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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteer base +5
    • Overall weighted support: +3
    Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

    GRANDFRIENDS

    GrandFriends: The Company of Elders trains and supports our volunteers who we value as Elders and as community assets. Our Mission is to address intergenerational loneliness by creating mutually beneficial connections between GrandFriends and people of all younger generations through our innovative programmes, thereby building more cohesive communities with elders at the heart.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

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

    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 ?

    Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
    Deficit    		 Volun-
    teers
    31/03/24£27£25£2n/a
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    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 1 years

    www.grandfriends.uk

    lavinia@grandfriends.uk

    01225 967 680

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
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    Listed activities
    • Disability
    GiG Classification
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Bath And North East Somerset,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People

    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
    Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Grand Friends
    £5,000 17/01/2024
    7
    To continue the group's intergenerational programmes and develop some new ones.

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (4)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split

    • ANNA ELIZABETH SABINE Appointed: 2023
    • DR ANNA GREGOROWSKI Appointed: 2022
    • IAN PATRICK DUNNING Appointed: 2022
    • LUCY ANNE BEATTIE (Chair) Appointed: 2022
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/06/2023, number: 1203669
    Gift Aid
    • NOT 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
    • 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; all on time
    Main office

    8 Churchtown Road
    Gwithian
    HAYLE
    Cornwall
    TR27 5BX

    Objectives

    THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY YOUNG AND ELDERLY PEOPLE IN BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WHO ARE EXPERIENCING LONELINESS BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, DISABILITY, ILL HEALTH OR SOME OTHER REASON, THROUGH SOCIAL INTERACTION BETWEEN OLDER VOLUNTEERS AND YOUNGER PEOPLE.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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