Overall GiG Score: 21 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN WELCARE 

Welcare is a Charity, based on Christian values, working in South London and East Surrey. We offer family support, mentoring services and group work programmes for parents and children. We strive to empower families with children up to the age of 13 by offering practical and emotional support to overcome challenges and to enable parents to give children secure and confident childhoods.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £2,710,168 available, equivalent to 35 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
Established: 19 years

www.welcare.org

info@welcare.org

02078207910

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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£931£941£-10£49£2,785£2,71034.6186
31/03/22£859£795£64£49£2,811£2,70940.9227
31/03/21£1,070£851£219£44£2,716£2,59436.6227
31/03/20£1,123£1,045£79£67£2,202£2,14524.62235
31/03/19£1,000£991£10£51£2,139£2,12825.82059
31/03/18£998£956£41£55£2,107£2,08226.1250
31/03/17£1,025£984£41£59£2,061£2,02924.7210
31/03/16£961£899£62£61£1,981£1,94425.9170
31/03/15£867£990£-123£71£1,581£1,18814.4190
31/03/14£1,090£1,150£-60£69£1,680£1,28413.4210
31/03/13£1,691£1,972£-281£38£1,719£1,3248.1360
31/03/12£2,599£2,691£-92£50£1,952£1,4716.6500
31/03/11£2,915£2,851£64£56£1,974£1,4546.1500
31/03/10£2,559£2,948£-389£50£1,759£5132.1530
31/03/09£2,930£2,370£559£41£2,070£5983450
31/03/08£2,307£2,267£40£47£1,633£3351.8890
31/03/07*£2,170£2,633£-463£35£1,660£5002.3420
31/03/06£2,498£2,599£-100£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 6.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 24%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 34.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
  • 6 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Richmond Upon Thames, Southwark, Surrey, Wandsworth,

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
City Bridge Trust£196,664
DCMS£91,563
BBC Children in Need£62,452
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£61,000
Community Foundation for Surrey£9,811
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
London Catalyst - Welcare - 9
£800 14/11/2023
Hardship Fund
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Welcare
£3,505 21/10/2023
We would like to run four new groups for parents who are isolated, or whose child has special educational needs.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Child Development Project
£3,811 23/01/2023
Funding towards a project working with families who have English as a second language with children with disabilities.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Southwark Diocesan Welcare
£193,800 15/03/2022
£193,800 over 5 years (£37,000; £37,900; £38,800; £39,600; £40,500) towards the costs of a FTE Family Support Worker and associated running costs.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Southwark Diocesan WelCare
£61,000 26/01/2022
Welcare will work with Southwark Diocese and local schools to deliver individual and group programmes for vulnerable families affected by domestic violence and emotional trauma.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£71,125 22/09/2020
"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 Southwark Diocesan WelCare
£62,452 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This grant will fund online holistic one to one and group support for young people who have experienced domestic abuse and are isolated due to Covid-19, this will increase feelings of ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£20,438 30/06/2020
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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Southwark Diocesan Welcare
£2,864 13/04/2020
A grant of £2,864 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - COVID19 Rapid Response Fund Grant to Southwark Diocesan WelCare
£2,000 02/04/2020
To support the organisation to deliver supermarket vouchers to families in need.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Welcare play worker salary costs
£6,000 10/07/2019
5
Salary costs for a Play Worker to continue to provide parenting and group work programmes which are vital to support isolated and disadvantaged families in the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - OurPlace- Young people's service
£9,000 03/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to provide two streams of an early intervention program for marginalised children and young people. The project aims to improve resilience, increase motivation and ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Southwark Diocesan WelCare
£95,350 17/10/2018
24
Inner London Child & Family Support Service
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Southwark Diocesan Welcare
£40,000 18/06/2018
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Community Foundation for Surrey - East Surrey Child & Family Support Service
£10,000 12/03/2018
9
Two 12-week domestic abuse treatment and recovery programmes (MySpace Programmes) for children between the ages of 8-13.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Southwark Diocesan WelCare
£104,351 17/10/2017
36
Support service for 168 young people who have experienced domestic violence in Greenwich. Young people will experience increased self-esteem, increased social resilience & have greater emotional ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Welcare Child & Family Support Service
£447,251 26/08/2015
48
This new project is to train a total of 96 volunteers to support 510 parents and 145 children enabling them to overcome issues caused by domestic abuse, poverty, family breakdown and mental health ....more
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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: 40-78
  • NATALIE WALTERS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Jpic, Southwark Diocese
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/01/2005, number: 1107859
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/11/2004, number: 05275749
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
  • 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
18 returns made; AR07: 2 days late,
Main office

24 WARWICK ROAD
REDHILL
RH1 1BU

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AND THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN;2. THE PROMOTION OF THE SOCIAL MISSION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH;3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE SOUTHWARK, GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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