Annual review 2014Making the Difference

for Local Sick Children

INCORPORATING THE ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS

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Welcome to the 2014 annual review of The ARCHIE Foundation. It has been a milestone year and we are currently fundraising for projects in excess of £6million with appeals in the Highlands, Islands and Western Isles; Grampian and the Northern Isles and Tayside, Angus and the North of Fife, making the difference for over 175,000 local children and their families.

These are exciting days for the charity. Thanks to the support of our media partners – The Inverness Courier, the Press & Journal and the Courier in Dundee, the profile of the charity is high and people of all financial circumstances are doing what they can to help. All money raised locally is spent locally, so

whatever you have given or plan to give will be used to fund projects you can see, making a difference for sick children and their families local to you.

For all this support I would like to thank each and every one of you very much indeed. I also thank the wonderful team of ARCHIE staff and volunteers, our Board of Trustees and our Patrons, without whose hard work and dedication we would not be where we are today.

I hope you enjoy reading about ARCHIE in 2014 and that you continue to support us throughout 2015 and beyond in the knowledge that you are making a real difference.

JOE MACKIE, Chairman

Chairman’s Welcome

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Thank you for reading our annual review, I hope you enjoy finding out more about our work and the incredible fundraising efforts undertaken by so many people to allow that to happen.

I continue to be amazed by the generosity of our many donors and I would like to express my most sincere thanks to each and every one. Your donations of money, time, skills and/or services make such a tremendous difference to the lives of so many sick children; and I know these children and their families are incredibly grateful to you for your kind support.

Thanks to this support in 2014 we were able to impact on the healthcare of more children than ever before. Our projects, from the ARCHIE Nurse programme delivering direct, one-

to-one care through to our hospital development programmes, like the creation of the Highland Children’s Unit, are transforming care for local children.

2014 was, by any standards, an exceptional year for The ARCHIE Foundation. We enjoyed a record level of income with total funds raised increasing by 77% on the previous year to £1.87m.

At the same time we continued to see a drive for efficiency and, despite the many challenges involved in delivering services and fundraising activities across the huge area of the North of Scotland and the islands, we further reduced our operating costs as a percentage of income in 2014.

Our entire team, which now includes offices in Aberdeen, Inverness and

Dundee as well as two ARCHIE cafés and, of course, a small army of volunteers, have worked harder and pushed further than could possibly be imagined. They have delivered some incredible results and I am very proud to present this annual review of that work to you now.

Thank you again for your support. I hope this review will inspire you to join us and make your own very real difference to local children when they need us all the most.

DAVID CUNNINGHAM, Chief Executive

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highLANDSThe Highlands reached new heights in 2014. After successfully achieving its initial target of raising £1million to refurbish the children’s ward at Raigmore hospital, NHS Highland offered children’s services the alternative of relocating to stand-alone ward 11, positioned beside the main hospital tower block. With the support of The ARCHIE Foundation to raise a further £1million exciting plans were made to create a ‘Highland Children’s Unit’ with its own entrance and identity. This new unit will include a new children’s ward, high dependency unit, triage area, play facilities, education, a family room and improved services such as telemedicine. This brings together most of the children’s services

in phases 1 & 2, with phase 3 Outpatients

planned to follow in 2016, funds permitting.

Under the leadership of original appeal

Chairman David Sutherland and Jackie

Cuddy of the Eastgate Centre, and with the

continued support of the Inverness Courier,

the appeal reached £1.5million by the end

of 2014 and building work began in earnest

on the new unit, with the first children due

to occupy it by March 2016.

The new Highland Children’s unit will

exceed all our original expectations

and make a great difference for sick

children of the Highland region for

years to come.

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Royal Aberdeen

January 25th 2014 was the 10th anniversary of

the opening of Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital

and in those 10 years over 1million children and

their families have passed through its doors. The

healthcare they receive is world-class but the building

now needs some TLC itself.

The ‘High 10 for ARCHIE’ w10th anniversary appeal

was launched in 2013 to raise the funds to carry out

10 projects which represent the 10 steps of a child

through the hospital as identified through research

with children, parents and families.

With the full media support of the Press & Journal

the profile of the charity was elevated and the public

was reminded of the excellent work which the charity

does.

Presentations to key corporate donors and trusts resulted in a number of major pledges of support, including the largest ever corporate donation, from the staff of Wood Group who pledged to raise “at least £200k” towards Step 1 – ‘The Welcome’ and Step 9 - ‘Fresh Air’.

2015 will see a concentration on fundraising for the children’s rooms and ward spaces, the parent’s accommodation, play spaces, art and the increasingly important care in the community provided by the Child Development Teams.

Work on all projects will be carried out during 2015 and 2016, at the end of which we will have a truly world-class children’s hospital making a huge difference for local sick children from across the North East and the Northern Isles.

To make Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital world–class for today’s and tomorrow’s sick children.

Children’s Hospital

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Archie Events

The stand-out event of 2014 was undoubtedly Wild Dolphins, a public art trail round the city of Aberdeen over 10 weeks in the summer followed by a stunningly successful auction of the 53 dolphins which raised £531,000 for The ARCHIE Foundation, partner charity Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) and event originators Wild in Art.

Life sized dolphin statues were sponsored by local organisations, beautifully and imaginatively painted by commissioned artists and displayed around the city for 10 weeks. Visitors came from miles around and residents visited areas of the city some had often not seen for many years, sometimes never before!

Supported by The Evening Express the dolphin trail was followed by young and old alike, ‘collecting’ them on their mobile device app and taking ‘Dolphies’ from every conceivable angle! In the press, on-line, on television and radio, the Dolphins were everywhere and today dolphins can be seen in their new homes all around the area.

As a result of all this hard work a great deal of money was raised toward the ‘High 10’ appeal and The ARCHIE Foundation was seen to be once again leading the way with fundraising initiatives to make a difference for our local sick children.

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Archie Cafes

It has been scientifically demonstrated that the first three years of a child’s life are its most formative and a presentation by Dr Suzanne Zeedyk at the ARCHIE annual conference inspired a new way for the charity to make a difference to the health and well-being of children, helping to reduce the need for medical intervention during their lives.

The first ARCHIE Café was opened in the Hilton area of Inverness, within the local community centre, and with huge support from catering experts Cobbs. The existing café area was transformed into an ARCHIE branded family friendly space, with a large, safe soft-play area, homely new décor, and a menu of wholesome food and drinks at affordable prices.

With the café seen as a safe and relaxing place for parents with young children, the ARCHIE brand is now being adapted to gently introduce healthcare messages, eg, teeth cleaning, breast feeding, regular health checks etc., in a friendly and non-threatening environment.

The cafes are fundraisers for the ARCHIE Foundation whilst also encouraging fundraising activities amongst its customers.

A second café was opened in a spare unit in the Eastgate Shopping Centre and the charity has been approached by HighLife Highlands to consider other locations. The ARCHIE team is now evaluating opportunities in other areas.

The ARCHIE Foundation was the official charity of the 2014 Scottish Open in July, raising a total of £80,000 for the charity and in the process adding greatly to the value of ‘Golfin’ Dolphin’ which eventually sold at auction for £53,000!

Local golf stars Paul Lawrie and Ritchie Ramsey visited the hospital to announce the sponsorship, causing great excitement and lots of fun!

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An exciting new era for the charity began in January 2014 when an agreement was signed with NHS Tayside for The ARCHIE Foundation to become the official charity of Tayside Children’s Hospital (TCH), based on the Ninewells site, Dundee.

Following an internal bidding process the first project to be selected for support is the building of a new twin theatre paediatric operating suite, close to the rest of the Children’s Hospital, by fundraising for £2million over 3 years.

The appeal was launched on 6th November 2014 with full media support from The Courier newspaper, complete with a ringing endorsement of the work of The ARCHIE Foundation from no less than the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and with great enthusiasm and support from the staff of Ninewells and NHS Tayside.

The current single paediatric operating theatre and Ward 30, Children’s Surgical, are both some distance from the rest of TCH. A major benefit of the new suite, apart from its doubled operating capacity and an ARCHIE style child and family friendly environment, will be to bring these children’s facilities closer together, giving Tayside Children’s Hospital a much stronger identity of its own.

An ARCHIE office has been opened and a fundraising team recruited ready for a very busy 2015 of fundraising activities as the appeal gets into its stride, there are some very exciting plans in the pipeline...

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At the heart of every successful organisation are its people, and The ARCHIE Foundation has at its core a wonderful team of hard-working, dedicated staff and volunteers raising funds and administering the running of the charity.

Supporting and guiding them are the Trustees, bringing experience and expertise to the governance of the charity, and our Patrons, bringing their invaluable external viewpoints, their names and their contacts to support the charity at all levels.

However, unknown to many people are the ARCHIE funded people working in and around the hospital, making a great difference in their own specialist fields. There are:

Archie People

The ARCHIE people ARE the charity, they make us what we are and enable us to do what we do. They make the difference.

THE ARCHIE SPECIALIST PAEDIATRIC PAIN NURSE, whose skills help to manage the pain for children and teach their parents how to help, as

well as passing on that specialist knowledge to colleagues to multiply the benefits this brings.

THE ARCHIE FUNDED COORDINATOR for the Grampian Child Bereavement Network (GCBN) plays a vital role in the administration of

this otherwise entirely volunteer run organisation which makes a huge difference for children and their families who have suffered bereavement.

THE ARCHIE FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER runs the 20 bedroom ARCHIE parents accommodation block and provides support for families staying there.

The many nurses and other medical staff for whom ARCHIE has funded ADVANCED TRAINING to increase their skills and

benefit the sick children.

THE ARCHIE PLAY LEADER provides additional valuable resource for the hospital play team.

ARCHIE also funds an art therapist, a magician, a face painter and other OCCASIONAL SPECIALISTS to bring a smile to the children’s

faces and to help to make their visit to hospital as good as it can be.THE ARCHIE PHD RESEARCH

STUDENT is working on solutions to child respiratory disease.

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The big projects which the charity undertakes, such as the Highland Children’s Unit, naturally make the headlines as there is a lot of activity to raise a lot of money.

However, almost unknown to the outside world is that the majority of grants made by The ARCHIE Foundation come under the heading of ‘small grants’, under £500. Whilst they can be small in size the difference they make is often disproportionably great. There are too many individual examples to list but they include:

A child is helicoptered into hospital as an emergency. Thankfully it turns out not to be serious but parents and child have only the possessions they stand in and have to get back home. A nurse applies to ARCHIE for a small grant for some warm baby clothes and a train ticket safely home

A child has been in hospital seriously ill for a long time and parents are running out of everything. The family support worker applies to ARCHIE for small grants to help with essentials

A child has to be transferred to another hospital for specialist medical care. NHS pays for the child and a parent to travel and stay, but this can split families. Medical staff or support workers apply to ARCHIE for a grant to let the other parent and siblings go and stay near the sick child

I-pads, art materials, games, toys, trips, small equipment and hundreds of other ‘small grants’ have been made by The ARCHIE Foundation, to help to make a difference for children who require medical care in hospital and in the community in every geographical area in which we operate.

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HOW WE RAISED DONATIONS IN 2014

INCOME FROM DONATIONS £1,792,986

INCOME FROM TRADING £75,607

INCOME FROM INTEREST £5,184

HOW WE SPENT DONATIONS IN 2014

CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES £1,405,901

COSTS OF GENERATING FUNDS £388,008

COST OF TRADING £66,068

GOVERNANCE COSTS £13,800

2014 accounts

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THE ARCHIE FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Chris Driver, John Findlay, Alasdair Gardener, Jenny Gow, Laura Gray, Joe Mackie (Chairman),

Kevin McCormick, Sue Swift, Gail Thomson and Professor George Youngson CBE

2014 2013

INCOME

DONATIONS & GIFTS 1,792,986 1,031,093

TRADING 75,607 9,536

INVESTMENT INCOME 5,184 16,461

1,873,777 1,057,090

EXPENDITURE

CHARITABLE SPEND* 1,405,901 696,017

OTHER COSTS 388,008 337,186

TRADING 66,068 15,887

GOVERNANCE COSTS 13,800 8,000

1,873,777 1,057,090

OPENING FUND BALANCES

678,924 627,870

CLOSING FUND* BALANCES

1,494,985 678,924

* Total funds expended or committed to charitable projects. Audited accounts available at www.archiefoundation.org.uk

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THE ARCHIE FOUNDATION PATRONS Mark Beaumont, Dr Fiona Kennedy OBE DL, Sir Moir Lockhead OBE, Stewart Milne CBE,

Mark AP Patterson, Patricia Straughen, David Sutherland CBE and Garreth Wood

The ARCHIE Foundation is involved with the healthcare of over 175,000 children in the Highlands and Islands, Grampian and the Northern Isles, Tayside, Angus and North Fife.

We cannot do this without your support, but you do not need to be a member of medical staff to change the life of a critically ill local child, you can make a difference now.

All money raised locally is spent locally where it is raised so that you know your donation will help to make a difference for sick children close to you.

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CHARITABLE STATUS: THE ARCHIE FOUNDATION IS A CHARITY REGISTERED IN SCOTLAND NUMBER SC039521

whatever you do, do something!

There are many ways you can fundraise, from a car boot sale or a coffee morning to a great outdoor adventure on your own or in a team. Visit our website: archiefoundation.org.uk and click on ‘fundraise’ for lots of ideas and to access all the help you need from the ARCHIE fundraising team.

FUNDRAISEA one-off donation, small or large, a regular standing order, a can to collect your loose change at home or in the office, there are many ways you can help.

DONATEThe value of your contribution can be increased by 25% if you are a UK tax payer and Gift Aid your donation. Details are available through our website or from any ARCHIE office.

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Our fundraising team would be very pleased to talk to you or your solicitor about how you can help local sick children in the years ahead.

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2014 has been an exceptional year for the charity which has seen our donations increase dramatically, reflecting major appeal activity in each of our operating areas. 2015 will undoubtedly be a tougher year for all charities, but we will continue

to maximise all our fundraising

opportunities and look for new and

innovative ways to make a difference

for all our local sick children and

their families.

Activities already under way include:

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Completing our current appeal for the Highland Children’s Unit phases 1 and 2, ready for children to move into the new unit

in Spring 2016

Developing our support in the community

Supporting child mental health

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Developing our ‘Friends Group’ network

in all our areas

Completing our ‘High 10 for ARCHIE’

appeal in Royal Aberdeen Children’s hospital and

undertaking all the refurbishment work

during 2016 and 2017

Developing our ‘ARCHIE in Africa Day’ initiative, where local

children who we support 365 days a year can support

sick children in Uganda

Developing our ‘Early Years’ initiatives

with Dr Suzanne Zeedyk

Developing our network of ARCHIE cafes

Developing our family support services

Developing our ARCHIEpaedia

knowledge database

Continuing a high level of support for local

sick children and their families, whether in

hospital or in the community

Making the Differencefor Local Sick Children

Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital Aberdeen AB25 2ZG

Tel. 01224 559 559email: info@archiefoundation.org.uk

www.archiefoundation.org.uk

A charity registered in Scotland Number SC039521A company limited by guarantee. Registered in Scotland (registered number SC340297)

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