Finance Score: 10
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 27 ?

TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE

Trauma Informed services for individuals of any age or gender affected by sexual violence. Counselling for adults and young people, play therapy for children. Information, advice, wellbeing, family and group support. Specialist training, prevention and awareness raising. Also supporting sector research. Based in Preston and with key locations county wide and outreach work across Lancashire.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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
31/03/23£729£544£184£11£338£2014.41720
31/03/22£555£591£-36£0£153£1322.71820
31/03/21£459£363£96n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£257£239£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£428£353£75n/an/an/an/an/an/a
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 60%
Reserves/Spending: 4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 11.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 7 years

www.trusthouselancs.org

office@trusthouselancs.org

01772 825288

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lancashire,
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
Ministry of Justice£267,204
National Lottery Community Fund£265,170
Henry Smith Charity£170,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£85,250
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Development
£10,000 16/12/2022
The funding will be used to engage the services of an expert in digital technologies for the not-for-profit sector. The project aims to improve the capacity and efficiency of the organisation’s digital infrastructure to deal with increasing demand ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Trust House Lancashire
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Trust House Lancashire
£170,000 25/08/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support for individuals who have been subjected to sexual abuse or violence in Lancashire.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Trust House Lancashire
£50,000 29/07/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Trust House Lancashire
Ministry of Justice - COVID-19 Extraordinary National Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Fund
£33,102 26/03/2021
To provide additional funding to allow national helpline providers and rape & sexual abuse support fund grant recipients to increase remote support in providing the Activities included in the grant agreement during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ministry of Justice - Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Fund
£201,000 01/01/2021
To provide additional funding to allow national helpline providers and rape & sexual abuse support fund grant recipients to increase remote support in providing the Activities included in the grant agreement during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£2,000 20/11/2020
Weston Charity Award Bonus
Ministry of Justice - Support for charities providing support services for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence
£24,563 12/11/2020
Provision of Victim Services
Ministry of Justice - Support for charities providing support services for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence
£8,539 22/06/2020
Provision of Victim Services
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Trust House Lancashire
£33,000 21/05/2020
12
One year core funding to support Trust House Lancashire to sustain their work to support work addressing Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Complex Social Issue (CSI) during COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Children and Young People's Lead Therapist
£255,170 27/02/2020
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The aim of the organisation is to support survivors of sexual violence through counselling, peer support groups, advice and a variety of activities to help their wellbeing. Funding will go towards specialist staff enabling the project to offer ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500 31/05/2019
WCA Winner 2019-202 Cohort
National Lottery Community Fund - Assessment/Intervention/Moving on
£10,000 23/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to provide training to address problematic or sexually harmful behaviour in children and young people. The aim is to ensure work can be delivered to children and young people at an earlier stage to address this behaviour, ....more
Ministry of Justice - Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Fund
£134,000 01/04/2019
To provide independent, specialist support to female and male victims of rape and sexual abuse, including victims of child sexual abuse.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • DAVID O'BYRNE Appointed: 2023
  • GRAHAM COULSTON-HERRMANN (Chair) Appointed: 2018
  • LIAM GOGGIN Appointed: 2022
  • LYNDSAY NICHOLSON Appointed: 2020
  • PETER DOBSON Appointed: 2021
  • SALLY JONES Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/10/2017, number: 1174925
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
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

P O Box 1355
PRESTON
PR2 0UE

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE ARE:3.1 RELIEVE THE TRAUMA, WHETHER PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL OR PHYSICAL, OF PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED OR OTHERWISE SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF RAPE, OTHER SEXUAL ASSAULT, SEXUAL ABUSE OR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF ANY KIND.3.2 PROVIDE SUPPORT, HELP OR ASSISTANCE OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER TO PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED OR OTHERWISE SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF RAPE, OTHER SEXUAL ASSAULT, SEXUAL ABUSE OR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF ANY KIND.3.3 TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF RAPE, SEXUAL ABUSE OR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND/OR ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS.3.4 PROMOTE AND PARTICIPATE IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN RELATION TO:(I) COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN RELATION TO THE TRAUMAS SET OUT IN 3.1 ABOVE AND THEIR EFFECT UPON INDIVIDUALS;(II) THE TRAUMAS SET OUT IN 3.1 ABOVE AND THEIR EFFECT UPON INDIVIDUALS; AND(III) RAPE, OTHER SEXUAL ASSAULT, SEXUAL ABUSE OR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.3.5 PROMOTE, PARTICIPATE IN AND PROVIDE TRAINING IN RELATION TO:(I) COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN RELATION TO THE TRAUMAS SET OUT IN 3.1 ABOVE AND THEIR EFFECT UPON INDIVIDUALS;PAGE | 2(II) THE TRAUMAS SET OUT IN 3.1 ABOVE AND THEIR EFFECT UPON INDIVIDUALS; AND(III) RAPE, OTHER SEXUAL ASSAULT, SEXUAL ABUSE OR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.3.6 PREVENT RAPE, SEXUAL ABUSE OR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION THROUGH TRAINING AND EFFECTIVE AND APPROPRIATE SUPPORT SERVICES TO PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES AT RISK OF BEING SUBJECTED TO SAID ABUSE.IN EACH CASE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE 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]

Defined Area of Benefit:

LANCASHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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