Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 3

No volunteer policy: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 4

LOVE SQUARED

The Charity relieves the needs of children and young people with social, emotional and mental healthneeds and/or special educational needs, and their families, by providing or assisting in the provision ofsupport services designed to improve mental health, reduce social isolation and improve educationaloutcomes.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers including the Government recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

This Charity has changed registration and some of the financial and donation history pertains to the previous entity

Financial Data ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/08/23		£796	£687	£108	£0	£215	£209	3.6	9	27

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 32%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 3.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 5.1

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 3 years
(10 years as a company)

https://lovesquared.org.uk/

Info@lovesquared.org.uk

01173660079

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Secondary schools

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, Ealing, Gloucestershire, Merton, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
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

Garfield Weston Foundation	£10,000
Quartet Community Foundation	£7,840
Sport England	£6,950

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sport England - Wellbeing Walks
£6,950	16/01/2024 6	This project will collaborate with Soul Trail Wellbeing and deliver 10 walks that will run March to October, with groups of 5-10 people per walk. The walks will take place in different areas in spaces surrounding the city.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Love Squared
£3,840	12/04/2023	Towards the Drop the Pressure telephone emotional support service for vulnerable, socially isolated children with special educational and mental health needs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	11/01/2023	Core costs to help us to continue supporting vulnerable children and young people with SEMH and SEN needs via our free support services.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Love Squared
£720	20/12/2022	Funding for the remote emotional support space to assist with resilience building during the cost of living crisis.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Love Squared
£3,280	04/05/2022	For running costs, employing a sessional worker and staff training for this group offering therapeutic support for children and families.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

GEMMA PURCHASE Appointed: 2022

LUCY REYNOLDS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Residential Operations Manager

MATTHEW JOHN JAMES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director

PATRICIA EL JICHI Appointed: 2022

SADAF FATIMA MOOSVI Appointed: 2021

STEPHEN WILLIAM ARMSTRONG Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/03/2022, number: 1198464
Registered at Companies House on 04/04/2014, number: 08977922

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

1 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE LEADING LIGHTS TRUST on 21/04/2022

Main office

Love Squared
67 Stoke Hill
Stoke Bishop
Bristol
BS9 1EP

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS AND/OR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, AND THEIR FAMILIES, BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND WELLBEING SERVICES DESIGNED TO IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH, REDUCE SOCIAL ISOLATION AND IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES.

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