Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

NAVIGATE

Navigate CIO provides specialist money and debt advice and financial education services to individuals and families facing financial hardship and exclusion by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or another disadvantage in Somerset and Devon. Our services are predominately delivered through home visits but outreach and telephone appointments are also available.
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

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
31/03/24£815£755£60£0£124£1221.9180
31/03/23£557£581£-24£0£64£440.9180
31/03/22£637£634£3£0£88£420.8131
31/03/21£595£538£56£5£85£380.9120
31/03/20£446£417£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 34%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 1.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 2.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 6 years

www.navigatecharity.org.uk

enquiries@navigatecharity.org.uk

01823299050

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Devon, Somerset,
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
National Lottery Community Fund£534,695
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
Somerset Community Foundation£150,891
Access to Justice Foundation£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Navigate Charity
£180,000 14/06/2023
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing a money and debt advice service for people from disadvantaged communities in Somerset and Devon.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Navigate CIO
£975 12/06/2023
As advised by donor towards debt advice.
National Lottery Community Fund - Transitions - Wis£rmoney Partnership Continuation
£403,677 23/02/2023
The funding will be used to deliver financial inclusion and advice services for vulnerable people across two deeply rural Devon districts West Devon and Torridge. The project aims to promote inclusion and wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Transitions - Wis£rmoney Partnership
£131,018 24/03/2022
The project is using funding towards the Transitions project delivering financial inclusion and advice services for vulnerable people across two deeply rural Devon districts West Devon and Torridge. The aim is to improve the lives and financial ....more
Somerset Community Foundation - Navigate the Money Maze
£150,891 05/11/2020
38
To provide financial education to the community through delivery of innovative and engaging workshops, with the intention of eliminating financial hardship for future generations.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£50,000 14/09/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Navigate CIO
£3,600 18/05/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT and telephone equipment for a charity supports people with disabilities financial inclusion/advice services in Devon
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach Financial Support
£10,000 23/08/2019
12
Outreach Financial Support
National Lottery Community Fund - TRANSITIONS
£380,413 24/07/2019
36
The funding will go towards continuing and expanding a successful programme which offers financial inclusion and advice services. It will go towards covering service and staff costs and events for service users. The project is a partnership between ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANDREW HUNTER ROBERTSON PRITCHARD Appointed: 2019
  • CLAUDIA MCVIE Appointed: 2023
  • DAWN CHRISTA VINCENT Appointed: 2023
  • DAVID CHARLES COOKE Appointed: 2022
  • JEREMY SIMON ELLISON Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/02/2019, number: 1182020
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Navigate CIO
4 King Square
BRIDGWATER
Somerset
TA6 3YF

Objectives

(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING A RANGE OF IMPARTIAL MONEY ADVICE AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO PEOPLE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, INCLUDING THOSE WITH DEBT PROBLEMS AND THOSE ENCOUNTERING FUEL POVERTY OR FINANCIAL EXCLUSION, TO HELP THEM ACHIEVE GREATER FINANCIAL RESILIENCE AND CAPABILITY;(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL FINANCES, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON ISSUES RELATING TO FINANCIAL EXCLUSION AND BUILDING INDIVIDUAL FINANCIAL RESILIENCE AND CAPABILITY; AND(3) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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