Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 7

SEESAW

SeeSaw provides a grief support service for young people in Oxfordshire. We provide tailored support for young people before and after the death of a close family member by: face to face age-appropriate sessions for young people; advice, guidance and support to parents; training, advice, guidance and resources to increase understanding of children's bereavement with a special service for schools.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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: 25 years

www.seesaw.org.uk

info@seesaw.org.uk

01865744768

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
30/06/23	£434	£431	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
30/06/22	£312	£395	£-83	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
30/06/21	£373	£384	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
30/06/20	£385	£392	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
30/06/19	£350	£406	£-57	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
30/06/18	£358	£344	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/17	£404	£321	£83	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/16	£416	£311	£105	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/15	£312	£286	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/14	£292	£280	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/13	£236	£297	£-61	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/12	£251	£302	£-51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/11	£319	£293	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/10	£310	£277	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/09	£338	£269	£69	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/08	£395	£255	£140	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/07	£247	£239	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/06	£213	£217	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/05	£207	£189	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/04	£117	£194	£-77	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Oxfordshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
40 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

Rank Foundation	£30,000
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	£20,000
DCMS	£7,668
Masonic Trust	£6,000
True Colours Trust	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Rank Foundation - Col Core SeeSaw 2023 Part
£10,000	27/04/2023	SeeSaw received a Cost of Living Core Grant to help cover the cost of staff salaries.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Responding To Emerging Needs With Volunteer Support Workers
£10,000	19/07/2022	The support we provide is tailored to the needs of each child or young person and much of this work is delivered by our team of VSWs. This grant will help fund our VSWs for 6 months. We have recently ....more The support we provide is tailored to the needs of each child or young person and much of this work is delivered by our team of VSWs. This grant will help fund our VSWs for 6 months. We have recently completed the recruitment and training process for a new group of 10 VSWs, doubling our team working throughout Oxfordshire. By increasing our VSWs we are responding to the emerging needs of our beneficiaries, increasing our capacity to offer support at the crucial time of need, whilst keeping the overall increase in operating costs to a minimum. On average, the cost of providing support to a child is just £547. Our service is strengthened with the time our VSWs dedicate to working with bereaved children and their families and attending training and supervision. They are immensely skilled and knowledgeable, with lived experience or a background working with children and young people. SeeSaw invests time in the recruitment, training and supervision of our VSWs to ensure they are motivated to provide the best possible level of service whilst benefitting personally from the volunteer experience. This message from one of our new VSWs highlights this: “I feel so lucky to have been able to take part in your VSW Training Programme. The quality and content of your teaching was uniformly excellent, with a very good mix of theory and practical skills. It was clear that an enormous amount of thought and preparation had gone into the smooth presentation of every single session. You also managed to make the course really enjoyable, enabled us to learn from and support each other, and to form strong friendships and a cohesive group. I’ve attended many courses in almost 30 years as a GP in Oxford, and yours has definitely been the best learning experience I’ve had.”
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - SeeSaw - 27/04/22
£2,500	23/05/2022	Core Funding
Rank Foundation - GOLDEN AWARDS SEESAW 2022
£20,000	23/03/2022	The Golden Award was given to SeeSaw to help create new training and website content by young people for young people, affected by bereavement.
Masonic Trust - MCF Festival
£6,000	05/10/2021	Fund their pre-bereavement service where a young child is coming to terms with knowing their parent or sibling will pass away soon.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Grief Support Work
£5,000	23/02/2021 2	Support of our running costs, specifically the ongoing adaptation of our clinical service delivery (because of the pandemic).
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - SeeSaw - 18/12/20
£1,250	13/01/2021	Core Funding
True Colours Trust - Towards bereavement support for children – COVID19 response
£5,000	06/10/2020	Towards bereavement support for children – COVID19 response
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,668	17/08/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - COVID-19 SeeSaw - grief support for children and young people in Oxfordshire
£5,000	07/05/2020 2	Grant to SeeSaw
True Colours Trust - Towards the costs of its bereavement support service for children
£10,000	18/10/2018	Towards the costs of its bereavement support service for children

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-77

DEBBIE CHAPEL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Therapist

DR GILLIAN FORREST (Chair), Other trusteeship: BLADON VILLAGE SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL HALL,

DR MARILYN RELF, Occupation: Bereavement Service Manager

GLYNIS PHILLIPS Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: THE OXFORDSHIRE BUILDINGS TRUST,

HUGH RODERICK Appointed: 2012, Occupation: None

JULIA PALEJOWSKA, Occupation: Accountant

KAY SYMONS Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Publisher, Other trusteeship: OXFORD CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN PALLIATIVE CARE: SOBELL HOUSE,

MICHAEL SHEA Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Doctor

NICHOLAS COULDRICK Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Accountant

SHEILA HURST Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: CHARITY OF THOMAS DAWSON, THE FOUNDATION OF THOMAS DAWSON,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/06/1999, number: 1076321
Registered at Companies House on 17/06/1999, number: 03790965

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

2 Merewood Avenue
Headington
Oxford
OX3 8EF

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION , BY:THE SUPPORT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ABOUT TO SUFFER A BEREAVEMENT; ANDTHE PROMOTION OF STUDY AND RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH IN RELATION TO THE EFFECTS OF SUCH LOSS AND INTO METHODS OF SUPPORTING BEREAVED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN RELATION TO THOSE EFFECTS AND METHODS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE OXFORDSHIRE

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