Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

DOORWAY WILTSHIRE LTD

Provision of a daily drop-in for people experiencing homelessness in north Wiltshire offering hot meals, showers, laundry, clothes, a postal address, access to a phone & the internet. Referrals are made to housing, health, addiction, domestic abuse & benefits agencies. Activities include football, music, art, men's & women's groups, an allotment groups and courses to build confidence & skills.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

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

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
31/03/23£228£201£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£166£157£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£171£102£69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£110£99£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£78£88£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£97£86£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£86£86£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£97£83£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£87£84£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£96£74£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£82£79£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£73£70£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£61£25£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years

www.doorwayproject.org.uk

info@doorwayproject.org.uk

01249445385

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for addiction & substance abuse
  • Allotments & gardens
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups

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
Lloyds Bank Foundation£102,250
Wiltshire Community Foundation£43,880
DCMS£42,542
Postcode Local Trust£12,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Co-Operative Group£8,101
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Doorway Wiltshire
£1,986 21/10/2023
We wish to fund the cost of sourcing and preparing good quality hot food at Doorway's drop-ins. We are also looking to set up cookery groups.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Doorway Wiltshire Ltd
£1,000 22/02/2023
Doorway is based in Chippenham and runs sessions week for vulnerable adults experiencing homelessness or housing issues, providing food, washing & laundry facilities, activities, support and advice. Grant to help with running costs.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Doorway Wiltshire Ltd
£5,500 21/02/2023
Doorway is based in Chippenham and runs sessions week for vulnerable adults experiencing homelessness or housing issues, providing food, washing & laundry facilities, activities, support and advice. Funding will go towards the costs of a drop-in ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Doorway Wiltshire Ltd.
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Doorway Wiltshire Ltd.
£50,000 07/12/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Doorway Wiltshire Ltd.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - High Sheriff Donor Advised
£3,500 14/11/2022
Grant to Doorway
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Doorway Wiltshire
£2,734 22/10/2022
By opening for more sessions and activities in our new town-centre venue we will increase our availability, provide more hot meals and takeaway food, and help more people in need.
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Better Lives
£10,000 07/10/2022
The funding will be used to extend their group's drop-in service from 3 times a week to 5 enabling them to increase the activities and support they provide to people experiencing homelessness. The project aims to help beneficiaries access support in ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Doorway
£2,880 08/09/2022
Doorway is based in Chippenham and runs sessions week for vulnerable adults experiencing homelessness or housing issues, providing food, washing & laundry facilities, activities, support and advice. Funding will go towards running costs for ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 29/07/2022
Building Better Lives
Postcode Local Trust - Building Better Lives - improving the range of services on offer at Doorway
£12,000 27/07/2022
Funding enabled a wider range of activities and services for people experiencing homelessness in Wiltshire
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 25/01/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Doorway
£15,000 25/11/2021
Doorway is based in Chippenham and runs sessions week for vulnerable adults experiencing homelessness or housing issues, providing food, washing & laundry facilities, activities, support and advice. Funding will go towards running costs
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Doorway
£3,000 16/11/2021
Doorway provides support including practical support for people who are homeless or vulnerably housed. The grant will increase Support Worker hours to ensure provision of our expanded service continues next year
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Doorway
£3,381 23/10/2021
Our weekly football training helps homeless and disadvantaged people build confidence, improve their mental and physical health, and offers opportunities to engage with other people.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Doorway Wiltshire Ltd.
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Doorway Wiltshire Ltd., awarded under the Foundation's Homeless and Vulnerably Housed funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge from the pandemic.
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£32,542 03/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations to match funds raised on ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 25/06/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Doorway
£3,000 01/04/2020
Whilst their drop-centre is closed, to provide food and remote support to very vulnerable people, many recently homeless and/or with addiction
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Support Services Manager salary
£10,000 23/01/2020
Doorway is based in Chippenham and runs sessions twice a week for vulnerable adults experiencing homelessness or housing issues, providing food, washing & laundry facilities, activities, support and advice. Funding will go towards staff costs.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Doorway Women's Group
£5,000 18/11/2019
Doorway is based in Chippenham and runs two weekly drop-in sessions for homeless and/or vulnerable adults providing food, personal hygiene & laundry facilities, activities, support and advice. Funding will be towards running their group for ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Support Worker Salary
£3,000 25/09/2019
Doorway is based in Chippenham and runs two weekly drop-in sessions for homeless and/or vulnerable adults providing food, personal hygiene & laundry facilities, activities, support and advice. Funding will be towards staff costs for their two ....more
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£5,000 01/01/2019
We have selected Improve Health and Wellbeing as a primary objective, but the Womens Empowerment Group aims to address all three of the proposed objectives, which are inter-related and support each other. Based on our previous experience, we expect ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Doorway Women's Empowerment Group
£5,000 21/11/2018
Doorway provides support to homeless and vulnerable adults with complex needs in Chippenham and North Wiltshire. Funding will support the costs of running a group to support women.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Doorway Wiltshire Ltd
£2,858 04/08/2017
Help us to enable those who are most marginalised in society to achieve a basic standard of living, education and housing.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Doorway
£3,000 23/09/2016
12
Doorway provides support to homeless and vulnerable adults, aged 16+, with complex needs, in Chippenham and the surrounding area of rural North Wiltshire, and helps them move on in their lives. Funding was to support the core costs of one of the ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Doorway
£15,000 27/04/2016
36
Doorway provides support to homeless and vulnerable adults, aged 16+, with complex needs, in Chippenham and the surrounding area of rural North Wiltshire, and helps them move on in their lives. Funding was to support the costs of the Support ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-75
  • AMY MITCHELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Fundraising Manager
  • DANIEL LEWIS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Hr Transformation Change Lead
  • JUDITH VOSPER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee
  • MARK BARNETT (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired
  • MICHAEL GORDON CARTER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • NEVILLE FRANCIS DAVID BLOOMER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Educational Coach
  • RICHARD BRIGGS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • STEPHEN ABBOTT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/09/2010, number: 1137757
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/04/2010, number: 07232063
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 03/25/2024, current status: Small charity
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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

Doorway Wiltshire
The Citadel
Bath Road
CHIPPENHAM
Wiltshire
SN15 2AB

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF HOMELESS AND DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE IN WILTSHIRE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF A DROP-IN CENTRE

Defined Area of Benefit:

WILTSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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