Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

REUNITE : INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION CENTRE 

reunite provides advice, information and support to parents, family members and guardians who have had a child abducted or who fear abduction. reunite also supports and informs parents who may have abducted their children and assists with cases of international contact and 'leave to remove'. reunite also offers a mediation service in cases of cross-border family disputes involving children.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£270£264£6n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£308£245£63n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£232£223£9n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£279£267£12n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£298£290£8n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/18£249£267£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£258£267£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£253£244£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£245£228£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£227£210£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£221£204£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£244£208£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£259£271£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£245£262£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£246£281£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£252£224£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£181£203£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£189£244£-55£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£186£272£-86£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£262£234£28£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 25 years

www.reunite.org

reunite@dircon.co.uk

01162555345

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Poverty relief
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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
Ministry of Justice - Reunite International Child Abduction Centre
£118,000 01/04/2021
Part contribution to help fund a helpline that provides advice to assist in the prevention of, and any consequences arising from, international parental child abduction.
Ministry of Justice - Reunite International Child Abduction Centre
£118,000 01/04/2020
To part-fund the Reunite advice line to provide information, support and advice on how to prevent international child abduction and how to resolve cases when abduction has taken place.
Ministry of Justice - Reunite
£118,000 01/04/2019
Part-funding of reunite advice line to provide advice, information and support on how to prevent international child abduction and how to resolve cases when abduction has taken place.
Ministry of Justice - Reunite
£118,000 01/04/2018
Part contribution to help fund a helpline that provides advice to assist in the prevention of, and any consequences arising from, international parental child abduction.
Ministry of Justice - Reunite
£118,000 01/04/2017
Advice line to provide advice and support to parents and public on prevention of international child Abduction, operational delivery of international obligations on chid abduction
Ministry of Justice - Reunite
£116,000 01/04/2016
12
Advice line to provide advice and support to parents and public on prevention of international child Abduction, operational delivery of international obligations on chid abduction

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/05/1999, number: 1075729
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
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

PO BOX 7124
LEICESTER
LE1 7XX

Objectives

TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROTECTION OF THE GOOD PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PARENTS GUARDIANS AND FAMILIES WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY A FAMILY MEMBER OR WHO FEAR ABDUCTION OF THEIR CHILDREN AND OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEING ABDUCTED OR WHO FEAR ABDUCTION TO ENSURE THAT THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD ARE SERVED.TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ON THE SUBJECT OF CHILD ABDUCTION AND TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE RESEARCH INTO THIS SUBJECT AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULT OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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