Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

THE WAYFINDERWOMAN TRUST

To promote the social inclusion of women and young girls of working age by building a mutual support community;providing advice, support and training to build their confidence in order to overcome barriers to employment opportunities. To provide an empathic environment to relieve emotional hardship and work alongside organisations to improve employment opportunities and relieve financial hardship.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be 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
  • 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
31/10/23£60£47£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/22£24£21£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/21£25£26£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/20£41£14£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/19£24£25£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/18£19£15£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.wayfinderwoman.com

info@wayfinderwoman.com

01323886171

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups

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£99,875
Sussex Community Foundation£13,773
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£5,000 09/12/2022
24
Building Mentally Strong Women
National Lottery Community Fund - Post Covid recovery
£99,875 30/09/2022
This funding will be used by The WayfinderWoman Trust in Eastbourne to continue and develop their work to promote social inclusion by preventing women and young girls of working age across Eastbourne from becoming socially excluded. The project will ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Wayfinder Woman Trust
£3,779 13/07/2020
The WayfinderWoman Trust is a volunteer led, female run organisation that supports women in building self-confidence and skill sets to overcome barriers to success, providing free workshops, coaching and support. Funding is to enable the ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Wayfinder Woman Trust
£9,994 10/12/2019
11
Funding was provided for a flexible programme of professionally facilitated, free confidence boosting workshops.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Wayfinder Woman Trust
£2,933 18/11/2019
10
Funding was provided to train volunteers in digital skills and update IT equipment.
National Lottery Community Fund - Let Your Voice by Heard
£9,981 28/02/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to run workshops for women to help their improve confidence, discuss equalities issues and to empower them to run peer events.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed

  • ANNEKE LANGFORD-HEBBELINCK Appointed: 2023
  • CHERINE MASKILL Appointed: 2023
  • DAWN REID Appointed: 2024
  • HELEN PECKHAM (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • JILL LOVEGROVE Appointed: 2023
  • KAREN BURRELL Appointed: 2022
  • LYNN BEDFORD Appointed: 2024
  • QUYNH MAI LUONG Appointed: 2024
  • SAMANTHA HARRIS Appointed: 2024
  • TAMMARA ANDERTON Appointed: 2022
  • TRACEY XERXES Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 31/10/2017, number: 1175486
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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

Unit 1
Highlight House
8 St. Leonards Road
EASTBOURNE
East Sussex
BN21 3UH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS OF WORKING AGE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY BY;A) THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND ADVICEB) BUILDING A MUTUAL SUPPORT COMMUNITY ABLE TO NETWORK WITH OTHERS WITH SIMILAR EXPERIENCES WITH THE OBJECT OF PROVIDING INDIVIDUALS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND CONFIDENCE TO OVERCOME BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIESC) ONE TO ONE SUPPORT, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF ENABLING WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS SO THAT THEY HAVE THE SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE TO OVERCOME ANY BARRIERS THAT ARE PREVENTING THEM FROM IDENTIFYING AND PURSUING EMPLOYMENT CHOICES PRIOR TO, AND DURING THEIR WORKING LIVES;D) PROVISION OF ON-LINE AND FACE TO FACE SUPPORT IN AN EMPATHIC, NON-THREATENING ENVIRONMENT WITH THE OBJECT OF RELIEVING EMOTIONAL HARDSHIP;E) WORKING ALONGSIDE ORGANISATIONS TO IMPROVE AND PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN WITH THE OBJECT OF RELIEVING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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