2O12/13 REVIEW Thornham Magna Community Open Spaces

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2 Front Cover: Thornham Magna Community Open Spaces CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REPORT

Welcome to our 2012/13 Annual Review which we hope you voluntary sectors all coming together to tackle our most will enjoy reading and understand why we remain as passionate demanding social issues. as ever in our efforts to meet the county’s needs. One of our major ambitions is to build an endowment fund Recently, a local community leader commented that that provides income for grant-making for future generations. they were thrilled to witness Suffolk Community Foundation’s Currently the combined endowment managed on behalf of development over its short life, proud to be an early advocate our fund holders is approaching £4 million. For those who are and delighted to see it operate “as a power for good across the considering setting up or adding to an established endowment County.” fund, match funding still exists through the Community First and Transforming Suffolk Endowment Challenges which allows the Hearing those warm words is naturally uplifting, but behind Foundation to match gifts with a 50% financial uplift. Details of the sentiment we know that because we are championing and these programmes can be found on page 26. supporting local charities, those comments are directed at them too – the many special organisations that are delivering This year we saw the retirement of Fiona Mahony, Peter extraordinary services right across the County. It is also Bye and David Sheepshanks from our Board of Trustees. David heartening that our funders and supporters feel ownership of the has passionately steered the Foundation so effectively as chair Foundation and take pride in the difference that we are all trying during these formative years and we are so proud that his to make, for together we are stronger and far more effective. contribution to Suffolk charity was recognised with a CBE in the last New Year’s Honours List. We are equally delighted that we By working together we have continued to increase support will still be working closely together as he takes over the national for Suffolk charities and community organisations year on year. role as chair of UK Community Foundations. Our combined grant-making has grown since 2005 to nearly £8 million with £1.63 million being awarded over the past year alone. On behalf of the Board and executive, we would like to thank all our retiring trustees for their immense contribution to But as the national headlines report daily, the UK’s the Foundation and for their ongoing support as they continue challenges remain. to work with us in other ways. Equally, we extend a warm welcome to our new trustees, Iain Jamie, Caroline Ludlow, Peter In some areas of Suffolk, we have Newnham, Frances Ward and Terry Ward whom we look forward measured a three-fold increase in to working closely with during the years to come. “ emergency food parcel distribution since April 2013, whilst our Surviving We would also like to thank Simon Ash, who retired as Winter Campaign attracted a magnificent Suffolk Constabulary’s Chief Constable during the year. As one public response allowing us to help of our patrons, Simon’s support has left a significant legacy for almost 800 vulnerable households the Foundation. We warmly welcome Douglas Paxton, Suffolk’s with crisis winter fuel payments.” new Chief Constable as a patron and indeed thank all our patrons for their continued advocacy.

Our work with national charities continues to develop as we Finally, we must thank all our volunteers who help us across evidence local need, resulting in a much needed new funding a wide range of activity as well as our wonderful staff whose total stream for Suffolk. We are particularly pleased to announce commitment and professionalism underpins all that we do. that we will be working in partnership with the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation who joins the Henry Smith Charity and Comic Relief with committed grant programmes targeted at Suffolk and distributed through the Foundation.

If you add into the equation our work with Suffolk’s public James Buckle Stephen Singleton sector, a picture increasingly appears of private, public and Chairman Chief Executive

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YEAR IN REVIEW

Our work spans every corner of Suffolk. 490 charitable organisations received grants totalling £1.6 million. £60,000 raised at Suffolk Dog Day. £80,000 raised by the public for Surviving Winter Appeal. 160 volunteers helping the Foundation. 23 funding fairs attended. 14 new funds. One new Giving Circle launched. 10 new Suffolk 100 members.£500,000 partnership with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. £3.6 million invested for sustainable grant-making.

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GRANTS

REACH Community Projects Anonymous Fund AXA Insurance Fund £1,000 Towards running costs for the Bridge Project Sudbury Age UK Suffolk Foodbank’s van. £2,727 £1,000 A donation towards general running To develop the Befriending Scheme Suffolk Young People’s costs. in the area by creating new Health Project volunteer team leaders. £1,000 Newmarket Open Door Towards additional counselling sessions £2,727 Headway Ipswich and East Suffolk for young people. A donation towards the running costs of £1,000 the SOS Bus. Towards the coordinator’s salary for the Town Pastors Ipswich Brainy Dogs project. £1,000 REACH Community Projects To cover the hire costs of radios. £1,818 Ipswich and District Deaf A donation to support the work of the Children’s Society Volunteer Centre Haverhill (now furniture bank. £420 Community Action Suffolk) To provide activities for 11-18 year olds £1,500 Volunteer Centre Haverhill (now with hearing impairments. Towards volunteers supporting older Community Action Suffolk) residents in Haverhill with jobs such as £1,818 Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau shopping, moving furniture, visiting and A contribution towards their work in £1,000 gardening. Haverhill. Contribution towards providing a Home Visiting Service for people with Disability Advice Service (East Suffolk) disabilities who are unable to get to the £1,000 town centre office. Contribution towards the annual salary of a Senior Welfare Rights Adviser. Ipswich Mencap £1,790 Towards the purchase of a new van.

6 Eden’s Project Birketts Fund £2,000 Catalyst Fund A grant towards youth worker costs for Got to Read running the club in Great Cornard. Ipswich and District Citizens £2,000 Advice Bureau Towards core running costs for this Porch Project £2,000 financial year. £2,000 Contribution towards running their Towards a trained professional to money management programme during Porch Project assist with homework, learning and job this forthcoming year. £1,630 searching for those with special needs, Contribution towards the annual salary of behavioural difficulties and other young Ipswich Housing Action their qualified youth worker. people. Group (IHAG) £2,000 REACH Community Projects Suffolk Young People’s Towards the new ‘Inspire’ project to help £1,630 Health Project hostel dwellers to engage with positive A grant towards the running costs of the £2,000 activities and move forward with their REACH Resource Centre. To support intensive specialised work lives. with young people with complex needs Suffolk Young People’s and chaotic lives. Health Project £2,000 Young People Taking Action To provide 80 counselling sessions to £2,000 a minimum of 13 young people with Towards youth worker salaries for open emotional or mental health needs. access sessions for young people in .

Bunting Family Fund

St Elizabeth Hospice £2,000 A family donation towards nursing care for the inpatient unit. REACH Community Projects

Call Connection Fund

Fresh Start - New Beginnings Porch Project £5,000 £9,375 A donation towards their work with A donation towards the salary of a Eden-Rose Coppice Trust young victims of sexual abuse. Fundraising and Coordination Officer.

Home-Start Suffolk Coastal REACH Community Projects £7,000 £2,000 A donation towards establishing a Towards the running costs of the weekly Family Support Group in the furniture bank for the year. Bluebell Fund Gainsborough area in Ipswich. Sudbury Market Town Partnership Access Community Trust Lighthouse Women’s Aid £2,000 £1,982 £7,000 Funding for equipment and Project Towards the delivery of a 14 week A donation towards establishing a music Manager’s costs for developing the Community Regeneration Project therapy project at their Wellbeing Centre foodbank in Sudbury. working with 10 young people not in in Ipswich for women and young people. education, employment or training. Suffolk Young People’s Anglia Care Trust Health Project £1,910 £7,000 Towards four mentoring relationships in A donation towards counselling sessions Waveney for young people who are in for young people. need of support to reduce anti-social behaviour.

7 Judi Newman and Naomi Tarry CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY BEST OF SUFFOLK

Keen to £500 for the fund. Over the next year Best put something of Suffolk are aiming to raise £10,000 back into their which will be distributed to local charities local community, and voluntary organisations located close holiday cottage to the holiday cottages. company owners Naomi and Alex Rather than creating their own Tarry of Best of Suffolk have chosen charitable foundation, Best of Suffolk to join forces with Suffolk Community chose to give through Suffolk Community Foundation to help deliver their corporate Foundation for many reasons, including giving programme. grant-making expertise, community knowledge and quality services. For Best Local corporate giving enables of Suffolk, the Foundation provided the priorities, and we can relax knowing that companies of all sizes to become actively convenience and flexibility they needed in all administration of applications, grant involved in the communities in which their a charitable vehicle. awards and monitoring are dealt with by staff, customers and suppliers live, work the Foundation.” and play. Passionate about their home As Naomi explains, “We wanted to county, the Best of Suffolk team identified put something back into our community As well as holding one-off events, that they wanted to create a charitable - we love Suffolk, we believe in its future Best of Suffolk will also give their fund that had real local impact and that and we want to be a part of making it customers the option of donating £1 on their employees and customers could feel better. Working with Suffolk Community their holiday booking form, which will proud of. Foundation is a great fit because both be matched by the company. Not only organisations are committed to supporting is the company supporting people who To mark the launch of the Best of the local voluntary sector and to making a live in their local community but they are Suffolk Charity Fund, an Easter egg hunt difference to the lives of people with hidden also raising awareness amongst their took place in last April. Despite needs in our local communities. The staff customers of community foundations and the day being very cold and blustery, the at the Foundation have expert knowledge their role in building thriving communities launch event was a success and raised and understanding of local needs and throughout the UK.

Comic Relief Fund

Access Community Trust £2,649 To employ a Project Coordinator to develop and deliver a catering social enterprise.

Bangladeshi Support Centre £7,000 A project to engage and integrate BME women into the local community through outreach work and sport.

East Suffolk Association for the Blind ( Committee) £2,000 Contribution towards the running costs of the Blind Shooters Club.

Home-Start South Suffolk & District £10,000 Towards the ‘Readiness in Schools’ Ipswich Sports Club for the Disabled project to prepare pre-school children for primary school.

8 Ipswich Sports Club for the Disabled Creating the Greenest £1,424 County Fund Funding to cover hall hire costs for the project. 13th Ipswich Sea Scout Group £7,000 Suffolk Chinese Family Towards the replacement of the hall roof Welfare Association in order to improve energy efficiency, £1,225 attract more users to hire the building Towards Tai Chi classes to encourage and increase self-sustainability. older people to take part in exercise. Boxford Parish Council Swimming Self-Help Group Ipswich £22,000 £1,000 A grant for a carbon reducing street Contribution towards the cost of pool lighting project. hire. Butley Village Hall £8,349 To upgrade the village hall’s insulation, lighting, windows, heating and kitchen facilities.

New Cut Arts £19,400 Funding towards the installation of energy efficient LED lighting at the centre to reduce costs.

Trimley Welcome Village Hall Management Committee £1,851 Access Community Trust To purchase a replacement heating system for the village hall to increase the heating’s efficiency.

Cunliffe Family Fund Confidential Fund Brandeston Parochial Disability Advice Service Church Council (East Suffolk) £900 £2,000 A Family donation to the Fabric Fund. Funding for salary and volunteer costs to continue the service. Focus12 £900 Fresh Start - New Beginnings Towards charitable rehabilitation £2,000 provision for those with addiction issues To support five children or young people that could not otherwise afford the from the Suffolk Coastal area who have abstinence programme. been sexually abused. Ipswich Head & Neck Cancer Just 42 Support Group £2,000 £600 Towards running costs of Woodbridge A donation towards the general running Youth Club. costs of the group.

Signpost Gunton Pakefield CoastWatch £2,000 £600 Towards warehouse costs for the East Towards repairs which are urgently Suffolk Foodbank. needed to maintain the look-out. The Yard Project

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Peer Support Group Voluntary £600 de La Rue Family Fund Organisations Forum To continue their supportive activities £4,730 and companionship for those recovering Suffolk Artlink Towards a healthy eating project for from mental health issues in . £1,000 families in working with Towards two Clown Round visits to Home-Start Mid Suffolk. Pro Corda Trust Ipswich Hospital and three on call visits £150 at the EACH’s Treehouse. The Yard Project Continued support for their work in £5,000 providing education for young people A grant towards healthy living sessions and others in the art, philosophy and Healthy Ambitions for children, working with schools and theory of music, particularly chamber Fund children’s centres. music. Access Community Trust Suffolk Hearing Support Service £4,917 Henry Smith Charity £900 Funding to cover salary costs of a To continue the provision of support Parenting Group Keyworker to deliver Age UK Suffolk groups for the hard of hearing. healthy eating workshops for young £40,000 mothers. Continuation funding for three Help The League of Friends of Centres providing free information and Aldeburgh Hospital Bows & Arrows advice to older people in Ipswich, Bury £100 £4,910 St Edmunds and Lowestoft. A Family donation in support of the To run a series of sessions to improve Friends. the health of children and families. Anglia Care Trust £40,200 Home-Start Mid Suffolk Continuation funding towards the Money £1,577 Advice Service for vulnerable people. To implement a ‘families cooking together’ element into a six-week Bridge Project Sudbury cooking programme in Worlingworth. £31,000 Towards an Operations Manager’s salary. 10 The Bridge Project Bangladeshi Support Centre

Headway Ipswich and East Suffolk £10,000 Towards running costs of the Brainy Dogs Project to support people with acquired neurological conditions in Suffolk.

Iceni Ipswich £80,000 To provide support to families struggling Hewlett Fund High Sheriff’s Fund with an addiction. FIND (Families in Need) Ltd Abbot’s Hall CP School Ipswich Housing Action £2,000 £500 Group (IHAG) Towards the purchase of beds and Funding to continue and enhance a £35,000 mattresses for children. joint school and community led project Continuation funding of a Money Advice to address safety and parking issues Services Manager. Got to Read around the school entrance. £2,000 Level Two Youth Project Towards the core running costs to Beck Row Primary School £31,000 support adults in developing literacy £560 Continuation of funding of a Youth Work skills. Towards a theatre workshop for Year 5 Manager in Felixstowe. and 6 pupils to improve social behaviour Headway Ipswich and East Suffolk and responsibility. Suffolk Family Carers £1,000 £37,828 Towards the coordinator’s salary for the Compassion Towards support services for young Brainy Dogs Project. £1,000 carers. Contribution towards creating 4-5 short films to address teenage relationship Suffolk Mind High Sheriff’s Awards abuse. £30,000 Funding towards two years’ running East Anglian Sailing Trust Credit Action costs of a project supporting people with £1,000 £2,300 a personality disorder. Winner of the High Sheriff’s 2012 Games Towards Credit Action’s DebtCred Legacy Award. financial education programme working Suffolk Refugee Support with Ipswich Building Society staff. £21,050 Emily Grubb (Kernos Centre) Towards a range of services supporting £250 Eastgate Amateur Boxing Club refugees and asylum seekers in Suffolk. Winner of the 2013 High Sheriff’s Young £1,248 Volunteer of the Year Award. To purchase equipment to replace worn The Befriending Scheme out and well used boxing kits. £15,000 Lighthouse Women’s Aid A three year grant towards the salary of £1,000 Area Youth a Team & Projects Manager to develop Winner of the 2013 High Sheriff’s Action Partnership the befriending services for adults with Organisation of the Year Award. £800 learning disabilities. A contribution towards youth worker Maureen Reynel (FIND) costs for running an additional drop-in Papworth Trust (formerly known £500 session each Monday. as Workwise (Suffolk) Ltd) Winner of the 2013 High Sheriff’s £19,800 Volunteer of the Year Award. ITFC Charitable Trust For salary costs of a shop manager £1,100 supporting people suffering from mental To deliver six drug and knife crime health problems. workshops to young people.

11 Just 42 £1,100 Hopkins Homes Fund Hubble Bubble Fund Towards running costs of Woodbridge Youth Club. Access Community Trust Town Pastors Lowestoft £937 £1,000 Porch Project Contribution towards the salary costs Contribution towards the salary costs of £1,100 of a Project Coordinator to develop and their coordinator. Contribution towards the running costs deliver a catering social enterprise. of providing a youth provision for young people in Hadleigh and the surrounding Catch 22 Hughes-Hallett Fund area. £2,000 Towards providing a Sports Leadership Suffolk Young People’s Town Pastors Ipswich Programme for young people who are Health Project £1,100 not in education, employment or training £2,000 Towards the annual cost of equipment in Ipswich and Lowestoft. To provide counselling sessions to young and their Townsafe radio hire. people with emotional or mental health Colville House Management needs. Woolpit Primary School Company Limited £100 £2,000 All Saints Youth Club A grant towards a writing project to Contribution towards youth worker costs £2,000 encourage greater understanding across to run a youth group for the forthcoming Funding for two trained youth workers different cultures. year. from Just42 to lead the youth club each week. Young People Taking Action Ipswich Winter Night Shelter £800 £3,000 Colville House Management To run Road Safety and Substance Contribution towards the operational Company Limited Misuse workshops during their Easter costs of the winter night shelter in 2013. £2,000 holiday programme. Contribution towards youth worker costs Waveney Domestic Violence & to run a youth club for the forthcoming Abuse Forum year. £3,000 Towards core running costs for this Ipswich and District Citizens financial year. Advice Bureau £2,000 Towards the training required for their staff and volunteers.

Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau £2,000 Contribution to provide a Home Visiting Service for people with disabilities who are unable to get to the town centre office.

Lighthouse Women’s Aid £2,000 Funding towards the ‘Summer Play Scheme’ for children who are staying at refuges over the summer holidays.

Rose and Sweet William Club £700 Towards the core running costs of a social club for older people in the community.

Rural Coffee Caravan Information Project £2,000 REACH Community Projects Towards the costs of visits to six rural villages in the south-eastern area of Suffolk Coastal district.

12 FROM HILL TO HIGH WATER SUFFOLK LOWLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE

Where the mountains stop, the Suffolk Lowland Search quickly, giving us a greater chance of finding the missing person and Rescue (SULSAR) starts. This volunteer led responsive unharmed and alive. The beauty with using bikes is speed. With community service works alongside Suffolk Constabulary in cases such as searching for Alzheimer sufferers or lost children, searching for vulnerable missing people. The callouts are for the speed is crucial.” highest risk missing people who if left or not found in a timely manner are likely to come to harm or take their own life. The Search duration can vary considerably, ranging from a couple team are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. of hours to several days therefore having a pool of volunteers to call on at any given time is essential. Each volunteer, known In 2012, SULSA received a grant of just over £1,000 from the as a member, can give what time they can on a rotating basis, Suffolk Fund towards the purchase of two search mountain bikes allowing a search to continue as long as necessary. “We have and essential kit for their volunteer riders. This has enabled the approximately 40 active members on the call out list, ranging organisation to improve their response time which is vital when from lorry drivers and warehouse personnel to accountants and they are searching for vulnerable missing people. Andy King, paramedics. The training we provide ensures that all members Search Planner for SULSAR explained, “The bikes are invaluable are all highly proficient in map reading and have excellent to us; we are now able to cover a larger area much more leadership skills” explained Andy King.

Suffolk Cruse Bereavement Care Friends of Ashley Homes - Thornham Magna Community £2,000 Langley Close Open Spaces Towards salary costs of their part time £5,000 £5,000 administrator. An award for their engagement with An award for outstanding volunteer young people not in education, commitment to the creation of the The Befriending Scheme employment or training (NEETs) which community play space. £2,000 resulted in some going to Otley College. Towards providing weekly football Wickham Market & District Family sessions for adults with learning Ipswich Mencap Carers Support Group disabilities and mental health issues. £10,000 £10,000 An award for their outstanding An award for outstanding commitment fundraising efforts which resulted in a and provision of services for carers. Improve & Prove sensory room and garden area being Award Fund created for people with mental health problems. Improve & Prove Fund B&B Theatre Company £5,000 Ipswich Winter Night Shelter Ecumenical An award for engaging young people with £10,000 Centre Trust (BECT) a variety of needs in performing arts. An award for their outstanding co- £3,000 ordination in providing 1,035 meals To create an indoor corridor and outdoor Sea Cadets and 300 volunteers resulting in 12 canopy. £2,500 rough sleepers having overnight An award for arranging major events accommodation for two months. Castle Community Radio CIC in Beccles to significantly increase the £3,500 group’s fundraising. Rural Coffee Caravan Grant funding towards overhead costs of Information Project the radio station East Anglian Sailing Trust £2,500 £5,000 An award for their achievements with Fresh Start - New Beginnings An award for the ‘Exploring the River the Golden Age Fairs throughout rural £3,418 Orwell and Wildlife Sites’ project which Suffolk. Towards training costs for the project. engaged with 246 schoolchildren in Suffolk and involved 2,310 volunteer Stowmarket Scout Centre Project Lofty Heights Ltd hours. £5,000 £3,000 To reward the admirable volunteering A contribution towards the purchase of a efforts on the rebuild of the scout hut. Crew Cab Vehicle.

13 Suffolk Young People’s Health Project Artheads £1,500 To provide an arts activity programme for young people over the summer holidays.

Port Community Fund

2nd Ipswich (St. Bartholomews) Scout Group £1,901 To purchase more up-to-date camping equipment to benefit all sections of the Scout Group.

Age UK Suffolk £1,800 Towards developing the Befriending Music in Our Bones Signpost Gunton Scheme in the Ipswich area by creating £3,000 £2,000 new volunteer team leaders. Towards training for people to learn how A contribution towards the warehouse to lead singing groups and to record costs for the East Suffolk Foodbank. Anglia Care Trust ‘Celebration in Song’. £9,545 TOPCATS Funding to provide 20 mentoring Newmarket Hockey Club £1,000 relationships in Felixstowe and Ipswich £4,627 Towards three activity days in February for young people in need of support. Towards training courses including the for young people with complex additional ‘Proud to Coach’ scheme. needs and disabilities. Autism Suffolk £1,000 Orchard Barn Environmental Town Pastors Lowestoft Towards running costs for a support Education CIC £2,000 group in North-East Ipswich. £4,735 Funding for running costs of the project To complete the restoration of the barn for the coming year. Boost Felixstowe to include a Rural Skills Centre. £1,000 Contribution towards establishing and Rural Coffee Caravan May Gurney running a new youth provision in Langer Information Project Foundation Fund Road, Felixstowe. £5,000 A grant towards training, time and Suffolk Young People’s East Suffolk Association for the support for their Manager to develop a Health Project Blind (Felixstowe Committee) long-term business strategy. £5,000 £2,000 A programme to provide training and To purchase daily living aids for people Somersham & District Community volunteering opportunities to get young who are visually impaired in Felixstowe Shop CIC people in to employment, training or and the surrounding area. £4,720 long-term volunteering. To purchase a freezer and vegetable Felixstowe Area Stroke Support cooler for the shop. Young People Taking Action £1,000 £5,000 Towards running costs for the project. Southgate Community Partnership To extend the employability programme £5,000 for young people who are NEET. Felixstowe Opportunity Group To improve the kitchen and toilet areas to £2,000 increase the ability to rent out facilities. Towards the annual running costs of the Michael Ben play and support groups for children with Howes Fund special needs. Lovewell Blake Fund Just 42 Felixstowe Town Pastors DIAL - Lowestoft and Waveney £2,000 £1,000 £1,500 Towards the running costs of the Make For radio hire, annual insurance, first- Towards volunteer training and travel and Move It Art Club for young people aid training and salary costs for this expenses to support disability advice line. with learning disabilities and complex forthcoming year. needs.

14 Home-Start Suffolk Coastal JustDifferent £1,000 £2,000 A grant towards the running costs of their To provide 15 disability workshops at weekly Felixstowe Family Group. schools in Ipswich and Felixstowe.

Ipswich Community Playbus Music in Our Bones £2,000 £1,900 Contribution towards Playbus visits in To develop the pilot singing project at Ipswich. Margery Girling House in Felixstowe Bangladeshi Support Centre to benefit residents and the local Ipswich Housing Action community. Group (IHAG) £2,000 Princes Trust (Suffolk) FIND (Families in Need) Ltd Towards the costs of helping hostel £2,000 £2,000 dwellers to engage in positive activities To deliver five Development Awards Towards the purchase of beds and and move forward with their lives. for young people in the Ipswich and mattresses for children. Felixstowe area. Ipswich Opportunity Group Headway Ipswich and East Suffolk £2,000 Suffolk Accident Rescue Service £2,000 Contribution towards running costs for £1,000 Towards providing support for people this forthcoming year. Towards the annual running costs of with a neurological condition in providing this emergency service in the Felixstowe. Ipswich and Felixstowe area during this forthcoming year.

SURVIVING WINTER APPEAL

there are many people in Suffolk who are 2011, I was struck by the simplicity of the more than happy to recycle their Winter message – there are many older people Fuel Payment to those they feel really who find the winter a daily struggle, and need it, therefore Suffolk Community yet there are others who are receiving a Foundation ran the appeal again in 2012. benefit that they can afford to forego. Thanks to the tremendous generosity of As an individual, it is difficult to find an the public, a total of £80,000 was raised in appropriate mechanism to direct your Suffolk, helping over 350 older households winter fuel payment to someone in need cope better during the colder months. so the Surviving Winter Appeal provides a clear way to make that happen. The The money raised through the public feedback from recipients in 2011 was appeal in the East Anglian Daily Times was both humbling and clear proof that the distributed in partnership with Age UK extra support is deeply needed and Suffolk. Helen Taylor, Information Service appreciated.” Manager from Age UK Suffolk commented, “The grants have been used in a variety of In 2012, the appeal was promoted ways – including assistance with gas and by Ipswich Building Society, the East of electricity costs and to purchase coal, Co-operative Society and the Rising energy costs are putting heating oil and extra heating appliances. private support of local trusts. Additional enormous pressure on households, We have also made contributions direct to support was also unlocked from the Warm particularly for older and vulnerable people customers’ electricity and gas accounts, Homes, Healthy People initiative which with health problems or tighter budgets. which has hopefully provided reassurance enabled extra support to be distributed With finances stretched, the outcome for to the customers involved that they can to vulnerable people of any age through many is a colder home. This is especially put their heating on when they need to Citizens Advice Bureaux and other worrying in the context of increasing during this winter.” partners. evidence that shows the negative impact of a cold home on people’s health and The appeal received continued We couldn’t have achieved what we well-being. support from our Patron, Lord Bishop of have without the support of local people St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, the Rt Rev so a huge thank you to everyone who From the success of the 2011 Nigel Stock: “When I became involved in contributed to our appeal. Surviving Winter Appeal, we know that the Surviving Winter Appeal in Suffolk in

15 Suffolk Cruse Bereavement Care REACH Community Projects YMCA Suffolk £2,000 £6,000 £1,600 Towards volunteer expenses and Towards providing winter fuel grants to To provide a two night residential for helpline phone costs for the Ipswich and disadvantaged individuals and families at young people who attend the Shine Felixstowe branches. risk from the effects of the cold and poor Youth Project in Lowestoft. living conditions. Suffolk Young People’s Health Project Signpost Gunton Safer Suffolk £1,990 £5,000 Foundation To provide counselling sessions to 19 A donation towards developing the young people with emotional and mental foodbank as it extends to East Suffolk. Anglia Care Trust health needs. £1,910 Towards providing four mentoring The Salvation Army Rosa Fund relationships in Waveney for young £1,580 people who are in need of support. To install CCTV inside Lyndon House, a Access Community Trust resettlement centre for the homeless in £984 Anglia Community Leisure Ipswich. To employ a Parenting Group Keyworker £1,950 to provide a parenting programme to Towards the provision of a programme Trinity Day Care Centre young mums who they are housing. of street sport sessions in Red Lodge in £2,000 order to reduce anti-social behaviour. Contribution towards their running costs Level Two Youth Project for this financial year and some new £1,000 Catch 22 equipment. Towards a pilot project working with £1,890 young mothers and those with high risk To provide open access street sports behaviours. sessions for young people from Whitton Garfield Weston Fund and Gainsborough estates in Ipswich. Lighthouse Women’s Aid FIND (Families in Need) Ltd £200 Community Action Suffolk £5,000 A donation to support their work. £500 A donation towards the purchase of a To provide community engagement work large freezer for food storage and also Suffolk Young People’s on the Whitton Estate in Lowestoft. for the purchase of non-perishable food. Health Project £1,000 Headway Ipswich and East Suffolk Gatehouse Caring in Towards running costs for the Groovy £2,000 £5,000 Girls Club. Towards the Brainy Dogs Project, taking A donation towards core costs for rescue dogs to be trained by prisoners the foodbank. from Hollesley Bay to be companion Sabariah’s Fund dogs for people with an acquired REACH Community Projects neurological condition. £5,000 Signpost Gunton A donation towards core costs for £2,000 Level Two Youth Project the foodbank. Towards warehouse costs for the East £2,000 Suffolk foodbank. Contribution towards providing open access evening sessions for young people aged 16-25.

Princes Trust (Suffolk) £2,000 Towards delivering a Team Personal Development Programme in partnership with Otley College for disadvantaged young people.

Signpost Gunton £1,200 To purchase new equipment for the DreamworX youth drop-in sessions.

Lighthouse Women’s Aid

16 HIGH SHERIFF’S FUND

Each April a new High Sheriff is appointed for Suffolk, and for 2012/13, the High Sheriff for Suffolk was Andrew Norman-Butler. Supporting the Crown and the judiciary is a central element of the role, but increasingly High Sheriffs play an active part in promoting and thanking the voluntary sector within their communities.

Suffolk Community Foundation manages the High Sheriff’s Fund which supports local projects that improve community safety, reduce crime and promote good citizenship. In order to boost the Fund, Andrew and his wife Karin organised a highly successful luncheon in October 2012 for just over the workshop, and he was so impressed Fund and took the opportunity to thank 300 people at the Royal Hospital School by what Workwise* do that this led to a and celebrate the voluntary sector by in Holbrook. One of the top auction lots new enterprise partnership being set up presenting his High Sheriff’s Awards at was a hand built boat, made by trainees at between his company and Workwise. a high profile awards ceremony held at the charity Workwise* and won by Bury St University Campus Suffolk in March 2013. Edmunds businessman Jack Gomarsall. Towards the end of his year in office, He was joined by his rugby star son the High Sheriff was able to make a *Workwise is now part of the Papworth Trust. Andrew when he collected the boat from number of grants from the High Sheriff’s

Suffolk Neighbourhood Anglia Community Leisure Watch Association £990 £2,000 For a programme of street sports To purchase new neighbourhood watch sessions in Newmarket. signs. Avenues East Team Spirit £1,000 £1,400 Towards the ‘Big Splash’ programme of To purchase 30 new performance supported swimming sessions for people uniforms for the Senior Squad. with disabilities in Newmarket, Mildenhall and Bury St Edmunds. Whitton Life £2,000 St Edmundsbury Newstalk Contribution towards the cost of Positive Association Futures running free open access £1,000 football sessions on the Whitton Estate in Contribution towards their running costs Lowestoft. to provide audio recordings to blind or partially sighted people.

Shadwell Fund Suffolk Accident Rescue Service £1,000 1st Red Lodge Scout Group To provide this emergency service in the £900 St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath area. Towards subscription costs and activities for children from low-income families. The Befriending Scheme £700 Alzheimer’s Society - Suffolk Towards developing a gardening project £1,000 at their centre in Bury St Edmunds. To provide a Dementia Support Worker The Bridge Project to attend Gatehouse Caring’s weekly Memory Cafe to provide information and support to carers.

17 Bury St Edmunds Women’s Aid Centre £1,654 Funding to refurbish three bedrooms at the refuge.

Bury Town Pastors £2,000 Towards their coordinator’s salary and administration costs.

Butley Village Hall £993 Ipswich Winter Night Shelter Contribution towards the final cladding and insulation work needed to the village hall.

DIAL - Lowestoft and Waveney 2nd Scout Group £2,000 Skinner’s Fund £1,131 Contribution towards the Manager’s Towards replacing worn out and salary. Headway Ipswich and East Suffolk unsecure doors of the garage which £1,000 stores the scouting equipment. Eden Rose Coppice Trust Towards the coordinator’s salary for the £1,000 Brainy Dogs project. Abbeycroft Leisure Towards removing four unsafe trees and £1,000 replanting to maintain a sanctuary for Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau Contribution towards undertaking a people with life limiting conditions. £1,000 Social Impact Report of the Explore Contribution towards providing a Outdoor and Community Street Sports Eden’s Project Home Visiting Service for people with projects. £1,997 disabilities who are unable to get to the To cover youth workers costs for town centre office. ActivLives continuing the youth provision in Great £1,000 Cornard and Glemsford for a further 12 Supporting the Walk Tall project. weeks in each location. Somebody’s Daughter Memorial Fund Anglia Community Leisure Fihankra £1,986 £1,000 Talitha Koum To deliver a programme of street sports To deliver four programmes of travel £15,000 sessions in Brandon. training to young people with learning Towards the construction of a difficulties and disabilities to enable therapeutic community building from Artheads them to access college, employment and which remedial work with women £1,000 leisure activities independently. suffering the effects of substance abuse. To provide a series of outdoor eco art and craft sessions to help support the Fornham All Saints Parish Council mental health and well-being of their £2,000 Suffolk Fund users. A contribution towards the equipment for The Suffolk Fund includes support a new skatepark in Fornhall All Saints. from Ipswich Building Society, Marriott Beyond the Wall Motors Group, the Barclay Family £1,500 Framlingham Area Youth Fund, the Mahony Family Fund, Darley To supply additional external tutoring to Action Partnership Stud, the Lucstu Fund, the Chapman individuals with complex needs. £1,500 Family Fund and Suffolk Community Towards youth worker salaries for their First Fund. Bredfield Youth Club club on Friday evenings. £1,000 1st Bures Scout Group Supporting youth worker costs. Fresh Start - New Beginnings £1,500 £2,000 To purchase equipment for a new Scout Bury St Edmunds Stroke Contribution towards supporting five Hut extension. Support Group children or young people from the West £1,500 Suffolk area who have been sexually Towards the set up costs and equipment abused. for this newly formed support group.

18 Happy Days Children’s Charity Newmarket Citizen Advice Bureau Suffolk Accident Rescue Service £1,000 £1,960 £2,000 To provide day trips for children and Towards Money Management sessions For core costs to provide the service in young people with additional needs in to enable people to take control of their St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath. Lowestoft and Ipswich. finances. Suffolk Cruse Bereavement Care Harkstead Church Heritage Number 72 £2,000 £1,398 £2,000 Towards volunteer expenses and helpline Contribution towards the last items Towards running costs of the Lost & costs for their West Suffolk work. required to finalise their kitchen and toilet Found project to support bereaved extension enabling the building to better young people. Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue utilised by the greater community. £1,112 Out & About To provide two search mountain bikes Headway Ipswich and East Suffolk £1,000 and essential kit for their volunteer riders. £1,000 To enable 10 children and young people For salary costs to run a new weekly with disabilities from West Suffolk to take Suffolk Survivors of Bereavement group for family carers and clients with part in their chosen leisure activity. by Suicide (SSOBS) an acquired neurological condition to £1,000 attend together. Phoenix Project Contribution towards their running costs £1,500 for this forthcoming year. Home-Start Mid Suffolk Contribution towards general running £1,600 costs of the Friday group. Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau Towards an additional preparation £2,000 course for volunteers enabling them to Porch Project Towards delivering financial capability reach more families. £1,500 training to workers and the public To provide a trained professional to who need training in basic money Ipswich and District Citizens assist with homework, individual learning management. Advice Bureau and job searching for young people with £2,000 special needs, behavioural difficulties The Salvation Army Contribution towards running their and other young people that attend the £1,500 money management programme during project in Hadleigh. To install CCTV inside Lyndon House, a this forthcoming year. resettlement centre for the homeless in Rendlesham Youth Group Ipswich. Ipswich Sports Club for £2,000 The Disabled Towards youth worker costs for leading TOPCATS £1,360 the sessions during this forthcoming £2,000 Towards hall hire costs for the project. year. To run two additional activity days during the February half term for young people Just 42 Rural Coffee Caravan with complex additional needs and £1,500 Information Project disabilities. Contribution towards youth worker £2,000 salary costs for running their three rural Funding to provide visits to ten villages in Volunteer Centre Haverhill (now youth clubs in Bredfield, Hasketon and West Suffolk. Community Action Suffolk) Grundisburgh. £1,000 Signpost Gunton A project visiting households and Kernos Centre £2,000 vulnerable residents living on Clements £2,000 Contribution towards running bi-monthly and Chalkstone estates in Haverhill. To provide counselling sessions to those Give and Take events. who otherwise could not afford it. Waveney Domestic Violence & Smiths Row (Bury St Edmunds Art Abuse Forum Kirkley & Pakefield Community Gallery Trust) £2,000 Sports & Social Club £1,000 Contribution towards providing one-to- £2,000 To support a group of mental health one counselling support to victims who Contribution towards a new full size 3G service users to meet weekly. are suffering anxiety, fear and stress all weather sports pitch. related to domestic violence and abuse St Edmundsbury Newstalk experiences. Mid Suffolk Holiday Opportunity Association Play Scheme (HOPS) £2,000 Waveney Gymnastics Club £2,000 Contribution towards their running costs £1,500 Funding for transport costs to enable to provide audio recordings to blind or To purchase new equipment and training young people with disabilities to access partially sighted people. for their parkour and disability sessions. their activity days.

19 FAMILY PHILANTHROPY THOMAS AND KATE HILL

into the community they live in but also as a way of engaging their children with philanthropy. “We have discussed various ways of increasing our local charitable impact, but we wanted to be sure that we could be involved in more ways than giving money,” explains Kate, a renowned interior designer who works under her maiden name of Kate Earle. “I was very excited when the opportunity arose to be the Patron of the first Rosa Giving Circle in the UK, here in Suffolk – it was an example of like-minded people coming together to share, learn and make a difference to a subject they care about, in partnership with Suffolk Community Foundation who really know what they are talking about.”

The Rosa Giving Circle now has 20 members, and has started grant-making to local groups that are supporting local women and young girls in need, such as helping projects in Lowestoft and Felixstowe that are working with teenage mums. Kate adds, “I am delighted to say that my young daughter asked to become a Rosa member in her own right, and my husband Tom has now As a QC, Thomas Hill is all too familiar with the complexities joined the Foundation’s Suffolk 100 Club to help support the of society, as courts often see the end result of lives that have wider remit of the Suffolk Fund’s community grant-making. As a become complicated for a multitude of reasons. As a Suffolk- family, we are delighted to be supporting the Foundation and are based family, Tom and Kate have been keen for some time speaking to many others about getting involved too.” to get involved with local giving through Suffolk Community Foundation, both as a way of putting something positive back

West Suffolk Headway Alzheimer’s Society - Suffolk Bures Darby & Joan Club £2,000 £613 £300 Towards tutor costs for delivering Towards providing a Dementia Support Towards running costs for this pottery activities to their clients who are Worker to attend Gatehouse Caring’s forthcoming year to support older people recovering from brain injuries. weekly Memory Cafe to provide expert in the community. information and support to carers. Wickhambrook Parish Council Catch 22 £2,000 Apple Tree Close Tenants £900 Towards the refurbishment of Association To produce a high quality brochure and Wickhambrook Children’s Playground. £200 information leaflets to promote the work A contribution towards exercise classes of Suffolk Community Mediation Service. YMCA Suffolk for older people in the area. £1,400 Community Action Suffolk To provide essential welcome packs Bacton, Cotton & Wyverstone Good £700 for young people for the Supported Neighbour Scheme To offer a monthly Breakfast Meeting Lodgings & Nightstop projects. £226 to 166 voluntary and community To cover the cost of a new mobile phone organisations across Ipswich. for the scheme. Suffolk Small Creeting St Peter Parish Council Grants Fund Bangladeshi Support Centre £900 £900 Towards the purchase of a climbing 2nd Carlton Colville Scout Group Contribution towards holding the frame for the new play area. £275 Multicultural Festival at Alexandra Park in To provide First Aid training for volunteer Ipswich. Debenham Girls Group scout leaders. £300 Beyond the Wall Towards a 2 day break to Hopton-on-Sea £900 for the group. Towards the purchase of a new minibus.

20 Team Spirit £600 To purchase 30 new performance Artheads uniforms for the senior majorette squad.

Waveney Sailability Limited £540 Towards sailing instructor training for three volunteers.

Woolpit Over 60s Club £150 To cover the cost of room hire for the club.

Papworth Trust (formerly known as East Region Wheelchair Mildenhall & District Swimming Club Workwise (Suffolk) Ltd) Basketball Association £790 £900 £735 To train two volunteers to become Towards the re-accreditation of their To cover travel costs for three basketball swimming teachers. Matrix Standard. players with disabilities to attend national events. Norfolk LGBT Project Young People Taking Action £300 £700 Eye Arts Club To set up and promote a new LGB youth Towards running Road Safety and £500 group in Lowestoft. Substance Misuse workshops during the Towards the ‘Better Together’ arts Easter holiday programme. programme for twenty young people PCC St Mary the Virgin Haverhill in Eye. £900 To purchase games, toys, craft materials, Surviving Winter Fun For The Young equipment and storage for the new baby Campaign £844 and toddler group. Funding towards core costs of a youth Age UK Suffolk project for the coming year in Otley. Perspectives Pregnancy Advice £85,000 £900 Towards providing grants to older people Ipswich & Suffolk Indian For a Level 2 Counselling Skills course experiencing fuel poverty. Association (ISIA) for two advisors. £850 Age UK Suffolk A contribution towards the Indian Rural Coffee Caravan £2,500 Summer Mela in Ipswich. Information Project To increase the capacity to carry out £750 benefits checks to Surviving Winter grant Ipswich Art Society For two afternoon tea projects for older applicants. £450 people in Forest Heath. Grant funding to run four art workshops for people with mental health issues. Signpost Gunton Surviving Winter - £900 Warm Homes Ipswich Hindu Samaj Towards a residential course in Wales for Healthy People £500 young people. Towards the annual salary of an Sudbury and District Citizens administrator. Suffolk Farm Crisis Network Advice Bureau £500 £15,000 Good Neighbour Scheme To promote their presence in Suffolk For distribution as grant payments to £600 and encourage recruitment of new address fuel poverty to householders at To cover the cost of a leaflet drop in volunteers. risk under the age of 62. Kesgrave to promote the group. Talitha Koum Warm Homes Healthy People 2012 Meet ‘N Eat Luncheon Club £900 £53,700 £500 A contribution towards running costs of For distribution as grant payments to A grant to purchase additional crockery the weekly recovery group for women address fuel poverty to householders at to make running the club easier and to who are struggling with an addiction. risk under the age of 62. cover the cost of venue hire.

21 Catch 22 £5,000 Access Community Trust To provide mediation services for people who are otherwise unable to afford it and to unburden the CABs in Suffolk

Community Action Suffolk £5,000 A grant for events costs for a pilot of the THRIVE project for rural enterprises in Suffolk.

Compassion £4,170 Towards the first Stronger Families Transforming Beccles Lido Limited Community Group Programme in Suffolk Fund £5,000 Babergh. A grant to update the heating system in 1st Brandon Scout Group the Town Hall. East Bergholt Cricket Club £4,500 £4,504 To erect a palisade fence to enclose their Bildeston Skate Park Committee For two new nets, matting and cages for outside space. £5,000 the junior members of the club. To purchase and install a skate park in 1st Sea Scout Group Bildeston. Eastfeast £2,138 £3,100 A grant to replace the fence around their Botesdale After School Club To develop a pilot project of ‘learning HQ and upgrade the changing facilities. £2,735 through a plot of land’ working with Towards outdoor activities for children in schools in Mildenhall. 1st Bures Scout Group the village. £3,811 Eastgate Amateur Boxing Club Contribution towards a new kitchen for Bridge Project Sudbury £5,000 the Scouts Headquarters. £5,000 Towards training courses for three new Towards developing the kitchen for the coaches. 3rd Sudbury Scout Group Hot Lunch Delivery Service. £4,891 Easton & Letheringham Village Towards the purchase of a modern Bright Green () Ltd Hall Management Committee sailing dinghy to enable more young £5,000 £5,000 people to participate. Towards the co-ordination and other Funding for the refurbishment of the associated costs of a project working to kitchen facilities in the hall. Arthritis Care improve the energy efficiency of homes £3,850 in the Harbour Ward of Lowestoft. Felixstowe Bowls Club To deliver a Challenging Arthritis £1,000 workshop in Lowestoft. Bury St Edmunds Cricket Club To replace the surface of the bowling £5,000 green at the club where people with Asperger East Anglia Funding towards a new sports pavillion disabilities play £5,000 that will serve as a community facility for Funding for a 12 week pilot Work a variety of activities. Fornham All Saints Opportunity Programme for young Community Council people with Asperger Syndrome. Castle Community Radio CIC £5,000 £5,000 Towards the creation of a skate park in Avenues East To install broadband and replace 12 Fornham All Saints. £4,246 computers. To run a pilot to establish the Teaming Framlingham Tennis Club Up project to provide young people Catalyst - Waveney £5,000 with disabilities with supported work Counselling Service To provide a courtside pavillion so experience. £4,500 people can watch tennis from a sheltered Towards set up costs for a new place. Bangladeshi Support Centre affordable counselling service in Ipswich. £4,580 Towards work with families with young children to raise awareness of health issues.

22 Friends of Ashley Homes - Ipswich Community Playbus Leeway Domestic Violence Langley Close £4,110 & Abuse Services £5,000 To expand the service to other £2,000 Funding to create an outside play area areas in Ipswich. To print specialist service user booklets for single mothers and their young for victims of domestic abuse across children. Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau Suffolk. £4,788 Gatehouse Caring in West Suffolk Funding to enable the bureau to assist Level Two Youth Project £2,800 people in completing benefit claim forms £2,856 Towards setting up a co-ordinated online. Towards open access youth sessions on foodbank in Bury St Edmunds. Saturdays and work with Year 6 pupils Ipswich Handball Club for their transition to high school. GoStart Community Transport £4,000 £1,500 To purchase equipment for the youth Lofty Heights Ltd A grant towards volunteer travel club and train members to promote the £5,000 expenses. sport in schools. Contribution towards the cost of purchasing a Crew Cab vehicle. Great Yarmouth & Waveney Mind Ipswich Hindu Samaj £4,538 £3,540 Matthew Project Funding to hire a youth centre and Towards the delivery of a healthy lifestyle £3,743 provide activities for young people programme to people in Ipswich. To expand their under 18 drug and in Waveney who have mental health alcohol awareness sessions to pupil problems. Ipswich Hindu Samaj referral units, youth clubs and other £1,115 venues in Suffolk. Hadleigh Dolphins Swimming Club To work in collaboration with £1,600 organisations in Ipswich to promote MENTA To train four young people as Level 1 positive working relationships with young £3,800 swimming teachers. people. Towards the ‘GoMenta - Create Your Future’ business start-up workshops for Happy Days Children’s Charity Kedington Community Association young people in Bury St Edmunds. £860 £5,000 To provide a trip to the cinema for A grant to upgrade the current heating Mid Suffolk Voluntary children who have disabling conditions and hot water system at the Community Organisations Forum or life limiting illnesses. Centre. £4,627 A grant to improve facilities at the centre Harkstead Church Heritage Kesgrave War Memorial and produce a promotional leaflet. £5,000 Community Centre Contribution towards installing a new £4,650 Mid Suffolk Voluntary kitchen and disabled toilet facilities in the Towards a programme of weekly Organisations Forum church. fitness sessions. £838 To develop a community garden at Home-Start South Suffolk & District Keystone Development Trust Red Gables, Stowmarket, using local £5,000 £3,250 peoples’ skills and involving local Grant funding to launch the ‘Readiness Towards a programme of one-to-one community groups. for Schools’ project to prepare under support to voluntary groups in order to fives for primary school. help them deliver more services to the Milkmaid Folk Arts Centre CIC wider community. £4,360 Honington and Sapiston Village Hall Towards facilitator fees and venue hire to £5,000 Kirkley & Pakefield Community run Suffolk Mind’s music group. Towards the costs of replacing the village Sports & Social Club hall. £5,000 Oasis Community Centre A contribution towards the cost of a 3G £5,000 INVOLVE Active all weather football pitch. A grant to scale up the current £4,982 programme at the centre. To deliver the STEP Programme to Lapwing Suffolk develop life skills of young people with £5,000 Orwell Mencap additional needs. Funding for the Programme £1,443 Coordinator’s salary and a new Towards an exercise programme for Ipswich & Diss Area Quaker Meeting management system. people with learning disabilities. £1,465 A grant to train 10 people to deliver ‘Made of Money’ workshops.

23 Panathlon Foundation Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau Wortham Village Hall £3,620 £5,000 £5,000 Funding to deliver Panathlon sports days For the costs of volunteer expenses who Towards the refurbishment of the village for children with severe disabilities. are working on the Financial Capability hall’s kitchen. programme supporting those with debt Papworth Trust problems. £4,936 True Colours Fund Towards creating a sensory garden in Supported Activities for Everyone Christchurch Park in Ipswich. £5,000 FIND (Families in Need) Ltd Towards the creation of a cafe for people £1,450 Perspectives Pregnancy Advice with learning difficulties to work in. Suffolk New College Students’ chosen £2,000 charity. To train the centre co-ordinator Survivors in Transition (SiT) and deputy co-ordinator in Level 3 £4,765 Suffolk Young People’s counselling. Towards increasing their services to Health Project include more specialised counselling. £1,450 Petals Suffolk New College Students’ chosen £1,200 Sustainable Bury charity. Towards providing counselling sessions £5,000 and to provide transport bursaries for To hold a Sustainable Bury Fair at the Town Pastors Ipswich people that cannot reach the service Apex. £1,450 themselves. Suffolk New College Students’ chosen The Brickyard charity. Quay Theatre at Sudbury £5,000 £4,500 Towards the costs of delivering projects Contribution towards a new disabled for those living in the Harbour Ward of Suffolk Disability toilet and cloakroom facilities at the Lowestoft. Care Fund theatre. The following grants have supported The Salvation Army more than 70 local beneficiaries REACH Community Projects £5,000 providing specialist living aids to £4,740 Towards the installation of a wet room improve their quality of life. The items A grant to provide local families with in Woodbridge to help people who are listed are not statutorily provided. ICT facilities to help with CV writing, job homeless. Applications must be referred by a applications and provide internet access. health or social care professional. TOPCATS Satomi Kai Aikido Club £5,000 Adult Community Services £4,489 To support the costs of the ‘Somewhere £1,000 To support the club’s expansion into the to Go’ programme. A contribution towards a reconditioned Cedars Park area of Stowmarket. wheelchair. Waldringfield Allotment and Leisure St Mark’s Church Centre Gardeners Association (WALGA) Adult Community Services £5,000 £500 £1,000 To refurbish the kitchen for use to Towards start up costs for a community To provide a Chair Bed. provide community lunches. composting scheme in Waldringfield. Adult Community Services St Michael’s with BYE Childcare Walsham-le-Willows Memorial Hall £1,000 £5,000 £2,500 Towards a Hydrotilt Comfort Care Chair. Towards renovating and insulating the Towards the purchase of new tables for extension of the hall. the hall. Adult Community Services £348.50 Stansfield Village Hall Management Warden’s Charitable Trust To purchase a mobility scooter cover. Committee £1,790 £5,000 To continue to provide a weekly bathing Adult Community Services To refurbish the village hall toilets. service for people with disabilities. £1,000 Contribution towards a Stannah Curved Suffolk Mind Woodbridge Rugby Union Stair-Lift. £3,741 Football Club Ltd Towards printing a mental health and £4,265 Adult Community Services wellbeing resource for the Muslim Towards crockery and a hot water heater £1,000 community. for the clubhouse kitchen. Towards the cost of a Tellus 4 Computer.

24 Ipswich Child Development Centre Suffolk Community Healthcare £279.99 £224.15 Access Community Trust To provide an iPad for a child with severe Grant funding for a Crelling harness and disabilities. Kids Plus booster seat.

Ipswich Child Development Centre Suffolk Community Healthcare £147 £295 To purchase Big Red Switch, Joy Cable Funding to provide a Maxi Cosi Axiss Car and ‘Big Bang’ software. seat with turntable.

NHS Specialised Suffolk Community Healthcare Commissioning Group £3,047 £1,000 To purchase three Theraplay tricycles. Towards a power wheelchair. Suffolk Community Healthcare NHS Specialised £2,415 Commissioning Group To provide five P-Pod Bean Seats £1,095 To purchase a folding mobile hoist. The Stroke Association Adult Community Services £1,000 £78.08 Norfolk & Suffolk Towards a wheelchair and power pack. To purchase a reacher, long reach foot NHS Foundation Trust and body wash sponge, pedal exerciser £383 The Stroke Association and easy wipe. For a High-backed Orthopaedic £599 armchair. To purchase a Jencare Drive Children & Young People’s Services Powerstroller. £499 Norfolk & Suffolk NHS To purchase a Karma Ergo wheelchair. Foundation Trust Thomas Wolsey School £1,000 £2,000 Children & Young People’s Services Towards the cost of a Regency Care Towards two Symmetrikit chairs. £1,000 chair and accessories. To provide a Convaid Cruiser CX18t. Various organisations Sensing Change £3,618 Children & Young People’s Services £399 To provide four riser-recliner chairs. £1,000 To purchase a Ruby Portable Video Towards a Convaid Mobility buggy. Magnifier. Various organisations £2,487 Children & Young People’s Services Sensing Change To purchase 18 Maclaren Major buggies £389 £325 with raincovers and sunshades for To purchase an infra-red computer To purchase a Trekker Breeze. children with disabilities. connection. Sue Ryder Care Various organisations Disability Advice Service £1,000 £2,299 (East Suffolk) Towards specialist seating for postural Towards the purchase four Britax £798 care and relaxation. Traveller Plus car seats. To provide an adjustable bed. Suffolk Community Healthcare Various organisations Hadleigh Health Centre £1,000 £241.50 £1,000 Towards the cost of a Tandem Stroller To provide two Crelling Safety Contribution towards a specialised car specialist buggy. Harnesses. seat. Suffolk Community Healthcare Various organisations Ipswich Child Development Centre £227 £908 £480 To purchase a Britax First Class car seat. Towards the cost of two Unisafety Easy To provide a Special Tomato Jogger Travel Magnet Harnesses. buggy. Suffolk Community Healthcare £1,762 Various organisations Ipswich Child Development Centre Towards the purchase of two specialist £1,459 £780.45 trikes. To purchase two wheelchair power To purchase a Recaro Sport Reha car packs. seat.

The grants listed are not exclusive or exhaustive. 25 HELPING YOU GIVE We are all motivated by different life experiences to want to give something back, but the core values remain largely the same for all of us: the desire to make a difference and help enable change for the better. Whatever it is that inspires you to give, we can make it easy for you to find local causes that reflect your charitable aspirations. Whichever way you choose to be involved, you are able to see exactly where your money goes, the hope it offers and the impact it makes.

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MAXIMISE THE IMPACT NAMED FUND LEAVING A LEGACY Throughout the coming year we At Suffolk Community Foundation, We can help you establish a legacy of are offering a 50% match funding the most essential thing we do for giving beyond your lifetime. You decide through two initiatives to incentivise donors is simplify your charitable giving. how you want to be remembered and endowment building. Community First Creating a Named Fund is an effective and realise your vision of a better future through is a government funded initiative from the straightforward way for you to get directly planned giving and charitable bequests to Office for Civil Society and Transforming involved in community philanthropy, the causes that matter most to you. This Suffolk is an investment fund established without the administrative and legal is also a meaningful way to remember by Suffolk County Council to build a costs of setting up a separate charitable a loved one, with an In Memorium Fund sustainable grants fund for Suffolk’s trust. We provide personal support to that can be an endowment fund for many charitable sector in perpetuity. This ensure your giving is effective and we generations to come. match funding can be used to create a will help you to match your charitable named endowment fund on behalf of an interests with local needs. Funds can be individual, family or company. for endowment building or flow-through grant-making, or a mix of both.

ENDOWMENT FUNDS FOR LASTING GIVING

In addition to the grant-making funds Barclay Family Fund Davies Family Community First Fund listed in this Annual Review, the following endowment funds are also being built to Birketts Grassroots & The de la Rue Family Grassroots Fund provide sustainable funding for Suffolk’s Community First Fund local communities. Endowment donors Dolphin Franklin Community First Fund have the satisfaction of knowing that, Bluebell Grassroots & through their gift, they are leaving a Community First Fund Evdemonia Community First Fund legacy that continues to support the local community for many generations to come. Bunbury Family Community First Fund Freud-Curtis Community We are thankful for all of the support we First Family Fund have received in the past and look forward Bunting Family Grassroots Fund to working with families and businesses George Vestey Family Fund to continue to build this valuable resource Catalyst Community First Fund for Suffolk. Hewlett Grassroots & Chapman Family Grassroots Fund Community First Fund AXA Insurance Grassroots & Community First Fund Clopton Hall Farm Community First Fund High Sheriff Grassroots & Community First Fund Baker Tilly Grassroots & Transforming Cunliffe Endowment Fund Suffolk Investment Fund Hubble Bubble Grassroots Fund 26 REACH Community Projects

100 COLLECTIVE GIVING SUFFOLK 100 ROSA GIVING CIRCLE Collective giving is a very Join the Suffolk 100 Club - a group FOR WOMEN enjoyable way to get involved in of 100 leading individuals and businesses Giving Circles are an excellent way strategic giving - when you pool your committed to supporting the small, to multiply the impact of your donation. gift with others, it has a greater impact. grassroots community organisations that With the help of Suffolk Community There is the added social element of work hard to improve the quality of life for Foundation’s knowledge of local meeting with fellow donors to discuss people across the county. We are asking needs, join other like-minded women areas of interest, to understand the those who care about Suffolk to commit to share ideas and support charitable issues and make a collaborative to making an annual donation of £1,000 organisations helping local women and difference to local communities you for three years which will support our vital girls in need through grant-making. We care about. We currently have two Suffolk Fund for local grants. are looking for people to join our Rosa collective giving funds: Giving Circle for Suffolk and make an annual donation of £500 for a minimum of three years.

Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss ways to give in more detail.

Hughes-Hallett Family Grassroots Fund Martineau Transforming Sabariah’s Grassroots & Suffolk Investment Fund Community First Fund Iken Peninsula Fund Michael Ben Howes Fund Sheepshanks Family Grassroots Fund In Memoriam Community First Fund Mitchell Community First Fund Skinner’s Grassroots & Ipswich Building Society Charitable Community First Fund Foundation Grassroots Fund Phillips Family Community First Suffolk Grassroots & James Euston Grassroots Fund Port Community Grassroots Community First Fund & Community First Fund Kemball Community First Fund Tattersalls Community First Fund Rosa Community First Fund Lucstu Grassroots Fund Vestey Group Community First Fund Rowland Family Community First Fund Mahony Family Grassroots & West Community First Fund Community First Fund Rutgers Grassroots Fund

Marriott Motor Community First Fund

27 PROVIDING COMPASSION IN CRISIS IPSWICH WINTER NIGHT SHELTER

Launched as a pilot in 2011, the support of local people offering their It gave us peace of mind that we could Ipswich Winter Night Shelter is the time and compassion to others during a deliver good quality care for our guests.” Church’s response to the problem of time of increased vulnerability. At each homelessness in Ipswich. It follows the meal time, the volunteers sit and eat with Those who find themselves homeless model which runs across many London the guests, which is a central part of the often have a number of complex needs. boroughs and other parts of the country, hospitality. Through these social times, At the simplest end are relationship relying on an amazing army of volunteers. relationships are established and support problems, debt and unemployment For the three coldest months of the year can be offered appropriate to each through to more complex issues such (December, January, February), churches individual’s needs. as mental health issues, problems of across the town work together to provide addiction to substances or gambling, shelter, welcome and hospitality every In recognition of the dedication and personality disorders and criminality. The night for up to 12 people referred to the outstanding work of all those involved, the homeless are often thought to be those project who have nowhere else to stay. Ipswich Winter Night Shelter was a winner who sleep rough, however there is a far Restricted by the number of nights that a of this year’s Improve and Prove Awards, greater number who have no place of church can offer shelter, seven churches a special award scheme funded by Suffolk their own who are known as ‘sofa surfers’ open their doors for one night a week County Council to recognise fantastic who often spend time rough sleeping each for thirteen weeks offering a co- community achievement. The award until they can find another bed, couch or ordinated service to those most in need. of £10,000 enabled the Night Shelter to floor in a friend’s or relative’s home. They open again during the winter of 2012/13. find it hard to find employment, access During the winter of 2011/12, The Rev Canon Paul Daltry, Minister for services, and break out of the homeless the Ipswich Winter Night Shelter Church and Community Engagement trap. The homeless community can easily accommodated over 37 guests at different in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and encourage them into substance abuse as times. Over 1,000 meals were served Ipswich, said he was thrilled the shelter a way of escaping what can seem to be by over 300 volunteers. Delivering this had won the award: “The Improve and the emptiness of life. shelter is an enormous logistical exercise Prove Award was the big one. It gave us and is only made possible through the the freedom to get on with it this year.

28 We are now seeing some “ of our longer term guests getting more permanent accommodation, which is excellent, but the demand for beds is still growing.” – Rev Paul Daltry

Despite there being more esteem and dignity, and return beds available through other to society as an equal. The service providers, the Ipswich overnight shelter is not an on call Winter Night Shelter ran to full hostel but part of a programme capacity again in 2012. This of restoration to bring structure year saw shelter be provided to back into chaotic lives. Our 42 homeless people during the priority is to move people on to winter, and unfortunately once a better situation than when they again many others were turned came in – whatever that might away. The volunteers work hard be,” explains Paul. An indicator during the period the Night Shelter of the shelter’s positive influence is open to try and find more can be seen in one guest whose sustainable accommodation for life had been ruined by gambling. the guests. “We work with the The shelter provided him with a agencies already working in the safe place to regain control of his town to encourage the guests life. Following his stay during the to receive help and advice to first winter, he returned this year restore their lives, find long-term to volunteer and offer support to accommodation, regain self- others as he had received.

29 Anglia Care Trust Mentor

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ANGLIA CARE TRUST

Many of the charitable groups In 2012, the Port Community Fund effect on the child’s academic attainment supported by the donors of Suffolk awarded a significant grant of £9,545 to and attitude towards learning and raise Community Foundation are not widely Anglia Care Trust to provide mentoring aspirations. The positive outcomes from known about, sometimes because in Felixstowe to young people in need the mentoring programme are not only the nature of their work is very difficult of support to reduce their offending and limited to that individual mentee but have to communicate. There are some anti-social behaviour. As Carrie-Ann benefits that will be felt by their families charities within Suffolk that have made a significant difference to the wellbeing of the county for many decades and yet Positive outcomes from the mentoring public awareness of their name or work is relatively modest. “ programme are not only limited For over 40 years, Anglia Care Trust to that individual mentee but have has been providing support to vulnerable people within the community; increasingly, benefits that will be felt by their the emphasis is on early intervention and preventing social exclusion of families and the wider community, children, young people and adults. The people they support have a range of both socially and economically.” interconnected vulnerabilities including family breakdown, homelessness, history – Carrie-Ann Brown of offending and poor physical or mental health. Brown of Anglia Care Trust explains, “Not and the wider community, both socially One of Anglia Care Trust’s key only does the mentoring programme and economically.” provisions is a mentoring service, directly address the children’s behavioural providing children and young people difficulties, but it also helps children The delivery of this mentoring service with an adult mentor from their local socially and emotionally, building their in Felixstowe has led to a significant community to provide support and resilience so that they can better deal with improvement in the lives of those receiving guidance. the difficulties that they face in life. In turn, it as L’s story demonstrates. these improvements can have a knock-on

30 L’S STORY

L, aged 10 years, was referred to the mentoring service in November 2012 from Intensive Family Support, another service offered by Anglia Care Trust, who were working with the family. L and his brother had witnessed domestic violence in the family home, and coupled with their mum’s depression and their dad’s heavy drinking L had been left with little trust in adults.

At the beginning of the mentoring relationship L had issues communicating, he was very shy, his body language was closed with very little eye contact. During the first few mentoring visits L did not speak unless asked a direct question and even then, if he could answer with a nod or shake of his head he did. It seemed he didn’t want to talk in case he said something he shouldn’t and it was suggested that mum had told L what he could talk about outside of the family home. Being patient was essential in order to get L to be more open and assertive. L was never pressured to make decisions or talk about his feelings, it was PORT COMMUNITY important to let L get to know his mentor and trust her and eventually he opened FUND REACHES up. It was important for L to know his mentor was reliable and would visit when MILESTONES she said she would. Managed by Suffolk Community Foundation, Felixstowe’s Since the beginning of the mentoring unique Port Community Fund reached three milestones in 2013 relationship, there has been a significant – it celebrated its fifth anniversary, awarded its 100th grant and change in L. He is open with his mentor celebrated having given away more than £200,000 since the fund and is now happy to talk about his feelings, started. his day and his family. Gradually over time L’s confidence has grown. Simple tasks The Port Community Fund was created in 2008 by a group like directing his mentor to destinations, of companies in and around the Port of Felixstowe, to pool their talking with staff in shops and suggesting resources, support local charities and build a mutually supportive activities he would like to engage in is now relationship with the local community. possible making L more independent and assertive. Before the Fund was set up, the companies each provided support to a range of local causes but all felt they could make a L is now able and willing to open up to more positive impact if they co-ordinated their efforts. The Port his mentor about anything and everything. Community Fund provides a focal point for fund-raising and has L recently suggested to his mentor that proved that there is real strength and depth in numbers, raising he is considering applying for a paper greater amounts of money and providing stronger support for the round (when he is old enough). He wants local community than would be possible when acting alone. to be more responsible, be able to afford to treat himself and continue to engage “We are proud to be celebrating the fifth anniversary of the in activities after the mentoring sessions Port Community Fund and delighted to have passed the £200,000 have ended. milestone,” said Alan Long, Chief Executive of Felixstowe-based Maritime Cargo Processing, one of the Fund’s founder members.

“Over the past five years we have supported a huge range of local causes, and are proud to have made a real difference to improving the quality of life for local people.”

31 IMPROVING HEALTH AND WELLBEING MUSIC IN OUR BONES

All together now: singing is good for by ear. “Singing is an ancient accessible health problems for six years describes your body and soul. art form which has enabled people all the sessions as “life-changing, they give Wellbeing includes good mental over the world over to celebrate. We me something to look forward to. I used health, physical fitness and positive sing to celebrate births and marriages, to self-harm but I have stopped now, the social networks. Suffolk Community yet in a consumer-orientated world, we singing keeps me out of hospital. I really Foundation believes that the wellbeing are now encouraged to believe that only enjoy the social aspect of the workshops; of our residents is vital if we are to build the best singer should sing, reduced it is my reason for coming.” healthy communities throughout the to being passive listeners rather than county. Taking part in community groups hearty singers. We want everyone to join Community Spirit and activities is a key part of increasing in and rediscover their voice. Singing is During the year, Music in Our Bones personal wellbeing; people who are active something that would have been present was awarded £3,000 to support the group and who feel able to access the support at some point in our lives. As children, in building its capacity to offer further they need are more likely to feel both we sung but as adults we often only sing singing sessions and to train some of happier and healthier.

Singing is one thing in life where In our sessions, people can be feeling better is pretty much guaranteed. Scientific research has now proven that “ themselves; there are no barriers.” singing is attributable to an improved physical and mental wellbeing. For one – Fran Flower Suffolk community organisation, singing is at the core of what they do. when no one is listening. In our sessions, its participants to take on a leadership people can be themselves; there are role. Part of the grant was used to record Since 2007, Music in Our Bones no barriers. Participation throughout is ‘Celebration in Song’. Seventy nervous has been promoting, encouraging and voluntary, people are free to join in with singers from across Suffolk gathered at facilitating singing as part of everyday life whatever they like,” explains singing St Peter’s by The Waterfront to celebrate of communities across Suffolk. The group leader Fran Flower. together in song: it was the first time that is particularly there to offer a helping hand all the groups had sung together and in to people facing challenges in their lives. Building Confidence front of a large audience, so a fantastic Tracy Sharp, one of the singing leaders, For Alice, a regular participant, the achievement for everyone involved. talks of the benefits of singing, “It’s been fortnightly singing session has been a exciting to get feedback from people salvation during a difficult time in her life. “Thanks to the support from Suffolk singing with us which supports all the “I lost someone very close to me two Community Foundation and Suffolk now proven national scientific research years ago and every day since has been County Council’s Improve and Prove into the health benefits of singing. When an emotional struggle. I was feeling rather Fund, we were able to bring together all we sing together we naturally improve our lost and all my self-confidence had gone. the Music in Our Bones groups together circulation, breathing and posture and I saw the flyer about a singing group and to record Celebration in Song, a DVD feel tension and stress slip away in the decided to give it a go; I used to sing in my which provides us with strong evidence laughter and songs shared; we naturally teens and always loved it then. The three for the need and strength of the project. feel our spirits lift as we sense a real ladies were so welcoming; I was instantly Not only is the DVD an invaluable connection with each other in our music put at ease. I often feel emotional after a marketing tool that we can present to making. It’s a magic that everyone wants session but it’s a positive feeling, I find health professionals as evidence of the to feel part of once they’ve tasted it!” it very cathartic. Both groups I attend project’s capacity to improve physical are sociable and offer a very supportive health and wellbeing, it has also given the Music in Our Bones runs regular environment, I couldn’t imagine not having participants a huge sense of pride and workshops across Suffolk, all sessions it now, I hope it continues.” Kerry, another achievement,” explains Jennie Fisk, the are open to all and everything is taught regular who has suffered from mental third leader of this joyful group.

32 Thornham Magna Community Open Spaces

CELEBRATING A REAL SUCCESS

Awarded to charities who have Friends of Ashley Homes completed successful projects, the - Langley Close Improve and Prove Awards highlight An award for their engagement Suffolk success stories and hopefully with young people who are NEET which inspire others. The awards are given as resulted in some going to Otley College. part of Suffolk County Council’s Improve and Prove Fund, which was set up to Ipswich Mencap provide small grants to support community An award for their outstanding organisations with building capacity. fundraising efforts which resulted in a sensory room and garden area being This year, ten Suffolk community created for people with mental health groups each received an award of up to problems. £10,000 for their proactive approach to helping their organisation become more Ipswich Winter Night Shelter self-sustaining. Councillor Colin Spence, An award for their outstanding co- Suffolk County Council’s Portfolio Holder ordination in providing 1,035 meals, 300 for Public Protection and the Voluntary volunteers resulting in 12 rough sleepers and Community Sector said, “These having overnight accommodation for two awards are about saying well done and months. making a shining example of what can be achieved by people with the passion and Rural Coffee Caravan drive to make a difference.” Information Project An award for their success with the The 2012 Improve and Prove Golden Age Fairs. Awards winners were: Stowmarket Scout Beccles Sea Cadets Centre Project An award for arranging major events An award their admirable volunteering in Beccles to significantly increase the efforts on the rebuild of the scout hut. group’s fundraising. The B&B Theatre Company An award for engaging with young people with a variety of needs.

Thornham Magna Community Open Spaces An award for outstanding volunteer commitment to the creation of the community play space.

Wickham Market & East Anglian Sailing Trust District Family Carers An award for the ‘Exploring the River Support Group Orwell and Wildlife Sites’ project which An award for outstanding commitment engaged with 246 schoolchildren in Suffolk and provision of services for carers. and involved 2,310 volunteer hours.

33 DELIVERING HELP AND CARE AT HOME GOOD NEIGHBOUR SCHEMES

The county of Suffolk boasts some living in their community area. The Now with thirty volunteers, the beautiful countryside but the rural nature schemes are aimed at helping to make life Scheme provides a variety of help to has several implications for meeting easier for people in this community. They neighbours, for example, shopping, community need. Service provision in enable the coordination of volunteers a listening ear, lifts for medical rural areas has been declining for several with local people needing assistance with appointments, walking a dog - simple, decades and is continuing to decline – simple everyday tasks; they are there to everyday tasks which are all too easy to shops, post offices, schools and pubs help people at home, which can often take for granted and yet are not always possible for many people.

We want people to know we are here Jane Cody, Chair of Kesgrave Good Neighbour Scheme explained, “The “ to help – we want to be bothered!” majority of people we help are older people; they are the ones who need the – JANE CODY Good Neighbour Scheme the most. Often they are living on their own and their family live many miles away. We assist with what are still closing and rural bus services are make all the difference enabling someone are little jobs to us but that make a huge limited. Our Hidden Needs Report carried to remain independent in their own home difference to someone else. out by the University of Cambridge states for longer. that in Suffolk ‘only 33% of parishes had a “It’s very straightforward, neighbours post office, down from 57% in 1991. Only Kesgrave Good Neighbour Scheme simply call the Scheme phone number 14% had a general store and barely half With a population of 15,000 people, and the phone holder will match the had a pub.’ Thus, people are reliant on Kesgrave is a bustling town located on request to a volunteer. The phone is held public transport or on outreach schemes the outskirts of Ipswich. Following a in turn by a core group of volunteers who which bring services and help to them. series of public meetings and surveys to match the need of a caller to a volunteer assess community needs and resources, who has offered to help in that particular Good Neighbour Schemes it was recognised that there were many way. It is a system which spreads the There are thirty Good Neighbour residents who were in need of extra load and does not put pressure on any Schemes in Suffolk, all of which are run support with simple, everyday tasks and volunteer to do more than they have time entirely by volunteers. These are local so the Kesgrave Good Neighbour Scheme for, or are comfortable with.” people with the local knowledge and was born. It is the first semi-urban Good networks to connect with those most Neighbour Scheme in Suffolk. Once the Kesgrave Good disadvantaged, vulnerable or isolated Neighbourhood Scheme had established

34 itself and was in a position to give help to those in need, the Scheme was ready to raise its profile and start helping a wider audience. It was time to tell everyone in A Good Neighbour Scheme enables Kesgrave that they existed. A small grant from Suffolk Community Foundation “ people of all ages to volunteer and enabled the Scheme to carry out a leaflet drop to 6,000 letterboxes throughout the the schemes are popular with the town. “100% of all Kesgrave residents now know of the scheme and those that newly retired as an opportunity might need the scheme most now know it exists. Since the leaflet drop we have to keep active while contributing seen a steady increase in the number of calls we receive, before it was one or two, to their community. Our youngest now we receive five or six calls a week,” explains Jane. volunteer is 19yrs old and we

Good Neighbour Schemes are a have some who are in their early way of helping people stay independent whilst providing friendly, social contact 80s; it really is something that and making sure they’re safe and well. As Jane explains, “One lady in her 80s who anyone can get involved with.” was feeling unwell, very reluctantly called us to ask if someone could buy her some – JANE CODY milk. When the volunteer visited her, they suggested that she visit her doctor. Following the appointment, the volunteer collected her prescription for her. The lady felt completely overwhelmed with what help she had received, she really thought she was stuck. She then called to tell us she was better again and said that calling us was the best thing she had ever done.”

A grant of £600 was awarded to Kesgrave Good Neighbour Scheme from the Suffolk Fund. This fund continues to make a positive social impact across many different aspects of Suffolk community life, largely thanks to the generosity of our Suffolk 100 members who are now providing a regular income to this vital fund.

35 CREATING THRIVING COMMUNITIES SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES FOR EVERYONE

On the outskirts of sits qualified staff and volunteers. It is a safe a warm and friendly log cabin, the home and supported place where people can of Supported Activities for Everyone gain customer service skills, food service (S.A.F.E). Although a place that isn’t and food hygiene skills. It also provides easily visible from the road, the joy and them with an opportunity to interact with laughter emanating from the building is members of their local community and a clear sign that it truly is a place that is build confidence. living up to its name. “It is thanks to the support of Suffolk S.A.F.E. provides an array of activities Community Foundation and Suffolk such as arts and crafts, gardening, County Council’s Transforming Suffolk exercise and music to promote social Fund, that this project became a reality. interactions for adults with learning The grant we received enabled us to get disabilities living in Saxmundham and the started; some of the money went towards surrounding area. our operational costs such as heating and lighting. But the majority has enabled One project opened this year by the us to provide food and hygiene training charity is the Pear Tree Café, a bustling to people with learning disabilities and community minded café serving tea, create some marketing materials,” coffee, cakes and light lunches. But it’s explains founder James Perks. much more than a café: it’s a community hub, providing invaluable opportunities “We wanted to create a place which for local people. not only serves delicious food and coffee in a fun and welcoming atmosphere but The café is run by adults with also somewhere which creates training learning disabilities who are supported by and work experience for people, allowing

36 them to feel more involved with the is being used regularly by a wide range Sadie who has mild learning community.” of customers and hopes to become a disabilities recently finished studying at well known meeting place in the area. college and had been looking for work “The cafe is about promoting social “Many elderly residents come and enjoy opportunities in her community. It was inclusion, giving people a sense of worth a cup of tea and chat; it’s a friendly place her support worker who came across the and a feeling that they are part of a valued where they can interact with others, Pear Tree Café and contacted James to and supported community. It’s also a way helping reduce social isolation suffered find out more. Keen to learn new skills, to increase the public’s Sadie volunteered for awareness of learning an afternoon at the difficulties and to The cafe is about promoting café, happily serving encourage the local food and using the till. community to work “ social inclusion, giving people Her support worker alongside us and help explained, “Sadie got us develop the project. a sense of worth and a feeling on really well, she We want Saxmundham didn’t look to me for to be a safe and that they are part of a valued support at all, I am so inclusive community,” thankful to James for he added. and supported community. giving her a chance. Volunteering at the The cabin has – James Perks café has given her the been built for use by confidence to apply for the whole community. other volunteer work. It is situated within walking distance by so many close by. The community has When one person believes in you, it spurs of a number of sheltered houses and embraced it and we hope it will continue you on to do more.” supported living houses, care homes and to go from strength to strength,” says schools. The café is still in its infancy but James.

37 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2013

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total funds funds funds 2013 2012 £ £ £ £ £ Incoming resources from generated funds Voluntary income 166,323 14,039 - 180,362 167,115 Activities for generating funds 90,249 64,148 - 154,397 143,996 Investment income 128,831 47,516 - 176,347 116,188 385,403 125,703 - 511,106 427,299 Incoming resources from charitable activities - 1,713,627 844,914 2,558,541 2,289,318 Total incoming resources 385,403 1,839,330 844,914 3,069,647 2,671,214 Resources expended Costs of generating funds a) events 109,971 60,402 - 170,373 143,540 b) other - - - - - c) investment management costs - - 3,955 3,955 2,881 109,971 60,402 3,955 174,328 146,421 Charitable activities a) grants given 73,730 1,555,311 - 1,629,041 1,624,734 b) support costs 187,974 30,169 - 218,143 221,127 Total charitable expenditure 261,704 1,585,480 - 1,847,184 1,845,861 Governance costs 43,840 748 - 44,588 39,250 Total resources expended 415,515 1,645,882 3,955 2,066,100 2,031,532 Net (outgoing)/incoming resources before transfers (30,112) 192,700 840,959 1,003,547 657,590

Gross transfers between funds 30,027 (124,032) 94,005 - - Net (outgoing)/incoming resources (85) 68,668 934,964 1,003,547 657,590 Other recognised gains and losses Gains/(losses) on investment assets 12,299 4,188 95,832 112,319 (34,810) Net movement in funds 12,214 72,856 1,030,796 1,115,866 622,780 Fund balances at 1 July 2012 330,663 576,341 2,642,096 3,549,100 2,926,320 Fund balances at 30 June 2013 342,877 649,197 3,672,892 4,664,966 3,549,100

Statement by the trustees These summarised accounts are a summary of information extracted from the audited annual accounts on which the auditors’ opinion was unqualified. The full report and accounts were approved by the Trustees on 23 September 2013 and have been submitted to the Charity Commission and the Registrar of Companies. These summarised accounts may not contain sufficient information to allow for a full understanding of the financial affairs of the charity. For further information, the full accounts, the auditors’ report on those accounts and the Trustees’ Annual Report should be consulted. Copies of these may be obtained from Suffolk Community Foundation registered office. On behalf of the trustees 23 September 2013.

Statement by the Auditors In our opinion The Summarised Financial Statements are consistent with the full annual accounts. Ensors. 23 September 2013.

38 BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2013

2013 2012 £ £ £ £ Fixed assets Tangible assets 11,421 12,972 Investments 3,302,300 1,866,506 3,313,721 1,879,478 Current assets Debtors 180,671 213,056 Cash at bank and in hand 3,616,266 4,733,316 3,796,937 4,946,372 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (764,692) (1,529,417) Net current assets 3,032,245 3,416,955 Total assets less current liabilities 6,345,966 5,296,433 Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year (1,681,000) (1,747,333) Net assets 4,664,966 3,549,100 Capital funds Endowment funds 3,672,892 2,642,096 Income funds Restricted funds 649,197 576,341 Unrestricted funds 342,877 330,663 4,664,966 3,549,100

The accounts were approved by the Board on 23 September 2013. Company Registration No. 05369725

Grants awarded by size 2012/13

31 149 108

201 Grants awarded by district 2012/13

8% 11% 9% 7% 3% 42% 19% 2% 39 2012/13 SUCCESSES

True Colours True Colours Fund had a celebration JULY OCTOBER event to award grants to their first chosen charities, with funds raised by Suffolk Suffolk Dog Day Suffolk 100 New College Students’ Union. Another very successful Suffolk Dog The first Suffolk 100 lunch took place Day took place on Sunday 29th July at at The Bildeston Crown on 5th October Guest Speaker Helmingham Hall, kindly sponsored by with Professor Noel Smith from UCS as Stephen Singleton was a speaker Adnams, raising a record £60,000 for the guest speaker. at a Suffolk Charity Finance Conference Suffolk Community Foundation. This in Ipswich – Sailing Stormy Seas, with all was the fifth Suffolk Dog Day and since proceeds to the Foundation. it began has raised almost £210,000 for local causes as well as raising awareness Working with UCS of the Foundation. Just under 8,000 UCS Fundraising module – Judi people attended, including volunteers, Newman was invited to speak to stallholders and exhibitors. Once again UCS students on trusts, fundraising, local families enjoyed a wonderful, fun sponsorship, events and the work of the day out whilst making a real difference to Foundation. those most in need in Suffolk. Our Annual Review  High Sheriff’s Luncheon AGM and Annual Review ‘Building The High Sheriff’s Luncheon took Thriving Communities Together’ was held place at The Royal Hospital School and at Wherstead Park. Our guest speaker raised £15,395 for The High Sheriff’s Matthew Bowcock, Chairman of UK Fund. Community Foundations talked about the history of UK philanthropy.

Business for the Arts NOVEMBER Stephen Singleton was a speaker at Business for the Arts about new ways of Ensors developing sponsorship and philanthropy Judi Newman was the speaker at an for the arts in Suffolk and on supporting Ensors Investment Update, highlighting businesses to give in a positive, the opportunity for Community First meaningful and satisfying way. match funding for endowment donations. JANUARY

Surviving Winter Campaign  Rosa Giving Circle The Surviving Winter Appeal reached The Rosa Women’s Giving Circle an amazing £80,000, making a huge was launched on 7th November – women difference to vulnerable older people this giving together for local women in need. winter. Suffolk Community Foundation was congratulated in the House of Masquerade Ball Commons for the Surviving Winter Appeal Suffolk Community Foundation was in Suffolk. the chosen charity to benefit from the auction at the glittering Masquerade Transforming Suffolk Winter Ball at Bruisyard Barn. Loan Fund The Foundation launched the Transforming Suffolk Loan Fund – a new way to provide investment into the Third Sector, particularly the growing numbers of Social Enterprises.

40 FEBRUARY JUNE Beacon Award  Pound Gates Sir Tom Hughes-Hallett – a Suffolk Fundholder, Pound Gates took part Community Foundation fundholder in this year’s Orwell Walk and raised over recognised with the Beacon Award, a £11,000 for their corporate fund. national award for Philanthropy.

MARCH Foundation staff take part in Red Nose Day to highlight that the Foundation Match Funding distributes Comic Relief funding in Suffolk.

Partnership Working Launch of Suffolk County Council’s Commissioning & Procurement Guidelines – a guide to maximise statutory engagement with Suffolk’s Voluntary and Community Sector. Suffolk The Community First Endowment Community Foundation was a major Challenge target for 2012/13 was player in reviewing and developing a new  London to Paris Cycle achieved. £206,000 Community First approach. Angie Ashby-Hoare cycled from match funding was unlocked by the London to Paris to raise funds for the generosity of Suffolk donors. Foundation.

APRIL Change of Name The Suffolk Foundation changed its Visitors to the Foundation name to Suffolk Community Foundation. The new Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore and as Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Patron, the new Chief Constable Douglas Launch of Esmée Fairbairn Suffolk Paxton visited the Foundation. Fund. In partnership with the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we are to deliver a £500,000 investment into Suffolk to improve the quality of lives of vulnerable  High Sheriff’s Awards MAY people, especially those living in the most The High Sheriff’s Awards were deprived communities. held at UCS, Ipswich on 7th March to New Chairman Announced recognise and reward the individuals and James Buckle was appointed Shakespeare Fundraiser groups who voluntarily devote their time new Chairman of Suffolk Community Suffolk Community Foundation was and energy to improve the communities Foundation as David Sheepshanks steps one of two chosen charities to benefit in which they live or work. The grants down to take up the position of Chairman from ‘Shakespeare in the Garden’ at from the High Sheriff’s Fund were also of UK Community Foundations. Glemham Hall. presented.

41 OUR PEOPLE

Suffolk Community Foundation is immensely grateful to everyone who has contributed to our work over the past year - you make our work possible through funding, time, sponsorship or expertise. We’d like to give special thanks to the following supporters, but our heartfelt thanks go to all who share our passion in strengthening Suffolk’s local communities.

Patrons Stephen Fletcher, DL Emma Rawlingson Barry Dye Grants and Donor Co-ordinator Lord Tollemache The Reverend Canon Lynne Goodwyn Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk Graham Hedger Julie Rose Sally Haird Grants Officer The Right Reverend Nigel Stock Claire Horsley Agnes Hallender Bishop of St Edmundsbury Elizabeth Stephenson Iain Jamie Claire Harrall and Ipswich Marketing Co-ordinator Graeme Kalbraier Mary Harris Douglas Paxton Jade Wilding Gulshan Kayembe Chief Constable, Suffolk Operations Co-ordinator David Harrison Constabulary Her Honour Caroline Ludlow Sue Wright Michael Hervey-Murray Grants Officer Andrew Norman-Butler Peter Newnham Julia Hunter-Jones 2012/13 Sir David Rowland Volunteers Ali Huxley Nigel Smith Vice Patrons (on Event Committees, Committees, Georgie Keates The Very Reverend Dr Office support, Grants Panels Lord & Lady Cunliffe Mossy Kennedy Frances Ward and Development Board) Amanda Donohoe Emma Lloyd Terry Ward Christine Abraham Scilla Dyke Jacqui Mayne Angie Ashby-Hoare Rex Garrod Retiring Trustees 2012/13 Jean MacHeath Tracey Bailey Nigel Havers David Sheepshanks, CBE, DL Adrian Melrose Tom Barker Sir Christopher Howes Peter Bye, DL Carolynne Pinder Nigel Bunting Christine Janes Fiona Mahony David Podd Jo Charles Lord & Lady Stevenson of Emma Pratt Jonathan Christie Coddenham, CBE, DL Staff Adrian & Lesley Rawlingson Allison Coleman Stephen Singleton Stephanie Renouf Chief Executive Richard Cooper Trustees Jo Rodgers James Buckle, DL - Chairman Mandy Abdel-Aziz Jo Cresdee Operations Director Mike Rushmore The Countess of Euston, Peter Cresdee Mona Sheepshanks DL - Vice Chair Judi Newman Cara Davani Development Director Jean Tuckwell Lady Howes - Vice Chair The de la Rue Family Rachael Mikulskis Suzanne Woodward David Barclay, DL Development Executive Wendy Deakin James Dinwiddy Cathy Doe

Suffolk Community Foundation staff. Back Row, left to right: Julie Rose, Sue Wright, Emma Rawlingson, Mandy Abdel-Aziz, Stephen Singleton Front Row, left to right: Rachael Mikulskis, Jade Wilding, Judi Newman, Elizabeth Stephenson

42 2012/13 DONORS AND SPONSORS Adnams plc Mrs Patricia F Day, OBE John Grose Mr Adam Seccombe Agellus Hotels Limited Mr & Mrs Colin de la Rue Jollyes Petfood Superstores Mr James Servaes, JP, DL Mr & Mrs Robin Aitchison Mrs June de Moller, DL JMS Consulting Engineers Shadwell Estate Company Ltd Mr David Andren Debach Enterprises Jonathan Penn and Company Mrs Lilias Sheepshanks Mrs Anne Angel His Honour Judge John Devaux Mr Graeme Kalbraier Mr & Mrs David Sheepshanks Mr Simon Ash Mr Andrew Didham Mrs Gulshan Kayembe Skinner’s Pet Foods Ashton KCJ Mr James Dinwiddy Mr & Mrs William Kendall Mr Roger Skinner The Atkin Foundation Mr & Mrs C V Dinwiddy The Lady Blakenham Charity Trust Mr Hugo Smith AXA Insurance Mr Alex Dolbey The Late Miss Barbara May Mr Nigel Smith Baker Tilly Mr William Drake Paul Charitable Settlement Smith & Pinching Barclays Wealth Mr Barry Dye Mr James Lightfoot Lady Belinda Somerleyton Mr Rodney Baker-Bates Mrs Emma Elliff The Lord Belstead Mr & Mrs Magnus Spence Charitable Settlement Mr David Barclay DL Mr & Mrs Clive Eminson Mrs Joanna Spicer, DL Her Honour Caroline Ludlow Mr James Barclay Mr Graham Emmerson St Edmunds Trust M & G Investments Mr Ian Bass Ensors Chartered Accountants Lady Henrietta St. George Mr & Mrs Edmond Mahony Mrs Holly Bellingham Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Ms Ottilie Stevenson Mr & Mrs Logan Mair Mr & Mrs David Bendall The Countess of Euston The Lord & Lady Stevenson Marianna Boutique Best of Suffolk Mr & Mrs Andrew Fane of Coddenham Maritime Cargo Processing plc Binder Limited Dominique Fell-Clark Stokes Sauces Marriott Motor Group Ltd Birketts LLP Annabel Fell-Clark Strutt & Parker LLP Mr Richard Martineau BOCM PAULS Ltd Suzanne Fell-Clark Suffolk Constabulary Mrs Wendy Matthew Boyer Planning Mr Roger Finbow Suffolk County Council Mrs Jacqui Mayne Major John Bridge Mr Stephen Fletcher, DL Suffolk New College Mr Adrian Melrose Mr Tim Bridge, DL Florence Cohen Charitable Trust TA Hotel Collection Ltd Mr Timothy Melville-Ross Mr Graham Brown Mr Jonathan Fox Tattersalls Ltd Mettingham Parochial The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust Mr & Mrs James Buckle Framlingham College Church Council The First 65 Mrs Gillian Buckle Ms Emma Freud & Mr Richard Curtis Mid Suffolk District Council The Richard Devitt Fund Sir Michael & Lady Bunbury Mr & Mrs Matthew Fullerton Mr Richard Middleton Mrs Joanna Thomson Mr & Mrs Nigel Bunting Garfield Weston Foundation Councillor Jane Midwood Mrs Elisabeth Todd Mr Andrew Buxton Gemco Mr David Midwood Mr & Mrs Michael Tollemache Mr Peter Bye, DL George Gibson Charitable Trust Mr & Mrs Stephen Miles Travis Perkins Deborah Cadman, BSc, Mr Simon Gibson, CBE, DL Mr Martin Mitchell MA, MSc, OBE Trinity College Mr Robert Gillespie Mr Edward Morley Call Connection Ufford Park Mrs Candia Gladstone M R King & Sons Mrs Sarah Carr Mr Stephen Unwin Glemham Hall Estate Muntons PLC Mrs Fiona Carrington Mr David Unwin Sharon Govindasamy Mrs Emma Murphy The Catalyst Trust Mr Robin Upton Dr Judith Gowland Mr Peter Newnham CPWC Mr Mark Venmore-Rowland Grange Shipping Limited Notcutts Nurseries Centre for Management Mr George Vestey Sir Edward Greenwell, Bt, DL Orwell Veterinary Group Development Mr Robin Vestey Brigadier Adam Gurdon Pampered Pets Hotel Mr & Mrs Tim Cerely Vestey Group Limited Hampden Capital plc Mr George Paul, DL Ms Zara Chancellor Mr Antony S R Villar Mr A R Harding Peter Gerber Eyecare Opticians Mr Francis Chapman W A Church (Bures) Ltd Lord Hart of Chilton Councillor Jeremy Pembroke Lady Sarah & Mr Frank Chapman Mr Jeremy Wagener Harwich Haven Authority Pentalver Transport Ltd Chenevix Jewellery Mr Mervyn Walker Mr Guy Heald Mr Charles Philipps Christchurch Vets Mr Fred Wallace The Reverend Canon Ms Norma Pitfield Christies Care Graham Hedger Mr Neil Walmsley Plastics for Games Ltd Mr & Mrs Christopher Clarke The Henry Smith Charity Mr Philip West Port of Felixstowe Mrs Rosemary Close-Brooks Mr Hugo Herbert-Jones, CMG, OBE West Suffolk College Ms Diana Quick Mr Stephen Cole Mr & Mrs Tom Hewlett Mr Andrew Wheeler Mr George Ralli Pound Gates & Sevatas Mrs Kate Hill Mr Paul Willcox Sir David Ralli Collins Skip Hire Mr Ed Hollingsworth Mr & Mrs Charles Williamson Rathbones Investment Management Community First Major & Mrs Philip Hope-Cobbold Willis Robinson & Hall UK Community Foundations Sir Michael & Lady Hopkins Mr John Wilson Roger Skinner Ltd Condiment Mr James Hopkins Mr Sam Wilson, DL Mr Simon Ronan Paul & Louise Cooke Hopkins Homes Ltd Mr Michael Wyatt Endowment Trust Mr Paul Rous Claire Horsley Cooper Ipswich Mr Robert Rous Sir Christopher & Lady Howes Winter Fuel payment Cory Brothers Shipping Mr Tim Rowan-Robinson donations Agency Limited Sir Tom Hughes-Hallett Sir David Rowland Once again our heartfelt thanks Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd Coscon (UK) Limited Rubicon Computers Systems are extended to those of you Mr Nigel Ingleton who donated your Winter Fuel Lord & Lady Cunliffe Mrs Kate Rugge-Price Mr Timothy Ingram Payments to our Surviving Darley Stud Management Co Ltd Saxon Vets Winter Appeal in 2012/13. Ipswich Building Society Cambridgeshire Community Mr G Scarfe Foundation J A Wyard Ltd Baroness Ros Scott In Memoriam Fund Mr & Mrs James Daunt J M Finn & Co Mrs Elizabeth Ralli Mr Andrew Scott Mr Glyn Davies James Blake Associates

43 Suffolk Community Foundation The Old Barns Peninsula Business Centre Wherstead Ipswich Suffolk IP9 2BB

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www.suffolkcf.org.uk

Company limited by guarantee. Registered in England. Company Registration No. 05369725. Charity No. 1109453. Suffolk Community Foundation is a member of UK Community Foundations.

With special thanks to John Ferguson Photography, Alex Potter Photography, Trevor Jolley, Jan Armitage and Places & Faces for the supply of photographs.

Designed and printed in Suffolk.

For more details please Rathbones is proud to contact Christopher Day on 01223 229 229 offer our continuing [email protected] support to Suffolk Community Foundation

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