Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

CHUMS CHARITY

Mental health and emotional wellbeing support services
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • 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 well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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
31/05/23£541£551£-10£191£93£851.9415
31/05/22£357£350£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/21£427£408£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/20£450£416£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/19*£167£124£43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 35.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 34.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 1.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 6.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 6 years

http://chumscharity.org

sue.clarke@chumscharity.org

01525863924

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Specialty hospitals (incl psychiatric)
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
DCMS£85,569
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£80,797
Harpur Trust£61,950
Masonic Trust£60,000
Alex Ferry Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,114
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£60,000 28/05/2024
Trauma service for children and young people in Luton and Bedfordshire
Alex Ferry Foundation - AFF communuity grant
£10,000 16/01/2023
community grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Trauma Service for Children and Young People
£9,114 19/08/2022
The funding will be used to increase capacity to provide more specialist psychological interventions for children and young people experiencing trauma and develop an animation film for those being referred to understand the help they will receive. ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Recreational Therapeutic Football and Music Groups with a BAME focus
£15,297 09/02/2022
This project will give 60 children age 8-11 in Dallow, Farley Hill and Northwell Wards access to therapeutic music and football programmes. These will engage children from communities experiencing racial inequality in activities paired with CBT ....more
Harpur Trust - CHUMS CIC
£41,750 08/06/2021
Trauma Service Support for Extra Referrals - covid
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Disability Friendship Scheme
£4,500 26/04/2021
Friendship Scheme for children and young people
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to CHUMS Charity
£39,750 25/03/2021
23
Extra Referrals for the Trauma Service
Harpur Trust - CHUMS CIC
£20,200 09/03/2021
Further support for the Bedfordshire Suicide Bereavement Service (BSBS)
True Colours Trust - Towards the Disability Friendship Scheme for youth – COVID19 response
£5,000 06/10/2020
Towards the Disability Friendship Scheme for youth – COVID19 response
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£75,969 29/09/2020
"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 - Bereavement Support (Specifically Suicide)
£9,600 23/09/2020
5
Grant to CHUMS Charity
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,600 23/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to CHUMS Charity
£4,500 12/06/2020
5
Disability Friendship Scheme
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Stream 1 - Delivery or Support Costs
£7,150 15/05/2020
3
Grant to CHUMS Charity
National Lottery Community Fund - CHUMS Trauma Service
£139,800 24/10/2019
36
CHUMS Trauma Service
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Friends of Chums
£6,000 09/05/2019
11
Disability Friendship Scheme
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - CHUMS Friendship Scheme
£7,500 21/03/2018
11
Grant to Friends of Chums
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-66
  • ANDREW MARK CARTER (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
  • DAWN HEWITT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Ceo
  • HANNAH TOUHEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Voluntary Services Manager
  • JENNY COLES CBE Appointed: 2023
  • JESSICA MARGARET ANN COSTANZO Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Commercial Director
  • KEVIN MCNAMARA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Babies And Children'S Worker
  • SHARON KNOTT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/07/2018, number: 1179048
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/06/2018, number: 11427513
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR19: 31 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from FRIENDS OF CHUMS on 10/02/2021
  • Asset transfer in from DUNSTABLE AND DISTRICT DISABLED SPORTS on 09/11/2021
Main office

Chums
Wrest Park Enterprise Centre
Wrest Park
Silsoe
BEDFORD
MK45 4HS

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND TO ASSIST IN RELIEVING AND REHABILITATING PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDER OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AFFECTED BY BEREAVEMENT, TRAUMA AND OTHER EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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