Echoes Charity
Annual Accounts
ECH ES
Charity
2022 to 2023
Registered Charity Number: 1197447 Registered Address: 7, Wortley Close, Cawston, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV22 7GF
Wendy Harrison – Chair Andrew Beaumont – Trustee Toni Jackson- Trustee
Echoes Charity is a registered Mental Health Charity and our aim is to provide free mental health and wellbeing workshops and groups via Zoom, to those in the general community, throughout England and Wales.
Echoes Charity currently have two regular volunteer staff , three volunteer Trustees and occasional additional volunteers (including placement A level students). The two regular volunteer staff, Maria Robinson and Elissa Vale, have managed the set-up of the charity and are guided and supervised by the trustees in monthly meetings.
When taking on new Trustees, Maria Robinson and Elissa Vale will conduct the first interview. Elissa Vale will prepare a summary of each candidate with skill sets and references. Candidates will be required to read and adhere to all Echoes Charity policies including the ‘Register of Interest’ policy and will be required to submit a ‘Declaration of Interest’ form. Trustees will be invited to the final interviews and will then choose candidates they would like to go forward for a 6 month trial period. If the candidate is successful and has understood and agreed to the requirements of governance, they will be asked to join the charity.
Echoes charity has, through this financial year acquired funding which has enabled us to prepare the charity ready for launch via our website. In order to get off the ground we need to
cover the annual running costs which amount to roughly £10,300 (insurance, CRM, IT, Accountant etc.)
With extra funding we hope to employ staff to manage the charity, write courses, facilitate the workshops and groups, train other therapists and volunteers and do general administrative tasks amongst other things.
Once launched, Echoes Charity will be flexible and will be asking the community what their needs are, and will be writing and providing workshops that are appropriate to meet those needs, as they arise, in an appropriate time frame (thus reducing pressures on other organisations and mental health services such as schools and RISE).
We aim to educate, support, and provide information for people disadvantaged through circumstance, such as the cost-of-living crisis and Covid-19, which has affected the mental health of even the most resilient, or disability. Using only qualified and registered counsellors and psychotherapists we will offer a safe, nurturing and therapeutic environment, where people will not be judged and have their voice and opinions valued and heard. We want to provide a service that is more interactive and allows for parents and carers, who may have felt previously isolated and unheard, to discuss their needs with others who are, or have been, on the same journey. We will providing general mental health strategies and skills that we use in individual and group therapy as professional therapists and which have proved very successful.
Initial workshops and groups have been chosen because of the need in our community. By networking in many local groups, organisations and businesses in the area we have identified that parents and carers of those with autism, those who suffered bereavement during Covid and Carers are three of the higher priority issues locally (and nationally.) For this reason, these are the three areas we will focus upon first.
Our website (which is almost ready for a soft launch) has a HUB where there will be access to free mental health and disability information and resources (including helpful strategies and tools), direct links to other charities and services (local and national) so those who access our website will become aware
of, and can access support, elsewhere and also a Creative Corner where service users can build a caring community by sharing music/art/poetry/strategies that they have found poignant/useful.
The Hub will bring organisations together and add value to their services as they can also use our Hub to find suitable support for, and to signpost, their clients.
We hope to work with and alongside other services, charities and professionals, such as CRUSE (Bereavement) and Autism UK/MIND/CCASS and will welcome their contributions and expertise.
| Date | Funding/Donation | Amount Receiv | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/06/2022 | Cawaton Parish Council | £ 2,246.00 | |
| 24/06/2022 | Private Donation | £ 1,500.00 | |
| 04/07/2022 | |||
| 15/07/2022 | |||
| 21/07/2022 | |||
| 25/07/2022 | |||
| 02/08/2022 | |||
| 9/2/2022 | |||
| 26/09/2022 | |||
| 03/10/2022 | |||
| 02/11/2022 | |||
| 02/12/2022 | |||
| 03/01/2023 | |||
| 02/02/2023 | |||
| 27/02/2023 | Jujst Giving Donation | £ 8.63 | |
| 02/03/2023 | |||
| 06/03/2023 | |||
| 03/04/2023 |
Total Amount Received £ 3,754.63
| Outgoings | Cost | Running Total |
|---|---|---|
| £ 2,246.00 | ||
| £ 3,746.00 | ||
| Ten Insurance | £ 756.69 | £ 2,989.31 |
| Branding | £ 125.00 | £ 2,864.31 |
| IT equipment | £ 1,080.57 | £ 1,783.74 |
| Stationary | £ 7.50 | £ 1,776.24 |
| Gsuite | £ 0.54 | £ 1,775.70 |
| Gsuite | £ 4.14 | £ 1,771.56 |
| Website & Hosting | £ 947.20 | £ 824.36 |
| Gsuite | £ 4.14 | £ 820.22 |
| Gsuite | £ 4.14 | £ 816.08 |
| Gsuite | £ 4.14 | £ 811.94 |
| Gsuite | £ 4.14 | £ 807.80 |
| Gsuite | £ 4.14 | £ 803.66 |
| £ 812.29 | ||
| Gsuite | £ 4.14 | £ 808.15 |
| Rugby Web Design | £ 229.00 | £ 579.15 |
| Gsuite | £ 4.14 | £ 575.01 |
| Total Costs | Total Balance | |
| £ 3,179.62 | £ 575.01 |