Overall GiG Score: 3 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

INNER FLAME 

Empowering young people who are at a disadvantage, so they have a greater opportunity to thrive. We do this through challenging training programmes, facilitated mental wellbeing workshopws, and 1-1 mentoring. Building confidence, self esteem, and a sense of purpose, focusing particularly on programmes to help jobseekers aged 16-25.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 15 years

www.innerflame.org.uk

david@innerflame.org.uk

07718968609

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UN SDGs
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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
31/08/22£190£215£-26n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/08/21*£242£154£87n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/08/20£98£101£-3n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/08/19£168£142£25n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/08/18£206£249£-43£0£0£0n/a045
31/08/17£247£230£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£180£180£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£166£150£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14*£105£99£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13£66£60£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£42£37£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/11£38£36£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/10£28£27£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/09*£15£9£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 25 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Swindon, Wiltshire,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£29,330
Wiltshire Community Foundation£27,800
Lloyds Bank Foundation£24,976
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
DCMS£8,756
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Delivery Manager
£10,000 27/01/2023
The funding will be used to provide a Delivery Manager for a variety of courses to empower young people who are NEET. The project aims to improve wellbeing through new skills to find employment and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Inner Flame
£1,385 22/10/2022
We would like to run courses that help young people learn how to manage and overcome anxiety, which often affects their lives and stops them from reaching their potential.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,500 10/11/2021
Core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Administrator Salary costs
£10,000 08/10/2021
The funding will be used towards the salary of an administrator who will enable the organistion to continue to provide a range of courses to improve anxiety and mental health in young people who are ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Inner Flame
£15,000 19/05/2021
12
Support and employability skills training for young people with additional needs in Swindon and Wiltshire.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 26/03/2021
Multi-Year Cost Cost Funding
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,756 07/08/2020
"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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Inner Flame
£9,993 23/07/2020
Grant to Inner Flame meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Inner Flame
£5,000 06/04/2020
To provide on-line and phone support to unemployed young people, mainly with mental health issues likely to be exacerbated by social isolation
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Inner Flame Core Costs
£5,000 28/10/2019
Inner Flame run the Prince’s Trust team programme for 16-25 year olds to help them develop the skills required for both independent life and work. The grant help with the costs of delivering the ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 07/10/2019
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Inner Flame Prince's Trust Fees
£2,800 25/09/2019
Inner Flame run the Prince’s Trust team programme for 16-25 year olds to help them develop the skills required for both independent life and work. The grant help with the costs of delivering the ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Inner Flame
£14,983 26/06/2019
12
Inner Flame is requesting a grant towards the development and delivery of a pilot project using virtual reality, classroom and outdoor based activities and to support a targeted group of young people ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - StAR Potential
£9,330 10/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a programme of virtual reality courses for young people living with mental ill health. The project aims to build confidence, improve self-awareness and reduce ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 31/12/2018
Inner Flame Core Costs Application
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Swindon Prince's Trust Team Programme Bus Passes
£3,000 19/09/2018
Inner Flame run courses for 16-25 year olds to help them develop the skills required for both independent life and work. The grant will pay for the cost of bus passes to help young people attend the ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Preparation for work
£45,000 07/07/2017
Unemployed and vulnerable job seekers aged 16-25 from Swindon
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 28-58
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/01/2009, number: 1127758
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/08/2008, number: 06667150
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR21: 14 days late, AR14: 30 days late, AR09: 137 days late,
Main office

Well Cottage, Beech Knapp
Burleigh
STROUD
Gloucestershire
GL5 2PS

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 11 AND 19 LIVING IN GREAT BRITAIN, BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREAT BRITAIN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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