Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 17

SERVICE DOGS UK

To relieve the needs and help promote good health of people of the armed forces and emergency services who have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in particular but not exclusively by:1) Providing trained assistance dogs from Rescue2) Raising public awareness of PTSD in Service people

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/03/23	£106	£86	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	16
31/03/22	£103	£91	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	16
31/03/21	£85	£59	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/20?	£27	£35	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
30/04/19	£53	£32	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
30/04/18	£28	£31	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/17	£46	£28	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 8 years

www.servicedogsuk.org

getintouch@servicedogsuk.org

01329 233288

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Animals
Armed Forces/Emergency Service Efficiency
Disability
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Other specialist outpatient services

How it operates

Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
16 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

Ministry of Defence	£35,000
The Michael And Betty Little Trust	£15,000
Masonic Trust	£3,186

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£2,186	28/02/2023	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - Service Dogs UK
£15,000	09/08/2022	Providing PTSD assistance dogs
Ministry of Defence - OVA Afghanistan Veterans' Fund
£35,000	11/03/2022	To increase capacity in services and initiatives that offer supportive comradeship, engagement and wellbeing efforts for those in the Armed Forces community impacted by events in Afghanistan, and the ....more To increase capacity in services and initiatives that offer supportive comradeship, engagement and wellbeing efforts for those in the Armed Forces community impacted by events in Afghanistan, and the wider veterans community.
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000	01/02/2022	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-75

CAMILLA HOWARD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Contract Director

DAVID WEBSTER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Business Coach And Consultant

GLEN RYDER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Police Staff

IAN SPENCER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consulting Engineer

JANE HOARE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

DONNA MARGARET BUTLER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Lead Psychotherapist

PROF. STUART TODDINGTON Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Professor Of Jurisprudence

PAUL HILL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD,

GARRY BOTTERILL Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Police Sergeant, Other trusteeship: ASSISTANCE DOGS (UK),

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/02/2016, number: 1165409
Registered at Companies House on 21/04/2015, number: 09553131

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
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

7 returns made; all on time

Main office

Fareham Marina
Lower Quay
FAREHAM
PO16 0RA

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS AND HELP PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE OF THE ARMED FORCES AND EMERGENCY SERVICES WHO HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD), IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(1) PROVIDING TRAINED ASSISTANCE DOGS FROM RESCUE(2) RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN SERVICE PEOPLE

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