Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 4

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 5

BRENT BEREAVEMENT SERVICES

The main activities of the charity are practical support or individual counselling to relieve suffering and mental ill-health amongst the recently bereaved, prevent the need for hospital admission, work in close association with health staff and social services, train others who care for the bereaved, and to create and promote informed public opinion on the needs of the bereaved.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

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 £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/03/23		£133	£144	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£113	£86	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£91	£87	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£104	£92	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£91	£79	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	*	£107	£75	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/17		£56	£69	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/16		£83	£75	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/15		£57	£49	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/14		£43	£47	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/13		£61	£66	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/12		£57	£80	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/11		£126	£112	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/10		£101	£126	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/09	*	£228	£254	£-27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/08	*	£344	£341	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/07	*	£369	£328	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/06		£168	£167	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05		£82	£80	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04		£88	£82	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 37 years

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02084596818

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Other individual and family services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Brent,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

City Bridge Trust	£15,388
Co-Operative Group	£15,003
DCMS	£6,670

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Brent Bereavement Services (BBS)
£6,258	23/10/2021	We would like to provide online video workshops on bereavement and loss for those affected by Covid-19.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£6,670	25/09/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brent Bereavement Services
£15,388	19/05/2020	A grant of £15,388 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Brent Bereavement Services
£8,745	15/11/2019	We want to provide workshops to help people in our community to support bereaved family, friends and colleagues.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Brent Bereavement Services
£9,480	19/11/2018	We'll provide peer support groups for bereaved individuals and families to reduce the suffering and distress caused by loss.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Brent Bereavement Services
£5,987	04/08/2017	Help us empower bereaved people to live their lives to the full whilst maintaining memories with counselling from a regular base.
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Brent Bereavement Service
£15,546	05/02/2015 14	To provide bereavement counselling for Hounslow residents (1:1, website and phone) and to recruit and train Hounslow residents as volunteers to help deliver the service.
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Brent Bereavement Service
£12,446	19/02/2014 12	To provide bereavement counselling for Hounslow residents (1:1 and phone) and to recruit and train Hounslow residents as volunteers to help deliver the service.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

SEPIDEH KHOSRAVANI Appointed: 2019

CARLOS CALVET ORTIN Appointed: 2019

CLLR MEL COLLINS Appointed: 2011, Other trusteeship: LONDON ROAD SAFETY COUNCIL,

JULIO VIEIRA Appointed: 2012

LYDIA KHALIL

RITA PRICE

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/03/1987, number: 296229

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
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

20 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR09: 116 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 91 days late,

Main office

379-381 High Road
Willesden
LONDON
NW10 2JR

Objectives

TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT SUFFERING, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG THE BEREAVED IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRENT

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