Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 5

Fundraising costs low: +3

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 16

THE GRACE EYRE FOUNDATION

The charity works with and supports 650 people with learning disabilities and/or autism. The main activities are 1 - Choices supported living schemes & community support, 2 - housing, 3 - shared lives scheme and 4 - Active Lives, day time opportunities such as supported employment, travel buddy scheme, friendship groups, education, training , creative arts and sports and leisure.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£10,575	£10,509	£66	£129	£3,618	£3,592	4.1	287	35
31/03/22	£9,084	£8,827	£256	£90	£3,552	£3,475	4.7	262	30
31/03/21	£9,596	£9,013	£583	£119	£3,296	£3,109	4.1	263	19
31/03/20	£10,252	£9,155	£1,097	£39	£2,712	£2,523	3.3	317	45
31/03/19	£8,854	£8,768	£86	£191	£1,577	£1,398	1.9	302	68
31/03/18	£7,684	£7,963	£-280	£610	£1,530	£1,334	2	139	0
31/03/17	£5,794	£5,873	£-79	£450	£1,809	£1,553	3.2	110	0
31/03/16	£5,913	£5,984	£-71	£358	£1,888	£1,664	3.3	112	0
31/03/15	£5,210	£5,208	£2	£137	£1,959	£1,739	4	111	0
31/03/14	£5,021	£5,015	£6	£130	£1,957	£1,839	4.4	106	0
31/03/13	£3,930	£3,883	£47	£130	£1,952	£1,804	5.6	96	0
31/03/12	£2,393	£2,395	£-2	£97	£1,920	£1,633	8.2	74	0
31/03/11	£2,296	£1,922	£375	£46	£1,922	£1,653	10.3	82	0
31/03/10	£1,694	£1,731	£-36	£45	£1,782	£1,513	10.5	82	0
31/03/09	£1,539	£1,520	£20	£103	£1,819	£1,550	12.2	49	0
31/03/08	£1,474	£1,430	£44	£79	£1,652	£1,383	11.6	49	0
31/03/07	£1,432	£1,370	£63	£84	£1,609	£1,340	11.7	46	0
31/03/06	£1,378	£1,215	£163	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£1,133	£1,162	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£1,102	£1,014	£88	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 20%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 4.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6

Asset Split ?

Established: 31 years

www.grace-eyre.org

enquiries@grace-eyre.org

01273201900

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Other education services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

287 employees
35 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Grace Eyre Friendship Group
£6,439	11/06/2021	Grace Eyre provides a diverse range of services and activities for people with a learning disability and/or autism. Their Friendship Group provides a safe and encouraging environment for ....more Grace Eyre provides a diverse range of services and activities for people with a learning disability and/or autism. Their Friendship Group provides a safe and encouraging environment for beneficiaries to develop skills and confidence to enable them to cope with and thrive in social situations and creates a platform to nurture and maintain meaningful long-lasting friendships.The funding request is to enable Grace Eyre to expand the Friendship Group to provide an online service in response to growing demand and changing needs of people with a learning disability and/or autism their families and communities for both now and in the future.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£41,145	23/07/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Grace Eyre Foundation
£49,700	20/03/2019	‘Sharing Our Voices’ using personal and public stories to explore the history of learning disability
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Grace Eyre Foundation
£7,430	19/11/2018	We will spend the money on delivering 11 different sports for at least 300 people with learning disabilities.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£2,500	23/05/2018	‘Grace Eyre’s Open Studio – creating, showing, and selling art and making friends in the community’
National Lottery Community Fund - ‘Grace Eyre’s Art Studio – creating, showing, and selling art
£9,984	14/03/2018 12	The organisation will establish a new creative studio, shop and exhibition space to be used as a place of employment for people with learning disabilities. They will be given the opportunity to ....more The organisation will establish a new creative studio, shop and exhibition space to be used as a place of employment for people with learning disabilities. They will be given the opportunity to practise their customer service, sell art work created by their peers and meet new people within the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Travel Buddy Brighton & Hove
£363,982	06/09/2017 60	This group will develop their project which aims to improve the confidence and skills of people with learning disabilities in order to live more independent fulfilling lives through a mixture of ....more This group will develop their project which aims to improve the confidence and skills of people with learning disabilities in order to live more independent fulfilling lives through a mixture of support and learning. The project will support people with learning disabilities to learn how to travel independently. Secondly, to help reduce isolation and improve community interaction, training sessions will authentically recreate a classroom-based bus experience, to act out typical scenarios.
Sport England - Sports for All in Sussex 2
£300,000	21/05/2014	Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Sports for All in Sussex 2'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Sports for All in Sussex 2'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Sport England - Sports for All in Sussex
£318,953	24/01/2013	Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Sports for All in Sussex'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Sports for All in Sussex'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
National Lottery Community Fund - Travel Buddy
£162,092	20/11/2012 36	This continuing project aims to enable people with learning difficulties to improve their skills for travelling independently to increase their social and employment opportunities. The trainee is ....more This continuing project aims to enable people with learning difficulties to improve their skills for travelling independently to increase their social and employment opportunities. The trainee is then matched to a volunteer travel buddy who will accompany them on all journeys at first, and they will devise a plan of action. 'Safe Havens' will be established, whereby a service user who feels threatened can go to participating businesses and show a contact card of a family member or carer to be contacted.
National Lottery Community Fund - Grace Eyre Community Theatre
£10,000	17/02/2011 12	This charity in Brighton and Hove will use funding to refurbish their theatre for the benefit of service users with disabilities and the wider community. This will enable people with disabilities to ....more This charity in Brighton and Hove will use funding to refurbish their theatre for the benefit of service users with disabilities and the wider community. This will enable people with disabilities to learn new skills and provide a venue for inclusive activities.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (14)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 13/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-59

BALDEEP SINGH DHOL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Finance, Ict And Risk Management

ANNA COOLEY-GREENE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Operations, Ymca Downslink Group

CAMILLA GAUGE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Deputy Branch Head Covid-19 Engagement, Dhss

DANIEL PARSONAGE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Safer Communities

JOSHUA DANIEL PUGLIA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Unemployed

LISA RYAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Construction Project Manager

STEPHANIE SMITH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive

STUART JAMES LEANEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Volunteer

ELIZABETH CORBISHLEY (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Mental Health Services

KIRSTY ANN PENTECOST Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Volunteer

LENNA CUMBERBATCH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Diversity And Inclusion Strategist

PETER CRAIG BEGLEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Group Risk Manager

SAMANTHA BOAST Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Legal Advisor

SIMON JONATHAN OWEN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Planning Advisor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/04/1993, number: 1020192
Registered at Companies House on 02/04/1993, number: 02806429

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Care Quality Commission

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from TONY BARNARD FOUNDATION on 20/09/2023

Main office

THE GRACE EYRE FOUNDATION
36 MONTEFIORE ROAD
HOVE
BN3 6EP

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS, PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILITIES, OLD AGE OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR SUPPORT NEED BY ARRANGING, PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, TRAINING, RECREATION, OCCUPATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SIMILAR SERVICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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