Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 6
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +6

HALOW PROJECT 

Development of young people with learning disabilities so that they may fulfil their potential.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • 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:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 17 years

www.halowproject.org.uk

info@halowproject.org.uk

01483447960

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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£2,242£2,216£26£217£275£2371.38270
31/03/22£1,802£1,901£-98£145£249£2401.5829
31/03/21£1,558£1,570£-11£130£347£3462.6720
31/03/20?*£962£795£168£176£359£3595.41725
31/12/18£543£533£9£96£191£1914.31725
31/12/17£534£583£-49£150£182£1823.7160
31/12/16£483£519£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£547£443£104£176£266£2536.9130
31/12/14£470£432£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£375£403£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£395£400£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£330£311£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£199£251£-53£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£93£203£-110£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£157£86£72£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£236£11£225£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.8%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 47%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 1.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
Who works here?
  • 82 employees
  • 70 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
  • Surrey,

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
Community Foundation for Surrey£72,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£8,970
DCMS£8,330
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Cook and Grow Project for learning-disabled young people
£8,970 19/08/2022
The funding will be used to run gardening and cookery sessions for young people living with learning disabilities. The project aims to improve their mental and physical health develop life skills and ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Strategic organisational development
£12,000 14/02/2022
Funding towards the salary costs of a Volunteer Coordinator of an organisation that offers opportunities to young people with learning disabilities.
Community Foundation for Surrey - A Reason to Get Up
£5,000 19/10/2021
8
Funding towards a project to support young people with complex needs and learning difficulties to get into employment, by an organisation based in Guildford.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Core costs for supporting learning- disabled young people in Surrey
£4,000 20/07/2021
11
Funding towards the essential running costs of a charity that supports people of all ages with learning disabilities.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Halow Project - 16/04/21
£1,000 11/05/2021
Core Funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Halow
£4,265 24/10/2020
It will equip learning-disabled young people with new skills and confidence to help them prepare for a successful, productive adult life.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Building Futures Project - training and life-skills for learning-disabled young people
£15,000 20/08/2020
11
Building Futures Project - training and life-skills for learning-disabled young people
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,330 14/08/2020
"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
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - People with Disabilities
£25,000 28/07/2020
5
Funding for workshop sessions to support vulnerable people with learning disabilities following the Coronavirus pandemic
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - People with Disabilities
£5,000 08/04/2020
Funding toward the purchase of equipment for an organisation, based in Guildford, that offers counselling and learning activities to those with learning disabilities, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Foundation for Surrey - 'Get Healthy': Health and Fitness project for 50 learning-disabled young people.
£6,000 15/07/2019
11
Sports, activities and health and wellbeing workshops for young people with learning disabilities in Guildford.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 08/05/2019
Support towards our core work with learning-disabled young people in 2019/20.
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£9,158 07/01/2019
The overall goal of this project - and our existing health and well-being work - is to improve health and well-being. In terms of specific outcomes for the project, impact indicators will include: - ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Together
£9,158 19/12/2018
11
Health and well-being work that specifically tackles the sexual health and relationship issues faced by learning-disabled young women.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Halow Project
£4,309 29/11/2017
We need new sports equipment and resources to ensure that more young people with a learning disability can access halow’s services in Surrey
Community Foundation for Surrey - A Reason to Get Up: The IT Crowd
£4,450 01/11/2016
11
Funding for part of a program which supports young people who have learning disabilities to gain IT skills.
Sport England - Sport for Life
£9,882 29/07/2016
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Sport for Life. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Halow Project
£20,000 26/11/2012
the salary of the Buddy Co-ordinator
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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: 39-68
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/11/2006, number: 1116773
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/05/2006, number: 05822301
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
16 returns made; AR20: 37 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE H J CHARITABLE TRUST on 06/07/2023
Main office

Halow Project
Carroll House
11 Quarry Street
GUILDFORD
GU1 3UY

Objectives

(A) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION, TRAINING, CARE AND ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES TO PERSONS WITH PERMANENT LEARNING DISABILITIES AND OTHERS WHO HAVE CHARITABLE NEED FOR SUCH SERVICES WITH THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEY MAY REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITION FOR LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED; AND(B) TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITY

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE SURREY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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