Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

THE LAURA CENTRE

The Laura Centre offers free bereavement counselling services for adults, families and young people. We provide holistic support to parents who's child has died and children and young people 5-25 years old who's parent or sibling has died. The centre also supports those in anticipatory grief. We provide one to one therapy, systemic family work, therapeutic and drop in groups and an advice line.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£354£348£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£334£352£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£422£411£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£451£496£-46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£541£519£22£3£173£1062.5166
31/03/18£508£543£-34£5£151£671.5170
31/03/17£672£487£185£17£185£1634180

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 9 years

www.thelauracentre.org.uk

info@thelauracentre.org.uk

0116 2544341

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • International poverty relief
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Coventry City, Derby City, Derbyshire, Leicester City, Leicestershire, Warwickshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£27,573
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£8,032
BBC Children in Need£500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Bereaved Communities
£8,032 26/05/2023
The funding will be used to provide specialist family bereavement therapeutic support. The project aims to improve mental health and well-being along side normalising the grieving process.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Laura Centre (Leicester)
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 12/03/2021
Therapeutic Services for the bereaved communities.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£8,000 29/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 18/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£14,573 20/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Laura Centre…for when a child dies or is bereaved
£324,061 10/01/2018
48
This project will provide dedicated specialist bereavement care for families when a child passes away or is bereaved. A therapeutic and holistic approach will be taken to normalise the grieving process, providing a bespoke package of specialist ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

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

  • ANDREW LEASKE Appointed: 2018
  • EAMONN BRESLIN Appointed: 2016
  • FREDERICK EDWARD CLARKE Appointed: 2016
  • HARRY MOORE AI IE FMS (Chair) Appointed: 2016
  • JAMES DELVE Appointed: 2016
  • JANET WHITE Appointed: 2016
  • SUZANNE LEGGOTT Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/04/2016, number: 1166803
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR23: 2 days late,
Main office

4-6 Tower Street
Leicester
LE1 6WS

Objectives

TO RELIEVE ADULTS SUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF AN ANTICIPATED OR ACTUAL DEATH OF A CHILD OF ANY AGE AND FROM ANY CAUSE AND TO RELIEVE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE SUFFERING THE EFFECT OF ANTICIPATED OR ACTUAL DEATH OF A SIBLING, PARENT, GRANDPARENT OR OTHER SIGNIFICANT PERSON THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES; ANDTO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO LIFE THREATENING DISEASES AND THE EFFECTS OF BEREAVEMENT ON PARENTS, CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; ANDTO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO FAMILIES WHO HAVE SUFFERED THE DEATH OF A CHILD OR WHOSE CHILD IS SUFFERING FROM A LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS; ANDTHE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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