**REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1190944** ## **Report of the Trustees and** **Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** **for** **Laura Hyde Foundation** PPS Chartered Accountants 29 Devizes Road Swindon Wiltshire SN1 4BG **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Contents of the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** |||**Page**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Chairman's Note**||1|| |**Report of the Trustees**|2|to|6| |**Independent Examiner's Report**||7|| |**Statement of Financial Activities**||8|| |**Balance Sheet**||9|| |**Notes to the Financial Statements**|10|to|13| |**Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**||14|| **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Chairman's Note for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** The past year has been one of significant challenge and continued operational pressure for healthcare and emergency-service workers. Against this backdrop, we have remained committed to delivering compassionate, clinically supervised support at scale. Funding conditions remained difficult throughout 2024/25, with individual and corporate giving both experiencing a downturn. Despite this, we delivered substantial positive impact, maintained full independence, and continued to ensure that 100% of trustee time is voluntary, with no salaries paid - enabling all donations to be directed toward the individuals who need them most. The trustees made considered and responsible decisions to support innovation, grantmaking, digital services and frontline initiatives in spite of financial pressures. This reflects our deep personal commitment to the cause and our shared belief in the importance of LHF's mission. As we enter the next reporting period, our focus will turn sharply toward strengthening fundraising, expanding partnerships, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Foundation. We remain incredibly grateful for the continued support of our donors, partners, charity champions and volunteers - without whom none of this would be possible. I am proud to continue to remain wholly independent, a charity that is for the people we look to support and operating on a basis that maximises all of the kind donations we receive to have the biggest impact possible. The testimonials we regularly receive from people we have helped continue to fuel us and deliver even more support to those who have no option or are unable to get the help from the employers. That said, the numbers surfaced via our support service show that more and more people require our support and this is expected to grow even further in the next period. Therefore we must readjust our approach and specifically ensure a renewed focus on self-sufficient fundraising to enable us to sustain our current output is needed. In a challenging landscape, we must ensure that the principles and focus of the charity is sustained. The Laura Hyde Foundation is a long term committed cause given the personal association from its trustee board and therefore we are determined to ensure that we will not go the way of many other charities by having to close or reduce our operations. Let's hope that our innovations deliver real results over the next period reaffirming our stance that we are a charity that people can truly get behind and see how their generous donations can truly make a difference. Liam Barnes Chair, on behalf of the Trustees Page 1 **Laura Hyde Foundation** **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** Welcome to the fifth Trustees report under our constitution as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. This report is prepared by Liam Barnes, as Chair, on behalf of the Charity's Trustees. This will be circulated to members with June 2024 to May 2025 accounts before the Charity's summit Formal Report to the Charities Commission Some formal items must be included in our annual Trustees report and this document will satisfy that mandate. CIO Trustee Committee The Laura Hyde Foundation is a "Charitable Incorporated Organisation", registered with the Charities Commission on 19th August 2020, charity number 1190944.The CIO trustees have legal responsibility for governance, oversight of assets, and ensuring all activities align with our constitution. During 2024/25, the Board comprised: -Liam Barnes -Jennifer Hawkins -Imogen Landers Trustees met regularly throughout the year, with formal minutes recorded and available on request. All trustees agreed to continue in their positions for the next annual period. As the charity continues to grow, the need for additional trustees with specialist experience will again be discussed formally at the forthcoming summit. Page 2 **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES Charity Purpose** The Charity's purpose is to promote and protect the physical and mental health of emergency service and healthcare workers through: a) Providing an online self-help resource b) Signposting individuals to organisations who provide counselling, support and advice c) Raising awareness of their mental health needs and promoting and supporting improvements to mental health support in the workplace d) Making grants to support partner organisations, research and fund initiatives for such purposes Our priorities for 2024/2025 were: o To continue and to expand free to access and clinically led support for all medical and emergency services personnel o Ensure fiscal responsibility in light of a challenging fundraising landscape o Remove the continued stigma on mental health issues in the healthcare emergency services worker base o Progress an easy to access, interpretable data capability to allow politicians, management, staff and the public to understand the scale and trends o Promote the topic of suicide, its root causes and the appropriate support techniques required given our experience in this field o Ensure innovation in providing support is at the forefront of what we do o Ensure that any cohorts/audiences that are not eligible for support via employers, have access to support at their time of need o Deliver support for particularly vulnerable audiences/cohorts within the emergency services o Deliver significant programmes of work focused on the future medical and emergency services. Despite limited resources across this period, we have sill made progress on key items. Some initial highlights include: ## Clinically Supervised Support Service This remains the cornerstone of our work, continuing to provide 100% free, confidential and clinically led mental-health support to NHS and emergency services personnel across the UK. At the end of 2024, we were able to support directly 11,654 healthcare and emergency services workers with their mental health. This is a growth of 545 people compared to 2023. The breakdown of this value is a follows: - Age splits of contracts supported in 2024 - 18-27 (2,845), 28-37 (3,419), 38-47 (2,977), 48-57 (1,682), 58+ (731) -2024 Breakdown by top-level job category - Nurse (3,833), Doctor (1,246), Midwife (1,818), GP (676), Medical Student (2,004), Paramedic (562), Social Care (1,009), Police (94), Fire (7), Charitable Sector (368), Other (37) -2024 Breakdown by Gender - Male (2,366), Female (9,171), Non-binary (8), Unwilling to share (109) ## Data Insights & Research In line with last year's priority to progress actionable data capabilities, LHF continued to invest in research outputs designed to highlight the scale of mental-health pressures facing emergency staff. Our 2024/25 insights contributed to increased media presence and public dialogue around: -Suicide risk within emergency cohorts -Barriers to accessing in-work mental-health support -Drivers of help-seeking behaviour Key drivers of poor mental health of people coming to our service were broken down as follows: -2024 breakdown of root cause category - Workplace bullying (917), Patient Care/Grief (1,423), Impact on Family (449), Workplace Racism (313), Workload (2,111), Anxiety of making a mistake (442), Cost of living/financial (1,667), Body Image (98), Food anxiety (61), Sexual abuse (188), Exam pressures (514), Phobias (21), Did not want to disclose (1,836), Other (1,614). Page 3 **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** -Total contacts supported in 2024 who have engaged in suicidal thinking.activity - 6,199 -% of total overall contacts supported in 2024 - 53.2% ## Recharge hub - Paramedic Support Building on the success of 2023/24, the Recharge Hub continued to expand its reach. LHF-funded infrastructure supported the provision of on-demand digital therapies for ambulance service staff. ## Self-serve Training Courses The Foundation continued to offer free access to accredited wellbeing and mental-health learning resources with no referral barriers or judgement. This was previously sub contracted by a partner but we took full ownership of the experience including all course IP in this period to help our strategy. As of the end this period, 6,198 people had registered and enrolled on a course. ## Care packages & Outreach A total of 213 care packages were sent across the year to frontline teams. All postage and materials were funded by the charity, forming an important morale-boosting and awareness-raising activity. Page 4 **Laura Hyde Foundation** **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** ## **FINANCIAL REVIEW** ## **Financial position** Our financial accounting period runs from 1st June to 31st May, so the accounts presented at the upcoming summit relate to the period ending nine months ago. This report will provide a financial overview of the charity's finances: Headline summary - Total income - £8,992 - Total expenditure - £11,576 - Net position - £(2,584) (deficit) Although demand for our services continued to rise, fundraising conditions remained challenging, resulting in a year-end deficit. Income breakdown - Personal donations - £8,841.08 - Just Giving - £8,413.58 - CAF - £300.00 - Landers IR - £100.00 - Mobile cheque - £27.50 -Corporate donations - £120.00 - Staffordshire University - £120.00 -Shop Orders - £28.55 - Cashback - £3.72 Expenditure breakdown -Grants - £9000.00 - Embrace - £9000.00 - Technology Costs - £1,209.97 - Accountancy Costs - £840.00 - Care packages - £299.79 - Fundraising fees - £216.00 - Bank charges - £11.27 It should be noted on record that no individual has taken a salary for the work performed allowing us to be proud of the fact that all monies raised are put to the positive work we deliver. A summary of the accounts is sent with this report to the Members before the summit and full accounts are submitted to the Charity Commission and are available for public scrutiny. ## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document** The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust and constitutes an unincorporated charity. ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity number** 1190944 ## **Principal address** 3 Hornes Place Moreton in the Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 0JX Page 5 **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** ## **Trustees** L Barnes Chair Ms I Landers Trustee Ms J Hawkins Trustee ## **Independent Examiner** PPS Chartered Accountants 29 Devizes Road Swindon Wiltshire SN1 4BG Approved by order of the board of trustees on ............................................. and signed on its behalf by: 08-03-26 | 14:51 CET ........................................................................ L Barnes - Trustee Page 6 dent Eiaminer'5 Re rt to the Tnwee5 or Laura H de Foun lion Independent exArniner'5 rep)rt tfj tht trnstees of taura Hyde Foundation I report to the charity trustees on my exarlunation of th¢ x£ounts of iaurn Hyde Foundation (the Trusi) for the y ended 31 May 2025. ReS￿O$1b111tiM ind bAsi$ of report As th¢ charity trnstees of the Twst you are responsible for the preparntion of the ae¢(NJnts tn ?￿￿dalKe with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 Ilhe Aa'}. I rew)rt in respect of rny examination of the Tru￿,$ accoi]nts carri¢d out under Section 145 oftk Act and in cawyin8 Oilt my examination I have followrd all applicable tliredions given by the Chtirity Commission under Section 145{5Xb) of the Act. JThdtpendent exAmlner'J st*tem¢ni I have cornpleied rny examination. I ￿nfifflI mawial have com¢ ￿ my attention in conneetion with the examination givin8 me cause ￿ believe th￿ in any makrial respea.. a¢rA)un¢in8 records w¢r¢ kept in resp￿ of the TftL￿as rtyuired by Se￿10￿ 130 of ￿ Ac(. or the Accounts do not a¢cord with tlK)se records: or Ihc accounts do tM>t comply wilh the applicable requirements con¢¢rnin8 the fo￿ and conient of xeounts set out in the Charitie5 IAccounts ar￿ Rew>rtsl Regulaiions 21K)8 other than any requirerr¢ni thai the ￿£￿tsnts give tnje fair view which is not 4 matt¢r consid¢Tcd as pan of an independeni examirhalion. I have no eon¢em5 and hav¢ ￿me matters in conne£tion with the examination tty which attention should be drawn in this ter￿rt in order ￿ enable a proper Lnderthdin8 of the ￿Counts to be rwhed. Paul Pwwrth Smith PPS Chartered A¢¢ountants 29 Dewzes Road Swindon Wilishirc SNI 4BG Dgtr.. 08-03-26 1 14:51 CET ## **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** |Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
fund
Notes
£
£
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
Donations and legacies
8,992
-
**EXPENDITURE ON**
Raising funds
-
-
**Charitable activities**
Advancement of Health or Saving of Lives
9,000
-
Other
2,576
-
**Total**
11,576
-
**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**
(2,584)
-
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
50,418
-
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
47,834
-|31.5.25
Total
funds
£
8,992
-
9,000
2,576
11,576
(2,584)
50,418
47,834|31.5.24
Total
funds
£
16,131
16,104
2,500
2,916
21,520
(5,389)
55,807
50,418| |---|---|---| The notes form part of these financial statements Page 8 ## **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Balance Sheet** ## **31 May 2025** |Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
fund
Notes
£
£
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank
49,034
-
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
4
(1,200)
-
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
47,834
-
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**
47,834
-
**NET ASSETS**
47,834
-
**FUNDS**
5
Unrestricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**|31.5.25
Total
funds
£
49,034
(1,200)
47,834
47,834
47,834
47,834
47,834|31.5.24
Total
funds
£
51,618
(1,200)
50,418
50,418
50,418
50,418
50,418| |---|---|---| The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on ............................................. and were signed on its behalf by: 08-03-26 | 14:51 CET ............................................. L Barnes - Trustee The notes form part of these financial statements Page 9 **Laura Hyde Foundation** **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** ## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES** ## **Basis of preparing the financial statements** The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. ## **Income** All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably. ## **Expenditure** Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure. ## **Taxation** The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities. ## **Fund accounting** Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees. Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes. Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements. There are currently no restricted funds. ## **2. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS** There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 May 2025 nor for the year ended 31 May 2024. ## **Trustees' expenses** There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 May 2025 nor for the year ended 31 May 2024. continued... Page 10 **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** |**3.**|**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**|**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**|**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total| ||||fund|fund||funds| ||||£|£||£| ||**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**|||||| ||Donations and legacies||16,131||-|16,131| ||**EXPENDITURE ON**|||||| ||Raising funds||16,104||-|16,104| ||**Charitable activities**|||||| ||Advancement of Health or Saving of Lives||2,500||-|2,500| ||Other||2,916||-|2,916| ||**Total**||21,520||-|21,520| ||**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**||(5,389)||-|(5,389)| ||**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**|||||| ||Total funds brought forward||55,807||-|55,807| ||**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**||50,418||-|50,418| |**4.**|**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE**|**YEAR**||||| ||Other creditors|||31.5.25
£
1,200||31.5.24
£
1,200| |**5.**|**MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**|||||| ||**Unrestricted funds**|At 1.6.24
£||Net
movement
in funds
£||At 31.5.25
£| ||General fund|50,418||(2,584)||47,834| ||**TOTAL FUNDS**|50,418||(2,584)||47,834| ||Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:|||||| ||**Unrestricted funds**|Incoming
resources
£||Resources
expended
£||Movement
in funds
£| ||General fund||8,992|(11,576)||(2,584)| ||**TOTAL FUNDS**||8,992|(11,576)||(2,584)| |||||||| continued... Page 11 **Laura Hyde Foundation** ## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** ## **5. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued** ## **Comparatives for movement in funds** |||Net|| |---|---|---|---| |||movement|| ||At 1.6.23|in funds|At 31.5.24| ||£|£|£| |**Unrestricted funds**|||| |General fund|55,807|(5,389)|50,418| |**TOTAL FUNDS**|55,807|(5,389)|50,418| |Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:|||| |**Unrestricted funds**|Incoming
resources
£|Resources
expended
£|Movement
in funds
£| |General fund|16,131|(21,520)|(5,389)| |**TOTAL FUNDS**|16,131|(21,520)|(5,389)| |A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined position is as follows:|||| |**Unrestricted funds**|At 1.6.23
£|Net
movement
in funds
£|At 31.5.25
£| |General fund|55,807|(7,973)|47,834| |**TOTAL FUNDS**|55,807|(7,973)|47,834| A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows: |**Unrestricted funds**|Incoming
Resources
resources
expended
£
£|Movement
in funds
£| |---|---|---| |General fund|25,123
(33,096)|(7,973)| |**TOTAL FUNDS**|25,123
(33,096)|(7,973)| continued... Page 12 **Laura Hyde Foundation** **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** ## **6. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES** There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 May 2025. Page 13 **Laura Hyde Foundation** **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 May 2025** |**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations
**Total incoming resources**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Raising donations and legacies**
Campaign cost
Support services
**Charitable activities**
Grants to institutions
**Support costs**
**Management**
Postage and stationery
Marketing
Subscription
Software licenses
**Finance**
Bank charges
**Governance costs**
Accountancy and legal fees
Total resources expended
**Net expenditure**|31.5.25
£
8,992
8,992
-
-
-
9,000
213
86
216
1,210
1,725
11
840
11,576
(2,584)|31.5.24
£
16,131
16,131
7,704
8,400
16,104
2,500
162
-
440
1,305
1,907
22
987
21,520
(5,389)| |---|---|---| This page does not form part of the statutory financial statements Page 14