Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

EVERY LIFE MATTERS

Our vision is of a community where people can talk openly about suicide, mental health problems and emotional distress. A community where people have the resources and skills to help those experiencing suicidal thoughts and mental health problems, and to support those impacted by, or bereaved by, suicide.
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 since inception
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£363£348£15n/a
31/03/22£473£310£163n/a
31/03/21£280£231£49n/a
31/03/20£201£76£125n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.every-life-matters.org.uk

info@every-life-matters.org.uk

07443479860

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
Cumbria Community Foundation£60,619
DCMS£30,310
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£30,000
Masonic Trust£22,026
National Lottery Community Fund£17,735
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Millionaire Street 2023 10w2
£30,000 23/10/2023
Funding helped provide suicide prevention training and to support individuals, families and communities bereaved by suicide
National Lottery Community Fund - Lived Experience Champions
£9,652 17/02/2023
The funding will be used to create suicide prevention material by people that have lived experience of suicide suicidal thoughts and suicide bereavement. The project aims to provide real life experiences within their resources to help people with ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Mental Health Football
£8,060 15/12/2022
11
Mental Health Football
Cumbria Community Foundation - Suicide Safer North Cumbria
£33,250 21/09/2021
Suicide Safer North Cumbria
Masonic Trust - MCF Freemasons COVID-19 Community Fund
£22,026 05/07/2021
The grant will fund the development and pilot of the Suicide Safer Schools programme in 3 - 5 schools in West Cumbria, to raise awareness of suicide prevention, understanding help seeking behaviour and train select staff in suicide intervention. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Suicide Safer Toolkit
£8,083 25/03/2021
11
The funding will be used to develop and pilot a suicide safer toolkit within local businesses community organisations and faith groups. The project aims to increase suicide prevention knowledge and skills within organisations helping to build ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - HS 2021 Donor Directed
£500 11/03/2021
HS 2021 Donor Directed
Cumbria Community Foundation - Self-harm Safe Kit
£3,409 03/12/2020
Self-harm Safe Kit
Cumbria Community Foundation - Expansion of Suicide Bereavement Support in West Cumbria
£6,600 19/11/2020
Expansion of Suicide Bereavement Support in West Cumbria
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£30,310 03/07/2020
"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
Cumbria Community Foundation - Suicide and self-harm prevention
£5,000 06/05/2020
8
Suicide and self-harm prevention
Cumbria Community Foundation - Staff and publicity costs
£3,800 22/04/2020
3
To print and distribute mental health booklet across South Cumbria.
National Lottery Community Fund - Suicide Safer Communities and Suicide Bereavement Service
£312,959 22/08/2019
60
Suicide Safer Communities and Suicide Bereavement Service
National Lottery Community Fund - Suicide Safer Copeland
£9,758 31/01/2019
12
The funding will be used to develop a suicide prevention programme that aims to reduce deaths by suicide, tackle stigma and increase levels of support and information for those affected.The money will go towards staff support, suicide alertness ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANITA MARGARET KERRIGAN Appointed: 2019
  • ESTHER KIRBY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Education Transformation Manager
  • JANE HELEN MATHIESON Appointed: 2021
  • JASPER CHICAGO KIRKMAN Appointed: 2019
  • LISA BIRDSALL Appointed: 2022
  • MRS KATHERINE JANE BAINBRIDGE (Chair) Appointed: 2018
  • REBECCA OSBOURNE Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/11/2018, number: 1180815
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

BULLS HEAD
SHAP
PENRITH
CUMBRIA
CA10 3NG

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL IN CUMBRIA AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS RELATING TO SUICIDE, SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR AND SUICIDE BEREAVEMENT BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, AWARENESS RAISING AND PUBLIC EVENTS TO PROMOTE THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE IN CUMBRIA AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WHO ARE BEREAVED OR OTHERWISE IMPACTED BY SUICIDE BY THE PROVISION OF ADVOCACY, COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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