Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 3

No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 6

LIFECRAFT

We offer a wide range of free mental health services in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough to help and support our members in their wellbeing and recovery, including creative activities, recovery groups, social activities and a counselling service. We provide services to the public: a suicide bereavement support service, Lifeline, a helpline that runs everyday and other phone-based support services.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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		£482	£447	£35	n/a
31/03/22		£0	£0	£0	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 3 years

www.lifecraft.org.uk

info@lifecraft.org.uk

01223566957

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

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

GiG Classification

Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough City,

Who it helps

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Postcode Places Trust - Project Funding
£21,930	01/11/2023	Funding facilitated the delivery of groups, activities and 1-to-1 support to help mental health inpatients to transition back into the community.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALEXANDER RADFORD Appointed: 2022

CLARE ELIZABETH BYE Appointed: 2021

FIONA GALE KERR (Chair) Appointed: 2023

KATHARINE FRANCES COLLINS Appointed: 2021

MICHAEL KERR HEWETT Appointed: 2021

SYED HASAN ADNAN SHAKIR Appointed: 2022

TERESA MARGARET CLARKE Appointed: 2021

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/08/2021, number: 1195632

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
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

2 returns made; all on time

Main office

THE BATH HOUSE
GWYDIR STREET
CAMBRIDGE
CB1 2LW

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF LIFECRAFT ARE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(1) A FORUM IN WHICH USERS AND EX-USERS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, OR THOSE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE OF SUCH ISSUES OR ILLNESS, CAN SUPPORT EACH OTHER.(2) A SOURCE OF INFORMATION, GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT TO USERS AND EX-USERS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, OR THOSE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE OF SUCH ISSUES OR ILLNESS, TO ENABLE THEM TO LIVE IN THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES, AND MORE GENERALLY ALSO TO PROVIDE THIS TO THE BROADER PUBLIC, AND TO OTHER GROUPS, BODIES AND ORGANISATIONS ACTIVE AND INVOLVED IN THIS AREA.

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