Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

SAFA CUMBRIA

To protect and preserve the health and relieve the needs of the people in Cumbria who self harm and create greater awareness of self harm through training and education.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/08/23£282£330£-48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/22*£274£248£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/21£273£241£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/20£241£169£72n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/19£218£172£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/18£215£232£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/17£233£226£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/16£211£238£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/15£126£167£-41n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/14£154£155£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/13£125£121£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/12£82£81£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/11£58£56£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/10£51£51£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/09£46£48£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/08*£15£14£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 17 years

www.safa-selfharm.com

info@safa-selfharm.com

01229832269

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Cumbria Community Foundation£74,500
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Self-harm Awareness for All Cumbria (SAFA Cumbria)
£2,550 21/10/2023
We'd like more counsellors to support our clients, increasing their knowledge about self-harm and how to improve their wellbeing. When people understand themselves better, they recover and thrive.
National Lottery Community Fund - SAFA CYP Counselling Project 2023-2024
£10,000 24/02/2023
This funding will be used to continue providing counselling sessions for children and young people who self-harm and are experiencing suicidal thoughts. The project aims to provide appropriate therapy support an coping strategies to improve mental ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Additional Adult Counselling Project
£10,000 24/02/2023
2
Additional Adult Counselling Project
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to SAFA Cumbria
£10,000 09/02/2023
0
Purchase of smartboards and IT equipment for a charity that works with disadvantaged young people in Cumbria
Cumbria Community Foundation - South Lakeland Counselling Project 2022-2023
£15,000 22/09/2022
11
South Lakeland Counselling Project 2022-2023
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 03/06/2022
Core Costs 2022-2023
Cumbria Community Foundation - Children and Young Persons (CYP) Counselling Project 2022-2023
£18,000 23/02/2022
Children and Young Persons (CYP) Counselling Project 2022-2023
National Lottery Community Fund - CYP Counselling 2022-2023
£10,000 21/01/2022
The funding will be used to employ a children and young people counsellor to continue to deliver one to one support for young people who self-harm. This aims to support young people and their families during the COVID pandemic to help reduce ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Contribution to staff costs and equipment
£8,000 03/12/2020
Contribution to staff costs and equipment
Cumbria Community Foundation - Part-time Support Worker
£11,500 29/07/2020
Part-time Support Worker
Cumbria Community Foundation - Hotline set up and counsellors
£2,000 01/04/2020
Hotline set up and counsellors
Cumbria Community Foundation - Core Costs
£5,000 23/01/2020
Core Costs
Cumbria Community Foundation - Core Costs
£5,000 16/01/2020
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - SAFA Cumbria - Supporting self-harmers
£299,267 21/03/2019
36
The project provides non-statutory counselling and support for those who self-harm, and for their immediate families and carers. The funding will enable them to continue their learning and development and provide counselling support for 240 clients ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Interim counselling funding
£10,000 29/08/2018
Interim counselling funding
BBC Children in Need - Grant to SAFA Cumbria
£58,289 27/06/2018
36
This project will deliver one to one counselling for young people experiencing self harm. This will lead to young people having increased emotional resilience, have better coping strategies to deal with stress and anxiety and have improved ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to SAFA Cumbria
£3,083 29/11/2017
Help fund ""Via Our Eyes"", a project to enable local people who self-harm to tell their story to their community using digital cameras.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to SAFA Cumbria
£60,000 09/06/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of a project in Cumbria providing support and counselling to people who self-harm
National Lottery Community Fund - SAFA Cumbria
£383,543 08/04/2015
36
A project to make a positive difference to the lives of young people aged over 13 who self-harm. Working to identify the underlying issues that cause self harming, the project will provide one to one counselling and psychotherapy for up to 120 ....more
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Self Harm Awareness for the Furness (Cumbria)
£2,500 09/10/2013
To pay for a consultant to help SAFA develop a sustainable business model.
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Self Harm Awareness for the Furness (Cumbria)
£2,500 09/09/2013
Towards the cost of employing a consultant to prepare a business model and plan for the organisation to take to the Cumbria Clinical Commissioning group.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Self-harm Awareness for the Furness Area (SAFA)
£50,000 10/07/2013
24
over two years as unrestricted continuation funding for an organisation supporting people who self-harm, and their families, across Cumbria
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to SAFA Cumbria
£19,900 28/09/2012
core costs (as per the breakdown in your application)
National Lottery Community Fund - Self-Harm to Self-Worth
£10,000 08/02/2012
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria. The organisation will use the funding to provide counselling sessions for people who self harm in the area. This will enable the organisation to meet the demand for sessions ....more
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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: 25-75
  • BENJAMIN GRAHAM SHIRLEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Workforce Planning Advisor
  • DENNIS LAIRD Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired
  • EMILY DOUGAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Admissions Coordinator
  • IAN BURNS (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chairman
  • KATIE MONCRIEF Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Principal Project Engineer
  • TIMOTHY SHUTTLEWORTH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Quality
  • ZENA WALKER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Pm&C Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/10/2007, number: 1121122
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/08/2007, number: 06344630
Gift Aid
  • 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 risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR22: 6 days late, AR08: 61 days late,
Main office

Unit 24
Trinity Enterprise Centre
Ironworks Road
BARROW-IN-FURNESS
Cumbria
LA14 2PN

Objectives

TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE HEALTH AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE FURNESS AREA WHO SELF HARM BY:-1) TO PROVIDE A LOCAL INFORMATION AND SUPPORT SERVICE FOR PEOPLE WHO SELF-HARM AND TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THEM.2) TO PROVIDE FREE PROFESSIONAL QUALIFIED COUNSELLING AND FACILITATED GROUP SUPPORT, WORKING IN ACCORDANCE TO THE BACP ETHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR GOOD PRACTICE IN COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.3) TO CREATE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF SELF-HARM AND TO DISPERSE THE MYTHS SURROUNDING IT.4) TO INCREASE THE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF SELF-HARM AND RELATED ISSUES BY PROVIDING SPECIFIC TRAINING TO GROUPS, ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS.5) TO CO-OPERATE WITH STATUTORY, VOLUNTARY AND PRIVATE SECTOR AGENCIES IN ORDER TO GIVE INDIVIDUALS CHOICES ABOUT ACCESS TO THE VARIOUS SERVICES AVAILABLE LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY.6) TO PROVIDE ENCOURAGEMENT IN HARM REDUCTION AND CARE OF WOUNDS.70 TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR SELF-HARMERS VOICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, CUMBRIA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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