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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

TWO'S COMPANY KESWICK 

Two's Company Keswick is a befriending scheme offered to lonely and/or social isolated adults in the Keswick and wider CA12 area. Fully trained and vetted volunteer befrienders are matched up with those referred into the scheme according to personality and interests.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
01/07/23£5,650£5,739£-8925
01/07/22£7,350£4,677£2,67320
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 3 years

awwelton@outlook.com

07855333842

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Education support services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 25 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Cumbria Community Foundation - Core costs
£5,000 01/07/2021
Core costs

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/10/2021, number: 1196319
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
2 returns made; all on time
Main office

BEECH BANK
BORROWDALE ROAD
KESWICK
CA12 5UP

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING ADULTS RESIDENT IN THE KESWICK CA12 POSTCODE AREA FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH: A) THE PROVISION OF A BEFRIENDING SERVICE DESIGNED TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST SUCH PERSONS. B) RECRUITING AND TRAINING VOLUNTEERS TO BE BEFRIENDERS, DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF THE BEFRIENDER’S ROLE AND LIMITATIONS AND PROVIDING ONGOING SUPPORT.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF LONELINESS AND/OR SOCIAL ISOLATION DUE TO AGE OR ILL HEALTH AND THE ABSENCE OR LACK OF A STRONG SOCIAL SUPPORT NETWORK.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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