Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

PROJECT COLT

Day Treatment Rehabilitation ProgrammePre & Post Detox Support and Through Care into WorkCounselling and Mentoring ServiceSelf-Esteem Course/s for Men/WomenAddiction Training for Volunteers and CounsellorsSeminars and Workshops
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
30/04/23£120£129£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/22£95£109£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/21£168£105£63n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/20£51£61£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/19£56£63£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/18£61£56£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/17£53£57£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/16£66£59£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/15£40£59£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/14£42£56£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/13£92£48£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/12*£30£39£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/11£35£43£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/10*£41£53£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/09£63£35£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/08*£36£33£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/07*£13£12£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/06*£6£5£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/05*£9£10£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
22/05/04*£3£5£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 21 years

www.projectcolt.org.uk

jan@projectcolt.org.uk

01422485200

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for addiction & substance abuse
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Calderdale, Kirklees,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Henry Smith Charity£135,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£132,179
DCMS£57,545
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,948
Sir George Martin Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Project Colt
£10,000 04/10/2023
Bridgefield Mill Heritage Week
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Project Colt
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Project Colt
£50,000 07/12/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Project Colt
National Lottery Community Fund - Connect Lounge
£9,948 08/07/2022
This project will support vulnerable people with life-affecting addictions behaviours and problems. It will support individuals through various therapeutic groups and counselling sessions as well as through sporting activities. The aim is to ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Project Colt
£2,000 28/02/2022
Capital costs for Advancement of Health/Saving Lives
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Project Colt and Colt Enterprise Calderdale Ltd
£135,000 07/12/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing addiction counselling and other support services for vulnerable individuals in Elland, West Yorkshire.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 24/09/2021
36
Project Colt: Supporting beneficiaries to overcome substance use in Calderdale.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Project Colt
£50,000 02/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Project Colt, awarded under the Foundation's Addiction and Dependency funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge from the pandemic.
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£30,332 02/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations to match funds raised on ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Project Colt
£3,000 28/09/2020
Core costs for Advancement of Health/Saving Lives
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Project Colt
£14,931 24/07/2020
Grant to Project Colt meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£27,213 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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 05/06/2020
Project Colt
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Project Colt
£14,998 04/12/2019
12
Project Colt is requesting support to cover costs of consultancy support to develop fundraising strategy, communications and marketing and improve their systems and processes.
National Lottery Community Fund - Day Treatment Rehabilitation Project
£9,596 06/02/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a series of workshops for people in recovery from addiction. These include healthy eating, budgeting and CV writing. People will be provided with the opportunity to take part in positive structured learning ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 23/10/2017
AAA (Act, Apply, Advance,)
National Lottery Community Fund - Art Therapy Recovery Programme
£10,000 28/06/2017
12
The group will deliver sculpture art workshops for offenders with complex issues. This will provide therapeutic activities with the aim of improving mental health and promoting wellbeing.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Project Colt
£40,000 16/12/2015
24
supporting people affected by addictions including alcohol, drugs, gambling and co-dependency to enable and empower them to break free of their addiction and live healthier, more positive lifestyles. The grant will fund the Project Manager.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Project Colt
£16,000 31/07/2012
the salary and on-costs of the Trainer (Personal and Professional Development)
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How do they operate?

Project Colt Day Treatment Recovery Programme

Objectives: To provide support for individuals to live healthy addiction free lifestyles

Description: The Project Colt programme is broken into 3 phases. Phase 1 supports the basic needs of the service users, Phase 2 providing support through a drug treatment rehabilitation and Phase 3 enables vocational work through the social enterprise Colt Enterprise Calderdale Ltd

Colt Enterprise Calderdale Ltd

Objectives: A social enterprise set up to generate funds to support the Project Colt Day Treatment Recovery Programme

Description: The services provided by Colt Enterprise Calderdale Ltd include house and office clearances, second hand furniture and appliance sales and deliveries and pickups

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

  • DANNY BARKER Appointed: 2011
  • JANE MITCHELL Appointed: 2018
  • KIERAN GIAN MALKO Appointed: 2024
  • LESLEY JOSEPHINE MASLEN Appointed: 2024
  • PAUL BERNARD MCMAHON Appointed: 2014
  • SIMON MACAULAY (Chair) Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 30/06/2003, number: 1098268
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
  • 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: 113 days late, AR10: 85 days late, AR08: 116 days late, AR07: 42 days late, AR06: 64 days late, AR05: 429 days late, AR04: 118 days late,
Main office

PROJECT COLT MILL
BRIDGEFIELD MILLS
ELLAND
WEST YORKSHIRE
HX5 0SQ

Objectives

(A) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE SICK (PARTICULARLY THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY AS A RESULT OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION) AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN CALDERDALE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE COMMUNITY (PARTICULARLY THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN REGARD TO DRUG-FREE HEALTHY LIVING) IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Defined Area of Benefit:

CALDERDALE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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