Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 9

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 15

CALL PLUS

Promote the relief of any person suffering from cancer or other life threatening illness by counselling and home support and providing facilities for the exchange of experience views and information among sufferers, relatives and other interested persons

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
Spending has increased 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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

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	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£417	£363	£54	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	90
31/03/22		£336	£321	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	125
31/03/21		£318	£258	£60	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	120
31/03/20		£292	£301	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	120
31/03/19		£278	£284	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	68
31/03/18		£258	£264	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£243	£277	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£271	£269	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£249	£260	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£251	£265	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£236	£255	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£430	£302	£129	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£321	£360	£-39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£329	£329	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£309	£342	£-33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£316	£310	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£330	£296	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£318	£299	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£303	£274	£30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£249	£277	£-28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 31 years

www.beingthere.org.uk

0345 123 23 29

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Other specialist outpatient services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
90 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£312,190
Garfield Weston Foundation	£20,000
DCMS	£9,550
Forever Manchester	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Being There Tameside
£279,540	11/06/2021	The charity provides support and advice to people in the area with life limiting illnesses. Funding for the organisation will go towards core costs and activities.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,550	28/09/2020	"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."
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	05/06/2020	Being There Life Limiting Illness Support
National Lottery Community Fund - Being There Tameside
£25,000	26/05/2020 6	The organisation provides support to vulnerable people suffering from life limiting illnesses as well as their families and carers. Due to the pandemic the group do counselling sessions online. ....more The organisation provides support to vulnerable people suffering from life limiting illnesses as well as their families and carers. Due to the pandemic the group do counselling sessions online. Funding will enable the project to continue to offer its services.
Forever Manchester - Being There Listening Line
£5,000	07/05/2020	Telephone support line for those with life-limiting illnesses
CAF - Grant to callplus
£3,000	17/04/2020 3	Grant to callplus to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Being There Counselling Service
£7,650	03/09/2019 12	Being There Counselling Service
National Lottery Community Fund - A4A - Take Part
£10,000	15/07/2015 12	The funding will be used for creative and artistic activities and workshops for people with life-limiting illnesses at various stages of treatment or care, as well as those caring for them. This will ....more The funding will be used for creative and artistic activities and workshops for people with life-limiting illnesses at various stages of treatment or care, as well as those caring for them. This will encourage people to express themselves and their feelings, share their work at exhibitions to improve self-esteem and confidence, and engage with others experiencing similar issues.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 36-73

ALAMGIR MIAH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Marketing Director

DR MINAXI DESAI Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

ATTA HANFI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Managing Director

HEATHER LYNNE HENRY Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Management Consultant

JAMES ALAN YATES (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director

NIGEL DAY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Solicitor

PHILIP JAMES EAGLE Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Accountant

VICTOR HASSAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Solicitor (Retired), Other trusteeship: THE SHAARE HAYIM CONGREGATION,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/01/1993, number: 1016053
Registered at Companies House on 24/04/1992, number: 02709543

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
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

20 returns made; AR05: 1 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from CANCER WARRIORS on 20/11/2023

Main office

Chafes Hague Lambert
2-4 Primrose Avenue
Urmston
MANCHESTER
M41 0TY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF ANY PERSON AFFECTED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, BY CANCER IN ANY FORM OR ANY OTHER LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS BY:-I. PROVIDING SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORTII. OFFERING COUNSELLING AND HOME SUPPORT SERVICES III. PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCE, VIEWS AND INFORMATION AMONGST THOSE SO AFFECTED, THEIR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS AND OTHER RELEVANT, INTERESTED PERSONS AND ORGANISATIONSIV. PROVIDING ANY OTHER SUPPORT WHICH MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BECOME APPROPRIATE OR NECESSARY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE GREATER MANCHESTER

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