REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: SC0504S8
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The Trustees. present their report with the finartcial statements ofthe charity for the year ended 14 March 2025. In 2020. the Trustees launched My Support Day to provide support For loved one's afferted by someone else'5 substance or alcohol abuse. REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION DETAILS Charity ReStratiOn Number.. SC050458 PRINCIPAL ADDRESS Unit 13, Brandon House Business Centre 23.25 Brandon StreeL Hamilton, ML3 6DA sTRuVRE. GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT The charity 15 controlled by its governing docurnents, ChariW5 Constitution. Rlsk Management The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure approprlate controls are in place to prtsvlde reasonable assurance against fraud and error. Pay poll¢y for senlor staff One of the charities trustees were paid a total of£43,307 in salaries in line with the charities governing documents. TRUSTEES Thp triJste.@.s whn served the company during the period were as follows.. INDEPENDENT EXAMINER AciraCY ilccounung Services Limited, Harnilton Accies Business Centre. Cadzow Avenue, Hamilton, ML3 0 OBIECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES My Support Day has been established to pursue the following objectives.. To provide relief in the form of individual and family support in group5 or via telephone or any other means. to anyone who is concernedlaffected by someone else's drug or alcohol use and through promoting tonnectlon and communicatlon in the recDvÈry communiry in order to reduce isolation. To advance health by providing a range of well-being aLtivitie5 and learning opportunitfies such as Communiry Reinforcement and Family Tralnlng [CRAFT) ro the aforementioned group5 in order to Increase each participants posltlve mental health and etnotlonal reslllence. To advance education through the provision of community workshop5, partnership initlatlves, trainin& events and infortnation that increase5 knowledge of issues a5stsclated wlth the Indirect effects of addittion and challenge self-stigma by association, structural stigma and public stigma. ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW My Support Day Is a peer lead supportgroup running slnce 2019 wlthin the South Lanarkshire community. Starknng off as a support group that ran once a week within the East Kilbride community 5UPPOrting families and loved ones that have been affected by somèone else's substance use. However knowing the much-tieeded support for families we quitk]y identified that one session a week was not enough for what the community needed. Scottish Fatniliés Affected by Alcohol and Drugs ISFAD) collaborated with My Support Day [MSDI in july 2020 after being successful in funding from CORRA to dèllvèr the Servi All In The Family (AIFI- This service is a dedicated family resource to work across the Beacons all four community preTnises offering partnership bases for assertive Dutreach. first responders, and recovery oriented community attivits"e5. Page I
The First Beacon opened in Blantyre/ Hamilton, with further Beacons openlng In Lanark. East Kilbride and Cambuslangl Rutherglen. These are run by Liber8 local charity in parthership with rhe ADP, Police Scotland and NHS Lanarkshire. Further peer-led family support groups were establlshed across the Beacons, wirh groups meeting weekly to meet local need and demand responding to direct contact from families as appropriate, to avoid signposting around the project. Involving family members a5 First Responde withln South Ianarkshlre will create a ripple effect in helping to reduce Drug Related Deaths [DRDI Ihrough C.R.A.F.T. training and Naloxone training. The peer-led approach will help reach Tnore family members Wjthin the comtnunity who can beneflt from the knowledge provided in the First Responder training and be made aware of take-home Naloxone kits and other harm redurtion techniques around drugs and alcohol. This wlll also help break the stigma attached to substance mlsuse and DRD,. by making family recovery more Visible it will rnake recovery more accessible to family rnernber5. Further funding from CORRA. Drug Death Task Force was granted to My Support Day to fully develop this service for Family First Responders. Whilst developing My Support Day within the workstreams we have Identified gaps within the alcohol 2nd drugs services surrounding children and families in South Lanarkshire. Families have stated to My Support Day that they are seeing changes in behaviours withirl the famlly home. This lead to securing further funding from CORRA [2 different funding streamsl one being for the Homework Club and the second being of the Family Outreach SeI(e. With strong foundations being placed within My Support Day we collaborated th Liber8 and applied and was successful on the Cornmissioned Whole Family Approach Service funded by the South Lanarkshire ADP, Family Recovery Everyone Everywhere (FREE) service. which wll be delivered across the South Lanarkshire Community for families and loved one's affected by someone else's substance use. Over the last 3 years My Support Day have supported 599 Individuals with 276 of thern being form thi5 financial year. We have increased our Naloxone provlslon to communlty members. broken down isolation for families by opening our services to 7 days a week offering both evening arkd weekend services including online 511PPOrt group session5 wlth an attendance of 244 indlvfiduals over 52 sessitsns. A male specific support group has been developed this year and we also had our own website developed and 15 now full operational and easily accesslble. My Support Day although a local charity within South Lanarkshire our work is recognised in a National level across Scotland. New Collaborations My Support Day have connected with many new collaborations this year. We have worked with Landed a peer education service on our Family night school where they delivered a substance awarene55 Session. We are also working with commissioned services Sarco a Scottish Community justice Service, The Givit It Young persons recovery service and Turning Point Scotland to ensure that we are embedding a Whole Family Approach and Family Inclusive Service across South Lanarkshire. Comrnunity Members Involvement Everything that My Support Day works towards is on the needs of the individuals that we supporL They are at the heart of everything we do. Individuals have been part of the National Family Conference and the launch of the new service FREE. The input is invaluable to the community in South Lanarkshire. New Board Mernbers Due to the upskilling dynamics of My Support Day and people stepping down from the board, My support Day have recriiited 2 new bnard membe. The Br>ard ar* nnw a% fnllnw8. board and are excited to work with you all throughout the next year. Key Outcomes Our Key Ourcomes this year have bee Increased number of family members engaging wlth treatment services We are mtsving in the righr direction with this after appointing a project Lead to deliver the FREE servlce to embed a Whole family Approach acr055 South Lanarkshire and a FaTnlly Llalson worker to work beNeen services and families specificdlly around crlminal justice and Residential Rehab. Increase engagement with family recovery services. Family Night school started on a Tuesday evenlng for 8 weeks online. Upskilling families on effective communication. boundary setting drug and alcohol educational sessions and self-care. These sessions are carried out by MSD staff and outside agencles. My Support Day collaborated The Beacons to dellver a tralnlng sessions on What is MAT Standard's to community member's within the South Lanarkshire Community. This is broken down into 3 sectlons. . Summary OfMAT Stsndards . What do the stsndards mean for people who use and provide service5 and support7 Ewdence that 5txndards have been successfully implemented. Reduction in family isolation as a result of outreach work Page I
Many indivsduals who are accessing one to ones are now moving into support groups which is helping them integrate into a peer community. Increase number5 of male famlly member5lloved ones atcessing famlly support and recovery servlces MSD are now receiving referrals for males being affected by someone else's substance use. This has lead to a male only 5UPPOrt group being delivered in the East Kilbride Beacons on a Tuesday Morning. Increased family member engagement and up-to-date signposting by use of SL Families website My Support Day website is now fully active, FREE service is now active, referral forms for both services and self-referrals are acce55ible Information regarding the FREE service is acce55ible and all information is up to date. All upcoming news and events are advertised on the website, this is emailed over to website design as soon as its created. Naloxone has its own section will all relevant information. register your interest for anyone looking for training to access. their details will be collected from the web51te and contact wlll be made to deliver the training. 'Meet Our Friend. directory is available for anyone to access. should families browse our website and confused as to what service they require, they will find a list of all commissioned services within South Lanarkshire. they will see a speal about each Service with contact details available. All support groups are listed on the main page of the website, this will allow anyone to see location, time, and date of support groups. Online Zoom code can also be found here. Community Reinforcement and Family Training CRAFT- structured CRAFT sessions being delivered by FREE staff will also be advertised on our website as well as any other upcoming events such as psychology session5, Farnily Saturdays, and Famlly Thursdays. You can access the website via www.mysupportday.co.uk Embed a Whole Famlly Approach My Support Day & Liber8 have been collaboratively working to embed a Whole Famlly Approach throughout the South Lanarkshire localities. Increased naloxone provision My Support Day offer5 a training session on Naloxone at every Family Saturday and also does drop-in Naloxone training Sessions 3cross South Lanark5hire Community. We also have a section in our website for people to register their interest in being trained on how to administer Naloxone. Key achlevements Key achlevement I From iorh Feb the FREE service will be fully staff. Vacancies will be filled this including the test form change Young Persons project FREE Routes. This has been matched funded by the SL ADP and SFAD to deliver a young persons service for age 12 26 that have been affected by someone else's substance use. The official start date for this is 171h Feb 2025. Key a¢hlevement 2 MSD attended the Scothsh Health Awards at the 02 in Edinburgh in Nov 2024 with The Recovery Oriented Justice Service as they were shortlisted and were given the award for Integrated Care Award. The FREE service has worked th 2 families from the Rols projert and MSD have been part of the projert since its development Key Achlevement 3 Christmas party MSD service delivered a successful xmas party for families who attend the service. This conslsted of 24 adults (Free Service) 8 community metnbers from the Beacons 17 children. The day was packed full of fun xmas games laughter, music and food and of course Santa. Every child was given a present and 5elettion box. Key Achlevement 4 Xmas servlce MSD delivered a servlce via the phone tsver the festive period. This is always scoped to families wither they would like a service where they can come to in person or service via the phone. All asked for a phone service as they stated they try to keep the festive period as non-disruptive as possible for children. A service ran throughout the festlve period with staff contacting the most vulnerable families for a check in and the phone line5 were opened for those who needed to talk to stsff. Online support groups ran on both Xmas eve [5 individuals attended) and Hogmanay [4 individuals attended). Stsff touched based with 12 vulnerable fatnilies and individuals. Staff also called I family who services had concerns around. This in turn reassured the individual they were not on the own during the festive period. FREE Servlce key overview. Year 2 of the project FREE- Family Recovery Everyone Everywhere has received 112 new referrals. This is an increase of Page I
100 referrals from year l. 107 new Family members were supported through our Outreach 5endce. receivlng one to one support during year 2. Family Ouireach worker is currently working with 40 family members. 100 initial face- to- face a35e55ment V15its were carried out oY¢r 1.5 hour5 per visit= 150 hours in total. There has been 14 different refers to My Support Day coming from through - out all 4 localities within South IAnarkshire. This showing a proportional spread of the reach of the FREE service South IanarihIre in year 2. Parents {41 individuals) Partners [27 Individuals) are being recorded to be the most efferted and the age brdcket being 36 45yrs (28 individuals) and 46-55yrs [24 individuals) afferted by someone else's substance use. However, there is a significant increase on older people being affected by someone else's substance use with the over 65's age bracket ol the being 14 individuals in year 2 with only being 5 in year 1. 52 Online support groups were delivered over 1.5 hour5 per 5ession- Total = 78hrs over thls financlal year. There was 266 attendees averaging 6 attendees over year 2 duration. 21 indivlduals were referred to counselling to our partner5 In the FREE Service Liber8 during this perlod. These servlces are moving towards their middle stages of the projects and still going strong. Homework Club haying 29 referrals this year and the Family outreach service hawng 134 referrals. Some of our Key Events . SL Whole Famlly Approach conference (Sept 2024) South Lanarkshire Family Charter of Rights. (Sept 2024) Delivering Community Reinforcement and Family Training [C.RAF.T) every quarter to Families and individuals. [Oct 2024- 12 individuals attended training bringing the total to 24 individuals trained C.KA.F.T. Delivered 3 training sessions on Whole Farnily Approach and Family Inclusive prdcdce to 36 Indivlduals from services whlch Include, CARES (Cambuslang & Hamilton teams). Criminal Justice, The GiviL The Beacons, TPS and SACRO. Launch of the FREE service in all localities East Kllbrlde. Hamilton, Clydesdale and online. Delivering information sessions to services including Families Outside, Family Hubs. Children and Families Strategic group. CARES team5 throughout South ianarkshire. Part of worknng groups including Children, Families and Young people strategic group. Scottigh Implernentation ol Whole Famlly Approach and Family Inclusive Practice, Alcohol Harm Reduction in older people. Mental Health and Addirtlon working group. Pan Lanarkshfire Alcohol rèlated harms group. Pan Lanarkshire DRD group. Dundee Family Conferellce Inverary Conference Awareness Intervlew wlth Carnglen Radlo Recovery Walk 2024 .& h05ting a stall. KIlalk 2024- The Mighty Stride 23 miles from Glasgow Green to Balloch. RESERVES POLICY The charity operates at present with unrestricted and restrirted Funds to be used in accordance with the charitable objertives. At the end of the year My Support Day had £0 in unrestricted funds and £88,159 in rèstrlcted funds a breakdown is Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf Page I
I report on the accounts for the year ended 14 March 202S set out on pages 3 and 4. Respectlve responslbilities of trustees and examiner The chariW5 trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordartce with the tenns of the Charities and Trustee Investments (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulation5 2006. The charl5 trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulations 10 (11{d) of the Accounts RegulatioNs does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accourhts as required under section 44(1)Q of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basts ofthe Independent examlnerfs report My examinatitsn w2$ rarried out in actordante wlth Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts (Scotlandl Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review ofthe accounting records kept by the chariry and a COTnparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual iterns or disclosures in the accounts. and seeking explanations from you a5 the Trustees concerning any such marrers. The procedures underraken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audiL and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts. Independent examlnews statement I have completed my examinatlon. I can confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examlnatlon glvlng ne cause to believe that in any Internal respect- Accounting records were not kept in re5pert oFthe Charity as required by Settion 44 [1)[a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the Accounts {Scotiand) Regulations 2006 (as amended) or The accounts do not accord wfith those records or The accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of Regulation 8 of the Charlties Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as arnendedj other than any requirement that the accounts ve a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part ofan independent examination. 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 ofthe accounts to be reached. Pag¢ 5
Recelpts Grants Donations 290,422 767.16 210,142 1,897 291,189 21Z,039 Payments Accountancy Fees Staff wages and PAYE HRSupport Charltable Activltles Rent Printing, Postage and Stationery Advertlslng Office Equipment Expensed otYice/General Expenses Insurance l.T Costs Recruitment Costs Subscriptions Travel and Accommodation Volunteer Expenses Web5lte Deslgn and Maintenance 1,296 259.076 1.206 37,799 21.492 1.837 1.296 179,400 8,998 18,292 2.433 142 1.408 1.157 59 14.650 3.859 18 382 18 3,168 682 18 Total Payments 342.591 216.095 Surylus/(Deftclt) for year Page 6
ortDa 2025 2024 Opening Balance 138,561 142,617 Bank and Cash at Hand Surplus for the year -51402 -4,506 Closlng Balances 87,159 138.561 Restrirted Funds Unrestrfcted Funds 87,159 138.561 Total funds to cany forward Restricted Fund5 Breakdown as at 1410312025 Corra Children and Families Funding. £30.361.00 SFAD Young Persons Service- £1665.00 ADP- Free Servlce- £56123.00 Apprnved by the Tru%tee.£ and.Eigned nn th•dr behalft Page 7
earE edl arc 25 l. Accounting Policies The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and on the basis of receipts and payrnents. Funds All funds are for charltable purposes and are spllt between restrlcted funds and unrestricted fund5 as per balances. Due to the size and nature of the charity, the accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payrnents bas1S. 2. Funds 2025 ZOZ4 Cash at bank and in hand 87.159 138,561 Closlng Balances Page 8