Overall GiG Score: 5 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

FREE YOUR INSTINCT 

Parkour Coaching for Mental Health
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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be 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 recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 9 years

www.freeyourinstinct.org

info@freeyourinstinct.org

07766055804

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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£22£50£-28n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/22£49£36£14n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21£32£5£27n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/20£7£3£4n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/19£8£7£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£8£10£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£7£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£6£5£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 2 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bristol City, Throughout London,

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
Quartet Community Foundation£49,188
Sport England£8,640
National Lottery Community Fund£7,000
London Catalyst£5,367
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - Supporting At-risk Young People in Bristol Through Parkour
£8,640 24/02/2023
This project will expand the organisation's provision to provide 8 new 12-week parkour courses across two locations in Bristol. As well as benefiting physical health, the sessions will have a ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Free Your Instinct
£4,968 14/02/2023
To deliver parkour classes supporting the mental health of young people in Southmead.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Free Your Instinct
£4,820 21/12/2021
11
For the provision of parkour courses for young people with recognised mental health needs in Southmead.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Free Your Instinct
£300 26/11/2021
As approved by the High Sheriff towards parkour courses for young people as a way to reduce ASB
London Catalyst - Free Your Instinct - 2
£700 27/01/2021
Parkour courses in London
Quartet Community Foundation - Free Your Instinct Growth And Sustainability
£39,100 19/01/2021
26
To recruit of a part time employee to manage and coordinate the group's current Bristol based work and growth strategy to ensure ongoing sustainability for this charity which uses Parkour to tackle ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Parkour classes to help manage mental health
£7,000 22/04/2020
17
The funding will enable the project to deliver a course encouraging people to develop social skills and access non-competitive 'physical activities weeks' which improve isolation exclusion confidence ....more
London Catalyst - Free Your Instinct - 1
£4,667 10/06/2019
Parkour courses in London
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/03/2015, number: 1160961
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

8 Sandy View
Beckington
FROME
Somerset
BA11 6TR

Objectives

TO PROMOTE GOOD MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COACHING IN PARKOUR

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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