Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

FAMILY MATTERS YORK 

Our aim is to equip adults and children in York with relationship skills to empower them to make better relationship decisions. We provide courses, training and materials.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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£65£52£12n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22*£51£52£0n/an/an/an/an/a38
31/03/21£48£49£-2n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/20£41£43£-2n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/19£34£39£-5n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/18£56£40£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£31£28£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£33£35£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£39£35£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£43£42£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£50£53£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£53£51£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£53£52£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£47£35£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£34£53£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£55£54£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£132£108£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£132£108£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£89£91£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£84£59£25£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 23 years

www.fmy.org.uk

info@fmy.org.uk

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Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Poverty relief
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • City Of York,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 20 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£54,450
Two Ridings Community Foundation£7,400
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust£5,075
Co-Operative Group£4,517
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Parenting Courses throughout York
£45,000 27/10/2021
This project provides parenting courses and couple mentoring to local families in York. The aim of the project is to strengthen relationships and reduce family breakdown build resilience and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Family Matters York
£4,517 24/10/2020
We would like to help strengthen relationships within families through providing local parenting courses and couple in crisis support.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£7,400 03/06/2020
Family Matters is a small local charity that works to strengthen relationships and build confidence in families. Funding would part cover a managerial salary, training, website/social media updates, ....more
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - Positive Parenting to prevent relationship breakdown and overcome isolation
£5,075 05/05/2020
To deliver parenting courses to families to help prevent relationship and family breakdown, which can often lead to poverty
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Parenting across York
£9,450 11/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to run three parenting courses for parents of all ages. The aim of the project is to help parents gain confidence and bring them together with other parents with children of ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Family Matters York
£4,114 29/11/2017
We want to set up and run two courses for parents - ""Time Out from Anger"" and ""Time Out for Parents - the Primary Years"".
National Lottery Community Fund - Time Out for Anger- Positive Parenting
£6,120 02/08/2017
12
The group will support parents who find anger a problem in their family. Sessions will address how parents handle their own anger and will also look at helping parents to help their children with ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 30/08/2001, number: 1088274
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
  • Investing charity funds 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; AR22: 29 days late, AR17: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

St Chad's Church
36 Campleshon Road
York
YO23 1EY

Objectives

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS IN YORK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA FOR THE BENEFIT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN MATTERS CONCERNING MARRIAGE, PARENTING, FAMILY LIFE AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH A VIEW TO STRENGTHENING AND ENRICHING FAMILY LIFE, AND THE DOING OF ALL SUCH THINGS, BEING CHARITABLE IN LAW, AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THESE OBJECTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

YORK AND SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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