In the financial year Calm Ahead CIC have worked across the Oldham Borough with many different communities to deliver a range of workshops, courses and sessions. These activities have provided a safe space, understanding, knowledge and materials to enable the participants to develop their understanding, building their resilience and confidence in their own abilities to be able to utilise health and wellbeing strategies, to access services in order support themselves, their family members, friends and others. We have strived to access all areas of the community including some of the most marginalised and deprived areas of the borough.

Calm Ahead CIC key stakeholders include our service users and participants across the local community, the community centre which we are based within, the board of directors, funders, local authority and other local community VCSFE organisations within the borough and also across Greater Manchester. This year the focus has been very much about establishing good roots and networks for Calm Ahead CIC within the Community and the key stakeholders have been a particularly important part of that process.The activities we have continued to undertake throughout the financial year are include:- Connect 5 Programme sessions During the year we have continued delivery of the Connect 5 Programme of sessions across the community to many different types of organisations from VCFSE and local council sector. We have had the opportunity to be part of the training offer for the Vanguard Project which has seen us being able to support the Social Prescribing offer across the Oldham and Wider GM area. The sessions are been funded in partnership by Action Together and GMCA under the NHS guidance to support people working with the general public to talk about mental health and remove the barriers and obstacles which people face around particularly challenging areas of Mental Health such as Suicide & Self Harm. We have been an active part of the community of practice supporting the development the programme, our peers and our own continued development to be able to provide the best support we can throughout delivery. Youth Connect 5 Programme Delivery of this programme has continued throughout the financial year. The programme supports families around children's mental health and childhood development. Delivered over a S week programme the parents/carers have the opportunity to learn a lot about the way they approach situations and find coping strategies, tools and techniques which helps them to support their young person navigate their way through childhood into young adulthood. We have continued to work with a number of organisations including particularly marginalised areas of the community, work has continued with Men Behaving Dadly who are a community group of dads who dedicated to supporting their children and each other, we have also delivered some targeted sessions for families with children who are neurodivergent supporting families who are waiting for a diagnosis, on the pathway and those who have received their diagnosis for Autism, ADHD or both. These sessions have been delivered in partnership with Oldham Council. Live Life to the Full Programme During the course of the year we continued to deliver this fantastic programme supporting many participants across the community. These sessions provide low level CBT and help participants look at patterns, behaviours, strategies which have been holding them back, creating other issues for them and impacting their wellbeing and mental health. The programme delivery includes lots of fantastic tools and resources to support participants recognise these patterns and put in place positive coping strategies to help them move forward. From the work we have undertaken throughout the year we were given the opportunity applying for a pot of funding the WEA and GMCA. The work for this project will commence in the next financial year. The project is part of the community grantscheme which is supporting people back into work, volunteering, social situations who have for one reason or another found themselves struggling. The LLTTF programme aligns really well as it provides the right level of support, nurturing and coaching from the team. Menopause During the course of the financial year the directors focussed on the delivery of a Menopause pilot to support women and families across perimenopause, menopause and beyond. Initially applying for National Lottery funding were asked to provide a little more research which the pilot scheme provided. Weekly Women's Wellbeing sessions were delivered across the year and the feedback and benefit of the sessions provided the supporting material to apply for a pot of funding from the National Lottery. This application was awarded in December 2024 across a 2 year period. This will provide the opportunity to expand the offer with further sessions across the community and borough. Relax KidsSessions Sessions for Children and young people have continued to be delivered across the community with the funding received from Action Togethers One Oldham Fund. These sessions follow a unique 7 step programme supporting children and young people around resilience, mental health and wellbeing. This year has been a really productive year in terms of embedding Calm Ahead CIC into the community and being able to build on and expand our delivery offer. With all programmes, sessions and workshops which are delivered Calm Ahead there are pre and post evaluations which provides rich data from the participants. This data is reviewed using a graduated assess, plan, do, review process which helps to constantly reflect, improve delivery, performance and support our stakeholders. We also undertake focus group and pilot schemes of potential work consulting with our communities to ensure that the service offer is reaching the right areas of the community.

The total value of directors remuneration is £30,331.

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