
**volunteers have in some way been**
**affected by Parkinson’s disease.**
**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. Organising activities for the younger persons group. Organising trips out, booking transport and providing excellent communication. We pay an independent specialist to assist people affected by Parkinson’s in applying for disability benefits, blue badges and others. This person also volunteers in other duties. 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 regular indoor tabletop sales this year and this activity continues. We were unable to fundraise at the local festival this year due to our hosts ill health. However, we have continued to receive generous donations from the community.** 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 six**
**years via Email. That is 72 editions.**
**-We have 391 recipients of the**
**newsletter.**
**-Our website is being updated and will**
**be ready June 2025 this work is being**
**undertaken by the son of one of our**
**members.**
**-Regular friendship calls are ongoing,**
**and many recipients have been**
**persuaded to attend face to face social**
**events now.**
**-Via the help line /advertising/ website in**
**total we have direct contact and**
**supported 378 people affected by**
**Parkinson’s since the charity began**
**(19/03/20) this is an additional 81 since**
**our last end of year. These has been for**
**varied issues to include support with**
**Attendance Allowance (AA) (we have**
**helped 68 people receive the higher rate**
**of attendance allowance which is**
**£110/week), personal independence**
**payments (PIP), Blue Badge**
**applications, general signposting and**
**information about Parkinson’s and our**
**support groups. This work is provided**
**by an experienced advisor on a as**
**required basis and is invoiced at a**
**hourly rate.**
**-We have 197 members, increase of 34**
**over the year, 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.**
**-Younger Guys group: NYPD. Northants,**
**Younger, Parkinson's Dudes. This group**
**is slowly growing. The NYPD have a**
**great volunteer who organises various**
**activities to include regular meet ups,**
**Canal Boat Hire, Pub Quiz’s & Pools**
**Tournament**
**-Monthly Lunch Group has been thriving**
**for three years and we have enjoyed**
**welcoming over 30 people each time to**
**include people with Parkinson's and**
**their partners.**
**- We opened a new Speakers Group in**
**Jan 24. This has been successful, and**
**our attendees have enjoyed the variety**
**of speakers booked by our very efficient**
**charity secretary.**| **-Weekly face to face exercises are supported by the Charity to provide additional social time. Regular attendance of 35 plus. - A BBQ’s was organised in July 24 by a small team of volunteers who cooked and looked after everyone who came along. - A local canal trip was organised by our newest committee member and volunteer. - We had two trips to a local theatre the first being afternoon tea with entertainment. Pre- Christmas we organised a trip to see a male quartet singers group. - Plans are being made to set up a new Coffee Morning group in a smaller local town. - We closed our partners group as interest dropped but we will begin again if anyone feels this would be of benefit. - Many people thank us for our support verbally and occasionally on our donation page** _**“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the charity for being there and in particular Angela, for her help and time. I couldn’t have got through without her”**_ **-Fundraising skills are provided by Sylvia our wonderful volunteer who has raised £6840 in total since the Charity began, 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. This year we have also been selling items on ebay which have been donated to the Charity.** ## **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** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Bank account is £18,738.00**| |---|---|---| |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 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 Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties 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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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Richard Clifft|Chair||| ||John Ellis|Treasurer||| ||Karen Stokes|Secretary||| ||BarryJohnson|||| ||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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|R Clifft|J Ellis| |---|---|---| ||Richard Clifft|John Ellis (Treasurer) 19/06/2025| ||
Chair|| ||19 June 2025|| ||19 June 2025|| |**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---| |**Northants Parkinson's People**|||| |**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**| |01/05/2024
Period start date
**For the period**
**from**|30/04/2025
Period end date
**To**||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**18,810**
**2,871**
**66**
**1,535**
**916**
**818**
**367**
**-**
**25,383**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,383**
**136**
**10**
**27**
**765**
**32**
**70**
**131**
**3,280**
**62**
**2,057**
**25**
**50**
**6,645**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,645**
**18,738**
**-**
**-**
**18,738**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**18,810**
**2,871**
**66**
**1,535**
**916**
**818**
**367**
**-**
**25,383**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,383**
**136**
**10**
**27**
**765**
**32**
**70**
**131**
**3,280**
**62**
**2,057**
**25**
**50**
**6,645**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,645**

**18,738**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Brought forward|**18,810**|||||**17,226**| |Donations|**2,871**|||||**4,996**| |Gift Aid|**66**|||||**96**| |Sales|**1,535**|||||**190**| |Tables Top/ Car Boot Sales|**916**|||||**908**| |Coach trip/Events|**818**|||||**1,208**| |Interest|**367**|||||**217**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**25,383**|||||**24,841**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**24,841**| |||||||| |
Advertising|**136**|||||**675**| |Postage|**10**|||||**51**| |Travel Expenses|**27**|||||**28**| |Room Hire|**765**|||||**780**| |Stationary|**32**|||||**64**| |Telephone|**70**|||||**107**| |Insurance|**131**|||||**120**| |Professional|**3,280**|||||**2,066**| |Zoom Expenses|**62**|||||**167**| |Coach Trips/Events
Sympathy Expenses
Miscellaneous
**_Sub total_**||||||**1,603**
**151**
**219**| |||||||**6,031**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**6,031**| |||||||| |||||
**18,738**||**18,810**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||||**18,738**||**18,810**| |||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 07/01/2026 1 |**Section B Statement of**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Categories**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**18,690**
**-**
**48**
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**-**
**-**
**18,738**
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Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
J Ellis
Print Name
Richard Clifft
John Ellis
Signature
R Clifft
**Details**
**Details**
Bank
Cash
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
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**B3 Investment assets**
**Details**|**Section B Statement of**
**Unrestricted**
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**funds**
**Categories**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**18,690**
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**48**
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**18,738**
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behalf of all the trustees
J Ellis
Print Name
Richard Clifft
John Ellis
Signature
R Clifft
**Details**
**Details**
Bank
Cash
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
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**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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**charity’s own use**
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**to nearest £**| |---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
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approval| ||R Clifft|13/05/2025| ||J Ellis|**13/05/2025**| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 07/01/2026 2