Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 3

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 6

BREAKING BARRIERS NW

We support and empower disabled children and young people aged 0-25 and their families. By offering advice, signposting and listening. We develop and deliver bespoke training material to families and the wider community. We work towards challenging and removing social barriers and promote inclusion for disabled children and young people and equality of opportunity for all.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
Over half the Board have joined recently

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.breakingbarriersnw.com

breakbarriers3@gmail.com

07717434840

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		£149	£157	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	16
31/03/22		£146	£118	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21
31/03/21		£52	£55	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/20		£37	£58	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/19		£58	£59	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18		£68	£74	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£82	£80	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£66	£20	£46	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£30	£14	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£9	£9	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bolton, Lancashire, Salford City, Wigan,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
16 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Baking Barriers
£10,000	29/09/2022	The organisation will equip their cafe which will be run entirely by young adults with special educational needs and disabilities with the aim of providing work and volunteering opportunities ....more The organisation will equip their cafe which will be run entirely by young adults with special educational needs and disabilities with the aim of providing work and volunteering opportunities reducing social isolation and promoting positive mental health.
Bolton CVS - Grant to Breaking Barriers North West
£15,000	10/01/2021	Placements at Baking Barriers Café and Charity Shop - to provide Young adults with Special Educational needs meaningful training to support transition into paid employment
National Lottery Community Fund - Breaking Barriers - Covid Support
£9,993	27/11/2020 6	The organisation will provide additional support to special education needs and disabilities (SEND) children and young people and their carers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project will provide ....more The organisation will provide additional support to special education needs and disabilities (SEND) children and young people and their carers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project will provide access to support with mental health implementing adjustments in schools and completing forms to access benefits training and education improving mental and emotional wellbeing and enabling SEND children and young people to achieve their full potential in the education setting during the pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - BBNW Extended short breaks.
£9,360	17/01/2019 12	The project aims to support participants build their life skills as well as help reduce the social isolation. The funding will be used to run short break activities for children and young people with ....more The project aims to support participants build their life skills as well as help reduce the social isolation. The funding will be used to run short break activities for children and young people with disabilities. Funding will go towards refreshments, 10 x monthly stay and play clubs, camping weekend at charity farm x 2, session worker costs, uniforms, promotional materials, volunteers' expenses, crocky trail day trip including transport, speed of sight track day including transport and 2 x day trips.
Sport England - Project KB
£9,826	05/10/2016 16	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Project KB. This project is a Cycling project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Sport England - South Bolton Disability Trampoline Group
£4,190	13/03/2015	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'South Bolton Disability Trampoline Group'. This project lists its main activity as Trampolining.
National Lottery Community Fund - Removing Barriers - Community Space Project
£10,000	14/01/2015 12	Not Available

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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

BETHANY CLAIRE MATHER Appointed: 2023

CATHERINE BAMFORD Appointed: 2017

MATTHEW HASELDEN Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/08/2013, number: 1153249

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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; AR16: 1 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from ADULT BOLTON ASPERGER'S GROUP (ABAG)/STEPS AHEAD on 12/11/2019

Main office

Unit 22
The Market Place
Knowsley Street
The Market Place
Bolton

Objectives

'THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (AGES 0-25) AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS WITH SOCIAL/COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:PROVIDING A (NW) REGIONAL TELEPHONE HELPLINE STAFFED BY TRAINED VOLUNTEERS ABLE TO OFFER SUPPORT, ADVISE AND SIGNPOST.DEVELOP AND DELIVER APPROPRIATE BESPOKE TRAINING MATERIAL TO FAMILIES AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY.WORK TOWARDS CHALLENGING AND REMOVING SOCIAL BARRIERS AND PROMOTE INCLUSION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SOCIAL/COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS OBJECT 'SOCIAL/COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS' INCLUDE AUTISM, ASPERGER'S SYNDROME, TOURETTE'S SYNDROME, OCD, ODD, ADHD, ADD, CEREBRAL PALSY, DOWNS SYNDROME, FRAGILE X SYNDROME, SELECTIVE MUTISM, SOME WHEELCHAIR USERS AND PEOPLE WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS.

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