Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 7

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
All female board: -3

Large volunteer base +3
Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 3

CAKE CLUB

Cake Club offers support and solidarity to parents in Essex (across Southend and Rochford), as a grassroots, parent-led organisation with a focus on peer support alongside more skilled support in specific areas such as infant feeding and perinatal mental health. Weekly groups run Monday-Friday, as well as monthly weekend groups. Online support is also available.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers including the Government recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there only 4 trustees?
Why is the Board completely female?

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 ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
30/09/23	*	£85	£75	£10	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 2 years

cakeclubcommunity@gmail.com

07974756509

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
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

Essex,

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Cake Club
£5,000	04/01/2024	to continue supporting a parent support group in Rochford and to launch a new parent support group in Hockley for new parents
True Colours Trust - Towards drop-in peer support sessions for parents of children with SEND
£3,500	10/01/2023	Towards drop-in peer support sessions for parents of children with SEND

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

JOANNE WEBB Appointed: 2022

LAUREN ELIZABETH PARKER (Chair) Appointed: 2022

REBECCA MARGARET CLAY Appointed: 2022

SAMANTHA DUNLOP Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/09/2022, number: 1200320

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Complaints 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

1 returns made; AR23: 22 days late,

Main office

THE HAVEN COMMUNITY HUB
138-140 HAMLET COURT ROAD
WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA
SS0 7LW

Objectives

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARENTING AND RAISING CHILDREN, INCLUDING PREGNANT PEOPLE AND FAMILIES IN EARLY PARENTHOOD, IN ESSEX BY ANY MEANS, INCLUDING:* THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT GROUPS, THROUGH, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WORKSHOPS AND WEEKLY SUPPORT GROUPS. * THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND GUIDANCE IN, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BREASTFEEDING, INFANT FEEDING, SLEEP ADVICE AND POST-NATAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. AND FOR THESE PURPOSES, PARENT INCLUDES ALL THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHILDREN, WHETHER OR NOT AS THEIR NATURAL OR BIOLOGICAL PARENT.(2) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PREGNANT PEOPLE AND FAMILIES IN ESSEX THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE.

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