Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

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£460£468£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£369£343£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£399£369£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£361£392£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£361£407£-46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£571£535£35£0£189£1262.8350
31/03/17£738£710£27£3£154£1131.9250
31/03/16£725£676£50£8£126£440.8250
31/03/15*£639£677£-38£24£77£290.5250
31/03/14£541£538£3£11£115£711.6210

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

www.halowbirmingham.org.uk

halowfinance@gmail.com

01217071008

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
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 supports 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
AB Charitable Trust£35,000
BBC Children in Need£30,461
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to HALOW (Birmingham)
£20,000 20/04/2023
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. HALOW works to support families to maintain, build and restore family relationships and wellbeing in two prisons across the East and West Midlands.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to HALOW Birmingham
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-92
  • BRIDGET CAMERON Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired
  • 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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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