Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

ABERYSTWYTH & DISTRICT HOSPICE AT HOME VOLUNTEERS 

The relief of sickness and suffering amongst people living in the North Ceredigion area who are living with advanced incurable and progressive illness and also their carers, by providing them with practical, social and emotional support, by providing community-based supportive end of life care and by raising awareness regarding all aspects of end of life care in the North Ceredigion area.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no 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 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:

  • Liquidity appeared to be considerably in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income

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£852£389£463£146£807£77723.91160
31/03/22£287£285£2n/an/an/an/an/a70
31/03/21£149£104£45n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/20£217£100£118n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/19£130£70£59n/an/an/an/an/a65
31/03/18£108£76£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£128£103£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£106£43£63£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 19.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 37.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 23.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 10.6
Asset Split ?
Established: 9 years

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Hospice services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Ceredigion,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 11 employees
  • 60 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£10,000 02/12/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 HAHAV Digital Project
£76,600 20/08/2020
12
Aberystwyth and District Hospice at Home Volunteers will create a virtual hospice service as a bilingual portal for end of life related information advice and resources. They will facilitating ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 40-74
  • GWERFYL PIERCE JONES (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired Director / Ceo Of The Welsh Books Council
  • RHIAN HAF EVANS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Assistant Director Of Human Resources
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/02/2015, number: 1160645
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/10/2014, number: 09261439
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

Plas Antaron
Antaron Avenue
Southgate
ABERYSTWYTH
Dyfed
SY23 1SF

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING AMONGST PEOPLE LIVING IN NORTH CEREDIGION AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE LIVING WITH ADVANCED, INCURABLE, AND PROGRESSIVE ILLNESS, AND ALSO THEIR CARERS, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH PRACTICAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, BY PROVIDING COMMUNITY-BASED SUPPORTIVE END OF LIFE CARE AND BY RAISING AWARENESS REGARDING ALL ASPECTS OF END OF LIFE CARE IN THE COMMUNITY OF NORTH CEREDIGION AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREA.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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