Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

SHAPE

PROVIDING HOUSING FOR THE HOMELESS YOUNG WOMEN.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be 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

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
31/12/23£153£123£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£120£122£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£118£94£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£103£87£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£104£106£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£98£113£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£89£82£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£75£73£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£42£43£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14?£41£43£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/13£63£50£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

shapehouse15@gmail.com

07932611815

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Rosa UK£15,000
Heart Of England Community Foundation£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000 29/03/2023
Core costs
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£7,500 07/02/2023
towards core costs and in particular, the recruitment of a support worker with background in Mental Health First Aid experience (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to SHAPE
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 09/12/2022
Impacting Women - Inspiring Change to "THRIVE"
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to SHAPE
£50,000 07/12/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of SHAPE
National Lottery Community Fund - Extending our Reach
£10,000 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to employ a Wellbeing Support Worker supporting women seeking refuge experiencing abuse violence or family breakdown as well as used to contribute to utility costs. The project aims to empower women to thrive realise their ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Impacting Women -Inspiring Change to "THRIVE"
£10,000 29/09/2021
The grant would pay for the costs of p/t sessional worker with on costs for 6 months, as well as costs for new volunteers, such as training and expenses.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 20/08/2021
Impacting Women-Inspiring Change to 'THRIVE'
Rosa UK - WTF-SHAPE-2021
£15,000 28/06/2021
£15,000 has been awarded to SHAPE to employ a Mental Health Support Worker to work with 20 young women aged 18-25 who are living in the organisation’s temporary housing in Birmingham.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to SHAPE
£50,000 02/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of SHAPE, awarded under the Foundation's Racial Equity funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge from the pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Impacting Women Inspiring Change
£10,000 22/05/2020
12
The funding will be used to provide support to women experiencing issues such as mental ill health. The project aims to support the community through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 08/05/2019
Shaping for the Future
Woodward Charitable Trust - Costs of a part-time support worker assistant
£1,000 02/04/2019
Towards the costs of a part-time support worker assistant.
National Lottery Community Fund - Evolve 2
£10,000 07/02/2019
12
The funding will be used to train volunteers in order to support women who access the hostel service. The project aims to improve their wellbeing and increase rates of volunteering.
DCMS - Rosa Fund, Tampon Tax
£20,150 01/12/2017
To provide a new member of staff to provide one to one support for 20 young women with complex needs accessing a hostel for young women in Handsworth, Birmingham. One to one support and group sessions will be delivered to improve long term outcomes ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

  • BERNICE WOODE Appointed: 2023
  • BEVERLEY STEPHENS Appointed: 2017
  • CYNTHIA EVADNEY SPENCE CIH Appointed: 2012
  • DAVID ANDREW KING Appointed: 2012
  • GLORIA BETTON BSC HONS Appointed: 2012
  • LURETHA WILLIAMS Appointed: 2017
  • NOVLETTE REECE Appointed: 2023
  • ROSEANN DUNKLEY Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/11/2012, number: 1149614
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
  • 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
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

SHAPE
16 HANDSWORTH WOOD ROAD
BIRMINGHAM
B20 2DR

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF NEED AND POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF YOUNG WOMEN AGED BETWEEN 16 AND 25 BY PROVIDING TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, EDUCATION, TRAINING, ADVOCACY AND ADVICE, PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE SOCIALLY OR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, FOR EXAMPLE THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, THOSE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE, TEENAGERS WHO ARE PREGNANT AND THOSE FROM BROKEN FAMILIES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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