April 2020 CWMT News The newsletter of the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust Issue 41

Mighty walk for a mighty cause Holly and Molly’s Italian adventure

An exciting road ahead Interview with new CWMT Chairman, Richard Waller Early to bed? Sleep, teenagers and education A winning tale of kindness Meet the winner of our story competition Book club What’s inside CWMT book club Contents Regulars 26 A free mental health book club for teachers and 4 Chairman’s letter Welcome from Richard Waller QC others working with children and young people 5 Treasurer’s report Join the club and once a term you will have the chance to Financial update from our Hon. Treasurer, Robin Booth receive a book which promotes understanding of mental health. 6 COVID 19 update Update and advice from CWMT News and project updates What people have said about 7 Introduced by CEO Clare Stafford our previous book club titles: 25 Fundraising highlights Celebrating the achievements of our fundraising supporters “This was an amazing Features resource. I used it to support 10 An exciting road ahead 24 various young people particularly Interview with the new CWMT Chairman those struggling with anxiety. The 14 Early to bed? Adolescent sleep and educational performance young people I shared it with said the 18 Books on mental wellbeing book ‘got how they felt’ and it was A selection of interesting titles really accessible for them.” 19 A winning tale of kindness Meet Daisy, who won our story competition 23 Mighty walk for a mighty cause Holly and Molly’s Italian adventure Year 2 & 3 boys 24 CWMT Wellbeing Challenge enjoyed reading ‘Mud Further highlights from the Boy’ ... The story addresses the 2019 challenge Get involved issue of bullying in a sensitive way 33 What’s on that captures the emotions of young 19 A look at the CWMT diary for 2020 children who are being bullied. It 34 Supporting us is also empowering as it offers How you can help CWMT children solutions. 35 Sources of help Organisations offering direct advice for anyone who may be experiencing mental health problems For more information or to sign up, please visit www.cwmt.org.uk/bookclub 36 Who’s who in CWMT Do you work for or know a business who’d like to sponsor one of our book club titles? Our staff, Trustees and Board Advisers If so, we’d love to hear from you. Please email [email protected] On the cover or call 01635 869754 to find out more. Holly Hayes and Molly Ropner in Rome during their epic challenge (read more on page 23)

2 www.cwmt.org.ukwww.cwmt.org.uk [email protected]@cwmt.org 3 Chairman’s letter Treasurer’s report Letter from the Chairman Report from the Treasurer

I hope this letter huge source of strength for my parents The unaudited over recent years and I am pleased finds you well, or at and instrumental to the success of Trustees’ Report to report that it was up again in 2019. least coping. Many, the Trust. He will be sorely missed, but and Financial Expenditure increased on our Schools if not all of you, will luckily I know where to find him. The Statements for 2019 and Families, Colleges and Universities, have been thrown Black family’s invaluable support is not, show income very and Workplace programmes but by Covid-19 and the however, at an end, as Gordon and similar to last year less was spent on our much smaller nagging, or in some Louise’s daughter Laura has joined the and an increase Primary Care Mental Health Education cases, acute anxiety fundraising committee to help the next in charitable programme. Although we budgeted that it has brought generation of Wallers take the Trust expenditure. for and achieved an overall increase in expenditure on these core programmes, with it. We hope this newsletter cheers forward. During 2019 the charity continued you up and that you find our suggested in aggregate charitable expenditure in I am glad to announce that Julian Hay to enjoy tremendous support from coping strategies helpful (see page 6). 2019 was below budget. will be joining the board. As a dear individuals organising their own It is extraordinary to think that Charlie friend of the Black family, he will also fundraising events. Income from these In 2019 the Trust’s investment portfolio died over 22 years ago. It is also help to continue to fly their flag. He would have been up on last year were performed well and achieved a positive extraordinary to think of what has has a real interest in the benefits of it not for the exceptionally large sum return in excess of its benchmark. been achieved in that time by the exercise, nutrition and sleep on mental raised by the fantastic Pedal the Pond However, I have to report that at the Trust under the stewardship of my well-being. As you will see when you team in 2018. Our own programme time of writing the portfolio has suffered of fundraising events remained very significant losses as world markets have father and on the back of the funds read though the newsletter, this is a key popular and made its best ever fallen in response to the coronavirus raised tirelessly, and some of you may theme for my first year at the helm. feel relentlessly, by my mother. Their contribution. Donations from individuals pandemic. I am very excited by the opportunity and from universities, colleges, schools ambition was to ensure that Charlie’s The 2020 income budget was based on to take the Trust forward. My mother is and employers benefitting from our death was not in vain – an ambition reasonable and prudent assumptions stepping down at the end of this year training activities were also all up on that has been well and truly fulfilled. at the time it was prepared late last as Head of Fundraising. I know she will 2018 as were donations from charitable year. A material increase in charitable My father’s shoes have always been trusts, now the Trust’s largest source find it easier to do so if the financial expenditure was planned on the big ones to fill. None more so than as of income. Our one corporate donor future of the Trust is secure. To that end, basis that the resultant deficit would Chairman of the Trust. The challenge repeated their very generous donation she is setting up the ‘Friends of Charlie be funded from reserves which were in 2018. of taking over from Dad is made much Waller’, which I hope as many of you as increased by the surplus in 2019. In less daunting when I think about the possible will feel able to support. The Trustees cannot stress too much spite of the present very uncertain high quality of our executive team that virtually all the Trust’s income is outlook the Trustees believe the Trust is and my fellow Trustees, including my given voluntarily. However, this cannot well placed to maintain its charitable brother Phil. The Trust is exceptionally be taken for granted, especially given expenditure in 2020 at least at the well served by passionate and talented the economic disruption caused by current level. people which means it is well-placed the coronavirus. This is likely to have Richard Waller QC The audited Report and Financial to increase its impact and reach. I am a significant effect on the Trust with Statements will be approved by the determined to make that happen. fundraising events being curtailed and Trustees and filed with the Charity donors, both individual and corporate, I also want to mention Gordon Black. Friends of Charlie Waller Commission by the end of May. suffering the consequences of the Gordon is a long-standing family friend Further details will be given in the next The Friends of Charlie Waller downturn in economic activity. who joined the Trust at its inception. He scheme will be up and running newsletter but if you would like a copy has remained on the board ever since, later this year. There will be further Charitable expenditure funded please contact the Trust’s office or email never missing a single trustee meeting. information in the next edition of from the Trust’s own resources, as [email protected]. His loyalty and wise counsel, and the opposed to Health Education