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2023-09-30-accounts

Reaching More Older People

Report from the trustees for the year October 2022 to September 2023

The first Silver Salisbury directory and programme of events in celebration of International Older People’s Day was initiated in 2018 by Irene Kohler in her role as Salisbury Older People’s Champion. Eighteen months later a voluntary organisation had been created with a constitution and management committee whose members, in February 2022, became the founding trustees of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation Silver Salisbury Group.

This has been a busy year for Silver Salisbury with lots going on made possible by the work successfully undertaken by Moira, our Senior Outreach Worker, and the hands-on involvement of our trustees Alan, Alex, Anne and Jon without which we couldn’t achieve our aim to reduce loneliness and isolation amongst older members of our communities. To do this we aim to introduce older people to activities and groups which welcome older people.

Our main activity is to produce a hard copy directory of ongoing groups and activities which welcome older people together with a hard copy programme of events and activities taking place around 1[st] October which is International Older People’s Day. This has become known as our Festive Fortnight. Both are available on our website but in order to reach older people the hard copy is widely distributed throughout our area of operation. In response to feedback from older people who said that “a year is too long to wait for the next programme”, we now also publish a Spring Newsletter in April with a mini programme of events during May.

Reaching out to older people

One of our major achievements is the creation and distribution of 5,000 copies of our hard copy annual brochure of groups and activities and a similar number of our Festive programme of events and taster sessions. We take feedback from older people and consult them in their groups and individually and are rewarded by their eagerness to know when the next brochure or programme will be available. They have come to trust that events will be no or low cost, accessible, and as older people they will be made to feel welcome.

We are aware that we have a core audience who attend a range of different activities. We are also aware that we are achieving our aim as there are always a few fresh faces amongst the familiar ones. Group leaders are eager to be included in the directory; organisations seek to be able to make their services known; older people keep asking when the next brochure will be ready.

We continue to seek ways to reach more isolated people as we know that it is usually direct human contact and support that enables people to make that move to engage with other people, interests, or activities.

Our geographic Reach

Thanks to grants from four Area Boards i.e. Salisbury, Southern Wiltshire, South West Wiltshire, and Stonehenge, we are able to co-ordinate activities, groups and events and distribute brochures, programmes, and flyers for one off events in Salisbury and also the towns and villages in the surrounding area including Amesbury, Downton, Durrington, Laverstock, Long hedge, Old Sarum, and Wilton.

Until recently Moira was the only member of our team who was contracted to undertake outreach work and generally support the voluntary trustees. A number of grants have enabled us to contract other outreach workers to extend our reach to more older people across a wider geographic area.

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Our Digital Reach

As well as promoting our activities through flyers, local press and newsletters, we have been increasing our digital presence. This helps us connect with those that are comfortable using IT, family carers, health and social care professionals and other organisations supporting older people. Our major print publications are in the spring and autumn, supplemented by flyers for one off events: we also use social media in between print copy to highlight events. Our Facebook posts and visits to our website increase month on month.

Minority community outreach work

An initial grant from Salisbury City Council has been matched by Wiltshire Community Foundation to enable us to contract three outreach workers to reach out to older people in minority communities in Southern Wiltshire, South West Wiltshire, and Stonehenge, as well as Salisbury. Olena is working initially with Ukrainian elders and longer term the more established Eastern European communities, Monawara is working with Bangladeshi elders some of whom have lived in Salisbury for up to fifty years, and Rook is working with LGBTQ elders. This work got off to a slow start due to difficulties in finding suitable contractors, but all three are now underway. Reports on each of the projects individually will be in next year’s annual report.

Consolidating our work beyond the Salisbury boundary

We are aware that with Silver Salisbury starting in Salisbury and four of our five trustees living or working in Salisbury, it is much easier to be on the ground hearing of new groups or activities that welcome older people. We were incredibly pleased to be awarded funding by Awards 4 All Community Fund Programme to further develop our presence in Amesbury, Downton and Wilton. We were also awarded funding from Southern Area Board to outreach in Laverstock, Longhedge and Old Sarum.

All the locations we work in need local people who know their patch. Initially it proved very difficult to recruit local people but we are now able to develop our outreach and will report on the impact in our next report.

Involving volunteers

Silver Salisbury trustees all undertake their roles on a voluntary basis and contribute skills and experience to run the organisation as well as hands on support at our events. We have had a team of volunteers who as individuals have always come forward to bake cakes and help with one off events. Thanks to a grant from the Postcode Lottery, we have been able to engage a contractor to work with our lead trustee to coordinate and develop our volunteer team. Initially Nina has been putting systems in place and registering our current ad hoc volunteers and preparing to develop our volunteer roles.

Intergenerational Project

With a Jubilee Grant from Awards for All we were able to engage a facilitator and musician to run a number of workshops for older people to gather their memories of their fifties childhood. They then met with primary school children of today from Woodlands and St Martins schools. Intergenerational workshops were facilitated to share childhood experiences which produced a story book and songs set to music which were performed at the Guildhall. We hope that in seventy years’ time those children will be sharing their memories of 2022 with 2092 primary school children. The children loved it, the schools said it was a valuable experience for the children and the older people felt respected and valued for their life experience. We have now secured two small grants for older people to go into three primary school to share their childhood experiences.

How do we know our service is valued and making a difference?

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We would love to have the capacity to monitor more methodically regarding attendance, age range, whether people travel or stay in their local area as this would inform our planning.

We get verbal feedback:

“when will the next brochure be ready” , “ I’ve just retired here and am new to the area “, “my husband died last year “, “the brochure has helped me to get to know the area”, “I have got to know new people in the group I’ve joined”, “ I went to one of your musical afternoons and got chatting to May who had also come alone; we now regularly go to activities together”.

As Chair of the Board of Trustees I wish to thank our trustees, contractors and volunteers for all they contribute to Silver Salisbury, our several funders and donors, and also all the organisations who contribute to the directory and festival programme and who help to distribute and publicise its contents.

Irene Kohler

Chair

Trustees all appointed at the date of registration

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Alex Charleson, Jonathan Gapper, Irene Kohler (Chair), Alan Mitchell (Treasurer), Anne Trevett

All appointed on registration with the Charity Commission as CIO on 20[th] February 2022

Contractors providing outreach work

Monawara Ali – Bangladeshi community

Nina Cope – Laverstock, Longhedge, Old Sarum outreach and volunteer co-ordination

Lorraine Johnson – Amesbury and villages in Stonehenge Area Board

Olena Kudrinova – Ukrainian and Eastern European communities

Val O’Keefe – ad hoc outreach in Wilton and surrounding villages

Moira Packer – Senior outreach worker

Rook Tiller-Collins – LGBTQ community and ad hoc outreach in Downton

Volunteers: we are very grateful to our ad hoc volunteers who support our events by baking cakes, meeting and greeting, and serving refreshments

Brochure design: Kirstie Pugh

Printers: Baskerville Press. Multitude of Voices

Examination of the accounts: Grevett &Co

Thank you to our funders:

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR INGLAND AND WAiLS Receipts and ments accounts CC16a For the perlod from To 01 1Q 2022 30 09 2023 Section A Receipts and payments Unlutr￿t•d nd• RMtrid•d fvnd• En¢lorn•nt fund• Total lund• L4$1 y•4r A1 R•c•l <>anis 1.B37 316 Ji 31 Sub tot•1 (Gr￿ income lor ARJ Ao•t and I￿￿•1m•nI •al••. 1353 24.753 24.$21 Sub total 6253 18,500 24,7S3 24.521 AJP• •nt• 2$1 291 24) F•ry# b&k•qpi c￿tr￿101 F• 12.001 12.•06 12.ITT R￿ffl HY• 4.8517 Vdwteer Expqn¥ CoAch Hlr• 39 onityj￿ Adverh5 Wgbsth¢ Tnt4e • ij 241 Sub tot•1 21,737 24.221 1•,211 A4 A•s•t •nd Inwstm•nt ur¢hases, • table Sub total Tot1 p•ym•nts 2.￿5 21,737 21.222 19,2B1 Plet Ofrecelpt￿fP¥Yrneftts) A5 Tranjlers betw•w fundA A8 Cash funds lajt yaar end Cash fund5 thls ye•r end 3.768 3237 531 5.240 5.312 10.218 6,9S1 15.530 16,061 10.290 15,530 CCXX Rl acctyJnts ISS} 2410412024

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees Charity Name Silver Salisbury Group On accounts for the year 30 September 2023 Charity no 1198019 ended (if any) Set out on pages n/a (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/09/2023. DD / MM / YYYY . Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report 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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

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: Date: Name: Paula Grevett Relevant professional FCCA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 346a Farnham Road, Slough, Berkshire SL2 1BT

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

Oct 2018

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