Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 8
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

ALABARE

Services to tackle homelessness; ensure that those in need have access to the right support and, where appropriate, the right long-term care; provision of, or help to access, appropriate skills training and employment advice to enable service users to engage in paid or voluntary work.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£11,194£11,464£-271£932£3,336£2,8673283170
31/03/22£9,994£10,169£-175£883£3,607£3,391425794
31/03/21*£9,543£9,234£309£964£3,782£3,4894.527152
31/03/20£9,410£9,006£404£1,356£3,473£3,1024.1268280
31/03/19£8,341£8,786£-445£1,135£3,069£2,9274255273
31/03/18£7,239£7,013£226£954£3,514£2,4984.32380
31/03/17£7,559£7,587£-28£1,278£3,288£1,5282.41620
31/03/16£7,990£7,750£239£1,270£3,316£2,2843.51680
31/03/15£6,784£7,304£-521£1,010£3,077£2,45741520
31/03/14£7,873£7,126£746£887£3,598£2,6014.41440
31/03/13£6,557£6,856£-299£531£2,851£2,6974.71480
31/03/12£6,454£6,489£-34£270£3,151£2,8565.31560
31/03/11£6,006£5,864£143£194£3,185£2,90861400
31/03/10£5,211£5,497£-285£162£3,042£2,9446.41430
31/03/09£5,294£4,650£644£157£3,327£3,1868.21260
31/03/08£4,041£3,552£488£207£2,683£2,5988.81070
31/03/07?£4,357£4,293£64£247£2,195£2,0875.81020
31/12/05£3,364£3,300£64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£3,538£3,305£233n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 52%
Liabilities/Income: 32%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 33 years

www.alabare.co.uk

enquiries@alabare.co.uk

01722 322882

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other religious associations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Ministry of Defence£132,462
National Lottery Community Fund£107,337
Department of Health£99,040
Masonic Trust£67,024
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£3,200 24/01/2024
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
National Lottery Community Fund - Boots on the Ground England
£9,950 21/07/2023
The funding will be used to provide a pathway or mental health recovery for ex-armed forces veterans and homeless young people through a variety of outdoor activities. The project aims to improve wellbeing.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Alabare Christian Care and Support
£2,000 09/01/2023
Alabare supports vulnerable and homeless people in Wiltshire with accommodation and opportunities to gain skills, confidence and experience to seek paid work. Grant will contribute towards the energy cost and refreshments at one of their shops where ....more
Devon Community Foundation - Alabare North Devon
£7,500 12/12/2022
providing opportunities for disadvantaged children to learn about the sea so that they learn new skills and experiences, helping to develop confidence and self-esteem and encouraging positive life choices
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 09/12/2022
Care Leavers' Support
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Alabare Christian Care and Support
£5,000 03/03/2022
Alabare supports vulnerable and homeless people in Wiltshire with accommodation and opportunities to gain skills, confidence and experience to seek paid work. Funding towards staffing costs out their drop-in centre (Somewhere to Go) in Salisbury.
Masonic Trust - MCF Festival
£20,000 11/02/2022
Gosport Homes for Veterans - to help fund the support staff and to facilitate the pathway to recovery for homeless ex-armed forces veterans.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Alabare Christian Care Centre
£1,000 08/11/2021
As requested by the donor towards work tackling homelessness
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 20/08/2021
Test Valley Foyer
National Lottery Community Fund - Alabare Homes Veterans and Young People Gym membership
£9,980 21/05/2021
The organisation will use the funding to provide subsidised gym memberships for the veterans they support who live in supported accommodation and are impacted through mental and physical issues including PTSD and service related injuries.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Alabare Christian Care and Support
£5,000 21/04/2021
9
towards the cost of running a minibus
Barnwood Trust - Organisational and Groups Funding
£2,000 13/04/2021
Trips and equipment for activities
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Alabare Christian Care and Support
£2,335 17/02/2021
Installation of CCTV at night shelter for rough sleepers in Trowbridge
Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
£35,000 12/02/2021
The Positive Pathways programme funded projects that develop and run activities supporting the mental health and wellbeing of ex-Forces.
Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
£35,000 12/02/2021
The Positive Pathways programme funded projects that develop and run activities supporting the mental health and wellbeing of ex-Forces.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£43,824 14/10/2020
Support young people who are homeless, leaving the care system, adolescent parents, and asylum seeker children
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£22,264 09/10/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - COVID IMPACT FUND
£62,462 25/06/2020
Funding enabled the group to provide additional support during the Covid-19 pandemic to veterans with underlying health issues, those with poor mental health and those experiencing long term homelessness
Ministry of Defence - Covid-19 Impact Fund
£62,462 15/06/2020
To maintain services and activities where organisations' finances had been impacted by Covid
National Lottery Community Fund - Alabare COVID support
£87,407 04/06/2020
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The funding will enable the project to continue to run its 'Covid emergency centre' which distributes PPE food supplies to ensure the safety of around 450 vulnerable people in the community. The project works with those who are vulnerable and ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Minibus for Barford St Martin day centre service users
£5,000 06/05/2020
Based in Salisbury, Alabare Christian Care and Support provides supported accommodation and other activities to help people who are isolated, homelessness, leaving care or have a learning disability. Funding is towards the costs of leasing a minibus ....more
Rank Foundation - Resilience Fund Alabare 2020
£25,000 24/04/2020
To cover lost income
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Alabare Christian Care Centre
£5,000 09/04/2020
For a range of practical measures to adapt services during the Coronavirus outbreak at supported accommodation for homeless individuals in Bristol, Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare.
Devon Community Foundation - COVID-19 Emergency
£2,000 07/04/2020
Grant to Alabare Christian Care and Support
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Alabare Christian Care and Support
£7,000 01/04/2020
To purchase cooking facilities and cleaning/personal protection products to enable residents to live safely in share hostel accommodation during the crisis
Department of Health - Alabare Christian care and Support
£99,040 01/04/2020
Beyond Places of Safety: Funding available for community clinics, crisis cafes, and alternative places of safety to support a wider range of preventative services in the community.
Quartet Community Foundation - Home and Money Lite
£4,995 24/09/2019
11
Money awareness and skills training for young people living without family support
National Lottery Community Fund - AlabareHomes for Veterans Gym Membership
£9,900 26/04/2019
12
The funding will be used to provide gym memberships for ex members of the armed forces. The project aims to improve health and wellbeing and reduce isolation.
Department of Health - Alabare Christian care and Support
£305,896 01/04/2019
Beyond Places of Safety
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Minibus for Barford St Martin day centre service users
£9,840 25/04/2018
Based in Salisbury, Alabare Christian Care and Support provides supported accommodation and other activities to help people who are isolated, homelessness, leaving care or have a learning disability. Funding will cover the costs of leasing a minibus ....more
Department of Health - Alabare Christian Care and Support
£424,800 01/04/2018
Funding available for community clinics, crisis cafes, and alternative places of safety to support a wider range of preventative services in the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wales Homes for Veterans
£497,758 29/11/2017
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Wales Homes for Veterans
Seafarers UK - Grant to Alabare Christian Care Centres
£25,000 04/04/2017
Contribution towards support costs for seafarers at 'Homes for Veterans' which provides effective routes out of homelessness through advice, support and mentoring ensuring long term sustainable accommodation.
Seafarers UK - Grant to Alabare Christian Care Centres
£25,000 04/04/2017
Contribution towards support costs for seafarers at 'Homes for Veterans' which provides effective routes out of homelessness through advice, support and mentoring ensuring long term sustainable accommodation.
Ministry of Defence - Local Grants 2017/18
£20,000 01/04/2017
Community Integration and Local Service Delivery
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Alabare Christian Care and Support
£4,920 10/11/2015
12
Alabare provides supported accommodation to those who are vulnerable due to social isolation, homelessness, Veteran homelessness, learning disability or as a result of leaving the care system with no permanent home. The grant supported the costs of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 46-72
  • ALICIA PROCTOR Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director Of Nursery Schools
  • DR ALLIE BENNINGTON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Manager
  • MALCOLM CASSELLS Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Accountant
  • MARK PROCTOR Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Solicitor
  • MARTIN CLARK Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Company Director
  • MICKEY MORRISSEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • PHILLIP REYNOLDS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • PATRICK BRADLEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • PHILIP SUTTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • REV VERNON WHITE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • RICHARD WINSTANLEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Clerk, Drapers Guild
  • TERESA BARSBY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Civil Servant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/11/1991, number: 1006504
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/04/1991, number: 02604011
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
19 returns made; AR21: 9 days late,
Main office

Riverside House
2 Watt Road
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP2 7UD

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION AND ANCILLARY SERVICES SUCH AS DAY CENTRES AND COUNSELLING FOR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF SOCIAL EMOTIONAL AND/OR PHYSICAL DISADVANTAGE (IMPAIRMENT) ARE IN NEED OF SUSTAINED SUPPORT TO ENABLE THEM TO LEAD LIVES WHICH PERMIT CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR POTENTIAL AND AN ASSURED PLACE IN SOCIETY.2. THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF SICKNESS DISEASE AND PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY.3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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