Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

SMILE MEDIATION LTD 

Smile Mediation Ltd (formerly known as Specialist Mediation in Lancashire East (SMILE) Ltd) provides community, family (non legal matters) & workplace mediation, restorative approaches, conflict coaching, group facilitation, training and workshops in communities across the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

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£95£149£-54n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22£133£110£22n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/21£103£80£23n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/20£80£87£-8n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/19£119£101£18n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£94£117£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£165£186£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£178£153£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£102£104£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£109£97£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£98£91£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£88£85£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£101£123£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£95£142£-47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£153£163£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£203£189£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£203£189£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£148£147£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£153£124£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£53£48£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 22 years
(25 years as a company)

www.smilemediation.co.uk

info@smile-ltd.co.uk

01282436989

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Services for the elderly
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 8 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
DCMS£15,000
CAF£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Recruiting; Supporting and Upskilling Volunteer Community Mediators
£10,000 07/07/2023
Funding will be used to recruit support train and upskill community members to become qualified community mediators.This project aims to improve community relations resolve conflict and support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Recruitment & Training - Volunteer Mediators
£10,000 15/10/2021
The funding will be used to train volunteers to become mediators where members of the community will be provided with the opportunity to resolve issues face to face or virtually reducing anxieties ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 19/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 18/06/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Smile Mediation Limited
£2,000 21/05/2020
Grant to Smile Mediation Limited to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Develop, Deliver, Discover - creative ways to resolve conflict
£10,000 28/02/2018
12
The charity will provide training for volunteers to enable them to better support people with mental ill health, substance misuse and hoarding issues.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Specialist Mediation in Lancashire East (SMILE) Ltd
£24,900 28/02/2014
to establish a pilot project that will provide a mediation service in to support families where someone in the family is in recovery from substance misuse to rebuild their relationships.
National Lottery Community Fund - Training Volunteer Mediators at Smile Mediation Ltd
£10,000 25/10/2012
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in Burnley. The organisation will use funding to recruit and train further volunteers to become mediators. This will enable beneficiaries to mediate for ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 42-79
  • IAN JAMES CLARK Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Executive Director Business Improvement
  • JOANNE SWIFT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Streetscene
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/05/2002, number: 1092212
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/11/1998, number: 03672399
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; AR10: 76 days late, AR07: 120 days late,
Main office

Smile Mediation Ltd
Centenary Court
Croft Street
BURNLEY
Lancashire
BB11 2ED

Objectives

“The Company is restricted to the following objects for the benefit of the public in the United Kingdom:(a) To facilitate the administration of the law by the promotion of arbitration, mediation and conciliation services to settle civil disputes. (b) To promote the preservation of public order through the provision of services for mediation and conciliation between people, organisations and groups who are involved in disputes or interpersonal conflicts. (c) To promote the preservation of public order through the provision of services for mediation and conciliation between victims of crime and offenders and for the preservation and protection of the well-being of such victims and the rehabilitation of such offenders. (d) To promote the protection of people and property from, and the prevention of, criminal acts in partnership with the police. (e) To advance the education of the public in the causes and effects of disputes and the skills of mediation, conflict prevention, management and resolution through the development of community initiatives and training and by such other means as the board of trustees may from time to time decide.(f) To develop the capacity and skills of people who are members of socially disadvantaged communities through the provision of community initiatives relating to mediation, conflict prevention, management and resolution such that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society.”

Defined Area of Benefit:

BURNLEY, PENDLE, ROSSENDALE, HYNDBURN, RIBBLE VALLEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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