Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

CREATE HOPE

The use of therapeutic creative interventions, to explore, understand and bring psychological healing into the lives of children. In addition to the above, offering one-to-one Counselling for adults and family therapy for clients.

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Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 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

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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
31/08/23	£158	£154	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/08/22	£128	£122	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11
31/08/21	£92	£92	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/08/20	£95	£80	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/08/19	£79	£72	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	7
31/08/18	£63	£57	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/17	£54	£47	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16	£57	£34	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 9 years

www.createhope.co.uk

mail@createhope.co.uk

07720970717

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Mental health and addiction

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bracknell Forest, Reading, Wokingham,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
6 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	£39,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
CAF	£8,500
The Foyle Foundation	£5,000
Co-Operative Group	£2,051

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Therapuetic servcies for families
£10,000	26/05/2023	The funding will be used to deliver therapeutic groups and courses to parents and young people. The groups will cover topics including self-harm anxiety emotional dysregulation low self-esteem ....more The funding will be used to deliver therapeutic groups and courses to parents and young people. The groups will cover topics including self-harm anxiety emotional dysregulation low self-esteem complex family relationships and child and parent aggression. The project will encourage openness between parents and their child with the aim of building stronger healthier family relationships and improving participant's mental health and well-being.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Create Hope
£2,051	22/10/2022	We would like to continue to support parents who are struggling with their own and their child's emotional health.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	11/03/2022	Growth and development
National Lottery Community Fund - Training and equiping volunteers
£10,000	11/03/2022	The funding is being used to develop and deliver training to volunteers to support the more complex needs for children and young people that have worsened during lockdowns. It will improve emotional ....more The funding is being used to develop and deliver training to volunteers to support the more complex needs for children and young people that have worsened during lockdowns. It will improve emotional needs and cover issues such has domestic abuse family separation bereavement low self esteem bullying etc. The project will develop training to a level 5 and 7 accreditation and improve knowledge to respond to the growing need from referrals.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	11/02/2021	towards core costs for next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
National Lottery Community Fund - Emotional support for families
£10,000	22/01/2021 12	The funding will be used to continue delivery of both online and face to face emotional support for vulnerable families including family separation bereavement challenges with family relationships ....more The funding will be used to continue delivery of both online and face to face emotional support for vulnerable families including family separation bereavement challenges with family relationships drug and alcohol abuse bullying and more. The project aims to provide a safe space and find ways of improving relationships and building resilience.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	30/10/2020	revenue grant
CAF - Grant to Create Hope
£8,500	14/05/2020 3	Grant to Create Hope to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Emotional education
£9,000	05/09/2019 12	Emotional education
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Create Hope
£5,850	19/11/2018	We need funding for staffing, training and resources for one-to-one and group sessions for families affected by environmental issues.
National Lottery Community Fund - Create Hope - parenting support workshops
£3,768	25/01/2017 12	This project will run emotional support workshops and courses for parents affected by a range of issues including domestic abuse, family separation and loss. This will enable parents to work through ....more This project will run emotional support workshops and courses for parents affected by a range of issues including domestic abuse, family separation and loss. This will enable parents to work through their issues using a therapeutic approach with the aim of building their self-esteem and increasing their confidence, to help them feel more equipped in themselves as parents.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANNE DOUGLAS Appointed: 2021

SARAH JANE WALKER Appointed: 2022

MARK SAYERS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Property Surveyor

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/07/2015, number: 1162501

Gift Aid

NOT 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
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

Main office

Create Hope
c/o Involve Community Services
The Court House
Broadway
Bracknell
Berkshir

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF EMOTIONAL SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONGST CHILDREN BY THE PROVISION OF A PLAY THERAPY SERVICE AND THE PROVISION OF TRAINING IN THERAPEUTIC PLAY.2. THE RELIEF OF NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE OF FAMILIES BY PROVIDING COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES.

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