Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

WANDSWORTH MEDIATION SERVICE 

Offers a community mediation service and conflict resolution training.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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: 20 years

www.wandsworthmediation.co.uk

wms@wandsworthmediation.co.uk

02072237744

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UN SDGs
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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£65£71£-7n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/22£26£50£-24n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/21£44£52£-9n/an/an/an/an/a61
31/03/20£85£72£13n/an/an/an/an/a57
31/03/19£69£59£10n/an/an/an/an/a51
31/03/18£75£42£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£34£43£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£48£31£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£27£27£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£43£52£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£56£55£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£52£57£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£35£31£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£44£48£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£51£45£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£27£23£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£81£77£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Wandsworth,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 50 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
National Lottery Community Fund - Core costs for case managers
£9,240 18/03/2022
The funding will be used to continue with the delivery services by providing case managers to offer mediation services in the community. The project aims to help resolve social conflicts and improve ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Change through Choice Battersea
£9,950 18/04/2019
12
The project will train a number of residents to be community mediators. The aim is to prevent and reduce conflict, bring people together and improve relationships.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-62
  • PHILIP GUTHRIE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Local Government Project Officer
  • SHARON CROOKS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Facilitator And Trainer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/03/2004, number: 1102464
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/05/2003, number: 04778659
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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR14: 1 days late, AR10: 74 days late, AR09: 255 days late, AR08: 67 days late, AR07: 433 days late,
Main office

ST MARKS DURIE HALL
BATTERSEA RISE
LONDON
SW11 1EJ

Objectives

(I) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PREDOMINATELY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL AREA OR COMMUNITY OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH, THE PROVISION OF SERVICES DIRECTED TOWARDS MEDIATION, CONCILIATION OR RECONCILIATION AS BETWEEN PERSONS, ORGANISATIONS, AUTHORITIES OR GROUPS INVOLVED OR LIKELY TO BECOME INVOLVED IN DISPUTE OR INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICT BOTH GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, IN ANY SITUATION WHERE THAT DISPUTE OR CONFLICT RESULTS FROM, OR MAY LEAD TO, ACTS OF VIOLENCE, NUISANCE, VANDALISM, RACIAL ABUSE, UNLAWFUL ACTIVITY OR BREAKDOWN OF PUBLIC ORDER; (II) TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY IN THE SAID LOCAL AREA OR COMMUNITY OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH, IN THE PURPOSES AND METHODS OF SUCH MEDIATION, CONCILIATION OR RECONCILIATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF ANY SUCH DISPUTES OR CONFLICTS AND OF ALL MEANS OF MANAGING THEM FOR THE PURPOSES OF PEACEFUL RESOLUTION IN THE INTERESTS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PREDOMINATELY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL AREA OR COMMUNITY OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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