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BIGHEARTS.ORG.UK
BIG HEARTS COMMUNITY TRUST
ANNUAL UPDATE
NOVEMBER 2017
Chairman's Update 2017 ANNUAL UPDATE
This year we have seen our Kinship Care Programme help even more
families across a range of circumstances, including in times of real crisis
THE
through our Emergency Essentials Grants initiative.
Our support for those suffering from or at risk of Dementia also
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continues to thrive and our new additional programme, which sets out
to engage and support those from a variety of cultures and backgrounds
from across our community, has started in a positive fashion and we look
forward to this growing in 2018 and beyond. .
The constant for Big Hearts, is the influence of our people. We have a
fantastic team of staff who are committed to helping those most in need
and what is also clear, is the incredible level of goodwill and support we HEARTS
WAY
receive from our network of Big Hearts Supporters and this we believe,
puts us in a position of real strength as we continue to grow.
Big Hearts Supporters and volunteers have helped us extend our
reach beyond what is often possible for a charity of our size and this is PeoPle with
something everyone associated with Heart of Midlothian and Big Hearts
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can be really proud of. Not only is this initiative breaking ground in
Scottish Football, the numbers involved are of the highest order within Doing
Welcome the charity sector. Close to 3,000 hours of volunteering delivered this
year so far which equates to 125 full days of support!
Big things
together
to our We are now at a point of change for Big Hearts in presenting this year’s
update. Now three years into our journey to become a charity that Find out how our strategy will develop in 2018 on pages 14 & 15
Annual Update supports families in need, we are in a position where we will use our
model to support even more people who need our help. More of that
Our Main Programmes
for 2017
follows in this document, later on.
Earlier this year we conducted an independent evaluation into our work. FootBall MeMories • Kinship Care prograMMe
Reassuringly, this confirmed to us that our model of social engagement Big hearts supporters • Bringing Cultures together
is one of our greatest strengths. Now our challenge is to widen our
support to even more families who need our help.
The new facilities at Tynecastle Park will, of course, add to what Big
Hearts can deliver and it is a huge sign of commitment from the Football Review of The Trust is reliant on income from donations and activities,
the income from which was £151,990 (2016: £332,277) in the
Club that we will have our own designated space in the new stand
development. It is something we are all very excited about. We hope you Financial year ended 31 March 2017.
The decrease in income was due principally to major donations
Update from
enjoy reading this update and let me finish by saying ‘thank you’
to everyone who helps us make a Position in the prior year.
Expenditure during the year amounted to:
Billy Watson difference: we are very grateful.
2016-17 £180,354 (2016: £84,015).
02 2017 BIG HEARTS ANNUAL UPDATE Supporting Families in Need 03
At the heart of our community
Through our Big
Main partnerships in 2017
Hearts Supporter
Movement and 17 Hearts Fans helping facilitate
our connections Football Big Hearts' Football Memories
with Heart of MeMories sessions for people over 65 years old
Midlothian,
Big Hearts is in a
unique position at
the centre of our 6 Big Hearts Supporters completing over 300
local community, DIY jobs for elderly and disabled people
engaging with
families, football
supporters and
other charities 3 Big Hearts Volunteers collectively
to help make giving over 200 hours of their time to
a positive
difference.
help families settle in their new homes
2,700+ 63% of 2 Big Hearts Supporters volunteering once a
week in the charity shop on Dalry road
hours Big Hearts
of Big Hearts supporters
volunteering expressed an 16 Big Hearts Supporters donated their
Big Hearts Supporters completed
to date
interest in
volunteering
time at our various events, including Big
Hearts' family days and Hearts' games
Our Volunteering programme offers a
variety of opportunities to our community
of 1,700 registered Big Hearts Supporters, charities. To date, over 150 Big Hearts 10 Big Hearts Befrienders offering mentoring
allowing them to use their time and Supporters are currently volunteering
to vulnerable young people, through 200
expertise through Big Hearts or partner within our community.
hours of volunteering
This year Big Hearts is delighted to have achieved the Investing 2 Big Hearts Volunteers offering
in Volunteer Awards, the UK quality standard for good practice
in volunteer management. This comes to recognise our
weekly companionship to elderly
strong commitment to volunteers and the high quality of our individuals in their community
Volunteering Programme.
04 2017 BIG HEARTS ANNUAL UPDATE At the heart of our community 05
At the heart of our community Community events
"When I saw the kids walking
on the pitch, I felt so proud
2nd Big
and could not hold back my
tears. Thank you Big Hearts
for this fantastic day!"
Hearts Day
One year after launching Big Hearts Supporters, we celebrated our second Big Hearts
Day during Hearts vs I.C.T at Tynecastle. In addition to various activities for the This year, Big Hearts teamed up with Save the Children Scotland to take part in
whole family, we were delighted to welcome even more Hearts fans as Big Hearts the Edinburgh Marathon Festival. A group of 25 Big Hearts Supporters took on the
Supporters. Young people from across our kinship care programme were also under challenge and raised an outstanding £7,856 for the two charities, both official
the spotlight with a drum performance on the pitch! partners of Heart of Midlothian Football Club. A running group trained regularly at
Tynecastle, and has now become a core team of supporters which will help develop
further participation at fundraising events in 2018.
Free match
We saw an increasing
Requests for donations
amount of requests
sent to Big Hearts or "I always wanted to do something
Heart of Midlothian by
other charities in the
community. The Big
tickets
Big Hearts, through the Club and the
positive for the community.
Fundraising with Big Hearts
Hearts team is in charge generosity of Hearts season ticket was the ideal opportunity, really
to process these requests
and allocate Hearts
holders, are delighted to offer free enjoyable too!"
Hearts match tickets to families
items such as signed who otherwise would not be able to
strips or balls. Our work
to support fundraising
attend. So far in 2017, we estimated "There's a really great
that over 700 free tickets to Hearts atmosphere in the running group,
initiatives held in the home games were provided by Big
local community came to Hearts to those families, identified
we are all Hearts fans, and I Following the success of the Edinburgh Marathon Festival,
the delivery of £11,000 through our network of partners in get to improve my fitness as a we were thrilled to see families and supporters getting
worth of items, within the involved in the 2017 Edinburgh KILTWALK, enjoying a
the community. bonus!" great day out in aid of Big Hearts.
first year only.
06 2017 BIG HEARTS ANNUAL UPDATE At the heart of our community 07
People with B ig H e a r t s d o in g
big t h in g s t o g e t h e r ’
a full week,
B ox Ca res project over s. This
te nd ed our M us ic
ditional support need
In 2017, w e ex
children w ith ad
edback from th
e Big Hearts Day
ic tuition to 8 a fantastic fe lebr at ed the second
providing mus rece ived Big Hea rts ce le, with various
Music Box Ca res
s’ ga me at Tynecast ch
new format of durin g a H eart y was a pre-mat
es involved. al l. H ighlight of the da kinship
kids and famili activities for
15 youn g pe ople across ou r
performance fr
om 16,000
w ho played the drums for the
e,
care programm
s fans in at tendance!
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rts
year the Big Hea
For the second burg h Vo lunteer
During the su at te nd ed the Edin
mmer, Big Hea te am tendees
young people rts enabled 1
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to enjoy Heart Fa about
at Tynecastle s’ holiday cour jo ye d ch at tin g with our staff
. A generous do ses en our
initiatives and
Kickback and
a partnership
nation from Ja
mbos our community po rtun ities,
Big Hearts to with DPS Group ci tin g vo lunt eering op
ex nders
ensure free pl
aces and prov
allowed
cl ud in g ou r Bi g Hearts Befrie
football kits fo ide full in
r the kids.
programme.
Big Hearts Care & Repair team of volunteers were awarded the
Inspiring Volunteer Award from the Lord Provost of the City of The SPFL Tru
st “Trusted T
Edinburgh. This year, 6 Big Hearts Care & Repair volunteers are Hearts at Ty
necastle on
rophy Tour”
visited Big
providing practical and technical support to disabled and inaugural to th e first stop o
ur, shining a f their
elderly people from across Edinburgh, with over 300 tasks programmes
across Scott
light on the
community
completed to date! charity partn ish football cl
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was delighte f Midlothian al
d to share th , B ig Hearts
power of foo e ir achievemen
tball to bette ts using the
r support fam
ilies in need
.
As a new way Big Hearts took part in the
to raise funds, 2017 Edinburgh KILTWALK,
launched a ne Big Hearts
w partnership
w with 26 children and adults
Solicitors, join ith McClure
ing their succ collectively completing 150
for Charity’. Th essful ‘Free W
e initiative he ills miles to raise Big Hearts‘ profile
plan for their lps supporters
future with th at this popular event! This
support Big H e opportunity year, the KILTWALK boosted
ottish earts’ work in to Big Hearts ‘F
shortlisted at the 2017 Sc the communit donations, helping us make ootball Mem
pporters was ns y! ories’ Group
Big Hearts Su , this unique fa Hampden Pa had a fantast
! Since launching in 2016 s to supp ort even a bigger difference in our enjoyed a St
rk where we
visited the S ic day out at
Charity Awards tive has allowed Big Heart ks to over community. adium Tour.
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HELPING THOSE IN NEED Kinship Care programme
This year, Big Hearts increased
Big Hearts' Kinship Care programme,
the number of people supported
delivered with our partner Mentor
across our existing programmes
Scotland, strengthened in 2017.
and developed new initiatives to
We increased the range of support
improve the lives of the families
in place since 2015 and developed
we support.
two new major projects: Big Hearts
Befrienders and the Emergency
Essentials Fund, providing additional
help to the most vulnerable kinship
young people and families.
Promoting THE wellbeing 120+ 50+ 65+ 40+
of OLDER PEOPLE after places at guests at emergency
Our Football Memories project continues
to bring together older people facing school holiday our first essentials
isolation or living with dementia. In club football family grants
2017, we moved our monthly sessions sessions courses barbecue delivered
to the popular Hearts Museum at
Tynecastle Park, providing a fantastic
setting to recall fond memories from We've created the
the past. Emergency Essentials
Fund for kinship care
families who face challenging
circumstances. This year,
£20,000 of grants were
delivered by our partner Buttle
"In the football UK, helping families replace
memories group, essential households items such
the volunteers have A team of as beds or cookers.
the same amount of 17 fantastic An average of
enjoyment, and laughs volunteers 40 participants In October, Big Hearts welcomed
as those taking part" over 300 guests at our 3rd
Kinship Family Day, once again
the largest gathering of kinship
care in Scotland.
Big Hearts is looking into helping further elderly people
through new initiatives. We recently hosted a series of focus groups to
identify needs in the community, with the aim to establish new areas of
support in the next months.
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HELPING THOSE IN NEED Bringing cultures
together
In 2017, Big Hearts established a
brand new area of focus, designed to
Big Hearts Befrienders provide meaningful support to those
most vulnerable. We rolled out our
We launched Big Hearts Befrienders first initiative, the T.E.A.M project,
to offer informal support to young to support local young people from
people identified as vulnerable. The multi-cultural backgrounds or families
project, run in partnership with the recently arrived in Edinburgh. Big
Broomhouse Centre, involves Big Hearts launched a major partnership T.E.A.M for Together
Hearts Volunteers who are trained to with the charity Multi-Cultural Family Equality Achieves More,
become trusted mentors. So far, Big Base, who bring their expertise aims to encourage social engagement
Hearts Befrienders benefit mainly in reaching out to various local of local young people aged 10 to 13
children across our Kinship Care communities and in addressing social years old. Sport and craft activities
programme. isolation and cultural challenges. are held on Thursday afternoons at
Tynecastle Park, with a free meal once
10 trained
a month enjoyed by the whole family.
15
young people
Befrienders "A very rewarding involved to date in Big Hearts’
volunteers to date volunteering experience!" T.E.A.M project
"It’s a lovely group of kids.
Largest summer They learned to get to
know each other and are
to date now all playing together."
This year was our busiest summer
helping vulnerable families, with over
110 families involved across our
programmes. Between July and August,
we offered 39 days of free activities
for young people and adults coming Multi-Cultural Family Base, Big Hearts’
from a vast range of backgrounds. lead partner for the T.E.A.M project
is working closely with local primary
schools across Edinburgh to identify
children that could benefit from
Football coaching Music Tuition Multi-cultural Day Various holiday Football
attending the group.
courses for for 8 children at Tynecastle activities for Memories trip to
20 kids, including with additional with over 30 Kinship Care Hampden with 40
Syrian refugees support needs 60 attendees Families participants
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CONTINUING TO GROW...
OUR STRATEGIC DIRECTION
MAIN FOCUS:
RedUCINg SOCIAl ISOlAtION
Our aim for 2018 Which WiLL MEAN WORKiNG TO:
and beyond is to
help even more Engage in Men's Help kinship Support families
families in need. health initiatives care families who are living
We’ll continue to grow our existing including those from accross in poverty
programmes, while introducing with a focus on Edinburgh
brand new areas of focus for Big
Hearts and we’ll always look at
mental health
new innovative ways of working.
Since the end of the financial year Build a community Support older
we've worked to create a model
where all cultures people, providing
with which we can objectively
identify need. We have analysed and backgrounds engaging
publicly available data, engaged thrive together opportunities
directly with existing service users
and consulted with both local
and national stakeholders and
partners. This has allowed us to
identify the key areas that we will
focus on during the period 2018- In a new base at Tynecastle Park
2021.
Big Hearts Supporters will
continue to play a significant
part in all that we do. This unique
level of support, which continues
to deliver fantastic results for
Big Hearts and all the charities
we work closely with, is now a
fundamental part of our work.
The development of the brand new facilities Our plans are likely to include a drop in area
Big Hearts will reveal more detail at Tynecastle Park will for the first time see for Big Hearts Supporters and the creation
on our plans in early 2018. Big Hearts have a permanent base. This of community hub which we hope will be
base will add to what we can deliver and we something for all those who live in and around
envisage a space for which all our Supporters Tynecastle.
can call their own.
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supporting families in need
Big Hearts Community Trust would like to thank everyone who
helped us make 2017 a record breaking year, with even more
initiatives involving Big Hearts Supporters, new partnerships with
local organisations, charities and businesses, as well as a growing
community of volunteers, all helping us make a positive difference for
the most vulnerable. Thank you for your support. We look forward to
achieving even more with you in 2018!
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