Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

SAFE! SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CRIME 

SAFE! provides support for young people (between the ages of 8 and 25) who are suffering the negative impacts of crime. Young victims are offered the opportunity to have a series of meetings with a fully trained professional to help them overcome the negative impacts of that experience of a crime. We also offer training and support to other professionals working in youth justice.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 13 years

www.safeproject.org.uk

safe@safeproject.org.uk

01865582495

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX

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£1,307£1,175£132£1£331£1371.4324
31/03/22£1,070£996£75£1£199£1201.5286
31/03/21£848£798£50£1£124£731.1224
31/03/20£614£624£-10£0£75£370.71517
31/03/19£580£555£24£1£85£340.7165
31/03/18£525£517£8£0£61£210.590
31/03/17£440£475£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£320£301£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£144£100£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£46£54£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£54£42£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£44£23£21£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 40%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 42%
Reserves/Spending: 1.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 32 employees
  • 4 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
National Lottery Community Fund£937,077
Masonic Trust£59,950
Charles Hayward Foundation£25,000
Oxfordshire Community Foundation£16,300
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£59,950 20/09/2023
Building Respectful Families - one to one and group support to families experiencing Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse.
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Respectful Families
£350,852 27/04/2023
This funding will be used to provide specialist support to families affected by Child & Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA) across the Thames Valley. This includes one-to-one and ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to SAFE! Support for Young People Affected by Crime
£25,000 29/04/2022
Blueprint Project for young people affected by crime
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Respectful Families (continuation)
£199,704 27/01/2022
The funding will provide continuation funding of £199704 for the Building Better Families Project (BRF) to support families affected by child on parent violence (CPV). It will enable the ....more
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Positive relationships in YPSA
£13,500 25/01/2021
3
This project will apply the expertise of the local specialist youth work sector to the YPSA.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£8,000 26/06/2020
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
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - SAFE! Young Women's Group
£2,800 08/01/2020
9
We would like to set up an Oxfordshire Young Women's Group for girls aged 12-14 years old who have experienced victimisation by crime. The group would meet every fortnight in term time for a 90 ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Respectful Families
£386,521 04/12/2019
24
SAFE! Will use funding to build a comprehensive new service across the Thames Valley to help families affected by Child on Parent Violence (CPV). The project aims to build on learning from the past ....more
Wates Foundation - SAFE!
£10,000 07/05/2019
A minimum of 650 children aged 8 to 18 provided with home or school based one-to-one support sessions.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to SAFE! Support for Youth Affected by Crime
£135,250 06/08/2017
36
This project provides a 12 week programme to help children and young people with child on parent violence. The programme will improve relationships, help make informed choice and reduce risk of ....more
The Funding Network - Parent Support Service
£4,278 18/05/2017
To provide support for parents/carers whose children have been victims of crime, and who are struggling to know how to best support them, and need support themselves.
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Respectful Families
£10,000 28/10/2015
12
This charity will use the funding to deliver family focused intervention through group work sessions for parents and young people. The sessions are aimed at families where young people are abusive or ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-84
  • SARAH BRETON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Children'S Commissioning
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/08/2011, number: 1143532
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/05/2011, number: 07630170
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
Filing Record
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

Basement Office
190-196 Garsington Road
Oxford
OX4 6FG

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 YEARS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF CRIME BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH SUPPORT AND SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINEÔÇØ

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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