Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 7

SAFE GROUND

Safe Ground works to promote relationship skills as tools for empowering people to change, so reducing the risk of reoffending and building stronger communities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£221	£245	£-24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22	£282	£226	£56	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21	£230	£193	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20	£219	£252	£-33	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19	£234	£270	£-36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	£220	£309	£-89	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17	£251	£309	£-58	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16?	£653	£524	£129	£30	£316	£316	7.2	7	0
31/12/14	£395	£327	£68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/13	£385	£351	£34	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/12	£313	£351	£-38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/11	£339	£303	£36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/10	£277	£309	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/09	£298	£289	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/08	£290	£297	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/07	£334	£309	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/06	£226	£150	£76	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/05	£110	£122	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/04	£110	£122	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 29 years

www.safeground.org.uk

info@safeground.org.uk

020 3668 9270

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Safe Ground
£15,000	07/10/2021	An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Safe Grounds develops and delivers educational programmes using drama to educate prisoners and young people at risk in the community, and so reduce the risk of reoffending and build stronger communities.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Safe Ground
£6,565	07/05/2020	We want to be able to generate a range of new services and materials that can offer immediate practical support to the vulnerable women we work with through the Minerva Wrap Around project across London. We will create enough materials for 500 women ....more We want to be able to generate a range of new services and materials that can offer immediate practical support to the vulnerable women we work with through the Minerva Wrap Around project across London. We will create enough materials for 500 women (roughly the number of women assessed to be involved in the Minerva project).
Dulverton Trust - Core costs for expansion
£30,000	13/02/2019	Core costs for expansion
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Safe Ground
£120,000	09/06/2016 36	towards three years' running costs of a project providing family, relationship and parenting programmes in male prisons in England and Wales
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Safe Ground Ltd
£60,000	18/04/2016 12	Towards the salaries of the Communities and Communications Manager and Executive Director to promote relationship skills as tools for empowering people to change, so reducing the risk of reoffending and building stronger communities.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Safe Ground
£100,000	30/09/2015 36	over three years towards the salary of a development manager at an organisation working in England and Wales to run programmes in prisons and community settings that help build relationships and strengthen family connections
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Safe Ground Ltd
£193,500	13/09/2012	Towards core costs for the use of arts education to reduce social exclusion and enhance relationship skills of male prisoners and ex-offenders.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Safe Ground Ltd
£75,000	10/03/2010 24	Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards the salaries of the chief executive and business development director.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-69

CLAIRE BARTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive Officer

DYLAN KERR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Department Of Health & Social Care

JEFFERY LOO Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Finance Director

KARL MARLOWE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Doctor

STUART JENKIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/07/1995, number: 1048181
Registered at Companies House on 18/07/1995, number: 03080847

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; all on time

Main office

Unit 1 Waterloo Gardens
Milner Square
LONDON
N1 1TY

Objectives

TO ADVANCE OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC,IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PRISONERS IN THE ARTS,SPECIFICALLY THE ART OF DRAMA,LITERATURE AND POETRY AND TO REHABILITATE PRISONERS BY PROMOTING AND DEVELOPING THEIR CULTURE AND ARTISTIC ABILITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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