Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

WE HEAR YOU 

To provide support through counselling for individuals who have been affected personally or through association by cancer and other life threatening illnesses. Re-registered from unincorporated charity number 1095533 effective 1st April 2014
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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
  • 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 issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 10 years

www.wehearyou.org.uk

info@wehearyou.org.uk

01373455255

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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£521£557£-36£146£174£13731590
31/03/22£450£533£-84n/an/an/an/an/a152
31/03/21£558£443£115£136£295£601.61350
31/03/20£496£499£-4n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/19£448£397£51n/an/an/an/an/a45
31/03/18£366£324£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£264£280£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£246£232£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£159£156£3£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 35.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 26.2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 37%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 79%
Reserves/Spending: 3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Somerset, Swindon, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 15 employees
  • 90 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
National Lottery Community Fund£133,696
Somerset Community Foundation£26,584
Wiltshire Community Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Somerset Community Foundation - Contribution towards the overheads of a service for people by cancer in Somerset, which have risen due to the cost-of-living crisis
£3,500 01/02/2023
Grant to We Hear You
Somerset Community Foundation - Business development to grow voluntary and traded income streams in order to provide emotional support to people affected by cancer
£13,084 24/05/2022
Business development to grow voluntary and traded income streams in order to provide emotional support to people affected by cancer
National Lottery Community Fund - WHY and Headway pilot
£10,000 11/03/2022
The funding will be used to provide counselling and support services for people living with brain injuries. The project aims to improve participants the health and wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - WHY counselling continuation funding
£123,696 26/08/2021
The organisation will use the funding to continue their working offering emotional support to patients families friends and carers who have been affected by cancer or any other life-threatening ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to We Hear You (WHY)
£10,000 13/01/2021
9
Counselling for those affected or bereaved by cancer or any other life-threatening condition in Wiltshire.
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Counselling for people affected by life threatening conditions
£5,600 27/10/2020
4
Grant to We Hear You
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to We Hear You (WHY)
£5,000 20/04/2020
Remote counselling for those affected or bereaved by cancer or any other life threatening condition in Wiltshire
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Virtual counselling and bereavement support for people affected by life-threatening conditions
£4,400 07/04/2020
2
Grant to We Hear You
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£8,000 02/01/2019
The expected outcome of this project is an increase to the quality of life for these women both during and beyond their cancer diagnosis and treatment. Some of the impact may be physical as a result ....more
Somerset Community Foundation - Cancer Self-Care
£3,000 21/12/2018
12
Pilot of an ecotherapy project for people with cancer
Somerset Community Foundation - Living With and Beyond Cancer Womens Activity Group
£8,000 18/12/2018
11
Activity groups for women affected by cancer
Somerset Community Foundation - Mental health and well-being
£19,250 16/03/2018
People with long-term health conditions
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 21/02/2018
Counselling and bereavement support for people affected by cancer and other life threatening conditions.
National Lottery Community Fund - WHY me? WHY them?
£10,000 03/01/2018
12
The funding will be used to produce a series of free information booklets for people diagnosed with cancer, offering helpful information around coping with their diagnosis and signposting free ....more
Somerset Community Foundation - The WHY gallery
£3,000 09/06/2017
2
Development of social enterprise to fund counselling of people affected by cancer in Frome
Somerset Community Foundation - Counselling for the over 50s
£3,729 18/07/2016
6
Counselling for people affected by cancer or other life-threatening illness
National Lottery Community Fund - Service Expansion
£239,905 12/08/2015
60
The project will use the funding to expand its free counselling services which are offered to anyone affected or bereaved by cancer or other life threatening illnesses. The project covers Somerset, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/03/2014, number: 1156001
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

14-15 North Parade
Frome
Somerset
BA11 1AU

Objectives

TO PROVIDE SUPPORT THROUGH COUNSELLING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED PERSONALLY OR THROUGH ASSOCIATION BY CANCER AND OTHER LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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