Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

DAME VERA LYNN CHILDREN'S CHARITY 

This charity provides early intervention and other relevant related services to children with cerebral palsy and other motor impairments and associated disabilities and their parents and carers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 22 years

www.dvlcc.org.uk

info@dvlcc.org.uk

01444473274

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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£369£448£-79n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£441£349£91n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/21£468£409£59n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£334£460£-126n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/19£300£394£-94n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£493£334£159£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£445£266£179£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£503£481£22£196£42£330.8140
31/03/15£556£614£-59£206£19£-10-0.2110
31/03/14£649£722£-73£255£72£-13-0.2180
31/03/13£428£677£-249£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£635£649£-15£185£405£2464.680
31/03/11£669£590£79£148£420£3717.560
31/03/10£554£500£54£147£341£2636.340
31/03/09£351£469£-118£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£385£389£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£244£364£-120£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£396£376£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£362£323£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£416£284£132£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 6 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
BBC Children in Need£118,054
National Lottery Community Fund£29,228
Sussex Community Foundation£25,212
Youth Music£24,231
DCMS£20,105
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
The Foyle Foundation£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity
£2,453 21/10/2023
We're helping children with cerebral palsy to swim, splash, and play in the pool to help strengthen their muscles and aid mobility.
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach Project
£10,000 18/11/2022
The funding will be used for outreach and family support play sessions for children under five with cerebral palsy. The project aims to increase the independence and development of the children and ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Learning Together Project
£3,000 17/10/2022
Funding is towards core costs of the Learning Together Project supporting children with Cerebral Palsy and their families.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity - 26/05/22
£3,000 23/06/2022
Core Funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/03/2022
Early Intervention Service
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity
£10,000 10/03/2022
12
towards one year's running costs of the ‘Learning Together' project, providing conductive education for children aged 0 to 5 with cerebral palsy and other similar motor impairments in West Sussex.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
£77,484 03/02/2022
This project will provide conductive education and therapy to young children with cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities. Children will improve core strength and mobility, and communication ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity
£6,459 17/11/2021
12
Funding was provided towards running costs of their conductive education programme.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity
£1,504 23/10/2021
This project gives families the confidence to take their child with cerebral palsy swimming in local community facilities, encouraging inclusion.
National Lottery Community Fund - Delivering intensive intervention sessions
£9,358 08/10/2021
The funding will be used to deliver intensive intervention sessions of Conductive Education to children (0-5yrs) with cerebral palsy and other similar motor impairments and their families. The ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity - 21/05/21
£1,250 02/06/2021
Core Funding
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity
£5,373 24/05/2021
The Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity work directly with children to improve their independence leading to a more confident child with better future opportunities in education, employment and ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£20,000 11/02/2021
towards the core costs of providing an early intervention service of vital support for young children with cerebral palsy and other motor learning impairments and their families (awarded grant in ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity
£10,000 08/12/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of conductive education sessions for children with cerebral palsy and their families in West Sussex.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Trust
£3,880 18/11/2020
4
Funding was provided for two months salary of an Outreach Family Support Worker to enable them to adapt services in light of COVID restrictions to ensure families still feel supported.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
£38,914 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver online sessions with young disabled children and their parents, transitioning to group work for families isolated at home due to COVID-19. Children will improve ....more
CAF - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity
£8,000 03/09/2020
3
Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£12,575 23/06/2020
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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,530 22/06/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
£1,656 17/06/2020
COVID19 - This grant will fund additional hours of a conductor for disabled children, isolated at home due to Covid-19. Children will improve their mobility and physical development.
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - People with Disabilities
£3,120 11/06/2020
Funding towards the essential running costs, IT costs and education technology for an organisation, based in West Sussex, that supports families with children aged 5 and under, that have cerebral ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Trust
£5,000 27/04/2020
The Dame Vera Lynn Trust supports children with cerebral palsy and their families using a movement-based educational approach encouraging the child to develop physically, socially and emotionally. ....more
Youth Music - Making Music Together
£24,231 23/10/2019
Making Music Together
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Trust
£4,500 05/07/2019
8
Funding was provided towards the cost of running an outreach project to ensure families are supported during COVID.
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach support for families
£9,870 25/04/2019
12
The funding will be used to provide an additional outreach worker who will deliver an early intervention service of vital support for families with young children with cerebral palsy and other ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
£110,209 23/10/2018
36
This project will provide conductive education and therapy to young children with cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities. Children will improve core strength and mobility, and communication ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£4,500 22/10/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach support for families
£9,646 03/01/2018
12
This project will run a new outreach service, enabling families to receive better support from the group.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 03/05/2017
Funding our early intervention service and new additional support services to families with children under 5 years of age with cerebral palsy or other similar motor learning impairments
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Trust for Children with Cerebral Palsy
£62,600 03/12/2015
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Professional Team Member Teacher at a Conductive Education centre for children with Cerebral Palsy in West Sussex
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Dame Vera Lynn Trust for Children with Cerebral Palsy
£93,500 13/06/2013
24
towards two years’ continuation funding of the salary of the Professional Team Member at a conductive education centre in West Sussex
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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: 48-64
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/12/2001, number: 1089657
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/06/2001, number: 04230409
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from BRYAN DUNN MEMORIAL BURSARY on 05/08/2022
Main office

Unit 1
The Courtyard
Holmstead Farm
Staplefield Road
Cuckfiel

Objectives

TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER RELEVANT RELATED SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND ASSOCIATED DISABILITIES AND THEIR PARENTS AND CARERS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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