Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

FERRIES FAMILY GROUPS LIMITED 

Family Support. Weekly Peer Support Meetings. Mental Well-Being Groups (craft and singing), Regular Social Events and Celebrations, Training Courses, Parenting and Volunteer Courses, Young Mum's Group (17 to 25), Reading Group, Creche Support for some groups and all courses, Crisis Support, Billy Found Mates - young women's group. Making Music Group
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 16 years

www.ferriesfamilygroups.org.uk

office@ferriesfamilygroups.org.uk

01513456920

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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£160£183£-23n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/22£133£109£24n/an/an/an/an/a34
31/03/21£90£105£-15n/an/an/an/an/a43
04/04/20£92£121£-30n/an/an/an/an/a40
04/04/19£138£102£36n/an/an/an/an/a49
04/04/18£124£97£26£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/17£90£103£-13£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/16£148£124£24£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/15£136£124£13£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/14£86£99£-13£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/13£93£88£6£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/12£91£98£-6£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/11£101£93£8£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/10£107£97£10£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/09£97£121£-24£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Wirral,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 35 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
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£417,443
John Moores Foundation£21,365
DCMS£10,925
National Lottery Community Fund£9,989
Co-Operative Group£1,843
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Ferries Family Groups Ltd
£15,000 25/09/2023
Towards the salary of the Hub Co-Ordinator/Support Worker
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Nav.AI: a cognitive assisted digital regulatory navigation platform for health product innovators
£417,443 01/11/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10021515
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Ferries Family Groups
£1,843 23/10/2021
We would like to buy arts and craft equipment to run activities to help improve and maintain mental wellbeing to new and existing members of our group and their families.
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Ferries Family Groups Ltd
£6,365 15/04/2021
Towards the salary of the Support Worker
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£5,936 28/08/2020
"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
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,989 29/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Ferries Family Support Hub
£9,989 06/12/2019
7
The project will refurbish and equip their new building. This will enable them to hold community activities, training courses for the whole community to access and set up a creche for pre-school ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Ferries Family Groups Ltd
£10,000 01/01/2019
Towards the salary of the Support Worker
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£50,000 04/04/2018
Ferries Family Groups
National Lottery Community Fund - Ferries Family Groups Calm and Create
£9,048 28/02/2018
12
The organisation will run mindful arts, crafts and relaxation group sessions for parents who experience or have experienced mental health issues, helping participants to effectively manage and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Ferries Family Groups
£4,125 29/11/2017
We will use the funding to provide a ""Calm and Create"" group for individuals suffering from stress, depression and anxiety.
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Groups' 5 ways to Wellbeing Project
£300,000 17/01/2013
60
The project will continue to run weekly support groups for parents and pre-school children, one-to-one crisis support, reading group, allotment group, social activities, parenting support, Zumba, ....more
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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: 26-67
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/06/2008, number: 1124667
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/01/2008, number: 06484131
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

Units 2-4 The Community Village
330-334 New Chester Road
Birkenhead
Wirral
Birkenhead
Wirral

Objectives

PROPOSED NEW WORDING THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE BENEFITS FOR THE INHABITANTS OF WIRRAL ('THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING WITH THE LOCAL AUTHORITY, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION AND THE LOCAL INHABITANTS IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS: A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF MENTORING, GUIDANCE, COURSES, PEER SUPPORT AND ALL OTHER SIMILAR PROVISION. B) TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND ENHANCE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLBEING OF PERSONS WHO ARE UNDER STRESS AS A RESULT OF STRUGGLING (THROUGH THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY, POOR HOUSING OR SIMILAR FACTORS) AND TO ENABLE THEM TO COPE BETTER AND HELP CHILDREN FLOURISH WHATEVER THEIR NEEDS. C) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGED PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FAMILIES IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING AND PROMOTING THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND OTHER SERVICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ROCK FERRY; NEW FERRY, TRANMERE; PORT SUNLIGHT; BEBINGTON; BROMBOROUGH AND EASTHAM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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