## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/04/2022 Period start date To 31/03/2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Mindset Vitality** ## **Charity registration number: 1198750** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The relief of bereaved people in South**
**Wales by providing emotional support,**
**counselling and psychoeducation.**| |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|**Promoting, setting up, and hosting a**
**Bereavement Friendship Group in**
**Pontardawe. Recruiting volunteers to**
**co-host the group and help with**
**developing our social media. Building**
**networks with potential referrers.**| |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 taken into account**
**the guidance issued on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**NA**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**NA**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Gaynor and another volunteer have**
**hosted the Pontardawe group.**
**A further volunteer has helped with**
**creating posts for social media.**| |Other||| ## **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|**Gaynor ran the Pontardawe group seven**
**times in this accounting period and**
**helped five individuals who attended**
**regularly.**
**Most attendees saw our posters and**
**came along to chat with others who**
**were grieving.**
**An example is a lady in her early 50s**
**who was referred by a Social Prescriber**
**because her father had just died. She**
**has always lived at home and her**
**mother died many years ago. She was**
**very tearful upon arriving and had a**
**private one-to-one session with our**
**bereavement specialist, Gaynor Rosier.**
**Since then, she has made significant**
**progress in coping with her grief and**
**has never missed a group meeting**
**despite working.**
**The benefits to society are that**
**attendees are less lonely and will not**
**need health and social services for grief**
**symptoms.**
**(The group is ongoing, twice each**
**month.)**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**By gaining funding from The National**
**Lottery Community Fund in August 2022**
**we were able to plan for and publicise**
**our first group, which began in**
**December 2022 in Pontardawe.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We were unable to secure sufficient**
**funding to employ staff to make faster**
**progress as we were new and did not**
**have a track record.**
**Initially, money for insurance, a phone**
**number, and office expenses were**
**loaned by the founder, Gaynor Rosier.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Gaynor has managed the charity’s bank**
**account to accrue interest and avoid**
**bank charges.**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The year was managed economically,**
**and expenditure was low as we were**
**just starting to provide our first group.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Currently, there is no reserves policy.**
**However, the accounts are managed**
**frugally.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**5000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**NA**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**NA**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**NA**| ## **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|
**The National Lottery Community Fund**
**award in August 2022.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**None.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The main risk is failing to secure further**
**funding to continue our activities and**
**expand them.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**None.**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution of a Charitable**
**Incorporated Organisation whose only**
**voting members are its charity trustees.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**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|**The founder looked for professional**
**people in the care sector who had skills**
**and experience as trustees and were**
**sympathetic towards the aims of the**
**charity.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**We already had experience as trustees.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**So far, we have three trustees and the**
**founder.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**None.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Mindset Vitality| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1198750| |Charity’s principal address|4 St Mary’s Rd
Ynysmeudwy
Pontardawe
Neath Port Talbot
SA8 4QH| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Fiona MacLeod|Chair||| ||Leigh Batchelor|Treasurer||| ||Sian Jackson|Trustee||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name NA** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**NA**||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets NA held in this capacity Name and objects of the NA charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for NA safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **NA** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Fiona MacLeod **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 03.04.24 |**Date**
**Source**
01.04.22
Balance
bf
13.12.21
Loan from
founder
31.3.22
"
19.4.22
"
18.5.22
"
18.7.22
"|**Money In**
**Money Out**
**Balance**
**Purpose**
**Receipt Ref**
**Cheque**
**No.**
**Savings**
**Acct**
**Interest**
0
0
0
29.46
29.46
0
Printer cartridges
GB13M3OUMAEUI
5.03
5.03
0
Domain name
Namecheap Order# 92622582)
4.95
4.95
0
Mobile number
Lebera 19363177
117.6
117.6
0
Insurance
Hiscox Policy Bee 14892068
7
7
0
Bank charges| |---|---| |24.1.23
Repaid
**Outstanding**|**164**
114.64
3
**49.4**| |26.7.22
National
Lottery
20.9.22
3.10.22
10.10.22
1.11.22
21.11.22
1.12.22
6.12.22
19.12.22
22.12.22
23.12.22
3.1.23
4.1.23
6.1.23|9,998.00
9,998.00
Grant
7
9,991.00
Bank charges
9.8
9,981.20
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
7
9,974.20
Bank charges
9.8
9,964.40
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
7
9,957.40
Bank charges
9.8
9,947.60
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
5
9,942.60
Mobile
Lebara
DD
7
9,935.60
Bank charges
10
9,925.60
Venue Hire
Pontardawe Heritage & V
1
3.4
9,922.20
Office supplies
Wilko
9.8
9,912.40
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
5
9,907.40
Mobile
Lebara
DD
0.85
9,906.55
Refreshments
Kumar Stores| |16.1.23|9,700
206.55
Savings
Savings account
9,700| |17.1.23
20.1.23
24.1.23|7
199.55
Bank charges
1.95
197.60
Refreshments
Kumar Stores
114.64
82.96
Repay founder
3| |1.2.23
9.8
73.16
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
3.2.23
5
68.16
Mobile
Lebara
DD
3.2.23
0.85
67.31
Refreshments
Kumar Stores
9.2.23|1.2.23
9.8
73.16
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
3.2.23
5
68.16
Mobile
Lebara
DD
3.2.23
0.85
67.31
Refreshments
Kumar Stores
9.2.23|1.2.23
9.8
73.16
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
3.2.23
5
68.16
Mobile
Lebara
DD
3.2.23
0.85
67.31
Refreshments
Kumar Stores
9.2.23|1.2.23
9.8
73.16
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
3.2.23
5
68.16
Mobile
Lebara
DD
3.2.23
0.85
67.31
Refreshments
Kumar Stores
9.2.23|1.2.23
9.8
73.16
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
3.2.23
5
68.16
Mobile
Lebara
DD
3.2.23
0.85
67.31
Refreshments
Kumar Stores
9.2.23| |---|---|---|---|---| |16.2.23
Savings Acct
150
217.31
9,550||||| |17.2.23
3.45
213.86
Refreshments
Tesco
20.2.23
7.85
206.01
Bank charges
9554
3.99
27.2.23
20
186.01
Venue Hire
Pontardawe Heritage & V
2
27.2.23
20
166.01
Venue Hire
"
4
1.3.23
9.8
156.21
Insurance
HISCOX
DD
6.3.23
5
151.21
Mobile
Lebara
DD
9.3.23
9558.5
4.52
17.3.23
0.85
150.36
Refreshments
Kumar Stores
31.3.23
Lloyds Bank
7
157.36
Repayment of charges
31.3.23
Lloyds Bank
7
164.36
Repayment of charges
31.3.23
Lloyds Bank
7
171.36
Repayment of charges
31.3.23
Lloyds Bank
7
178.36
Repayment of charges
31.3.23
Lloyds Bank
7
185.36
Repayment of charges
31.3.23
Lloyds Bank
7
192.36
Repayment of charges
31.3.23
Lloyds Bank
7
199.36
Repayment of charges
31.3.23
Lloyds Bank
7
206.36
Repayment of charges
**Total loans**
**164.04**
**Other income 10,062.51**
**TOTALS**
**461**
**8.51**||||| |**31.3.23**
**Balances**
**Owed to**
**founder**|**49.4**
**Venue Hire 50**
**Refreshmen7.95**
**Insurance**
**176.4**||**206.36**|**9,559**| |**Total**
**cost of**
**Group 1**||**184.35**||| Total Cost of Offl¢e 57.81