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Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Removed: -50
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    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    WILLOW PROJECT 

    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
    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
    30/04/23?£67£98£-31n/an/an/an/an/a1
    31/03/22£92£124£-33n/an/an/an/an/a10
    31/03/21£117£92£25n/an/an/an/an/a10
    31/03/20£71£83£-12n/an/an/an/an/a10
    31/03/19£80£105£-25n/an/an/an/an/a9
    31/03/18£133£99£34£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£95£97£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£70£85£-15£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£47£77£-30£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£91£118£-26£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£266£257£9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£196£241£-45£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£247£217£30£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£242£185£57£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£176£173£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08£148£123£25£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07*£116£124£-7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06*£121£118£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05*£126£117£9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£85£90£-5£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 23 years
    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    GiG Classification
    • Services for young people
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Wigan,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Defined Groups
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 1 volunteer

    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
    DCMS£18,347
    Forever Manchester£16,719
    CAF£3,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Forever Manchester - Suicide Ideation Support
    £4,016 18/03/2021
    Counselling sessions for young people
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £9,984 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
    Forever Manchester - Willow Project
    £8,363 21/09/2020
    Young person counselling service
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £8,363 21/09/2020
    NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
    CAF - Grant to Willow Project
    £3,000 15/06/2020
    3
    Grant to Willow Project to support the organisation through COVID19
    Forever Manchester - Willow Project
    £4,340 24/04/2020
    Telephone helpline and counselling service for young people with mental health problems
    National Lottery Community Fund - Willow Young People's Counselling Service
    £10,000 16/09/2015
    12
    The organisation will use funding to implement a peer support group, for disadvantaged and vulnerable young people, to include activities such as healthy cooking, educational discussions and ....more
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Willow Project
    £20,200 29/07/2013
    provides 1-1 counselling support to young people whose lives are affected by alcohol abuse
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Willow Project
    £74,600 13/06/2012
    36
    towards three years’ salary of a part-time Advocacy Co-ordinator and running costs of an advocacy project for women concerned about their own or somebody else’s drinking in Lancashire
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/06/2001, number: 1086972
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    20 returns made; AR07: 24 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
    Main office


    Objectives

    TO ADVANCE AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF FAMILIES AND FAMILY MEMBERS LIVING IN THE WIGAN BOROUGH AND SURROUNDING AREAS, WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM POOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, FAMILY MEDIATION, FAMILY SUPPORT AND GROUP WORK ACTIVITIES

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WIGAN AND SURROUNDING AREA

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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