ANNUAL REPORT Year ending March 2022
Chipping Barnet Seniors Day Centre (CBSDC) - (Charity Reg No: 272847)
Preventing loneliness and social isolation of vulnerable older people in Chipping Barnet.
ROLE AND AIMS
Our main aims are:
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Prevention of loneliness and Social Isolation
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Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
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Advise and Information
CBSDC is held twice-weekly on Mondays and Fridays in the Open Door Centre, Barnet and currently welcomes 25 members. It is open from 9.30am to 3.00pm.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
Our objective is to provide a club like atmosphere where elderly housebound people can enjoy a day out in a safe, friendly, relaxed and cheerful environment where they can meet and make friends, be entertained and provided with a hot two course lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
Additionally, the centre provides respite for those who daily commit their lives to the care of aged loved ones.
MANAGEMENT OF THE DAY CENTRE
The Day Centre opens to it members for two days a week (Mondays & Fridays) between the hours of 9.30am and 3.00pm. The centre has 25 members with capacity for 20 each day, currently there are two vacancies for Mondays and two for Fridays. It is anticipated that the full membership of 20 each day will be in place by early 2023.
The Centre is run by one paid organiser and 29 volunteers. The volunteers undertake various roles from General daily help to Transport and Kitchen duties etc.
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Activities held are as below -
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Escorted Transport is provided where necessary(limited numbers)
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Exercise classes each day
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Refreshments provided in the morning and afternoon
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A two course hot meal at lunchtime
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Board games and Bingo played in the afternoons
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Information and advice is available and regularly given
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Musical entertainment is enjoyed
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Intergenerational activities are to be recommenced with a local pre school group, when it is considered appropriate to do so safely post the Pandemic.
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Annual outings are arranged to a local Garden Centre and also the Seaside.
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Tea Parties.
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A Christmas and Summer Event are held with entertainment.
No outings or Christmas events took place in the year to March 2022. Due to the logistical restrictions in place post the Pandemic.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND STAFF
| David Williams | Chair |
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| Mick Printemps | Vice Chair/Transport |
| Representative | |
| Bridget Sawyer | Honorary Treasurer (Retired |
| 14/09/2021 ) | |
| Susan Francis | Honorary Treasurer (Succeeded |
| 14/09/2021) | |
| Amanda Skitt | Honorary Secretary |
| Gillian van Blankenstein | Organiser/Trustee |
| Steven Hart | Trustee |
| Linda Lanham | Trustee |
| Brigid Horgan | Trustee |
| Angela Dickinson | Trustee |
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Trustee
Susan Stemson
Gwen Childs
Member Representative
MANAGEMENT MEETINGS
These are held 3 times and year. The AGM was held on the 14[th] July 2022, and updates with regards to changes in name and officers/Trustees were provided to the Charity Commission in a timely manner.
Bridget Sawyer notified the committee of her wish to resign as Honorary Treasurer on the 14[th] September 2021 however she remained in post to train and handover her duties to her successor Susan Francis. Susan Francis was formally elected as Honorary Treasurer at the AGM in Sept 2021 and took over the role in January 2022.
Minutes of the 2021 AGM held on the 27[th] September 2021 were approved and Audited accounts for the year to March 2022 were presented and also approved. The current Trustees and Organiser were re-elected.
FINANCIAL REPORT (YEAR ENDING MARCH 2022)
The audited accounts together with the Independent Examiner’s report follow. The headline figures are:-
Receipts - £41,098 Payments - £33,341 Surplus for year - £7,757
Signed Amanda Skitt ( Honorary Secretary)
Date 20/11/2022
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