Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

REACHING FAMILIES LIMITED 

Reaching Families delivers a range of activities including (i) Making Sense Of It All - a comprehensive guide for parent-carers to a range of a relevant issues (ii) Factsheets on childhood disabilities and a wide variety of other subjects (iii) training on a wide range of issues (iv) short term group counseling for parent-carers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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 and gender and 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 11 years

www.reachingfamilies.org.uk

admin@reachingfamilies.org.uk

01903366360

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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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£246£196£49n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£235£151£84n/an/an/an/an/a21
31/03/21£130£122£8n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/20?£94£117£-23n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/12/18£59£88£-29£0£0£0n/a05
31/12/17£161£73£88£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£78£74£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£69£65£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£47£52£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13*£54£40£14£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 20 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£136,247
Sussex Community Foundation£48,745
Henry Smith Charity£19,970
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
True Colours Trust£10,000
DCMS£9,910
The Foyle Foundation£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£8,745 17/11/2023
Funding was provided towards the overall delivery of their programme during the period November 2023 to October 2024.
True Colours Trust - Towards a peer support project for parents of disabled children
£5,000 10/01/2023
Towards a peer support project for parents of disabled children
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£5,000 21/07/2022
Funding was provided towards their running costs for a year.
National Lottery Community Fund - Benefits Advice Service
£9,841 15/07/2022
The funding will be used to provides 1-2-1 advice and an editing service to families of children who are applying for Carers Allowance Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£3,000 03/12/2021
towards core costs over the next 12 months
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£10,000 11/06/2021
Reaching Families work to "empower, inform and support parents and families of children and young people with special educational needs in West Sussex." They deliver information, training ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Making Sense Of It All
£10,000 19/03/2021
6
The funding will be used to cover costs towards printing editing design and distribution of an updated COVID-19 edition of a guide for parents of children and young people with additional needs and ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£5,000 18/11/2020
11
Funding was provided towards core costs the delivery of the core programme for a year including adapted virtual support during COVID restrictions.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,910 21/09/2020
"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
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£5,000 27/04/2020
Reaching Families is a grassroots, parent-carer led charity which aims to “empower, inform and support parents and families of children and young people with special educational needs and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 28/02/2020
Reaching Families
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer-to-Peer Support Service
£116,406 12/12/2019
35
The organisation will use funding to establish a peer-to-peer support service for parents-carers of children with special educational needs and disabilities in West Sussex, with the aim of enabling ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Reaching Families
£19,970 10/12/2019
24
towards two years' running costs of an organisation providing information, training and counselling for parent and carers with a disabled child in West Sussex
True Colours Trust - Towards its Face-2-Face peer support service for parents and carers
£5,000 16/10/2019
Towards its Face-2-Face peer support service for parents and carers
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£5,000 09/09/2019
Funding was provided towards core/running costs.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£5,000 05/07/2019
11
Funding was provided for project costs associated with the delivery of three parent-carer support groups based in Billingshurst, Littlehampton and Worthing.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£5,000 28/05/2019
3
Funding was provided to address the longer term sustainability and strategic development of their organization.
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Volunteers
£10,000 14/03/2018
12
The organisation will build their volunteer base so they can provide additional support to local families, specifically parents who are carers of children with special needs and disabilities.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 12/03/2018
Reaching Families 2018
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Reaching Families
£3,935 20/11/2017
11
Reaching Families was established in 2008 by parent-carers to “...empower, inform and care for parents and families of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Reaching Families
£3,975 04/08/2017
Our project will change lives by improving parent's access to information that will help them better support their child with disabilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Families 2
£130,050 19/10/2016
36
The project aims to deliver information, training and peer support to parents/carers of young people with special educational needs and disabilities, living in West Sussex. Typically these families ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Reaching Families
£18,000 11/06/2015
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation in West Sussex that provides information, training and counselling for parent/carers with a disabled child
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Families
£75,400 20/08/2013
36
This project aims to improve access to information, training and other opportunities that improve the wellbeing and development of children with special needs and their families in West Sussex. The ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Reaching Families (Parent & Family Care Foundation)
£9,000 12/09/2012
36
towards three years' running costs of a charity in West Sussex that provides support to families of children with special needs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-66
  • JOHN CORR Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Tour Principal
  • JEMMA PATERSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Strategic Partnerships Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/02/2013, number: 1150906
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/10/2012, number: 08261096
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
  • 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; AR13: 117 days late,
Main office

Dove Lodge Community Resources Centre
49 Beach Road
LITTLEHAMPTON
West Sussex
BN17 5JG

Objectives

I) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR PARENTS, CARERS AND FAMILIES 2) TO FURTHER ANY OTHER SUCH PURPOSES DEEMED. CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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