Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

ESCAPELINE

Escapeline provides education programmes to children & young people, aged 10-18 years, raising awareness of child exploitation and grooming, teaching them what to look out for & protective strategies. We provide training to professionals in education, health, social care & police on child exploitation. We also offer parents awareness workshops, 1-1 parent support services and 2-1 youth work.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

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
31/07/23£175£124£51n/a
31/07/22£109£83£26n/a
31/07/21£107£82£26n/a
31/07/20£50£31£20n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.escapeline.org.uk

enquiries@escapeline.org.uk

07707897008

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Outpatient support services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Dorset, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Somerset, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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
Somerset Community Foundation£67,283
The Fore£30,000
BBC Children in Need£29,939
Postcode Local Trust£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,200
Dorset Community Foundation£13,000
Quartet Community Foundation£12,510
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,500 31/10/2023
Core costs
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Match - Escapeline
£2,000 20/10/2023
Improving support for disadvantaged children and young people
The Fore - Grant to Escapeline
£30,000 01/08/2023
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Escapeline keeps children safe from illegal exploitation and grooming in rural communities most at risk across the South West. Founder and CEO Lisa is a former social worker and child exploitation expert. She leads the charity along with her small ....more
Postcode Local Trust - Project Funding
£20,000 30/06/2023
Funding for 270 counselling sessions: help improve mental health of 45 children/young people in rural areas, exploited by County Lines.
Somerset Community Foundation - Core costs for prevention work and supporting young people and their families in Somerset and Dorset affected by child exploitation
£26,250 22/03/2023
Grant to Escapeline
Dorset Community Foundation - Education and Mentoring Programme
£5,000 20/03/2023
Unrestricted grant to support charity addressing County Lines exploitation
Dorset Community Foundation - Peer Mentoring and Education programme
£4,000 15/02/2023
To support a peer mentoring programme, enabling young people impacted by County Lines exploitation to educate their peers through assembly or small group sessions, and artwork/posters
Somerset Community Foundation - Contribution towards the overheads of a charity addressing county lines gangs, which have risen due to the cost-of-living crisis
£2,250 06/02/2023
Grant to Escapeline
National Lottery Community Fund - County Lines Awareness Programme
£9,500 20/01/2023
The funding will be used to raise awareness of county lines and child criminal exploitation to children and young people. The project aims to prevent participants being drawn into criminal activity and substance abuse by encouraging them to remain ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 25/11/2022
Child Criminal Exploitation Education and Prevention Programme
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Escapeline
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Somerset Community Foundation - Child criminal exploitation workshops at schools in Somerset West and Taunton
£5,000 07/07/2022
Child criminal exploitation workshops at schools in Somerset West and Taunton
Somerset Community Foundation - Business development, including research, website, monitoring and training to address child criminal and sexual exploitation
£12,033 24/05/2022
Business development, including research, website, monitoring and training to address child criminal and sexual exploitation
Somerset Community Foundation - Educator to deliver assemblies and workshops in schools
£4,000 24/03/2022
Educator to deliver assemblies and workshops in schools
Dorset Community Foundation - Child Criminal Expliotation Awareness Assemblies and Workshops
£4,000 14/03/2022
To support Child Criminal Exploitation awareness assemblies and workshops in Dorset schools
Somerset Community Foundation - Targeted support for young people who have become vulnerable to criminal exploitation
£1,500 04/10/2021
Targeted support for young people who have become vulnerable to criminal exploitation
Somerset Community Foundation - County Lines Awareness Assemblies and Resource Pack for Secondary Schools
£5,000 20/08/2021
Funding for County Lines Awareness Assemblies and Resource Packs for Secondary Schools
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 County lines awareness raising resource packs for schools
£5,000 28/05/2021
COVID19 County lines awareness raising resource packs for schools
National Lottery Community Fund - County Lines Community Awareness Project
£9,700 06/04/2021
The organisation will use the funding for a support worker to continue their work preventing the criminal and sexual exploitation of young people aged 10-18 years.
Quartet Community Foundation - Targeted Awareness Project Weston Super Mare
£12,510 02/02/2021
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Targeted education and awareness work in Weston Super Mare to support vulnerable children (and their parents) at risk of exploitation from county line gangs.
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Replacing lost income and ensuring future viability
£5,000 19/01/2021
4
Replacing lost income and ensuring future viability
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Escapeline
£29,439 20/12/2020
This project will provide a targeted support service for children and young people identified as exploited by criminal gangs. The activities will increase safety, increase empowerment and reduced substance misuse.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Escapeline
£3,000 09/12/2020
12
Small Grant unrestricted core costs
Woodward Charitable Trust - Funding Core Costs
£1,000 19/10/2020
Core costs
CAF - Grant to Escapeline
£3,000 26/05/2020
3
Grant to Escapeline to support the organisation through COVID19
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Virtual support for young people exploited by county lines gangs
£1,250 31/03/2020
Virtual support for young people exploited by county lines gangs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CLARE STONE Appointed: 2019
  • GLENN BEAVIS Appointed: 2024
  • KIRSTI JANE NELSON Appointed: 2021
  • LISA MORRIS (Chair) Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/07/2019, number: 1184475
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
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Escapeline
PO Box 987
TAUNTON
Somerset
TA1 9QB

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SOMERSET, DORSET, WILTSHIRE, DEVON ANDCORNWALL, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE POLICE, THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLE AND PROPERTY FROM, AND THE PREVENTION OF, CRIMINAL ACTS. 2. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN EXPLOITED BY CRIMINAL GANGS IN SOMERSET AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES, IN PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, EDUCATION AND PASTORAL SUPPORT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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