Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 9

Future income +5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 20

BLUE SMILE PROJECT

Blue Smile provides counselling and therapy for pupils in Cambridgeshire schools between the ages of 3 and 13 during a critical window of opportunity for change. The service is designed to complement each school's pastoral provision and to deliver the kind of specialist early intervention which prevents longer-term emotional and behavioural problems

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

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: 13 years

www.bluesmile.org.uk

info@bluesmile.org.uk

01223 314725

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/07/23		£470	£470	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/07/22		£500	£401	£99	£50	£401	£357	10.7	8	31
31/07/21		£494	£381	£114	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	34
31/07/20	*	£490	£367	£122	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	33
31/07/19		£440	£505	£-64	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/07/18		£441	£421	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/17		£336	£377	£-41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/16		£256	£259	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/15		£217	£187	£30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/14		£176	£175	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/13		£120	£115	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/12		£114	£88	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/07/11		£126	£35	£91	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

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

Henry Smith Charity	£360,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£60,000
DCMS	£24,074
Masonic Trust	£15,000
The Clothworkers Foundation	£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,912
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation	£6,302
Co-Operative Group	£5,974

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Blue Smile Project
£210,000	11/05/2023 36	towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation providing support for children with mental health and/or emotional challenges in Cambridgeshire.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Blue Smile
£2,470	22/10/2022	We would like to pay for therapists to receive specialist training. This would support children's mental health as we emerge from the pandemic, and provide arts materials for use during therapy.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Blue Smile Project
£10,000	25/05/2022	purchase IT equipment for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in Cambridgeshire
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Blue Smile - 02/02/22
£1,750	22/02/2022	Core Funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	20/08/2021	Blue Smile: Happer children - Brighter futures
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Blue Smile - 01/02/21
£1,250	16/02/2021	Core Funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Blue Smile
£3,504	24/10/2020	We would like to buy art materials and toys to use in children’s therapy, and provide each therapist with ongoing specialist training.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£24,074	08/10/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to The Blue Smile Project
£3,187	29/07/2020 10	to purchase cleaning/PPE kit to enable the team of art therapists to return to working in schools in the Autumn term, supporting 200 disadvantaged children experiencing mental health difficulties
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Community Telephone Support and Webpage Project
£9,912	30/04/2020 3	The project will use funding to provide support to parents and carers through regular calls and information/signposting on its webpages. The project aims to support parents and carers to maintain ....more The project will use funding to provide support to parents and carers through regular calls and information/signposting on its webpages. The project aims to support parents and carers to maintain positive wellbeing during the coronavirus epidemic.
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to The Blue Smile Project
£3,115	07/04/2020 4	to distribute 185 therapeutic art packs and folders to vulnerable children who experience severe emotional and behavioral difficulties, usually resulting from family breakdown, domestic violence or ....more to distribute 185 therapeutic art packs and folders to vulnerable children who experience severe emotional and behavioral difficulties, usually resulting from family breakdown, domestic violence or abuse. This will allow the children to express themselves/process feelings during isolation and will provide reassurance that their Blue Smile sessions will resume and that their therapist hasn't forgotten about them. These packs will include a friendly introductory sheet, colouring pencils, watercolour paints, a pencil, sharpener, a rubber, 10 sheets of black and white paper and 10 sheets of coloured paper and a folder to contain artwork in.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	20/03/2020	Blue Smile: Happier children - Brighter futures
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Blue Smile
£150,000	10/12/2019 36	towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to children aged 3-13 with mental health and/or emotional problems in Cambridgeshire
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000	07/10/2019	Unrestricted core funding for small charities

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-66

ANGELA MARY MCKEOWN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

CHRIS O'CONNOR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Accountant

HANNAH BUXTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Business Development Manager

NAOMI MALLICK (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

NICHOLAS PATRICK FROY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director Of Education, Other trusteeship: SCHOOLREADERS,

SARAH NOLASCO Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Senior Advisor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/12/2010, number: 1139279
Registered at Companies House on 18/10/2010, number: 07411348

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
Investing charity funds 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; AR20: 30 days late,

Main office

Blue Smile
47-51 Norfolk Street
CAMBRIDGE
CB1 2LD

Objectives

1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ENHANCE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS, THROUGH COUNSELLING, SUPPORT AND THERAPEUTIC USE OF THE ARTS; AND2) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, IN PARTICULAR IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS, IN ADDRESSING THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE APPROPRIATELY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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