Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

SANCTUARY FAMILY SUPPORT

Sanctuary Family Support provides:- 1-1 support, advice, counselling, advocacy, home visits, referrals, peer to peer group, relapse prevention, health & wellbeing workshops, holistic therapies, drug education and information, sign posting, family cohesion activities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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:

  • 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
30/06/23£103£94£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/22£87£84£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/21£92£83£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/20£113£91£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/19£76£88£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/18£102£99£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/17£101£100£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/16£129£98£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.sanctuaryfs.com

ruth@sanctuaryfs.org

01517350747

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Outpatient support services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton,
Who it helps
  • 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
John Moores Foundation£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£7,500
DCMS£3,548
Co-Operative Group£1,971
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Moores Foundation - Grant to SANCTUARY Family Support
£10,000 03/05/2023
Towards the Counsellor
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£7,500 08/02/2022
towards a part-time counsellor (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sanctuary Family Support
£1,971 23/10/2021
Our goal is to provide healthy activities and days out for our carers to ensure they are healthy in body and mind.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,548 19/06/2020
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John Moores Foundation - Grant to SANCTUARY Family Support
£15,000 23/09/2019
Towards the salary of the Counsellor
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting and Stabilising Lives Succession Programme
£266,938 26/06/2019
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John Moores Foundation - Grant to SANCTUARY Family Support
£11,423 01/02/2018
Towards the salary of the Family Support Worker
National Lottery Community Fund - Sanctuary - Supporting and Stabilizing Lives
£254,670 27/02/2015
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CHRISTINA DEMPSEY Appointed: 2022
  • DRUSILLA CLARKE LLB, DIP C Appointed: 2003
  • JUNE HUDSON Appointed: 2014
  • MADELEINE VAZ DIPC (Chair) Appointed: 1999
  • ROY DAVIS CIPD Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/05/2015, number: 1161537
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

322-326 Upper Parliament Street
LIVERPOOL
L8 7QL

Objectives

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AMONGST PERSON SUFFERING FROM SUBSTANCE MISUSE BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT,ADVICE AND COUNSELLING FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO SUBSTANCE MISUSE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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