Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 7

Liabilities <10%: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 19

PRISON FELLOWSHIP

Prison Fellowship aims to support prisoners by coming alongside them and supporting them to change. We offer our victim awareness course (Sycamore Tree), family contact programme (Angel Tree) and Letter Writing services to all who request them, regardless of their beliefs. We do this through our network of volunteer members and have over 2500 volunteers throughout England and Wales.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
This charity has a robust balance sheet
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Established: 20 years

prisonfellowship.org.uk

info@prisonfellowship.org.uk

02077992500

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£732	£747	£-15	£96	£760	£548	8.8	13	2,590
31/03/22		£603	£664	£-61	£90	£774	£568	10.3	13	3,179
31/03/21		£732	£605	£128	£93	£835	£644	12.8	13	3,103
31/03/20		£638	£746	£-109	£71	£707	£542	8.7	13	2,965
31/03/19		£642	£685	£-43	£75	£816	£664	11.6	12	2,726
31/03/18		£571	£649	£-77	£66	£858	£738	13.6	10	0
31/03/17		£1,346	£672	£674	£55	£936	£826	14.7	10	0
31/03/16		£572	£780	£-209	£43	£262	£169	2.6	11	0
31/03/15		£925	£829	£97	£101	£471	£398	5.8	12	0
31/03/14		£1,064	£1,050	£14	£116	£374	£262	3	17	0
31/03/13		£1,036	£914	£123	£76	£361	£220	2.9	16	0
31/03/12		£913	£916	£-3	£58	£238	£123	1.6	15	0
31/03/11		£688	£884	£-196	£23	£241	£162	2.2	14	0
31/03/10	*	£822	£803	£20	£50	£437	£366	5.5	12	0
31/03/09	*	£823	£732	£91	£34	£417	£322	5.3	15	0
31/03/08		£845	£761	£84	£31	£326	£246	3.9	15	0
31/03/07		£817	£770	£46	£40	£242	£128	2	17	0
31/03/06		£754	£751	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£601	£550	£51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 13.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 14%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 72%
Reserves/Spending: 8.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 12 months
Quick Ratio: 9.9

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

13 employees
2,590 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Prison Fellowship
£1,000	29/07/2022	Angel Tree Programme, to provide age appropriate Christian story books to the children of people in prison at Christmas time.
Essex Community Foundation - Sycamore Tree Victim Awareness Programme
£3,600	06/02/2020 1	To deliver a victim awareness programme to offenders in HMP Chelmsford
Community Foundation for Surrey - Sycamore Tree victim awareness programme
£3,000	01/11/2018 11	Restorative Justice course at HMP Send.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Prison Fellowship England & Wales
£90,000	09/06/2016 36	towards three years' continuation funding of 'Sycamore Tree', a restorative justice programme for offenders throughout England and Wales
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Prison Fellowship
£85,000	13/06/2012 36	towards three years' running costs of the Sycamore Programme, a restorative justice programme for young offenders throughout England and Wales

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-67

ANDREW ROGER JORDON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Trustee

DAVID WESLEY COOKE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Trustee

PATRICIA MOLLY HODSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director

PETER FRANCIS TRAVERS HARLOCK (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: HEALTH AND HOPE UK,

PHILIP MICHAEL MILLER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Civil Servant

REV JOANNA HONOUR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director

REV KATHLEEN MAVIS KIRBY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Minister Of Religion

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/02/2004, number: 1102254
Registered at Companies House on 24/12/2003, number: 05003795

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
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

19 returns made; AR10: 1 days late, AR09: 68 days late,

Main office

PO BOX 68226
LONDON
SW1P 9WR

Objectives

FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION AMONGST PEOPLE PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY SITUATED IN PRISONS, DETENTION CENTRES, YOUNG OFFENDERS' INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER SUCH PLACES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION CLASSES GENERALLY, THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIAN VALUES, AND THE RUNNING OF PROGRAMMES INTENDING TO CHANGE PRISONERS' BEHAVIOUR AND ATTITUDES, TO WORK OUTSIDE PRISON WITH RELEASED OFFENDERS AND PRISONERS' FAMILIES INCLUDING PRACTICAL SUPPORT FOR THOSE FAMILIES, AND TO TRAIN VOLUNTEERS TO PROVIDE SUCH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT AS MENTIONED ABOVE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

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