Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 15
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +15

SAFELIVES 

SafeLives, formerly known as CAADA is a national charity supporting a strong multi-agency response to domestic abuse. SafeLives provides practical tools, training, guidance, quality assurance, policy and data insight to support professionals and organisations working with domestic abuse victims. The aim is to protect the highest risk victims and their children.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 19 years

www.safelives.org.uk

info@safelives.org.uk

01174033220

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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
30/06/23£8,824£9,802£-978£269£2,450£2,0632.51100
30/06/22£9,183£9,201£-17£187£3,428£2,3523.1980
30/06/21£8,262£7,334£928£170£3,445£2,0163.3820
30/06/20£6,991£6,067£924£190£2,518£1,3042.6730
30/06/19£6,474£7,032£-558£215£1,594£8961.5760
30/06/18£5,414£5,374£40£186£2,152£9202.1690
30/06/17£4,594£4,770£-176£165£2,112£6671.7610
30/06/16£5,345£3,991£1,354£94£2,288£7492.3510
30/06/15£3,683£3,538£144£93£965£8042.7540
30/06/14£2,737£2,936£-199£82£821£6922.8430
30/06/13£2,278£2,211£68£69£1,021£8754.7350
30/06/12£2,147£2,005£143£78£953£8014.8330
30/06/11£2,260£2,304£-45£80£810£7143.7400
30/06/10£2,290£2,465£-175£57£855£4202340
30/06/09£1,784£1,687£97£41£1,030£6294.5260
30/06/08£1,733£1,210£523£31£933£4844.8180
30/06/07£905£649£255£7£410£1252.3160
30/06/06£438£324£114£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£145£105£40£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 43%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 84%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 110 employees
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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£3,782,282
Home Office£1,596,227
DCMS£848,021
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime£796,586
Esmee Fairbairn£766,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£350,000
The Legal Education Foundation£230,000
John Ellerman Foundation£165,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - A community approach to ending domestic abuse
£1,441,112 18/09/2023
Funding will be used put local organisations and survivors at the heart of tackling domestic abuse in Bolton Leicestershire and Sheffield by empowering them to share lived experience and best ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to SAFELIVES
£180,000 06/09/2023
Towards project costs to develop pilot programmes of culturally specific and LGBTQ+ specific domestic abuse perpetrator services
National Lottery Community Fund - Drive Partnership
£2,299,780 21/03/2023
Funding will be used to support those affected by domestic abuse. The project will enable The Drive Partnership to address ongoing and significant gaps in provision supporting victims and families of ....more
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime - Grant to SafeLives, LB Bromley, LB Croydon, LB Sutton, Rise Mutual CIC
£147,211 14/03/2023
Home Office Funded Perp Programme - Drive South BCU Programme - Grant Modification to: - allocate continuation funding for 2022/23 April-Sept 2022 (MOPAC funded £337,367). - allocate continuation ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to SAFELIVES
£40,000 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to SafeLives
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime - Grant to SafeLives
£649,375 10/10/2022
Modification to sub-grant under MOPAC 684, linked to sub-grant 815 and continuation of DA Perps Funding for Restart in 22/23
Trust for London - SafeLives
£7,500 05/05/2022
The funding is for SafeLives to work with partners such as Lioness Circle, Al-Hasaniya, HOPE Network. As a white-majority organisation, it’s crucial we collaborate with sister organisations working ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to SafeLives
£17,900 19/04/2022
Grant to SafeLives
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£100,000 04/04/2022
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Authentic Voice: embedding the diverse survivor experience
£41,390 15/02/2022
24
This organisation will continue to support the running of an Authentic Voice Panel formed of ten survivors of domestic abuse. The panel will be empowered and supported to help improve the response to ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to SafeLives
£500,000 02/11/2021
60
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation aiming to end domestic abuse through Beacons, a place-based preventative approach and Safe Young Lives, a youth-led programme to improve earlier supp
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£100,000 09/04/2021
Core Funding
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to SafeLives
£20,000 10/12/2020
12
Towards dedicated research about young people using harm in their intimate and peer relationships.
DCMS - SafeLives 20/21
£341,565 01/12/2020
The 'Your Best Friend' project will empower 10,000+ young women with knowledge and confidence to act before someone harms or is harmed, to keep themselves and their friends safe. Activities will be ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - Training for legal professionals in relation to all aspects - legal, procedural and psychological - of domestic abuse.
£230,000 11/11/2020
Developing and delivering a training programme which seeks to bring about a cultural change for legal practitioners working within family law when responding to cases involving domestic abuse.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£506,456 30/10/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to SafeLives
£42,120 02/09/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application for the operations of the Croydon Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Panel (DAPP), including a DAPP Coordinator, sport-purchased counselling and activities, ....more
Home Office - Covid-19 Support for Domestic Abuse Charities
£96,800 06/07/2020
Organisations providing services and support for vulnerable people, for which there will be increased demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
Comic Relief - SafeLives Recovery Funding
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
The London Community Foundation - Grant to SafeLives
£31,000 14/05/2020
The funding is required for three adaptations: (1) Additional office space and PPE to enable safe face-to-face work (2) One additional case manager to meet rising demand (3) The spot purchase of ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award - COVID19 response
£150,000 14/05/2020
Emergency Fuding for Critical, Unfunded Posts Affected by Covid-19
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to SafeLives
£46,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
City Bridge Trust - Grant to SafeLives
£100,500 23/04/2020
36
£100,500 over 3 years (£37,000, £35,000, £28,500) towards the running costs of a project that will increase provision for survivors, children of domestic violence by mapping domestic violence ....more
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to SafeLives
£20,000 16/04/2020
12
Towards enabling 17 smaller Leading Lights charities to deliver support as a result of Covid 19 restriction.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to SafeLives (formerly Caada)
£50,000 14/04/2020
12
This grant supports the ongoing development of Drive, the approach to tackling the behaviour of domestic abuse perpetrators and improve the national response to domestic abuse perpetrators
CHK Foundation - CHK Emergency /Disaster Grant
£25,000 08/04/2020
unrestricted (response to COVID)
Greenwood Place - Grant to Safe Lives
£160,000 01/04/2020
Unrestricted funding
Home Office - SAFELIVES
£345,627 01/04/2020
The Drive project targets the perpetrators of domestic abuse and improves the outcomes for victims and their children. The key objectives are to; reduce the number of serial perpetrators of domestic ....more
Home Office - SAFELIVES
£96,800 01/04/2020
This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through ....more
Home Office - SafeLives - MARAC Development Programme
£512,000 01/04/2020
The project aims to address gaps in the response to domestic abuse and risk in England and Wales. Specifically to:Improve implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of local multi-agency ....more
Home Office - SAFELIVES
£33,000 01/04/2020
The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual ....more
Dulverton Trust - Listen Up!
£90,000 12/02/2020
Listen Up!
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Safe Lives
£50,000 04/02/2020
12
Towards the costs of the Head of Practice role
Tudor Trust - Grant to SafeLives
£50,000 19/12/2019
12
over one year as continuation funding towards the core costs of the central Drive team, working to develop and deliver a new national response to working with perpetrators of domestic abuse in ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - policy team costs
£165,000 25/07/2019
36
Towards the costs of their work to strengthen the law, policy and practice on domestic abuse, including building a movement where survivors can use their voices to bring about change
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Safe Lives for the Drive Project
£12,500 16/04/2019
12
To develop a blueprint for a national response to perpetrators and to build a coalition around the recommendations. The grant was split between the three organisations that make up the Drive ....more
Home Office - SafeLives - MARAC Development Programme 2019-20
£512,000 01/04/2019
The project aims to address gaps in the response to domestic abuse and risk in England and Wales. Specifically to:Improve implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of local multi-agency ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to SafeLives (formerly Caada)
£15,000 20/02/2019
12
This project aims to fill an evidence gap around the voices of men and boys, to understand their experiences, attitudes and behaviours, in order to better tackle domestic abuse. This will be achieved ....more
Comic Relief - Safer Digital Footprint – Digital Lead
£50,000 25/07/2018
12
SafeLives is developing training for domestic abuse practitioners on online safety to address an unmet need in this fast-changing and highly challenging area. Feedback from the training and ....more
Home Office - Domestic Abuse Training For Social Workers 2018-19
£220,000 01/04/2018
A cultural change programme that safeguards children and young people with potential for scale-up across 152 local authorities nationally.Improved safeguarding of children and families affected by ....more
Home Office - Safe Lives_18-19
£512,000 01/04/2018
The project aims to address gaps in the response to domestic abuse and risk in England and Wales. Specifically to:Improve implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of local multi-agency ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£300,000 28/03/2018
Building a future free from domestic abuse
National Lottery Community Fund - Getting it right first time - making families safer, sooner
£400,000 21/03/2018
36
This group will use funding to ensure victims of domestic abuse, particularly those at high risk of serious harm or murder, receive effective and timely support making individuals and families safer ....more
Comic Relief - Addressing E-vulnerability – a Toolkit & Support Package for Practitioners
£50,500 19/07/2017
12
The project will collaboratively design, test and evaluate a radical new package of support for all practitioners working with victims of abuse, including domestic abuse service providers, police and ....more
Home Office - IDVA and ISVA Training _17-18
£50,000 01/04/2017
Development and delivery of specialist training for independent advocates working with older victims and survivors of domestic abuse / sexual violence.
Home Office - Safe Lives (formerly CAADA
£512,000 01/04/2017
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Home Office - Safe Lives_17-18
£512,000 01/04/2017
This is a public commitment to support the vision, published on 25/11/10: maintain levels of funding support for specified national functions.
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Safe Lives
£125,000 28/11/2016
36
To develop the 'Whole Picture' strategy and towards the Head of Practice role
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to SafeLives
£413,000 19/04/2016
60
Towards the Beacon Site Project which will implement, test and evaluate the organisation’s ‘blueprint’ to reduce domestic abuse, thereby enabling it to see the impact of adopting a whole family ....more
Comic Relief - UpgradeYourWorld: Domestic Abuse(DA) Practitioners’ Platform & Register
£20,000 27/01/2016
3
It is proposed to build a safe and secure digital platform for professionals working within the Domestic Abuse sector. It will primarily be focused at professionals working with high risk ....more
Comic Relief - Drive project: addressing and challenging the behaviour of priority perpetrators of domestic abuse
£450,000 27/01/2016
36
High risk perpetrators of domestic abuse often repeat their abuse - 31% of perpetrators return to the multi-agency panels that assess their risk within 12-months. This grant to SafeLives will ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to SafeLives (formerly Caada)
£5,000 14/10/2015
part of the National Programme
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to SafeLives (formerly Caada)
£1,000,000 14/10/2015
48
Part of the National Programme
Tudor Trust - Grant to SafeLives
£150,000 18/06/2015
36
over three years towards the running costs of the Drive Project which is piloting a new response to working with perpetrators of domestic abuse across three areas in England and Wales, with a view to ....more
Dulverton Trust - the dissemination of ?Children?s Insights?
£46,000 22/10/2014
the dissemination of ?Children?s Insights?
National Lottery Community Fund - CAADA Embedding Shared Measurement Project
£295,000 28/08/2013
36
CAADA Embedding Shared Measurement Project
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to SafeLives
£180,000 11/04/2013
Towards the continued employment of the director of strategy and development who oversees evidence, policy and communications work.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse (CAADA)
£200,000 14/03/2013
36
towards three years' running costs of a project to test what impact the national roll out of an embedded shared measurement system has on the quality of service provision, funding and outcomes for ....more
Dulverton Trust - Intervening Early ? Teenagers and Domestic Abuse
£25,000 27/02/2013
Intervening Early ? Teenagers and Domestic Abuse
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to SafeLives
£180,000 28/01/2010
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the director of insights.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-62
  • EVA BARI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Safeguarding, Chelsea Fc
  • SHANA BEGUM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Local Government Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/11/2004, number: 1106864
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/08/2004, number: 05203237
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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

Suite 2a
Whitefriars
Lewins Mead
BRISTOL
BS1 2NT

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THOSE OBJECTS) TO PROMOTE BEST PRACTICE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG THE PUBLIC, VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY AGENCIES IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE AND FAMILY VIOLENCE, ITS CAUSES, REMEDIES AND PREVENTION

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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