## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of the Doctors’ Support Network** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Doctors’ Support Network (DSN) for the year ended 30 June 2024. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity trustees of DSN, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Name: Roger Wrayford, BSc Hons, DMS Relevant professional qualification or membership of professional bodies (if any): Address: 2 Sherford Terrace, Taunton, TA1 3SE Date: 17.4.25 APPENDIX 2 Enter charity name below **CIO 1196277** ## **Doctors' Support Network** ||**Doctors' Su**|**pport Network**|**pport Network**|**pport Network**|**pport Network**|**pport Network**|**pport Network**|**pport Network**|||**1196277**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period sta||rt date|||Period e||nd date||| |||Day|Month||Year|**to**|Day|Mon|th|Year|| |||1|July||2023||30|June||**2024**|| ||||||||||||| |**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**|||||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Total funds**
**current period**
**to nearest £**||**Total funds last**
**period**
**to nearest £**| |Donations|**1 217**||||||||**1 217**||**1 486**| |Legacies|||||||||**-**||| |Grants|**-**|**-**|||||||**-**||**15 272**| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities|**56**||||||||**56**||**48**| |Gross tradingreceipts|||||||||**-**||| |Income from investments other than
land and buildings|**1 366**||||||||**1 366**||**521**| |Rents from land & buildings|||||||||**-**||| |Gross receipts from other charitable
activities|||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||**-**||| |**_A1 Sub total_**|**2 639**|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**2 639**||**497**| |**A2 Receipts from asset &**
**investment sales**|||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets|||||||||**-**||**-**| |Proceeds from sale of investments|||||||||**-**||**-**| |**_A2 Sub total_**|**-**|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|**2 639**|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**2 639**||**497**| ||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities|**693**||||||||**693**||**447**| |Gross trading payments|||||||||**-**||| |Investment management costs|||||||||**-**||| |Payments relating directly to charitable
activities|**695**|**6 600**|||||||**7 295**||| |Grants and donations|**-**||||||||**-**||**15 000**| |Governance costs:|||||||||**-**||| |Audit / independent examination|||||||||**-**||| |Preparation of annual accounts|||||||||**-**||| |Legal costs|||||||||**-**||| |Other|||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||**-**||| |**_A3 Sub total_ **|**1 388**|**6 600**||**-**|||**-**||**7 988**||**2 271**| |**A4 Payments relating to asset and**
**investment movements**|||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets|||||||||**-**||**-**| |Purchase of investments|||||||||**-**||**-**| |**_A4 Sub total_ **|**-**|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|||||||||||| ||**1 388**|**6 600**||**-**|||**-**||**7 988**||**2 271**| ||||||||||||| ||**1 251**|**6 600)**
**(**||**-**|||**-**||**5 349)**
**(**||**1 774)**
**(**| ||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||||| ||**1 251**|**6 600)**
**(**||**-**|||**-**||**5 349)**
**(**||**1 774)**
**(**| APPENDIX 2 |APPENDIX 2|APPENDIX 2||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
**Doctors' Support Network**|||||||**-**| |**Section B Statement of balances**|||||||| |**Categories**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Investments**
**B3 Other assets**
**B5 Contingent liabilities**
**B4 Liabilities**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**59 841**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last**
**period**
**to nearest £**| ||Cash and bank balances at start of year||**14 830**|||**74 671**|**77 831**| ||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account|**1 251**|**6 600)**
**(**|||**5 349)**
**(**|**3 160)**
**(**| ||Transfer to CIO 1196277 from charity
1103741|||||**-**|**-**| |||||||**-**|**-**| ||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**61 092**|**8 230**|**-**|**-**|**69 322**|**74 671**| |||- 13 156|- 30 910|-|
-|- 44 066|- 4 844| |||||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Market valuation**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
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**Cost (if available)**
**to nearest £**|**-**|
**-**| |||||||**Current value (if**
**available)**
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**Fund to which l**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| ||||||**iability relates**|**Amount due**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
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**iability relates**|**-**|**-**| |||||||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
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**-**| ||||||||**Date of**
**approval**| ||||Dr A Luehrs||||14 April 2025| ||||Dr L Freeman||||14 April 2025| APPENDIX 2 **Doctors' Support Network** **CIO 1196277** ## **Section C Notes to the Accounts** |**Section C Notes to the**|**Accounts**|**Accounts**|**Accounts**|**Accounts**|**Accounts**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**C3a Trustee remuneration**
**C4a Trustee expenses**
**C1 Nature and purpose of**
**funds**_(may be stated on_
_analysis of funds worksheets)_
**C2 Grants**
**C3b Trustee remuneration -**
**details**
**C6 Other information**
**C5 Transactions with trustees**
**and connected persons**
**C4b Trustee expenses -**
**details**|Restricted fund is a donation from the directors of the Downing Strategic Micro-Cap Investment Trust to
support coaching of doctors concerning their wellbeing around COVID-19.||||| ||**Type of activity or project supported**||**Individual /**
**institution**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**|| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |||||**Total**|**-**
| ||||||| ||If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to
a trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b)||||**X**| ||**Authority under which paid**||||**£**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross
(otherwise complete section 4b)|||this box|| ||
**Nature of relationship**
**Nature of transaction**
Repayment of websitehosting package.|||**Number of**
**trustees**|**£**| ||Repayment of websitehosting package.|||**1**|**230**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||
**Nature of relationship**|||**Transaction**
**amount (£)**
**Balance**
**outstanding at**
**period end (£)**|| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||The Doctors' Support Network charity
1196277 on 26th April 2022.|changed over from operating as a charity No. 1103741 to a CIO No.|||| ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 01.07.23 **Period start date To** 30.06.24 **Period end date** **Charity name:** Doctors' Support Network **Charity registration number:** 1196277 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|_The objects of the Charity's shall be to_
_relieve the needs of medical practitioners_
_and others in the medical profession who_
_are suffering or have suffered mental_
_health problems or other distress for the_
_benefit of the public particularly by the_
_provision of self-help groups and the_
_dissemination of information about mental_
_health issues within the medical profession._| |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|Facilitation of informal peer support via an
online forum and campaigning to improve
physician (doctors’) mental health| |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 appropriately considered
the guidance on public benefit in planning
its activities.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference||| |---|---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|See DSN’s grant making policy linked|here| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The charity is entirely
member (volunteer) -run.|| ## **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|Main aim of the charity is to provide
reassurance and peer support for doctors
experiencing mental illness who can often
feel extremely isolated.
Facilitated informal peer support via an
online forum for members only.
Delivered an online AGM with a free talk on
‘How therapy can help’ from an expert
speaker. Made a recording of the talk
available to members and others online via
the DSN. Website – linkhere.
Contributed to the General Medical Council
equality, diversity & inclusion advisory
forum.
Concluded the coaching project under its
initial format -having used all the donation
from the directors of the Downing Strategic
Micro-Cap Investment Trust. Continued to
offer free focused short-term coaching for
UK based doctors with career concerns
related to their mental health – see link.
Concluded funding Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD) assessment and diagnosis
for doctors under the care of NHS
Practitioner Health (facilitated by grant from
Medical Defence Union (MDU) new
members).
Agreed to fund a research project with NHS
Practitioner Health to examine whether
formal diagnosis for doctors with suspected
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) makes a difference to their
outcomes – again funded by a grant from
MDU new members.
Closed original charity No. 1103741 and
added to Charity Commission register of
merged charities.| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|See accounts to 30.06.24.|| |---|---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|See DSN's reserves policy linked|here| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£69,322.13| |---|---|---| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Donations from members and the|public| |---|---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|See DSN investment policy linked|here| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Risks considered include financial
reputational damage, privacy and
charitable status.|viability,| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:|||| |---|---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution linked|here| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)|| |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|See sections 12 to 16 of the current
constitution linked above.|| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Doctors’Support Network| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|DSN| |Registered charity number|1196277| Charity’s principal address c/o 1 de Merley Road Morpeth NE61 1HZ ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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10|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Angelika Luehrs|Co-chair||N/A| ||Louise Freeman|Co-chair||N/A| ||Malcolm Kinnear|Vice chair||N/A| ||Ross Freeman|Treasurer||N/A| ||Susan Atcheson|MembershipSecretary||N/A| ||Matthew Christie|||N/A| ||Kaman Hansford|||N/A| ||JennyHolmes|||N/A| ||Clive Morgan|||N/A| ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Dr Angelika Luehrs **Full name(s)** Dr Louise J Freeman **Position (eg Secretary,** Co-chair Co-chair **Chair, etc) Date** 15 April 2025 15 April 2025