Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 4

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 1

FRIENDS OF LARCHWOOD

Larchwood is a purpose built 64 bedded care home offering Dementia and Respite care. The Friends aim to improve the quality of life of the residents of the care home by working with staff, residents and relatives.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/03/23		£4	£1	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£3	£0	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£1	£1	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20	*	£1	£2	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£2	£5	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£12	£8	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

02073072570

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Residential nursing care facilities

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - AI-driven automatic regression creation for digital IC design
£28,006	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10029157
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Friends of Larchwood
£843	23/10/2021	We would like to buy: Echo Dots so residents can make daily tasks hands-free, listen to music, news; and active mind resources, outdoor games to relieve residents' monotony in lockdown.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ARLENE DHALLA Appointed: 2019

BERYL HAMMOND Appointed: 2021

JADE SMITH Appointed: 2021

SUSAN NURCOMBE Appointed: 2019

DAVID WOOD OBE (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Other trusteeships: FRIENDS OF AMARNA HOUSE, FRIENDS OF ONE TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, FRIENDS OF CEDAR HOUSE, FRIENDS OF ASHGROVE, THE FRIENDS OF ASTON HOUSE, THE FRIENDS OF ACACIA MEWS, FRIENDS OF MILLINER HOUSE, FRIENDS OF ACORN LODGE, THE FRIENDS OF AVERY PLACE, FRIENDS OF NEWCROSS CARE HOME, THE FRIENDS OF HORSE FAIR, THE FRIENDS OF CUMBERLAND NURSING HOME,

MATTHEW SWAN Appointed: 2017, Other trusteeships: ATTEND, THE FRIENDS OF ACACIA MEWS, FRIENDS OF ACORN LODGE, THE FRIENDS OF AVERY PLACE, FRIENDS OF NEWCROSS CARE HOME, THE FRIENDS OF HORSE FAIR,

NICHOLE WHEATON Appointed: 2015, Other trusteeships: FRIENDS OF AMARNA HOUSE, FRIENDS OF ONE TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, FRIENDS OF OAKLANDS CARE HOME, FRIENDS OF CEDAR HOUSE, FRIENDS OF ASHGROVE, THE FRIENDS OF ASTON HOUSE, THE FRIENDS OF ACACIA MEWS, FRIENDS OF MILLINER HOUSE, FRIENDS OF ACORN LODGE, THE FRIENDS OF AVERY PLACE, FRIENDS OF NEWCROSS CARE HOME, THE FRIENDS OF HORSE FAIR, THE FRIENDS OF CUMBERLAND NURSING HOME,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/09/2017, number: 1174711

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; AR20: 6 days late,

Main office

11-13 CAVENDISH SQUARE
LONDON
W1G 0AN

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE SOCIAL ISOLATION OF THE ELDERLY IN LARCHWOOD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES OVER AND ABOVE THOSE PROVIDED FOR THE RESIDENTS OF LARCHWOOD, PARTICULARLY WITH A VIEW TO HELPING THE RESIDENTS OF THE CARE HOME AND ELDERLY PEOPLE IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY UNDERTAKE REWARDING ACTIVITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

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