## ANNUAL REPORT 

SELF-CARE MATTERS Registered charity number: 1190228 

_Including Receipts and Payments Accounts for the Period of_ 




## **Annual Review** 

Self-care matters is a small 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 all of us are volunteers who run the charity in our spare time. 


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This year turned out to mainly be a pause- and has been about reflection of the charity so far and what direction to take it in in the future.  An opportunity arose for our Founder and Chair to work directly on two MBU’s for a much larger national perinatal mental health charity, this work is still ongoing. This direct experience has led her to completely re-evaluate the need, logistics, practicalities, costs, overlaps, etc of continuing to donate free self-care boxes.  These thoughts about future direction are still ongoing.  She would like to continue with ‘Self-Care Matters’ but feels it is definitely time to tweak the focus and direction. 

Notable highlights this year include being donated handmade Easter bunnies for the self-care boxes, more knitted hearts, and networking with local pregnancy and new parent events. 

Self-care boxes were freely donated to our local MBU for Easter and Christmas. 

Contents and products were either donated by manufacturers or purchased at vastly reduced cost, allowing quality boxes to be donated with minimal funds. 

The main focus of the coming year will be to decide as trustees how best to move the charity forwards, whilst also keeping to our original charitable purpose and objectives. 

## **Financial Review** 

During this financial period our income was £350 and our expenditure was £455. Our Receipts and Payments Accounts are included with this report. 

## **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. 

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## **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**<br>**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||06/04/2023||||05/04/2024|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations &FundraisingEvents|**350**||**-**||**-**||**350**||**1,250**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**350**||**-**||**-**||**350**||**1,250**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**350**||**-**||**-**||**350**||**1,250**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Products, packaging&postage|**455**||**-**||**-**||**455**||**1,115**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**455**||**-**||**-**||**455**||**1,115**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_**|**455**||**-**||**-**||**455**||**1,115**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**350**||**-**||**-**||**350**||**1,250**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**-                   105**||**-**||**-**||**-                   105**||**135**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**-                   105**||**-**||**-**||-105||**135**|



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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash At Bank||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**-                   105**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||A.Barrott||||Alison Barrott||||02/02/2025|
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