Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

CHANGING FUTURES NORTH EAST

Provision of universal, targeted and specialist services to support relationships within and between families, couples and agencies, to benefit children and young people
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,247£1,323£-76£0£742£2362.13581
31/03/22£904£1,060£-157£0£818£3734.22450
31/03/21£841£713£128£0£974£53691947
31/03/20£757£682£75£0£847£3946.91945
31/03/19£535£515£21£0£772£2545.91645
31/03/18£578£598£-20£3£751£2244.5190
31/03/17£650£681£-31£0£771£2384.2280
31/03/16£731£720£11£0£802£2894.8180
31/03/15£657£556£101£5£791£2054.4140
31/03/14£500£495£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£446£399£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£260£267£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£328£310£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£307£337£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£273£221£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£260£176£84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£150£134£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£134£139£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£159£176£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£116£118£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 32%
Reserves/Spending: 2.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 6.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 23 years

www.changingfuturesne.co.uk

graham.alton@changingfuturesne.co.uk

01429891444

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar And Cleveland, Stockton-on-tees,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£154,285
Tudor Trust£122,000
The Ballinger Charitable Trust£45,000
Comic Relief£11,174
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Changing Futures North-East
£15,000 04/03/2022
Unrestricted funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Parents pulling together
£154,285 17/11/2021
36
The project will use the funding over three years to offer a peer support parenting programme across Hartlepool which will provide training and support to at least 420 parents. This aims to empower parents with improved knowledge skills and ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Changing Futures North East
£2,000 17/03/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Changing Futures North-East
£15,000 04/12/2020
12
Towards core costs of operation
Tudor Trust - Grant to Changing Futures North East
£120,000 04/10/2020
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the CEO's salary and core costs to support therapeutic work with young people and their parents in Hartlepool and the surrounding area
Comic Relief - Supporting families experiencing increased stress during Covid-19 restrictions.
£11,174 23/06/2020
COVID 19 - Staff time, small core cost amount to support us because of lost mediation sales, adaptations to the premises we are based in and related hardware upgrades to let us: â?¢Work with people in the community socially distanced whilst on ....more
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Changing Futures North-East
£15,000 06/12/2019
12
Towards core costs of operation
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Changing Futures North East
£50,000 28/09/2017
24
Towards a Family Support Worker to deliver interventions for families experiencing relationship distress.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Changing Futures North East
£74,100 07/09/2017
36
towards three years' salary of a Family Support Worker at a project promoting healthy relationships and supporting families in Hartlepool, Middlesbrough Stockton and East Durham
National Lottery Community Fund - Children & Young People Mentoring Project
£5,000 14/06/2017
12
The project will recruit, train and supervise new volunteers to set up two mentoring groups for young people aged 5 to 19 years. This will support vulnerable children and young people to develop coping mechanisms and improve their confidence, ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Changing Futures North East
£90,000 31/05/2016
36
over three years towards the CEO's salary at this Hartlepool charity focusing on improving young people's life chances through early action on family relationships
Comic Relief - Healthy Relationships, Better Childhood - Early Action
£1,692,392 06/02/2015
84
Relationships and healthy family systems as insulators against harm and catalysts for change: an early action, systems change approach. The relationships in our lives matter! They can protect us from, or expose us to many problems - at best a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Communities together for separated families
£460,778 15/02/2012
48
This development of a pilot project will provide support to families in Hartlepool who are suffering as a result of separation. This support will result in family members having improved financial and emotional wellbeing and be more likely to have a ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 44-73
  • ANTHONY NIGEL JACKSON Appointed: 2013
  • DANIEL RICHARD BLACKITH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Hr
  • DAVID JEFFERY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director
  • DIANA ROBERTSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Local Development Advisor
  • GILLIAN WALKER (Chair), Occupation: Retired
  • GILLIAN LAMB Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Senior Deputy Head
  • JOANNE HAY Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/11/2001, number: 1089347
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/06/2000, number: 04009541
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; AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR07: 9 days late, AR06: 15 days late, AR05: 17 days late, AR04: 173 days late,
Main office

3 Abbey Street
Hartlepool
United Kingdom
TS24 0JR

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO THE PROMOTION OF THE UPBRINGING AND CARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEED FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS, CULTURES AND FAITHS OR NONE, IN PARTICULAR BY:1. PROMOTING THEIR BETTER CARE AND SAFEGUARDING THEM.2. PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.3. PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH.4. PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION AND ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SEE OBJECTS TEXT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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