Welcome to our

Volition AGM

Thursday 28 November 2024

1 - 2 PM�

St George’s Conference Centre�60 Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3DL

12.45 - Arrivals

1. Welcome from Volition Chair - Mark Law

2. Minutes of the previous AGM & Matters Arising

3. Presentation of the Audited Accounts - Joanne Austin - Finance and Governance Manager

4. Appointment of Auditors for 2024/25 - Carol Hill - Volition Treasurer

5. Election of the Board of Trustees

Resignations

Due to stand for re-election: Pam Bhupal, Arfan Hanif, Adrian Curtis

6. Update from Volition Team

• Reflections on 2023/4 - Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
• Forward Planning

7. Close of formal meeting

Agenda

Welcome from our Chair

2. Minutes, apologies & Matters Arising

3. Presentation of Independently Examined Accounts

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By Joanne Austin�Finance and Governance Manager

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4. Appointment of Auditors for 2024/25

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Carol Hill - Volition Treasurer

Income & Expenditure - 2023/24 vs 2022/23 (page 18)

Income & expenditure 2023/24

Income & expenditure 2022/23

• Additional Unrestricted funding in 2023/24 from the ICB Business Case, for enhanced Forum Central delivery & supporting core management & admin team
• Less Restricted funding than in 2022/23 - funding is often for projects that span more than one financial year with delivery and costs in subsequent years

Income - note 3

Key highlights:

• ICB Business Case grant of £302k (22/23 £146k)
• WYPOC grant of £309k received March 2023
• HSF pass-through funding for grants £148k in 22/23
• CC funding post & grants £125k in 22/23
• MHT Grants funding of £75k in 22/23

Expenditure - 2023/24: notes 4 to 10

• Total expenditure of £1,082k
• Staffing plus freelance / consultants are 70% of our total costs - headcount of 22 and FTEs of 16 in 23/24
• Premises & Running costs combined are 9% of our total costs
• LOPF partner payment is its share of the Forum Contract income

Balance Sheet (page 19)

• Most of our assets are held in the form of cash
• Other assets include invoices for funding issued but paid after the year end less amounts due to creditors eg HMCE (VAT)
• Our Free Reserves are £250k - our Reserve Policy (p12) sets out why we hold reserves and what our lower and upper limit should be (£200k - £311k)
• Balances for each of our Restricted Funds are set out in Note 16

5. Election of Volition board members�

Resignations and thanks to resigning board members:

• Through the year: Olli, Jenny, Rob and Nicky
• Carol Hill��

Trustees due to stand down but standing for re-election

Pam Bhupal, James Hill, Zoe Bawn

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By Pip, Director of Volition

Update from Volition Team

Our Vision

Healthier, happier lives for people in all our diverse Leeds communities.�

Our Mission

To create a sustainable third sector contributing to person-centred wellbeing across the health and care system.

Our Strategic Goals

• Showcase and advocate for our sector, focussing on health inequalities and taking action for positive system change.
• Working in collaboration and partnership we will connect and Influence, ensuring we amplify the voices of people and communities in Leeds as raised through our members.
• Develop and strengthen third sector representation across key forums and strategic boards.
• Transform and innovate through new and existing partnerships in order to shape the future of health and care.
• Develop and support our team.
• Ensure financial sustainability.

Our Key Principles

• Communicate effectively.
• Act openly, honestly and with integrity.
• Work as a team that values individual differences
• Care about the people we work with and build trust-based relationships.
• Be bold and ambitious.
• Be accountable to our members.

Our Values

• Striving for Inclusion and Diversity
• Kindness
• Compassion
• Bravery, Integrity and Honesty
• Collaboration and Partnership
• Prioritising what is real, current, and matters to People

1 Build on and Harness the Power of Community:

• Identify resources to support delivery of health and care plans by Forum Central and the third sector
• Showcase/advocate for our sector. We will especially focus on small organisations, least heard voices and inclusion and taking action to effect positive system change.
• Focus on health inequalities
• Take calculated risks to effect system change

2. Connection and Influence

• Working in collaboration/partnership we will connect and Influence ensuring we amplify the voices of people and communities in Leeds as raised through our members
• Create networking and partnership opportunities, convening events and meetings across health and care and within our specialist networks
• Developing and strengthen effective third sector representation and leadership across key forums and strategic boards

3. Transform and Innovate

• Engage in, influence and develop new ways of working in partnership with people from our diverse communities, our statutory and our infrastructure partners
• Shaping the future of health and social care support and services, through key programmes of work and transformation

4. We will put wellbeing of of team to the fore and develop and support our team

5. We will ensure organisational financial sustainability

Reporting on our Strategic Objectives (set in 2022)

Delivery against our objectives

1. Build on and Harness the Power of Community:

• Investing in frontline organisations - small, diverse and those working with most marginalised communities
• Workforce
• Representation
• Sector impact: State of Sector and Cost Pressures surveys
• Health Inequalities

2. Connection and Influence

Collaboration with LOPF and VAL to amplify voices of people and communities in Leeds raised thro’ our members

Developed strong, effective third sector representation and leadership across key forums and strategic boards

3. Transform and Innovate

• Mindwell
• LD Employment
• MH Transformation grants to small, emerging and community provision; Developing Provider Alliance
• Third Sector Infrastructure Review with LOPF and Voluntary Action Leeds
• Shaping the future of health and social care support and services, through strategic work and transformation inc Community Collaborative; Leeds Health and Care Hub with DH&SC and WY Power of Communities

4. We will put wellbeing of of team to the fore and develop and support our team

• Commitment to specialisms; shift in work and team structure including developing Theory of Change

5. We will ensure organisational financial sustainability

• Additional funding inc Power of Communities, Research funding and Sexual Health alongside cuts
• Strategic rebudget, office move and reductions in hours

Adapting to challenges

Restructuring our work, focus, priorities

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• Power of Communities
• Doing Good Leeds & Forum Central Website
• State of the Sector - with Nifty and My Cake
• Third Sector Infrastructure Review
• Sexual Health
• Community Champions
• WY Carers work
• Leeds Health & Care System at fore of Prevention and Transformation
• Community power - supporting work in neighbourhoods

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Looking ahead

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