Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

BALLOONS (DEVON) 

We provide pre & post bereavement support to children and young people (C&YP) after the death of someone important in their lives. Our support enables them to express and process their grief in their own way and at their own pace. This has a range of positive outcomes including the ability of C&YP to cope, move forward and stay positively engaged in their family and school life.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 10 years
(12 years as a company)

www.balloonscharity.co.uk

admin@balloonscharity.co.uk

01392982570

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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
30/11/23£155£218£-62n/an/an/an/an/a33
30/11/22£356£216£140n/an/an/an/an/a35
30/11/21£223£166£57n/an/an/an/an/a30
30/11/20£111£161£-50n/an/an/an/an/a52
30/11/19£173£195£-22n/an/an/an/an/a57
30/11/18£244£182£62£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/17£207£159£48£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/16£124£140£-16£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/15£112£117£-5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Devon,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 33 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£223,996
Masonic Trust£35,500
BBC Children in Need£31,999
Devon Community Foundation£13,000
Co-Operative Group£7,384
True Colours Trust£7,000
DCMS£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to Balloons
£1,500 13/02/2023
To fund running monthly grief support worker meetings which will be held in person and an annual one-day conference.
True Colours Trust - Towards the costs of its annual conference for staff and volunteers
£2,000 09/11/2021
Towards the costs of its annual conference for staff and volunteers.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Balloons
£3,895 23/10/2021
We will improve the mental health and wellbeing of grieving children and young people by providing activity days to break down isolation and build a sense of community.
Masonic Trust - MCF Freemasons COVID-19 Community Fund
£25,000 05/07/2021
The grant will fund the Bridges to the Future project, to provide specialised grief support work to 70 children and young people who have been bereaved as a result of COVID-19 or whose bereavements ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Balloons 2
£223,996 26/03/2021
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The funding will be used over 2 years to allow the organisation to continue their work providing support for children and young people and their families before an expected death or following the ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Balloons (Devon)
£31,999 30/11/2020
The project helps children who have suffered a bereavement of a close family member or friend. The support will help them learn how to cope with their loss and improve family relationships.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Balloons
£3,489 24/10/2020
We would like to improve our our pre-bereavement work, where we help families with children preparing for the death of a loved one.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,000 21/08/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Core Costs
£4,000 20/08/2020
Grant to Balloons
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Bereavement Support
£2,500 16/04/2020
5
Grant to Balloons
True Colours Trust - Towards its pre-bereavement support work for children and young people
£5,000 10/07/2019
Towards its pre-bereavement support work for children and young people
Devon Community Foundation - Pre-bereavement Support Project
£5,000 27/06/2019
11
supporting children and young people through the pre-bereavement process, equipping them with coping strategies to facilitate longer-term adjustment to the loss of a significant person in their life
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£10,500 07/06/2019
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Ballloons (Devon)
£2,779 29/11/2017
We want to purchase arts and crafts materials for our 1:1 support work with bereaved children.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 03/11/2017
Pre-Bereavement Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Bereavement & Loss Looking Onwards
£257,379 17/05/2017
36
This is a continuation of a service based in Exeter, Mid and East Devon providing one-to-one pre and post bereavement support to children and young people aged 5-25. It also supports their families ....more
Devon Community Foundation - Getting to Grips with Grief
£2,500 05/07/2016
11
funding for grief support work, for children coping with bereavement of a love one in traumatic circumstances, interventions that help to develop coping strategies and resilience which mitigate ....more
True Colours Trust - Work with bereaved children with special needs
£6,000 15/07/2015
Work with bereaved children with special needs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-63
  • IAIN STEVENS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Business Strategy And Change
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/09/2014, number: 1158666
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/11/2011, number: 07849857
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • 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
9 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from ROTARY CLUB OF SID VALLEY TRUST FUND on 24/06/2020
Main office

Balloons (Devon)
First Floor
6 Providence Court
Pynes Hill
Exeter

Objectives

1. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH, PRIMARILY IN DEVON, BY PROVIDING ADVICE, SUPPORT AND COUNSELLING IN RESPECT OF PRE AND POST BEREAVEMENT SUFFERED BY CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUNG ADULTS (UP TO 25 YEARS), AND THEIR FAMILIES/CARERS. 2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRE AND POST BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR FOR PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS WORKING WITH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUNG ADULTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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