Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

SAFE GROUND 

Safe Ground works to promote relationship skills as tools for empowering people to change, so reducing the risk of reoffending and building stronger communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 29 years

www.safeground.org.uk

info@safeground.org.uk

020 3668 9270

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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£221£245£-24n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£282£226£56n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/21£230£193£37n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/20£219£252£-33n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/19£234£270£-36n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/18£220£309£-89£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£251£309£-58£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16?£653£524£129£30£316£3167.270
31/12/14£395£327£68£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£385£351£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£313£351£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£339£303£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£277£309£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£298£289£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£290£297£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£334£309£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£226£150£76£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£110£122£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£110£122£-12£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Safe Ground
£15,000 07/10/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Safe Grounds develops and delivers educational programmes using drama to educate prisoners and young people at risk in the community, and so reduce the risk of ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Safe Ground
£6,565 07/05/2020
We want to be able to generate a range of new services and materials that can offer immediate practical support to the vulnerable women we work with through the Minerva Wrap Around project across ....more
Dulverton Trust - Core costs for expansion
£30,000 13/02/2019
Core costs for expansion
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Safe Ground
£120,000 09/06/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing family, relationship and parenting programmes in male prisons in England and Wales
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Safe Ground Ltd
£60,000 18/04/2016
12
Towards the salaries of the Communities and Communications Manager and Executive Director to promote relationship skills as tools for empowering people to change, so reducing the risk of reoffending ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Safe Ground
£100,000 30/09/2015
36
over three years towards the salary of a development manager at an organisation working in England and Wales to run programmes in prisons and community settings that help build relationships and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Safe Ground Ltd
£193,500 13/09/2012
Towards core costs for the use of arts education to reduce social exclusion and enhance relationship skills of male prisoners and ex-offenders.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Safe Ground Ltd
£75,000 10/03/2010
24
Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards the salaries of the chief executive and business development director.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/07/1995, number: 1048181
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/07/1995, number: 03080847
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

Unit 1 Waterloo Gardens
Milner Square
LONDON
N1 1TY

Objectives

TO ADVANCE OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC,IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PRISONERS IN THE ARTS,SPECIFICALLY THE ART OF DRAMA,LITERATURE AND POETRY AND TO REHABILITATE PRISONERS BY PROMOTING AND DEVELOPING THEIR CULTURE AND ARTISTIC ABILITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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