Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

AURORA FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE ABUSED IN CHILDHOOD

Provision of therapeutic services mainly for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, but also for survivors of childhood physical, emotional and psychological abuse. In addition, the charity has developed a particular focus on helping adult survivors of female sexual abuse in childhood.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • 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*£91£103£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£76£108£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£138£87£51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£101£86£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£85£89£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£99£86£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£79£84£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£84£75£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£62£62£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£54£54£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£55£69£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£76£65£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£44£39£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£28£47£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£49£19£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£17£27£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years

www.aurorafoundation.org.uk

info@aurorafoundation.org.uk

020 8541 1951

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups

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
City Bridge Trust£153,000
National Lottery Community Fund£150,000
The London Community Foundation£27,600
DCMS£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood
£120,000 14/01/2022
£120,000 (£30,000 x 4) over four further and final years for counselling sessions, 2 days p/w contribution to CEO’s salary and contribution to premises and project overheads.
National Lottery Community Fund - Accessible counselling for adult victims of childhood abuse
£150,000 07/06/2021
The group is using funding to provide therapy provision for adults that have experienced abuse during childhood. The funding will enable Aurora to address issues such as loneliness and isolation through their continued counselling but also to ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood
£20,000 22/12/2020
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The funding is for premises and to cover additional counselling and supervision costs up to 31 March 2021. 20 women will be supported through the grant with one to one remote counselling sessions.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 16/09/2020
"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
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood
£7,600 17/07/2020
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood
£4,600 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £4,600, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood
£28,400 26/03/2020
£28,400 made up of £18,400 over one year towards therapists’ fees, clinical supervision, premises and management costs and £10,000 to develop a robust fundraising plan and develop better links with local statutory providers.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 28/11/2019
towards the counselling and support services offered by Aurora
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 57-65
  • CLAIRE BARCHAM Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Social Worker
  • JANE STREET Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Psychologist
  • NATASHA BAIN Appointed: 2022
  • RICK HENDERSON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Ceo
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/05/2007, number: 1119145
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/10/2006, number: 05973221
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR23: 30 days late, AR18: 8 days late, AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR12: 22 days late, AR09: 26 days late,
Main office

Welcare House
53-55 Canbury Park Road
KINGSTON UPON THAMES
Surrey
KT2 6LQ

Objectives

The objects of the Charity (the Objects) are (1) the provision of specialised counselling and psychotherapy; therapeutic community support and bodywork therapies to promote preserve and protect good physical and mental health with the emphasis upon recovery exclusively for adult survivors of childhood trauma/abuse be that sexual, physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual and/or other forms of abuse including neglect. To also raise awareness of the negative post-traumatic effects of childhood abuse and campaign for the prevention of childhood abuse in the form of appropriate training and other activities to various stakeholders. (2) Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.(3) For the purposes of these Articles of Association the Charity’s Area of Benefit is the United Kingdom.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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