Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 6

No PartB

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 6

THE OLIVE TREE CENTRE TRUST (SOUTH EAST)

Provides counselling, training, supervision.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 25 years

www.olivetreecentre.org.uk

enquiries@olivetreecentre.org.uk

01702524346

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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
31/07/23		£40	£32	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/07/22		£41	£32	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19
31/07/21		£38	£30	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19
31/07/20		£28	£28	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26
31/07/19		£42	£28	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26
31/07/18		£31	£26	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/17		£30	£25	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/16		£32	£35	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/15		£20	£28	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/14		£24	£23	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/13	*	£26	£15	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/12		£18	£15	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/11		£19	£14	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/10		£17	£13	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/09		£15	£17	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/08		£19	£23	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/07		£24	£28	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/06		£27	£12	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/05		£19	£22	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/04		£26	£23	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Essex, Southend-on-sea,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
14 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
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Olive Tree Centre
£5,000	01/04/2021	to meet the monthly mandatory supervision costs of voluntary professional counsellors meeting the mental health needs of people affected by the pandemic
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£5,000	17/08/2020	"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."
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Olive Tree Centre
£4,960	19/11/2018	We need to pay for mandatory supervision for 15 voluntary professional counsellors.
Essex Community Foundation - Mandatory Supervision/Subsidised Counselling
£2,500	14/11/2018 12	To help subsidise mandatory supervision of volunteer counsellors
National Lottery Community Fund - Supervision/Subsidised Counselling
£10,000	31/05/2018 12	The project will run subsidised counselling and supervision to support people with a variety of issues.
Essex Community Foundation - Counselling Subsidised
£3,500	15/11/2017 12	To help subsidise counselling costs for those in need
Essex Community Foundation - Supervision Costs
£3,500	16/11/2016 12	To meet the costs of volunteer counsellors' supervision

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

HAZEL EMMA DAVIES (Chair) Appointed: 2014

HELEN DART Appointed: 2023

LINDA ELIZABETH MCLOUGHLIN Appointed: 2019

REV PETER GEORGE NEALE Appointed: 2014

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/05/1999, number: 1075617

Gift Aid

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
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR13: 29 days late,

Main office

Eastwood Baptist Church
Rayleigh Road
LEIGH-ON-SEA
SS9 5PY

Objectives

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS WITH PARTICULAR INITIAL EMPHASIS IN THE SOUTH EAST ESSEX AREA:A) TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN NEED OF SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT BY THE PROVISION OF CHRISTIAN COUNSELLINGB) TO PROVIDE TRAINING FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN COUNSELLINGC) AND FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTH EAST ESSEX

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