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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 November 2024
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 December 2023
to
30 November 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
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 30 November 2024
Basis of measurement and preparation
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Friends for Lives are a suicide intervention team who offer a safe, welcoming, non-judgemental and completely confidential space outside of typical public health and social care services. The people we support are invited to share their thoughts and feelings with highly trained professionals who truly care and who are comfortable talking about suicide. Our visitors feel safe to talk about every aspect of their life and their distress without the worry of over-intervention and it is likely that giving someone the opportunity to talk about suicide is all that is needed to take them from a place of isolation and danger to a place of support and safety. We also provide suicide first aid training within the wider community. " Emergency phone and online support set up used by around 5 people per week " 150 people from other local mental health services (NHS etc.) attended training sessions " To date, 200 have people benefited from our programme through 20 appointments per week. " As the only service of its kind in our area we have received 220 referrals the majority of which came from social prescribers in GP surgeries Friends For Lives has had an incredible second year in Suicide Intervention having now provided support to over 500 vulnerable people in Southend and the surrounding area. Our capacity to offer support has grown through the commitment of our team of volunteers and those at the helm have been able to commit their time fully to the important work that they do. We have also been able to benefit from externally sourced safeguarding support to help keep ourselves safe as we work towards supporting the safety of those under our care. There have been many opportunities and changes for us, one of these being that we had to move from our premises at the University of Essex and relocate to our new bigger facility in Prittlewell. This caused a level of disruption and financial concern for us but by investing in this move we have now been able to increase the number of services we can provide and further raise community awareness and capacity around suicide and suicide intervention provision. The new space provides us with an area for additional activities to take place and it was designed and decorated by those benefiting from our work, which further brought them together as friends. This peer support approach was also endorsed by the successful delivery of free mental health first aid and suicide first aid qualification courses for those clients that wished to learn more about how to support themselves and others. We look forward to delivering more of these throughout 2025. Of course, the number of lives we save can be measured only by those that are still here with us, but we have seen a decrease in the number of suicides in Southend overall and we know that we have been a strong contributor of support towards that decrease and hopefully its continuation. We are also now providing external training and have plans to provide not just one-to-one support but wider training on a range of mental health issues around the community to support resilience across Southend. 2025 will be an important year for Friends For Lives and the whole team is looking forward to the challenge ahead as we move vulnerable people from danger and fear to safety and hope. We are continuing to make funding applications that we hope will find favour due to the great work we are doing, and via additional external training which we will look to deliver we are hoping that this can also provide additional financial support. We are entering 2025 with plans to provide not just one-to-one support but wider training on mental health across the community to support resilience across Southend. 2025 will be an important year for Friends For Lives and the whole team is looking forward to the challenge ahead as we move vulnerable people from danger and fear to safety and hope.
Friend for Lives C.I.C.'s stakeholders are those who access our activities and our wider community, local NHS services, public health, companies and other members of the local voluntary sector in the geographical area we work. Our directors are members of our local community and have varying lived experiences of working in mental health, the voluntary sector, of suicide, the NHS and public health. This provides them with valuable insight as well as connections and strong relationships with those stakeholders. Conversations and regular feedback gathered in one to one sessions as well as online surveys and recognized mental health assessments are used to determine whether our visitors are benefiting from our service. This also provides learning and feedback for adapting our future offering. Our the directors have been networking more, locally to raise awareness of the work of Friends for Lives C.I.C. to gather feedback from local NHS and public health stakeholders. Our regular meetings with them have enabled them to provide input into our activities.
The directors remuneration is shown within the notes of the annual accounts.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
29 August 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Royston Kymberly
Status: Director