Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

COVENTRY AIMHS (ACTIVELY INFLUENCING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES). 

Mental Health Co-production and Involvement Project covering the City of Coventry, Warwickshire and surrounding areas.We support people who have accessed mental health services in our locality, promoting their health & wellbeing through co-production activities, involvement, peer and social support. We work towards reducing stigma associated with mental ill health.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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£68£79£-11n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£74£80£-5n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/21£88£76£11n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£54£61£-7n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/19£53£64£-10n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£73£77£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£57£80£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£104£78£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£72£89£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£84£97£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£149£86£63£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£90£76£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£74£77£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years
(16 years as a company)

www.involvecoventry.com

INFO@INVOLVECOVENTRY.COM

02476670606

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Coventry City, Warwickshire,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 20 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
DCMS£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,000
The Foyle Foundation£6,000
Co-Operative Group£3,241
Heart Of England Community Foundation£1,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£6,000 11/07/2022
towards new computer equipment (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Fitness and Mental Health by Involve Coventry
£1,000 15/07/2021
in order to continue to provide a Fitness and mental health project for adults experiencing mental health difficulties
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving access to online resources
£9,000 29/06/2021
The funding will be used to provide online resources and IT support to people living with a mental illness. The project aims to improve access to digital support services and develop skillsets.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 22/09/2020
"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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Coventry AIMHS Media Inclusion Project
£3,241 15/11/2019
We want to gather experiences of people using mental health services, and produce a local e-newsletter aimed at increasing social inclusion.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 59-82
  • PETER SIMS (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Volunteer
  • SUSAN WILLIAMS Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Service User Representative
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/06/2010, number: 1136456
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/02/2008, number: 06507837
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
13 returns made; all on time
Main office

SUITE 12
Koco Community Resource Centre
15 THE Arches Industrial Estate
Spon End
COVENTRY
CV1 3JQ

Objectives

A TO SUPPORT COVENTRY'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERSB TO PROMOTE THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEINGC TO ACTIVELY INFLUENCE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS AND COMMISSIONERS IN LINE WITH SERVICE USERS NEEDSD TO POSITIVELY ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE WIDER COMMUNITY IN RELATION TO MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS

Defined Area of Benefit:

COVENTRY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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