Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Overall weighted support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 14

ACHING ARMS

Aching Arms provides comfort teddy bears to parents whose baby has died during pregnancy, birth or infancy. They gift bears to parents via maternity health professionals and befriending groups in the UK. The bears are used to discuss support available to parents. The charity also leads awareness training for health professionals and hosts a telephone befriending service for bereaved parents.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of 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

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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
31/07/23	£294	£278	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/22	£270	£213	£57	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
08/08/21	£179	£126	£52	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
08/08/20	£173	£109	£63	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
08/08/19	£161	£87	£74	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
08/08/18	£103	£84	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
08/08/17	£103	£52	£50	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
08/08/16	£44	£28	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
08/08/15	£13	£13	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
08/08/14	£13	£10	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 11 years

www.achingarms.co.uk

Info@achingarms.co.uk

07826067801

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Other welfare services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following 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 - Supporting Arms - Bereavement Support after Pregnancy and Baby Loss
£8,815	30/08/2022	The funding will be used to continue to offer our free Bereavement helpline services to all bereaved families after the death of their baby during pregnancy at birth or soon after. The project aims ....more The funding will be used to continue to offer our free Bereavement helpline services to all bereaved families after the death of their baby during pregnancy at birth or soon after. The project aims to support families to be able to cope better with their grief and trauma feel supported along their journey of loss and find a way to move forward with their lives.
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Arms - Bereavement Support after Baby Loss
£6,450	04/06/2021	The funding will be used to continue a dedicated telephone and email support service for bereaved parents. The project aims to support and bring comfort to bereaved parents and families.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,580	28/09/2020	"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 "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."

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANDREW MORRIS Appointed: 2024

DONNA DUNN Appointed: 2022

MELISSA BARCLAY Appointed: 2018

SARAH ATKINSON Appointed: 2015

SUNDEEP KAUR (Chair) Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/08/2013, number: 1153296

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
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; all on time

Main office

33 Victoria Road
Warley
BRENTWOOD
Essex
CM14 5DR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO:-(1)PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING) OF PARENTS, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS WHEN A BABY DIES IN UTERO, AT BIRTH OR SOON AFTER BIRTH (BABY LOSS);(2)ADVANCE EDUCATION ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF BABY LOSS PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, AMONGST HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS; AND(3)SUPPORT AND PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO BABY LOSS AND THE METHODS OF ALLEVIATING SUFFERING ARISING FROM BABY LOSS AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.