Finance Score: 7

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 7

Strong growth: +2
Future income +5
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 20

ACHIEVE CHANGE AND ENGAGEMENT ACE

Achieve Change and Engagement has built up a reputation for delivering quality work that makes a difference to the lives of young people and influences adult decisions. It has enabled young people to influence services and the work force to improve social inclusion of all young people and especially those with poor mental health.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

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		£251	£237	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£209	£192	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£234	£201	£33	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£154	£140	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£134	£128	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£98	£90	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£72	£71	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£49	£40	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£33	£35	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14	*	£64	£40	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£98	£73	£25	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.a-c-e.org.uk

admin@a-c-e.org.uk

07717316883

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Recreation
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

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

BBC Children in Need	£122,191
Masonic Trust	£14,500
National Lottery Community Fund	£8,956
Westminster Foundation	£3,750
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside	£2,684

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to ACE Achieve Change and Engagement
£91,745	07/08/2023	This grant supports delivery of therapy sessions for traumatised young people. It will help by increasing their access to safe spaces, improving their ability to manage their emotions, and their sense of self-worth.
Westminster Foundation - Discretionary grant - Achieve, Change and Engagement (A.C.E) - 05/12/2023
£2,500	12/05/2023 1	2023 Charity of the Year Allocation
Westminster Foundation - Discretionary grant - Achieve, Change and Engagement (A.C.E) - 05/12/2023
£1,250	12/05/2023 1	2023 Christmas Card Grant
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£14,500	21/02/2023	Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Supporting Young Men
£2,684	18/11/2022	The funding will be used to provide one to one talking therapy sessions specifically for young men.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to ACE Achieve Change and Engagement
£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’
National Lottery Community Fund - Reach
£8,956	19/03/2021 12	The funding will be used to employ a triage member of staff in order to more effectively reach and support young people aged between 11 – 25 referred to the service for support with emotional and poor mental health issues. The project aims to ....more The funding will be used to employ a triage member of staff in order to more effectively reach and support young people aged between 11 – 25 referred to the service for support with emotional and poor mental health issues. The project aims to drastically reduce the time YP are kept waiting without any support.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to ACE Achieve Change and Engagement
£29,946	20/12/2020	This project will deliver person-centred counselling for children and young people in Lancaster, Fylde and Wyre with poor emotional health, helping children become more emotionally well, positively empowered and with stronger self-belief.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to ACE Achieve Change and Engagement
£29,955	13/03/2018 36	This project will deliver bespoke one to one and group support sessions for vulnerable young people across Lancaster and Morecambe on a weekly basis to improve their emotional health, positively empower them and to increase self belief.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Achieve Change and Engagement
£73,401	28/11/2017 36	to deliver person centred solution focussed therapeutic work to young people aged 17-25yr who are experiencing poor mental health and have been under the care of the community mental health team and/or a psychiatric ward
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Achieve Change and Engagement
£15,000	09/09/2015 12	supporting young people aged 17-25 transitioning from child mental health services to adult mental health services. The grant will fund staff time, venue hire, expenses, training and publicity costs.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

CHRISTOPHER DUNCAN MILLER WELSBY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Quantity Surveyor

ELINOR HARRIS Appointed: 2023

HELEN BELBIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Senior Education Adviser

NICOLA MIDDLEHURST Appointed: 2024

PAUL ANTHONY CALLIS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired

SALLY TEMPLE BA HONS Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Youth & Community Worker/Manager

SIMON KAY (Chair) Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/05/2012, number: 1147278

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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
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

Filing Record

11 returns made; AR14: 17 days late,

Main office

18 Sun Street
LANCASTER
LA1 1EW

Objectives

OBJECT 1 YOUNG PEOPLETO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN ENGLAND AND WALES BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:- ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE INDIVIDUALS;- ADVANCING EDUCATION;- RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;- PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.OBJECT 2 SOCIAL INCLUSIONTO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

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