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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Removed: -50
  • No PartB
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    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    FRIENDS ACTION NORTH EAST

    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
    31/03/21£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/20£117£71£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/19£148£139£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/18£176£152£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/17£122£143£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/16£146£126£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/15£99£107£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/14£101£111£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/13£111£121£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/12£89£139£-50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/11£107£63£44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/10£132£85£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 16 years
    Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Disability
    • Education/Training
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    GiG Classification
    • Services for people with disabilities
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides human resources
    Where it operates
    • Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Sunderland,
    Who it helps
    • 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
    Tudor Trust£52,000
    Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£25,000
    The Shears Foundation£6,000
    County Durham Community Foundation£5,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Staff Salary
    £25,000 27/07/2022
    Funding facilitated creative workshops, social groups and friendship mentoring programmes to people with learning disabilities and autism.
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Friends Action North East (FANE)
    £2,000 13/01/2021
    as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
    County Durham Community Foundation - Friendship mentoring outreach programme
    £5,000 09/07/2020
    To support a friendship mentoring outreach programme
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Friends Action North East (FANE) (COVID19 Grant)
    £50,000 11/05/2020
    24
    over two years towards core salaries for a CIO working in the North East to support people with additional need to establish independent friendships and overcome isolation using digital inclusion at this time of COVID 19
    The Shears Foundation - Friends Action North East
    £6,000 15/04/2020
    1:1 Mentoring programme and recovery groups
    National Lottery Community Fund - Moving on together.2
    £10,000 23/11/2018
    12
    This charity involve will young people with learning disabilities, and carers, in developing a tailored programme of support and mentoring to enable them to develop safe and independent friendships. The project will reduce isolation amongst ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Friends Action North East
    £180,000 12/09/2018
    36
    towards three years' running costs of a mentoring programme supporting people with learning disabilities and autism to build and maintain friendships in the north-east of England
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £20,000 05/03/2018
    Supporting Friendship project
    National Lottery Community Fund - Enabling Social Inclusion
    £10,000 17/05/2017
    12
    The project will recruit 10 people with different needs and support them to create and deliver training workshops for managers and staff at community and cultural venues and businesses in the North East. The group will develop a training resource ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Friends Action North East
    £50,992 29/06/2015
    36
    Towards assisting adults with a learning disability to develop and maintain friendships and friendship groups to enable them to achieve their full potential as members of the local community.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Digital connections-Helping friendships stay in touch
    £10,000 25/03/2015
    12
    Not Available
    National Lottery Community Fund - Friends Action North East: 1.Mentoring project 2.Toolkit and training
    £496,330 03/12/2014
    60
    Not Available
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/12/2008, number: 1127153
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    12 returns made; all on time
    Main office


    Objectives

    1. TO ASSIST ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN FRIENDSHIPS ANDFRIENDSHIP GROUPS TO ENABLE THEM TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS MEMBERS OF THELOCAL COMMUNITY2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND SUPPORTERS OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNINGDISABILITIES IN ALL ISSUES RELATED TO LEARNING DISABILITIES PARTICULARLY FRIENDSHIP ANDSOCIALISATION

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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