Overall GiG Score: 21 ?
Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

VOICES FROM CARE CYMRU 

To advance the spiritual, educational and physical welfare of children in and from care by involving them in the decision making process and improving the effectiveness of services to them. To form forums of young people in and from care to provide them with advice and support in dealing with their problems, education and seaking employment. To increase their self esteem & confidence.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
Established: 19 years
(27 years as a company)

vfcc.org.uk

info@vfcc.org.uk

02920451431

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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£1,002£803£199£0£777£4326.51816
31/03/22£866£710£156£0£539£3656.21816
31/03/21£824£690£134£0£383£2834.91816
31/03/20£659£627£33£0£249£1913.71316
31/03/19£527£495£32£0£217£1944.7100
31/03/18£506£480£26£0£185£1413.5100
31/03/17£518£459£59£0£159£1403.7100
31/03/16£302£289£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£273£262£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£264£249£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£265£261£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£248£254£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£267£242£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£226£232£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£238£230£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£254£261£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£240£245£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£220£215£6£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 56%
Reserves/Spending: 6.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 10
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
  • 16 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout Wales,
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

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£503,789
Henry Smith Charity£110,100
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£73,500
Comic Relief£48,750
Esmee Fairbairn£26,500
CHK Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Voices From Care
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Voices from Care
£110,100 11/03/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing advocacy and advice for care-experienced children and young people, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Wales.
National Lottery Community Fund - Summer Event 2022
£10,000 11/01/2022
Voices from Care Cymru in Cardiff will work with care experienced young people to create an event that strengthens relationships between families and supporting professionals. £10000 will fund venue ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Connected' The Care Experienced Wellbeing Hub
£493,789 24/09/2020
36
Voices from Care (VfC) will provide integrated wellbeing activities and flexible counselling services to 150 care experienced people across Wales per year. Whilst the project will primarily benefit ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voices from Care
£26,500 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 03/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£20,000 17/03/2020
to support specified work
Comic Relief - Lived Experience to Leading Change
£48,750 03/07/2019
18
Care-experienced young people can feel that 'corporate parents' - the term for agencies designed to support their care - fail to appreciate the challenges they face. While the first #iwill grant was ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Improving the lives of care experienced children and young people in Wales
£53,500 13/05/2019
24
Follow-on funding to contribute to the salary of the Chief Executive Officer to promote the views, protect the interests and improve conditions for young people in care by working strategically with ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Voices from Care
£84,900 13/03/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing advocacy and advice for care-experienced children and young people across Wales
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Voices From Care
£72,360 16/10/2018
36
Funding for the rental costs of the charities main office in Cardiff enabling them to continue to deliver services for looked after children and care leavers.
National Lottery Community Fund - LGBT + Participation Forums
£8,900 11/02/2018
12
LGBT + Participation Forums
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voices from Care
£200,000 24/01/2018
48
Towards the salary of a co-ordinator, evaluation and other project costs to increase young people’s access to a service that enables them to stay with foster carers longer and to improve it.
Comic Relief - Join Our Voice
£137,100 27/09/2017
36
The project will support young person-organised events across Wales to engage care-experienced young people who have no previous involvement in social action. Once engaged, these young people will ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Furthering and Sustaining our Voice
£50,000 08/05/2017
24
Voices From Care is a charity which represents the views, rights and experiences of young people who are or have been looked after in Wales. This grant contributes to the salary of the CEO, who will ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Voices From Care
£13,200 16/12/2015
24
supporting young people in Wales who are or have been in care. The grant will fund the costs of consultancy, including implementing training of governance responsibilities and developing an income ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 22-76
  • IAN HARVEY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Bank Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/03/2005, number: 1108430
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/10/1996, number: 03261608
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
18 returns made; all on time
Main office

45THE PARADE
ROATH
CARDIFF
CF24 3AB

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE SPIRITUAL, EDUCATIONAL AND PHYSICAL WELFARE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN WALES WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN LOOKED AFTER BY A LOCAL AUTHORITY OR A VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION BY:A) ANY MEANS THAT IS CHARITABLE;B) INVOLVING YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS;C) IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SERVICES TO YOUNG PEOPLE IN WALES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WALES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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