Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE DANIEL SPARGO-MABBS FOUNDATION 

Working directly with young people, schools, professionals & the community, provide evidence-based educational resources/programmes, & advice about substance misuse to:-promote healthy, informed choices for young people;-empower young people with knowledge, life skills & confidence; -educate young people through partnership initiatives with national & local agencies.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/08/23£397£268£128n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/08/22£198£218£-20n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/08/21£134£120£14n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/08/20£236£207£29n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/08/19£154£164£-10n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/08/18?£191£135£56£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£102£100£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£38£25£13£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

http://www.dsmfoundation.org.uk/

admin@dsmfoundation.org.uk

07784692050

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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
The Funding Network£11,177
National Lottery Community Fund£9,970
Garfield Weston Foundation£7,500
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - 'I wish I'd Known' Parents Workshops
£9,970 13/01/2023
This project will deliver 40 'I Wish I'd Known' workshops for parents and carers within a year. The project will provide a great opportunity to increase awareness of the issues their children face ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund Grant
£5,000 03/12/2020
12
To help support the organisation to respond to the effects of Covid-19.
The Funding Network - I Love You Mum - I Promise I Won't Die: drug education play for Scottish schools
£11,177 23/03/2020
Pilot extending our work to Scotland by bringing our Theatre in Education production to Edinburgh schools in June 2020, building our network for workshops, parents' events and drug education lessons.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 07/02/2020
I Love You Mum - I Promise I Won't Die' - Spring Tour

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 23-60
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/10/2014, number: 1158921
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/01/2014, number: 08863937
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from OUR AMY FOUNDATION on 16/05/2023
Main office

Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation
Palmerston House
814 Brighton Road
Purley
CR8 2BR

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 10 TO 25 BY PROVIDING DRUGS EDUCATION NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, TO ENABLE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO MAKE HEALTHY, INFORMED AND POTENTIALLY LIFE-SAVING DECISIONS TO REDUCE HARM FROM DRUGS USE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH:(A) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND EDUCATION - WORKING DIRECTLY WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, FAMILIES AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY.(B) THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE WEBSITE, LEAFLETS AND BY SIGNPOSTING TO OTHER ORGANISATIONS.(C) THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR PEER MENTORS WHO WILL BE ABLE TO ADVISE AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE AT POTENTIAL RISK FROM DRUG MISUSE.(D) THE PROMOTION OF EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER CHARITIES AND ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF SUBSTANCE MISUSE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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