Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 10
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

    DOMESTIC ABUSE SAFETY UNIT NORTH WALES LTD 

    To provide information, support and, if necessary, refuge accommodation to people who have, or, who are, suffering domestic abuse.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • 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

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
    Established: 19 years

    www.dasunorthwales.co.uk

    info@dasunorthwales.co.uk

    01244830436

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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£3,964£3,950£15£0£812£8122.59411
    31/03/22£3,437£3,408£29£0£797£7972.8895
    31/03/21*£2,862£2,462£400£0£768£7683.7610
    31/03/20£1,483£1,413£70£0£368£2161.8405
    31/03/19£774£724£50£0£298£1762.9214
    31/03/18£459£492£-33£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£493£464£29£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£465£458£7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£387£412£-25£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£424£435£-11£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£276£316£-41£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£341£293£48£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£288£269£19£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£254£206£48£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08£189£207£-18£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07£201£212£-12£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 63%
    Liabilities/Income: 36%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
    Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
    Quick Ratio: 1.6
    Asset Split ?
    Listed activities
    • Accommodation/Housing
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham,
    Who it helps
    • Other Defined Groups
    Who works here?
    • 94 employees
    • 11 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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    National Lottery Community Fund£985,103
    Lloyds Bank Foundation£105,400
    BBC Children in Need£100,497
    Steve Morgan Foundation£90,930
    Charles Hayward Foundation£75,000
    Crisis UK£74,890
    Masonic Trust£60,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit
    £25,000 22/12/2022
    Flintshire Crisis Intervention Service - 3rd year funding
    Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
    £60,000 16/11/2022
    Grant to fund an additional Children and Young People's Worker to support children and young people affected by domestic abuse in Flintshire.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Domestic Abuse Recovery Service
    £499,603 29/09/2022
    The Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales in Wrexham will launch a Domestic Abuse Recovery Service to provide specialist intervention focusing on mental health. This will merge with existing ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Arcoiris
    £10,000 12/09/2022
    Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales Ltd in Denbighshire will employ an LGBTQIA liaison officer to help people from those communities to confidently access domestic abuse services. £10000 will pay ....more
    Crisis UK - Grant to DASU
    £25,000 01/03/2022
    Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales (DASU) is employing a specialist worker to deliver the IRIS Programme in nine GP surgeries. The programme is an evidence-based early intervention initiative, ....more
    Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit
    £25,000 29/11/2021
    Flintshire Crisis Intervention Service
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to DASU North Wales
    £4,096 23/10/2021
    We'd like to provide a lunch club for ladies in Flintshire and Wrexham, which will incorporate wellbeing courses and community support for women who have experienced domestic abuse.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales
    £100,497 10/08/2021
    This project will support children and young people affected by domestic abuse. They will have improved well-being, reduce their distress, and will be better able to manage their emotions.
    Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales
    £90,930 07/04/2021
    3 year grant for the Children's Worker role
    Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit
    £25,000 26/08/2020
    Flintshire Crisis Intervention Service
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales LTD
    £5,400 28/07/2020
    Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales LTD meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
    National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Target Hardening Service
    £10,000 27/05/2020
    12
    Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales will use the grant to support the surge of high risk victims of domestic abuse due to Covid-19 in four counties of North Wales using target hardening aiming to ....more
    CAF - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales
    £8,000 12/05/2020
    3
    Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales to support the organisation through COVID19
    Crisis UK - Grant to DASU North Wales
    £49,890 04/05/2020
    Funding for Domestic Violence Crisis workers to cover North Wales.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Progress
    £465,500 25/07/2019
    36
    Project Summary :_x000D_ The project will continue and expand the existing work of Progress, to provide one-to-one support, the recovery toolkit and closer working arrangements with Job Centre Plus ....more
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales LTD
    £100,000 16/07/2019
    36
    DASU is a specialist domestic abuse charity in North East Wales providing services to both male and female victims of domestic abuse. The grant is towards core costs.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Mens Den
    £3,239 27/09/2017
    12
    Mens Den
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit (Deeside)
    £81,100 08/12/2016
    36
    towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the One Stop Shop Co-ordinator at a project providing support to survivors of domestic abuse in Flintshire
    National Lottery Community Fund - Progress
    £250,916 25/05/2016
    36
    Progress
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit (Deeside)
    £74,147 06/05/2015
    36
    funding a Finance, Fundraising and Monitoring Officer post to provide support to front line staff who in turn will have more time to support victims of domestic abuse
    National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Co-ordinator
    £114,161 20/03/2014
    36
    The project will benefit 184 victims of domestic abuse in Flintshire by funding a volunteer co-ordinator to manage 54 volunteers, who will provide long term support to service users following the ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit (Deeside)
    £84,600 12/09/2013
    36
    towards three years' salary of the One Stop Shop Co-ordinator at a project that supports people experiencing domestic abuse in Flintshire
    National Lottery Community Fund - DASU Outreach & Development Project
    £247,826 26/09/2012
    36
    The project based in Deeside will provide an Outreach and Development service for people who are affected by domestic abuse in Flintshire. The project will improve long-term physical and mental well ....more
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Domestic Abuse Safety Unit (Deeside)
    £18,000 27/01/2012
    the salary and associated costs of a Finance/Funding Co-ordinator
    National Lottery Community Fund - Recession 2 - Mentoring Programme
    £49,254 18/10/2010
    36
    The project will allow the organisation to provide a volunteer mentoring training scheme. Volunteer mentors will be recruited and be given training surrounding domestic abuse issues, finance and ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/10/2005, number: 1111610
    • Registered at Companies House on 20/04/2005, number: 05430841
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Event History
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management 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
    17 returns made; AR21: 42 days late,
    Recent reorganisation events:
    • Asset transfer in from GLYNDWR WOMEN'S AID on 03/07/2019
    • Asset transfer in from SHOTTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION on 17/05/2021
    Main office

    104 Chester Road East
    Shotton
    Deeside
    CH5 1QD

    Objectives

    THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE RELIEF OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISTRESS AMONG (I) PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO MENTAL, PHYSICAL, OR SEXUAL ABUSE, BY THEIR PARTNERS, EX-PARTNERS OR PERSONS WITH WHOM THEY HAVE HAD A RELATIONSHIP AND WHO ARE IN NEED AND (II) THE CHILDREN OF THOSE PERSONS, BY THE PROVISION OF/REFERRAL TO REFUGE ACCOMMODATION AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS SHALL FURTHER THE SAID OBJECTS.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, FLINTSHIRE.

    Data Sources

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