## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From Jan 2020 Period start date To Jan 2021 Period end date**
## **Charity name: HIS Help Information Support**
**Charity registration number: 1190550**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|‘HIS’: Help Information Support was built to
bridge a gap in the mental ill-health service
and was founded after losing a dear friend
who took his life in 2019. We work with men
and young lads from key stage 3 to
adulthood, struggling with their mental ill-
health throughout London and Kent.|
|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|HIS works holistically as one team with key
workers, mentors, counsellors and
therapists working with constant
communication. Services offered:
•
Parenting workshops on mental
health & SEN children.
•
Parenting groups for parents that
have struggled with their children’s
mental health
•
Transitional work with teenage
boys.
•
Men’s groups face to face.
•
Corporate Well-being in the
workplace.
•
Holistic workshops
•
Suicide prevention training.
•
Mental health training within
schools.
•
Prevention work on children who
struggle in the education system.
•
• Intense retreats for clients that are
stuck in their trauma.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have all received guidance
and briefings on services offered and
delivered.|
## **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|As a male mental health charity, senior
management has regular consultation
sessions with Martin Seager, The founder
of the first male group in the British
phycology association.
Martin advises senior government and
conducts research for various
organisations. These sessions are vital to
the organisation. At the beginning of the
year, HiS had a documentary made of the
charity, which involved some of the team as
well as some of the clients themselves. The
support we received from our clients was
amazing, considering some started off with
no confidence at all, only communicating
via text. Watching them blossom is
definitely our reward.
The outcome of the documentary was
rather emotional, with not just HIS’s story,
but the journey of our clients and the
viewer’s views. Tim’s family were
overwhelmed with gratitude for the work
HIS Charity does. We were ecstatic to be
invited to join the government’s research
paper for the APPG, a boy of today.
In June, we did a presentation to parliament
officials on the charity. Outlining that as a
charity, we do HIS: Help information
support. Supporting males with their
emotional & mental health, ensuring that
they thrive, not just survive, not putting a
timeline restriction on somebody’s healing,
and building a unique care package around
their needs. We emphasised how as an
organisation, we build a solid system that
holds and supports individuals, ensuring
they don’t fall through the gap. How
calibrating holistic therapy and talking
therapy can have a profound positive effect
on individuals. MP’s were interested in
setting up a pilot scheme for us, as we
don’t work in the same format as the NHS.|
## **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 Para 1.21 financial position at the end of the period Statement explaining the Para 1.22 policy for holding reserves stating why they are held Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 reserves Details of fund materially in Para 1.24 deficit Explanation of any Para 1.23 uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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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||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25||
|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||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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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 Other name the charity uses Registered charity number Charity’s principal address
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Mark Greensmith||||
||Jill Ansell||||
||Martin Eagle||||
||Donna Gipson Miller||||
## – 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 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)** Mark Greensmith **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair of Trustees **Chair, etc)**
**Date**