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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Removed: -50
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    BREATHING SPACE

    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£30£48£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/22£64£44£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/21£33£28£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/20£46£33£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/19£30£29£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/18£29£25£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/17£24£31£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/16£29£23£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/15?£34£47£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/13£11£19£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 12 years
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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    GiG Classification
    • Other facilities management and maintenance
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Durham,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • 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
    National Lottery Community Fund£90,245
    County Durham Community Foundation£8,500
    Sport England£5,050
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    National Lottery Community Fund - Breathing Space XL
    £82,645 19/04/2023
    This funding will be used to provide an expanded programme of activities and opportunities for the promotion of health and wellbeing. The project aims to increase resilience within local communities through programmes which support the strengthening ....more
    County Durham Community Foundation - Get Active, Keep active
    £2,500 19/12/2022
    To support the Get Active, Keep active project.
    Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
    £5,050 01/12/2021
    Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus on older beneficiaries.
    County Durham Community Foundation - Beauty for brokenness
    £1,000 11/11/2021
    To engage older members of the Community to learn a new skill-the Japanese art of Kintsugi.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Walk and talk
    £7,600 21/05/2021
    The funding will be used to provide counselling sessions whilst walking to help people suffering with poor mental health due to the pandemic. The project aims to improve physical and mental health whilst overcoming feelings of grief and loneliness.
    County Durham Community Foundation - Walk & Talk
    £5,000 14/05/2021
    To support a walk and talk project aiming to provide a counselling opportunity.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Breathing Space
    £79,193 16/05/2019
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    BREATHING SPACE
    National Lottery Community Fund - Get Active
    £9,969 03/01/2019
    12
    This funding will be used to deliver weekly gentle seated exercise and Tai Chi sessions for older people in three local villages. This will also provide a series of informative sessions and handouts to raise awareness around health and wellbeing ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £3,000 30/08/2017
    Breathing Space Project
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/08/2012, number: 1148676
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints 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
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    10 returns made; all on time
    Main office


    Objectives

    1)TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH HEALTH PROBLEMS (INCLUDING ISSUES AROUND MENTAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, AS RECOGNISED BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION) IN WITTON GILBERT, SURROUNDING VILLAGES AND THE WIDER NORTH EAST REGION, BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO SPACE, SERVICES, SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES IN AND AROUND THE CHURCH AND LAND OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, WITTON GILBERT AND OTHER LAND AND SPACES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.2)TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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