Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

SPORTING FAMILY CHANGE FOUNDATION

Working with Local disadvantaged families, using Sport as a tool of engagement .Primarily the HOPE Programme( Family based Sessions) and Whole based Mentoring.Also supporting young adults with Learning difficulties around their social lives. Activities take place BANES and Wiltshire.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age 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
02/04/23£450£447£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
02/04/22£280£296£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
02/04/21£307£248£59n/an/an/an/an/an/a
02/04/20£167£267£-99n/an/an/an/an/an/a
02/04/19£293£266£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
02/04/18£324£236£88n/an/an/an/an/an/a
01/04/17£279£144£135n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

www.sportingfamilychange.co.uk

info@sportingfamilychange.com

01225552229

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Wiltshire,
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£75,786
Quartet Community Foundation£38,764
Masonic Trust£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sporting Family Change
£1,998 01/12/2023
2
Project will support local teenage girls not in education from the Norton Radstock area to engage in healthy activities improving their physical fitness and fragile mental health.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sporting Family Change
£1,940 19/08/2022
Establish a fully inclusive football club in Norton Radstock open to individuals of all ages and abilities to develop their physical fitness and improve mental health and well-being post pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Fun Fitness for over 65s
£9,993 20/05/2022
The funding will be used to deliver gentle exercise sessions for residents aged 65-100 years old at a sheltered housing complex. The project aims to improve community inclusion for isolated older people as well as improve their physical and mental ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£2,000 23/11/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sporting Family Change
£9,738 21/07/2021
10
To develop the organisation’s capacity and resilience through collaborating with social prescribers, and participating in social prescribing networks.
Quartet Community Foundation - Charity gym equipment
£924 25/06/2021
To purchase equipment, providing inclusive access to gym facilities where inactive vulnerable adults/ young people across B&NES feel comfortable, developing their physical fitness and improving their mental health post pandemic.
Quartet Community Foundation - SFC Coronavirus Food Parcels and Christmas Hampers
£4,850 08/12/2020
To continue to address increasing food poverty across B&NES by delivering essential food parcels to the most vulnerable families, plus providing a Christmas hamper so families can celebrate without worry.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sporting Family Change
£4,563 09/07/2020
To implement a regular supported walking programme for vulnerable parents across B&NES whose mental health has been severely negatively affected by sustained social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sporting Family Change
£9,786 08/07/2020
To continue supporting vulnerable adolescents with pre-existing mental health issues across B&NES.
National Lottery Community Fund - Coronavirus Response Service
£55,801 18/06/2020
8
The funding will be used to help vulnerable families isolated elderly and shielded patients in the local community specifically through food provision and exercise. The project uses sport to empower inspire and motivate local families. It offers an ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sporting Family Change
£4,965 09/04/2020
To provide essential food packages & household items (bread, milk, cereal, canned food, toilet paper) delivering these to support the most vulnerable living in food poverty during Covid-19 pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Project Search - Netball
£9,992 13/12/2019
8
This project will run a series of netball sessions, which will include participation in a local tournament. It is for young people with learning disabilities. The project will alleviate social isolation and improve physical health and wellbeing.
Sport England - H.O.P.E. Programme - Netball
£6,820 25/09/2019
15
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled H.O.P.E. Programme - Netball. This project lists its main activity as Netball
Quartet Community Foundation - Emergency Teenage Mentoring Project
£6,500 02/08/2019
5
Mentoring for young people in Radstock and Midsomer Norton
Quartet Community Foundation - H.O.P.E. Programme - FACES
£4,283 19/04/2018
9
Toward the cost of providing a set of 18 sport and physical exercise family sessions for families with a child/young person on the autism spectrum.
Quartet Community Foundation - Move a Mile, Make A Difference & Jimmy's Angels
£3,000 17/07/2017
6
Towards 4 running groups in deprived Radstock, Twerton, Foxhill and Peasedown St John - called Jimmy's Angels.
Quartet Community Foundation - H.O.P.E.Programme - Teenage Girls
£3,616 02/03/2017
4
To deliver a series of 1:1 sports sessions targeted at supporting vulnerable teenage girls from across Bath & North East Somerset identified as having emotional and behavioural issues.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-63
  • ELIZABETH CHRISTINE BLOOR BSC MRICS Appointed: 2018
  • GARROD JOHN MUSTO Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Teacher
  • JESSICA WICKS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Student
  • KELLY RAE FULLER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Nurse
  • RICHARD BULLARD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Headteacher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/04/2016, number: 1166319
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/03/2015, number: 09507319
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
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

12 Spencer Drive
Midsomer Norton
RADSTOCK
BA3 2DN

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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