Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 4

Strong growth: +2
Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

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

Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 7

BEFRIENDERS WORLDWIDE

To improve the emotional and mental health of people who are experiencing feelings of distress and to reduce the incidence of suicide.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity

Financial issues to consider:

There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
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 ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

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
31/12/23		£40	£58	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/22?		£67	£51	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/21		£51	£42	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
29/02/20?		£44	£23	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/18		£59	£42	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/17	*	£24	£19	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/16	*	£7	£1	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/15	*	£7	£15	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/14		£63	£65	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/13		£94	£75	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 13 years

www.befrienders.org

martin@mltdirections.com

07747763554

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

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

GiG Classification

Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Cyprus, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saint Vincent, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Zimbabwe,

Who it helps

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Seafarers UK - Grant to Befrienders Worldwide
£31,000	01/06/2022	Grant funding to deliver emotional support to seafarers via the Befrienders network to seafarers who are suicidal and/or in emotional distress.
Seafarers UK - Grant to Befrienders Worldwide
£16,500	12/03/2021	Grant funding to set up an emotional support service in collaboration with other charities using their new Help App to allow seafarers to contact designated Help centres located in countries which have strong links to shipping.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-79

CHINTA MELANIE PARANAVITHANA Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

DAVID ANDREW BRODTMAN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Psychotherapist

HARINDA FONSECA Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Consultant

LEA ZEINOUN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Public Health Professional

MARGARET LOUISE GALLIANO Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Personal Assistant

MARTIN TAYLOR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director

MERAB MULINDI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Psychologist

NAGESH SOOD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Advocate

NEIL GRANT HAWKINS (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Principal-Education

OSCAR MONTEIRO Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Project Manager

PAULIUS SKRUIBIS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Psychologist

PORNTHIP YOSKITTIPHAT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/03/2012, number: 1146717
Registered at Companies House on 24/02/2012, number: 07964782

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

10 returns made; AR17: 107 days late, AR16: 20 days late, AR15: 40 days late,

Main office

4 CAMBRIDGE TERRACE MEWS
LONDON
NW1 4JJ

Objectives

3.THE CHARITY'S OBJECT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IS TO IMPROVE THE EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING FEELINGS OF DISTRESS AND DESPAIR AND TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF SUICIDE BY,BUT NOT LIMITED TO:-3.1 ENCOURAGING WORLDWIDE THE ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CENTRES SPECIALISING IN THIS WORK; AND3.2 IDENTIFYING BEST PRACTICES AND SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING THE APPLICATION OF THESE PRACTICES BY THE CENTRES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREAT BRITAIN, ARGENTINA , AUSTRALIA , BRAZIL , CHINA , CYPRUS , FRANCE , HONG KONG ,HUNGARY , INDIA , ITALY , JAPAN , KENYA , LITHUANIA , MALAYSIA , MAURITIUS , NEWZEALAND , NORWAY , POLAND , PORTUGAL , REPUBLIC OF IRELAND , SERBIA ,SINGAPORE , SOUTH AFRICA , SPAIN , SRI LANKA , ST VINCENT AND GRENADINES ,SWEDEN , THAILAND , UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , ZIMBABWE

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