Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

SAFE NEW FUTURES 

Safe New Futures aims to help people to regain a sense of control by making tangible choices that affect the quality of their personal and working lives,and the communities in which they live.We continue to focus on the most needy and hard to reach,seeking to give high impact interventions by delivering programs of training courses and personal coaching to groups of individuals.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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: 23 years

www.safe.org.uk

choices@safe.org.uk

02380702222

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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£324£316£8n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22£305£308£-3n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£237£219£18n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£153£146£7n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£115£118£-3n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/18£181£171£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£126£116£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£137£133£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£146£144£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£130£185£-54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£183£170£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£174£188£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£198£202£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£222£192£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£173£192£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£148£244£-97£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£332£306£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£402£354£48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£501£458£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£604£685£-80£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hampshire, Portsmouth City, Southampton City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 8 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£406,400
National Lottery Community Fund£233,675
Garfield Weston Foundation£70,000
DCMS£41,347
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Safe New Futures
£180,000 09/11/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing employment training programmes for unemployed people in Hampshire and Surrey.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 29/07/2022
Supporting vulnerable and marginalised adults and young people to help them find new ways forward.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Safe New Futures - 20/05/22
£2,500 23/06/2022
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth New Futures
£9,775 17/06/2022
The funding will be used to run motivational workshops and mentoring support for young people. The project aims to improve self esteem and confidence.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Safe New Futures
£117,200 17/05/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing counselling and vocational training for unemployed adults and young people, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Southampton, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Mental Health for Vocational Outcomes in a post Covid world
£204,026 14/01/2022
The funding will help support the recent and future expansion of the organisation and the salaries of two key roles. The organisation is based in Southampton but provide services across the county ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Online Youth Choices
£9,874 05/02/2021
7
The funding will be used to deliver an online support project for vulnerable young people. The project aims to develop life skills support networks and improve mental health wellbeing during the ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£41,347 23/07/2020
"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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 07/02/2020
Safe New Futures
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Safe New Futures
£109,200 11/09/2019
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a project providing employment training programmes for unemployed people in Hampshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Youth Choices
£10,000 30/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and specialised vocational learning opportunities to young people from challenging backgrounds experiencing mental health issues. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Choices
£135,549 22/02/2019
48
The project will use funding to run the 'Choices for Change' programme which is a vocational Cognitive Behavioural Therapy course aimed at moving people forward into employment, training, and healthy ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 25/09/2018
Choices for Living and Working
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Southampton Action For Employment
£81,400 08/09/2016
36
towards three years' salary of a Wellbeing Choices Facilitator at a project providing employment and training advice and support for people in Hampshire
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Southampton Action For Employment
£20,000 13/03/2014
24
towards two years' core costs of a project in Hampshire that works to improve people's employability, confidence and self-esteem
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Southampton Action for Employment (SAFE)
£28,000 21/01/2013
SAFE is a Southampton based charity which supports unemployed people who are affected by depression and anxiety through its Choices programme to move forward positively into employment, learning and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Southampton Action For Employment (SAFE)
£9,870 12/09/2012
towards one year's running costs of or a training and employment project in Hampshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Extending CHOICES
£200,063 08/09/2010
36
This project will deliver an interactive training course to people in South Hampshire who have complex needs that impact their ability to gain employment. The CHOICES programme is a small-group based ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 53-64
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/09/2001, number: 1088357
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/03/2001, number: 04189876
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR15: 27 days late, AR05: 12 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

29 Carlton Crescent
Southampton
SO15 2EW

Objectives

(1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PRIMARILY THROUGH TRAINING AND SUPPORT OF UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE FACING MULTIPLE BARRIERS TO WORK INCLUDING MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS SUCH AS ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.(2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY DELIVERING GROUP TRAINING AND INDIVIDUAL COACHING TO DEVELOP INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING.(3) TO ADVANCE CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY TRAINING VOLUNTEERS AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR ORGANISATIONS TO DELIVER TRAINING PROGRAMMES TO COMMUNITIES IN AREAS OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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