Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 5

Accounts overdue -5
Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Only 4 Trustees: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 3

ILLUMINATE CHARITY

Illuminate brings tried and tested life coaching techniques to the unemployed and vulnerable, experiencing mental ill health. We work with people by fundamentally developing their self esteem and confidence at a psychological level, so that they bring about change into their own lives in a sustainable way. We help people to help themselves, making sustainable changes to their lives.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
There are only 4 trustees

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

Established: 9 years

www.illuminatecharity.org.uk

Info@illuminatecharity.org.uk

07974952724

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£227	£202	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
05/04/21		£244	£198	£46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
05/04/20	*	£132	£128	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
05/04/19		£97	£110	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	7
05/04/18		£113	£96	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	4
05/04/17		£112	£94	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/16		£103	£87	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
9 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	£444,171
Lloyds Bank Foundation	£24,287
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation	£1,400

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Illuminate Community
£9,995	13/05/2022	The funding will be used to continue to deliver their community engagement project for people with mental health issues and at risk of poverty. This will provide holistic and peer support using the ....more The funding will be used to continue to deliver their community engagement project for people with mental health issues and at risk of poverty. This will provide holistic and peer support using the ‘5 ways to wellbeing’ format group and one to one sessions to improve coping mechanisms confidence and help them become active members of the community and explore learning volunteering and employment opportunities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mental Health Recovery Project
£9,995	30/03/2021 7	The funding will be used to continue to deliver a series of online interactive mental health coaching and training sessions for adults who are unemployed and have mental health issues exacerbated by ....more The funding will be used to continue to deliver a series of online interactive mental health coaching and training sessions for adults who are unemployed and have mental health issues exacerbated by the pandemic. The project aims to build confidence and resilience at a time when beneficiaries are struggling with isolation and ongoing mental health issues.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Illuminate Charity
£9,307	23/07/2020	Grant to Illuminate Charity meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Confidence to Develop
£9,900	22/04/2020 12	The funding will be used to train ten people who have experience of mental health issues and long-term unemployment to deliver talks to local businesses to help raise mental health awareness and ....more The funding will be used to train ten people who have experience of mental health issues and long-term unemployment to deliver talks to local businesses to help raise mental health awareness and reduce stigma within the workplace. They will also provide participants with one to one and group supervision to enable them to share their stories tips and strategies around mental health to improve their confidence and skills towards employment.
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Illuminate Charity CIO
£1,400	27/03/2020 7	to train staff to offer group interactive courses virtually using Zoom reaching 80 vulnerable people
National Lottery Community Fund - Confidence for Progression
£414,281	20/09/2019 48	Confidence for Progression
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Illuminate Charity
£14,980	26/06/2019 12	This small MH charity in Cambridge delivers coaching programmes to equip clients with the tools they need to manage their recovery and engage in volunteering/employment. They want to develop an ....more This small MH charity in Cambridge delivers coaching programmes to equip clients with the tools they need to manage their recovery and engage in volunteering/employment. They want to develop an earned income stream by delivering corporate training.
National Lottery Community Fund - Illuminate Mentoring Project
£9,950	07/03/2019 12	The organisation will use funding to run a peer mentoring programme that supports people with mental health problems to return to work.
National Lottery Community Fund - Illuminate Community Group
£45,840	28/02/2019 36	This project, which offers coaching for people experiencing poor mental health, will use funding to develop its support groups across the area and establish a further four groups in Huntingdon, March ....more This project, which offers coaching for people experiencing poor mental health, will use funding to develop its support groups across the area and establish a further four groups in Huntingdon, March and Wisbech, Littleport and St Neots. The service will include social activities, peer support and inviting a guest speaker.
National Lottery Community Fund - Changing beliefs course
£9,985	31/01/2018 12	This project will run life coaching courses for men and women experiencing poverty and mental health issues, helping them to make positive changes to their lives.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Illuminate Charity
£14,810	06/09/2017 12	The charity provides coaching for people with mental health issues in Cambridgeshire and parts of Suffolk. It wants to pilot a Volunteer and Peer Mentoring group to provide further support to the ....more The charity provides coaching for people with mental health issues in Cambridgeshire and parts of Suffolk. It wants to pilot a Volunteer and Peer Mentoring group to provide further support to the beneficiaries of its Coaching for Change Programme.
National Lottery Community Fund - Illuminate Mentoring - taking beneficiaries closer to the workplace
£9,960	11/01/2017 12	This project will develop a mentoring programme, that will train mentors to support others with their mental health in the workplace. This will enable an ongoing mentoring scheme to be created which ....more This project will develop a mentoring programme, that will train mentors to support others with their mental health in the workplace. This will enable an ongoing mentoring scheme to be created which will improve skills, confidence, motivation and wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Confidence for Change Programme
£383,447	14/11/2014 60	Not Available

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALAN SOER Appointed: 2019

CHRISTINE MONTGOMERY Appointed: 2019

KEITH BULLOCK Appointed: 2020

PAM SCOTT (Chair) Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/12/2014, number: 1159412

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

7 returns made; AR20: 38 days late,

Main office

5 Orchard Way
Oakington
CAMBRIDGE
CB24 3BQ

Objectives

USE CHARITY COMMISSION MODEL CONSTITUTION AND MODEL OF OBJECTS* TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF EAST ANGLIA IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.* TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOLE IN THE SUBJECT OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT/PREPARING THEM TO TAKE UP EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.*TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.

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