Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 6

Spending declining: -1
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Static board: -3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 4

RELATE MEDWAY & NORTH KENT

Relationship counselling, family counselling and psychosexual therapy for the adult couple or individuals. Young person counselling for those experiencing divorce or separation of parents.Work in partnership with other agencies to provide our services to wider community.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

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

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		£132	£101	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£102	£123	£-21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/21		£191	£136	£55	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/20		£121	£119	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	13
31/03/19		£150	£143	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/18		£145	£160	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£171	£168	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£167	£174	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£128	£128	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£130	£130	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£98	£73	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£101	£105	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£99	£100	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£96	£98	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£88	£97	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£117	£112	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£106	£113	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£125	£139	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£55	£66	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 20 years

www.relatemnk.co.uk

info@relatemnk.co.uk

07889535363

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Mental health and addiction

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bexley, Kent, Medway,

Who it helps

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

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 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

DCMS	£47,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£29,878
Henry Smith Charity	£26,000
The Foyle Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	10/07/2023	towards the cost of counselling sessions for young people
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Relate Medway and North Kent
£8,000	15/03/2023	towards one year's running costs of a project providing counselling for young people living with an eating disorders in Kent and Medway.
National Lottery Community Fund - Training and recruitment of specialist young people's counsellor
£9,900	03/02/2023	The funding will be used to recruit a specialist young person’s counsellor to deliver support to young people that have experience of or have witnessed domestic violence. The project aims to ....more The funding will be used to recruit a specialist young person’s counsellor to deliver support to young people that have experience of or have witnessed domestic violence. The project aims to provide specialist support and build rapport with young people to reduce the impact of this trauma on their mental wellbeing.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Relate Medway and North Kent
£9,000	23/09/2021 12	towards one year's running costs of a project providing counselling for children who are experiencing or witnessing domestic violence in Gillingham, Kent.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£47,000	26/08/2020	"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."
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Relate Medway and North Kent
£9,000	11/05/2020 12	towards one year's running costs of a project providing counselling to children who are experiencing domestic violence in Gillingham
National Lottery Community Fund - Counselling for those suffering from domestic violence/abuse
£10,000	07/05/2020 12	The funding will be used to deliver counselling sessions for families experiencing domestic abuse during the coronavirus lockdown. The project aims to provide support to those in need.
National Lottery Community Fund - Refurbishment of counselling rooms
£9,978	11/07/2019 12	Funding will be used to restore a premises to use as a community hub for IAG support for Gillingham residents. This will support the organisation to meet increasing demands in the Medway area.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Relate Medway and North Kent
£9,000	12/12/2018 12	towards one year's running costs of a project providing counselling to at-risk children in Kent
National Lottery Community Fund - Delivering young people's counselling from Gillingham Centre
£9,970	31/05/2018 12	The project will deliver free counselling sessions to young people from their Gillingham centre to meet an increasing demand for support and improve their emotional well-being.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Relate Medway and North Kent
£9,700	17/09/2015	towards one year's running costs of a counselling project for disadvantaged young people in Kent
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Relate Medway and North Kent
£8,800	05/12/2013	towards one year's running costs of a project providing counselling to children with mental health problems in Kent
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the costs of counselling
£1,500	05/08/2013	Towards the costs of counselling for young, disadvantaged and disturbed children.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Relate North Kent
£7,500	12/09/2012	towards one year's running costs of counselling sessions for families in Kent experiencing a relationship breakdown

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 54-81

SAKINA LOWE Appointed: 2018

ALAN STREET Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired

LORRAINE SUSAN STRONG Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Manager

DAN MCDONALD (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Chief Executive, Other trusteeship: MEDWAY VOLUNTEER CENTRE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/06/2004, number: 1104649
Registered at Companies House on 24/11/2003, number: 04973993

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Care Quality Commission

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
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

19 returns made; AR13: 2 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 2 days late, AR10: 1 days late, AR07: 0 days late, AR05: 74 days late,

Main office

KINGSLEY HOUSE
37-39 BALMORAL ROAD
GILLINGHAM
KENT
ME7 4PF

Objectives

(1) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE BENEFITS OF SECURE COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE EMOTIONAL, SEXUAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS WHICH IS DERIVED FORM COMMITTED RELATIONSHIPS; (2) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS AND MARRIAGE AND TO MAKE THE RESULTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC;(3) TO SEEK TO ENHANCE, THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN BY INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE BENEFIT OF COMMITTED COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY LIFE AND WORKING TO PREVENT POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE BREAKDOWN OF SUCH RELATIONSHIPS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL AUTHORITY AREAS OF BEXLEY, DARTFORD, GRAVESHAM, MEDWAY, AND SWALE

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