Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

THE HARBOUR 

The Harbour provides a professional counselling and psychotherapy service to people affected by physical life-threatening illness. This includes adults who are ill themselves; carers and family members; and people recently bereaved due to illness. The therapy explores the impact of life-threatening illness and gives clients time to think about their fears and concerns.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • 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 female
  • Over half the Board have joined 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
Established: 32 years

www.the-harbour.org.uk

info@the-harbour.org.uk

01179259348

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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 Volun-
teers
31/03/23£242£228£15n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/03/22£277£241£37n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/21£270£234£36n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£217£260£-43n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/19£260£248£12n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/18£263£247£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£208£196£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£169£167£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£173£143£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£129£136£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£120£130£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£121£119£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£128£112£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£113£144£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£111£142£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£150£137£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£113£121£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£113£121£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£126£99£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£120£95£26£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 13 volunteers

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
Henry Smith Charity£115,900
DCMS£55,882
Quartet Community Foundation£37,000
The Fore£5,000
CAF£3,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Harbour
£250 19/02/2024
As directed by the donor towards the work of the organisation supporting those who are facing death, dying and bereavement.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The Harbour
£115,900 05/12/2023
towards three years‘ running costs of an organisation providing counselling support for people affected by terminal illness and associated loss in and around Bristol, West England.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Harbour
£10,000 14/12/2022
Pilot delivering The Harbour's counselling sessions from Knowle West Health Park (KWHP). Building on KWHP's work tackling health inequalities in South Bristol by providing specialist support for ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Harbour
£3,000 09/12/2022
To offer grief support for people facing death, dying and bereavement in the Filwood Ward of Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Harbour
£500 21/11/2022
As directed by the donor towards the work of the organisation supporting those who are facing death, dying and bereavement.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Harbour
£10,000 17/03/2022
7
Towards CEO time to participate in networks and peer support, and towards staff time to develop bespoke paid-for services that will also involve changes to your CRM system and finance practices.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Harbour
£5,000 16/03/2022
6
For free and subsidised counselling to people facing death, dying and bereavement.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Harbour
£1,000 24/02/2022
As directed by the donor towards the work of the organisation supporting those who are facing death, dying and bereavement.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Harbour
£2,000 19/11/2021
Supporting older people in deprived areas of Bristol through the provision of specialist counselling for people as they face death, dying and bereavement.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Harbour
£250 16/07/2021
As directed by the donor towards the work of the organisation supporting those who are facing death, dying and bereavement.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£55,882 17/07/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to The Harbour
£3,500 12/06/2020
3
Grant to The Harbour to support the organisation through COVID19
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to The Harbour
£5,000 06/05/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to The Harbour, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Harbour
£5,000 27/04/2020
To complete the reconfiguation of services to a achieve a fully functional remote and secure service that will support existing and new clients facing death, dying and bereavement.
Quartet Community Foundation - Fixing the Roof
£4,000 28/02/2019
1
Toward the cost of repairing the roof of this organisation that provides counselling for individuals affected by a life-threatening illness.
Quartet Community Foundation - Clinical Change Programme
£10,000 17/09/2018
11
Towards a ‘Clinical Change Programme’ that aims to respond to a growing demand for affordable counselling from people affected by a life-threatening illness.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Harbour
£2,510 29/11/2017
We need a crisis fund to provide urgent emotional support for people diagnosed with life-threatening illness.
Comic Relief - CrowdMatch
£3,000 27/09/2017
12
Crowdmatch funding to increase the provision of psychotherapy for people with life limiting illness and their carers.
The Fore - Grant to The Harbour
£25,400 01/08/2017
24
The Harbour provides specialist psychological support to people in the Bristol area who are in crisis due to life-threatening illness. It provides free counselling to terminally ill adults, unpaid ....more
The Fore - Grant to The Harbour
£25,400 17/07/2017
24
The Fore funded additional staff time that will enable The Harbour to secure new contracts and increase income from other grant-makers.
Comic Relief - The Harbour & Comic Relief - support for vulnerable people facing life-threatening illness
£40,000 30/11/2016
24
Harbour offer high quality, professional psychotherapy and counselling services in Bristol. Their services are aimed at adults affected by a physical life threatening illness such as cancer, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-59
  • LILY EASTWOOD (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director Of Learning For A Charity
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/02/1992, number: 1008360
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/01/1992, number: 02681075
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds 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
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Harbour
30 Frogmore Street
BRISTOL
BS1 5NA

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THOSE SUFFERING FROM OR AFFECTED BY THE DISEASES OR CONDITION KNOWN AS OR APPARENTLY RELATED TO HIV OR AIDS AND THOSE AFFECTED BY OTHER TERMINAL ILLNESSES

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE BRISTOL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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