Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 8
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

HOPS

HOPS supports people to deal with stress, reduce social isolation and improve wellbeing. Offering holistic therapies and therapeutic activities we support unpaid carers, older people, individuals with chronic health conditions and those living through difficult circumstances.Massage, Reiki and Reflexology therapies are complemented by group activity sessions (yoga, meditation, crafts, singing).
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely female?

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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£32£46£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£38£40£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£77£57£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£70£69£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£69£64£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£42£39£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£31£32£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£35£35£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£53£57£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£34£48£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£48£42£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£38£33£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£8£17£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years

www.healing-sunderland.org.uk

info@healing-sunderland.org.uk

01915483722

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Sunderland,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
The Ballinger Charitable Trust£30,000
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£24,733
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£22,867
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£21,556
National Lottery Community Fund£9,908
DCMS£9,870
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to HOPS Healing Opportunities
£30,000 22/09/2023
24
Unrestricted funding
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Project Funding
£24,733 31/07/2023
Funding supported the delivery of therapies and social engagement to help improve the wellbeing of unpaid carers.
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - HOPS
£5,000 07/06/2023
The funding is for the provision of group activities and individual therapies through partnerships.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to HOPS Healing Opportunities Provision Scheme
£4,556 09/03/2023
Environmentally themed workshops for unpaid carers in houghton le spring
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to HOPS Healing Opportunities Provision Scheme
£5,000 20/01/2022
Salary costs for the part time post of Development Manager in Sunderland
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to HOPS Healing Opportunities Provision Scheme
£10,000 08/07/2021
Core staffing to support the wellbeing of adults living in Sunderland following the Covid-19 pandemic
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting unpaid carers in Sunderland
£9,908 27/05/2021
The funding will be used to pay for a Carers Project Manager to continue to organise and plan weekly one-to-one support for unpaid carers and health and wellbeing activities for them with the aim to reduce isolation and improve wellbeing.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to HOPS Healing Opportunities Provision Scheme
£2,000 13/05/2021
Consultancy support for the trustees to manage the recruitment and handover to a new CEO
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Providing face-to-face and online holistic therapy sessions for unpaid carers living in and around Sunderland over a 3-month period in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
£8,521 18/09/2020
Providing face-to-face and online holistic therapy sessions for unpaid carers living in and around Sunderland over a 3-month period in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - providing recipes and ingredients to unpaid carers living in and around Sunderland over a 3-month period in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
£4,350 04/09/2020
providing recipes and ingredients to unpaid carers living in and around Sunderland over a 3-month period in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,870 27/07/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Running costs to continue to deliver a series of online sessions by the holistic therapists during COVID19 lockdown
£4,998 29/05/2020
Running costs to continue to deliver a series of online sessions by the holistic therapists during COVID19 lockdown
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - running costs to continue to deliver a series of online sessions by the holistic therapists during COVID19 lockdown
£4,998 28/05/2020
running costs to continue to deliver a series of online sessions by the holistic therapists during COVID19 lockdown
People's Health Trust - Carers' Time Out
£20,774 22/08/2019
This 18-month project continued the Trust funded Carers’ Time Out project which provided carers with a monthly day out where they could enjoy a treatment, take part in activity sessions and have a healthy lunch. There was a coffee and activity ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Health & Wellbeing
£10,000 27/03/2019
12
The funding provided will enable more vulnerable people including carers, older people and unemployed people with health issues to access the group's services, which aim to reduce isolation and improve wellbeing.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • GILLIAN GILL Appointed: 2015
  • LESLEY MAUREEN BAREFOOT
  • MARGARET GRAINGER Appointed: 2017
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/09/2010, number: 1137794
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
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
13 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR14: 28 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 248 days late,
Main office

The Old Rectory
The Broadway
Houghton-le-Spring
Tyne And Wear
DH4 4BB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE ORGANISATION ARE TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THEPUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND ANDWALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOTEXCLUSIVELY THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOODHEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY RESPITE, COMPLEMENTARY HEALTHCARE, COURSES,WORKSHOPS AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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