Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -7
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

UNIQUE WAYS

We work together with the families and carers of disabled children and young people to create positive change in their daily lives.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • Why is the Board completely female?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£178£183£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£150£187£-37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£240£148£92n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£207£204£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£226£206£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£243£189£54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£175£201£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£251£260£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£281£279£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£276£289£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£259£260£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£193£184£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£157£143£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£97£105£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£124£97£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£90£80£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£131£122£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£75£76£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 20 years

www.uniqueways.org.uk

hi@uniqueways.org.uk

01422343090

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Calderdale,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£88,041
Community Foundation for Calderdale£38,642
Sir George Martin Trust£6,000
True Colours Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Unique Ways
£3,000 09/11/2023
Core costs for Disability Support & Activities
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to Unique Ways
£1,617 03/10/2023
Grant to Unique Ways
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to Unique Ways
£22,025 16/12/2022
Grant to Unique Ways
Community Foundation for Calderdale - 'Unique For Me'
£10,000 29/11/2022
Grant to Unique Ways
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Unique Ways
£3,000 28/02/2022
Core costs for Disability Support & Activities
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Self Advocacy Support
£5,000 16/11/2021
Grant to Unique Ways
True Colours Trust - Towards the Self-Advocacy Support Service – COVID19 response
£5,000 06/10/2020
Towards the Self-Advocacy Support Service – COVID19 response
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£88,041 04/09/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Unique Ways
£9,945 28/06/2017
12
The group will purchase a range of new training equipment, secure a quality assurance accreditation and improve their online and printed materials for the benefit of disabled children and their families. This will enable the organisation to better ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Ordinary Lives
£329,492 24/02/2017
36
The project is a parent-led organisation offering support, guidance and a range of services to families with disabled children and young people. Practical, hands on support will be delivered through group structured and 1:1 peer support, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Calderdale Parent and Carers Council
£14,869 22/03/2016
12
the charity support parent carers of children with additional needs particularly at key transition points in their care. The charity will raise their profile through rebranding and a more user friendly website that will be a vehicle to reach more ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Advocacy for Better Outcomes (ABOut)
£138,504 11/02/2013
36
This is a new project based in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire and aims to improve the life outcomes and opportunities for disabled children/YP and their families through practical support and advocacy. These will be 500 ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Calderdale Parent and Carers Council
£25,000 27/01/2012
the salary and on-costs of the Chief Executive and the BusinessSupport/Communications Officer
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-44
  • EMMA POYSER-BUXTON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Charity
  • JEMMA ENRIGHT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Manager
  • VIKKI DARBY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Banking
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/05/2005, number: 1109413
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/04/2004, number: 05098716
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
18 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR12: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from GROW BIG on 07/06/2022
Main office

Unique Ways
Hanson Lane Enterprise Centre
Hanson Lane
Halifax
HX1 5PG

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND SUPPORT TO CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEED, THEIR PARENTS AND CARERS BY WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALL AGENCIES PROVIDING SERVICES AND SUPPORT TO SAID PERSONS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING SERVICES AND PROMOTING POSITIVE ACCESS, SOCIAL INCLUSION, PROTECTION AND WELLBEING OF SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CALDERDALE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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