Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

THE CENTRE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Family Links is a national charity dedicated to the promotion of emotional health at home, at school and at work. We offer high-quality training in the Nurturing Programme to promote the development of good emotional health and relationships. Our aim is to enable children and adults to realise their individual potential, enjoy positive relationships and live healthy and fulfilled lives.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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

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
31/08/23£1,465£1,499£-35£51£926£8106.5190
31/08/22£1,483£1,193£290£59£961£7477.5160
31/08/21£917£903£14£47£671£4916.5140
31/08/20£915£949£-35£49£657£4525.7150
31/08/19£1,260£1,024£236£51£692£5936.9150
31/08/18£1,278£1,142£136£45£456£3613.8140
31/08/17£1,281£1,640£-360£64£320£2672240
31/08/16?£2,110£2,148£-38£62£680£6423.6240
31/03/15£1,575£1,566£9£40£717£6605.1210
31/03/14£1,440£1,457£-17£44£708£6255.1190
31/03/13£1,210£1,275£-65£34£726£6566.2150
31/03/12£1,104£1,059£45£40£791£7028130
31/03/11£1,217£1,037£180£47£746£7198.3130
31/03/10£905£856£49£49£566£5117.2130
31/03/09£927£865£61£55£517£5107.1130
31/03/08£749£645£105£50£455£4328150
31/03/07*£617£560£57£43£351£3246.9120
31/03/06*£460£443£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£382£345£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£338£300£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 28%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 87%
Reserves/Spending: 6.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 1.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 28 years

www.centreforemotionalhealth.org.uk

hello@emotionalhealth.org.uk

01865401800

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

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
Dulverton Trust£170,000
Tedworth Charitable Trust£49,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards the production of a second series of podcasts
£14,500 25/01/2024
towards the production of a second series of podcasts.
Dulverton Trust - Family Links - Core Funding
£70,000 26/10/2023
Family Links - Core Funding
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards the production of a series of podcasts
£15,000 31/03/2023
Towards the production of a series of podcasts
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 22/10/2021
24
Improving and supporting emotional health in adults and children throughout the UK
Dulverton Trust - Family Links core funding
£100,000 21/10/2020
Family Links core funding
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Pilot imaginative play courses
£20,000 20/02/2020
Towards a pilot training course for childcare professionals on how to encourage routine imaginative play.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 25/01/2019
24
Core funding to support nationwide parenting provision for schools and the community.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Family Links
£21,390 24/05/2018
16
Supporting vulnerable young women throughout their parenting journey, targeting graduates of the Family Nurse Partnership Scheme
Wates Foundation - Family Links 2018
£30,000 15/05/2018
For core funding to expand work and to reach parents of teenagers throughout the UK.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Salary of Head of Programmes
£40,000 16/03/2018
Towards the salary of the Head of Programmes.
Dulverton Trust - Core funding
£75,000 14/06/2017
Core funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 05/05/2017
Core Costs
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Family Links (Educational Programmes)
£45,000 09/06/2016
36
Towards the support of 114 practitioners to scale up the Parenting Programme with Islamic values to Muslim families.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core funding
£60,000 19/05/2016
24
Towards core funding of its work empowering children, parents, families and schools to be emotionally healthy
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Evaluation of 'Welcome to the World' ante-natal workshop
£12,500 11/11/2014
Towards an evaluation of the 'Welcome to the World' ante-natal workshop.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Family Links
£120,000 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' salary of the Operations Director at an organisation that works to improve parenting and positive learning for disadvantaged children across the UK
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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: 26-80
  • DR HILARY FRANCES EMERY CBE (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • EIMEAR FRANCIS MCINERNEY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • EMMA MARGARET JUDGE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Psychologist And Leadership Consultant
  • GORDON DOUGLAS BEACH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Banker
  • MASOOD HASSAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Management Consultant And Trainer
  • THOMAS PEASE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Data Scientist
  • VANESSA IRIS EMMETT Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Self-Employed Project Director
  • WENDY ELIZABETH ROSE OBE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Honorary Research Fellow
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/05/1997, number: 1062514
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/02/1997, number: 03323287
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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 283 days late, AR06: 651 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from FAMILY STABILITY NETWORK on 07/11/2022
Main office

UNITS 2 & 3
FENCHURCH COURT
BOBBY FRYER CLOSE
OXFORD
OX4 6ZN

Objectives

TO EDUCATE TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONALS, PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN PARENTAL CARING AND NURTURING AND RELATIONSHIP SKILLS AND PREVENTION OF NEGLECT AND ABUSE IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELING, SEMINARS, TRAINING COURSES AND INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THESE ISSUES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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