Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 9

HALOW (BIRMINGHAM)

HALOW (Birmingham) provides services to prisoners' families to help them overcome the problems faced by having a family member in custody. The purpose of the charity is to provide these services essentially on humanitarian grounds but it also strongly believes in the importance of maintaining good family ties as part of the successfull rehabilitation of offenders

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

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: 11 years

www.halowbirmingham.org.uk

halowfinance@gmail.com

01217071008

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£460	£468	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£369	£343	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/21		£399	£369	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/20		£361	£392	£-31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/19		£361	£407	£-46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18		£571	£535	£35	£0	£189	£126	2.8	35	0
31/03/17		£738	£710	£27	£3	£154	£113	1.9	25	0
31/03/16		£725	£676	£50	£8	£126	£44	0.8	25	0
31/03/15	*	£639	£677	£-38	£24	£77	£29	0.5	25	0
31/03/14		£541	£538	£3	£11	£115	£71	1.6	21	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Birmingham City, Staffordshire, Wolverhampton,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 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

BBC Children in Need	£29,961
National Lottery Community Fund	£20,000
AB Charitable Trust	£15,000
DCMS	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Prisoners' Families Support Project
£10,000	21/04/2023	This funding will be used to provide in-depth support to people in prison and their families who are experiencing challenges to their relationships. The project aims to maintain family relationships ....more This funding will be used to provide in-depth support to people in prison and their families who are experiencing challenges to their relationships. The project aims to maintain family relationships support people to re-integrate after leaving prison and increase confidence.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to HALOW (Birmingham)
£15,000	01/07/2021	An unrestricted grant of £15,000. HALOW works in prisons in Birmingham to support families to maintain, build, restore and strengthen family relationships and wellbeing whilst separated by ....more An unrestricted grant of £15,000. HALOW works in prisons in Birmingham to support families to maintain, build, restore and strengthen family relationships and wellbeing whilst separated by imprisonment.
National Lottery Community Fund - Prisoners' Families: Support Project
£10,000	29/04/2021	The funding will be used to continue to provide support to prisoners and their families who have been unable to meet during prison visits due to the pandemic. The project aims to support people ....more The funding will be used to continue to provide support to prisoners and their families who have been unable to meet during prison visits due to the pandemic. The project aims to support people during COVID-19 and help reduce isolation and improve wellbeing.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to HALOW Birmingham
£29,961	21/12/2020	This project offers family intervention sessions and activities to children and young people with a parent in prison in Staffordshire. The activities will result in increased emotional wellbeing, ....more This project offers family intervention sessions and activities to children and young people with a parent in prison in Staffordshire. The activities will result in increased emotional wellbeing, confidence and positive relationships.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000	19/08/2020	"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 "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 services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
National Lottery Community Fund - Children Visiting Prison Project
£9,996	22/03/2019 12	This funding will be used to provide bonding sessions for children whose parents are serving custodial sentences. The project aims to help develop and sustain family relationships.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Halow - Birmingham
£15,000	25/07/2018 12	This grant will bring in external professional consultants to to add to and strengthen the trustee board, scope out new areas of work supporting prisoners and their families upon release from prison. ....more This grant will bring in external professional consultants to to add to and strengthen the trustee board, scope out new areas of work supporting prisoners and their families upon release from prison. review impact of their work and build new partnerships
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to HALOW (Birmingham)
£60,000	14/11/2016 24	towards the salaries of two part-time Family Support Workers to provide support to prisoners' families in two prisons where the volume of vulnerable families is unusually high.
Tudor Trust - Grant to HALOW: Birmingham
£25,000	17/08/2015 12	over one year as continuation funding towards the salary of the peripatetic children's support worker working across HALOW's prison visitor centres in the West Midlands
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Halow - Birmingham
£35,000	28/03/2013	This will bring much needed practical support to parents visiting Birmingham prison with children. Through a Support Worker and a Play Worker more structured sessions for children plus advice and ....more This will bring much needed practical support to parents visiting Birmingham prison with children. Through a Support Worker and a Play Worker more structured sessions for children plus advice and support for parents will reduce anxiety and stress.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to HALOW (Birmingham)
£106,500	19/12/2012	Towards the cost of support for vulnerable families of people in prison in the West Midlands.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-92

BRIDGET CAMERON Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: DERITEND CHAPEL ENDOWMENT,

GAVIN NAGRA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Accountant

JANE CATHERINE BAILEY (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Charity Development Manager

NATALIE ALLEN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Programmes Director

VERONICA PALGRAVE Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/01/2013, number: 1150445
Registered at Companies House on 10/10/2012, number: 08248116

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

10 returns made; AR15: 4 days late,

Main office

C/O St Martins Youth Centre Gooch Street High
GOOCH STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B5 7HE

Objectives

A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG PRISONERS, EX-OFFENDERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS IN NEED OF SUCH RELIEF; AND B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY RESEARCH INTO DOMESTIC ISSUES RELATING TO PRISONERS, EX-OFFENDERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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