## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 15/09/21 Period start date To 14/09/2022 Period end date** ## **Charity name: SeaFriends** ## **Charity registration number:1191294** ## **Objectives and Activities** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 1. Enhancing the wellbeing of
purposes of the charity Seaford residents experiencing
as set out in its social exclusion through
governing document loneliness and isolation by
providing person centred
support and social
opportunities, in the home,
community and safe space
environments. By reintegrating
clients into the community we
aim to promote a culture that
supports, empowers and helps
them to increase their self-
confidence and social
interaction, enabling them to
feel valued within the
community.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and
1.19
activities in relation to 1. A telephone befriending service
those purposes for the matching volunteer befrienders
public benefit, in to residents experiencing the
particular, the activities, effects of loneliness and social
projects or services isolation.
identified in the 2. Remote training and a support
accounts. programme has been
established for our volunteers,
and a website and Facebook
page is in place.
3. Weekly coffee mornings have
been set up with transport
supplied by a mixture of
volunteers and taxi services.
4. In collaboration with St Peters
Church, a memory café has
been established offering a safe
place for those living with
memory issues and their
carers.
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5. Subsidised day trips enabling
beneficiaries to interact with
the wider environment.
6. Seafriends joined Befriending
Networks, a national
befriending support charity and
has benefited from membership
of NCVO (National Council for
Voluntary Organisations), 3VA
and SCC (Small Charities
Coalition) enabling us to attend
many of the online training and
awareness sessions.
Statement confirming Para 1.18
whether the trustees Throughout this period, trustees have
have had regard to the had regard to the guidance issued by
guidance issued by the the Charity Commission on public
Charity Commission on benefit.
public benefit
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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference ## **Achievements and Performance** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SORP reference
The 1-2-1 befriending service set up
in COVID has proved successful with
some matches no longer seeking
Summary of the main support as they have established a
Para 1.20
achievements of the friendship network through our
charity, identifying the assistance, achieving one of our goals
difference the charity’s for people to reengage with the
work has made to the community and become less socially
circumstances of its isolated and lonely.
beneficiaries and any The establishment of the memory
wider benefits to society café has been successful, with an
as a whole. average attendance of 20 attendees
(patients and carers) assisted by a
bank of 9 volunteers with both
personal and professional experience
of dementia.
The coffee mornings have enabled
service users to grow friendships
which have continued outside of the
group supporting each other.
The subsidised day trips have enabled
beneficiaries to leave Seaford for the
first time in years and interact with
the wider environment.
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## **Financial Review** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Review of the charity’s Para 1.21
financial position at the Seafriends hold in reserve sufficient
end of the period funds to pay any permanent
employees for three months.
Notwithstanding the provisions above,
in line with the Charity Commission
Good Governance Guide we aim to
hold three months of operating costs
in reserves.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22
Seafriends currently estimates this to
be £15,000.
Explanation of any Para 1.23
uncertainties about the At the end FY 2020/21 the charity was
charity continuing as a living hand to mouth awaiting the
going concern possibility that additional Lottery
funding would be approved early in
FY2021. Funding has since been
provided by the Lottery fund enabling
the charity to continue its operations
until at least early 2024.
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SeaFriends principal source of funding
The charity’s principal is from the Lottery Fund.
sources of funds Para 1.47
(including any
fundraising)
The principal risk facing the charity
will be disruption in funding, and the
A description of the Para 1.46 departure of staff.
principal risks facing the
charity
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## **Structure, Governance and Management** Description of charity’s trusts: Type of governing Para 1.25 document SeaFriends has the Constitution of a (trust deed, royal Charitable Incorporated Organisation. charter) This is the second year of operation with charity trustees appointed **----- Start of picture text -----**
How is the charity Para 1.25 SeaFriends is a Charitable
constituted? Incorporated Organisation
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 This is only the second year of
methods including operation but replacements will be
details of any sought in line with existing guidance
constitutional provisions for the election of Trustees when the
e.g. election to post or time comes.
name of any person or
body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees
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## **Reference and Administrative details** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Charity name SeaFriends
Other name the charity N/A
uses
Registered charity 1191294
number
Charity’s principal 34 Sutton Park Road, Seaford, BN25 1RP, United
address Kingdom
hello@seafriends.org.uk
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## **Names of the first charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Stephanie Baker Chairperson
2 Mike Ogilvie Secretary
3 Viv Reynolds 15/09/21 -11/10/21
4 Janet Kent
Mark Forrester Treasurer
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## **Declarations** ## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** Stephanie Baker **Full name(s)** Stephanie Baker **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 24 July 2023 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES SeaF￿nds 1191294 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from 1fvSe 14-Sep-22 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds b)tr¥ wrest Restricted funds Endowmenl nds Total funds Last year totr* r*arest £ lo rn4res¢ £ 70,697 70.697 3.043 240 33.349 281 Trans ort costs donat>)ns 240 Seaford Rotary__ ArnHzon Eas FundtSiSi Seafriend5 AssocHtK)n k> er PAYE scheme Su58x Commun FoLsnd8tk Bel￿a Arnold Clark Wartiose Asda Seaford Lod Sub total(Gross income forAR) so 100 15 15 35 39.523 8.867 5.000 1.500 333 300 250 74.287 74,267 90.549 A2 Asset and investment sale5. see table Sub totsi 74.267 74,267 90,549 A3Pa ments Salaries and Nl Insurance DBS t￿lance 621 138 1.593 235 Venue Costs Trdinin IT Equipmnt Commnicalions statio￿ry Volunteer ¢osls Officg costs countarECy CQSts Other 1.070 309 405 Y96 12 100 406 138 12 50 Sub total 64412 63.412 51.280 A4 Asset and investment purchases, Isee table) Sub total Totalpayments 63,412 61412 57,280 Ngtof rnceiptsl(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year en(1 Cash funds this year end 10.855 10,855 33.269 33.269 33.269 44,124 44.124 33,269 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrtcted funds to r*arest £ Rtstsfcted funds Endowment funds Categorfes Detajls to r*arest£ to nÈareSt £ B1 Cash fu￿lS bu51￿S acc(y￿] Totsl¢ash finxLs 44,124 Unt*stricted fund$ Restrfcted fvnds Endowment funds to ￿are51 É Details to r￿rest £ rert val Ic