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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 July 2024
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 August 2023
to
31 July 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
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The Adam Bojelian Foundation CIC (AdsFoundation) provides education and training to health and social care professionals and organisations in healthcare law, ethics, and communication. AdsFoundation does this by working directly with health and social care organisations; by creating free access to online educational and training resources for health and social care professionals and organisations including a quarterly healthcare law, policy and ethics update; by organising the annual Adam Bojelian Memorial talk and until January 2024 providing a pro bono healthcare law and ethics advice service. The AdsFoundation has also contributed to Parliamentary inquiries. These activities provide the following community benefits: 1. Raise awareness and knowledge of healthcare law and ethics amongst health and social care professionals and the wider public. 2. Explain health and social care law in an accessible and easy to access way. 3. Provides a single point of access to healthcare law and ethics resources. 4. Helps overcome health and social care professionals' fear of law and regulation, reducing stress on them. 5. Provides education and teaching to individuals and organisations from an experienced legal expert in healthcare law and ethics. 6. Helps ensure patients and service users receive lawful and ethical treatment and care. 7. Contributing to Parliamentary inquiries helps MPs to understand issues faced at grass roots level from those experiencing them firsthand and regularly. 8. The healthcare law and ethics advice service provided free initial expert legal advice to those who would not otherwise have access to this advice and signposted inquirers to third party organisations when more in-depth support was needed. This ensured patients and carers were aware of their legal rights and helped prevent inappropriate legal action. saving patients, carers and health organisations time and finances. AdsFoundation also undertakes additional activities to help promote health and social ea.re staff, patients, and service users' well-being. These include hosting the annual #WeEatWell challenge throughout November encouraging and promoting healthy eating amongst health professionals and others and providing education on the links between healthy eating and health and well-being. Also providing an expert speaker to talk on matters of healthcare law for third party voluntary sector organisations; donating books to children in hospital through 'Read for Good, registered charity no.1130309 (England and Wales) and no. SC041036 (Scotland). Also, this year AdsFoundation has begun promoting children and young parole's literacy and creativity through workshops using poems written by multi-award-winning poet Adam Bojelian. The workshops also teach children and young people about alternative methods of communication used by people with disabilities. These activities have the fallowing community benefits: 1. WeEatWell supports health professionals and others to develop healthy eating habits which according to feedback from participants has contributed to their long term health and well-being, this is tern will help reduce demand on the NHS by helping Participants maintain optimum health. 2. Contributing to third party events, educating health professionals on matters of' healthcare law and ethics has widen access for health professionals to expert legal education. 3. The literacy workshop give children and young people who might not otherwise have the opportunity access to poetry, encouraging reading and literacy generally. It also gives them an Insight into diverse ways of communicating, helping to Improve their understanding of the lives of people living with disabilities and their empathy. 4. The book donations have given children access to books whilst in hospital, providing them with entertainment and education.
AdsFoundation's stakeholders are health and social care professionals and those using their services, plus children and young people and those providing opportunities for them such as libraries, schools and social clubs. The AdsFoundation expert stakeholder group consists of professionals and experts by experience. Their details are provided on the AdsFoundation website. The expert stakeholder group are sent regular updates on the AdsFoundaUon's activities and invited to comment on those activities and suggest additional ones the AdsFoundation can undertake. We have a statement on each page of our website welcoming feedback and suggestions. We routinely share new resources on social media and always invite feedback and suggestions. When working directly with professionals or organisations we also invite feedback and encourage the co design of projects.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
2 April 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Zoe Picton-Howell
Status: Director