Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 3

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 5

FILWOOD HOPE LTD

To provide free advice services, counselling and support with form filling, writing letters and contacting statutory bodies to people in the Knowle West Estate, in particular, and generally in South Bristol

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Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees

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: 26 years

www.filwoodhope.org

advice@filwoodhope.org

01179634566

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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		£89	£58	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	7
31/03/22		£36	£50	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/21		£41	£52	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/20		£45	£50	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19		£58	£46	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
31/03/18		£47	£50	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£60	£42	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£42	£41	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£34	£37	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£33	£41	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£49	£44	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£23	£32	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£30	£30	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£44	£47	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£29	£35	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£36	£27	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£41	£42	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£48	£47	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£43	£37	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£33	£32	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bristol City,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
7 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

Quartet Community Foundation	£24,394
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation	£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£6,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£550	14/06/2023	As requested by the donor towards advice and support for people in South Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£205	14/02/2023	As requested by the donor towards advice and support for people in South Bristol, in particular long-term unemployed residents of Knowle West.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£4,500	20/12/2022	To provide advice and information around benefits, debt and cost of living support to local people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Delivering advice and information
£3,000	09/12/2022	Towards the core costs of the advice service between January and March.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£600	08/06/2022	As requested by the donor towards advice and support for people in South Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£5,500	11/04/2022	towards core funding for the organisation that will enable it to continue providing advice to local residents in South Bristol, many of whom will be disproportionately affected by the current cost of ....more towards core funding for the organisation that will enable it to continue providing advice to local residents in South Bristol, many of whom will be disproportionately affected by the current cost of living crisis.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£3,000	19/11/2021 11	Towards supporting clients transitions from legacy benefits to Universal Credit.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£198	04/05/2021	As requested by the donor towards advice and support for people in South Bristol, in particular long-term unemployed residents of Knowle West.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope Advice Centre
£10,000	04/03/2021	22% of running costs over 1 year for a charity providing advice services, counselling and family support for people in the Knowle West Estate, in South Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£4,641	26/01/2021 11	Engagement of clients; firstly prevent financial poverty and secondly begin to break generational habits of benefit dependency by working with them on budgeting/managing money.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,000	24/07/2020	Filwood Hope Advice Centre
Quartet Community Foundation - Renewal of laptops
£2,200	19/02/2020 0	To upgrade the computer hardware of this group that provides advice services in Knowle West.
Quartet Community Foundation - Advice Service
£15,000	05/09/2018	Third year payment of a three year award towards the running costs of a drop-in advice service.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Filwood Hope
£7,000	22/03/2018 12	Toward the ongoing core costs of this group that provides advice and signposting services in South Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Advice Service
£15,000	31/08/2017	Second year payment of a three year award towards the running costs of a drop-in advice service.
Quartet Community Foundation - Advice Service
£15,000	20/09/2016	First year payment of a three year award towards the running costs of a drop-in advice service.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Filwood Hope Advice Centre
£45,000	08/09/2016 36	towards three years' running costs of a project in Bristol that provides a drop in advice service for people experiencing emotional, psychological and financial hardship

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-61

NEIL PIGGOT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Software Consultant

REV BERNARD MORRIS, Occupation: Chartered Accountant, Other trusteeship: CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY TRUST,

TILLY MARSTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Manager Of North Bristol & South Glos Foodbank

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/01/1998, number: 1067441
Registered at Companies House on 30/12/1997, number: 03487393

Gift Aid

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
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; AR14: 12 days late, AR13: 109 days late, AR07: 251 days late,

Main office

FILWOOD HOPE ADVICE CENTRE
11-13 FILWOOD BROADWAY
BRISTOL
BS4 1JL

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS BOTH CHRISTIAN AND NON-CHRISTIAN SUFFERING FROM MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES, FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, AND STRESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MAY THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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