Finance Score: 8

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Liabilities <10%: +3
Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 20

FAMILY SOCIETY

The Family Society is an adoption agency which prepares and approves potential adoptive parents and supports families with adopted children.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has a robust balance sheet
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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

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		£3,264	£2,573	£691	£22	£2,334	£2,293	10.7	44	94
31/03/22		£2,371	£2,111	£260	£32	£1,565	£1,502	8.5	54	86
31/03/21	*	£2,346	£1,769	£577	£0	£1,250	£1,240	8.4	34	116
31/03/20		£1,690	£1,648	£42	£0	£732	£732	5.3	33	32
31/03/19		£1,949	£1,407	£542	£0	£692	£692	5.9	27	122
31/03/18		£1,426	£1,382	£44	£0	£171	£158	1.4	27	0
31/03/17		£1,394	£1,339	£54	£0	£107	£106	1	27	0
31/03/16		£948	£1,436	£-488	£0	£93	£88	0.7	28	0
31/03/15		£1,233	£1,212	£20	£6	£576	£512	5.1	22	0
31/03/14		£990	£929	£60	£8	£624	£613	7.9	14	0
31/03/13		£747	£568	£179	£8	£541	£532	11.2	10	0
31/03/12		£590	£512	£78	£6	£393	£393	9.2	8	0
31/03/11		£400	£442	£-42	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£702	£354	£349	£5	£349	£349	11.8	9	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 10.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 5.4

Asset Split ?

Established: 15 years

www.adoptionfocus.org.uk

info@adoption-focus.org.uk

02077696741

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

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

GiG Classification

Services for families & carers

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

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

Who works here?

44 employees
94 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

Department for Education	£308,112
Comic Relief	£69,050
DCMS	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Comic Relief - Adoption Focus Adopterverse
£69,050	28/04/2021	We want to use technology to bring outstanding support to an increasing number of adopters and potential adopters, located across a wide geographic area. In expanding our area of operation, we aim to ....more We want to use technology to bring outstanding support to an increasing number of adopters and potential adopters, located across a wide geographic area. In expanding our area of operation, we aim to significantly increase the choice of adoptive homes for some of the country?s most vulnerable children, enabling them to find the best match possible for their unique needs and circumstances. Adoption Focus has a tremendous track record of helping children to survive and thrive. Founded in 2009, we have successfully placed over 500 children with our amazing adopters. Rapidly moving to remote digital delivery in 2020, we have continued to recruit, train, assess and approve adopters who can provide stable homes for a range of children who?ve had a very difficult start in life. Major growth will involve expansion of our services into the East Midlands and South East. Listening and responding to our community, need to make it possible and easy for parents of adopted children to connect across this larger area. We need to help adopters find peers from across the country with similar experiences, views and challenges, so they can develop close relationships and an even stronger network. By facilitating these connections, our expansion to new areas will better prepare and support parents to provide secure homes for adoptive children, now and into the future. The approach suggested by our tech partner involves: review of existing research; agree success criteria; design and test prototype; build prototype to deliver a Minimum Viable Product (MVP); review success of MVP and refine. Without in any way compromising the quality of our services, we want to re-purpose existing technology to: ? Ensure all of our adopters can connect easily, meaningfully and securely with each other ? Equip and empower our families to build a powerful and complex network of support, based on a self-defined range of interests Together, we can find a way to mobilise this vast and untapped support network for the benefit of vulnerable children and their families.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000	15/07/2020	"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."
Department for Education - Voluntary Adoption Agency (VAA) grant
£308,112	01/04/2020	To support frontline charities to continue to deliver existing services to children and families - in particular for VAAs to continue to support prospective adopters in stages 1 and 2 of the adopter ....more To support frontline charities to continue to deliver existing services to children and families - in particular for VAAs to continue to support prospective adopters in stages 1 and 2 of the adopter approval process and to continue the provision of support, both peer group and specialist support, to children and their families. The funding enabled VAAs to remain operational and continue service provision during the pandemic rather than close or furlough frontline staff.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-72

HELEN RUTH CHILD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Public Servant

JOHN CHARLES GERARD BALE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Management Consultant

MS JANET FOSTER Appointed: 2012

MARK GREGORY TOBIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Independent Social Worker

ANTHONY GEORGE LAWTON OBE Appointed: 2013, Other trusteeships: HANBURY CHARITY, LANGTON COMMUNITY HALL CHARITY,

SANJEEV KUMAR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Administrator

BENJAMIN DAVID JAMES Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeships: THE PRINCE'S FOUNDATION FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY, THE PRINCE'S REGENERATION TRUST, TRIANGLE PROJECT, DARTMOOR ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE WORLD FOUNDATION, Intisar Foundation, WORLD HOPE INTERNATIONAL UK,

DR GRAHAM HARWOOD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: TRIANGLE PROJECT,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/04/2009, number: 1129095
Registered at Companies House on 03/04/2009, number: 06869556

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

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
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

14 returns made; AR21: 88 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from FAITH IN FAMILIES on 24/05/2022

Main office

Family Society Adoption Focus
Ts3
Pinewood Court
Coleshill Road
Marston Green
BIRMINGH

Objectives

1 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH GRANTS, GOODS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE2 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH3 THE SUPPORT, RELIEF AND CARE AND, THE PROMOTION THEREOF, OF* CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITHOUT FAMILIES TO CARE FOR THEM, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADOPTION AND FOSTERING SERVICES* INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES SEEKING TO ADOPT AND/OR FOSTER CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE* FAMILIES COMPRISING ADOPTED AND FOSTER CHILDREN* CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE* THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE* THE CARERS OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPHS 3.1.3.1, 3.1.3.2 AND 3.1.3.5* INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS WHO ARE IN NEED; AND* THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP4 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATIONAL OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND5 ANY ACTIVITY WHICH IS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, SAVE THAT IF ANY ACTIVITY IS UNDERTAKEN IN SCOTLAND OR NORTHERN IRELAND, SUCH ACTIVITY SHALL ALSO BE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH ACTIVITY IS UNDERTAKEN

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, ENGLAND.

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