Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

THE SOUTHMEAD PROJECT 

The Southmead Project offers specialist counselling and support for survivors of abuse and addiction across Bristol and surrounding areas.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased 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 a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

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: 25 years

www.southmeadproject.org.uk

admin@southmeadproject.com

01179506022

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UN SDGs
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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£410£396£14n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£415£319£95n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£470£248£222n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£308£256£52n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£293£251£42n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£278£280£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£254£291£-37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£251£218£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£163£160£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£115£120£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£131£130£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£99£96£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£61£160£-99£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£254£212£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£148£194£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£222£264£-42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£262£262£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£344£346£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£374£359£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£347£274£73£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City,

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
Henry Smith Charity£172,500
National Lottery Community Fund£135,284
DCMS£105,866
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£100,000
Tudor Trust£92,000
Quartet Community Foundation£66,310
Lloyds Bank Foundation£57,520
People's Health Trust£33,712
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£1,000 16/03/2023
As requested by the fund holder towards free counselling and support for survivors of abuse and addiction across Bristol and surrounding areas.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Southmead Project
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to The Southmead Project
£100,000 13/12/2022
Main Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£1,426 24/06/2022
As directed by the donor, Anne Dean, who visited the project and met Simon Craker & Imogen McCabe. She visited with her friend Geva McCaldin and was really inspired by their work.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£1,000 22/03/2022
As requested by the fund holder towards free counselling and support for survivors of abuse and addiction across Bristol and surrounding areas.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Active Recovery Programme
£135,284 30/09/2021
The organisation will use the funding to support people recovering from abuse and trauma to access the benefits of physical activity including water-based activities ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Southmead Project
£90,000 30/09/2021
36
over three years as unrestricted continuation funding for a Bristol charity providing counselling for people with a history of abuse and drug/alcohol issues
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 09/07/2021
HEALING IS POSSIBLE – TRAUMA-INFORMED COUNSELLING FOR ADULTS LIVING WITH ABUSE AND TRAUMA IN BRISTOL
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£500 23/03/2021
As requested by the fund holder.
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - The Southmead Project
£5,000 04/02/2021
Towards core costs of one counsellor for 3-days a week over six months to deliver critical 1:1 counselling sessions for u16s who are experiencing abuse.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Southmead Project
£2,000 13/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Southmead Project
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Southmead Project, awarded under the Foundation's Sexual Abuse and Exploitation funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support ....more
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£29,378 03/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£7,000 02/12/2020
Nexus counselling service
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£76,488 14/08/2020
"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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Southmead Project
£5,270 23/07/2020
Grant to Southmead Project meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£1,280 01/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase IT equipment for a charity that supports emotional and/or domestic abuse in Bristol
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£4,884 06/05/2020
To move towards counsellors working from home providing online counselling. Grant towards training, small capital items and counsellor costs.
Quartet Community Foundation - Running costs
£57,500 18/06/2019
36
First year of a three-year award from the Henry Smith Charity towards three years' running costs of a project providing counselling for adult survivors of child abuse, in Bristol and the surrounding ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Southmead Project
£172,500 12/06/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing counselling for adult survivors of child abuse, in Bristol
People's Health Trust - Active Recovery
£33,712 16/05/2019
This two-year project provides the first physical activity club in Bristol for adult survivors of child abuse who use drugs, alcohol and/or self-harm as a consequence of that trauma. Fortnightly ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Southmead Project
£90,000 27/02/2019
36
over three years towards core costs for a Bristol charity providing counselling for people with drug/alcohol problems following childhood abuse
Quartet Community Foundation - Family Support Group
£4,800 24/01/2019
11
Towards a weekly support group for families of people with substance misuse and addiction as a result of trauma.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£48,042 06/04/2018
24
The charity works with adults who were victims of abuse as children and have subsequently gone on to misuse substances. The grant will pay the salary and associated costs of a counsellor with ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Southmead Project
£48,042 17/03/2016
24
The charity works with adults who were victims of abuse as children and have subsequently gone on to misuse substances. The grant will pay the salary and associated costs of a counsellor with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Southmead Project Counselling Services
£498,047 26/08/2015
48
This project will continue to support people who have experienced trauma as a result of physical, emotional or sexual abuse in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Somerset and may be self-harming or ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Touchstone 165
£396,032 15/06/2011
48
This project aims to increase the mental wellbeing, self-esteem and ability to emotionally connect of those who were abused as children. Interventions such as one-to-one counselling will be ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/07/1999, number: 1076617
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR17: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

165 GREYSTOKE AVENUE
SOUTHMEAD
BRISTOL
BS10 6AS

Objectives

To support the healing process and recovery from trauma for survivors of any type of abuse (including sexual, physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence and/or neglect) and survivors with an addiction to drugs or alcohol, through the provision or assist in the provision of specialist counselling, group work, community-based projects and education for people of all genders.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTHMEAD, BRISTOL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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