Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 6
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

BLUE SKY TRUST 

Blue Sky Trust:1. Supports and connects people in the North East and Cumbria at every step of their HIV journey through the provision of one to one support, peer mentoring, peer support, education and events.2. Empowers young people to make safe, healthy relationship choices through creative educational workshops (Think 4 Yourself) in schools and youth settings.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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
Established: 26 years

www.blueskytrust.org

info@blueskytrust.org

07989155175

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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£234£-13n/an/an/an/an/a23
31/03/22£219£224£-5n/an/an/an/an/a29
31/03/21£214£199£15n/an/an/an/an/a27
31/03/20£198£196£2n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/19£180£152£28n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/18£147£146£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£152£135£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£147£132£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£137£142£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£129£138£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£135£134£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£147£132£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£159£149£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£132£143£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£130£126£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£116£123£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£124£106£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£90£95£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£68£67£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£63£58£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Cumbria, Durham, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Stockton-on-tees, Sunderland,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 23 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£35,000
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£25,380
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£17,029
Cumbria Community Foundation£8,000
The Shears Foundation£5,500
The Clothworkers Foundation£2,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - Blue Sky Trust
£5,500 12/10/2023
Think For Yourself (T4Y) - Safe and Healthy Relationships Youth Education Programme - North East 2023-2024
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 14/10/2022
Blue Sky Trust Core Costs 2022-2023
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Blue Sky Trust
£2,029 10/03/2022
Purchasing ergonomic office equipment for staff who will be working from home due to Covid-19
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Blue Sky Trust
£2,000 06/10/2021
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Cumbria Community Foundation - Running costs in Cumbria
£3,000 29/09/2021
Running costs in Cumbria
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Blue Sky Trust
£5,000 29/07/2021
Running costs for the Adult 1-2-1 support for men and women living with HIV 2021-2022 in the North East of England
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 09/07/2021
Blue Sky Trust Core Costs 2021-2022
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Blue Sky Trust
£10,000 22/04/2021
Running costs for Think For Yourself - Safe & Healthy Relationships Youth Education Programme across the North East
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - upgrading and purchasing new mobile phones for the Volunteer and Peer Mentoring Projects across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland in response to COVID-19
£2,880 04/02/2021
upgrading and purchasing new mobile phones for the Volunteer and Peer Mentoring Projects across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland in response to COVID-19
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - upgrading and purchasing new mobile phones for the Volunteer and Peer Mentoring Projects across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland in response to COVID-19
£2,500 04/02/2021
upgrading and purchasing new mobile phones for the Volunteer and Peer Mentoring Projects across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland in response to COVID-19
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Blue Sky Trust
£2,900 15/10/2020
Purchase mobile phones and data for a charity supporting people with HIV in the North East
Cumbria Community Foundation - Support and training costs
£5,000 18/08/2020
Support and training costs
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Purchasing specific Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to enable a safe return to the office and food parcels and activity packs to isolated families affected by HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic
£5,000 26/06/2020
Purchasing specific Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to enable a safe return to the office and food parcels and activity packs to isolated families affected by HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - purchasing specific Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to enable a safe return to the office and food parcels and activity packs to isolated families affected by HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic
£5,000 26/06/2020
purchasing specific Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to enable a safe return to the office and food parcels and activity packs to isolated families affected by HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - work that promotes the social inclusion of people affected by HIV/AIDS in Gateshead and Newcastle
£5,000 09/04/2020
work that promotes the social inclusion of people affected by HIV/AIDS in Gateshead and Newcastle
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - A weekly peer support group for women living with HIV in the North East area
£5,000 22/01/2020
A weekly peer support group for women living with HIV in the North East area
Woodward Charitable Trust - Peer support group for women living with HIV
£750 15/11/2019
Towards the project “Connect Women”, a peer support group for women living with HIV.
Cumbria Community Foundation - Project-related costs
£3,000 04/04/2019
Project-related costs
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - For work that promotes the social inclusion of people affected by HIV/AIDS
£3,665 12/03/2019
For work that promotes the social inclusion of people affected by HIV/AIDS
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Peer Support for Men and Women living with HIV
£3,000 27/02/2019
Peer Support for Men and Women living with HIV
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Connect Women Peer Support Group for women living with HIV
£5,000 28/11/2018
Connect Women Peer Support Group for women living with HIV
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Blue Sky Trust
£9,926 07/11/2017
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing one-one support to people living with HIV in Gateshead
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Think For Yourself
£5,000 08/09/2017
Think For Yourself
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - HIV Service
£7,500 01/08/2017
HIV Service
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards Think For Yourself
£3,500 07/03/2017
Towards Think For Yourself
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards One to one service for people living with HIV
£7,200 24/03/2016
Towards One to one service for people living with HIV
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Blue Sky Trust
£7,200 24/03/2016
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing support to people living with HIV in Gateshead
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Blue Sky Trust
£7,200 13/11/2014
towards one year's running costs of a project providing one-to-one support services in Gateshead for people living with HIV
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Blue Sky Trust
£16,000 28/01/2013
the salary and on costs of the Blue Sky Trust's Service Manager which supports people affected by HIV/AIDS living across Tyneside
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/03/1998, number: 1068701
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
  • 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 expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR08: 3 days late, AR06: 50 days late,
Main office

Castlegate
Melbourne Street
Newcastle
NE1 2JQ

Objectives

A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS WITH HIV/AIDS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND ND ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT HOMECARE SERVICES AND OTHER PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE TO THEM AND THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR CARERS WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THEIR NEED AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE CARE OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS AND GENERALLY IN THE AREA OF SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.C) TO RELIEVE OTHER PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP WHETHER ARISING OUT OF ILL HEALTH OR MATERIAL LACK OR OTHERWISE IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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