Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

POETSIN

To promote the rehabilitation and mental health of those with mental-illness, disabilities, addictions, those who're homeless or imprisoned, at risk of offending/re-offending upon release through the use of creative writing and mentoring to help aid mental wellbeing, reduce anxiety, depression, self- harm and increase self-confidence and self-worth of those who struggle with social anxiety.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
30/09/23£260£235£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/22£265£180£86n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/21£121£104£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/20£118£71£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/19£60£44£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/18£47£35£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

www.poetsin.com

info@poetsin.com

02039240344

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Support for addiction & substance abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old 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
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£81,695
Postcode Places Trust£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,630
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£14,920
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
DCMS£9,882
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to PoetsIN Creative Mental Health Workshops
£1,464 21/10/2023
We would like to provide effective mental health support for children who are managing anxiety, depression and feelings of isolation through school programmes and a buddy service outside of school.
Postcode Places Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£25,000 31/07/2023
The money was spent on staff and overhead costs to enable us to continue delivering our programme in schools, prisons, and the community
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Delivering a project in a hybrid way- through schools, Mind premises (venues TBC) cafes and online.
£24,808 31/03/2023
Art and Creative Mental Health Programmes For 16 to 25 year olds
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting people with mental health illness needs and problems
£9,990 28/10/2022
The funding will be used to deliver creative workshops and wellbeing sessions for young people and adults experiencing mental ill health. The project aims to help people to improve their wellbeing and develop coping mechanisms around the challenges ....more
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Supporting people in Hertfordshire with mental health illness and problems
£9,920 04/10/2022
4
Grant to PoetsIN
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/08/2022
Creative Mental Health Programme - Providing mental health support using a unique, creative and proven programme of support.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Supporting people with mental health issues which have intensified due to the pandemic
£39,408 09/02/2022
Funding will enable us to deliver a portfolio of creative and tested programmes, courses and wellbeing workshops,working at grass roots levels in the community, making the programmes widely accessible throughout Luton, and giving on-going support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Mental Health Programme™ For All
£9,640 21/05/2021
The funding will be used to provide a mental health programme which aims to reduce the symptoms of mental ill-health improve confidence and self-worth and give participants the tools to use in their day-to-day lives.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - PoetsIN In-person Workshops
£5,000 05/10/2020
Grant to PoetsIN
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,882 18/08/2020
"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
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Stream 1 - Delivery or Support Costs
£7,500 09/04/2020
3
Grant to PoetsIN
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to PoetsIN
£9,979 17/02/2020
11
PoetsIN Mental Health Workshops™
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

  • A.MCCART Appointed: 2017
  • BENJAMIN SMYTH Appointed: 2022
  • I.HAWTIN (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • LUCY WILSHER Appointed: 2022
  • MARK WALTERS Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/09/2017, number: 1174754
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • 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
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

POETSIN
ECO INNOVATION CENTRE
PETERSCOURT
CITY ROAD
PETERBOROUGH
PE1 1SA

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO PROMOTE THE REHABILITATION AND THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, DISABILITIES, ADDICTIONS, THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR IMPRISONED OR AT RISK OF OFFENDING / RE-OFFENDING UPON RELEASE FROM PRISON THROUGH THE USE OF CREATIVE WRITING AND MENTORING TO HELP AID MENTAL WELLBEING, REDUCE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, SELF-HARM AND TO INCREASE SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SELF-WORTH OF THOSE WHO STRUGGLE WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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