Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 9
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

STAND ALONE CHARITY 

Stand Alone supports adults that are estranged from their family or key family member. We run support groups, training and facilitate research on family estrangement and its effects.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

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
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 10 years

www.standalone.org.uk

contact@standalone.org.uk

020 7841 3450

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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
05/04/22£159£132£27n/an/an/an/an/a29
05/04/21£211£147£64n/an/an/an/an/a29
05/04/20£197£159£38n/an/an/an/an/a29
05/04/19£208£145£64n/an/an/an/an/a45
05/04/18£179£192£-12£0£0£0n/a035
05/04/17£219£194£25£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/16£157£91£65£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/15£61£49£12£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 29 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
Tudor Trust£32,000
Esmee Fairbairn£27,900
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Stand Alone
£4,650 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Tudor Trust - Grant to Stand Alone
£2,000 17/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Stand Alone
£30,000 17/07/2020
24
over two years as continuation funding on an unrestricted basis for a national charity supporting people who are estranged from their families
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Stand Alone
£23,250 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 27/12/2019
Main Grants award
National Lottery Community Fund - Focus on Family Estrangement - Phase 2
£157,890 01/02/2019
44
Focus on Family Estrangement - Phase 2
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Stand Alone
£186,000 05/12/2018
48
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation that supports vulnerable young people who are estranged or disowned from their family to ensure they can more easily access education, finance and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 23/05/2018
Core costs
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Stand Alone Charity
£69,000 07/12/2017
24
towards two years' running costs of a National project providing support to people who have become estranged from their families
Tudor Trust - Grant to Stand Alone
£120,000 16/06/2017
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the CEO salary of a national charity supporting people who are estranged from their families
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Stand Alone
£123,450 18/11/2015
36
Towards supporting vulnerable young people who are estranged or disowned from their family to ensure they can access education, finance and housing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Focus on Family Estrangement
£148,741 25/09/2015
24
The aim of the project is to separately address the issues of adults and young people as a result of family estrangement in peer support groups and then mixed groups. This is the development of an ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Stand Alone
£150,000 12/05/2014
36
over three years towards the chief executive's salary and associated costs at a new national charity supporting individuals who are estranged from their families
National Lottery Community Fund - 'sibling' mentors for 18yrs+ who are estranged from family
£10,000 04/10/2013
12
_x000B_This is a project by a community organisation in Lambeth also serving beneficiaries in Hackney, Haringey and Lewisham. The group will use the funding to run monthly meetings and a mentoring ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/11/2013, number: 1154710
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

34B
York Way
N1 9AB

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE WHO ARE ESTRANGED FROM THEIR FAMILY OR MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIP BREAKDOWN.2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONG THE PUBLIC ON THE SUBJECT OF FAMILY ESTRANGEMENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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