Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 6

No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: 8

FRONTLINE DEBT ADVICE (UK)

Debt Counselling Debt AdjustingBenefits AdvicePersonal Budgetting Advice

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 14 years

www.frontlinedebtadvice.org.uk

admin@frontlinedebtadvice.org.uk

01428609010

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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	£54	£51	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
31/03/22	£60	£46	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	95
31/03/21	£52	£45	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	98
31/03/20	£43	£49	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	115
31/03/19	£66	£48	£18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	110
31/03/18	£63	£42	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£67	£67	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£24	£24	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£25	£33	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£30	£15	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£26	£20	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£14	£19	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£30	£14	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Dorset, Hampshire, Reading, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Berkshire, West Sussex,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
100 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

Co-Operative Group	£4,316
Community Foundation for Surrey	£2,000
Sussex Community Foundation	£800

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Rental of Community Centre room
£2,000	17/06/2022	Funding for room hire for a charity providing debt advice services to people in need
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Liaise @ Frontline
£800	17/11/2021	Funding was provided towards running costs.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Liaise@Worthing
£4,316	15/11/2019	We want to train volunteers and update our equipment to extend and continue our community debt-advice service.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Haslewey Room Rental Costs
£3,500	18/10/2018 11	Rent at a community centre for a branch of a charity providing debt advice.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Frontline debt advice
£3,856	04/08/2017	Help us lift people from the burden of debt and enable them to take control of their finances with funding for our vital service.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Frontline Debt Advice (UK)
£10,000	31/05/2013	A charity offering free debt and welfare benefits advice via small intensive sessions and also teaching financial literacy to its clients.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 52-73

ARNOLD DAVID BISSETT, Occupation: Retired

ELIZABETH VERONICA NELSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Administrator

MICHELLE FISHER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Student Support Officer

NEIL ELLIS (Chair) Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Engineer

WILLIAM GRAHAM KENNEDY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/03/2010, number: 1134908
Registered at Companies House on 26/01/2010, number: 07136786

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Financial Conduct Authority

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

13 returns made; all on time

Main office

c/o Three Counties Church
Haslemere Locality Office
Lion Green
HASLEMERE
Surrey
GU27 1LD

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE CARRIED OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, SEX, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINION AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME THINK FIT, AND ARE RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, POVERTY OR HARDSHIP AND WHO MAY BE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY INCLUDING BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION THROUGH THE PROVISION OF DEBT COUNSELLING, BENEFITS ADVICE, BUDGETING, EDUCATION AND OTHER RELEVANT SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD

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