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Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 3
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

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:

  • 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 is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£305£299£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£390£330£60n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£293£289£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£247£215£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£510£569£-59£0£84£771.62011
31/03/18£457£481£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£444£435£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£474£461£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£449£448£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£360£368£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£317£327£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£293£287£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£255£283£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£279£262£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£195£194£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£235£231£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£448£291£157n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 19 years
(23 years as a company)

www.jigsawcharity.org

info@jigsawcharity.org

01132032771

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Mentoring and leadership support
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 supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
AB Charitable Trust£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,443
Sir George Martin Trust£1,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Jigsaw Visitors Centre
£1,000 15/03/2024
Capital costs for Adult Welfare & Relief of Poverty
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 family support.
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 parenting skills and homework clubs. The project aims to ....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 on children.
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 Leeds.
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
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-76
  • DR SIMON ROBERT SANDISON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Policy Advisor
  • GUY HILL Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Costing Accountant
  • HELEN PARKINSON Appointed: 2024
  • NEIL CLEPHAN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Teacher
  • PHILIP TURNPENNEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Barrister
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

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