Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

HEADWAY DARLINGTON AND DISTRICT

Our charity is dedicated to rebuilding lives after brain injury for survivors and families. We cover Darlington, South Durham, Teesside, Hambleton and Richmondshire, delivering services and activities based at The Headway Hub in Darlington. As well as arts and crafts, trips out, ten-pin bowling, discussion groups and advice and information, we run awareness sessions and fundraising activities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

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£32£29£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£28£38£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£39£25£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21?£31£21£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/20?£19£16£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/18£10£16£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/17£16£13£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/01/16£11£4£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

www.headwaydarlington.org.uk

info@headwaydarlington.org.uk

01325 465704

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Darlington, Durham, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, Stockton-on-tees,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
County Durham Community Foundation£14,100
National Lottery Community Fund£9,900
Co-Operative Group£6,781
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
County Durham Community Foundation - Bouncing Back
£5,000 09/12/2021
To continue offering the gym facilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - The other side of Covid for brain injury survivors
£9,900 19/11/2021
The funding will be used to deliver a varied social programme of activities for people who have acquired brain injuries in the North East. This will encourage them to user their restricted abilities to become more active engaging them in gym ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Headway Darlington & District
£6,781 23/10/2021
Our members will be empowered to engage in a range of activities to help them to improve their cognition, develop social skills and improve confidence to re-integrate into the community.
County Durham Community Foundation - Headway Darlington - Keeping Connected through COVID
£9,100 05/06/2020
To keep connected through COVID.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Headway Darlington and District
£6,089 29/11/2017
We want to establish a Headway Hub in Darlington to provide services for people with acquired brain injury, their families and carers.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 49-70
  • ALASTAIR MICHAEL ELLIOT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor
  • DAVID DORMAN-SMITH Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired
  • DAVID TARTTELLIN Appointed: 2024
  • DOROTHY BARCLAY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Carer
  • GARY HENRY EMERSON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • GEOFFREY FIELD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/03/2015, number: 1160772
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/01/2015, number: 09413112
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • 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
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

Headway Hub Darlington
Unit 1F
Enterprise House
Valley Street North
DARLINGTON
County D

Objectives

(1) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN DARLINGTON AND DISTRICT AND SURROUNDING AREAS, WHO HAVE SUFFERED A BRAIN INJURY, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS AND OTHER RELATED PROFESSIONALS BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH INFORMATION, SERVICE AND FACILITIES. (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS RELATING TO BRAIN INJURY AND ITS PREVENTION.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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