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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 March 2024
Directors
The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2023
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31 March 2024
The directors shown below have held office during the period of
1 April 2023
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23 June 2023
The director shown below has held office during the period of
18 January 2024
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31 March 2024
The director shown below has held office during the period of
10 July 2023
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31 March 2024
The director shown below has held office during the period of
23 June 2023
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31 March 2024
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General Wild and Free Therapy CIC is a health and wellbeing organisation specialising in group and individual therapy programmes for children, young people and their parents/carers. We are based in Dorset, on the South Coast of the UK surrounded by a vibrant surf and paddleboard community. Our programmes during 2023/24 embraced the therapeutic effects of being in, on, and by, the ocean and water. We prioritised physical and mental wellbeing which means ensuring opportunities for aiding children/young people and their parents/carers to access activities that promote a healthy body and mind. This included surf and play therapy, sea-swimming, and outdoor activities such as yoga and mindfulness. Holistic care is a key part of our nurturing ethos, and we passionately believe in the overall wellbeing of all our children and young people. At the very heart of our trauma-informed approach is the process of change through caring relationships and empathetic, understanding adults. We strive to relate with others in such a way that we add to the physical and mental health of our local community. We interact in a socially engaging way, thinking carefully about the non-verbal body language, providing reassurance and support to help young people regulate and feel nurtured and safe. Work during 2023/24 We worked with groups and individuals across the Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset areas. We worked with children, young people and adults who identified as potentially benefitting from physical, social, emotional and mental health support. This included young people with disabilities, and carers for someone with a disability. Our sea-based work during the period was located at Sorted Surf School, Honeycombe Beach, Boscombe, Shore Sports – Mudeford, and The SUP Store, Christchurch. For the period in question, the impact measures for our programmes have shown improved pro-social skills and executive functions including increased resilience and ability to handle stress. Other benefits include improved emotional regulation, interpersonal skills and self-awareness. In addition to this, we supported individuals’ ability to reintegrate into the community by offering community support for participants of our programmes. Maintaining and growing our nurturing environment that brings communities together and maintaining subsequent connections through ongoing community engagement. We aimed prioritise access to our services for those who most need it, and as we grew our organisation’s presence, with a solid foundation formed in our inaugural year last year, we maintained this principle and focus on quality of deliverables and outcomes. We aimed to maintain and promote our trauma-informed culture that welcomes the whole person and brings communities together supporting resilience and protective factors. Subsequent to our courses and programmes, we strive to sustain links with our clients and families, through ongoing community engagement and connections. We allowed organic growth in a measured and affordable way, holding our clients’ wellbeing as the key measure to our success. We respected and honoured the beaches and seas in which we delivered our work. We strove to keep our costs and overheads, including staff rates, as low and competitive as possible in order to maximise the yield for our clients. Learning and improving through ongoing reflection, clinical, formal and informal evaluation, and feedback is key to what we do. We maintained a best practice approach by ensuring our training was up to date and current, and that our professional development and qualifications were commensurate with the services we were providing. All staff and volunteers have enhanced DBS checks and have undergone the requisite level of safeguarding training. For the period in question, staff attended clinical supervision while therapy programmes were running. Our group programmes and individual sessions offered an integrative approach designed individually for each person or group. We use psychological measures and assessments based on affective neuroscience. Programmes and Deliverables for 2023/24 + Surf Therapy Programmes for Young People (Social-Emotional Mental Health and Neurodiver-gence) We undertook two blocks of programmes during the 2023/24 period, each of which was hosted once per week for eight weeks, attended by 6-8 young people. Our group programmes during 2023/24 involved participants aged 10+ who: - Have disabilities or additional needs - May be at risk of exclusion, have social, emotional, mental health barriers to accessing sports, community or mainstream education - Have experienced mental health difficulties throughout their childhood These sessions included physical activity (surfing!) and vital psycho-education where appropriate. Where it was included in the brief from the commissioner, the participants had a psychological assessment and report on their pro-social skills, blocks to learning, and executive functions including handling stress, thinking and concentrating, confidence and self-esteem, interpersonal skills and emotional literacy. This enabled us to evaluate changes in these measures as a result of undertaking the programme. Across the two programmes, we reached a total of 16 participants. In addition to these programmes, we also delivered seven one-off surf therapy sessions for local charities, taking the form of a group of eight children/young people referred from the said charity. These included participants with disabilities and/or mental health needs. Across these seven sessions, we reached a total of 54 participants. + Adaptive Surf and Paddleboarding (Disability and Neurodevelopmental) These are individual sessions for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), who require an individual and child-centred approach, who could not be facilitated in a group arena. This typically involved 2-3 staff/volunteers and was delivered following risk assessing and clinically assessing the child’s individual needs. We used our own specialist adaptive surf boards and equipment and close consultation with the participants’ family, carers and clinicians. These sessions include physical activity (surfing or paddle boarding!), sensory regulation and outdoor play therapy. During the 2023/24 period, we held a total of 22 of these sessions, some of which involved working concurrently with siblings. In total these sessions reached 23 individuals.
Our stakeholders during 2023/24 were: The Stable School, Christchurch – a specialist school for children with mental health issues, trauma backgrounds, and neurodivergence, who cannot access mainstream settings. The Dorset Children’s Foundation – a children’s charity serving the Dorset population that prioritises the wellbeing of not only the disabled children registered with themselves but the wider families. Sorted Surf School, Surf Steps, Shore Sports and The SUP Store – these four organisations are all local surf / paddle board organisations that sell, hire, and teach watersports, and have a strong presence in our working vicinity. Elevate Foundation – a charity for children focussing on those who have encountered mental health difficulties due to loss, trauma, anxiety. MYTIME Young Carers – a charity that supports young people who have a caring role in Dorset. Our grant-givers – We were successful in two bids for grants during the 2023/24 accounting year, and were offered small grants from the following organisations: Boshier Hinton Foundation, Local Giving (Postcode Lottery Fund). We also spent grant monies received during the previous year (2022/23) from Whirlwind Charitable Trust and AFC Bournemouth Community Sports Trust. Consultation We engaged in detailed consultation with The Stable School and The Dorset Children’s Foundation (*) prior to our programmes and sessions in order to ensure that we facilitate the most effective and productive opportunities for our participants. This took the form of: - Ensuring that the most appropriate and in-need participants were selected for our sessions - Obtaining feedback from the above organisations following programmes/sessions - Obtaining feedback from the participants following the programmes/sessions - Evaluating the above feedback in order to effect change for future programmes/sessions Consultation with the local watersports providers listed above took the form of: - Ensuring that our aims and values were clear to them so that they were aware of our desire to work collaboratively alongside their offering and not in competition - Ensuring a mutually-beneficial path was steered, whereby we were taking advantage of the wide customer base, reputation and presence that they already had established, while ensuring that we added value to them by increasing their audience engagement through our specialist and disability offerings that became affiliated with their locations Consultation with Elevate Foundation took the form of feedback forms being completed and fed back to us following on from the sessions we ran. (*) The Dorset Children’s Foundation is the largest children’s charity in the county and we have now forged strong ties with them, whereby we continually consult with Trustees. This involves ensuring that the participants are supported, offers are fairly distributed to the most appropriate service-users, the costs to the charity or family are fair and affordable, and that the content and outcome of sessions are beneficial and therapeutic. We hold frequent discussions with the charity in which new families are put forward who have been identified by either party, and agreements are made about how we can facilitate sessions for them in a beneficial and viable way. Consultation through Social Media – We have an active social media presence consisting of an audience predominantly based in our local area who have a connection in some way with mental health, wellbeing, disability, education, and water sports. This has allowed us to seek out dialogue and feedback from our local community on the issues that really matter to them. For instance, we have been involved in campaigns to make our local beach more accessible (parking, toilets, beach ramps), and have used this as a platform to generate engagement about our interest in our community and what we can offer.
The aggregate amount of emoluments paid to or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying ser-vices was £2,863. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
27 November 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: E Sutton
Status: Director