Umbrella Dementia Cafes Annual Report

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Table of contents Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd

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Vision

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Mission

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Values

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Company Summary

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Volunteers

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Partnerships

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Measure and evaluating impact

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The COVID effect

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Impact Statement

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2019 - 2020 Impact Statement

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Chairperson’s report

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Co-Chairperson – Jan Loughman & Rob Rees

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Finance Manager’s report and 2020 Financial Statements

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Finance and Operations Manager – Rebecca Thorburn

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Umbrella Dementia Cafés in 2020

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Looking to the future

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Financial Statements for Year Ended 30 June 2020

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Balance Sheet

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Profit and Loss Statement

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Chief Executive’s report

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Chief Executive Officer – Kirsty Porter

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A year in review

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Another year of firsts

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Acknowledgements

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Our Vounteers

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A Special Thank You

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Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd VISION Everyone living with dementia is socially connected to themselves, to their family and to their community.

MISSION To advance the social health, welfare and well-being of everyone living with dementia by; •

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Establishing interconnected networks of support centres called ‘Umbrella Dementia Cafes’ to empower the autonomy and connection for people living with dementia while providing awareness and community engagement for the family care-partners.

Providing psychosocial support, information and education for individuals, their families and communities living with dementia diseases.

Integrating intergenerational and multicultural approaches to deliver dementia awareness and education to address the stigma around dementia.

Delivering inclusive and accessible training and education about the Umbrella Dementia Cafes and the prevention and control of dementia diseases for volunteers, community stakeholders and local businesses.

Providing appropriate programs, services and products to financially sustain the Company’s objectives.

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Awareness Inclusion

COMPANY SUMMARY Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd (UDC) is a Company Limited by Guarantee, Health Promotion Charity with Deductible Gift Recipient endorsement from the Australian Tax Office. UDC is governed by its Board of Directors who manage the strategic direction of the Company. The Board has appointed the founder of UDC, Kirsty Porter, as the Chief Executive Office, who is responsible for operational delivery of UDC’s objectives, and will assist the Board in formulating the Company’s strategic objectives and business plan.

Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd.’s primary focus is to advance the social health and well-being of people living with dementia in the community.

Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd wants to solve three key issues; The social disengagement and disempowerment of individuals living with a dementia disease (and subsequent mental health deterioration), • The chronic stress, shame and fear within the family and/or care-partnership of people living with dementia, and • The high levels of community stigma for people living with dementia.

Research shows these problems impact the cultural integrity, economic growth and social equity within our local Australian communities.

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To address these issues, all Umbrella Dementia Cafés are built on 4 key principles

We achieve these principles by establishing interconnected social support groups, called ‘cafes’ where couples (or families) living with dementia can safely meet other families living with a dementia disease within their own local community. These ‘cafes’ deliver the UDC principles and philosophy, are dementia friendly environments and have high levels of community participation, including local volunteers. Each café is empowered to be autonomous with their programs, including naming their own café.

Everyone who attends our cafes is referred to as ‘registered member’. Our registered members are included in everything we do, including fundraising/awareness events and annual forums.

Registered members are a highly valued group who are empowered to become a united front for change and innovation within the aged care industry. Under the strategic direction of the Board, our registered members are a perfect fit to become our first ‘Class of Membership’ (see Article 9 of our Constitution).

Umbrella Dementia Cafés provide welcoming peer support environments, psycho-social support, information, awareness and education for individuals, their families and the local community, so that people can remain connected to their community for as long as possible, with the aim of delaying the move to residential aged care living.

Umbrella Dementia Cafés integrate an intergenerational and multicultural approach towards improving dementia awareness and education to help address societal stigmas. This is achieved through partnerships with local primary schools and businesses, which differentiates us from other dementia cafés.

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2015 World Health Organisation Global Action Against Dementia, World Health Org. 2017-25 Global Action Plan Dementia Umbrealla Dementia Cafes

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2015 Remodelling Dementia – Rosser & Knapp, London School Economics The economic cost of dementia in Australia 2016 to 2056, The Intergenerational Report – Australian in 2055 Aust. Govt. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Australia’s Health 2016 Dept. of Education STEM Education State Plan.

Australian Aged Care Workforce Strategy Framework 2017

VOLUNTEERS Umbrella Dementia Cafés promote strong, collaborative and purpose driven volunteer teams. UDC aims to deliver inclusive accessible UDC training and dementia education programs for local volunteers, community stakeholders and businesses to directly benefit the café and their community members living with dementia. UDC looks for volunteers who are local people, are advocates for change or innovation, attracted to the workplace and who are themselves, at risk of isolation (and dementia).

Umbrella Dementia Cafés relies on strong volunteer contributions and currently has 45 volunteers, with numbers expected to increase as the Company expands its operations.

PARTNERSHIPS Umbrella Dementia Cafés partner with organisations who share common goals to building strong communities with a commitment to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people. These shared goals position us to extend our community driven social health model throughout Australia and build creative financial solutions together to improve the lives of as many people as we can living with dementia.

MEASURE AND EVALUATING IMPACT UDC’s mission is to have a strong sustainable model that incorporates evidence based best practice processes. We regularly engage with industry experts who guide us on the development of our measurement and evaluation processes. We are influenced by the frameworks developed by Safer Care Victoria.

THE COVID EFFECT The ‘COVID-19 effect’ has allowed us to be very focused in our mission to help people with dementia to stay socially connected. With a quiet determination and a deep attachment to our members, every volunteer and staff member has been hands-on in helping everyone stay connected to each other using various online resources. Many of our members now communicate with each other daily; an achievement that might never have been realised had it not been for the pandemic.

These joyful communication strategies will now become a part of our program even after the COVID restrictions are lifted.

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Impact Statement 2019 - 2020 IMPACT STATEMENT

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Chairperson’s report CO-CHAIRPERSON – JAN LOUGHMAN & ROB REES Umbrella Dementia Cafes (UDC) has continued to thrive and strengthen in 2019/2020 despite facing enormous challenges to address service delivery during a worldwide once-in-100-year pandemic in 2020!

Despite the pandemic, Kirsty Porter UDC CEO, staff, volunteers and the Board have endeavoured to maintain connectedness for people living with dementia and their carers by adjusting the services to continue cafes online. In these times of uncertainty and potential disconnection, providing the cafes and carers support has enabled families to continue participating in activities that are vital for their health and wellbeing.

Funding sustainability always presents a challenge for charities such as UDC. Fortunately, we have been successful in securing funding from a range of sources, including the Yulgilbar Grant and service groups which has enabled the continuation of support and development of ongoing services to families to meet the objectives of UDC. The Board continues to explore and consider sustainable funding options to ensure a stable future for UDC, including education, training and resources.

We would like to acknowledge the amazing commitment of the CEO, Kirsty Porter, and our staff and volunteers who have committed their time and efforts under extraordinary circumstances this past year, to ensure relationships, friendships and services are maintained with our families, partners and community organisations.

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Finance Manager’s report and 2020 Financial Statements FINANCE AND OPERATIONS MANAGER – REBECCA THORBURN What a challenging year 2020 has turned out to be. Whilst it is not the year anyone had planned; I am pleased to report the financial success of Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd has continued even throughout these challenging times.

Umbrella Dementia Cafés in 2020 The 2020 financial year saw the largest portion of income derived through grants. The Pick My Project Grant was finalised in April 2020; Bendigo Bank supported the organisation’s building of the new website through a $13,000 grant; and a relationship was formed with The Rotary Club of Box Hill Central and Blackburn South Community Bank to provide funding to continue cafés in the Whitehorse area. Whilst the grant funds were initially for the employment of a community café leader for the organisation and sustainability for the future, with COVID changing the course of the year we saw these funds being diverted into the Moving Feast and activity pack projects, through collaboration with Rotary Box Hill Central and Blackburn South Community Bank.

Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd received three other main sources of income through sponsorship, donations and government subsidies due to COVID. The sponsorship income was provided by Australia Multicultural Community Services in a Moving for Life project to keep our members active. Whilst the exact project description has not been achievable due to COVID, a time extension to carry out the project was been granted for those funds that were not utilised and some online yoga sessions have been achieved in the Zoom cafés with these funds.

Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd received $21,469.17 in donations over the financial year. The Yulgilbar Foundation have continued their support, donating $20,000, with the remainder of donations made up from community members wishing to support our organisation.

Through the Government’s support, Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd received $10,000 in cash flow assistance and were eligible for JobKeeper payments for the CEO; totalling $6,000 in the 2020 financial year. These funds have assisted with the financial operational obligations to continue during these challenging times.

The operating expenses are shown in the Profit and Loss report for the financial year, with the main expenses incurred being wages and superannuation, website redesign, Moving Feast and legal expenses.

The financial year saw the continued employment of the CEO, Kirsty Porter, and Café Leader, Karen Harris, other employment expenses relate to short-term employment of a Box Hill Co-Ordinator, casual positions to assist in the delivery of the Moving Feast Program and a short-term admin role to assist Kirsty with COVID related tasks.

The 2020 financial year saw a profit of $25,064.87 for Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd. The profit is inclusive of funds received for grants/sponsorship projects delayed due to COVID of approximately $15,000.

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Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd ended the financial year with a combined bank balance of $81,252.51 and total liabilities of $10,313.17 therefore Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd is able to pay its debts as and when they fall due.

Looking to the future The 2021 financial year is set to be another exciting year for Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd. Further funding has been secured through our relationship with The Yulgilbar Foundation, with the Foundation committing to donate $214,000 over the 2021-2022 financial years to maintain current operations and expand the cafés in the future. Further funding of $8,000 has also been secured with Rotary Box Hill Central and Blackburn South Community Bank for the development of the activity pack project over the next 12 months. The activity pack project will be a trial to hopefully gain a successful income stream for the future at Umbrella Dementia Cafés Ltd.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2020 Balance Sheet

Umbrella Dementia Cafes Ltd As at 30 June 2020 30 JUN 2020

30 JUN 2019

429.88

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Assets Bank Credit Card Statement Account Expense savings account General Everyday Account Old Account

5,846.32

15.78

42,864.46

32,463.34

68.48

0.86

UDC Public Fund Account

32,043.37

20,600.08

Total Bank

81,252.51

53,080.06

Computer Equipment

5,958.77

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Total Fixed Assets

5,958.77

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87,211.28

53,080.06

6,019.63

204.03

418.64

587.76

Fixed Assets

Total Assets

Liabilities Current Liabilities Accounts Payable GST PAYG Withholdings Payable

2,228.74

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4.55

Superannuation Payable

1,649.62

450.48

Wages Payable - Payroll

(0.01) 10,316.62

1,246.82

Reimbursement owed to Staff

(3.45)

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Total Non-current Liabilities

(3.45)

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10,313.17

1,246.82

76,898.11

51,833.24

Current Year Earnings

25,064.87

47,730.08

Retained Earnings

51,833.24

4,103.16

Total Equity

76,898.11

51,833.24

Reimbursement owed to Kirsty Porter

Total Current Liabilities Non-current Liabilities

Total Liabilities

Net Assets Equity

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Profit and Loss Statement

Umbrella Dementia Cafes Ltd For the year ended 30 June 2020 2020

2019

Cafe Door Takings

1,980.95

1,741.91

Consultancy Income

100.00

1,403.63

Trading Income

5,655.70

3,577.08

Government Cash Flow Assistance

10,000.00

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Grant Money Received

70,378.46

32,712.64

99.17

41.80

Fundraising Revenue

Interest Income

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82.00

39.13

260.00

Sponsorship

11,545.45

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Total Trading Income

99,798.86

39,819.06

99,798.86

39,819.06

21,469.17

21,503.42

Other Revenue Sales

Gross Profit Other Income Donations Received JobKeeper Government Subsidy Total Other Income

6,000.00

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27,469.17

21,503.42

Operating Expenses Activity Packs

1,434.17

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Advertising

1,275.18

647.59

Bank Fees

158.31

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Cafe entertainment

795.37

398.05

Cafe equipment

1,604.49

167.72

Care and Share

1,701.96

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Consulting & Accounting

3,663.64

286.36

24.39

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Entertainment

172.45

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Food For Cafes

1,206.24

429.97

68.62

1,442.43

Employee Parking

Fundraising Expenses

501.18

96.46

Insurance

2,869.87

2,912.61

Legal expenses

5,814.50

227.25

Moving Feast

5,129.34

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525.00

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80.80

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General Expenses

Moving for Life Expenses Office Equipment - Low Value Office Expenses Postage Printing & Stationery Room Hire School expenses Subscriptions Annual General Meeting

2,100.00

13.64

238.59

127.28

1,323.54

1,235.73

318.18

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363.18

753.14

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2020

2019

5,245.30

450.48

545.43

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40.00

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Wages and Salaries

54,539.00

4,741.83

Website Expenses

10,074.47

51.82

102,203.16

13,592.40

25,064.87

47,730.08

Superannuation Telephone & Internet Transport of Cafe attendees

Total Operating Expenses

Net Profit

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Chief Executive’s report CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER – KIRSTY PORTER A year in review Umbrella Dementia Cafes has grown up this year and has a clear vision for the future. We know what we do, and we know why we do it; but it hasn’t been easy. Our café concept was born from an idea that wasn’t developed in Australia and we didn’t subscribe to an established funding or care model, so we’ve had to be creative, innovative and brave to achieve our goals. Of course, this means we are very good at adapting to change; an essential trait when responding to a global pandemic.

The model we have proudly adopted, is the ageless village model; a model that has lifted us through the toughest health crisis in 100 years. COVID-19 really came out of nowhere in March, requiring us to act and protect our members, volunteers and community stakeholders. It required a level of leadership that was decisive and clear, and it also required a bit of guts and determination to keep it all going. People might have forgiven us if we’d chosen to stop, after all, how could we run a charity that improves the social health of people living with dementia when we are forced into isolation?

With the support and fortitude of every single person in our community café groups, we dug deep and found ways, time and time again, to stay connected to every person in our UDC community.

Whether that be through delivering food hampers, flowers, weekly phone calls, newsletters, WhatsApp groups or through Zoom call, we did it all. There was a coordinated effort right from the start, using both checklists and delegated reporting responsibilities to make sure no one was left behind.

In February 2020, we had 88 people (‘members’) who regularly attended the cafes (44 couples) and 30 volunteers between all 4 cafes. By 30th June, we’d successful enrolled all of our members and volunteers in a café or in a routine communication strategy ensuring everyone was connecting to someone in some way.

As is the nature of our organisation, we work through loss and endure grief every year. This past year has been no different as we mourned the loss of 6 friends, including one volunteer. Of course, any death in our community places a huge toll on everyone but this year has been especially difficult for our friends as we endured funerals with COVID-19 restrictions. I want to convey our sincere condolences and respects to the spouses and family members of our café friends who are grieving during these tough and isolating times.

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Another year of firsts This is our second AGM, but the 25th October 2020, marked the fourth year since our first café. We are still achieving many firsts while becoming experts in knowing how to provide social health and wellbeing to couples and people experiencing dementia who live in the community. Here is a list of the extraordinary milestones we have achieved between 1st July 2019 and 30th June 2020.

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Four operating Umbrella Dementia Cafés, complete with a leader and a team of volunteers working together.

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Established

25th October 2016

184 Surrey Road, Blackburn

Physical: Fortnightly Online: Weekly

Koonung Café, Koonung Cottage Community House, 109 Koonung Road, Blackburn North

Physical: Monthly Online: Weekly

22nd March, 2018

Café of Connections, Box Hill South Neighbourhood House, Box Hill South

Physical: Fortnightly Online: Weekly

14th August 2019

Friendship Café, Seawinds Community Hub, 11a Allambi Close, Capel Sound, Rosebud

Physical: Monthly Online: Fortnightly

The Umbrella Club, One Community Church,

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Meeting frequency (Cafés re-open in Jan/ Feb 2021)

19th November 2019

All cafés were operating at full capacity, with a waiting list at Rosebud Clear coordinated café programs become more set in stone and implemented a consistent structure of each café. Programs directly reflect our members personalities and interests; music, singing, fashion, gardening, painting, maths, quiz, craft, bowls, football and baking.

Began work on our fifth café in Bennettswood, Burwood and learnt that not all community houses are appropriate to implement our café concept, hence forth many new quality control policies and procedures were developed.

First online cafés. Fourteen coordinated programs per month across all 4 café locations.

A new Human Resource Framework and we created four paid roles; CEO (Kirsty Porter), Community Café Leader (Karen Harris), Café Coordinator in Whitehorse (unfilled role) and Finance and Operations Manager (Rebecca Thorburn).

We began formally measuring impact and evaluation processes at both the Friendship Café, Rosebud and at the Blackburn Primary School during the intergenerational ‘Healthy Brains Program’.

Launched and implemented the Care and Share Program in all four cafés following the successful trial in February 2019, at the Blackburn Café. The Care and Share Program is 30-minute, carers only, group support session facilitated by trained social workers during the regular café meeting.

First formal Volunteer Training and Induction Program which was launched in Rosebud & Box Hill South. The program includes four three hour sessions focusing on personal empowerment, role allocation, team cohesion, dementia awareness and dementia café delivery.

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Two community and awareness information days at Box Hill South Neighbourhood House and Seawinds Community Hub, Rosebud.

New working, referral and supportive relationships with Peninsula Dementia Action Group, Dementia Australia, Soundfair (previously Better hearing Australia) and VMCH, Moving Feast Vic and Box Hill South Neighbourhood House, Seawinds Community Hub Wrote and implemented a whole suite of UDC policies and procedures.

We were awarded our first grants from; – Yulgilbar Foundation (Café Coordinator and Care and Share facilitation Rosebud), – RACV Community Foundation Grant (set up Rosebud Café), – Pick My Project -Victorian State Government (set up Koonung & Box Hill South Cafés), – Moving for Life - Aust. Multicultural Community Services (exercise programs in all cafes), – Blackburn South Community Bank - Bendigo Bank (develop a website), – Port/Bell Grant – Rotary Club (Whitehorse café coordinator), and – Moving Feast - Rotary Club Box Hill Central (deliver meals during COVID-19 restrictions). Please visit our UDC YouTube Channel to watch our beautiful UDC Moving Feast Project video: Watch UDC Moving Feast Project Video

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Completed 4 large fundraising events; – ‘Trivia Night’ at Hawthorn Hotel facilitated by Swinburn University Events Management student faculty, – ‘Celebrating Life’ at Blackburn North Bowls Club hosted by the Koonung Café volunteers, – ‘Toy Story Movie Night’ at Balwyn Palace, and – Bunnings Sausage Sizzle, Nunawading coordinated by the Café of Connections volunteers.

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Guest speaker and awareness presentations at: RSL Box Hill, Probus Templestowe and Box Hill South, Killara House in Ringwood, Soroptimists group in Camberwell, Australian Council Education and Research, Neighbourhood House Association and Rotary Club Box Hill Central Healthy Brains and Leadership Program at Blackburn Primary School which intersected and measured against the national Social Capability and Personal Awareness curriculum.

Began developing the second Healthy Brains and Leadership Program at Eastbourne Primary School, Capel Sound, Rosebud.

Began the trial for the UDC Activity Packs. With permission, we re-directed grant funds from the Port/Bell Rotary Club Box Hill Central grant to develop hand-made personalised activity packs to help decrease the frustration and stress from the persistent inactivity and isolation of our members. We created these resources to re-connect and engage the carers with their partner or parent in a meaningful way during COVID restrictions. These activities packs were an unexpected success story during COVID. Implemented our first UDC computers (3 laptops) and Microsoft communication software.

First company phone number.

Began the Trademark and Licence agreement process.

First online video that went viral. The roll out of the Pick My Project grant caught the attention of State MP for Box Hill, Paul Hamer, who funded a professional video capturing the essence of our beautiful cafes on the 3rd September 2019. The video was published on Mr. Hamer’s Annual General Meeting

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Facebook page on the 30th September and again on the State Premier’s (Dan Andrews) Facebook page on the 7th October 2019. Consequently, the video was viewed 6,000 and 61,000 times respectively. The FB comments from these shares opened our eyes to the possibility of doing more cafes throughout Australia.

I’m very proud by the goals and milestones we achieved in our organisation this past year. I encourage and humbly request you all to reach out to your personal networks, to invite me or our team to speak and to raise more awareness about how we empower communities to support families and people living with dementia.

Our focus for the next 12 months is raising more funds through donations, improving awareness through a coordinated digital marketing strategy, implement a membership funding model, secure a corporate partner to fund a coordinator for each café, develop our online activity packs, develop both the Care and Share and Healthy Brains Programs, and lastly, begin to upscale our cafés into regional Victoria.

We absolutely believe we can achieve this, and we look to our whole community, including you all, our founding members, to support us in achieving our goals.

Kirsty Porter

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Acknowledgements OUR VOUNTEERS Umbrella Dementia Cafés simply does not exist without the extraordinary efforts, dedication and the generous time everyone puts in to make this charity work.

From the Umbrella Café, Blackburn, we’d like to acknowledge Clare Gillan, Jo Hocking, Rebecka Jacobs, Faye Comrie, Margaret Daff, the late Julia Smallwood, Shayne King, Graham Morphett, Vicki Barnes, Bronwyn Rowbotham, Ray Hester, Lorraine Friswell and Kapil for their continuous commitment to support everyone who attends the fortnightly meeting. Thank you to this team who successfully moved our members to an online forum.

From the Koonung Café, we’d like to acknowledge Pamela Aldridge, Debra White, Dayle Anderson and Jill Lowe for their constant leadership and support at every café over the last year. A special thank you to all four women who were instrumental in the success of the massive Celebrating Life fundraising event in September 2019. You can watch the video by clicking here.

From the Café of Connections, we’d like to acknowledge Sandra Robertson, Barry Goodall, Neil Harvey, Bob and Marlaine Couzin-Wood, Wendy Skilbeck, Rosemary Ellis, Margaret Holt, Vicki Barnes and Leonie Korfage for establishing and setting up the monthly luncheon’s café and the online cafés.

From the Friendship Café, Rosebud, we’d like to acknowledge the wonderful volunteers from the Seawinds Community Hub who were instrumental in building UDC’s first regional café. Thank you for making everyone feel like a great big connected family. Thank you so much David Harris, Dee, Tania, D’souza, Mary Treacy, Sue, Colleen MacKay, Jennifer Hall, Melinda and Naomi. Your very generous time and support has been much appreciated the whole UDC team.

From the volunteer Board of Directors, I’d like to thank Rob Rees, Jan Loughman and Chris Porter for their mentorship and direction to help me steer the UDC ship. You have always allowed UDC to go at its own pace while being flexible to its changing environment.

From the operations and fundraising team, we’d like to thank Bec Thorburn who tirelessly ensure all our bookkeeping is accurate, efficient and up today. And Nicole Bruhn who has been our support all of our fundraising efforts.

Finally, we’d like to acknowledge Chris Porter for research, implementing and managing the IT systems and ensuring our communications network is working every day.

I want to thank and recognise the collective contributions of all our UDC volunteers who make a difference, not only to our organisation, but in the everyday lives of the people we serve.

To recognise the efforts of our marvellous volunteers this past year we published a video online showcasing our important volunteer community. To watch it click here

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU Umbrella Dementia Cafes would like to acknowledge the significant support and involvement from the following people and organisations between 1 July 2019 – 30th June 2020. Our organisation is stronger for their efforts.

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Karen Harris, Community Café Leader who has helped shape our café structure, quality and programming. Who established the first UDC regional café and who was the lead innovator for the first activity packs, and supported our members through grief and significant change, and who keeps close to our most important stakeholders in both the Whitehorse area and on the Mornington Peninsula.

Rebecca Thorburn who volunteered on average of 10 hours per week establishing our accounting software, completed our general bookkeeping, upheld all ACNC and ATO finance requirements, set up the HR finance structure, created a Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss statement for every Board meeting, and ensured every invoice was paid and every receipt issued.

Chris Porter, Jeremy Thorburn and David Harris, who patiently supported their partners Kirsty, Rebecca & Karen to develop and support UDC, even on weekends and their days off, and especially when they needed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

Paul Hamer, Box Hill Victorian State MP, who acknowledged the efforts of Kirsty Porter and UDC in Parliament and who continuously advocates for UDC in his role as the local State member of Box Hill.

Neroli Mitchell, Megan Gibb and Nicole Wernet- the volunteer team behind the Blackburn Primary School Healthy Brains Project.

Andrew Cock, Principal and Marianne Fusillo, Vice-Principal at Blackburn Primary School for their advocacy and support, and allowing Kirsty Porter access to their school grounds, to the Grade 5 students and the teacher leads to that we may innovate the first UDC Healthy Brains Program, and also facilitate a dementia café in their school gym.

Stephan Wilkinson, Principal at Eastbourne Primary School who advocated and received funding to implement a UDC Healthy Brains Program at EPS for the Grade 5 students.

Shayne King, Vicki Barnes, Rebecca Jacobs, Lara & Phil Simpson, Nicole Bruhn, Di Bentley and Margaret Holt – the team behind the UDC Moving Feast Project. Click here to watch the video of the project.

One Community Church who donate their facility for every Blackburn cafe and UDC volunteer training days, and who also allowed us to use the church premises during the UDC Moving Feast Project.

Blackburn North Bowls Club for use of their facilities for our fundraiser ‘Celebration Day’ on the 18th September 2019.

Dementia Australia for providing two free Dementia training for our all our cafes volunteers Rotary Club Box Hill Central and Blackburn South Community Bank (Bendigo Bank) for awarding UDC with two grants; Port/Bell Grant and the UDC Moving Feast grant.

Yulgilbar Foundation – donations to support the Friendship Café, Rosebud.

RACV Community Foundation - grant to establish the Friendship Café, Rosebud Pick My Project -Victorian State Government – grant to establish the Koonung & Box Hill South Cafés,

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Moving for Life - Aust. Multicultural Community Services – incorporate exercise programs in all UDC locations Blackburn South Community Bank - Bendigo Bank – to build the new UDC website.

Joanne Gill & Mary-Ann Law from Better Hearing (Blackburn) and Cailin Barr at Sound Safe (formally Better Hearing Australia) – for their education and support about auditory awareness for our members and volunteers who attend the Koonung & Blackburn cafés.

Pam Mills, Manager at Box Hill South Neighbourhood House for her unwavering support when implementing the UDC Café of Connections at the Neighbourhood House.

Carolyn Shaw, Manager at Koonung Cottage Community House, for her patience, partnership and support as we delivered the Pick My Project grant through the auspice of Koonung Cottage Community House.

Karen Vanderkaay, CEO, Seawinds Community House, for her advocacy and progressive approach to help Karen and Kirsty implement the first regional UDC in her managed venue.

Clare Gillen, volunteer and retired Social Worker at the Blackburn Café, for her establishing the first Care and Share Program and writing the first guidelines to the program.

Natalie Bemrose, Safer Care Victoria for volunteering her time to review the UDC health business plan and providing regular industry updates.

Jessica Bucholc and Dr. Lidia Engel, Deakin Health Economics, at Deakin University for their combined support and guidance to help us develop ‘Sense of Community’ index and survey which was implemented at the Friendship Café, Rosebud.

Dr. Barb Polus for her time analysing the ‘Sense of Community’ survey results.

Heather Moody – volunteer at One Community Church who facilitated two large musical soiree events which included members from the church community and our members to enjoy.

Eddie Cheung and his Events Management students and Swinburn University who facilitated a successful trivia night at Hawthorn Hotel.

Nicole Bruhn, Bob Cousin-Wood, Barry Goodall & Neil Harvey for organising and running a successful Bunnings Sausage Sizzle fundraiser.

Nicole Bruhn, volunteer who facilitated and worked alongside Kirsty Porter to host the successful Toy Story Movie Night at the Balwyn Palace Theatre.

COVID-19 response team – thank you to the coordinated efforts to keep all our members and volunteers connected; Vicki Barnes, Shayne King, Rebecka Jacobs, Faye Comrie, Clare Gillan, Pamela Aldridge, Debra White, Marlaine & Bob Couzin-Wood and Sandra Roberson.

Clare Gillan who called 10 families from our Blackburn café every fortnight throughout the COVID restrictions to provide psychosocial support, and Faye Comrie, volunteer at the Blackburn Café who designed, implemented and coordinated the monthly Music Hall program.

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