Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

THE SNOWDROP PROJECT

Snowdrop Project exists to empower survivors of human trafficking to live lives that are no longer defined by their past and we work to reduce the risk of those vulnerable to this crime.We provide support to survivors through 1:1 caseworking, befriending and community activities to empower survivors to live independently.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

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£748£859£-110£54£555£5267.32395
31/03/22£747£793£-45£31£665£5999.11990
31/03/21£897£534£364£17£710£60713.61337
31/03/20£534£416£117£29£347£1624.713135
31/03/19£407£297£110n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£274£245£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£229£156£73n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£58£40£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 40%
Liabilities/Income: 49%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 7.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 6.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 10 years

www.snowdropproject.co.uk

info@snowdropproject.co.uk

0333 880 5008

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Support for refugees & asylum seekers
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Awards received
  • CSJ Awards 2021 £100-500k Income
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
Henry Smith Charity£460,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£130,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£100,000
Joseph Rank Trust£95,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£85,250
The Bromley Trust£55,000
DCMS£53,540
Charles Hayward Foundation£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to The Snowdrop Project
£22,000 20/12/2023
An unrestricted grant of £22,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). The Snowdrop Project provides long-term support to survivors of human trafficking across Sheffield through delivering one-to-one support and trauma ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The Snowdrop Project
£180,000 15/03/2023
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towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing support for survivors of human trafficking in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£10,000 30/01/2023
The Snowdrop Project specialises in addressing the long-term needs of survivors of human trafficking and provides them with caseworkers, group and individual counselling, befriending, and community activities. This is an additional one-year ....more
Joseph Rank Trust - Snowdrop Project
£45,000 30/01/2023
To fund the core costs of the charity
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to The Snowdrop Project
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Snowdrop Project
£25,000 25/11/2022
Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Casework programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 21/10/2022
Long-term support for all survivors of human trafficking
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£45,000 04/07/2022
The Snowdrop Project specialises in addressing the long-term needs of survivors of human trafficking and provides them with caseworkers, group and individual counselling, befriending, and community activities. This is a three year unrestricted grant ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering survivors of human trafficking to rebuild their lives
£10,000 01/07/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a holistic range of person led services for those who have experienced human trafficking with a focus on casework support access to expert counselling English lessons and a range of wraparound services The project ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Snowdrop Project
£25,000 29/11/2021
Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Casework programme
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Snowdrop Project
£3,146 23/10/2021
We'd like to provide practical and emotional support aimed at empowering survivors of human trafficking from Sheffield and South Yorkshire to regain their independence and build a positive future.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Snowdrop Project
£50,000 08/09/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of The Snowdrop Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Long term support for survivors of human trafficking
£10,000 23/07/2021
The funding will be used to deliver a programme of activities for those who have been victim of human trafficking with a focus on learning and socialising including sewing classes English lessons parent and toddler groups and dance sessions. The ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 09/07/2021
The Snowdrop Project: diversifying and enhancing long-term support for survivors of trafficking
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to The Snowdrop Project
£20,000 01/07/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. The Snowdrop Project provide person-led, long-term support to survivors of human trafficking in Sheffield and South Yorkshire, through casework support and advice, counselling, community activities, routes to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The Snowdrop Project
£100,000 23/10/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of a project that provides support to survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery who have been further impacted by COVID-19 in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£50,000 23/10/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£3,540 01/10/2020
"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
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - The Snowdrop Project
£31,000 30/09/2020
6
To fund IT infrastructure to enable The Snowdrop Project to continue its work in the COVID era with survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery.
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 support for survivors of trafficking
£10,000 22/05/2020
7
The funding will be used to set up an emergency programme during the COVID-19 pandemic for survivors of trafficking that are extremely vulnerable and already isolated from society due to the traumas they face. The project aims to supply food and to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Snowdrop Project
£33,000 21/05/2020
12
One year core funding to support The Snowdrop Project to sustain their work to support work addressing Trafficking and Modern Slavery Complex Social Issue (CSI) during COVID19
CAF - Grant to The Snowdrop Project
£8,000 19/05/2020
3
Grant to The Snowdrop Project to support the organisation through COVID19
Joseph Rank Trust - Snowdrop Project, Sheffield
£50,000 27/01/2020
To part fund the Project's property scheme
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Snowdrop Project
£180,000 10/12/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to survivors of human trafficking in Sheffield and South Yorkshire
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 06/12/2019
Putting down roots – establishing a permanent base for The Snowdrop Project and providing stability and certainty for survivors of human trafficking in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Snowdrop Project
£100,000 28/11/2019
purchase of a property for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in Sheffield
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to The Snowdrop Project
£2,000 17/10/2019
The Snowdrop Project provides long-term support to survivors of human trafficking in Sheffield. The award was used to support their community engagement activities to enable those who have experienced this trauma to move on from the past and build a ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to The Snowdrop Project
£20,000 10/10/2019
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. The Snowdrop Project seeks to provide long term support to survivors of human trafficking in Sheffield & South Yorkshire including offering one-to-one counselling sessions, community activities and education ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Unlocking Futures
£495,248 23/09/2019
48
Unlocking Futures
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£45,000 23/07/2019
36
The Snowdrop Project specialises in addressing the long-term needs of survivors of human trafficking and provides them with caseworkers, group and individual counselling, befriending, and community activities. This is a three year unrestricted grant ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Snowdrop Project
£4,047 19/11/2018
Laptops, English and 'Readiness for work' classes, can help us open pathways to independence and employment for trafficking survivors.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sharing Hope
£9,385 03/04/2017
12
The group will deliver photography workshops, culminating in an exhibition of work on Anti-Slavery Day, for people who have been subject to human trafficking. This will bring people together to reduce social isolation and promote wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - WGI stage 2
£416,794 22/03/2016
36
Female survivors of trafficking and modern slavery will be referred to the project through safe houses. An assigned caseworker will create a care plan identifying their most pressing needs with access to counselling and other support services and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Unlocking Futures
£10,000 29/07/2015
12
The organisation will use the funding to offer a programme of one-to-one and group support sessions to survivors of trafficking with the aim of developing life skills as well as overcoming barriers to education and employment. This will aim to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

  • DARREN WAKE Appointed: 2019
  • JANET HARWOOD Appointed: 2020
  • JON KENWORTHY Appointed: 2018
  • KHURUM SETHI Appointed: 2023
  • LISA DOMONEY Appointed: 2022
  • SAMANTHA DIXON (Chair) Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/10/2014, number: 1158856
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,
Main office

The Snowdrop Project
Castle Green
7 Castle Street
Sheffield
S3 8LT

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEM BEING, HAVING BEEN, OR BEING AT RISK OF BECOMING, VICTIMS OF SLAVERY OR HUMAN TRAFFICKING, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE INCLUDING CASEWORKING, COUNSELLING, ADVOCACY AND ASSOCIATED SUPPORT SERVICES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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