Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

JIGSAW VISITORS CENTRE 

To provide a range of services at our prison sites and in the community, offering emotional support, advice and guidance, rehabilitation and family time. Enabling offenders and their loved ones to sustain meaningful relationships to benefit them during time in custody and beyond.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 18 years
(22 years as a company)

www.jigsawcharity.org

info@jigsawcharity.org

01132032771

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£390£330£60n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/22£293£289£3n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/21£247£215£33n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/20£510£569£-59£0£84£771.62011
31/03/19£541£535£6£0£143£972.2197
31/03/18£457£481£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£444£435£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£474£461£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£449£448£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£360£368£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£317£327£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£293£287£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£255£283£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£279£262£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£195£194£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£235£231£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£448£291£157£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnsley, Bradford City, Calderdale, City Of Wakefield, Doncaster, Kirklees, Leeds City, North Yorkshire, Rotherham, Sheffield City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 2 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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Jigsaw Visitors Centre
£15,000 23/04/2020
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Jigsaw manages family services and offers support to visitors at HMP Leeds and HMP Wealstun, including running visitors centres, café bars and providing additional ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Interventions Programme - HMP Leeds and HMP Wealstun
£9,443 24/02/2020
11
The funding will be used to deliver family intervention activities for prisoners, their children and families, including family days, play activities, activities to support the development of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Unity
£8,950 06/12/2018
12
The organisation will use funding to pay for activities and services to strengthen and maintain family ties with prisoners. The project aims to reduce the harmful effects that enforced separation has ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Jigsaw Visitors Centre
£59,595 09/02/2017
36
The 'Families that Play Together' project delivers daily sessions during term time for children and fathers to have supervised play during visiting times in a safe and supported environment at HMP ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Support to prisoners and their families
£10,000 26/04/2016
£10,000 towards a free family legal advice service to prisoners at HMP Leeds
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Jigsaw Visitors Centre
£90,000 23/04/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a family support project at prisons across Yorkshire

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-75
  • GUY HILL Appointed: 2014 Occupation: Costing Accountant
Valerie (Secretary) has been a magistrate for 23 years sitting in adult crime, youth crime, and family courts. She is also a member of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Leeds and has been for 20 years.
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/04/2006, number: 1113759
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/08/2001, number: 04278920
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
  • 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; AR12: 28 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 1 days late,
Main office

Jigsaw Visitors Centre
C/O HM Prison Leeds
2 Gloucester Terrace
LEEDS
LS12 2TJ

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG PARTNERS, FAMILIES, CHILDREN AND DEPENDANTS OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION OF THEIR LIBERTY AND WHO ARE DETAINED AT HM PRISON, LEEDS;2. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND POOR HEALTH AND TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND HEALTH EDUCATION AMONG THOSE DETAINED AT HM PRISON, LEEDS, THEIR DEPENDANTS AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND AMONGST PEOPLE LIVING IN THE ARMLEY AREA OF LEEDS, BY PROVIDING A HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED NON-STATUTORY FACILITIES;3. TO PROMOTE OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE ARMLEY AREA OF LEEDS

Defined Area of Benefit:

ARMLEY, LEEDS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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