Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 3

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 7

NORTH DEVON MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS FORUM

One to One Counselling, Therapeutic and Support Groups, Service User Representation, Mental Health Awareness Training, Representing the views and needs of those experiencing mental health issues to other agencies and the wider community.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male
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

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
05/04/23		£114	£110	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
05/04/22		£80	£110	£-30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21
05/04/21		£120	£79	£42	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	27
05/04/20		£78	£66	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26
05/04/19	*	£84	£28	£56	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
05/04/18		£20	£21	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/17		£30	£24	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/16		£17	£14	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/15		£11	£9	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/14		£8	£5	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/13	*	£3	£5	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/12		£9	£11	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/11		£20	£25	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/10		£17	£28	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/09		£31	£34	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/08		£51	£41	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
06/04/07		£18	£19	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
06/04/06		£26	£18	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/05	*	£25	£17	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/04		£5	£9	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 28 years

www.claritynorthdevon.org.uk

contactus@claritynorthdevon.org.uk

01271267474

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Mental health and addiction

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Devon,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
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

National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation	£10,000
Devon Community Foundation	£3,020

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to Clarity North Devon (registered as North Devon Mental Health Service Users Forum
£2,000	22/09/2023	A contribution towards the annual running costs of a mental health/wellbeing counselling service covering North Devon and Torridge.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Clarity (Registered as North Devon Mental Health Service Users Forum)
£10,000	20/06/2023	34% of the salary costs for a mental health charity providing counselling services for people in Barnstaple, Devon.
National Lottery Community Fund - Clarity Counselling for Community Reslilience
£10,000	08/04/2022	The funding will be used to provide free one-to-one counselling to people experiencing mental heath issues. The project aims to support them to improve their mental health and well-being.
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Counselling through Covid
£1,020	01/10/2020 1	Grant to Clarity - North Devon Service Users Forum
National Lottery Community Fund - Hear to Help
£254,367	22/11/2018 66	The project will support people experiencing mental health and emotional issues in North Devon. This is delivered through one to one free counselling, group support sessions, themed support groups ....more The project will support people experiencing mental health and emotional issues in North Devon. This is delivered through one to one free counselling, group support sessions, themed support groups and provide training opportunities to counselling students.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

BRYONY MCDONALD Appointed: 2022

CHRISTOPHER JOHN MCDONALD Appointed: 2022

DR CHRISTOPHER ERIC ARBER Appointed: 2018

DR RICHARD ANTONY HOLMAN (Chair) Appointed: 2019

JAMES CRAIGIE Appointed: 2024

MATTHEW JONES Appointed: 2024

FRANK BIEDERMAN Appointed: 2024, Other trusteeship: FREMINGTON RELIEF IN NEED TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/05/1996, number: 1055224

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
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; AR19: 1 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR05: 109 days late,

Main office

104A Boutport Street
BARNSTAPLE
EX31 1SY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUFFERING OF THOSE PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, AND TO IMPROVE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS THROUGH THE PROMOTION OR RESEARCH AND ADVICE IN SERVICE PROVISION AND INFORMATIO ON THE SUBJECT OF MENTAL HEALTH, THE RESULTS OF WHICH WILL BE WIDELY DISSEMINATED AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE RELIEF OF SUCH SUFFERING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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