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2022-12-31-accounts

The Windmill Trust Generating therapeutic change Trustees’ Annual Report & Accounts Period End 31 December 2022

The Windmill Trust Registered Charity Number 1195160

www.thewindmilltrust.org

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Charity Name : The Windmill Trust Registration Number : 1195160 Registered Address : 78 Appleby Road Kendal Cumbria LA9 6HF

Trustees : Mrs. Lesley Ritchie (appointed 14/07/2021) Ms. Helen Whittaker (appointed 14/07/2021) Mrs. Sarah Parkhouse (appointed 14/07/2021) Ms. Katherine Haigh (appointed 07/02/2022) Mr. Paul Ulett (appointed 07/06/2022) Mr. Garry Elliott (appointed 21/09/2022)

Independent Examiner : Sophie Graham FCA Saint & Co Chartered Accountants Sterling House Wavell Drive Rosehill Carlisle Cumbria CA1 2SA

Bankers : Virgin Money 45 Penny Street Lancaster LA1 1UE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Trustees’ Annual Report ........................................................................... 4-29 Our Vision & Mission .............................................................................. 4 Statement of Public Benefit ................................................................ 5-6 Structure, Governance & Management ................................................. 7 Recruitment and Appointment of New Trustees ............................ 7 Objec�ves ............................................................................................... 8 The Need ........................................................................................... 9-12 Effect of Experiencing Mul�ple ACEs ............................................... 9 ACEs in Cumbria ............................................................................. 10 Why we Work Crea�vely ......................................................... 11-12 Ac�vi�es .......................................................................................... 13-15 Services ............................................................................................ 13 Individual Therapy ........................................................................... 13 Group Therapy ................................................................................. 14 Parents/Carers ................................................................................. 14 Partnerships ............................................................................... 14-15 Fundraising ....................................................................................... 15 Achievements and Performance ..................................................... 16-22 Our Impact ....................................................................................... 16 Measuring the Impact of Individual Work ....................................... 17 Measuring the Impact of Group Work ............................................ 18 Challenges ........................................................................................ 19 Child Feedback ................................................................................. 20 Parent Feedback .............................................................................. 21 Referrer Feedback ............................................................................ 22 Case Study ....................................................................................... 23-25 Acknowledgements ............................................................................... 26 Future Plans .......................................................................................... 27 Financial Review & Reserves Policy ...................................................... 27 Trustees’ Report Approval .................................................................... 28 Independent Examiner’s Report ................................................................. 29 Statement of Financial Ac�vi�es ................................................................ 30 Statement of Financial Posi�on .................................................................. 31 Notes to the Financial Statements ........................................................ 32-40 3

TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT

This is our first Trustees’ Report since our accounts began, having set up as a Charity in July 2021. The charity was founded by the chair, Lesley Ritchie, and the manager, Phillippa Chapman, in response to the growing mental health needs of children in Cumbria. Lesley Ritchie is the Director of About Children in Kendal, which is a private company that delivers creative therapy to children in the looked after system or who are adopted, who have funding for therapy through statutory routes. Lesley has been the Director and an Arts Therapist at About Children for over 25 years and so has first hand knowledge of the growing need in the area, alongside Phillippa’s 15 years as a Dramatherapist. The Windmill Trust was set up to provide creative therapy to children who are similarly at risk of long term mental health issues as those who qualify for statutory support, but who are unable to access support from therapeutic professionals through statutory routes. This report is an account of our first year’s work.

For accounting reasons, the financial period reported in The Windmill Trust Annual Trustees’ Report is July 2021 to December 2022, but, as we did not begin delivery of services until April 2022, we have reported on a full year’s worth of delivery information, up to March 2023. This is to give a more comprehensive overview of the impact our charity has had within one year.

Our vision is a future where, regardless of economic background, children and young people have access to researched, effective therapeutic interventions to alleviate distress and ward - against long term mental health issues.

Our mission is to provide researched, effective therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families in West Cumbria, helping to reshape the impact of trauma, one child at a time.

We provide therapeutic support to those at risk of suffering long-term mental health issues, who are least likely to have support from therapeutic professionals. We alleviate distress through creative interventions and take a holistic and tiered - approach to preventing long term mental health issues in children and young people in Cumbria.

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STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BENEFIT

Our service benefits children, young people and families who would otherwise not have had any support. We also work with schools and referral partners. In defining our charitable programme, we have given regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit.

Benefit to Children/Young People

We provide one-to-one psychotherapy to children and young people with complex emotional issues, who have suffered abuse, neglect or trauma, often as a result of multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). We work in a child-centred and creative way to help children and young people explore, express and process difficult material when words are too much or not enough. The one-to-one work lasts as long as it needs to in order for the child to recover and feel happier. We provide targeted group therapy to children and young people who are experiencing issues - with anxiety and low self esteem, using play, drama and art to build resilience and confidence. The group therapy works alongside school timetables and is offered on a termly basis.

We provide support to parents and carers through face-to-face meetings and telephone calls, to help make sense out of children’s behaviour and understand complex emotions and needs. We write Therapeutic Needs Assessment reports to help parents understand their child’s needs and we see the work with parents as an essential component to achieving better outcomes for the child. We have fundraised in order to provide more focused therapeutic support to parents who are struggling with complex issues themselves, as this can often be part of the picture. Sometimes, children who have experienced ACEs have parents who have also experienced multiple ACEs.

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Benefit to the Wider Family and Community

A child who gets support is going to become a calmer and more productive classroom and playground buddy; is less likely to disrupt the class and is less likely to be part of dramas at home or be a source of worry or stress. Children who have experienced trauma are often at risk of becoming involved in crime, substance misuse or abusive relationships as they grow. Our intervention looks to prevent that.

We work closely with schools, providing consultation and writing Therapeutic Needs Assessments to help inform Education Health Care Plans (EHCPs) for children and young people with high levels of need. We attend Team around the Family and Early Help meetings and give advice about strategies that might help in the classroom with individual children who are struggling. One local school has made us part of their tiered approach to mental health, which has helped them think more about what different children need.

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STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT

The charity is a Charitable Incorporation Organisation (CIO) which was registered with the Charity Commission in July 2021 and is governed by a constitution as a Foundation CIO.

We have six trustees who bring experience in the areas of Developmental Trauma and Therapy, Finance, Charity Management, Law, Education and Health. As a charity, it is our ethos that all trustees have full DBS checks and participate in safeguarding training. We have joined West Cumbria Strategic Mental Health Partnership and the West Cumbria Children and Young People’s Partnership as we are committed to working with other organisations and complementing rather than duplicating the work already being done in the county.

Our Charity Manager, Phillippa Chapman, has Level 3 Safeguarding and is the Designated Safeguarding Lead for the charity. Phillippa is a fully qualified Dramatherapist, registered with the Health Care Professions Council, with over 15 years’ of experience working with children with complex needs. S he has also begun a Level 5 Diploma in Management of Children’s Services.

Recruitment and Appointment of New Trustees

New trustees are recruited in line with The Windmill Trust’s Trustee Recruitment Policy. Trustees receive a full induction to the charity and a set of key documents, enabling them to gain the required information to fulfil their role.

A quarterly skills analysis ensures the trustees offer a suitable range of knowledge and skills to support the charity. Where a skills gap is identified we aim to seek trustees to bridge this gap. The Board aims to adhere to the principles of the Charity Governance Code for Smaller Charities. This is an ongoing process, and we are working towards fulfilling all aspects of the code.

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OBJECTIVES

Trustees decided this was a 3-year plan, to span April 2023 to March 2026.

Our aims and objectives, as agreed at our latest Strategic Planning Day, held by the Board of Trustees, are:

· Provide indirect benefits to schools through having an impact on the learning of the whole classroom through participating children being happier and less disruptive.

· Respond to the children that come to us with complex needs, on an individual basis, by not being bound by generic time frames and never leaving part way through the process, ending when the time is right for the child and trauma processing has had the time it needs.

· Raise enough money to support 100 children and young people, 20 families and 400 indirect beneficiaries, through a diverse portfolio of funding sources, to make The Windmill Trust sustainable and able to help more children and young people in the future.

· Contribute to research that evidences the impact of creative arts therapies to improve policy and service provision so that more children can access - the long term trauma sensitive therapies they need.

Ensure we have an infrastructure that allows us to work effectively, efficiently and compliantly through our IT, finance and administration systems and our policies and procedures.

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THE NEED

We are building a service that will greatly increase what Cumbria can offer in terms of children's mental health because there are very few mental health services for children of junior school age that are able to provide face-to-face, specialised, trauma sensitive interventions based on the child’s own timetable for healing. Less than 1% of the NHS budget is spent on children's mental health and very few children meet the threshold criteria for therapy with CAMHs. ¹

Effect of Experiencing Multiple ACEs

ACEs are stressful or traumatic events that happen in childhood. They can include things that affect a child/young person directly (such as abuse or neglect) or - indirectly through the environment they live in. ACEs can be single events or long term or repeated experiences. ¹

ACEs affect a person’s neurological, physical, emotional, psychological and social development. Toxic stress emulating from ACEs affects a person’s brain chemistry and how that person will respond to stress, as well as potentially having an influence on physiological factors such as cardiology and the nervous system. It has a huge impact on a person’s ability to make and maintain healthy relationships, which is fundamental to human happiness and wellbeing.

Around half of all adults living in England have experienced at least one ACE. ²

For children living with the effect of ACEs, early mental health support is crucial. The support needs to involve the whole family, and services need to avoid retraumatisation. ³ This is our specialism at The Windmill Trust.

¹ YoungMinds report: Addressing Adversity, 2018, p22.

² YoungMinds report: Addressing Adversity, 2018, p23.

³ Cumbria County Council Public Health Annual Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences , 2018.

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Young people who have experienced four or more ACEs are:

Adults with multiple ACE’s are:

ACEs in Cumbria

It is estimated that 46,000 children currently living in Cumbria will experience at least one ACE before their 18th birthday, and nearly 8,000 will experience four or more, making them extremely vulnerable. This figure is based on national averages for England, so the number could be much higher for West Cumbria as this area is higher than the national average for other risk factors, such as childhood poverty, domestic violence, alcoholism and substance abuse, being classed as a Child in Need and percentage of children with mental health issues. These are also pre-pandemic figures, so we could anticipate that the actual number today is higher.

Young Mind’s publication, Addressing Adversity, demonstrates that good practice in working to reduce the impact of ACEs on children and young people must be with services that have a truly trauma informed approach. It shows that approaches need to be flexible, working with the young person’s preferred methods of communication and that services should be relationship based and child/young person led. This is harmonious with how we work.

Cumbria County Council Public Health Annual Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences , 2018, p6.

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, Children and Young People Report for Cumbria (https://www.cumbriaobservatory.org.uk), [14.06.23], 2015 and 2017. YoungMinds report: Addressing Adversity, 2018.

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Why we Work Creatively

Play and art are a child’s innate way of communicating and processing difficult

events.

It makes sense to use this when doing therapy with children and young people. We learn to speak their language. We don’t expect them to speak ours.

Traumatic memory does not reach the hippocampus (the part of the brain that deals with our perception of time and ability to recall things).

It gets stored in the amygdala, our central alarm system, and sends signals throughout the entire body. Therefore, it is very difficult for children (and adults) to access these memories as explicit, whole episodes of reliable information. Current trauma research has clearly shown that recovery from trauma requires a full brain/body approach that can work with traumatic memory using sensory, creative materials, in the here and now.

Children who have experienced abuse, neglect and multiple ACEs are unable

to recognise healthy attachment patterns.

Children who have suffered early trauma are often avoidant and dissociative.

We are trained to work with this, and our approach means that children do not have to talk, if they don’t want to. Dissociation is a highly complex psychological condition that can be misunderstood and missed by professionals. Therapists working with these children should be experienced and qualified to do this work.

Levine, P, (2017), ‘Somatic experiencing; a body oriented approach to the treatment of traumatized infants and children’. In S. Daniel and C. Trevarthen (eds) Rhythms of Relating in Children’s Therapies. London. Jessica Kingsley, pp 126-141.

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Why we Work Creatively (continued)

The part of the brain that deals with language, switches off when a person is asked to recall a traumatic event.

There is growing evidence for trauma treatment not to focus on recollection of events but to take a different approach, as the growing census is that recollection is not necessary for recovery. This is especially consistent with current research that demonstrates the unreliable nature of memory and how this is affected by trauma.

It is possible through creative therapy to offer a truly trauma sensitive

approach.

This is where the client leads the session and has ultimate control over what happens, giving them back autonomy. This means that the intervention is completely open to being based around their needs and their preferences for ways of working/how to use the time (trauma always involves lack of choice/loss of power, so our approach directly restores this).

Arts Therapies offer a way of exploring and processing difficult material through metaphor.

The trauma is processed at a safe aesthetic distance from the client, whilst also working at a deep emotional level with subconscious processes that are engaged during creative practice.

There is a proven relationship between the arts and mental wellbeing.

There is a proven relationship between the arts and mental wellbeing, which gives - added weight to using a creative arts based approach to address trauma.

Ganslmeier, M., Kunze, A.E., Ehring, T. et al. The dilemma of trauma-focused therapy: effects of imagery rescripting on voluntary memory . Psychological Research, 2022.

Arts Council (https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/arts-culture-and-wellbeing) [14.06.23.]

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ACTIVITIES

Services

We offered Dramatherapy and Art Therapy during our first year. We plan to offer other creative therapies (Play/Movement/Music) as we grow. Dramatherapy and Art Therapy are creative, integrative (making use of many theories and approaches) and psychodynamic (working with the therapeutic relationship) psychotherapy approaches to help children and young people explore and process difficult feelings and memories.

We make use of story, art, movement and drama which means children can explore issues safely through metaphor and access support when their problems are hard to verbalise. We work with children to set goals for the therapy, to help them think about what changes they want to feel. Children do not need to be interested in the arts to access our service. Because we are completely child-led and non-directive - in our approach, what happens in the session is non prescriptive and we are trained to find ways to engage the child and build a relationship in a way that makes sense to them and is accessible to them, whatever that might look like. This means the - therapy can be non verbal, where necessary, working at a deep level with subconscious processes and the child’s own preferred methods of relating and communicating.

Individual Therapy

We offer individual Dramatherapy or Art Therapy sessions to children or young people who have been identified as being at risk of long-term mental health issues - through schools, other services, parents or GPs. We offer this service as a one year intervention that can be extended when there is a need to continue.

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Group Therapy

Our group work is more preventative and focuses on destigmatising and universalising difficult issues, decreasing isolation and building relationship skills.

We offer group Dramatherapy/Art Therapy services to children who have been - identified through schools as having specific needs around anxiety and low self esteem. Group sessions are aimed at helping children understand they are not alone, build empathy with others and gain confidence. We work with the group dynamic in order to help children understand their own emotions and that of others.

Issues are explored through drama and shared art works, safely contained in metaphor. Groups run for a school term (approx. 12 weeks).

Parents/Carers

We work with parents/carers and other professionals involved with the child/young person to help them understand the child’s emotional needs and psychological status, through using a mixture of psychoeducation and therapy. Involving the parents/carers is often paramount to achieving outcomes for children in therapy because these are the people providing the routine day-to-day, practical and emotional care and attachment relationship.

Sometimes, parents need their own support and it can be necessary to take a holistic, whole family approach to achieving positive outcomes for the child/young person.

Partnerships

We have worked in partnership with Wigton Youth Station in developing a therapy space in their building and the money we pay them for room hire goes back into providing a service for young people in Wigton. We have also joined West Cumbria Strategic Mental Health Partnership and West Cumbria Children and Young People’s Partnership to network, develop understanding of our work and build relationships with other agencies. This has helped us to understand other local organisations and has led to frequent requests to refer. Unfortunately, we do not yet have the capacity to open up for referrals.

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Partnerships

We work closely with the schools of children and young people in our service, attending Team around the Family and Early Help meetings and writing Therapeutic Needs Assessment Reports. We offer consultation and support based around understanding children and young people’s behaviour and how to take a trauma informed approach to helping them heal and engage with education.

A local junior school has been able to make us a part of their new strategy for dealing with mental health issues. They have a tiered system of support in place, with decider skills and talk and draw, for children showing signs of distress. They come to us if they feel a child needs specialist input.

Fundraising

We are almost completely reliant on trusts and grants. Charging a fee for our services would mean the families of the children and young people we see would not be able to access us, which goes against our vision that mental health services should be accessible to all, regardless of economic or financial background.

Our Chair, Lesley, and her friend, Helen, are climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in September to raise funds for and awareness of our work. We plan to do more direct fundraising in 2023-2024.

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

In our first year of delivery, we supported:

Our Impact

We have provided specialist creative psychotherapy sessions to 14 children in distress who would otherwise not have been able to access any support, because they were not eligible through statutory routes and because there were no other services who could offer this in Wigton.

Our goal in our business plan was to work with 3 individual children in 1:1 therapy and in fact we were able to provide weekly therapy for 4 individual children suffering from the effects of multiple ACEs.

We have also provided regular group therapy to 10 children who were not thriving in school because of low self-esteem, lack of confidence and varying communication issues.

In our Business Plan, we had set out to work with 12 children (two groups of 6). However, the group work itself was logistically tricky which impacted the ability to recruit 6 children for each group. We need to further explore the barrier to getting all the spaces filled as it is not due to lack of need but practicalities.

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During this time, we have also worked closely with local schools, attending meetings and providing consultation on how trauma and attachment issues affect children and providing strategies to help reduce anxiety in school. We have also written comprehensive reports to be used as part of EHCP plans. Additionally, we have worked very closely with seven families (expanding the number of direct beneficiaries), providing support to parents to help make sense of behaviours and find ways to minimise anxiety and stress at home.

Measuring the Impact of Individual Work

In our individual work, we currently use Psychlops and YP-CORE . The issue with using these type of outcome measures when working with children who are highly dissociative and avoidant is that they can be a little unreliable. A pattern we have seen is that children and young people often report that everything is great for them at the start of therapy, so their scores will be low (although the referral will tell a very different story). As they then progress through therapy and become more authentic, less avoidant and more capable of managing and identifying some of their emotions, they may score higher. Then over time, they gradually score lower again as things change. So, for these children we also use the Child Dissociative Checklist and parental and school feedback to assess how things are going.

There are 10 items on the YP-CORE measured from 0 to 4, with higher scores indicating higher levels of distress, with the lowest possible score being 0 and the highest possible score being 40. Although a clinically validated cutoff score has yet to be determined for YP-CORE, a score of 11 or above indicates significant distress - - - - - (Healthy 0 5, low (6 10) mild (11 14), moderate (15 19), moderate to severe (20 24) and severe (25 and above).

All children from the first therapy group showed progress, moving from either mild to low; moderate to mild, or moderate/severe to moderate. The children with the highest level of complexity made the biggest improvements and one child improved significantly by 6 points within the 12 week period. Another child indicated they thought about self harm ‘often’, which became ‘never’ after 5 months of therapy.

Children attending 1:1 therapy often require ongoing support because of the profound and enduring nature of their difficulties, and in order to minimise the risk of - long term mental health issues. Meaningful data can be reported when they come to the end of therapy.

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Measuring the Impact of Group Work

For our group work, we used YP-CORE , Me&My Feelings Questionnaire and child/ parental/referrer feedback forms. We found that the YP-CORE was more consistent with what was reflected in feedback forms and that on average children improved by 3.85 points, with the children with the highest complexity and emotional need recording the largest changes. In feedback forms, children said they felt the group had helped them, that they were more confident as a result, describing less anxiety, feeling less scared about attending school and feeling more open to working with others.

We feel that outcome measures vary greatly in their relevance to different interventions and time frames, we are working with local Health Research Partnership Coordinators to explore research opportunities to help evidence our work.

We are also looking into using the Outcomes Star ¹ º (an evidence-based tool for both supporting and measuring change) as it may be more applicable for use within a group setting.

From the YP-CORE Questionnaire:

100%

of children felt they’d improved at being able to cope when things go wrong.

100%

of children felt they were sleeping the same or better following therapy.

From the Me&My Feelings Questionnaire:

100%

of children felt that they no longer worried a lot or only sometimes, instead of all the time.

100%

of respondents said they never or only sometimes worried at school now.

¹ºÊ Outcomes Star (https://www.outcomesstar.org.uk) [14.06.23.]

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Challenges

For group work, it is important that the children who attend have similar issues and are of a similar age. It is also important that they are suitable for group work and can manage group therapy, so children who really needed individual therapy could not be considered as their needs would likely overwhelm the group. In order for all the children to arrive and leave at the same time and to prevent all their parents having to bring them and wait in our waiting area, we organised with schools (who made the referrals) to bring the children. This created issues with different schools having different break/class times and staff availability for escorting children.

Another challenge with the group work has been evidencing the change. This is - because we are still exploring which outcome measures work best with 7 10 year olds in a group setting.

With the first group, we used YP-CORE and although it showed improvement, we felt in actuality the form was not appropriate, some of the questions confused some group members and completing it in session without it taking over the whole session was problematic.

Because the next group were younger, we used the Me&MyFeelings questionnaire as we felt the questions were gentler. What was interesting was that they all made huge progression in confidence within the sessions but also there was a lot of conflict in the group dynamics and we worked a lot with managing difficult emotions. The children had done a lot of work on identifying their emotions and being authentic in expressing how they feel. This may have been the reason we noticed inconsistencies between what they recorded on the Me&MyFeelings Questionnaire and the feedback forms.

We have asked schools/parents to feedback if they felt the process should be longer or if it would be better to run more groups and see more children rather than see the same children for more time. The group work is developing and we are finding the best, smoothest and most effective way for it to run. All ten children told us they didn't want the group to ever end.

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Child Feedback

Comments about what feels different for the children after therapy included:

The experience has helped me overcome my fears and bullies and have made new friends.

I have been wanting to put my hand up more.

When asked what The Windmill Trust does well, the children responded:

They don’t force you to do anything you don’t want to and help you.

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Parent Feedback

From the replies received, 100% strongly agreed or agreed that their child had benefitted from sessions, and that they would recommend The Windmill Trust to others.

Comments included:

We noticed that (child’s) confidence quickly improved shortly after beginning to attend the sessions. Even now the sessions have come to and end, (child) is much less anxious and worries a lot less.

When asked what The Windmill Trust does well, parents commented:

Getting to know each individual child , and understanding their individual personalities. The activities provided seemed to be for my child but at the same time proved to achieve an effective outcome.

The support they give to both children and adults who look after those children. They are caring and keep in touch.

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Referrer Feedback

In their feedback, schools have indicated that they would like us to have more capacity for 1:1 work.

A Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO), at a school we work with, provided feedback on The Windmill Trust:

- esteem in all We have seen an increase in confidence and self children that have completed the group therapy or individual therapy. One parent has said that any OCD/anxieties have disappeared as that child has brought strategies home to cope with their anxieties. We have seen another child start to talk to other children and show his sense of humour in class (he has never done this before).

All the children look forward to their sessions and find it as a highlight to their week. The sessions have helped school refusers to come into school.

Parents have also commented on the improvement in the children’s general wellbeing. We use Early Help for our families and through Team Around The Family meetings, families and children are positive and we have been able to close some of the Early Help sessions as they are no longer needed.

Such an amazing charity in our local community. We are extremely lucky to have this in our town.

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CASE STUDY

This study has been anonymised.

Sally is 9 years old. Her mother, Louise, gave birth to her when she was 14. Louise had been sexually abused by her father and he had died when Louise was 10. Sally had been raised mostly by Louise's mum because Louise had struggled as a teenager with early trauma to connect to her baby. However, Louise's mum died one year before Sally came to our service. Sally's dad had been in her life for the first 6 years then left the area and rarely contacted her, Christmas and birthday presents being inconsistent and visits unreliable.

Sally had disclosed, just after her grandmothers death, that she was being physically abused regularly by her maternal uncle. Although there was evidence of this there was no prosecution. At this time, Sally's behaviour became increasingly distressed and angry. School noticed a sharp decline in her attendance and ability to manage her emotions. Sally became a Child in Need and was offered support from a charity offering talking therapy, although didn't engage and after a few weeks it was agreed by her school and the Strengthening Families Team that she needed something longer and more in depth.

Sally was exhibiting a lot of aggressive behaviour when in school, towards both staff and pupils. Mum was struggling to manage Sally at home and reported that at times she was sitting on her to stop her from hitting and kicking her. Sally then went on to disclose that she had been sexually assaulted by a teenage son of one of mum's friends. Again, there was no prosecution. Sally's Social Worker was worried about Louise keeping Sally safe from others and if she would be able to manage her behaviours.

Six months later, the Social Worker felt that there was enough evidence of mum knowing how to protect Sally and that they needed to find the family more support to help this happen. A referral was made to ourselves, The Windmill Trust, as the Strengthening Families Team had heard about our service starting. At the time when Sally first came to us, she was only attending school on average two days a week due to high levels of anxiety, - often expressed as anger. She had been offered some short term, online support through another charity but had declined.

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CASE STUDY (continued)

CAMHS had given Sally an assessment, however, she did not meet the criteria for therapeutic support. There were no other services that could have taken her for therapy.

Sally came into our therapy space full of anxiety and mistrust. She declared her intentions to destroy the room, pull down the curtains and pull over the shelves. The therapist let her know that it was really normal to feel that way when coming to a new space and meeting a new person, especially when people haven't been nice in the past. She explained that this was a space where she didn't have to do anything she didn't want to, in fact, Sally would be the one to decide what they did and the therapist would keep them both and the room safe. Sally decided to stay for the full session and explored the new space and new relationship through physical games that helped shift and process the anxiety in her body.

Sally and her therapist continued in this way for several weeks, slowly building up trust in the space and it being a place she could safely express herself. Sally moved on to working with clay and paint. Often children with early trauma have missed opportunities for sensory play during infancy which is essential for brain/body development. However, they also often have sensory issues as a result of the neurological aspects of trauma and naturally navigate towards sensory play in therapy. Children often subconsciously work through unprocessed material in the developmental stage where difficulties occurred.

We worked alongside Sally within the play to understand her emotions and help make sense out of how she felt. The work with Sally was - psycho dynamic; we are always working with the attachment relationship to help build a healthy attachment blueprint within the brain.

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CASE STUDY (continued)

Sally later created play around a dying wolf coming for healing in an animal shelter, a metaphor for developing/exploring trust in the therapist and through which she was able to appreciate and hold all her pain.

Alongside this, we worked closely with the school and with Louise. We gave Louise regular support with how to deal with Sally's behaviours and make sense out of them and also with her own emotional health and advocated for her to get some much needed support for herself. We also wrote a Therapeutic Needs Assessment which informed Sally's Education, Health and Care Plan.

Sally is now in school full time again and mum has said that things have settled at home but she can still be very anxious and angry. She has stepped down from being classified as a Child in Need to being on an Early Help plan.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to thank all of the local schools we work with; our partners and our supporters:

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FUTURE PLANS

We plan to grow our therapy service, in line with the need as we experience it, in order to reach as many children and young people as require the support we offer.

Our focus over the next year will be on capacity building, so that we are able to meet the aims outlined in this report. In order to grow our service, we will need to attract some multi-year funding to give us the security we need to employ more therapists.

We are aiming to create a funding portfolio made up of 80% funding from trusts and grants, 15% through building and growing corporate partnerships and 5% through public donations. Part of this will involve us raising awareness of our charity and our work and building our infrastructure so that we develop as a robust, ethical and well managed charity.

We are aware that there is a real need, particularly in West Cumbria, and we are developing ideas for how we can expand our service and offer a tiered approach to treating mental health, in a cost effective way using the arts and trauma sensitive creativity.

FINANCIAL REVIEW AND RESERVES POLICY

Review of The Windmill Trust’s Financial Position at 31/12/22

The trust's net income for the period was £67,229 with expenditure of £18,404. The trust therefore realised a surplus of £48,825 of funds (which had been raised in order to expand services going into the next financial year). The main income stream for the charity was grants received with the main expense being staff costs.

As at 31 December 2022 the unrestricted, unallocated funds available for use by the trust are £6,605.

The reserves policy of the trust is to work towards maintaining sufficient unallocated reserves representing 3 months total operating costs.

The level of reserves is monitored and reviewed by the Trustees as necessary and at least once each year.

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT APPROVAL

For the period 14 July 2021 to 31 December 2022

The trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the period ended 31 December 2022.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the financial statements and comply with the trust's governing document, the Charities Act 2011 and "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).

Objectives and Activities

The trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities the trust should undertake.

Structure, Governance and Management

The trustees who served during the period and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were:

Mrs. Lesley Ritchie (appointed 14/07/2021) Mrs. Helen Whittaker (appointed 14/07/2021) Mrs. Sarah Parkhouse (appointed 14/07/2021) Ms. Katherine Haigh (appointed 07/02/2022) Mr. Paul Ulett (appointed 07/06/2022) Mr. Garry Elliott (appointed 21/09/2022) Ms. Erika Ghienelli (appointed 14/07/2022 and resigned 19/09/2022)

The Trustees’ Report was approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on their behalf by:

Name: Lesley Ritchie Position: Chair of Trustees Signature:

Date: 18th July 2023

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT

18th July 2023

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES THE WINDMILL TRUST STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 Unr¢strirt•d fund$ Restrirtèd funds Tol•l 2022 2022 2022 No Intom• Irom: Donations and legacies Investments 50,226 17,000 67,226 Total In¢om• SO,229 17,000 67,229 Ex •ndltur• on: Charitsble activities 8,624 9,740 18,364 Net In¢ome for the perlodl Net movement In funds 41,605 7,260 48,865 Fund balance5 at 14 july 2021 Fund b•l•n¢•i It JI O•c•mb•r 2022 41,605 7,260 48,865 The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses reco8nised in the period. All income and èxpenditure derivè from continuing activities. The note5 on pages 5 to 13 form part of these financial statements. 30

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

18th July 2023

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 A<<ountlni pollcl•s Charity information The charitv Is a public benefit entity and a registered charity in Erigland and Wales. The charity Is a Charitable Incorporated Or8an15ation, and the addres5 of the prlncipal offlce 15 78 Appleby Road, Kendal, L49 6HF. 1.1 R•portln¢ p•rlod The flnanclal statements hawe been prepared for an 18 month perlod. There are no comparatlve Ilgure5 a5 thls Is the entitles first reporting perlod. The accounting perlod was extended to provide sufficient tlme for the charity to establish. 1.2 A<vuntlni wnv•ntlon The Ilnanclal statements ha￿ been prepared In accordance wlth the trust's governlThg document. the Ch8rltle5 Act 2011, FRS 102 'The Flnanclal Reporting Standard appllcable In the UK and Republlc of Ireland" I"FRS 102.1 and the Charltles SORP Accountlng and Reportlng by Charitie5'. Stdternent of Rocomniended Practlce appllcable to charltles preparlng th@Ir accounts In accordance wlth the Flnanclal Reportlng Standard appllcable In the UK and Republlc of Ireland IFRS 1021. leffectlve I Isnuary 20191. The trust15 a Publlc Benellt Entlty as dellned by FRS 102. The trust h85 taken advantage of the provlslon5 the SORP for charltle5 not to prepare a Stotement of C85h Flow5. The flnanclal statements have departed from the Charltles (Accounts ard Reports) Regulatlons 2008 only to the extent requlred to provlde a true and falr vlew. Th15 departure has Involved followln8 the Statement ol Recommended Practlce for charltle5 applylng FRS 102 rather than the ver51on of the Statement ol Recomrnended Pr8ctlce whlch15 referred to In the Regulatlons but whlch h8s slnce been wlthdrawn. The flnancl81 st8rements are prepared In sterllng, whlch15 the functlonal currency of the trust. Monetary amounts In these fSnanclal 5tatetnent5 are rounded to the nearest £. The flnanclal 5taternent5 have been prepared under the hlstorlcal cost conventlon. The prlnclpal accountlng pollcles adopted are set out below. 1.3 G•iftr ¢•n¢•r At the tlmè of &pprovlng the financl815taternent5, the trustee5 have a rea50n8ble expectatlon that the trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the trustees Contlnue to adopt the 8oln8 eoncern basls of accounting In preparin8 the fln8ncial statements. 1.4 Ch•ritibl• fund5 Unrestricted funds are avallable for use at the dlscretlon of the trustees in furtherance of thelr charltable oblectlve5. The trustees have the di5cretlon to allocate sums to partlcular fuThd5 35 they so wlsh. Such fund5 are known as deslgnated fund5, and retnairi unrestricted. Restricted fund5 are subject to specific conditions by donor5 a5 to how they fftay be used. The purposes and u5e5 of the restrlcted funds are set cut In the notes to the Iin8nclal siatements. l.$ Inwm• Incorne is recogni5ed when the trust is legally entitled to it after any performance condition5 have been tnet. the amounts can be measured reliably, and it Is probable that incotne will be received. 32

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIALSTATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 pollcl•i Icontinu•dl Cash donation5 are recognised on receipt. Other donations are recogni5ed once the trust ha5 been notified of the donation, unle55 performance condltion5 requlre deferral of the arnount. Incotne tax recoverable In relatlon to donatlons reeelved under Gllt Aid or deeds ol covenant Is reco8nlsed at the tlme ol the donètlon. Legacies are recognised on receipt or otherwise If the trust ha5 been notified of an impending distribution. the amount Is known, and receipt Is expected. If the arnount 15 not known. the legacy is treated a5 a contingent asset. 1.6 exp•ndltur• Expendlture Is recogn15ed once there Is a legal or constTUCtlve obllgatlon to transfer economlc benefit to a thlrd party, It 15 probable that a transfer of economlc beneflts wlll be requlred In settlement, and the arnount of the obllg¥tlon can be rneasured rellably. Expendlture Is classllled by actlvlty. The costs ol e8ch actlvlty are made up ol the total of dlrect costs and shared costs, Includlng support Costs Involved In undertsklng each actlvlty. Olrect costs attrlbutable to a sln8le actlvlty are allocated dlrectly to that Sctlvlty. Shared costs which contrlbute to more than one actlvlty and support costs whlch are not attrlbut8ble to a 51ngle actlvlty ore apportloned between those 8ctlvltle5 on a basls conslstent wlth the use of resources. Ceritr815taff c05t5 are allocated on the ba515 of tlme 5peTht. and depreclatlon char8e5 are allocated on the portlon of th• asset's use. 1.7 T•n¢lbl• Ilx•d 4$4•ti Tanglble flxed assets are Inltl&lly measured at cost and Subsequently measured at Cost or valuatlon, net of depreclatlon ond any Irnpalrment1055es. Depre£l8tlon Is reeo8nlsed so as to wrlte off the cost or v8luatlon of hssets less thelr resldual values over thelr useful Ilves on the lollowlng bases: Computers 25% stral8ht Ilne The 8aln or10s5 arlsln8 on the dlsposal of an a55et 15 determlned 85 the dlfference between the sale proceeds 8nd the carryln8 value of the asset. and 15 recognlsed ITh the 5tatenient of flnanclal qctlvltles. 1.8 Impilrrn•nt of flx•d •55•tS At each reporting end date. the trust reviews the carrying amounts ol its tangiblè assets to determSne whether thère Is any indication that those a55et5 have Suffered an itnpairtnent1055. If any such indication exists, the recoverable arnount of the asset is estirnated in order to detertniae the extent of the irnpairtnent105s lif anvl. 1.9 C•sh and ¢•¥h •qulv•l•nt• Cash and cash equlvalents Include c95h In hand, deposlt5 held at c411 wlth banks, other 5hort-terrn Ilquld Inve5trnents wlth original maturltle5 of three month5 or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown wlthln borrowlng5 in current 33

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 A¢¢ountln¢ poll¢l• IContlnu•dl 1.10 Fin•n¢i•l Instrum•nts The trust ha5 elected to apply the provision5 of Section 11 'Basic Flnanclal In5trvments' and Sectlon 12 '0ther Financial Instrurnents 155ues' of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments. Financial instruments 4re recogni5ed in the trust's balance sheet when the trust becornes party to the contractual provision5 of the instrument. Flnancial a55ets and liabllltle5 are offset, with the net amount5 presented in the financial 5tatement5, when there 15 8 legally enforceable rlght to set off the recognlsed amounts and there 15 an Intentlon to settle on a net ba515 or to rea115e the asstt 4nd settle the Ilablllty slrnultaneou51y. Ba51c Ilnanclal assets, whlch Include debtors and cash and bank b8lan¢es, are Inltlally measured 8t transartlon prlce Includln8 transactlon costs and are subsequently c8rrled at amortlsed cost Uslng the effectlve Interest method unless the arrangement constltutes a flnanclng transactlon, where the transactlon Is measured at the present value of the future recelpts d15counted at a market rate ol Interest. Flnanclal assets cl&ssllled a5 recelvablewlthln one year are not amortlsed. 8osl¢flnonelal Ilt7bllltl•s Baslc Ilnsnclal Ilabllltle5, Includln8 credltOTS and bank loans are Inltlally recognlsed at transactlon prlce unle55 the rrangernent constltute5 a flnanclng tran5actlon, where the debt Instrument 15 measured at the present value of the future payrnents dlstounted at a market Tate of Interest. Flnanclal Ilabllltles c18ssSfled a5 payable wlthln one ye8r are not 8mortlsed. Debt Instruments are subsequently carrled at amortlsed cost, usln8 the effectlve Interest rate method. Trade credltor5 are obll8atlons to pay for 8oods or servlces th8t have been acqulred In the ordlnary course of oper8tlons froffl suppller5. Amount5 payable are cla55ifled 85 current Ilabllltle5 If P8yTnent15 due wlthln Dne year or le55. If not, they are presented as non-current Ilabllltles. Trade credltor5 are recogn15ed Inltlally at transactlon prlce and subsequently measured at amortised cost uslng the effectSve Interest method. Dr•¢oinltl•n oAfift4¢lol Il&¥bllltl• Flnanclal Ilabllltles are dereco8nlsed when the trust's controctual obllgatlons explre or are dlxharged or csncelled. 1.11 R•tlrom•nt benefits Payrnents to defined contribution retlTemÈnt benefit 5chtmes are charged as an expense a5 they fall due. Critl¢•l •¢¢ountlne •rtlm•t•$ •nd lude•m•nt$ In the appllcatlon of the trust'5 3£countlng pollcles. the tru5tee5 are requlred to make ludgernents. e5tlmates and a55umption5 about the carrying amount of a55ets and liabilitie5 that are not readily apparent frotn other source5. The estitnate5 and associated a55uniption5 are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual fe5uIt5 may differ from these e5tirnates. The estlmates and underlylng assumptlons are revlewed on an on8oln8 bas15. Revlslons to accountlng estlmate5 are recognlsed the period in whlch the estlm3te 15 revlsed where the revlsion affèct5 only that perlod, or In the perlod of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods. 34

NOTES TO THE FINANCIALSTATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 DonAtions and leEo¢ies Unrn5trlct•d lunds ¢•n•r•l 2022 R•strl¢t•d Tot•1 2022 2022 Donatlons and glfts Grants Other 14 50,000 212 14 67.000 212 17.CQO 50,226 17,(XlO 67,226 Inv•¥lm•nt¥ Unr•rtrld•d n•r•l 2022 Interest recelvable 35

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED} FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 310ECEM8ER 2022 Ch•rlt•bl• 8￿1¥It0• Th•r•p•utie 2022 Staff cost5 Therapy expenses Superv151on and tralnln8 Consultancy and evaluatlon 13,043 426 1,802 60 15,331 Share of support COSts15ee not• 61 Share of governance costs (see note 61 1,833 1,200 18,364 Anlysl$ by lund Unre5trlcted lund5- 8ener81 Restrlcted funds 8,624 9,740 18,364 36

NOTES TO THE FINANCIALSTATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 Support ¢#iti Support t•sts fj•v•rn•n¢• costs 2022 Depreclatlon Room hlre Telephone and IT Repair5 and renew815 Subscrlptlon5 Travel and 5ub515tence S2 52 385 385 623 623 163 204 163 204 Prlntlngi Postage 8nd statlonery Dlsclosure and barrlng servlce checks Trustee expenses Sundry expense5 79 65 79 65 220 220 39 39 lfidependent examlnatlon fees Account8ncy 600 600 600 600 1,833 1,200 3,033 Anoly5ed between 1,833 1,200 3,033 Governance costs includes payments to the Independent ex8mlner of £600 for Independent ex8mlnatlon lees and £600 for other lees. Trust••s None of the trustees lor iny persons connected with them) received any remuneratlon or benePits from the trust during the period. Emplaye*s The average monthly nuThber of employees during the period wa5.. 2022 Number 37

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 Ernploy••s IContlnu•dl Ernployrn•nt ¢0sti 20Z2 Wages and salarles Other penslon costs 12,663 380 13,043 There were no employees whose 8nnual remuneratlon was more than £60,000. Thx•llon The charlty Is exempt from tax on Income &nd galns falllng wlthln sectlon 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or sectlon 252 of the Taxatlon of Chargeable Galns Act 1992 to the extent that these are applled to Its charltable objects. 10 T•nilbl• flx•d •¥s•ti Crrfyters Cost Addltlons 629 At 31 December 2022 629 D•pr•¢l•tl•n •nd Imp•lim• Depreclatlon charged In the perlod 52 At 31 December 2022 52 rrying arnount At 31 Decetnber 2022 577 li D•btors 2022 Amvunts f4llinE du• within •n• year.. Prepayment5 and accrued Income 320 38

NOTES TO THE FINANCIALSTATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED} FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 12 Cr•dltors= •mounts hllini du• wlthln on• y•ir 2022 Other tax3tlon and social security Other creditors 477 428 Atcruals and deferred Incorne 1,201 2,106 13 P¢tlr•rn•nt b•Tr•llt i¢h•m•¥ O•fln•d ¢ontrlbutl•n #¢h•m•# The trust operates a dellned contrlbutlon penslon scheme lor all 9uallfylng employees. The assets ol the scheme afe held separately from those ol the trust In an Independently admlnlstered fund. The charge to proftt or loss In respect of deflned contrlbutlon Schemes w85 E380. Contrlbutlons 8rn0untlng to £108 were payable to the scheme 8t 31 December 2022 and are Included wlthln other credltors. 14 R•rtrtrt•d lunds The Income funds of the charlty Include restrlcted funds ¢omprlsln8 the followlng unexpended balances of donatlons and grants held on trust for speclflc purp05e5'. M•¥•m•nt In lundi Incofflln M•v•m•nt In fund¥ Balance at 14 Duty 2021 Incomln8 resoU￿e$ Re50uice5 experHled Balance at 31 December 2022 resources Therapeutic services in Workington Family support funding 12,000 s,000 19,7401 2,260 5,000 17.000 19,7401 7,260 The Therapeutlc servlces In Wlgton fund 15 restrlcted to provlde therapeutlc 5ervlces to chlldren and young people In Wl8ton. The Family5upportfund Is restricted to enablethetru5t togive morefocu5ed and 5UStairied therapeutic parenting5upport to parents and carer5 of children receiving therapy with u5. or to give us the option of providing farnily therapy where necessary. 39

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THE WINDMILL TRUST NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022 15 D•slrnit•d fund5 The Income funds of the charlty Include the followlng deslgnated funds whlch have been set aslde out of unre5trlcted fvnds by the tru5tee5 for specllic purposes: Mov•rn•nt In Mov•m•nt In luThds Incomlnu reswKes lunds IrKomln8 vesouices B•l•nce at 31 Detember 2022 14 lufy 2021 Therapeutlc 5ervlce5 In Worklngton Therapeutlc 5ervlces In Wlgton 25,000 10,000 25,000 10,000 35,000 35.000 Therapeutlc Servlces In Worklngton deslgnated fund of £25,000 has been earmarked to provlde therapeutlc 5ervlces to hlldren and young people In Worklngton. Therapeutlc Servlces In Wl8ton deslgnated fund has arlsen from appllcatlons for general fundlng towards Ouf core costs and are needed for our delivery In 2023. 16 AMtyl$ of n•t *$s•ts b•tw••n fundi Unr•slrl¢t•d Il•slrl¢t•d Tot•1 2022 Z022 2022 Fund ba18nces at 310ecember 2022 are represented by.. Tangible assets 577 577 41,605 6,683 48,288 41,605 7,260 48,865 17 R•l•t•d party tr4n••¢tlons There were no di5closable related party transactlons duiing the perlod. 40

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