Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 28 ?

THE NELSON TRUST

It provides residential treatment services, based in Gloucestershire, for people with substance dependencies, offering a wide programme of treatment, educational and training opportunities and resettlement. It also operates Women's Centres; Gloucester, Swindon, Bristol and Bridgwater and services in Wales and from HM Prison, to address the complex needs of women who are at high risk of offending.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
31/03/24£8,441£8,628£-187£200£8,828£5,5087.7239220
31/03/23£8,912£8,034£878£188£9,017£4,9027.3230200
31/03/22£7,211£6,062£1,149£221£8,147£3,7207.417467
31/03/21£5,034£4,468£567£77£6,992£2,239614463
31/03/20?£6,055£4,323£1,733£185£6,426£2,1696142182
31/03/18*£3,154£3,446£-292£132£4,202£1,7556.11060
31/03/17£5,228£3,257£1,972£150£4,357£1,8366.8830
31/03/16£3,095£3,131£-36£164£2,385£1,7546.7770
31/03/15£2,863£2,849£14£199£2,421£1,8908670
31/03/14£2,518£2,622£-104£116£2,407£2,1109.7600
31/03/13£2,986£3,019£-33£94£2,511£2,3059.2730
31/03/12*£2,861£2,897£-36£90£2,544£2,50510.4730
31/03/11*£3,095£2,766£329£81£2,580£2,49010.8680
31/03/10*£2,691£2,314£376£82£2,251£2,16911.2590
31/03/09£2,318£2,230£88£102£1,875£1,6759550
31/03/08£2,430£2,000£430£84£1,786£1,5829.5530
31/03/07£2,196£1,937£258£92£1,357£1,2848490
31/03/06*£1,882£1,718£164n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£1,771£1,626£145n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£1,576£1,393£183n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 14%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 62%
Reserves/Spending: 7.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 28 years

www.nelsontrust.com

office@nelsontrust.com

01453885633

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Support for addiction & substance abuse
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, Gloucestershire, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Throughout Wales, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Awards 2019 Social care advice & support
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
National Lottery Community Fund£972,143
Ministry of Justice£857,123
CHK Foundation£232,500
Somerset Community Foundation£207,014
Home Office£140,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£125,000
Barnwood Trust£92,618
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£2,500 27/07/2023
To offer brief interventions and targeted programmes to women at risk of exploitation and involvement with the criminal justice system, through group delivery.
Barnwood Trust - Glos Funders - Organisation and Group Funding
£92,618 12/04/2023
36
Art therapy
Somerset Community Foundation - Building the capacity of Somerset Women's Centre in Bridgwater to respond to the needs of women with learning disabilities and autism
£9,886 07/03/2023
Building the capacity of Somerset Women's Centre in Bridgwater to respond to the needs of women with learning disabilities and autism
Somerset Community Foundation - Increasing the capacity of a women's centre in Bridgwater, in response to rising demand caused by the cost-of-living crisis
£8,000 06/02/2023
Grant to The Nelson Trust
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£7,500 31/01/2023
to support specified work
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Nelson Trust
£125,000 29/11/2022
purchase a building for a charity supporting with alcohol and substance misuse Wiltshire
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Nelson Trust
£25,000 25/11/2022
Salary of Change Team Key support worker at Swindon
The Coutts Foundation - Nelson Trust cost of living grant
£5,000 17/11/2022
6
An additional unrestricted grant in acknowledgement of the cost-of-living rises
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£5,000 16/11/2022
To provide additional support to vulnerable women across Bristol through an increase in outreach check-ins, late night opening of the Women's Centre and extra hot meal service.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 21/10/2022
Purchase of properties to deliver our Swindon Women's Community Services
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£15,000 28/09/2022
Nelson Trust works in the south west providing residential addiction treatment for men and women and non-residential support for women with multiple and complex needs who are in contact with or risk being involved with, the criminal justice system. ....more
Somerset Community Foundation - Contribution towards core running costs of the Bridgwater Women's Centre
£2,355 17/08/2022
Core running costs of the Bridgwater Women's Centre
Somerset Community Foundation - Targeted programmes for women at risk of exploitation in Somerset
£2,500 07/07/2022
Targeted programmes for women at risk of exploitation in Somerset
Somerset Community Foundation - Weekly drop in psycho-educational group sessions for young women
£1,500 30/06/2022
Weekly drop in psycho-educational group sessions for young women
Somerset Community Foundation - Delivering support services for vulnerable women in Bridgwater
£149,913 26/05/2022
Delivering support services for vulnerable women in Bridgwater
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£4,350 11/05/2022
To run a regular timetable of psycho-educational, group interventions for vulnerable women, both structured therapeutic and holistic groups, to improve emotional health and wellbeing.
Somerset Community Foundation - Supporting women recovering from addiction in Somerset
£3,000 10/05/2022
Supporting women recovering from addiction in Somerset
Ministry of Justice - Women's Community Sector - Services & Interventions Funding
£17,105 01/04/2022
To further increase the sustainability of the sector, and to provide funding for services and interventions.
Ministry of Justice - Women's Community Sector - Core Costs Funding
£49,315 01/04/2022
To further increase the sustainability of the sector, and to provide funding for services and interventions.
Ministry of Justice - Local Leadership and Integration Fund
£590,702 16/02/2022
To develop local leadership to more effectively support resettlement of prison leavers and to reduce rates of reoffending.
Somerset Community Foundation - Resourcing evening outreach sessions for sex workers in Somerset
£1,860 23/12/2021
Relaunching evening outreach sessions for sex workers in Somerset
Home Office - Safety of Women at Night Fund
£140,000 04/11/2021
The aim will be to reduce incidents of rape and sexual assaults happening in relation to the night time economy in the pilot areas. A secondary aim will be to build an evidence base on the initiatives that are most effective in improving womens ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£150,000 25/08/2021
to support specified work over 2 years
Somerset Community Foundation - new garden group at Women's Centre
£2,500 25/06/2021
New gardening group at a Women's Centre
Ministry of Justice - Women's Community Sector Core Costs Funding
£140,000 01/04/2021
To support organisations which are developing a whole systems approach to female offenders across the country.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£37,874 17/03/2021
13
Salary of a keyworker in Swindon over the next 12 months.
Somerset Community Foundation - Core running costs of a service to support women recovering from addiction
£3,000 15/03/2021
8
Grant to The Nelson Trust
Quartet Community Foundation - Women holistic support services
£5,000 02/03/2021
14
To provide a suite of gender responsive trauma informed online and face-to-face Interventions, to build recovery and resilience of women who are disproportionally affected by Covid-19.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£5,000 23/02/2021
3
A short-term grant to provide gender-responsive, trauma-informed interventions to support vulnerable women during the Covid-19 pandemic
Somerset Community Foundation - Women holistic support services
£2,500 25/01/2021
7
Holistic support and gender responsive trauma informed online and face-to-face Interventions in response to Covid.
Ministry of Justice - Women's Community Sector Funding
£60,000 20/01/2021
The womens community sector grants scheme offers £2.5 million in funding for core costs to promote greater financial stability throughout the sector.
Somerset Community Foundation - Small grants to purchase white goods, carpets etc. to help homeless people move into independent living
£10,000 20/10/2020
14
Small grants to purchase white goods, carpets etc. to help homeless people move into independent living
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Remote support for vulnerable women across Somerset
£10,000 07/05/2020
3
Remote for support for vulnerable women across Somerset during coronavirus
National Lottery Community Fund - Psychological Therapies for Vulnerable Women
£9,800 03/04/2020
12
The funding will be used to deliver a programme of art therapy workshops and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) sessions to vulnerable women accessing the Bridgwater Women's Centre. It will offer two therapeutic at workshops on a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sex Worker Outreach Project SWOP
£473,256 20/03/2020
59
The funding will enable the project to employ sex work outreach workers, who will be based across Swindon and Wiltshire. Over the lifetime of the project 250 women will receive a gender-responsive, trauma-informed, holistic support service. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering Change Outreach Somerset
£489,087 28/02/2020
47
The funding will enable the organisation to set up a women's outreach service across Somerset, to ensure that the specialist women's services available from their centre in Bridgwater are accessible across this rural county. The project works ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£75,000 04/12/2019
to support specified work
Somerset Community Foundation - Nelson Trust Women's Centre
£5,000 05/06/2019
12
Core running costs of a new women's centre in Bridgwater
Ministry of Justice - Female Offenders: Community Investment Fund
£110,876 01/04/2019
To fund project workers to support women at risk of offending
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£9,980 04/02/2019
With a focus on improving health and wellbeing (Objective 2), our project will increase womens exposure to peer support groups and address mental and physical health. Women referred to our services will be assessed and offered support to address ....more
DCMS - Women Side by Side
£24,947 01/02/2019
This funding will build frontline resource capacity for a dedicated peer support coordinator to:-Deliver accredited Level 1 and Level 2 peer mentoring courses from our Womens Centre in Swindon and from our Womens only safe hubs in Wiltshire.Identify ....more
Ministry of Justice - Community Investment Fund
£74,146 01/01/2019
To provide rural outreach workers to improve community support and women-only spaces available to women living in rural areas of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Donor Advised High Sheriff
£3,000 11/12/2018
This grant will be used towards Art sessions run at the centre. The Art sessions help engage women in our services and offer them an opportunity to express themselves in an environment free of judgement and fear. The course will run for the majority ....more
Ministry of Justice - Community Investment Fund
£172,000 07/11/2018
To establish a Women's Centre in Somerset including bespoke outreach services, offering holistic gender responsive support to women in contact with the criminal Justice system and women experiencing multiple vulnerabilities and complex need
Ministry of Justice - Community Investment Fund
£40,158 07/11/2018
To fund project workers to support women at risk of offending
Somerset Community Foundation - Community Eduction Impact Project
£368,092 05/11/2018
35
An education and targeted intervention programme supporting vulnerable women and girls.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Core funding
£25,000 17/09/2018
1
Funds to support the sex worker outreach project in an interim phase before new funding is secured.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Nelson Trust
£5,000 11/12/2017
0
Tosupport an event in summer 2018 on prostitution and disadvantage, to be held in the south-west.
Somerset Community Foundation - The Nelson Trust Women’s Centre, Bridgwater
£2,500 23/08/2017
24
New facility supporting marginalised and excluded women in Bridgwater
National Lottery Community Fund - The Hub Bistro Roof Garden
£10,000 24/08/2016
12
This project will use the funding to update a roof garden at the Hub Bistro which is used by people trying to overcome the issues around drug and alcohol addiction. This will provide a calm and therapeutic place to meet and share experiences, while ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP)
£499,793 13/07/2016
48
This is the expansion of a project supporting women involved in street sex work in Gloucester and Swindon. Late night drop-in sessions will now run three times a week, tailored to people’s needs and looking at issues like health, housing, ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£105,000 11/05/2016
36
Towards a sex working women outreach worker to deliver a local model of good practice supporting those involved with street sex-work.
National Lottery Community Fund - WGI Stage 2
£736,470 22/03/2016
60
Women with complex problems will be supported to enable them to experience less chaos, establish great stability, reduce stress and feel empowered to have greater control of their lives. Working from two centres in Gloucester and Swindon, keyworkers ....more
Comic Relief - Abstinence-Based Recovery: Get me 2 Recovery
£5,000 27/01/2016
3
Gloucestershire is a rural area so connecting with the recovery community often means people rely on unreliable and expensive public transport. This project will research the potential for an online forum for sharing lifts, walks, shopping trips, ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Nelson Trust
£20,500 07/07/2015
6
To provide contingency funding for one Sex Worker Project Worker post from September 2015 until the end of March 2016
National Lottery Community Fund - Refurbishment of ISIS Women's Centre Basement
£10,000 01/07/2015
12
The group will use the funding to expand their use of their women's centre facilities through installing a waterproof membrane, replastering and decorating in the family room and basement area, which is badly affected by damp. This will improve the ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Nelson Trust
£5,000 22/06/2015
To co-host a conference with WomenCentre on good practice in supporting women facing multiple disadvantages.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£150,000 25/03/2015
36
To change public attitudes, policing, service provision and social policies to achieve a reduction towards zero in the number of vulnerable women street sex working or harmed by off-street sex work in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Nelson Trust
£69,000 05/12/2013
towards the extension and refurbishment of a specialist substance misuse residential treatment centre in Gloucestershire for women from across the UK
Dulverton Trust - towards 'Family Focus': work with families affected by parental substance misuse
£2,500 19/06/2013
towards 'Family Focus': work with families affected by parental substance misuse
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Nelson Trust
£99,744 29/08/2012
Towards the core costs of the ISIS women's centre, which provides essential services for women with complex needs in Gloucestershire.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-70
  • DEMELZA ODETTE STAMP Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Customer Services Manager
  • JAMES CAMPBELL MURRAY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director
  • JASON KEW Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Addiction Professional - Advanced Practitioner
  • JO DAUBENEY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Specialist Midwife
  • JULIE SHARMA Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • JUSTIN SARGENT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Company Director
  • KIRSTY BATTEN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Mental Health And Substance Misuse Clinical Lead
  • NAINA MANDLEKER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Business Development Director
  • PROFESSOR DAME JULIE ELSPETH LYDON DBE FLSW Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Vice Chancellor
  • RHONA MACDONALD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director
  • TINA MICHELLE GABB Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Consultant/Director Of Finance
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/07/1996, number: 1056672
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/06/1996, number: 03211815
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
  • 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; AR18: 1 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 0 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 2 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from PARK STREET MISSION on 28/05/2021
Main office

PORT LANE
BRIMSCOMBE
STROUD
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
GL5 2QJ

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE:3.1.1 TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST PERSONS WHOHAVE, OR ARE RECOVERING FROM DRUG, ALCOHOL AND OTHER ADDICTIONS BY THE PROVISION OFTREATMENT, REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES AND ACCOMMODATION;3.1.2 TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN ORDER TO TRY TO PREVENT PERSONSBECOMING ADDICTED TO DRUG ALCOHOL OR OTHER SUBSTANCES;3.1.3 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE FAMILIES OF PERSONS WHO ARE ADDICTED TO DRUG ALCOHOL ANDOTHER SUBSTANCES, INCLUDING ADVICE ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE FAMILIESOF SUCH PERSONS; AND3.1.4 TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE (IN PARTICULARBUT NOT LIMITED TO WOMEN WHO ARE VULNERABLE) FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BYRELIEVING THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEMTO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY BY ALL MEANS THAT ARE CHARITABLE IN LAW.3.2 FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE 3, “‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’” MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY,OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: SUBSTANCE ABUSE ORDEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE,DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT;UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP ANDFAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLESTANDARDS); CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).3.3 FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE 3, “VULNERABLE” MEANS WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN (OR WHO ARE ATRISK OF BEING) SEXUALLY EXPLOITED OR PHYSICALLY, SEXUALLY, EMOTIONALLY OR PSYCHOLOGICALLYABUSED, OR WOMEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED (OR WHO ARE AT RISK OF EXPERIENCING)HOMELESSNESS, ILL HEALTH (MENTAL OR PHYSICAL) OR SUBSTANCE MISUSE PROBLEMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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