Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Grant maker support: +8

THE SLEEP CHARITY 

The main activities in the year were:Providing sleep support to families via workshops, online support, face to face support from our sleep practitionersTraining to practitioners to deliver sleep support to families
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 11 years

www.thesleepcharity.org.uk

finance@thesleepcharity.org.uk

01302751416

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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£790£747£42£0£515£4537.31120
31/03/22*£840£597£243£0£420£4208.41120
31/03/21£471£383£88n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£236£249£-13n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£247£228£19n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18?£338£316£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/17£244£235£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/16£125£110£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/15£77£65£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/14£45£32£12£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 29%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 88%
Reserves/Spending: 7.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 11 employees
  • 20 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • FSI Small Charity Big Impact Awards 2018 Charity with turnover £150,000-£250,000
  • Third Sector Awards 2019 Small charity big achiever
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£564,603
The Fore£30,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
DCMS£9,850
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - ADHD Sleep Support Hub For Adults
£10,000 26/05/2023
The funding will be used to work with adults with lived experience of ADHD and sleep issues to develop a range of online support. The aim is to improve sleep and wellbeing whilst reducing feelings of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sleep Talkers: Wales
£10,000 28/11/2022
The Sleep Charity will provide a conference and training opportunities to enable parents and professionals from across Wales to better support children with sleep problems. £10000 will fund staffing ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Sleep Talkers Project
£254,538 02/06/2021
The funding will be used by the group over 2 years to deliver services to support community members facing sleep problems. The charity will develop a national network of volunteer ‘Sleep Talkers' ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,850 02/07/2020
"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
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 02/06/2020
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
The Fore - Grant to The Sleep Charity
£30,000 01/04/2020
12
The Sleep Charity is an award-winning national charity supporting children with sleep issues. Lack of sleep, particularly on a sustained basis, can have an immense impact on children and their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sleep Support for Lincolnshire Communities
£280,161 30/01/2020
35
The funding will deliver countywide sleep support to children, young people and their families, with the aim of addressing sleep issues at the earliest possible stage and avoiding long term serious ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - North Yorkshire Sleep Better
£9,904 24/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver an early intervention programme for families to tackle sleep issues. The project aims to provide support and train practitioners in order to prevent sleep issues ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/12/2018
Core Costs
Woodward Charitable Trust - Travel and training costs of the volunteers.
£950 13/11/2018
Towards travel and training costs of the volunteers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sleep Well Wales
£10,000 06/09/2018
12
Project Summary :_x000D_ The Children's Sleep Charity will use the grant to run a series of workshops and a day event for disadvantaged families and children who are facing sleep issues within ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sleep Well West Yorkshire
£9,952 21/06/2018
12
The group will provide a series of sleep clinics for people and families with sleeping issues, where they will receive relevant support with regards to regular sleep patterns, with the aim of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - North East Lincs Sleep Support Service
£10,000 22/02/2017
12
This project will offer sleep workshops and sleep clinics for parents of children who have sleep issues. This will provide access to sleep advice for deprived families, improving educational ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Towards salary costs of CEO
£90,000 29/09/2016
36
Towards the salary costs of the CEO to expand their support to families with children who have sleep difficulties.
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 20/07/2016
Provides advice, information and training for families with children with sleep issues.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Sleep School for Tired Teens
£25,000 30/11/2015
12
The Children’s Sleep Charity plans to work with schools in Yorkshire and Humberside to provide information and support for teenagers who are sleep deprived. By increasing good quality sleep, the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/01/2013, number: 1150585
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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; AR22: 10 days late,
Main office

Smith Craven Chartered Accountants
Sidings House
Sidings Court
DONCASTER
South Yorkshire
DN4 5NU

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE1) the advancement of health in the UK and elsewhere through the provision of services which encourage and promote the importance of sleep for mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.2) such other charitable purposes as the trustees shall from time to time think fit.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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