Tonic Health Annual Report May 2023

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ANNUAL REPORT JUNE 2022 - MAY 2023

WELCOME Dear Friends and Supporters, On behalf of our dedicated team and beneficiaries, I extend to you a warm welcome to our Annual Charity Report. It is with profound gratitude that I acknowledge your unwavering commitment to our cause and your invaluable contributions that have enabled us to make a positive impact throughout the past year.

In the following pages, you will find a comprehensive overview of our achievements, initiatives, and the lives we have touched together. Your generosity has transformed dreams into realities, empowered individuals and communities, and driven us closer to our shared vision of a brighter future.

As we reflect on the challenges and triumphs of the past year, we are reminded that our collective efforts hold the power to create meaningful change. Your support transcends mere philanthropy; it is a testament to the strength of our community and the limitless potential we can unlock when we unite for a common purpose.

I invite you to explore this report and celebrate the strides we have taken together. Your involvement has ignited hope, kindled compassion, and sparked a chain reaction of goodwill that knows no bounds. Let us continue to stand hand in hand, driven by our shared commitment to making the world a better place.

Thank you for being an essential part of our journey. Your dedication continues to inspire us all.

With heartfelt appreciation, Michael

Michael Morris MSc Chair of Trustees Tonic Health

8258 total beneficiaries

645 new beneficiaries

Statistics 22/23

2847 hours of support delivered

989 sessions delivered

Our Core Values Our Mission "improving the physical and mental health and wellbeing of South Lincolnshire's communities through: bringing people together, collaborative work and partnerships; and shared spaces."

Our Vision "creating healthy, supported local communities together"

Health & Wellbeing

Adaptability

Empowerment

Continuous Learning

Supporting the community

Resilience

Innovative

Responsive

Integrity

Collaboration

Compassion

Teamwork

Grateful

Broadgate House Broadgate House Broadgate House acts as the Tonic Health Head Office, however the site is currently of greater size than the demands of the charity. To utilise our spare capacity, we hire out office space, we often hire to organisations with a mutual beneficence to the charity, such as Shaw Trust. Until January 23, Pharmacy2U chose our site to host the Covid-19 vaccination rollout.

It was great to be able to support the efforts to vaccinate our local community and this gave the opportunity for new people to enter our premises and spread the word of our charity. Our Spalding rooms were hired externally for over 11,000 hours between June 22 and May 23 and additionally for over 1,400 hours for internal projects.

Henry Wright Centre Manager Apprentice

Two rooms available to hire: The Willows (above) & Ivy (below)

Broadgate House Tonic 44 Community Hub Community Cafe Venue to hire Home to Focus group ‘Clubhouse’ for Spalding Hockey Club Beautiful garden area Dog friendly Home cooked food Stokes Coffee

44 Station Road, Surfleet, PE11 4DA

Michael Morris, Chair of Trustees, Tonic Health with Lord Taylor

The Holbeach Hub, operated by Tonic Health, was officially opened by Lord Taylor in June 2022, with groups and activities commencing September 2022 following a full redecoration throughout before handover.

Dementia Support Friends Offering Care, Understanding Support The Focus group is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund

Day care activities for the person with dementia to attend. A mixture of activities throughout the day (10am to 4pm), both mentally and physically stimulating but above all to provide fun and laughter. The day includes a substantial lunch and refreshments which means the carer has a much needed day off to spend as they wish.

Each group, up to a maximum of 12 people would be looked after by 2 paid staff and usually at least 2 volunteers.

Movement 4Memory A weekly drop in cafe for the carer and cared for on a Wednesday afternoon. The sessions start with seated gentle exercise or seated yoga and would follow with a talk, activity or demonstration. Every other month they would meet for a fish and chip lunch.

Jean Gifford Dementia Support Project Coordinator

Dementia Support

Sessions delivered Focus: 50, M4M 48 Hours of delivery Focus 300, M4M 90

Individual beneficiaries Focus 17, M4M 17

Total beneficiaries Focus 689, M4M 358

Safe Places At Tonic Health Spalding, Safe Places offer a number of groups throughout the week, all our groups are drop-ins so no need to book or ring in advance to attend.

All our groups offer attendees listening and signposting advice.

Are you feeling lonely and isolated? Start the week by coming along and having some breakfast with us, we provide tea and toast at a minimal coast of 50p.

Feeling Creative? Craft and Chat provides a calm and safe space to enjoy getting crafty. Make new friends and allow your imagination to run free, bring your own crafts or have a go at something new with our wide range of art and craft materials.

Ruth Taplin Safe Places Project Coordinator

Coffee Connections Monday 10.30am-12.30pm Craft and Chat Monday 12.30pm-2pm

Men’s Group Thursday 11am1pm

Coffee Connections Friday 11am-12.30pm

Broadgate VeteransHouse Support Funded by: Rob Simpson Veteran’s Lead

The Holbeach Hub has hosted a veterans drop in on a Tuesday from 1000hrs to 1200hrs, which has been visited by Help for Heroes, The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, and the Royal British Legion. Even if the numbers have been low, the need to support our veteran community remains a high priority for the Hub.

Funded by:

Night Light Cafe Commissioned by the NHS and launched in Lincoln in 2020 by Lincoln based charity Acts Trust, The Night Light Cafe is an out of hours, non-clinical support service for people who are struggling with their mental health or just feeling isolated and lonely.

We run The Night Light Café from our two Freiberger in Spalding have very generously been donating pizzas to our Night Light Cafes so guests have been able to have a bite to eat while attending.

sites in Spalding and Holbeach.

At Tonic Health every Monday and Thursday and The Holbeach Hub every Monday and Wednesday from 4pm-7pm.

Broadgate House Boston Safe Places Funded by:

The Boston Safe Places group started in April 2021 and runs twice weekly on a Wednesday and Thursday from 12.30pm to 2.30pm at The Local Community Centre, Mitre Lane, Boston.

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The weekly Safe Places meeting group on Thursday and the Wednesday dropin offers people the opportunity to come along and socialise over a cup of coffee. The aim of the groups is to provide people with a distraction from life, give them a safe space to chat and laugh together and to inject some positivity into their lives in the hope that they leave feeling better than when they first arrived. The facilitators ask members to check-in and checkout to gauge the improvement in their mood. We always have a weekly quiz or a game of bingo and give small prizes to the winners.

The target audience for Safe Places are people who struggle with low-level mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, bereavement, and loneliness and isolation.

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After a tense weekend, it’s a relief to come to group and chat with others who have similar issues to me.

Safe Places

Sessions delivered 895 Hours of delivery 2273

Individual beneficiaries 350

Total beneficiaries 5630

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Broadgate House SociABLES Sociables started on September 14th, 2022, for adults with additional needs or learning disabilities. Due to day centres closing because of covid, there was a need for a group in Holbeach and the surrounding areas.

From the onset we were hitting numbers over twenty, with participants coming from local communities, day centres and referrals from external agencies.

Because we had so much interest in the group, funding was secured for and additional day, this is also meeting higher expectations.

We continue to grow in numbers and have over 80 participants on our books, with new participants joining most weeks, with word of mouth and referrals becoming more prevalent. We have seen some of our participants move over to the volunteering sector, in youth groups, sociables and the HAF, as their confidence and social skills grow.

Annemarie Simpson Sociables Lead

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SociABLES Sessions delivered 41 Hours of delivery 164

Individual beneficiaries 71

Total beneficiaries 840

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Youth Club

The youth groups were one of the first activities Tonic Health established at the Holbeach Hub. Since starting the youth groups, they have gone from strength to strength.

We run two groups: Tuesdays for ages 6 to 12 years and Fridays 12 to 17 years.

The members have the run of the building, so can take advantage of everything in the sports hall - football, netball, table tennis, archery (foam!), indoor curling etc. They can also use the Lightspeed Digital Den for all their gaming needs, as well as sitting in the cafe style area, playing pool and making use of the tuck shop.

There are always plenty of craft activities and also access to laptops/tablets should they need them.

“My aim for the future would be for the staff to be C-card trained and to provide a safe space for youth to be able to openly discuss their problems and be able to guide them and help them with safeguarding.“

Samantha de Kock Youth Engagement Officer

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Samantha de Kock Youth Engagement Officer

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Youth Club Primary ages - Tuesdays Secondary ages - Friday

Sessions delivered 66 Hours of delivery 132 Individual beneficiaries 180

Total beneficiaries 1296 Funded by: individual contributions 16

Broadgate House Volunteering

Volunteering at Tonic Health is the 'heart beat' of the charity and without volunteers dedicating their time to our projects and groups we would not be able to support the community we serve.

We are increasingly amazed by how much our volunteers do for us.

We continue to endorse National Volunteers Week each June to say thank you with a voucher to have a treat on us and award them with individual certificates to show our appreciation.

Currently at Tonic Health we have 35 volunteers, some volunteers are so generous with their time and our mission that they volunteer across several groups which we are very grateful for.

To become a volunteer at Tonic Health we have an induction process, to include an informal chat/ interview with the volunteer coordinator, to find out why the applicant wants to volunteer and matching them up to the right role and group for them. The group lead is then notified and the potential volunteer will have a taster session to meet the group lead and the setting to see if this is something they wish to pursue. Providing the potential volunteer and group lead are happy online induction training is completed within a two week window and a relevant DBS application (if required), is processed for safeguarding reasons. After this process has been completed you are then a Tonic Health Volunteer.

Katie Munton Volunteer Coordinator

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Why I Volunteer at Tonic Health For me, Tonic Health has been an absolute lifeline.

I was referred to the charity by my psychologist at the local hospital. She felt it would help me to have somewhere to go, to give me a reason to go out. I had been very isolated and lonely even pre Covid, but when Covid struck we could no longer even have our face-to-face meetings and, although she made regular check-in phone calls, it wasn’t appropriate to conduct proper sessions over the phone. I would have had to go over a lot of traumatic memories, then I’d have been on my own afterwards with those thoughts at the forefront of my mind.

It was during one of these general check-in calls that she mentioned Tonic Health. They had special dispensation to open, to provide safe distanced sessions to those in need within the community. After a while I plucked up the courage to go along. I was made to feel very welcome, and they were even providing a light lunch which was so lovely. Just to have someone make a cup of tea for me meant so much. I continued to attend, initially once a week, then twice a week until Covid restrictions were lifted. At that point many sessions started up, mainly art related, which we could sign up for, so I joined several groups, ranging from creative writing to pottery, which meant I had even more of an incentive to go out, and I was meeting new people. I found everyone to be very welcoming, inclusive, and non-judgmental. We began to form friendships, and soon they became like a second family for me. I rarely see, or hear from, my own family, so this meant so much.

By taking part in these sessions, the old ‘me’ began to creep back. Had it not been for the foresight of my psychologist, and the intervention of Tonic, I would not be here today. The benefits have been immeasurable and must not be underestimated. They gave me exactly what I needed to work through some of my challenges in a safe, welcoming and non-judgmental environment. I value that most highly, and if I can play even a small part for Tonic to help others in the same way, then I feel it is the least I can do to spare a few hours as a Volunteer. I owe them so much.

Mrs MF

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Broadgate House Finances

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Commentary on finances We commenced June 2022 with a restricted balance of £145,111.15 and ended the financial year in May 2023 with a restricted balance of £8,450.51. This decline can be traced back to the residual effects of funds carried over from preceding years and the completion of multi-year grant funds, some of which include Covid-19 legacy funding.

By way of contrast, our unrestricted funds saw a notable ascent, soaring from a deficit of -£12,352.75 to a substantial £13,592.00. This remarkable upturn predominantly stemmed from the triumphant outcomes of our charitable activities, highlighted by the accomplishments of our inaugural gala evening and the fundraising achievements of our golf day event.

The decline in our restricted surplus, coupled with the growth in unrestricted funds, serves as a strategy to sustain our charity’s financial performance. This approach guarantees the optimal distribution of resources without being tied to specific grant expenditure directives. This indicates that for this financial year, we have successfully achieved Goal 3 outlined in our Strategic Plan 20222025. The attained level of unrestricted funding can now serve as a platform for upcoming fundraising events, enabling us to further increase this unrestricted amount. Our focus continues to around building this surplus to extend the core staff support which still remains largely at a voluntary and unsustainable level, given the ambitions of the charity.

The eternal challenge we face is not being too reliant on grant funding, and especially from the same funders. Equally, we know we play a significant role in supporting people within the community, but it can be very difficult to capture exactly how well we support people and what financial impact this support may have. Consequently, we are looking at new, innovative ways to try and capture relevant data from our projects so that we can better showcase our achievements to funders and prospective financial supporters alike. This isa challenge we relish!

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Broadgate House Supporting our work We cannot carry out the work we do, without the support of our amazing board of Trustees, staff and volunteers, and also the valuable support our local businesses and individuals provide. No matter how small the gesture, we are extremely grateful!

The following businesses and organisations have helped us over the past 12 months: TC Bulley Davey Baytree Nurseries and Garden Centre ARK ICT ACE Innovace Designs Limited Hughes Electrical Bridge Farm Group Freiberger Spalding Signs Lucksbridge Horticulture Morrisons Vodafone Bakkavor Lincolnshire Coop We are also the official charity of the year for: Cllr Rodney Grocock, Chariman PSPS Spalding Golf Club Ladies Captain, Jean Wilkinson Our funders include: National Lottery Community Fund Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Veterans’ Foundation Shine Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Community Foundation

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Broadgate House us Ways to support

Partnership proposal policy Read our engagement policy to see how local organisations have helped us in the past, and how prospective organisations may wish to support us in the future.

Scan the QR code to take you directly to the policy. Alternatively, get in touch and we will email/post one out to you.

wish list We’ve created a menu of items our projects would like/need.

Maybe there is something there that you would like to support us with? We’ve even created a QR code for this too! However, if you need access to it via different means, please get in touch.

donations

Charity Numer. 1167453

www.justgiving.com/tonichealth You can also donate in person by visiting 6 Broadgate House, Westlode Street, Spalding Lincolnshire, PE11 2AF Or donate via bank transfer to: Tonic Health CIO Sort Code: 82-11-07 Account Number: 20341286

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Tonic Health 6 Broadgate House Westlode Street Spalding Lincs. PE11 2AF 01775 725059 info@tonic-health.co.uk www.tonic-health.co.uk