Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 7

CHRYSALIS CENTRE FOR CHANGE

We offer a range of support services to women in St Helens and surrounding areas who are struggling with the impact of mental health issues and domestic abuse. Services include one-to-one counselling, a bereavement support program, courses for confidence, anxiety management and managing depression, weekly groups for mental health support, domestic abuse support and therapeutic arts and crafts.

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
31/12/23	£330	£308	£22	n/a
31/12/22	£255	£219	£36	n/a
31/12/21	£143	£171	£-27	n/a
31/12/20	£0	£0	£0	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.chrysaliscentreforchange.co.uk

chrysaliscentreforchange@gmail.com

01744451309

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

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

St Helens,

Who it helps

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

Postcode Neighbourhood Trust	£24,534
John Moores Foundation	£15,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside	£10,000
Indigo Trust	£2,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Grant to Chrysalis Centre for Change
£10,000	09/02/2023	The grant would ensure the group can continue to change the lives of thousands of women and work towards changing attitudes by having honest conversations about mental health and domestic abuse. The group requires funding towards their salary costs ....more The grant would ensure the group can continue to change the lives of thousands of women and work towards changing attitudes by having honest conversations about mental health and domestic abuse. The group requires funding towards their salary costs and to bring in an external professional to offer advice and support.
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Running Costs
£24,534	27/08/2022	Funding supported running costs to continue vital services that improve the lives of women affected by mental health and domestic abuse
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Chrysalis Centre for Change
£15,000	07/07/2022	Towards a shortfall in annual budget
Indigo Trust - Mental health and domestic abuse support for females
£2,000	19/01/2022	Core funding to support its work in mental health and domestic abuse

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANDREW VINT (Chair) Appointed: 2019

GAIL ASPINALL Appointed: 2019

GEMMA LOUISE ROBY Appointed: 2019

RITA WILLIAMS

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/03/2020, number: 1188750

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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from CHRYSALIS CENTRE FOR CHANGE on 11/08/2021

Main office

1st Floor Beacon Building
25 College Street
ST. HELENS
WA10 1TF

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN IN ST. HELENS AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WHO HAVE COMPLEX NEEDS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WHO SUFFER WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AS A RESULT FROM DOMESTIC ABUSE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, WORKSHOPS AND SUPPORT GROUPS.

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