**TRUSTEES REPORT 2021/22** ## Structure and Management There are 8 trustees who met on three occasions during the year. The trustees include a member from each of the three main community service clubs in the town. All members of the Friends are advised of trustees meetings and are entitled to attend by advising the Secretary in advance. Only the trustees have voting rights at these meetings. Where urgent decisions are required between meetings the Chairman will circulate all trustees and a majority decision will be established which will be formally recorded at the next meeting. The Annual General Meeting is held in March each year. The date is advertised in the local press and members of the public are entitled to attend. The number of trustees is limited to eight and a replacement trustee is appointed by agreement with the seven existing trustees. The written Constitution was reviewed and rewritten to take into account the changes in health care both within the hospital and the wider community. ## Objectives and Activities To support Frome Community Hospital, its facilities, patients, staff and visitors and to provide support relating to health matters for individuals and the local community as a whole. The charity benefited from a number of bequests over the 12 months and in furthering its activities it relies on donations and a minor fundraising activities. It has also benefited from the fact that a substantial Donated Fund is held for the hospital in the Taunton & Somerset Foundation Trust General Charitable Fund . Activities were fairly limited in 2021/22. Income was up considerably, on the previous year due largely to a bequest of £80,000. The Community Defibrillator Scheme has continued to expand and the Trustees are looking at some possible further installations. A Defibrillator Maintenance Fund is in existence in order that units installed can be kept in operational condition. New installations are partly funded by residents in the locality with the Trust making up the difference. The team of ‘guardians’ under the leadership of a Trustee undertakes the regular checks necessary for recognition by the Ambulance Service. The separate Birthing Centre fund of has been reduced due to expenditure on various items of equipment and the Trustees are at present looking at further possible expenditure in this area. The hospital now has new Matron and the Trustees are looking forward to working with him on various area which are considered in need of improvement. A start has been made with the outside furniture being refurbished by members of a local charity and there has been refurbishment of the furniture in the ’waiting areas’. ## The Future The Friends are well set up financially and will continue to support the Community Hospital and all attempts to provide health and social care in the local community . KJF December 2022 Friends of Frome Hospital ITu)me and expenditure For the period ended 31 March 2021 GENERAL FUND 3V0312021 3110312020 Income Sale of books Bequests Personal Donationslin Memorium Fund Raising Events Interest 52,699 2.795 1.304 432 1.355 55.927 5.664 Expenditure Donations- Frome Leg Club - Life Education Wessex Frome Birth Talk - Dogs for Health - Ch3ntry Day Centre - Atrial Fibrillation Support Group - Dorothy House - Coronavirus 1,077 9.405 4.310 500 305 252 .POD other donations 220 14.580 4.244 17,940 4.923 1.337 251 155 Research Fundin8 Hospital Eq￿ipMeftt Therapy Garden Hospital IV Litence Gifts to PatFents and Volunteers Friends Furniture Tabards Handcream Audit Fee Stationery and Admin Expense5 Insurance Sundry experises ILJ) 158 399 620 224 750 250 635 $85 70 21,820 557 27,D24 N•t IncomellExpendrturel 34,107 OEFIBRILiATOII MAINTENANC£ FUND 3V0312021 3110312020 In¢tyne Donations and Collection5 2,159 Expendlture New AEOslCabinetg Repairs Electrical repairs Sundry expenses CPR Training 8.231 365 410 283 1,215 414 779 11,233 Net IncomellExpendrturel 17791 19.0741