Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 18
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Overall weighted support: +18
Overall GiG Score: 34 ?

FRIENDS FAMILIES AND TRAVELLERS

We work at national, regional and local level on behalf of all Gypsies and Travellers regardless of ethnicity, culture or background. Our work is built on three main pillars - Casework, Capacity Building and Campaigning and we work in our own right and with partner organisations towards seeking to eliminate racism and discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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£1,269£1,288£-20£0£362£3603.4346
31/03/22£1,302£1,182£120£0£382£3293.3308
31/03/21£998£913£85£0£262£2263248
31/03/20£724£714£10£0£177£1732.9219
31/03/19£538£578£-40£0£167£1593.3198
31/03/18£657£572£85£0£207£1823.8200
31/03/17£427£438£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£388£404£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£505£459£46£5£149£1473.9120
31/03/14£407£457£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£408£425£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£454£437£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£499£510£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£497£465£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£413£365£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£279£257£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£202£176£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 41%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 3.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 19 years
(26 years as a company)

www.gypsy-traveller.org

fft@gypsy-traveller.org

01273 234777

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Reducing racial tensions
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

Who supports them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Awards 2021 Children & Youth
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
Access to Justice Foundation£733,528
Henry Smith Charity£300,000
Esmee Fairbairn£278,500
Department of Health£216,712
Indigo Trust£200,000
National Lottery Community Fund£196,974
BBC Children in Need£182,987
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£167,294
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£500,000 01/03/2024
The Improving Lives Through Advice programme is made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the ....more
Indigo Trust - Unrestricted funding
£30,000 01/02/2024
Unrestricted funding to support FFT's work.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Supporting young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities through education, training, and employment-related transitions
£150,000 27/11/2023
Friends, Families and Travellers works to end racism and discrimination against people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life. This grant ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to FRIENDS FAMILIES AND TRAVELLERS
£199,500 04/10/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs to support and build capacity within specialist Gypsy, Roma and Traveller organisations and ensure that their voice and evidence is represented at a strategic level ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Regional Partnership Grants
£72,000 31/07/2023
Youth work with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£22,000 04/07/2023
An unrestricted grant of £22,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years)This grant includes a 10% cost of living uplift. Friends, Families and Travellers works to protect the human ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Friends Families and Travellers
£5,000 19/05/2023
Funding was provided towards staff costs, overheads and items for those in need.
Indigo Trust - Core funding
£20,000 04/04/2023
Core funding to support its access to justice work
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£99,159 18/03/2023
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma Secretariat
National Lottery Community Fund - Kushti collaborative
£196,974 16/02/2023
This funding will support an intergenerational project across Sussex for Gypsies Roma and Travellers (GRT). The project will help members come together to celebrate and affirm their culture and ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Hearing Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Young Adults in the CJS
£50,000 01/02/2023
To better understand the impact of the justice system on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller young adults and their families
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Friends, Families and Travellers
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
LUND TRUST - Towards core costs
£10,000 01/12/2022
Towards the charity's work to end discrimination against Gypsy, Traveller and Roma people
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£12,196 22/11/2022
Wave three of the Community Justice Fund aims to support organisations delivering social welfare advice services to people most impacted by the cost-of-living crisis.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£75,000 13/09/2022
Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS) is a programme of The Access to Justice Foundation with the Ministry of Justice. We are working with organisations to sustain and improve access to early social ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£20,000 30/06/2022
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Friends, Families and Travellers works to protect the human rights of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant
£41,332 23/05/2022
The funding programme aims to support organisations working to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal support and advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Friends Families & Travellers
£120,000 17/05/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an advocacy and support project working with Traveller communities, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, across England.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£99,528 03/02/2022
This project will deliver a health champions training programme to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children and young people in Sussex. The activities will result in improved confidence and physical ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Friends Families and Travellers
£9,994 26/01/2022
Funding was provided to help Friends Families and Travellers deliver advocacy support for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in Sussex, by assertively outreaching to Travellers across the County, on ....more
LUND TRUST - Towards core costs
£10,000 15/12/2021
To end discrimination against Gypsies, Travellers and Roma
The Blagrave Trust - Youth work with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people
£70,000 07/09/2021
Restricted grant for work with young people. Cost of Living uplift: total funding increased by £10,000 to £70,000. Agreed December 2022..
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£60,000 09/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID69
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£20,000 01/07/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Friends Families and Travellers work to protect the human rights of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities, through the provision of specialist legal advice, ....more
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing 2021-2024 - Friends Families and Travellers
£96,692 01/07/2021
Through the HW Alliance, policy teams can work collaboratively with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations, accessing the sectors expertise and connecting policy leads ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£9,994 11/06/2021
Friends, Families and Travellers are a community led charity in Sussex. Their vision is to end discrimination and achieve equitable treatment of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Funding was ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Friends Families & Travellers
£180,000 09/06/2021
36
towards three years' running costs, including salaries, of an advocacy and support service for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities throughout England.
Department of Health - HWB Health And Wellbeing Alliance 21/22 - priority projects - Friends, Families & Travellers
£40,020 02/04/2021
Promote the uptake of the booster programme with the gypsy, roma and traveller community.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£54,000 24/03/2021
1
Towards unrestricted core costs from the Racialised Communities Top Up Fund
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£4,925 11/02/2021
Friends Families and Travellers are a community led charity in Sussex, working to end discrimination and achieve equitable treatment of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. They provide advice and ....more
Indigo Trust - Core unrestricted funding to support its work during Covid-19
£75,000 18/01/2021
Core unrestricted funding to support its work during Covid-19
Indigo Trust - Core unrestricted funding to support its work during Covid-19
£75,000 18/01/2021
Core unrestricted funding to support its work during Covid-19
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Friends, Families and Travellers, awarded under the Foundation's Racial Equity funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Training and support for community peer researchers Salary costs - policy, campaigns and engagement Storytelling and media
£149,943 24/09/2020
36
Towards the costs of policy work on access to health and care services in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£92,453 09/09/2020
"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 ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£45,000 19/08/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£78,035 31/07/2020
Covid19 - This project will provide a programme of employability support activities for Gypsy and Traveller young people who have had their personal development prospects impacted by C19. The project ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£13,834 23/07/2020
Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£10,000 02/07/2020
An unrestricted grant of £10,000. Friends Families and Travellers work to protect the human rights of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, through the provision of specialist legal advice, ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£5,000 23/06/2020
To help the impact on our core and advice costs from Covid19 and enable us to continue supporting organisations.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£14,669 23/06/2020
Using the law and a human rights based approach to address inequality and disadvantage experienced by Gypsies & Travellers compounded by Covid-19
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£4,924 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund youth work, including one to one support, for children and young people from Gypsy and Traveller communities further isolated due to Covid-19. They will improve their ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£25,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Department of Health - Friends, Families and Travellers
£80,000 28/04/2020
See HWA summary:Working with the VCSE sector - encourange two way flow of information and inteliigence betweeen the Sector and the System.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£5,000 21/04/2020
Friends, Families and Travellers are a community led charity in Sussex. Working to end discrimination and achieve equitable treatment of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Poor health status ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£68,135 30/11/2019
36
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma: Secretariat role
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£5,000 05/07/2019
11
Funding was provided to support the operation of a telephone based casework and advocacy service for gypsies and travellers across Sussex.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£150,000 02/07/2019
36
Towards Gypsy, Roma & Traveller (GRT) anti-bullying initiatives so that GRT children are culturally affirmed, feel safer in school, and the harm of anti-gypsyism is understood and addressed.
National Lottery Community Fund - Old Ways around the Rog
£189,502 30/05/2019
36
The organisation will use funding to support people from the gypsy and traveller community in to work programmes. The project will build on people's skills and experience.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£65,700 20/03/2019
Celebrating 25 years of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller activism
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£15,000 11/12/2018
To build the capacity of Friends, Families and Travellers and other GRT organisations to use Human Rights and Law supporting Gypsies & Travellers.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£39,473 17/03/2018
24
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma All-Party Parliamentary Group Secretariat
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£2,500 20/11/2017
11
Friends, families and travellers are a community led charity based in Sussex, which aims to end discrimination and achieve equality for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, whatever their background. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Gypsy Holocaust Commemoration
£8,814 18/10/2017
12
This organisation will deliver a series of events including workshops, plays and exhibitions linked to Holocaust Memorial Week to commemorate The Romani part in the Holocaust with the aim of raising ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£75,000 24/07/2017
36
The focus of the charity is to support the Gypsie-Traveller community. They deliver a range of support programmes from employment to domestic violence. The funding will support core costs to enable ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travelers
£5,000 12/06/2017
6
Support to progress systems changers principles and working with local NFA (no formal abode) Residents Association
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£30,000 16/05/2017
To build the capacity of Friends, Families and Travellers and other GRT organisations to use Human Rights and Law supporting Gypsies & Travellers.
Department of Health - Friends, Families and Travellers
£32,841 01/04/2017
Health and Wellbeing Alliance
Tudor Trust - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£4,000 27/03/2017
12
as a staff grant towards the Crystal's Vardo theatre project which promotes awareness of Gypsy Traveller culture and combats discrimination
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£19,835 27/02/2017
12
Towards the salary of a project officer to scope work related to reducing inequalities experienced by children and young people from Gypsy, Traveller and Roma backgrounds.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Friends, Families & Travellers
£141,030 09/02/2017
36
This grant will aid with the delivery of youth work, including one to one support, to children and young people from Gypsy and Traveller communities. They will experience improved relationships, ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Friends Families & Travellers
£90,000 08/12/2016
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a telephone-based casework and advocacy service for Gypsies and Travellers across the UK
Lankelly Chase Foundation - SystemsChangers
£3,000 19/07/2016
12
To support a member of staff to attend the Systems Changers development programme for frontline workers
Tudor Trust - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£50,000 17/11/2014
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the core costs of this Brighton-based charity working on behalf of Traveller communities at local, regional and national level
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£75,000 08/10/2014
The focus of the charity is to support the Gypsie-Traveller community. They deliver a range of support programmes from employment to domestic violence. The funding will support core costs to enable ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Friends Families & Travellers
£87,000 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' salary of the National Telephone Caseworker to provide advice, information, casework and advocacy service to individuals in Gypsy and Traveller communities
National Lottery Community Fund - Gypsies and Travellers Step Forward
£501,886 16/07/2013
60
This project aims to build the confidence and capacity of people in the traveller community to become more actively involved in wider community life. Due to a range of factors including low ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Friends, Families and Travellers
£38,600 29/06/2011
the salary costs of the Community Engagement Worker
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards funding the salary of a caseworker
£7,747 25/02/2009
Towards funding the salary of a caseworker for a further year.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Part-time caseworker
£14,750 24/01/2008
Towards the salary costs of a part-time caseworker to help Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers and New Travellers' families nationwide.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Employing a part-time caseworker
£15,357 08/02/2007
Towards employing a part-time caseworker for one year in Brighton.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-69
  • BEN STROUD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Digital Marketing Manager
  • DARREN DAVID MARTIN DIGHTON (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Hr Director
  • DOMINIQUE CORBETT Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Occupational Health Trainer
  • ESTHER GENTY STUBBS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Academic
  • HEIDI-VICTORIA IRELAND Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Youth Work Manager
  • JUDY POINTING Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Local Government Officer
  • MARC LAWRENCE WILLERS KC
  • MARIUS TABA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Academic
  • MARTIN MCDONAGH Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Lawyer
  • ROBIN TIMOTHY TORKINGTON Appointed: 1998, Occupation: Electrician
  • SIAN WILLETT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: General Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/11/2005, number: 1112326
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/07/1998, number: 03597515
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
17 returns made; AR11: 15 days late,
Main office

Friends
Families and Travellers
Community Base
113 Queens Road
BRIGHTON

Objectives

TO PROVIDE FOR, AMONG SUCH PERSONS AS ADOPT, WHETHER TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY AND REGARDLESS OF RACE, CULTURE, NATIONALITY OR ETHNIC ORIGINS, A NOMADIC STYLE OR HABIT OF LIFE (HEREIN AFTER REFERRED TO AS 'TRAVELLERS'):1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, ADVOCACY AND COUNSELLING FOR PERSONS IN THE NECESSITOUS SITUATION, IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION3. THE PROMOTION FO GOOD HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS 4. THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND RACIAL HARMONY BY ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE AND NEEDS OF TRAVELLERS AND HIGHLIGHTING THE NEEDS OR AND ISSUES AFFECTING TRAVELLERS 5. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGH FIT INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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