Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

TOGETHER COLLECTIVE 

We are a loneliness charity that creates connections to change lives. We do this through award winning befriending, social prescribing and a range of volunteering programmes. We help people increase independence, confidence & wellbeing.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 23 years

www.togetherco.org.uk

hello@togetherco.org.uk

01273 775888

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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£746£776£-29£89£173£1732.722500
31/03/22£769£798£-29£74£203£203327556
31/03/21£897£838£59£66£232£2323.330543
31/03/20£629£661£-32£94£173£1733.122463
31/03/19£714£743£-29£49£205£2053.325400
31/03/18£714£662£51£30£234£2344.2250
31/03/17£562£566£-4£28£183£1833.9210
31/03/16£560£575£-15£15£187£1873.9160
31/03/15£514£494£20£33£202£1664140
31/03/14£498£508£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£444£447£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£422£460£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£542£485£57£25£234£2215.5110
31/03/10£482£469£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£428£445£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£405£380£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£443£395£48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£328£369£-42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£285£299£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£290£298£-9£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 12.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 46%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 2.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 22 employees
  • 500 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
Henry Smith Charity£105,000
Department of Health£32,078
Sussex Community Foundation£30,000
Masonic Trust£29,616
DCMS£27,300
National Lottery Community Fund£18,773
Co-Operative Group£12,468
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Together Collective
£1,035 21/10/2023
We would like support for our Buddy Project, where volunteers support vulnerable people to access groups, services or activities to improve their health and wellbeing.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£29,616 17/05/2023
Grant to fund the Kickstart Connections programme, a short term bridge to support lonely and isolated older people in Brighton and Hove with social prescribing and volunteer befriending help.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Together Co
£5,000 11/11/2022
Funding was provided towards their Kickstart Connections Project, supporting people to access community activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Together Co Buddy Project
£8,773 19/08/2022
The funding will be used to offer clients a trained volunteer to accompany them to a group service or activity or to achieve a specific goal. The project aims to connect people with their community ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Together Collective
£105,000 07/12/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing community based befriending support for people in Brighton & Hove.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Together Co
£4,309 23/10/2021
We aim to continue bringing people together with community volunteers for friendship, support, and practical help so that no one has to face social isolation.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Together Co
£5,000 19/11/2020
7
Funding was provided to pilot new ways of digitally helping people suffering loneliness and isolation to re-group after the pandemic.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Together Co
£7,124 24/10/2020
We aim to harness the power of neighbourly goodwill by connecting volunteer befrienders with lonely and socially isolated people over 50.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£27,300 17/07/2020
"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
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Together Co
£10,000 29/06/2020
Together Co run a city-wide befriending service, currently they are redirecting all client support to telephone interactions and running fast-track matching. Their befriending service includes help ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Together Co Befriending
£10,000 22/05/2020
7
The project will use funding to pay for additional staff hours for the COVID-19 befriending activities. The project aims to connect people and reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness amongst the ....more
Department of Health - Brighton & Hove Impetus
£32,078 28/04/2020
Competitive Grants Scheme on Social PrescribingNeed review after Q2 for COVID19 impactBAU Yr 3 of 3 - £ 925,000Chnaged to Section 70 for 20/21 was previously Section 64
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Together Collective
£3,070 24/04/2020
COVID19 : purchase of IT equipment for a charity that works to support older people experiencing loneliness in East Sussex
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Together Co
£5,000 06/04/2020
Together Co (formerly Impetus) runs a city-wide befriending service, currently working remotely and redirecting all client support to telephone interactions, running fast-track matching. Befriending ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Together Co
£5,000 05/07/2019
7
Funding was provided towards the staff costs of a Befriender Co-ordinator aswell as volunteer training and project evaluation.
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing - Social Prescribing Fund -Brighton & Hove Impetus
£80,279 01/04/2019
An intervention through which people are supported to access non-medical services in the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Paving the way- future proof communities
£10,000 04/10/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to expand its programme of volunteering opportunities. The aim is to tackle isolation and loneliness and improve volunteers' confidence and wellbeing.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 26/04/2018
Neighbourhood Care Scheme
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing - Social Prescribing Fund -Brighton & Hove Impetus
£143,646 01/04/2018
An intervention through which people are supported to access non-medical services in the community.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Impetus
£8,800 20/11/2017
23
Brighton and Hove Impetus are an award winning local charity who exist to reduce isolation and loneliness, improve well being and improve quality of life for vulnerable adults across the city. They ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Brighton and Hove Impetus
£13,453 10/02/2016
InterAct's rights for parent with learning disabilities project will share learning with voluntary sector and other partner organisations on using the Care Act, Human Rights Act and Equality Act to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brighton & Hove Impetus
£100,000 12/03/2015
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a project providing community based befriending support to older people, people with disabilities and their carers in Brighton & Hove
National Lottery Community Fund - Better Futures Through Volunteering and Training
£284,956 15/08/2012
36
This new project aims to support people who have a learning disability, mental health issue or other type of support need with volunteering, training and work placements to improve their chances in ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-67
  • RUTH BRADLEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Senior Social Work Practitioner
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/11/2000, number: 1083390
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/12/1999, number: 03895574
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Together Collective
Projects
The Lanes
Nile House
Nile Street
Brighton

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND THE COUNTIES OF EAST SUSSEX AND WEST SUSSEX, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRIGHTON AND HOVE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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