## ANNUAL REPORT
SELF-CARE MATTERS Registered charity number: 1190228
_Including Receipts and Payments Accounts for the Period of April 6[th] 2021 to April 5[th] 2022_
## **SECTION 1: The Charity**
Self-care matters is a registered charity that aims to support women experiencing severe perinatal mental illness who require inpatient treatment in hospital. Our primary charitable purpose is to provide free self-care boxes/ hospital packs to women in the 22 NHS Mother and Baby Units (MBU’s) across the UK.
Boxes are designed to contain useful items for a hospital stay as well as evidencebased items designed to provide comfort, distraction and promote emotional wellbeing- often through engaging the 5 senses.
Receiving a box is also intended to be a transparent gesture of compassion, connection and hope. Our Chair was inspired to set up the charity after her own lived experience of inpatient treatment in two MBU’s. We are run by 3 Trustees and are proud to say we are 100% volunteer-run.
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## **SECTION 2: Activities, Objectives and the Public Benefit from the Past Year**
In July 2021 we were very proud to receive an award from the British Prime Minister for exceptional volunteering and became an official UK ‘Point of Light’.
We sent free self-care boxes to every MBU bed in the UK for Mother’s Day, Summer and Christmas. An estimated 600 boxes were sent in total.
We received a large amount of brand new donated products for the boxes, which meant our actual financial running costs could be kept low. Local businesses and shops agreed to collect these for us using our new collection bins. We were also able to purchase products from financial donations and fundraising resources.
A unique item in our boxes is the inclusion of a handmade heart- we call these mental health hearts. Hearts are sewn, knitted or crocheted and donated by members of the public who want to contribute to the charity. Receiving a heart is intended to be a small keepsake of care, compassion and kindness. We have very gratefully been donated a large amount of hearts this year to include in our boxes.
We designed and bought some charity cash collection boxes and so far 8 local shops and businesses have agreed to display them by their tills.
We self-funded some promotional activities, for example on World Mental Health Day 2021 we left mini self-care packages hidden around our local town for people to find. This attracted a lot of positive feedback and raised awareness of our cause.
The charity has continued to be very active on social media, which generates a lot of interest and messages. These interactions have also enabled us to connect with the wider perinatal mental health community, as well as mental health professionals.
We have continued to develop our website, providing new resources for anyone interested in, or affected by maternal mental health issues.
We have had several teenagers volunteer with us as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Awards. They have been a great help and have completed tasks such as organising products, packing self-care boxes, designing posters and making cakes to sell.
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## **SECTION 3: Our Impact and Feedback**
Feedback this year has again been overwhelmingly positive from both MBU patients, staff and the wider perinatal mental health community.
- “I received my box this morning. Thank you for giving me a smile today. It felt like I was being hugged by love and was SO appreciated”.
## _MBU patient_
- “As a mum, battling through postpartum psychosis, I just wanted to say thank you for this lovely gift. It really is lovely. Thank you”.
_MBU patient_
- “It is wonderful that you have been able to use your experience to do something so positive”
_MBU Manager_
- “Thank you so much for the boxes of self-care items that we received todaythey have been given to the women staying here and have been really appreciated. The overall comments were about how valued they feltknowing that people cared about them at this difficult time”
_MBU Occupational Therapist_
- “The Mums were so touched by the kindness and the story behind self-care matters”
_MBU Charge Nurse_
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## **SECTION 4: Objectives for the Next Year**
1. Continue to grow organically, by spreading awareness of the charity and what we do and hope to achieve
2. Continue to raise funds through local events, but also start looking at small grant opportunities from organisations and businesses
3. Continue to promote and collect donations of mental health hearts and selfcare products
4. Keep liaising with Mother and Baby Unit managers and staff to ensure contents are appropriate and relevant.
5. Formulate a clearer structure and schedule of when and how many boxes are going to be sent over the calendar year
6. Put some more focus on the self-care element of the charity in terms of relevant articles and pieces on the website blog and social media posts
## **SECTION 5: Financial Review**
During the first financial period our income was £1,240 and our expenditure was £1,696. Our Receipts and Payments Accounts are included with this report.
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## **SECTION 6: Trustee Information**
## **Name:** Alison Barrott
**Address:** 1 Windsor Close, Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire. SK12 1JL. **Position:** Chair and Trustee
## **Name:** Joy Stevenson
**Address:** 8 Balmoral Drive, Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire. SK12 1JN. **Position:** Trustee
## **Name:** Joanne Hood
**Address:** 3 Brookfield Avenue, Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire. SK12 1HZ. **Position:** Trustee
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||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Self Care Matters**|||||**1190228**||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||02/07/2020||||05/04/2021|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations &FundraisingEvents|**1,240**||**-**||**-**||**1,240**||**746**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**1,240**||**-**||**-**||**1,240**||**746**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**1,240**||**-**||**-**||**1,240**||**746**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Products, packaging&postage|**1,696**||**-**||**-**||**1,696**||**583**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,696**||**-**||**-**||**1,696**||**583**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_**|**1,696**||**-**||**-**||**1,696**||**583**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**- 456**||**-**||**-**||**- 456**||**163**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**68**||**-**||**-**||**68**||**163**|
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**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash At Bank|||**68**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**|||**68**||**-**|**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|||OK||OK|OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||||||
|||||Print Name|||Date of
approval|
||A.Barrott|||Alison Barrott|||13/01/2023|
||J.Hood|||Jo Hood|||13/01/2023|
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