Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

STAY SAFE EAST

Stay Safe East is a user-led organisation providing advocacy and support to Deaf and disabled victims or survivors of hate crime and harassment, domestic and sexual violence, carer abuse and other human rights abuses in East London and across London. We work for change across London and nationally to ensure that disabled people get equal access to justice. We provide training and consultancy.
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£749£555£195£0£424£2645.7141
31/03/22£544£504£39£0£229£1493.5161
31/03/21£478£414£64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£315£281£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19*£204£138£66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£126£113£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£113£104£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£82£82£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£47£54£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£53£44£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 62%
Reserves/Spending: 5.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 11 years

www.staysafe-east.org.uk

ANGIE@STAYSAFE-EAST.ORG.UK

02085197241

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Three Guineas Trust£741,675
Trust for London£70,785
National Lottery Community Fund£49,975
City Bridge Trust£48,640
The London Community Foundation£36,796
Comic Relief£23,660
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Three Guineas Trust - Core costs and service costs
£195,000 30/04/2024
18
Core costs and support and advocacy for disabled people subject to violence in the community or at home
National Lottery Community Fund - Propel- Building A Strong Network of Disabled Volunteers
£49,975 17/03/2023
Funding will be used to build a network of deaf and disabled volunteers to support disabled victims of abuse. This will create a larger pool of trained advocates helping to assist victims through long-term guidance and services.
Three Guineas Trust - Cost of living
£10,000 18/01/2023
To help with the effects of the rise in cost of living on the charity's operation
Three Guineas Trust - Core costs, including towards the salaries of the Chief Executive and Operations Manager
£139,000 18/01/2023
Core costs, including towards the salaries of the Chief Executive and Operations Manager.
Trust for London - Stay Safe East
£6,435 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-SVRR-2021-9026
Trust for London - Stay Safe East
£64,350 13/10/2021
24
The funding is for the salaries of two part-time benefits and entitlement workers to support Disabled people who are survivors of domestic abuse and hate crimes.
Comic Relief - Accessible Website Design and Development Proposal
£23,660 08/09/2021
6
At this point, our online website is quite old and basic. It was designed around 12 years ago. As a user-led disability organisation, we are aiming to have a new re-designed website that is easy to use, fully accessible, colorful and attractive. We ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Stay Safe East
£40,190 02/09/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application for a Hate Crime Advocate, security measures for clients, counselling and emergency accommodation and food to support disabled victims of hate crime and deal with increased demand due to the Covid crisis
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Stay Safe East
£36,796 17/07/2020
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Stay Safe East
£8,450 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £8,450, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant’
Three Guineas Trust - Towards core costs, especially to assist with succession planning for CEO.
£397,675 03/02/2020
Towards core costs, especially to assist with succession planning for the Chief Executive.
Trust for London - Stay Safe East
£119,700 29/11/2018
36
The funding is for Stay Safe East to employ a Benefits and Entitlements Adviser to support deaf and disabled survivors of abuse to access welfare benefits and other entitlements, provide budgeting support where needed, produce guidance on income ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Stay Safe East
£103,700 27/07/2017
36
£103,700 over three years (£35,500, £33,800, £34,400) for a p/t Casework Lead (26h/w), a Case Management System and associated project costs.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Stay Safe East
£51,198 06/05/2015
36
supporting people with disabilities and parents of disabled children when they are affected by hate crime or domestic abuse to empower them, help them to be safe and to access services
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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

  • ALEX IRVING Appointed: 2024
  • ALEXANDRA DELAMEILLEURE Appointed: 2024
  • BENNETT OBONG Appointed: 2015
  • ISABEL CRISTINA ROS LOPEZ Appointed: 2023
  • JONATHAN GROSSKOPF Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Freelance Chartered Accountant
  • KIRSTEN HEARN Appointed: 2014
  • SAVITRI MAITREYA MARIA HENSMAN (Chair) Appointed: 2013
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/09/2013, number: 1153615
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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; AR19: 123 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR15: 3 days late,
Main office

Waltham Forest Resource Hub South
90 CROWNFIELD ROAD
LONDON
E15 2BG

Objectives

(1) TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING CAUSED TO DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLE BY HATE CRIME, HARASSMENT, DOMESTIC OR SEXUAL VIOLENCE OR OTHER FORMS OF ABUSE(2) TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF DEAF AND DISABLED PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES(3) SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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