Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

TIME TO TALK WEST BERKSHIRE

Time to Talk West Berkshire provides a confidential counselling service, free at the point of delivery, for young people aged 11 to 25 who are resident, in education, training, working or registered with a GP in West Berkshire. It provides counselling from its premises in Newbury, at some schools and through other outreach work, and runs courses.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/03/24£317£324£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£317£318£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£368£261£107n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£265£168£97n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£164£172£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£121£118£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£88£95£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£84£83£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£87£87£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 11 years

www.t2twb.org

office@t2twb.org

01635760331

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • West Berkshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
DCMS£17,070
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
Co-Operative Group£10,473
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Crowdfunder£7,310
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Time to Talk West Berkshire
£4,852 21/10/2023
We would like to be able to provide additional counselling sessions each week to cope with the massive increase in demand that we have been experiencing.
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£7,310 12/09/2022
Covid response
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 01/04/2022
Silver Cloud Mental Health Technology
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Time to Talk West Berkshire
£5,621 23/10/2021
We would like to provide a new online counselling service that's free at the point of access for up to 40 vulnerable young people in West Berkshire.
National Lottery Community Fund - Counselling at Waterside Youth
£10,000 04/06/2021
Time to Talk offers free counselling for young people aged 11-25 and will use the funding to add additional services aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing.It plans to run 'light touch' counselling where a young person attends 1-3 ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 14/10/2020
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£17,070 17/07/2020
"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
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

  • AMANDA HATCHER Appointed: 2021
  • ELIZABETH O'KEEFFE Appointed: 2013
  • GEORGINA PUNTER Appointed: 2016
  • GEOFF HOGG Appointed: 2023
  • JACK MARRIOTT Appointed: 2022
  • JAMES MAUNDER Appointed: 2024
  • PAUL STRATTON Appointed: 2019
  • ROSEMARY LILLEY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • TRACEY LEESON Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/01/2014, number: 1155235
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from NEWBURY FAMILY COUNSELLING SERVICE LIMITED on 07/02/2024
Main office

Time To Talk West Berkshire
4-8 The Broadway
NEWBURY
RG14 1BA

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING OF YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENT, IN EDUCATION, TRAINING, WORKING OR REGISTERED WITH A GP IN WEST BERKSHIRE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING A SERVICE TO PROVIDE COUNSELLING, INFORMATION, ADVICE AND OTHER SUPPORT, TO UNDERTAKE RESEARCH INTO YOUNG PEOPLE'S MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING, AND TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF, AND DO SUCH OTHER THINGS AS MAY COMBAT, THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE NEED FOR SUCH COUNSELLING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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