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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 2025
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 February 2024
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31 January 2025
The director shown below has held office during the period of
23 May 2024
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31 January 2025
The director shown below has held office during the period of
13 May 2024
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31 January 2025
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
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 2025
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Bringing Us Together has continued its work to reach more families, parents carers with disabled children, young people and adults, together with disabled people across the country. Our organisation has greatly diversified and is working alongside parents and disabled people from ethnic minority communities which is clearly shown through our work with Carers United, our Steering Group for the new Doing it Solo Project, plus inviting new Directors to the team. We continue to deliver training for the Key Worker Programme in Yorkshire and Humber and were able to offer face to face training alongside our zoom sessions. This training is part of the induction of new staff, has wellbeing at the heart, whilst providing the opportunity for reflection. The overall aim is to improve communication with families and provides a rich insight into the world of disability. Through our relationship with Kirklees families and the local Parent Forum (PCAN) we designed a course for their steering groups on working together, avoiding conflicts and organising meetings. As a result of the successful training PCAN asked us to take part in the PINS programme Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools. This was a commissioned piece of work through NHS Kirklees and our role was to work alongside schools to support teachers, Teaching Assistants, SENCOs and Head teachers to think about how they could further develop positive relationships with families. We delivered this over 4 sessions with an excellent turnout and feedback in November 2024. Our Skills for Care workshops aimed at Direct Payment Employers has been a successful collaboration with Being the Boss, Halo, and Adult Social Care Warriors. This has enabled us to share our skills and resources, and reach a wide number of parent carers and disabled people through our joint networks and social media channels. We sadly lost our dear friend and work colleague Iggy Patel in January 2025. Iggy had led our sessions with compassion, knowledge and deep insight into the world of social care and disability. We continued to deliver the sessions in his memory with our own improvisation. Thanks to a relationship with Learning Disability England we received a contract to deliver 2 Social Care Charging and Disability Related Expenses workshops to their members. In November we heard we had a successful application to the National Lottery Awards for All grant to fund a brand new much needed project which was the innovation of our new Director Njaimeh Nmboge. As a single parent herself she felt that lone parents of disabled children rarely have a voice, and little is done in the way of emotional and practical support despite the enormous barriers they face. Thanks to the funding we have been able to bring together a Steering Group made up of lone parents and who are using their insight and lived experiences to lead on this much needed and innovative work. We are planning to launch the project on National Single Parents Day with the support of our Well Being facilitators and Dame Philippa Russell who has worked on Carers policies and guidance for many years at national level. We are all excited and looking forward to meeting the needs of single parent carers. We have set up a group called Carers United thanks to funding originally from NHS England in Yorkshire and Humber and with a grant from Community Foundation for Calderdale. This has built on our much needed work last year on the Culture Matters project based in Yorkshire .We are fortunate to work with two parent carer leaders from the Pakistani community who are well linked and have large networks in the Halifax area. They are both interpreters which has enabled us to bring together mothers who have English as a second language and who face isolation, discrimination within their own communities and families, and some of whom struggle with our complex education, health and social care systems. We are looking forward to the next year ahead with more Social Care workshops, continuing our work with parent carers, training professionals and building on the positive work we have done in 2024/2025.
Bringing Us Together runs steering groups for each of our projects. Members of the steering group are all disabled people and family members. They drive the projects forward, agree on each project’s objectives and aims, are accountable for meeting the needs of our community and work in a proactive and responsive way considering any feedback and surveys. We have a very active facebook group and page. Many of our flyers are shared widely across the disability sector and parent carer groups. We run regular polls on our facebook group to ask members what our focus should be, which workshops to run, and what is important to people in the current political climate. We are able do adjust our workshops accordingly and due to our wide networks have a reach of a range of speakers who are either disabled or parent carers. We send out a survey after each workshop or focus group and take the views into account when planning the next sessions. We have excellent stakeholder engagement and relationships with a range of NHS England programmes who have supported our work over many years. We have developed trust with organisations and Kirklees Local Authority, the Key Worker Programme in Yorkshire and Humber and have been asked to deliver training to professionals working on these projects. We are part of several groups including anti-poverty working groups, Skills for Care Northern Network, Inclusion London, Citizen Network, Think Local Act Personal and Disability Rights UK. We will continue throughout the next year to engage with disabled people and families across England and take their views on board with any future projects.
The total amount receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £14,120
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
10 June 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Katrina Clarke
Status: Director