Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

CREATIVE OPTIONS COMMUNITY PROJECT 

A member-led charity operating in Southampton providing support, mentoring and training for people with lived experience of mental health issues. The charity currently offers a wellbeing hub, a hope hub offering pre-crisis support, a workshop training in skills and a suicide prevention programme. The charity is part of the Southampton Mental Health Network of which it is a founder member.
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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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/22£46£38£8n/an/an/an/an/a6
30/09/21£68£71£-2n/an/an/an/an/a6
30/09/20£56£49£7n/an/an/an/an/a8
30/09/19£42£49£-7n/an/an/an/an/a6
30/09/18£53£38£15£0£0£0n/a08
30/09/17*£19£19£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

www.creative-options.org

admin@creative-options.org

0780189069

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Community services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Southampton City,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
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£63,196
Lloyds Bank Foundation£20,203
The Michael And Betty Little Trust£20,000
Allen Lane Foundation£6,890
Sport England£6,588
Co-Operative Group£2,785
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - 7cs for wellbeing
£9,987 25/11/2022
The funding will be used to assist the group with the relaunch of their wellbeing hub to support local people experiencing mental ill health. The project aims to aid recovery reduce the negative ....more
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Creative Options
£6,890 05/11/2021
£6,890 single grant to fund costs of the weekly Wellbeing Hub for people affected by mental health issues in Southampton
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - Creative Options
£20,000 02/10/2021
A member-led charity operating in Southampton providing support, mentoring and training for people with lived experience of mental health issues.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wellbeing Hub
£9,680 13/11/2020
11
The funding will be used to deliver wellbeing and creative activities for people living with long-term health conditions and receive technical support for their ongoing online provision. The project ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Creative Options Community Project
£2,785 24/10/2020
We would like to have tutors visit us to teach specific courses in wellbeing crafts and tai chi at our midweek groups.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Creative Options Community Project
£5,539 23/07/2020
Grant to Creative Options Community Project meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Options Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£33,533 02/06/2020
6
Creative Options is a community based service operating in the Southampton area offering support mentoring training and and opportunities to people living in Southampton with mental health issues ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Creative Options Community Project
£14,664 20/11/2019
12
Creative Options is requesting a grant to employ a project manager to enable the trustees to concentrate on the strategic development of the charity.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating New Opportunities
£9,996 09/10/2019
12
Creating New Opportunities
Sport England - Working towards wellbeing
£6,588 27/06/2019
18
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Working towards wellbeing. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating Opportunities for recovery
£9,762 07/06/2018
12
The project will provide support to people with mental health issues by running a variety of groups across the city. They will be starting a Saturday breakfast club for younger people who do not ....more
Sport England - Creating our journeys of recovery
£4,844 09/01/2018
14
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Creating our journeys of recovery . This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/09/2016, number: 1169194
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR17: 28 days late,
Main office

Shirley Warren Action Church
117 Warren Crescent
SOUTHAMPTON
SO16 6AY

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE (CIO) (HEREAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE ‘CHARITY’)(‘THE OBJECTS’) ARETO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND OTHERS EXPERIENCING PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY OF SOUTHAMPTON THROUGH MENTORING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT IN ORDER TO EMPOWER AND ASSIST THEM ON THEIR RECOVERY JOURNEY AND AID THEM INTO INDEPENDENT LIVING SO THEY BECOME ACTIVE, WELL INFORMED, PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008].

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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