Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 15
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

TRAILBLAZERS MENTORING LTD

Trailblazers trains volunteers as mentors to work with young offenders - with the aim to increase self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence and to achieve changes in attitude, thinking and behaviour - thus reducing the risk of re-offending. Mentors work for six months inside the prison with the mentee on a weekly basis and continue the relationship for a further six - nine months after release.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
31/12/23£427£426£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£439£412£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£417£468£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£400£353£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£326£330£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£271£249£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£323£298£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£365£388£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15*£346£440£-94n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£561£573£-12£55£127£571.2130
31/12/13£554£556£-2£4£139£390.890
31/12/12£442£540£-99n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£219£331£-113n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10*£388£252£135n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09£208£214£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£250£168£82n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07?£204£250£-46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/06*£280£197£84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/05£216£191£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/04£150£187£-37n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 26 years

www.trailblazersmentoring.org.uk

info@trailblazersmentoring.org.uk

0800 193 4046

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Mentoring and leadership support
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Dulverton Trust£75,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£70,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£64,509
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund£60,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Rothschild Foundation£30,000
AB Charitable Trust£20,000
City Bridge Trust£8,750
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£25,000 29/11/2023
Trailblazers Prison Mentoring Program
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000 23/10/2023
24
Mentoring and practical support pre and post release from prison to access Education, Training and Employment opportunities.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£30,000 03/05/2023
Funding for mentoring young offenders aged 18-30 for up to 6 months pre release and 12 months post release, ensuring a smooth transition back into the community of Buckinghamshire.
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - Trail-Blazers Mentoring Ltd - 7
£60,000 23/03/2023
24
Developing our work with young offenders aged 18-35, many having come through the care system and finding themselves in prison, by supporting them into work and further education via our mentoring ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Trailblazers Mentoring
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£25,000 25/11/2022
Trailblazers Prison Mentoring Program
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Trailblazers Mentoring Ltd - 09/05/22
£3,000 20/06/2022
Core Funding
Dulverton Trust - Trailblazers Mentoring
£75,000 28/10/2021
Trailblazers Mentoring
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£50,000 20/10/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Trailblazers Mentoring
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Trailblazers Mentoring Ltd - 01/05/21
£1,250 21/05/2021
Core Funding
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£20,000 21/01/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Trailblazers Mentoring is a youth mentoring service for 18-25-year olds who have been given custodial sentences across four prisons: HMP Aylesbury, HMP Wandsworth, ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Trailblazers
£20,000 24/09/2020
Through the gate mentoring of young offenders at HMP Brinsford
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£12,259 23/07/2020
Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring Ltd
£8,750 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £8,750, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring Ltd
£71,000 25/07/2019
24
£71,000 over two further and final years (£35,000; £36,000) for the costs of Trailblazers' work in HMPs Wandsworth and ISIS, as well as with Londoners released by Aylesbury and Brinsford YOIs. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Trailblazers Mentoring: Building Bridges / Giving Young Lives a Chance
£271,526 19/12/2018
36
The organisation will use the funding to continue providing support and advice to young offenders by preparing them for the challenges of returning to a life back in their community after leaving ....more
Comic Relief - Trailblazers Sustainability Fund
£48,450 25/07/2018
6
“We are an ambitious and forward-thinking organisation. Established as the first through-the-gate mentoring programme back in 1998, we have grown into one of the UK’s best-established charities ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£20,000 03/07/2018
£20,000 towards core costs. Trailblazers Mentoring works to end youth re-offending by mentoring through the gate and encouraging young offenders to make a positive change.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 09/05/2018
A New Start- Supporting Britain's Young Offenders.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£74,421 06/04/2018
36
mentoring for young adult offenders to prepare them for release from prison and then help them through the gate to successful resettlement into the community
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Trailblazers Mentoring Ltd.
£15,000 24/01/2017
£15,000 towards core costs. Trailblazers Mentoring works to end youth re-offending by mentoring through the gate and encouraging young offenders to make a positive change.
Comic Relief - Changing Futures - Mentoring young offenders
£98,827 25/11/2015
36
56% of young-offenders are re-convicted within a year of release from prison - on release, many find it hard to gain employment, deal with addictions and reintegrate back into the community. This ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring Ltd
£99,000 23/09/2015
36
£99,000 over three years (£32,000; £33,000; £34,000) for the costs of Trailblazers’ work around HMPs Wandsworth and ISIS, as well as with Londoners released by HMPs Aylesbury and Rochester. The ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Mentoring Young offenders to reduce re-offending
£10,000 26/06/2015
£10,000 towards core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Bridges
£299,311 07/05/2015
36
This project will aim to help young offenders to resettle in their communities (promoting social inclusion) and desist from re-offending by delivering volunteer-led mentoring both in custody and upon ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£74,421 06/05/2015
36
mentoring for young adult offenders to prepare them for release from prison and then help them through the gate to successful resettlement into the community
Tudor Trust - Grant to Trail-Blazers Mentoring Ltd
£60,000 29/05/2014
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the chief executive's salary at a mentoring organisation supporting young offenders across England
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Trailblazers Mentoring
£25,000 29/06/2012
the salary of the Project Manager for the new project in HMP YOI Isis in Thamesmead
Dulverton Trust - Mentoring young offenders in Rochester HMPYOI
£20,000 15/02/2012
Mentoring young offenders in Rochester HMPYOI
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Trail-Blazers
£136,170 15/07/2010
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary and costs of a project support manager to support mentoring co-ordinators based within youth offending institutes as the project expands.
National Lottery Community Fund - TRAIL-BLAZERS YOUNG OFFENDER MENTORING PROJECT
£369,506 10/02/2010
48
Supporting male young offenders between 15 - 21 detained in a newly built young offenders institution (YOI) in Littlehey, Cambridgeshire through one-to-one mentoring from a responsible adult ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-66
  • CARINA ANN KEMP (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Transformation Director
  • CLAUD FAVION LOFTERS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • DANIEL HALL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Trustee
  • DAVID MICHAEL TROMAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • JOANNA DANTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • JOANNA KITCHIN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • RICHARD JAMES-FORD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director
  • TOM PAUK Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Engineer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/03/1999, number: 1074453
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/10/1998, number: 03647928
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • 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; AR15: 1 days late, AR10: 25 days late, AR06: 26 days late,
Main office

Landgate Chambers
24 Landgate
RYE
East Sussex
TN31 7LJ

Objectives

FOR THE REHABILITATION OF PERSONS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO A CRIMINAL CHARGE OR ON REMAND AND HAVE SUFFERED A RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY IN ONE OF HM'S PRISONS OR YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTIONS, BY MEANS OF EDUCATIONAL TRAINING, MENTORING OR GUIDANCE PROVIDED TO SUCH PERSONS SO AS TO ASSIST IN THEIR REHABILITATION INTO THE WIDER COMMUNITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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