Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

HEADWAY HERTFORDSHIRE LIMITED 

The company is established to promote the understanding of brain injury and to provide information and support to people who have acquired brain injury, their families and carers throughout Hertfordshire
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 22 years

www.headway-herts.org.uk

enquiries@headway-herts.org.uk

03003301455

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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£274£325£-51n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/22*£211£303£-93n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/21£423£262£161n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/20£262£295£-33n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/19£251£242£9n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£238£255£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£290£289£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£308£322£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£253£240£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£210£181£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£154£143£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£133£149£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£117£141£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£110£120£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09?£137£136£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£77£96£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£99£106£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£114£77£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£67£47£20£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hertfordshire,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 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£215,507
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£18,000
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£10,000
Co-Operative Group£9,091
The Fore£5,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£3,440
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Headway Hertfordshire Growth and Programme Expansion
£215,507 11/05/2023
Funding will be used to provide support services to adults with Acquired Brain Injuries (ABI). This includes one-to-one and group support from both sufferers and their families/carers making carers ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
£3,575 22/10/2022
We would like to provide counselling to those with an acquired brain injury and their carers who may also need mental health support.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Headway Hertfordshire Limited - 21/06/22
£2,000 12/07/2022
Core Funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
£5,516 23/10/2021
We would like to run several art and craft sessions across our 8 peer support groups in Hertfordshire. We need to pay for a specialist trainer and the equipment to make the classes a success.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 01/10/2021
Delivery of key brain injury support services
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Speech and Language Therapy (SALT)
£5,000 18/06/2021
Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
£5,000 07/07/2020
Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 26/06/2020
Headway Hertfordshire
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Headway Hertfordshire Limited
£5,000 22/06/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Headway Hertfordshire Limited, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire Limited
£3,440 19/06/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with rehabilitation of people affected by traumatic brain injury or a stroke in Herfordshire
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Headway Hertfordshire support services
£3,000 24/04/2020
Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire Limited
£10,000 17/12/2019
11
Counselling for ABI patients
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Counselling for ABI patients
£5,000 20/09/2019
Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Who Cares Wins
£40,994 23/04/2019
12
TPP4 - Brain Injury - Who Cares Wins
National Lottery Community Fund - Expanding our Geographical and Developing Carer Services
£91,830 28/02/2019
24
This project works with people who have a brain injury, their carers and families. The project aims to reduce social isolation, improve health and wellbeing and give carers a break. The project will ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
£67,200 12/12/2018
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of two Community Support Workers at a project providing support for adults with an acquired brain injury in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
£5,000 07/09/2018
Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Who Cares Wins!
£9,770 26/04/2018
12
This project, in which the organisation works directly with about 300 people plus referrals, is aimed directly at carers to understand their needs both for themselves and to support how they care for ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 14/02/2018
Headway Hertfordshire Core Funding
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire
£60,900 12/03/2015
36
towards three years' salary of a Community Support Worker at a project in Hertfordshire providing support for adults with an acquired brain injury
National Lottery Community Fund - HABIT (Helping Acquired Brain Injury Together) Plus
£257,331 17/04/2013
48
Headway Hertfordshire Ltd will continue to provide support to people suffering from Acquired Brain Injury. Funding will allow the organisation to expand their existing Helping Acquired Brain Injury ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Headway Hertfordshire Limited
£37,300 28/07/2011
HABIT (Helping Acquired Brain Injury Together) cost of the OT service contract, management and admin, volunteer costs, promotion/publicity & hall hire
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 53-69
  • BRUCE ST LEGER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Md And It Management Consultant
  • NIKOLA BAINES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Human Resources
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/10/2002, number: 1094046
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/12/2001, number: 04341309
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR22: 3 days late, AR16: 0 days late,
Main office

Headway Hertfordshire
Suite 3a
30 Bancroft
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
SG5 1LA

Objectives

(1)TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN HERTFORDSHIRE WHO HAVE SUFFERED A BRAIN INJURY, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS, AND OTHER RELATED PROFESSIONALS BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH INFORMATION, SERVICE AND FACILITIES, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.(2)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS RELATING TO BRAIN INJURY AND ITS PREVENTION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HERTFORDSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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