Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 9

Accounts overdue -5
Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 5

FAMILIES AGAINST VIOLENCE

Delivering sports activities to young children in order to raise aspirations and provide tailored support toward positive engagement with education, statutory services and community cohesion initiatives.Promoting the positive influence of father figures and male role models with the aim of reducing violence and criminal activity via a bespoke Mentoring Program over 8 sessions per week.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
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
Latest accounts are overdue for filing and returns have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years

Established: 8 years

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Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/22		£158	£122	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	46
31/03/21		£3	£13	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/20	*	£92	£98	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19	*	£72	£57	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18	*	£18	£19	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	6
31/03/17	*	£20	£13	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Manchester City, Stockport,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
46 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	£100,270
AB Charitable Trust	£10,000
Forever Manchester	£4,042
Manchester City Council	£2,630

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Families Against Violence
£90,470	17/03/2023	The funding will enable Families Against Violence to deliver a targeted mentoring and leadership programme for young people in Manchester. The funding will allow the charity to employ a project ....more The funding will enable Families Against Violence to deliver a targeted mentoring and leadership programme for young people in Manchester. The funding will allow the charity to employ a project manager and project coordinator and to contribute towards project costs.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Families Against Violence
£10,000	21/04/2022	An unrestricted grant of £10,000. Families Against Violence delivers a range of youth engagement activities and mentoring, with the aim of reducing violence and criminal activity in Manchester.
Forever Manchester - Saturday Morning Soccer School
£2,021	19/01/2022	Sunday soccer school
Forever Manchester - Saturday Morning Football Camp
£2,021	27/08/2021	Funded to begin a Saturday football club.
National Lottery Community Fund - Fathers Against Violence
£9,800	09/07/2021	The funding will be used to run a six-month intensive workshop programme targeting families across Manchester who are facing unprecedented challenges of unemployment poor mental health and wellbeing. ....more The funding will be used to run a six-month intensive workshop programme targeting families across Manchester who are facing unprecedented challenges of unemployment poor mental health and wellbeing. The workshops will be delivered by people with lived experience and aims to help build confidence and self-esteem leading to improved life chances.
Manchester City Council - Grant to Families Against Violence
£2,630	24/07/2019	Grant towards sports coaches and delivery of training sessions to engage with young people

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

AHMED YASSIN Appointed: 2020

ALEXANDRA DIXON Appointed: 2021

BARRINGTON ANTHONY REEVES Appointed: 2022

LINFORD SWEENEY Appointed: 2022

WILL FORWOOD Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/03/2016, number: 1166240

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; AR20: 65 days late, AR19: 431 days late, AR18: 11 days late, AR17: 2 days late,

Main office

Families Against Violence
St. Wilfrids Enterprise Centre
Birchvale Close
MANCHESTER
M15 5BJ

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED IN GREATER MANCHESTER IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:- PROVIDING SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE TO LOCAL YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES SO THAT THEY BECOME MORE EFFECTIVE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY;- ADDRESSING AND REDUCING GANG AND GUN CULTURE IN THE COMMUNITY BY USING A PREVENTATIVE AND EARLY INTERVENTION MODEL;- BRINGING YOUNG PEOPLE TOGETHER WITH THE AIM OF PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION THAT WILL BUILD THEIR SELF-ESTEEM, RAISE THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO TAKE GREATER RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND DECISIONS; AND BY- MAKING THE WORK OF THE CHARITY ACCESSIBLE TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ACROSS GREATER MANCHESTER FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER MANCHESTER

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