Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

ADVANCE BRIGHTER FUTURES 

We support people experiencing mental, physical & emotional wellbeing problems to understand recovery and move forward with their ambitions. We achieve this by providing a range of support services including lifestyle coaching, group activities, and a range of talking therapies. We provide practical mental wellbeing support through mentoring, courses, volunteering opportunities and support groups.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

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: 22 years

www.advancebrighterfutures.co.uk

info@abfwxm.co.uk

01978364777

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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£309£324£-16n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/03/22£499£480£19n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£342£246£96n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/20£184£167£17n/an/an/an/an/a19
31/03/19£183£183£0n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/03/18£135£135£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£125£124£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£140£144£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£167£143£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£134£116£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£114£107£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£109£100£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£96£131£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£163£190£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£174£208£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£225£180£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£175£179£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£146£185£-40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£183£179£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£173£142£32£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
Who works here?
  • 9 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Flintshire, Wrexham,

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
Tudor Trust£112,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£84,250
Steve Morgan Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,927
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures
£1,462 22/10/2022
We wish to deliver six mental health first aid courses to enable 84 officially trained mental health first aiders in our community.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham
£50,000 08/09/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures
£10,000 11/02/2021
for a part-time role to oversee, manage and host on-line support services
Tudor Trust - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham
£2,000 04/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - HALO - Help and Listening Online
£9,927 22/06/2020
10
Advanced Brighter Futures in Wrexham will use £9927 to develop the online HALO ‘Help and Listening Online’ service to help further reduce social isolation and promote positive mental health and ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham
£110,000 11/06/2020
36
over three years towards the core costs of a charity providing a range of support to people with mental health issues in Wrexham, North Wales
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham
£32,000 21/05/2020
12
One year core funding to support Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham to sustain their work to support work addressing Mental Health Complex Social Issue (CSI) during COVID19
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£4,840 22/10/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures
£10,000 11/05/2017
replacement of roof for a charity which works with disabled people in Wrexham
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham
£75,000 22/11/2016
36
Funding will allow this Wrexham based charity to deliver support to their severe/secondary/inpatient referrals. Engagement will take place at the charities centre, in the community and within Heddfan ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham
£12,000 28/09/2012
the salary and on costs of a part-time project worker for the VIVA programme
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-78
  • MARC JONES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Councillor
  • RICHARD BEDSON (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Estates And Facilities
  • ROBERT COX Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Business Owner
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/12/2001, number: 1089638
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/08/2000, number: 04052135
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
  • 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; AR08: 1 days late,
Main office

3 Belmont Road
Wrexham
LL13 7PW

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF WREXHAM SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND/OR HAVING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND TO ENABLE SUCH PERSONS TO OBTAIN THEIR FULL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS CITIZENS, BY SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING

Defined Area of Benefit:

COUNTY BOROUGH OF WREXHAM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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