The Charity- Its History and Background

Hope for Home is a registered charity, set up in February 2008, which is committed to:

• the relief of elderly persons with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease and and/or similar disabilities and the relief of carers who are caring for these people at home in the United Kingdom
• advancing the education of the public in dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease and/or similar disabilities

The organisation was formed in response to a perceived lack of support for families and friends who were looking after their loved ones who have dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease in their own family home, and it is these people that we are trying to help as best we can.

We are also committed to helping health and social care professionals who are working in the specialised area of dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease care.

Who We Help

We aim to help:

• Carers of people with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease, and their relatives and friends
• Health and social care professionals working in the specialised area of dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease care
• People with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease

What We Do

In addition to the information on this website, we will in future also provide practical help by providing advice and information on fact sheets about care for people with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease at home.

To promote the concept of care at home, we offer lectures and talks to carers, health and social care professionals working in the area of mental health and care of elderly people, and to the general public, as well as presentations at conferences.

Our Vision and Values

Our Vision

The root of our vision is the acknowledgement that every individual has unique needs, wishes and interpretation of the world. Each individual has the right to have this uniqueness recognised and to be treated with dignity and respect at all times. People with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease often have this right ignored and they and their carers are given little or no option about treatment choices or where they wish to die. Hope for Home passionately defends and supports the right of such people to be cared for and remain in their own homes.

Our Values

Respect

Respect for everyone Hope for Home deals with:

• people with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease and their carers
• health and social care practitioners
• other associated charities
• the general public

Commitment to Quality

• Commitment to maintaining and improving the quality of home care available to people with dementia and their carers by influencing the practice of medical and health and social care practitioners.

• Ensuring the quality of support and advice provided by Hope for Home by training staff and developing codes of conduct and protocols in partnership with Hope for Home service users.

Integrity

• Hope for Home will be honest about what support and advice it is able to provide and always signpost people to other agencies where necessary

Hope for Home is an independent organisation not influenced by any political, religious or commercial interest.

• Hope for Home considers that each individual with dementia is uniquely worthwhile and special, requiring the best care and support. We aim to support those who wish to continue living at home with friends and family, and we wish to promote knowledge, best practice and to support others in developing expertise.

• We will always try to be honest and impartial, giving the best advice for that individual; that we accept that sometimes this cannot be achieved, and we will always endeavour to give advice that is best for that individual.

Commitment to the Principles of Equality and Diversity

• For Hope for Home equality and diversity are integral to the organisation. Its Trustees come from backgrounds of varied and differing faiths and beliefs and Hope for Home has a working culture that recognises, respects and values those differences, harnessing them for the benefit of the organisation.

• Hope for Home will defend the equal opportunities of people with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease to have the choice to receive care in their own homes or hospice-type care where this is more appropriate

• In addition, we seek to advise people regardless of their race, creed, or colour.  We will not tolerate bullying, abuse or bad practice or any other form of discrimination.

Future Developments

In terms of daily practical help we aim to set up a telephone helpline in 2010, provided that we recieve sufficient funds.

This will offer basic information and advice on caring for people at home, and signpost carers to services where appropriate. It will also aim to provide emotional support by listening to carer's specific problems, and help them to reach a solution where possible. This development will in part depend upon the availability of future funding.

Our Trustees

Each Trustee has specialist knowledge and/ or experience of the challenges associated with delivering care for people with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease.

Significantly, two of the Trustees have themselves had recent, direct experience of caring for a relative with dementia in their own family home, each for several years.

They are:

• Sarah Burnard (Treasurer)
• Sandy Christie
• Elizabeth Greaves (Company Secretrary)
• Thelma Harvey ( Chair )
• Dr. Adrian Treloar

Sarah Burnard

Sarah has over 35 years experience of working both in and alongside the National Health Service, first as a physiotherapist specialising in care of elderly people at home, and then as a senior general manager. She also is qualified to teach adults. Sarah has worked in many multi-agency settings, with both clinicians and managers, and this work has included working with Social Services, the voluntary sector and the Police. Sarah also has extensive experience in developing public health policy.

Sandy Christie

After graduating in law, Sandy spent 11 years as an investment banker with Morgan Grenfell, including periods in Tokyo and Frankfurt. He then trained for ordination, and since 1994 has worked in three parishes in South London. He is currently Vicar of St Michael and All Angels, Blackheath, London.

Elizabeth Greaves

Elizabeth's career has spanned the public and the voluntary sectors. In 1974 she joined the NHS on a graduate training programme in health service management and ran several hospitals before working in the strategic planning department of a health authority. After a career break living abroad and raising a family, she completed an MBA and worked as a management consultant in health care before moving to the charity sector where, since 1999, she has been the voluntary Administrative Director of a charity promoting the arts for children. She has considerable managerial and administrative experience.

Thelma Harvey

Thelma has a background of inter-professional collaboration, having worked for many years as a physiotherapist in the NHS and Social Services, focusing on elder rehabilitation and community care.

In recent years Thelma has had personal involvement supporting several close friends who developed dementia.

In July 1997 Thelma became an Independent Consultant, and in addition, from this time has worked as an associate consultant with a small firm, Prime R&D specialising in the development of standards in the health service and equity of health services delivery.

Dr Adrian Treloar

Dr Adrian Treloar is a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at Oxleas NHS Trust and a visiting Senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. In addition to being director of Medical Education for Oxleas NHSF Trust from 1999 to 2007, he produced research and helped to write national guidance on the ethics of Covert Administration of medicines. He has developed considerable expertise in the management of dementia through until death at home, and has lectured nationally and internationally on the palliative care of Dementia, as well as delirium and the management of Parkinson's disease.

He has pioneered “hope for home” type dementia care, supporting several dozen patients with dementia at home until their death, and both researched and developed understanding of how this can be achieved.

He is also actively researching delirium and also the use of memantine in dementia.

Finance

Hope for Home is entirely dependent on donations for its work. In practice, this means we are entirely dependent on money given by individuals, and by other charities and organisations. Hope for Home is registered for gift aid.

This is the report of the Directors of our first year:-

Hope for Home Limited

Legal and administrative information

Company No: 6419587

Status

The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 6 November 2007 and registered as a charity on 22 February 2008.

The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association.  Under those Articles, one third of the directors (those longest in office since their last election or appointment) retire from office - and are eligible for re-election - at each Annual General Meeting.

Directors and Trustees  

Miss S Burnard

Rev AR Christie

Mrs E Greaves

Miss T Harvey

Dr AJ Treloar

Registered office

32 Foxes Dale

Blackheath

London SE3 9BQ

Reporting accountants

Richard Hewson & Co

Chartered Accountants

21 Corner Green

London SE3 9JJ

Solicitors

Beverley Morris and Company

35 Montpelier Vale

Blackheath Village

London SE3 0TJ

Charity Registration Number

1122932

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Hope for Home Limited

Report of the directors

for the period ended 30 November 2008

The directors (who are also the charity’s trustees) present their report and the unaudited accounts for the period from 6 November 2007 (date of incorporation) to 30 November 2008.

Objects of the charity

The charity's objects are:  

(a) the relief of elderly persons with dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's Disease and/or similar disabilities and the relief of carers who are caring for these people at home in the United Kingdom; and

(b) advancing the education of the public in dementia and/or advanced Parkinson's disease and/or similar disabilities.

Main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects

In planning our activities we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our directors’ meetings.   The focus of our activities was rooted in the concept of supporting people who care for their loved ones with dementia and/ or advanced Parkinson’s disease in their own homes.

Our main activities in our first year were directly related to setting up and establishing the organisation. They included: production of a costed business plan, including a statement of our values and our policy on vulnerable adults; setting up financial systems and processes, including registration for gift aid and a declaration concerning conflict of interests for directors; creation of our logo and brand identity; production of stationery and publicity material; applying for grants; raising funds through carol singing in December 2007; responding to enquiries and requests for help; establishment of a volunteer support group; speaking at a conference; selection of a website construction company; creation of material for the website.

Results and future plans

The statement of financial activities shows a surplus for the period of £68,903.  Our main source of income was a very generous legacy of £70,000, but we are also very grateful for the other donations we received.   Relatively little of our income was spent in the period, because this first year involved planning and preparation, so that our major expenditure will fall in year 2 i.e. investment in our first major project, our website

We intend to spend approximately £15,000 on construction, development and hosting of our website, and we believe that we will have sufficient funds to cover this planned spending, plus an as yet unconfirmed amount for insurance costs.

In the medium term we intend to set up a telephone helpline, which will be our second major project, and our remaining funds will be used to develop and to set this up. This will be a major investment and can only be undertaken if we receive sufficient donations to provide a steady funding stream over time.

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Hope for Home Limited

Report of the directors

for the period ended 30 November 2008

Reserves policy

The directors recognise the need to maintain an appropriate level of reserves to meet any unforeseen expenditure which may occur.  We will work towards developing a formal reserves policy in 2008/09.

Directors and Trustees

The directors, who are also trustees of the charity, all work on a voluntary basis.  The names of the directors (all of whom were appointed on incorporation) are listed on page 1.

Directors' responsibilities

Company law requires the directors to prepare accounts for each financial period which give a true and fair view of the state of the charitable company's affairs at the balance sheet date and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including income and expenditure, for the financial period.  In preparing those accounts the directors should follow best practice and:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
• prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue on that basis.

The directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Companies Act 1985. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Reporting accountants

Richard Hewson & Co., Chartered Accountants, have indicated that they are willing to be reappointed at the forthcoming annual general meeting.

By Order of the Board,

 

 

Director

30 March 2009