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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 January 2024
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 February 2023
to
31 January 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 January 2024
Basis of measurement and preparation
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This year we have continued to provide accessible counselling services to the community. Supporting 44 clients with at least 12 weeks of counselling which has either been free to access or at a significantly reduced rate. We have deepened our relationships with groups such as Home Start and Early Help who now refer many of their families to us. The feedback from these organisations has been positive. We have also begun to have referrals from local schools for their young people. This is our 3rd year of running our Tuesday morning Chill & Chat cafe. The cafe has given groups a people a chance to meet up with others, form new friendships and find out information from the services that are brought in by us or by our partner organisation UK Harvest. Services continue to visit us and offer support to the attendees. Over the winter this year we successfully got funding to offer a Warm Space during the winter to give people somewhere warm to come in order to reduce heating bills and ensure that they have access to a warm environment and warm food. In those times we have offered warm food, warm packs with electric blankets, socks, hats, brought excluders and electric throws to some of our attendees who have no heating or are going through financial crisis. Many of them have said that the warm packs have been so important for them and have helped them significantly. Our previous after school club stopped due to the day it was running on no longer working. We began to offer an after-school club in partnership with Dementia UK at Sage House and we were playing games and offering craft activities for a couple of hours after school with Sage House offering cups of tea and some slices of toast. We also set up a youth cafe in the village centre, however both of these activities had to stop due to a change in personal circumstances of the person running them. We continued to run workshops with Bentswood Mental health and Wellbeing Group around OCD and anxiety, however the group then took a break as they were having issues within the committee, and we are waiting to see if these are resolved. The people who have attended spoke about how the strategies offered during the workshop would be useful for them to work on with their loved ones and that is was lovely to have a space where they could talk about these things with other people in a group as they had felt so alone. We have also delivered 2 Youth Mental health First Aid workshops in Kingston Grammar to support those who work with young people so that they are able to spot signs of possible mental health issue in young people and can feel more confident in offering support. Feedback from these courses talks about how the course (which is recent by the Mental Health First Aid England) needs updating but that the delivery is engaging, enjoyable and confidence boosting. We delivered 5 Wim Hof Workshops supporting those with anxiety and chronic pain. The feedback for these can be found here: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/instructors/michelle-stone-8 . In conversation the attendees have spoken about how different they have felt after the breathwork and the ice bath and how very much calmer they have felt afterwards. We have spoken about how to continue with their Wim Hof journey and they have been excited to continue to do something that they have control of.
We have many different stakeholders depending on the service being offered. For our counselling service our stakeholders are our clients and we review with them every 6 weeks whether anything needs to be changed or added to their individual sessions. Our waiting list has grown significantly over the last few months of this year which shows how big the demand for this service is. In response we have gained 2 new student counsellors and an associate counsellor and have started forming working alliances with a family therapist and another young persons counsellor to ensure we are supporting our clients with what they bring and ask for. Our stakeholders for the cafe are the people who attend and we regularly consult with them as to what services they would like to come in and support, they have told us that we are providing many services along with UK Harvest and we have covered their needs for the time being. We carried out a survey to see how people felt about the cafe and whether they felt we should introduce anything else. There were suggestions such as the volunteers having their names on them so that people knew who they were and could find them to talk to. We then had T-shirts made to show who our volunteers were and we began to make a point of introducing ourselves to new people so that they had the name of at least 1 volunteer. Our stakeholders for our courses are the people who hire us. MHFA automatically ask for feedback about the course, which goes on to their website. The course was partly updated last November which helped people to feel more confident in what we were teaching, next year the course is due to be rewritten completely. For our bespoke workshops our stakeholders are the people who hire us and the people who attend. The group who hire me run drop in sessions each week and in those drop ins they will talk to people about what courses they would like to attend, what they would like to find out and how they feel about the ones they have been to. The feedback around the courses is nearly always positive, with people feeling that they have learnt much more about that particular subject. Once the mental wellbeing group have held these sessions, they then get in touch with me and let me know what they would like to put on next and what people would like covered. They will also let me know what improvements would help, such as clearer notes or more activities. The stakeholders in the after-school club and youth cafe were the young people attending and their parents. Unfortunately after having consulted initially after the closure of the villages previous youth club and found that there was very much a demand and need for such young peoples provisions, we were not able to keep it running for long enough to continue to get input from the community. The clubs ending was unavoidable due to the personal circumstances of the person organising the sessions.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
28 October 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Michelle Stone
Status: Director