In 2024 SHAPE Lancashire has continued to provide activities / services, to support our Aims of Reducing Isolation and increasing Health & Wellbeing. Below we have gone into detail about what we have delivered and achieved. Reaching Communities – Year 3 Introduction Our third and final year of Connect with SHAPE has been incredible, with more people than ever before getting involved and improving their wellbeing by connecting with other people through our activities. In our proposal we aimed to work with 200 people over the 3 years. We have worked with 250. We have truly loved delivering this project, seeing people go from being lonely and isolated, many times low mood and nervous and quiet, to enthusiastic, positive and looking forward to our next activity. SHAPE LINC Line New Referrals: 72 from April 2024 to 30 th Dec 2024 Total number of customers worked with from April – end of December: 200 Total phone calls: 7000 calls by end of contract 50 weeks. 5740 to date (April 2024 – 31 st Jan 2025) SHAPE Linc Line is a telephone befriending and support service set up to support Places for People residents. We phone people on a weekly or fortnightly basis dependant on the customers preference. Our service aims to: Reduce Loneliness Reduce Isolation Improve Emotional Wellbeing Learn Coping Strategies Build Resilience Connect people to the outside World. Children in Need /and Progress Housing funded Youth Club We have had another brilliant year at Youth Club. September 2024 saw a large rise in the older group due to many the younger group moving up. The Younger group was soon filled up again with new starters, and we have a consistently high number at both groups. We were successful at securing a further 3 years of Children In Need Funding to complement the Term Time Youth Club. This has enabled us to continue with School Holiday activities and term time targeted sessions. Activities at Youth Club Art Table – We base the art table with upcoming events, this year these have included, Remembrance Day, Mother’s Day, Christmas , Halloween, Easter, Valentines Day, and more. This Easter we joined up with the Wade Hall Litter Pickers and our members painted giant eggs that formed the Easter Egg Trail. Baking – This year we have made pizza with the Older Group and used a cotton candy machine to see how big we could make one. Puzzles / Board Games – We have a table for LEGO, jigsaws, Jenga, Connect 4 and other different puzzles. Outdoors – We have limited space in the garden, but we try to use it as best as we can , we have football nets and recently had the basketball net back up. We have a member of the Older Group that volunteers at the Younger Group, and she plays structured games outside with the members. Games We have the Xbox, which we update with different interactive games through the Kinect device. Just dance and Star Wars. Magnetic dart board, Mini pool table, mini air hockey table and foosball table.

In 2024 we continued to work with existing stakeholders including Places for People, Progress Housing, Community Gateway, BPRCVS/ICB, Children In Need, National Lottery Communities, Preston North End, Leyland St Marys High School, Wade Hall Residents Association. With the Crystal Fund we worked with Social Prescribers to find people that would really benefit from our service. We completed a survey with each participant at the end of the service to demonstrate the impact we had had on their life. Before we restarted the Places for People Health and Wellbeing activities, we went to each of the 14 schemes and carried out a Welcome meeting / Consultation, asking people what activities they would like to do, this formed the programmes. We continuously ask for feedback after activities and adapt and diversify to ensure we are delivering what our customers want. We are continually asking our participants what services and activities they would like us to provide. We ask what gaps there are in services and look to fill these gaps. For our lottery funded project final report, we used case studies, surveys, quotes and statistics to demonstrate the impact of our service. We were constantly asking participants how they felt about the activities, what worked and what didn’t and what they wanted to see change. This was invaluable to support us to apply for future funding now the lottery project has come to an end. For our Youth Activities we record attendance at each of our sessions to track how regularly people attend. We take photographs at all our sessions to evidence what children are taking part in. We talk to children regularly about what activities they have enjoyed, what activities they have got better at, any skills they feel they have developed, and what activities they have not enjoyed. We ask them what they have found difficult and how they think we can help them to improve. We write regular case studies on children where we have seen a significant difference since they started with us. At the end of every summer, we ask the children to either draw or write about what activities they have enjoyed helping us develop our next programme of activities. We are in regular communication with Parents and Guardians and asking for feedback on their views on how their children are progressing. Throughout all our work, we are flexible and adapt in response to participants needs. We want to have as much of an impact as possible on the lives of the people we work with, to ensure our work is worthwhile and targeting the correct needs.

As per the accounts, the total directors remuneration amounted to £72,702

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