Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS 

Provide support and friendship to parents who have lost children of any age from whatever cause. Support is also provided to siblings who have lost a brother or sister and also to other members of the family. All support is given by parents who are similarily bereaved.Support is also given to professional organisations involved in bereavement.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 24 years

www.tcf.org.uk

info@tcf.org.uk

07787767713

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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£489£567£-79n/an/an/an/an/a250
31/03/22£460£378£82n/an/an/an/an/a250
31/03/21£364£288£76n/an/an/an/an/a250
31/03/20£472£402£70n/an/an/an/an/a210
31/03/19£469£338£132n/an/an/an/an/a190
31/03/18£274£314£-39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£249£232£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£249£232£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£231£158£73£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£141£167£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£274£242£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£182£182£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£151£161£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£185£188£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£157£153£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£183£172£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£208£142£66£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£152£131£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£135£137£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£240£171£70£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 250 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
National Lottery Community Fund£146,967
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
DCMS£7,800
Trust for London£7,500
Co-Operative Group£5,872
Foundation Scotland£5,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 24/06/2022
Peer support of bereaved parents
National Lottery Community Fund - Online Support Groups for Bereaved Parents
£9,550 10/06/2022
The funding will be used to continue the groups delivery of online support for bereaved parents. The project aims to bring people together reduce isolation and improve coping strategies.
Devon Community Foundation - Peer support of bereaved parents in Devonshire
£4,290 09/03/2022
Peer support for Bereaved Parents
Trust for London - The Compassionate Friends
£7,500 05/03/2022
The funding is for peer support in London by bereaved parents reducing inequality bereaved parents experience: no appropriate support/information, misunderstood, isolation, no future/hope, unfriendly ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Compassionate Friends - 24/05/21
£1,250 02/06/2021
Core Funding
Foundation Scotland - Grant to The Compassionate Friends
£5,000 03/02/2021
To provide training for volunteers who offer peer-support to parents bereaved by the death from any cause of a son or daughter of any age throughout Scotland through the provision of a helpline, four ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund Grant
£5,000 03/12/2020
12
To help support the organisation to respond to the effects of Covid-19.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Compassionate Friends
£5,872 24/10/2020
We would like to run well-facilitated, successful peer support groups for parents in London who have suffered the loss of a child.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,800 25/09/2020
"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
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - Counselling for Bereaved Parents and their families / Also Well Being Therapy Services
£3,900 18/03/2020
Counselling for Bereaved Parents and their families / Also Well Being Therapy Services
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 13/03/2020
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Grief Companions
£119,417 20/09/2019
35
Grief Companions
National Lottery Community Fund - The Compassionate Friends NI - Supporting Breaved Parents and Siblings
£10,000 30/04/2019
11
The group, which works in locations across Northern Ireland, is using the £10,000 grant to run respite breaks and events for bereaved parents and siblings from across Northern Ireland. Activities ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer Support for Bereaved Parents
£8,000 26/04/2019
12
The project will create a peer support network for bereaved parents. The aim is to assist people affected by the loss of a family member.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 26/11/2018
The Compassionate Friends - Core Costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 31/07/2017
National Helpline
National Lottery Community Fund - Sibling Support Retreat Weekend
£3,165 31/05/2017
12
This group will use the funding to create a support retreat weekend for bereaved siblings and families, providing them with a support network.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 37-82
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/09/2000, number: 1082335
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/07/2000, number: 04029535
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
  • 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; AR12: 26 days late, AR11: 25 days late, AR10: 1 days late, AR09: 1 days late, AR07: 27 days late,
Main office

Kilburn Grange
Kilburn Centre
Priory Park Road
LONDON
NW6 7UJ

Objectives

(I) TO ADVANCE AND ASSIST IN MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELFARE FOLLOWING SUFFERING AND INFIRMITY AMONG (A) PARENTS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF THEIR CHILD(REN) AND (B) OTHER CLOSE RELATIVES OF ANY SUCH CHILD(REN), NORMALLY BROTHERS, SISTERS AND GRANDPARENTS;(II) TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH INTO MEDICINE AND ROAD SAFETY AND OTHER CHILD LIFE PROTECTION PROJECTS LIKELY OR INTENDED EFFECTIVELY TO REDUCE DEATHS AMONG CHILDREN.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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