Overall GiG Score: 31 ?
Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 17
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

PURE INSIGHT 1628 

Pure Insight supports young care leavers aged 16-28. It's range of outreach projects (which tackle complex social issues for those making the transition to independence) include Mentoring, Psychological Wellbeing Service/Counselling, intense support for care experienced young parents, peer support, drop in cafes and an Experts by Experience group influencing local and national service provision
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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 and a Community Foundation and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 10 years

http://pure-insight.org.uk

sarah@pure-insight.org.uk

01618044417

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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£826£735£90£0£562£2864.723205
31/03/22£560£588£-28£0£472£245518205
31/03/21£651£566£85£0£500£2395.116220
31/03/20£604£381£223£0£415£1835.716220
31/03/19£357£250£107n/an/an/an/an/a195
31/03/18£208£160£48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£146£128£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£109£97£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£18£10£8£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 51%
Reserves/Spending: 4.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 22.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 23 employees
  • 205 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cheshire East, Salford City, Stockport, Trafford, Warrington,

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£827,480
Cheshire Community Foundation£239,325
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£96,000
The Segelman Trust£90,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£85,250
The Rayne Foundation£75,000
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment£59,073
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cheshire Community Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£2,000 03/08/2023
Grant to Pure Insight 1628
Cheshire Community Foundation - Insightful Mentoring
£15,000 22/06/2023
A community mentoring project providing volunteer mentors for young people leaving care. 80 young people will be supported over the course of 1 year with 2-3 hours of support each week.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Psychological Wellbeing Service for Care Leavers in Warrington
£30,000 25/05/2023
Grant to Pure Insight 1628
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£50,000 16/03/2023
Supporting young parents who are care leavers to help break the cycle of care.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Building capacity and services for young care leavers in Salford
£6,000 18/01/2023
Pure Insight works intensively with young care leavers aged 16-28, providing both practical and emotional support. This grant supports the capacity of the senior leadership team to build greater ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Care Leavers can with a van
£10,000 16/12/2022
The funding will be used to purchase a van to help service users when they get housing or moving and also to transport the groups outdoor activity equipment. The project aims to give young care ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Pure Insight
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Cheshire Community Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£500 25/10/2022
Grant to Pure Insight 1628
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Pure Insight
£3,792 22/10/2022
We wish to recruit, train and support around 100 volunteers to become volunteer mentors to young people leaving children's homes and foster care in Stockport, Cheshire, Trafford and Salford.
National Lottery Community Fund - Pure Insight - supporting care leavers in Warrington to thrive
£298,272 22/09/2022
This funding will be used to support care leavers in Warrington and East Cheshire. The programme will deliver general support volunteer led mentoring psychological and bespoke parenting skills and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£180,000 25/08/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of the psychological wellbeing project, 'Insight in Mind', providing counselling, emotional support and life skills training for young ....more
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight
£54,000 19/05/2022
3 year funding for the Mentoring Coordinator role
Cheshire Community Foundation - InSight In Mind Warrington
£27,945 09/05/2022
InSight In Mind Warrington
Cheshire Community Foundation - Cafe Inspire - drop in cafe in Crewe
£2,500 14/04/2022
Cafe Inspire - drop in cafe in Crewe
Stockport MBC - Grant to Pure Insight 1628 Ltd 
£24,060 02/01/2022
To support young care leaves transition into adulthood.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£500 08/12/2021
Grant to Pure Insight 1628
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Pure Insight
£90,000 30/11/2021
36
To support core costs and capacity building
Cheshire Community Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£2,000 25/11/2021
Practical support provision plus drop in cafe
Cheshire Community Foundation - Insightful Mentoring
£15,000 23/11/2021
Grant to Pure Insight 1628
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting care experienced parents to thrive
£10,000 15/10/2021
The funding will be used to provide practical and emotional support to young care leavers who are parents. The project aims to develop the beneficiaries skills and confidence build positive ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Days out - Calming Beaches and Adrenaline hits
£6,300 08/10/2021
Pure Insight providing days out to young people leaving care (and some of their children) with the support of volunteers. Making new memories through day trips to calming beaches or fun adrenaline ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Building capacity and services for young care leavers in Salford
£90,000 04/10/2021
36
Pure Insight works intensively with young care leavers aged 16-28, providing both practical and emotional support. This grant supports the capacity of the senior leadership team to build greater ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight
£50,000 29/07/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Pure Insight
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£75,000 07/06/2021
Towards a psychological wellbeing project for young care leavers in Cheshire East.
Cheshire Community Foundation - InSight In Mind Warrington
£28,219 26/01/2021
Pure Insight 1628 works alongside young people age 16 - 28 who have left or are about to leave statutory care in Warrington. Insight in Mind is designed to equip care leavers and those supporting ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Insight in Mind
£49,861 06/07/2020
Pure Insight 1628 works alongside young people age 16 - 28 who have left or are about to leave statutory care in Cheshire East. Insight in Mind is designed to equip care leavers and those supporting ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Covid and Care Leavers, levelling the playing field
£9,500 07/06/2020
Pure Insight 1628, delivering bespoke support to care leavers to help them through Covid - 19 by maintaining positive mental wellbeing, staying connected to vital support and being able to take ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight
£33,000 21/05/2020
12
One year core funding to support Pure Insight to sustain their work to support work addressing Care Leavers Complex Social Issue (CSI) during COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Care Experienced - COVID-19 Response
£10,000 24/04/2020
7
The project aims to keep young people in touch with their workers and such support networks as they can draw on. The project aims to ensure that these vulnerable young adults are not left behind and ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Covid Emegency grant
£5,884 25/03/2020
to support young care leavers through the effects of covid. 1. Emergency individual monthly food parcels which would typically include tea/coffee, tinned goods, pasta, rice, crisps, biscuits, ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Insightful Mentoring Trafford - 3rd Year funding
£53,189 05/12/2019
Insightful Mentoring Programme into Trafford. 1:1 support to care leavers
Cheshire Community Foundation - Insight in Mind
£50,000 03/07/2019
Pure Insight 1628 works alongside young people age 16 - 28 who have left or are about to leave statutory care in Cheshire East. Insight in Mind is designed to equip care leavers and those supporting ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - GM Care Leavers Partnership 2019-2022
£499,208 28/05/2019
36
GM Care Leavers Partnership 2019-2022
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£117,800 13/03/2019
36
towards three years' salary of a Psychological Wellbeing Worker at a project providing counselling, emotional support and lifeskills training for young people who are leaving care in Stockport
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£12,029 19/11/2018
We want to train and support more mentors to provide practical, emotional support to young people leaving children's homes and foster care.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Insight in Mind
£49,989 11/05/2018
Pure Insight 1628 works alongside young people age 16 - 28 who have left or are about to leave statutory care in Cheshire East. Insight in Mind is designed to equip care leavers and those supporting ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Insightful Mentoring Trafford
£100,000 09/04/2018
Extend Insightful Mentoring Programme into Trafford. 1:1 support to care leavers.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Pure Insight 1628
£4,902 29/11/2017
We want to train more mentors to provide practical and emotional support to local, young people leaving children's homes and foster care.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Pure Insight - Places to belong & people to belong to
£12,860 01/08/2017
Pure Insight delivers a range of projects providing practical and emotional support to young people who have left or are about to leave statutory care in Stockport and Cheshire East. This projects ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Pure Insight
£13,650 11/07/2017
12
the charity provides support to care leavers and those who are care experienced. The grant will enable the charity to implement a data management system across the charity so that it can better ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Parent 2 Parent
£10,000 28/06/2017
12
The project will provide mentoring support and one to one guidance for young care leavers who are parents. This will help them develop parenting skills, improve their confidence, reduce isolation and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Pure Insight - Insightful Mentoring Programme 2016 - 2020
£288,470 27/07/2016
47
This is an expansion of existing work delivered by Pure Insight. The project will continue to support young people, aged 16-28 and living in Stockport, Manchester and Cheshire East, leaving the care ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-75
  • DAVID ZUCKER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: -Non-Executive Director
  • NEIL WARD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Managing Director
  • SAM ANKERS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Service Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/01/2014, number: 1155389
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/10/2013, number: 08727717
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

Prospect House
Newby Road Industrial Estate
Newby Road
Hazel Grove
STOCKPORT
Cheshire

Objectives

THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEED , INCLUDING ( WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING) BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, ACTIVITIES OR ADVICE WHICH DEVELOP THEIR CAPACITY, SKILLS , CAPABILITIES AND ECONOMIC AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Data Sources

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