Chairmans Report:
In the event of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the
requirement to keep safe, this year’s AGM has
been held virtually and communicated to our
members via the charity’s website.
The
last
year
has
been
challenging
for
the
charity
given
the
restrictions
put
in
place
by
the
government
to
manage
the
covid
pandemic.
It
is
disappointing
that,
in
recent
months,
we
have
not
been
able
to
open
our
stall
in
Jubilee,
pack
and
distribute
our
newsletters
and
hold
our
afternoon
teas.
We
also
had
to
cancel
our
annual
trip.
However,
we
appreciate
the
need
to
keep
our
members/trustees/volunteers
and
patients/families
safe
during
this
time
of
social
distancing
and
shielding/self-isolating.
Despite
this
the
Trustees
have
been
working
very
hard
all
year
covering
the
stall,
putting
on
events
such
as
Paul
Kaufman’s
annual
quiz
as
well
as
the
monthly
afternoon
tea,
Christmas
draw,
delivering
newsletters
to
the
wards
and
running
the
stall.
Since
lockdown
they
have
still
been
managing
our
post,
responding
to
queries,
reviewing
requests
and
communicating,
albeit
electronically,
rather
than
face
to
face.
Thank
you
very
much
to
all
our
Trustees.
I
would
like
to
take
this
opportunity
to
say
a
special
thanks
to
our
IT
man,
Bill
Stevenson,
who
continues
to
look
after
our
website
since
he
stood
down
from
being
a
Trustee
last
year.
This
has
been
invaluable
in
being
able
to
continue to communicate with our members.
Our
new
Trustee,
Trevor
Thompson,
has
done
an
amazing
job
managing
the
Take
Heart
office
and
undertaking
the
administration
tasks
along
with
our
Treasurer,
Alec
McLean
who
also
works
tirelessly
for
the
charity
and
meticulously manages the books.
Trustees re-election
No Trustees are due for re-election in 2020, all trustees were re-elected for
a 2 year period 2019-2021. However, I am sorry that Trustee Andrew Clarke
has since resigned his post, but we thank him for all his contributions and
wish him well in the future.
Over
the
year,
the
patients
and
staff
at
the
Yorkshire
Heart
Centre
continue
to
benefit
from
the
good
work
provided
by
the
charity.
The
Take
Heart
Suite
goes
from
strength
to
strength
and
means
we
are
able
to
continue
to
deliver
high
quality
care
to
patients.
Although
our
scheme
to
refurbish
the
roof
garden
has
been
put
on
hold
for
now,
we
will
restart
this
project
as
soon
as
we
are
able
as
we
understand
how
valuable
this
area
is
for
patients,
their
visitors and staff alike.
Thank
you
also
to
those
volunteers
who
help
Maureen
on
the
stall,
knitting
and
joining
the
Trustees
packing
the
newsletters,
we
very
much
look
forward
to
seeing
you
all
again.
We
will
let
you
know
when
we
are
able
to
start these again, hopefully soon.
Finally,
I
would
like
to
say
a
big
thank
you
to
all
our
members
and
supporters
of
Take
Heart,
without
which
the
charity
would
not
be
able
to
carry out its work.
Gina McGawley
Chairman, June 2020
Financial Report for year 1
st
February 2019 to 31
st
January 2020.
It will seem very strange not to be at a meeting
this year because of the pandemic but we are
doing our best to ensure that the report will be
read by as many people as possible. Hopefully
this will be the last meeting of our Committee
which will on our website. I am sorry that it will
not be seen by all members at this time but for
those of you who do have a computer and know
someone who doesn`t, then perhaps you may let
them see the reports with you.
Our general donations were down from the
previous year by £21889.00 and this was mainly
due to voluntary donations showing a shortfall of
£23997.06. Our sponsored walk was £2088.64 less than the year before.
The previous walk was our 30
th
and we probably tried that much harder to
attract our members to do the walk. It is not that the committee does any less
to advertise the walk but nowadays there are many more other walks and
runs such as The Abbey Dash, The Great North Run, etc; and people have
only so much money to donate. The money we receive is very much
appreciated as is the effort made by those who did the walk on our behalf. I
know how hard it is to obtain sponsors. There was an increase in the
donations received from funerals given in memory of the deceased. This was
up by £4052.05 to £39,327.27.
Our sales from the stall were up from £5419.15 to £5881.47, a small gain of
£462.32. Thanks to Maureen who puts a lot of time into the stall, and to all
who help her plus of course all the ladies who knit garments to sell on the
stall. Collection boxes showed a gain of £1005.08 and the small change
boxes was slightly up by £97.15. Our Christmas draw was down slightly by
£375.50 although at £1 a ticket I don`t know how we managed to lose the
50p. The stalls on the sponsored walk were £212.72 down on the previous
year. The quiz was down slightly by £47.00 but still a good night was had by
all thanks to Paul and all his assistants on the night. Finally, the trip made a
small profit of £31.00 but that was because the charge for the buses was
slightly cheaper because we went to the east coast instead of the west.
The differences in expenditure were considerably less than the previous year
amounting to some £369,670.00 mainly down to equipment supplied to the
LGI. In 2019 the cost to the charity of equipment supplied to the LGI was
£475,149.78 whilst in 2020 it was reduced to £86,703.81 a massive
difference of £388,445.97. The majority of this amount being in respect of the
Take Heart Cardiac Lounge but in addition to this we continued to purchase
some monitors, leaflets and pamphlets for the various departments.
The annual postage was only slightly up by £67.60 which reflects in the cost
of postage stamps being increased from the 1
st
of April 2019. We did
purchase stamps at the old price which kept the costs down but all good
things must come to an end and we had to pay the higher rate. Our
Christmas draw expenses increased by £892.86 this being the purchase of
additional raffle books because the year before we struggled to supply extra
books when they were required by people who were able to sell more tickets.
We also had to deliver some of the prizes although we posted those we were
able to. This year we seemed to have more winners from outlying areas.
The increase in the cost of the goods at £786.00 was the purchase of some
teddy bears for sale on the stall. The increase in the cost of the newsletter
could well have been down to an extra flyer which normally costs around the
£140.00 mark. The printers (City Press) we use and have used more or less
since the charity was formed, always keep their charges to a minimum.
New equipment for Take Heart (£929.71) includes a new computer for the
Treasurer, and a roller poster advertising the afternoon tea . The stationery
for Take Heart increased this year by £1108.62 this was due to purchasing
new letterheads at £381.60, some plain C5 envelopes £144.00 some labels
for use on our post out, due to the specialist printer having stopped working
and the Neopost engineer has advised us that the printer is on its last legs.
There was also a cost of £143.88 for C3 services re our internet use and
finally there was a cost of £165.21 for a search engine. The amount for the
phones went up by £44.99 and this was for the new phones in the Take Heart
Office. Sponsored Walk expenses were down this year by £845.27, the cost
of hire down by £842.00 and expenses £346.62. The Miscellaneous
Collections were £1239.93 more and this was mainly down to a cheque for
£3655 which wasn`t for us but was for Take Heart Derby, £1051 for
insurances, £373 for the Neopost Engineer’s call out, various unpaid cheques
(all paid eventually except one which was unpaid because the payee had
died). The expenses for the quiz were also down by £396.00 so although the
actual money paid for the quiz was down slightly, the profit was up this year.
The monies transferred from our Special Interest Bearing Account was down
by £372,956.47 but this was to be expected as the Take Heart Cardiac
Lounge was paid for in 2018 and all the transfers of cash etc; was included in
last years finance. The money transferred back to the Special interest
Bearing Account was £14,910.40 less this year than last and this is reflected
in the fact that donations had decreased.
I would like to end this report by thanking all those who have helped me in
some way in my job of Treasurer, especially my wife Edith who keeps me well
supplied with biscuits, tea and other beverages when I am working in my
office at home.
At the time of writing this account the balance stands at:
Current Account
920.93
Special Interest a/c
378750.46
Total
379671.39
Thank you
Alec.J.McLean
Treasurer, June 2020
