Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 9
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • All male board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

CLEAN SLATE SOLUTIONS

We support people across Teesside and North Yorkshire with a past conviction into paid employment. Our mentored approach ensures we select those who are stable, ready, and committed before referring into our network of socially invested employers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • Why is the Board completely male?

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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
31/08/23£135£176£-40n/a
31/08/22£154£157£-3n/a
31/08/21£169£122£47n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

www.cleanslatesolutions.org.uk

admin@cleanslatesolutions.org.uk

01642 989669

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Mentoring and leadership support
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Yorkshire, Redcar And Cleveland, South Tyneside, Stockton-on-tees, Sunderland,
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
National Lottery Community Fund£161,584
County Durham Community Foundation£35,230
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£33,000
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£25,000
Two Ridings Community Foundation£24,000
The EQ Foundation£20,000
Allen Lane Foundation£6,616
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£20,000 15/03/2024
Unrestricted grant
County Durham Community Foundation - A Clean Slate
£9,990 30/03/2023
To support the A Clean Slate project.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£5,000 30/03/2023
Employability support for ex offenders in teesside, county durham and north yorkshire
County Durham Community Foundation - A Clean Slate
£10,000 18/01/2023
To support the A Clean Slate project.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£2,000 12/01/2023
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Two Ridings Community Foundation - A Clean Slate
£9,000 08/11/2022
Funding towards the salary of a Community Engagement Manager. This role is responsible for working with employers and building good strong relationships with them in order to provide meaningful employment experiences for people with convictions.
National Lottery Community Fund - A Clean Slate
£141,600 17/08/2022
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The funding will be used to supporting people with a criminal record into meaningful sustainable paid employment. Making sure participants aren’t held back by their past CSSCIO are requesting £141600.00 over 3 years for staffing marketing and ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£10,000 11/08/2022
Costs of employer engagement work in teesside and county durham
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Staff salary, employment preparation workshops, essential support& running costs
£25,000 27/07/2022
By focussing on new employers, we can create long-term career pathways, opening up opportunities for many candidates over forthcoming years
Two Ridings Community Foundation - A Clean Slate
£5,000 25/04/2022
Funding for: The funding would relieve pressure in two areas; overheads and organisational development.
National Lottery Community Fund - A Clean Slate: Community Engagement
£9,984 14/04/2022
The funding will be used towards the role of Community Engagement Mentor (CEM) for 12 months. This role entails undertaking necessary checks on participants with past convictions ensuring they are suitable and committed before receiving mentoring ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£3,000 20/01/2022
General charitable purposes
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£10,000 16/07/2021
Funding for staff and activity costs. To fund a community Engagement Officer 12.5 hrs per week for 45 weeks (£12.50 p/hr) to support ex-offenders find employment. Activity costs will cover training needs, travel to support those with former ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£10,000 22/04/2021
Core costs
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£5,000 15/04/2021
Employability support for ex-offenders in Tees Valley and County Durham
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Clean Slate Solutions
£6,616 11/03/2021
£6,616 single grant contribution towards salaries and training new community mentors of this organisation based in Stockton-on-Tees.
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting ex-offenders into employment
£10,000 05/03/2021
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The project will use the funding to pay for a part-time volunteer coordinator to oversee the growing team of mentors and volunteers who provide employment social welfare and mentoring support for ex-offenders. This aims to prevent reoffending and ....more
County Durham Community Foundation - Tees Valley Wide Winter Support
£15,240 16/12/2020
Towards Tees Valley Wide Winter Support
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How do they operate?

Into Work

Objectives: Helping ex-offenders gain employment and become self-supporting

Beneficiaries: Ex-offenders

Location: Teesside

Description: Following an initial needs assessment we are able to advise and link participants with key statutory and voluntary agencies for housing, debt advice, recovery from addiction referrals, foodbank referrals, employability workshops, CV writing and interview skills.

Work begins with ensuring beneficiaries are completely free from addiction, have somewhere safe to sleep and access to enough food. They must also demonstrate a genuine desire to work with us.

We have extensive links with other organisations to ensure they can access a comprehensive range of support services. Working together we help beneficiaries reach

....more
How effective are they?
Outputs
Outcomes
Y/EPeople entering the programmePeople placed into workInto further education programmes
31/08/202313912221
31/08/202223117117
31/08/202122017017
Commentary: Clean Slate has an excellent record for getting people into jobs, on average within 35 days compared to a local average in excess of 200 days.
See what you could achieve with a donation of: £
How do we calculate this?

Who works here?

  • RICHARD BRICE
    Founder & Head of Operations
  • JOE CLARKSON
    Head of Employer Engagement
  • ZANDI KHANYE
    Head of Careers Development

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • HUGH WELCH Appointed: 2023
Corporate lawyer and senior partner of Muckle LLP
  • RICHARD LONGBOTTOM Appointed: 2020
Director of UtilityLife Consulting
  • WARREN HARRISON (Chair) Appointed: 2020
Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) at Teeside University International Business School
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/07/2020, number: 1190630
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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Holy Trinity Centre
North Ormesby
Middlesbrough
TS3 6LD

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT OF OFFENDERS, EX-OFFENDERS AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A)PROVIDING MENTORING SCHEMES TO EX-OFFENDERS; B)PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT OR ASSISTANCE TO THOSE ON PROBATION AND THOSE AT RISK OF RE OFFENDING; C)PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WITH A CHRISTIAN ETHOS WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. D)PROVIDING ADVICE AND GUIDANCE TO THOSE AT RISK OF OFFENDING BY MEANS OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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